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": ["Missing Indonesian submarine has 72 hours of oxygen left, navy says - BBC News", "Instagram lets users filter out abusive messages - BBC News", "TikTok sued for billions over use of children's data - BBC News", "Hillsborough trial: PC's 'headless chickens' comment 'removed' - BBC News", "Jim Steinman: Bat Out Of Hell and Total Eclipse Of The Heart composer dies - BBC News", "George Floyd tweet apology from Welsh Labour minister - BBC News", "Navigating a mini Suez Canal in France - BBC News", "Fishmongers' Hall porter 'stabbed Usman Khan with spear' - BBC News", "Chauvin guilty verdict: 'Finally we can breathe' - BBC News", "George Floyd death: Five key moments from the Derek Chauvin trial - BBC News", "Downing Street scraps plans for White House-style press briefings - BBC News", "Dyson lobbying row: Labour calls for probe into PM texts - BBC News", "Tommy Robinson libel trial: Jamal Hijazi 'falsely accused of attacks' - BBC News", "George Floyd: Family reacts to Derek Chauvin murder conviction - BBC News", "The beauty ideal fuelling an illicit drugs trade - BBC News", "George Floyd: Crowd outside court reacts to Derek Chauvin guilty verdicts - BBC News", "PMQs: Johnson and Starmer clash over \"cronyism\" - BBC News", "Alexei Navalny: Thousands across Russia defy ban on protests - BBC News", "Mother gives birth in dramatic Uber hospital dash - BBC News", "Covid: Government scientist warns of summer surge in cases - BBC News", "Covid lockdown easing not to do with election, says Drakeford - BBC News", "European Super League: All six Premier League teams withdraw from competition - BBC Sport", "Jim Steinman: Tributes paid to 'the Wagner of rock' - BBC News", "Air pollution: Coroner calls for law change after Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah's death - BBC News", "Fishmongers' Hall: Terror attacker shouted 'I'm going to blow you all up' - BBC News", "EuroMillions: UK ticket-holder wins £59m jackpot - BBC News", "Middle East states top Amnesty list of executioners in 2020 - BBC News", "As it happened: One in five UK adults has had both coronavirus jabs - BBC News", "Chanel loses EU court battle over Huawei logo - BBC News", "No new smart motorways without additional safety measures - BBC News", "Manchester United and Liverpool owners apologise for European Super League proposal - BBC Sport", "NI 100: Majority believes NI will leave UK within 25 years - BBC News", "George Floyd: Jury returns guilty verdicts in Derek Chauvin trial - BBC News", "Climate change: Growing doubts over chip fat biofuel - BBC News", "TikTok loophole sees users post pornographic and violent videos - BBC News", "Son helped Russian billionaire father hide divorce money, judge rules - BBC News", "Wythenshawe rape: Woman attacked by group of men in park - BBC News", "Dyson lobbying row: Boris Johnson makes 'no apology' for seeking ventilators - BBC News", "Covid: 42 at cupcake factory hit by outbreak - BBC News", "Dr Michael Watt: Almost 20% of patients misdiagnosed - BBC News", "Higher petrol prices drive up cost of living in March - BBC News", "UK aid budget: Charities call £500m cut a tragic blow - BBC News", "European Super League: Juventus chairman Andrea Agnelli says project cannot proceed - BBC Sport", "Employment: North and Midlands 'leading jobs recovery - BBC News", "George Floyd: What happened in the final moments of his life - BBC News", "Tracy Hercules: Unlicensed driver jailed over 110mph police pursuit - BBC News", "Netflix shares plunge amid fears coronavirus boom is over - BBC News", "House sales and prices see early spring surge - BBC News", "Johnny Mercer: Sacked minister attacks 'distrustful' government - BBC News", "Last resident in Birmingham tower block 'isolated' - BBC News", "Solicitors face action over 'quick sale' property scheme - BBC News", "Daily Mail owner sues Google over search results - BBC News", "New species of dinosaur unearthed in Chile's Atacama desert - BBC News", "As it happened: Derek Chauvin trial: George Floyd officer convicted of murder - BBC News", "Heathrow refuses to allow extra flights from India - BBC News", "Johnny Mercer: Tory MP resigns as defence minister - BBC News", "Lyrid meteor shower: Skywatchers set for sunrise or sunset view on Thursday - BBC News", "Mustard gas among toxic waste in Wales' old landfill sites - BBC News", "Suez Canal traffic jam caused by stuck ship Ever Given 'cleared' - BBC News", "Kill the Bill protests: Defend right to protest, Corbyn tells marchers - BBC News", "Rapper DMX in hospital after heart attack - BBC News", "As it happened: Police officer killed in attack on US Capitol - BBC News", "Covid-19: Seven UK blood clot deaths after AstraZeneca vaccine - BBC News", "Joe Wheeler: New Zealand rugby commentator apologises for mimicking Kazuki Himeno's accent - BBC Sport", "Wally the walrus: Fears for safety as Tenby tourists get 'too close' - BBC News", "Sandy Row riot: Leaders appeal for calm after Belfast riot - BBC News", "Woman killed by two escaped dogs in West Midlands - BBC News", "Covid: Wales' beauty spots busy in Good Friday sunshine - BBC News", "Newtownabbey: Police attacked with petrol bombs and fireworks - BBC News", "Covid: Party held in Cardiff Bay despite restrictions - BBC News", "Graffiti art defaced by spectators at South Korea gallery - BBC News", "Covid: Cardiff Bay party attracts hundreds of people - BBC News", "World’s largest ocean monitoring system BRUVS launched - BBC News", "Sandy Row: PSNI officers injured in south Belfast riot - BBC News", "Leicester City 0-2 Manchester City: Pep Guardiola's leaders close in on title - BBC Sport", "Covid: 'Disgusting' scenes left by crowds at Cardiff Bay - BBC News", "Free climber George King scales skyscraper hotel in Barcelona without permission - BBC News", "Rowley Regis dog attack: Woman, 85, killed by dogs that got through fence hole - BBC News", "Police uncover teenage girl ‘suicide’ Instagram group - BBC News", "Richard Okorogheye: Police appeal to missing student to 'get in touch' - BBC News", "Cardiff Bay: 'Rage' after Merchant Navy memorial urinated on - BBC News", "School abuse: Teachers face sexualised insults in class, says union - BBC News", "Covid-19: Care home residents in England allowed two visitors from 12 April - BBC News", "Covid: Good Friday service shut down over 'rules breach' - BBC News", "Covid: Boris Johnson welcomes 5m people being fully vaccinated - BBC News", "Richard Johnson: Leading jump jockey in shock retirement - BBC Sport", "Arsenal 0-3 Liverpool: Diogo Jota scores twice in Premier League win - BBC Sport", "Covid-19: Boris Johnson warns against mixing indoors as Easter weekend begins - BBC News", "Chelsea 2-5 West Brom: Baggies thump five past 10-man Blues - BBC Sport", "Covid: Cardiff litter campaigner calls for more bins - BBC News", "Emma Caldwell suspect 'attacked woman in same woods' - BBC News", "Covid: More than 5m people fully vaccinated in UK - BBC News", "Covid: Trials to begin for return of England mass events - BBC News", "EuroMillions: Jackpot of more than £122m won by UK ticket-holder - BBC News", "Dinosaur-killing asteroid strike gave rise to Amazon rainforest - BBC News", "Liam Scarlett: Former Royal Ballet choreographer dies at 35 - BBC News", "Putin critic Navalny could 'die within days', say doctors - BBC News", "Prince Philip: Sir David Attenborough praises his conservation work - BBC News", "Skripal poisoning: Third Russian suspect 'commanded attack' - BBC News", "Cambridgeshire Police officer sacked over racial slur - BBC News", "Leonardo da Vinci: Aidan Turner glad artist's sexuality reflected in series - BBC News", "Prince Philip funeral: Pictures as Queen and nation bid farewell to the duke - BBC News", "Newcastle United 3-2 West Ham United: Hosts win to boost hopes of avoiding relegation - BBC Sport", "Prince Philip funeral: Sporting world pays tribute - BBC Sport", "Everton 2-2 Tottenham: Harry Kane scores twice to cancel out Gylfi Sigurdsson's two goals - BBC Sport", "Rachid Khadla: Father made daughter sign 'never get fat' contract - BBC News", "Wolverhampton Wanderers 1-0 Sheffield United: Blades relegated after defeat - BBC Sport", "Duke of Edinburgh: Pupils at his former school lay wreath at sea - BBC News", "Prince Philip funeral: Royal Family members walk behind coffin - BBC News", "Indianapolis FedEx shooting: Who were the eight victims? - BBC News", "Covid-19: Vaccine passports 'unethical', church leaders warn - BBC News", "Prince Philip: Hillsborough gun salute marks Duke's funeral - BBC News", "Pregnant women should be offered Covid vaccine - BBC News", "Breonna Taylor: Publisher refuses to distribute police officer's book - BBC News", "Chelsea 1-0 Man City: Thomas Tuchel's side advance to FA Cup final to end City's quadruple hopes - BBC Sport", "Salisbury poisoning: What did the attack mean for the UK and Russia? - BBC News", "As it happened: Prince Philip laid to rest after family mourn at funeral - BBC News", "Helen McCrory: Stars pay tribute to Peaky Blinders actress - BBC News", "Peloton safety: US regulators warn against using treadmill near children - BBC News", "Russian spy: What happened to Sergei and Yulia Skripal? - BBC News", "Nasa chooses SpaceX to build Moon lander - BBC News", "Covid: Blossoms to headline 'near-normal' gig trial - BBC News", "Salisbury poisoning suspects 'linked to Czech blast' - BBC News", "Prince Philip funeral: The Land Rover hearse he designed - BBC News", "Facebook Oversight Board delays decision about Trump's possible return - BBC News", "Prince Philip: A turbulent childhood stalked by exile, mental illness and death - BBC News", "Prince Philip: Royal Family honours duke's 'humour and humanity' - BBC News", "Prince Philip: An extraordinary man who led an extraordinary life - BBC News", "Covid-19: Time to rebuild economy as restrictions ease, says Dodds - BBC News", "Queen and Royal Family alone but for the gaze of the world - BBC News", "Man charged over Buckingham Palace trespass - BBC News", "Plymouth man in his 70s held on suspicion of murder - BBC News", "Prince Philip: A life in pictures - BBC News", "Prince Philip funeral: William and Harry seen chatting after ceremony - BBC News", "Prince Philip: The Patriarchs - An Elegy - BBC News", "The Queen and Prince Philip: An enduring royal romance - BBC News", "Duke of Edinburgh: Scotland remembers Prince Philip - BBC News", "Newscast - The Royal Funeral - BBC Sounds", "Prince Philip funeral: Minute's silence is held - BBC News", "MasterChef: Rescheduled final to air on Wednesday - BBC News", "Greensill: Government to investigate Cameron's lobbying - BBC News", "Daunte Wright shooting: Police resignations fail to ease unrest over death - BBC News", "Prince Philip: 'Legacy' of Duke of Edinburgh's Award - BBC News", "Welsh rivers had 100,000 sewage spills in a year - BBC News", "Rare footage captures fight between two wild pandas - BBC News", "Greensill: Labour urges 'full' probe into Cameron lobbying - BBC News", "Prince Philip: NI Assembly pays tribute to Duke of Edinburgh - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Families remember loved ones lost to coronavirus - BBC News", "Covid vaccine programme rolled out to over-45s this week - BBC News", "US says troops to leave Afghanistan by 11 September - BBC News", "Covid rules: What are the restrictions in your area? - BBC News", "Bridgerton: Netflix commissions third and fourth series - BBC News", "Government's LGBT advisory panel disbanded - BBC News", "Students returning to university in England from 17 May - BBC News", "Water companies illegally dumping sewage in England and Wales' rivers - BBC News", "US envoy John Kerry woos China over climate - BBC News", "Sahayb Abu: Would-be rap star jailed for IS-inspired terror plot - BBC News", "Jake Paul accused of sexual assault by Justine Paradise - BBC News", "As it happened: Europe rollout of Johnson & Johnson Covid vaccine delayed - BBC News", "Kim Kardashian and Kanye West agree joint custody after divorce - BBC News", "Baroness Shirley Williams: Former cabinet minister dies aged 90 - BBC News", "World's wealthiest 'at heart of climate problem' - BBC News", "Uefa Euro 2020: Trafalgar Square earmarked for 12,500-capacity fan park - BBC News", "UK exports to EU rebound partially after January's slump - BBC News", "Covid: South African variant in Wandsworth and Lambeth surge test areas - BBC News", "Covid: South Africa variant surge probably due to person travelling from Africa - BBC News", "Greensill: Top civil servant 'joined firm before quitting' - BBC News", "Nicola Faith: Wreck confirmed as missing Conwy fishing boat - BBC News", "Champions League quarter-finals: Chelsea 0-1 FC Porto - BBC Sport", "Covid: Travel ban in Scotland to be eased from Friday - BBC News", "BBC 'receives 100,000 complaints' over Prince Philip coverage - BBC News", "Nevskaya Manufaktura: Fire destroys historic factory in St Petersburg - BBC News", "The Queen carries out first duty since Prince Philip's death - BBC News", "As it happened: Derek Chauvin trial: George Floyd officer convicted of murder - BBC News", "Covid lockdown eases: Celebrations as pub gardens and shops reopen - BBC News", "Covid lockdown eases: England 'buzzing' after first night out in 97 days - BBC News", "Taiwan: 'Record number' of China jets enter air zone - BBC News", "Daunte Wright shooting: Officer 'mistook gun for Taser' - BBC News", "Cara Monagahan: 'Everyone deserves to play music' - BBC News", "NI riots: Police need to reconnect with communities, Brandon Lewis says - BBC News", "Edinburgh's International Festival to be outdoors with shorter shows - BBC News", "Tamara Ecclestone burglary: Italian man admits £26m celebrity raids - BBC News", "Cost of changing legal gender cut to less than £10 - BBC News", "Susan Waring: Family plead with murderer to say where 'beloved' is - BBC News", "City drivers 'should think twice' before buying SUVs - BBC News", "Tiger Woods car crash: Golfing great drove at almost double the speed limit - BBC Sport", "Leeds Bradford Airport development plan ruling delayed - BBC News", "China one-child policy: can dropping limits increase birth rates? - BBC News", "Covid: Child jabs halted in trial as adult clot link probed - BBC News", "Carlisle ex-police officer 'devastated' by £3k Royal Mail scam - BBC News", "American bulldogs killed Widnes mother after row with daughter - BBC News", "PSNI say 41 officers injured during NI rioting - BBC News", "Muons: 'Strong' evidence found for a new force of nature - BBC News", "Schools 'a lifeline to many students' in past year' - BBC News", "Real Madrid 3-1 Liverpool: Reds made it 'too easy' for Real - Jurgen Klopp - BBC Sport", "Deliveroo shares rise on first full trading day as some riders go on strike - BBC News", "Pharrell Williams calls for investigation after cousin shot dead by police - BBC News", "Loyalist violence: Dialogue needed with police 'at all levels' - BBC News", "Covid: Wales' over-50s vaccine target success disputed - BBC News", "'Covid-breach' kayaker stuck on Loch Lomond island without paddle - BBC News", "Betfred: Blackjack player wins £1.7m jackpot after High Court battle - BBC News", "Lorraine Cox: Murderer Azam Mangori jailed for at least 20 years - BBC News", "Richard Okorogheye: Police confirm body find as missing student - BBC News", "Mobile phones should be banned in schools - Gavin Williamson - BBC News", "Belfast: Boris Johnson 'deeply concerned' after police attacked - BBC News", "Where are Britain's loneliest places in lockdown? - BBC News", "Horsey seal with plastic ring on neck for years is rescued - BBC News", "Driving lessons to resume in England and Wales on 12 April - BBC News", "Food poverty: MPs call on government to step up help - BBC News", "Villages near Salisbury want Novichok litter-pick ban to end - BBC News", "Greenland election: Opposition win casts doubt on mine - BBC News", "Hong Kong citizens to be given 'support' to come to UK - BBC News", "Welsh election: Plaid promises independence vote in five years - BBC News", "Covid: US rules out federal vaccine passports - BBC News", "Newcastle driver left student to die in road after crash - BBC News", "Richard Okorogheye: Police find body in search for missing student - BBC News", "Rochdale child grooming: Anger as gang member spotted in town - BBC News", "Thousands of bluebell bulbs dug up in Norfolk wood - BBC News", "NHS Covid-19 contact tracing app to share QR code venue check-ins - BBC News", "M25 crash: Lorry hangs over bridge - BBC News", "As it happened: AZ jab 'still safe' as under-30s offered alternative - BBC News", "Andy Marsh: Avon and Somerset Police chief to leave role - BBC News", "Young Turks record label changes name over 'genocide' link - BBC News", "Porto 0-2 Chelsea: Mason Mount scores his first Champions League goal - BBC Sport", "Covid-19 linked to depression and dementia, study suggests - BBC News", "Welsh election: Lib Dems pledge to tackle 'climate emergency' - BBC News", "Myanmar's ex-UK envoy says military attaché has 'occupied' embassy - BBC News", "Lee Collins: Yeovil Town captain 'found dead in hotel room' - BBC News", "Google, Facebook and Amazon face new UK regulator - BBC News", "Vue admits health and safety charges over Star City cinema death - BBC News", "Britain's electricity system 'greenest ever' over Easter - BBC News", "Oxfam: UK halts funding over new sexual exploitation claims - BBC News", "Boy, 15, stabbed to death outside Newham pizza restaurant named - BBC News", "Ashley Cain's daughter Azaylia dies aged 8 months - BBC News", "Covid-19 in India: Patients struggle at home as hospitals choke - BBC News", "Army veteran who lost twin brother to suicide speaks out - BBC News", "India Covid surge: Hospitals send SOS as record deaths registered - BBC News", "Dominic Cummings allegations: Labour wants minister to face MPs - BBC News", "Scottish election 2021: Sturgeon faces questions over 'hard border' - BBC News", "Fares Maatou: Boy, 14, charged with murder after Newham stabbing - BBC News", "Downing Street: Plan to fund makeover of PM's residence 'speculation' - BBC News", "Dyson lobbying row: Boris Johnson says sleaze accusers out of their minds - BBC News", "Covid-19: UK sends supplies to India amid record virus surge - BBC News", "Labour: Ministers must reveal Covid contract links - BBC News", "Covid-19: Vaccine rollout in England extends to 44-year-olds - BBC News", "Ingenuity: Nasa's Mars helicopter makes it three from three - BBC News", "Social media boycott: Premier League clubs join four-day move to tackle abuse - BBC Sport", "Indonesian navy submarine found split into three on sea bed - BBC News", "Deaths climb as India reels from deadly Covid wave - BBC News", "Iraq Covid hospital fire: 82 dead after 'oxygen tank explodes' - BBC News", "Carabao Cup final: Manchester City 1-0 Tottenham Hotspur - Aymeric Laporte heads winner - BBC Sport", "Dominic Cummings allegations: Boris Johnson urged to explain funding of flat refurbishment - BBC News", "Post office scandal: Ex-boss quits director jobs after scandal - BBC News", "Dominic Cummings launches attack on Boris Johnson's integrity - BBC News", "Oscars 2021: As it happened - BBC News", "Bomb disposal team called after car stopped on M20 - BBC News", "India Covid: Families appeal for help in Delhi's oxygen shortage - BBC News", "Boris Johnson covered Downing Street flat renovation from his own pocket, says Liz Truss - BBC News", "European Super League: Clubs 'cannot leave', says Real Madrid president Florentino Perez - BBC Sport", "Covid in Scotland: Free test kits to be available on demand - BBC News", "Space junk map tracks 200 ‘ticking time bombs’ - BBC News", "Butetown: Search to find people in photos from Cardiff Docks past - BBC News", "Oscars 2021: The railway station now a hosting venue - BBC News", "M62: Motorcyclist dies after crash with car on motorway - BBC News", "Eight-year-old boy praised for his quick thinking - BBC News", "As it happened: UK standing 'side by side' with India in Covid fight - BBC News", "Butetown: Search to find people in photos from Cardiff Docks past - BBC News", "German opera star Christa Ludwig dies at the age of 93 - BBC News", "Menstrual leave: South Korea airline ex-CEO fined for refusing time off - BBC News", "India Covid: Patients dying without oxygen amid Delhi surge - BBC News", "Cisco says computer chip shortage to last six months - BBC News", "Treasury snubbing 'mortgage prisoners', say MPs - BBC News", "Covid-19: New push for under-50s to take up jab offers - BBC News", "Stranded sailor allowed to leave abandoned ship after four years - BBC News", "Greta Thunberg warns US lawmakers over climate change - BBC News", "MI5 joins Instagram to bust martini-drinking stereotypes - BBC News", "Scottish election 2021: Can unionists block another independence referendum? - BBC News", "Manchester United boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer addresses fan protest against Glazer ownership - BBC Sport", "Mouse deer born at Bristol Zoo is the height of a pencil - BBC News", "Met Office and Microsoft to build climate supercomputer - BBC News", "Covid-19: How India failed to prevent a deadly second wave - BBC News", "Fan-led review of English football to consider ownership, finance and fan involvement - BBC Sport", "Chernobyl radiation damage 'not passed to children' - BBC News", "Justin Welby: Archbishop urges forgiveness amid political lobbying row - BBC News", "Navigating a mini Suez Canal in France - BBC News", "Akayed Ullah: Times Square subway pipe bomber jailed for life - BBC News", "Manchester Arena Inquiry: Police 'had to wait in 999 queue' after bomb - BBC News", "Prince Louis: New birthday photograph as he starts nursery - BBC News", "Covid: Vaccine uptake among over-50s hits 95% in England - BBC News", "Dyson lobbying row: Labour calls for probe into PM texts - BBC News", "Former Bay City Rollers frontman Les McKeown dies aged 65 - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Digital vaccine certificates 'not near yet' - BBC News", "Chad Gordon killing: Tottenham autistic man fatally shot in face 'by mistake' - BBC News", "Firm given special treatment over roadworks bids - BBC News", "Alexei Navalny: Thousands across Russia defy ban on protests - BBC News", "Climate change: EU to cut CO2 emissions by 55% by 2030 - BBC News", "Driving tests resume but available slots are like gold dust, says learner - BBC News", "Air pollution: Coroner calls for law change after Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah's death - BBC News", "Uyghurs: MPs state genocide is taking place in China - BBC News", "As it happened: New US emissions target hailed a ‘game changer’ - BBC News", "Manchester United and Liverpool owners apologise for European Super League proposal - BBC Sport", "Walton-on-Thames murder probe after man killed in car park fight - BBC News", "Bomb disposal unit destroys item found at Seafield recycling centre - BBC News", "Marcus Rashford's budget cookery serves up fish finger sandwich - BBC News", "Climate change: UK to speed up target to cut carbon emissions - BBC News", "Sports Direct's Mike Ashley told to reinstate Jenners signs in Edinburgh - BBC News", "As it happened: Covid no longer leading cause of death in England and Wales - BBC News", "Jaguar Land Rover to suspend output due to chip shortage - BBC News", "GCHQ chief warns of tech 'moment of reckoning' - BBC News", "Aston Villa 1-2 Manchester City: Pep Guardiola's side eight points from Premier League title - BBC Sport", "UK aid budget: Charities call £500m cut a tragic blow - BBC News", "Black soldiers in World War One - BBC News", "Driving tests: Relief and new-found freedom as post-lockdown tests get back in gear - BBC News", "Employment: North and Midlands 'leading jobs recovery - BBC News", "Tracy Hercules: Unlicensed driver jailed over 110mph police pursuit - BBC News", "Google and Apple attacked on app store 'monopoly' - BBC News", "Greensill: Treasury publishes emails amid lobbying row - BBC News", "Boris Johnson: Climate change about jobs not 'bunny hugging' - BBC News", "Johnny Mercer: Sacked minister attacks 'distrustful' government - BBC News", "Last resident in Birmingham tower block 'isolated' - BBC News", "Marking the memories of a million service personnel - BBC News", "New species of dinosaur unearthed in Chile's Atacama desert - BBC News", "Covid-19: VIP fast-track for PPE contracts back in court - BBC News", "Covid: India on UK travel red list as Covid crisis grows - BBC News", "Covid-19: NI will 'keep looking' to ease restrictions faster - BBC News", "Billionaire Sir James Dyson moves residency back to the UK - BBC News", "E.On compensates customers after Christmas blunder - BBC News", "Nasa's rover makes breathable oxygen on Mars - BBC News", "Heathrow refuses to allow extra flights from India - BBC News", "European Super League: Project is 'on standby', says Real Madrid president Florentino Perez - BBC Sport", "Wrexham Maelor Hospital: Man arrested after 'hoax call' alert - BBC News", "Asda to axe 1,200 bakery jobs as shoppers shun loaves - BBC News", "Daunte Wright shooting: Police resignations fail to ease unrest over death - BBC News", "Met PC jailed for breaking man’s leg in ‘clear case of racial profiling’ - BBC News", "Ludwig Ahgren breaks Twitch subscription record after 31-day stint - BBC News", "Covid: Every adult is vaccinated in Fair Isle, the UK's remotest island community - BBC News", "Arlene Foster: DUP leader sues Christian Jessen for defamation - BBC News", "As it happened: Boris Johnson defends inquiry at PMQs amid lobbying row - BBC News", "Prince Philip: Rehearsals take place for Duke of Edinburgh's funeral - BBC News", "Chinese man kidnapped and killed in elaborate body-swap scheme - BBC News", "Rare footage captures fight between two wild pandas - BBC News", "Covid test firm cuts price amid criticism over cost - BBC News", "Mary Agyapong: Pregnant nurse’s family yet to get GoFundMe money - BBC News", "UK troops to begin 'drawdown' in Afghanistan - BBC News", "Liverpool 0-0 Real Madrid: Liverpool knocked out of Champions League after goalless draw at Anfield - BBC Sport", "US says troops to leave Afghanistan by 11 September - BBC News", "Grandad, 80, wins EuroMillions prize after forgetting glasses - BBC News", "Fishmongers' Hall inquest: Woman begged terrorist not to stab her - BBC News", "Students returning to university in England from 17 May - BBC News", "Covid-19: London surge testing extended over variant cases - BBC News", "Oldham gang jailed for £160k supermarket thefts - BBC News", "Pontypool mum 'robbed of life' by 'late' cancer diagnosis - BBC News", "US envoy John Kerry woos China over climate - BBC News", "Covid vaccination staff set sail to jab Caldey Island monks - BBC News", "Heathrow says airport queues are becoming 'untenable' - BBC News", "James Dyson says Brexit has given him 'freedom' - BBC News", "Greensill: Tories reject Labour plan for MP-led lobbying probe - BBC News", "'Death trap' Llangollen social distancing bollards to be scrapped - BBC News", "Louisiana ship capsize: Search for survivors from 'lift' vessel - BBC News", "Nicola Faith: Missing boat 'could have been found earlier' - BBC News", "County lines gang 'recruited teen in 80 minutes via Snapchat' - BBC News", "Tesco counts cost of Covid trading as profits drop - BBC News", "'Mix and match' UK Covid vaccine trial expanded - BBC News", "As it happened: Covid-19: Denmark suspends use of Oxford-AZ vaccine - BBC News", "MasterChef winner: Tom Rhodes crowned 17th champion - BBC News", "Covid: South Africa variant surge probably due to person travelling from Africa - BBC News", "Greensill: Top civil servant 'joined firm before quitting' - BBC News", "Champions League quarter-finals: Chelsea 0-1 FC Porto - BBC Sport", "Greensill row: Civil servants ordered to declare second jobs - BBC News", "'Employers ignore you if they can't pronounce your surname' - BBC News", "Jake Paul: YouTuber denies assaulting TikTok star Justine Paradise - BBC News", "The Queen carries out first duty since Prince Philip's death - BBC News", "Egypt seizes ship that blocked Suez Canal over $900m compensation claim - BBC News", "Anglesey crossbow murder victim was 'cleaned out of £200k' - BBC News", "The Queen appoints new Lord Chamberlain ahead of Prince Philip's funeral - BBC News", "UK woodlands 'at crisis point' amid wildlife decline - BBC News", "Cara Monagahan: 'Everyone deserves to play music' - BBC News", "PMQs: Starmer and Johnson on ex-minister lobbying claims - BBC News", "NI riots: Police need to reconnect with communities, Brandon Lewis says - BBC News", "Tamara Ecclestone burglary: Italian man admits £26m celebrity raids - BBC News", "Greensill: Labour's long-term plan to attack cronyism - BBC News", "Sir Richard Sutton death: Suspect released from hospital - BBC News", "When the Queen was snapped 'giggling' at Prince Philip - BBC News", "Election campaigns to resume after duke's death - BBC News", "Ash falls like snow after St Vincent volcano eruption - BBC News", "St Vincent volcano: Ash rains down on Caribbean island - BBC News", "NI riots: Police appeal for calm during more disorder in Belfast - BBC News", "Prince Philip tributes: 'A rock, a hero and one of a kind' - BBC News", "Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip married in 1947 - BBC News", "Prince Philip: Charles says dear papa was very special - BBC News", "Greensill row: David Cameron 'believes he should have sent letter' to Rishi Sunak, says friend - BBC News", "Prince Philip: World leaders and royals send heartfelt sympathy - BBC News", "Covid-19: Ireland adds 16 countries to hotel quarantine list - BBC News", "Lowry Beach Scene bought for £162k for Berwick-upon-Tweed - BBC News", "Prince Philip: Gun salutes take place in tribute - BBC News", "Prince Philip: How the Royal Navy shaped the Duke of Edinburgh - BBC News", "Duke of Edinburgh's death marked at Buckingham Palace - BBC News", "Duke of Edinburgh: Palace asks public not to lay flowers for Prince Philip - BBC News", "Prince Philip - gun salutes and more tributes - BBC News", "Prince Philip: Matt Smith and Tobias Menzies on playing the duke in The Crown - BBC News", "Prince Philip: Tributes after Duke of Edinburgh dies aged 99 - BBC News", "Big Brother star Nikki Grahame dies aged 38 - BBC News", "Prince Philip: Every living US president pays respects - BBC News", "Coronavirus: UK reports largest number of second jabs in one day - BBC News", "Rachael Blackmore wins Grand National on Minella Times - BBC Sport", "'Our father, Prince Philip' - BBC News", "Grand National 2021: Aintree preview - Cloth Cap & Minella Times among runners - BBC Sport", "'Lost golden city' found in Egypt reveals lives of ancient pharaohs - BBC News", "Prince Philip: An extraordinary man who led an extraordinary life - BBC News", "Devon and Cornwall police officers sacked after speeding - BBC News", "'You look like you've had a heavy Christmas!' 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programme.", "After less than a day of deliberation, jurors find Derek Chauvin guilty of all charges over George Floyd's death.", "A new study questions the sustainability of used cooking oil imports into Europe to make biodiesel.", "TikTok says it is fighting to stop a trend exposing users to explicit and shocking material", "A judge says the Akhmedov family is \"one of the unhappiest ever to have appeared in my courtroom\".", "The victim, aged in her 20s, was attacked in a Manchester park shortly after midnight.", "Sir Keir Starmer accuses Boris Johnson of being at the centre of government \"sleaze\" amid a fresh lobbying row.", "The site employs more than 300 people making over a million cupcakes for supermarkets.", "A report finds 181 of the high-risk patients seen by Dr Michael Watt were given a wrong diagnosis.", "The cost of living rose to 0.7% in March, from 0.4% in February, as fuel, transport and clothes prices increased.", "The foreign secretary has set out how the UK's reduced aid budget will be spent.", "Juventus chairman Andrea Agnelli says the European Super League project cannot proceed as AC Milan, Inter Milan and Atletico Madrid join the six Premier League clubs in withdrawing.", "Several areas now have more job vacancies than before the pandemic, a study finds.", "A timeline of events leading up to George Floyd's death has been revealed by authorities.", "Tracy Hercules, who sped off after mistakenly believing police officers were after him, is jailed.", "Netflix said the pandemic disrupted its production pipeline and has forecast fewer new subscribers.", "UK property transactions in March hit the highest monthly level since modern records began in 2005.", "Johnny Mercer left government on Tuesday over protections for troops who served during the Troubles.", "Ezekiel Hermon's flat is set to be demolished and says the council must do more to find a new home.", "Two solicitors face disciplinary hearings over conveyancing work on the property scheme.", "The owner of the MailOnline site alleges the search engine has hidden links to its coverage on certain topics.", "Scientists found remains of the sauropod in rocks from what is today the Atacama desert.", "A US jury found Derek Chauvin guilty of all charges in the death of a black man who died during his arrest.", "The airport tells the BBC that it turned down requests from airlines to operate additional flights.", "The Tory MP criticises the scope of a law designed to protect veterans from unfounded prosecutions.", "The best time to view it will be early morning or after sunset on Thursday, astronomers say.", "Environmental campaigners dub the 1,572 locations across Wales \"ticking time bombs\".", "The last vessels blocked by the Ever Given have now passed through the Suez Canal, authorities say.", "Demonstrations are held across the UK against a bill to impose new restrictions on protest.", "The rapper's lawyer says DMX is surrounded by his family at a hospital in White Plains, New York.", "Capitol Police say one officer is dead and another is injured after the attack in Washington.", "The regulator confirms the deaths to the BBC, but says the benefits continue to outweigh any risk.", "New Zealand rugby commentator Joe Wheeler apologises after mimicking a Japanese player's accent following a Super Rugby Aotearoa game.", "Conservationists urge Tenby tourists to enjoy the stray mammal's temporary visit \"from a distance\".", "Petrol bombs, bricks and bottles were thrown at police during sustained rioting on Friday night.", "The animals, which police say were not owned by the woman, got into her garden before attacking her.", "Brecon Beacons and Snowdonia car parks are busy as the sun shines on the Easter weekend.", "Police were attacked at the Cloughfern roundabout in the O'Neill Road area on a second night of trouble.", "Hundreds of people gather on the steps outside the Senedd, in breach of Wales' Covid rules.", "A couple visiting the South Korean gallery painted over the piece thinking it was participatory art.", "Hundreds of people are seen drinking and singing outside the Senedd, in breach of Covid rules.", "Marine scientist Professor Jessica Meeuwig on her hopes for a new ocean monitoring system.", "Petrol bombs, bricks and bottles were thrown at police as violence flared at Sandy Row.", "Runaway leaders Manchester City move to within four wins of the Premier League title after two second-half goals see off third-placed Leicester.", "The amount of litter left by crowds partying in Cardiff Bay is branded \"absolutely disgusting\".", "George King, 21, was met by police after climbing a skyscraper hotel without safety equipment.", "Lucille Downer, a great-gran originally from Jamaica, suffered a \"sustained\" attack, police say.", "Twelve UK girls, aged between 12 and 16, were part of a chat group that led to \"serious self-harm\".", "A search of Epping Forest, near where Richard Okorogheye was last seen, enters a third day.", "Bradley Jones, of the Merchant Navy, says the Cardiff Bay memorial is \"a grave\" to those lost at sea.", "A union conference hears staff are subjected to \"derogatory sexualised\" language and violence.", "Visitor numbers are being increased as infection rates fall and the vaccine rollout continues.", "The Met Police say they found worshippers \"not wearing masks\" and \"clearly not socially distanced\".", "PM urges everyone to take up a second dose when offered as full vaccinations pass the 5m mark.", "Four-time champion jump jockey Richard Johnson announces his retirement with immediate effect.", "Liverpool thrust themselves firmly back into the battle for a place in the Premier League's top four as they outclass abject Arsenal 3-0.", "The Easter weekend warning comes as latest figures show the lowest number of daily cases since mid-September.", "Matheus Pereira and Callum Robinson score twice as struggling West Brom overwhelm 10-man Chelsea and end the 14-match unbeaten start to Thomas Tuchel's tenure.", "A student is calling for more bins after litter was found strewn across Cardiff Bay.", "A woman claims she was attacked by a man identified as a prime suspect in the murder of Emma Caldwell.", "Almost one in ten adults has received their second dose of the vaccine, new figures show.", "Ministers also confirm a risk-based \"traffic light\" system will start when foreign holidays resume.", "A player has staked a claim for the prize, which will be paid when validated, Camelot says.", "The asteroid that killed off the dinosaurs gave birth to tropical rainforests, a study suggests.", "The internationally-known former Royal Ballet dancer had faced allegations of sexual misconduct.", "Alexei Navalny is on day 19 of a hunger strike over his medical treatment in a Russian jail.", "Sir David Attenborough has praised Prince Philip's conservation work.", "A Newsnight-Bellingcat investigation maps the movements of a man thought to have directed the attack.", "Chris Tyler used racist language against a colleague at a Christmas party, a hearing finds.", "Poldark actor Aidan Turner is playing Leonardo da Vinci in a new historical drama.", "Almost 100 years after he entered the world on a dining room table in Corfu, Prince Philip's final journey has taken place.", "Newcastle take a big step towards securing their Premier League status with a dramatic win against 10-man West Ham.", "Tributes have been paid across the sporting world on the day of the Duke of Edinburgh's funeral.", "Harry Kane scores twice to earn a point for Tottenham against fellow top-four chasers Everton at Goodison Park.", "Rachid Khadla is jailed for cruelty to his three children, who he bullied and assaulted for years.", "Sheffield United's relegation to the Championship is confirmed with defeat at Wolverhampton Wanderers.", "Pupils from Gordonstoun school lay a wreath off the Moray coast where Prince Philip learned to sail.", "The Duke of Edinburgh's four children were among those following him to St George's Chapel.", "Four of the eight who died at a FedEx warehouse were members of the Sikh community.", "More than 1,200 leaders have written to the PM warning Covid certificates are a \"form of coercion\".", "The Duke of Edinburgh is remembered in a gun salute, the beating of a Lambeg drum and by young people.", "The UK's vaccine advisers encourage them to discuss the risks and benefits with their doctor.", "Publisher Simon & Schuster says it won't distribute the work following a backlash online.", "Chelsea reach the FA Cup final with a narrow victory to end Manchester City's hopes of a historic quadruple.", "Two years ago an attack on a former Russian spy in the UK sent shockwaves though MI6.", "Members of the Royal Family have been at the funeral of Prince Philip, where his \"high sense of duty\" and \"life of service\" were remembered.", "Cillian Murphy, JK Rowling and Sir Sam Mendes lead tributes to the \"fearless and magnificent\" actress.", "The Consumer Product Safety Commission says it is aware of 39 incidents involving the Tread+ treadmill.", "Timeline of events surrounding the poisoning of Russian spy Sergei Skripal, his daughter and a couple in Amesbury.", "SpaceX will build a lander that the US space agency will use to return humans to the Moon this decade.", "Ticket-holders for the outdoor concert in Liverpool will have to provide a negative test beforehand.", "The Czech Republic expels 18 Russian diplomats after linking the operatives to a 2014 explosion.", "The vehicle, which he had repainted in military green, will convey his coffin to the funeral on Saturday.", "Facebook's Oversight Board has announced it will announce its decision \"in the coming weeks\".", "In marrying, Philip was able to regain the \"simple pleasures\" of family life he had lost aged eight.", "The funeral congregation was socially distanced, with the Queen seated alone, because of Covid rules.", "The Duke of Edinburgh's life was filled with contradictions but will be remembered most for his unstinting support of the Queen.", "Growing the economy will help to mitigate the pandemic fallout, says Economy Minister Diane Dodds.", "After a week of private grieving, this was the moment the Royal Family's mourning became public.", "A man was detained on Thursday trying to enter a service yard at the royal residence, police say.", "A man and a woman are being questioned by police about the death of a man in Plympton, Devon.", "Key photographs, from his early days in the Greek island of Corfu to school days in Scotland and his life alongside the Queen.", "The funeral of their grandfather marked the princes’ first public appearance together in more than a year.", "Poet laureate Simon Armitage has written an elegy for Prince Philip, entitled The Patriarchs - An Elegy.", "During their 73-year marriage, he was the Queen's public support and the person who knew her best.", "A gun salute is fired at Edinburgh Castle and other tributes are paid to mark Prince Philip's funeral.", "Nick Witchell tells us what to expect at Prince Philip's funeral.", "The Queen has led her family in mourning at the funeral of her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, in the grounds of Windsor Castle.", "The final of the BBC cooking show, delayed after Prince Philip's death, will air on Wednesday night.", "The former PM is at the centre of a row over his efforts to influence ministers for a finance firm.", "Protests continue after a Minnesota police chief and the officer who killed a black motorist quit.", "Wales rugby captain Alun Wyn Jones says young people have \"a lot of gratitude\" for Prince Philip.", "Welsh Water says better monitoring and a wet winter were behind the number of sewage spills recorded.", "Some rare footage of two wild pandas having a fierce fight has been captured by researchers in China.", "The PM insists probe into David Cameron's lobbying will get free rein, but Labour says it's a \"cover-up\".", "Assembly members express their condolences to the Royal Family in a special sitting at Stormont.", "We share the stories of some of the 12,000 people who have died with coronavirus in Scotland.", "Invitations will be sent out to those in this age group from this week, the first minister confirms.", "President Biden is to announce on Wednesday US troops will leave by mid-September instead of May.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "\"We think audiences will continue to swoon for this show,\" the streaming giant says.", "Three advisors quit last month in protest at the government's handling of LGBT rights.", "A million students currently learning online will go back to university campuses next month.", "Treatment works are allowed to release sewage into waterways after heavy rain to stop it backing up.", "US envoy John Kerry will hold talks in Shanghai ahead of a climate summit hosted by President Biden.", "Sahayb Abu will serve a minimum of 19 years after plotting to carry out a terror attack.", "The YouTuber has not yet commented on allegations from Paradise, a TikTok star.", "US health authorities want use of the vaccine paused, after reports of very rare blood clot cases.", "US reality star Kim Kardashian married rapper Kanye West in 2014 but filed for divorce in February.", "The former Labour cabinet minister was part of the \"Gang of Four\" who quit the party to form the SDP.", "The so-called “polluter elite” must change their lifestyles to tackle climate change, a report says.", "Up to nine matches could be shown on giant TV screens in central London if licensing is approved.", "Despite the improvement, exports still remain below 2020 levels, the UK statistics body says.", "NHS Test and Trace says 44 cases of the South African variant in two areas is \"significant\".", "A \"significant\" number of confirmed and probable cases have been found in Lambeth and Wandsworth.", "Bill Crothers's position was \"agreed\" to by the Cabinet Office, a letter from a lobbying watchdog reveals.", "The Conwy vessel Nicola Faith is found more than two months after sinking with three crew on board.", "Chelsea are through to the semi-finals of the Champions League for the first time since 2014 after a 2-1 aggregate win over Porto.", "People will be allowed to meet in larger groups outdoors and take day trips across Scotland from Friday.", "Thousands of viewers contacted the BBC to say they felt the amount of coverage was excessive.", "One firefighter has died and two are seriously hurt after a massive blaze at a historic factory in St Petersburg.", "Her Majesty receives the wand and insignia of the Lord Chamberlain in a private ceremony at Windsor.", "A US jury found Derek Chauvin guilty of all charges in the death of a black man who died during his arrest.", "Shoppers have been rushing back to the High Street, where queues were seen outside some retailers.", "As outdoor hospitality reopens, revellers find a \"celebratory\" atmosphere despite the cold weather.", "Beijing sends 25 military aircraft into Taiwan as the US warns against an 'increasingly aggressive' China.", "The fatal shooting of Daunte Wright was accidental, police say, as crowds defy a curfew.", "A Cookstown teenager teams up with the Afghan Women’s Orchestra in a peace-building video.", "The NI secretary says the Bobby Storey funeral decision has had a \"very substantial impact\".", "Three temporary pavilions will be erected in Edinburgh Park and the University of Edinburgh's Old College Quad.", "A series of burglaries targeted the west London homes of multimillionaire celebrities.", "The £140 application fee will fall to \"single figures\", months after the reduction was announced.", "Alan Edwards is jailed for the murder of mother-of-five Susan Waring, whose body has never been found.", "The boss of the RAC Foundation says drivers in urban areas should consider which car is most appropriate.", "Tiger Woods was driving close to double the 45mph speed limit when he crashed in February, according to Los Angeles County's sheriff.", "The government is to take more time to examine a £150m scheme to redevelop Leeds Bradford Airport.", "The government is considering dropping birth limits in some parts to offset an ageing population.", "The UK's regulator is to investigate the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab over a possible link with blood clots.", "The officer of 25 years felt \"helpless and angry\" after falling victim to a Royal Mail parcel scam.", "Elayne Stanley was mauled by two American bulldogs following an argument at her home, an inquest hears.", "Ten arrests have been made in recent days, with further violence in Carrickfergus and Londonderry on Monday.", "Physicists may have just made a major breakthrough in our understanding of the Universe.", "School staff helped families struggling financially during pandemic, says the National Education Union.", "Jurgen Klopp says Liverpool made it \"too easy\" for Real Madrid to win the quarter-final first leg between the sides.", "Wednesday is the first day of trading for 70,000 retail investors, as 400 UK riders are expected to stage a strike.", "The Grammy-winning artist's cousin, Donovon Lynch, was shot and killed in Virginia by police.", "The Policing Board chair calls for a redoubling of efforts to calm loyalist tensions, after recent violence.", "All over-50s and at-risk adults have been offered a vaccine, according to the Welsh government.", "The man, believed to be from England, was rescued after getting trapped while camping on Inchtavannach in Loch Lomond.", "A High Court judge rules the gambling firm was wrong not to pay Andy Green his winnings.", "Azam Mangori, 24, killed Lorraine Cox, 32, in his flat above a kebab shop in Exeter in September.", "Richard Okorogheye was last seen by his family on 22 March, when he left their home in west London.", "Phones should not be used or seen during the school day, the education secretary says.", "Police were attacked, a bus hijacked and a press photographer assaulted during the disorder.", "Loneliness in the pandemic has been more intense for young people in poor, urban areas.", "\"Mrs Vicar\" is being cared for at an RSPCA centre after having the plastic ring removed by vets.", "Lessons can start on 12 April and tests will return 10 days later, the transport secretary says.", "A report calls on the government to create a food security minister to protect the vulnerable.", "Villages near Salisbury are still covered by the ban, imposed after the 2018 nerve agent attack.", "The victorious left-wing party opposes a planned mine which has powerful international backers.", "The communities secretary says arrivals under a new scheme will be helped to access housing and jobs.", "Adam Price pledges to hold Welsh independence poll within five years if his party wins power in May.", "No American will be forced by the government to obtain proof of vaccination, the White House says.", "Emma Guilbert was on a crossing when Mohammed Youssaf crashed into her and drove off.", "Richard Okorogheye was last seen by his family on 22 March, when he left their home in west London.", "Qari Abdul Rauf is spotted in Rochdale, where he groomed young girls more than a decade ago.", "Four people are questioned by police after 8,000 bulbs are found in bags in a wood.", "The move should lead to more people being told to get tested for Covid-19.", "The M25 and A2 are closed in both directions due to a lorry hanging off the side of a bridge.", "UK under-30s will be offered other jabs amid evidence linking the AstraZeneca vaccine to blood clots.", "Avon and Somerset Police has faced criticism of its handling of Black Lives Matter and Kill the Bill protests.", "Indie label Young Turks is home to acts including The xx, Sampha and FKA Twigs.", "Chelsea bounce back from a testing few days to secure a crucial first leg quarter-final away win over Porto in the Champions League.", "Researchers looked at how likely 600,000 patients were to develop one of 14 common brain conditions.", "Leader Jane Dodds says the party is putting \"recovery\" first as she launches their election campaign.", "Kyaw Zwar Minn spends the night in his car after saying the military attaché \"occupied\" the embassy.", "An inquest into the death of Yeovil Town captain Lee Collins hears he did not turn up for training.", "The new regime will be \"unashamedly pro-competition\", the UK's business secretary promises.", "Ateeq Rafiq died after getting his head stuck under a motorised footrest while searching for keys.", "Sunny and windy weather led to a surge in renewable sources of energy, the operator says.", "It comes as workers were suspended over sexual exploitation, three years after a similar scandal.", "Three boys are arrested after Fares Maatou was attacked with \"a large bladed item\", police say.", "She was diagnosed with an aggressive form of leukaemia when she was eight weeks old.", "India's Covid sick struggle to get treatment at home due to black marketing of oxygen and drugs.", "Aaron Leventhal hopes this will encourage others to seek help, rather than bottle it up.", "Patients are dying because of a lack of medical oxygen supplies, doctors warn.", "Party wants a government minister to face questions in the Commons amid claims by former No 10 aide.", "The SNP leader wants trade to flow freely between Scotland and England if an independent Scotland re-joins the EU.", "A boy is charged with the murder of Fares Maatou, who was stabbed outside a pizza restaurant.", "Tory benefactors could pay for refurbishments to Boris Johnson's residence, unconfirmed reports suggest.", "Labour says Boris Johnson is at the centre of cronyism allegations engulfing the government.", "Oxygen equipment will be among the items to arrive in New Delhi from Tuesday, the government says.", "Emergency measures to speed up government procurement has led to accusations of a \"VIP fast track\".", "The NHS plans to set out when 40 to 43-year-olds will be invited for the jab \"in the coming days\".", "The US space agency's Ingenuity chopper completes its most ambitious flight yet on the Red Planet.", "Premier League, EFL and WSL clubs join in a four-day boycott of social media platforms in an effort to combat abuse and discrimination.", "The shattered hull of the vessel is found on the sea bed off Bali and all 53 crew are confirmed dead.", "Heart-wrenching images from crematoriums across the country capture the true toll of the virus.", "Flames across several floors lead to scenes of panic at a hospital in the Iraqi capital.", "Manchester City win the Carabao Cup for the fourth successive season as Aymeric Laporte's late header beats Tottenham Hotspur.", "It comes after Dominic Cummings claimed Boris Johnson had once had plans to get donors to fund the work.", "Paula Vennells steps down from Dunelm and Morrisons after an IT scandal which saw workers wrongfully convicted.", "Boris Johnson's one-time closest ally makes a string of explosive allegations about the PM's conduct.", "Nomadland named best film, Chloé Zhao gets best director, while Frances McDormand wins best actress.", "Army experts were called in over \"concerns about the security\" of a car, police said.", "People in Delhi resort to social media and desperate phone calls to try to find oxygen for Covid patients.", "However Liz Truss will not say if a Conservative donor provided the money to Boris Johnson first.", "The 12 clubs that agreed to join a new European Super League have \"binding contracts\" and \"cannot leave\", says Real Madrid president Florentino Perez.", "The lateral flow test kits can be picked up from testing centres or ordered online from Monday.", "Large defunct rocket bodies have the potential to break into thousands of pieces, threatening functioning satellites that provide vital services like GPS.", "Historians are asking for help to identify people in photos taken in the city around 100 years ago.", "Union Station in Los Angeles will be one of the venues for this year's Oscars.", "A 23-year-old man dies while a car driver is in a serious condition in hospital.", "An eight-year-old boy has been praised for his presence of mind after he made an 999 call to emergency services.", "The UK will send medical equipment to India, Boris Johnson says, as the country faces a surge in infections.", "Historians are asking for help to identify people in photos taken in the city around 100 years ago.", "The singer was closely associated with the Vienna State Opera for most of her long career.", "Under South Korean law, women can ask for a day off each month if they have painful periods.", "Delhi hospitals run out of beds and oxygen as families struggle to save their loved ones.", "The semiconductor shortage is affecting firms from carmakers to smartphone manufacturers.", "Some 250,000 homeowners are trapped because the Treasury sold their mortgages to unregulated firms.", "Younger people are being urged to get vaccinated as more than half the population have had one dose.", "Mohammed Aisha had been living on a ship marooned off Egypt's Red Sea coast for four years.", "Climate activist Greta Thunberg urges US lawmakers to end fossil fuel subsidies, or face catastrophe.", "The service's first post says the secret to successful spying is to \"consider all angles\".", "In the second of two Scottish election pieces, we look at the parties opposing another vote on independence.", "Manchester United boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer speaks to fans who had entered the club's training ground at Carrington to protest against the Glazer family's ownership.", "The tiny fawn is only 20cm (8ins) tall, and when fully grown will only weigh about 1.5kg (3lb).", "The Met Office will work with Microsoft on a supercomputer which will help model climate change.", "India's government and parts of the media ignored warnings about a rising wave of cases, experts say.", "The UK government's fan-led review into English football will consider how the ownership of clubs is structured.", "A study found no mutations associated with a parent's exposure in the 1986 nuclear accident.", "The Archbishop of Canterbury says 19th Century politicians would not \"survive\" today's standards.", "Mariners in France are being taught how to navigate a mini Suez Canal.", "Akayed Ullah detonated a bomb in Times Square station during rush hour in December 2017.", "A police chief tells an inquiry the first hour after the Manchester Arena attack was \"absolute chaos\".", "The picture of Louis on his bike was taken by the Duchess of Cambridge to mark his third birthday.", "But uptake among care home staff is still around 80% despite attempts to get more to come forward.", "The party wants a \"thorough investigation\" into Boris Johnson's conduct, amid a row over lobbying.", "The Scottish singer, famous for Bye Bye Baby, died suddenly at home aged 65 his family confirm.", "Prof Jason Leitch says a scheme for Scotland is being worked on but getting it right is complicated.", "Chad Gordon was killed as he answered the door to his home during the first lockdown, a court heard.", "A judge says civil service conduct was \"an egregious breach of the principle of transparency\".", "Arrests are made as protesters demand the release of the opposition leader, who is on hunger strike.", "The EU's climate-change goals of becoming climate neutral by 2050 will become legally binding.", "Most centres are currently booked up until August, with a 420,000 backlog because of the pandemic.", "Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah's mother calls on the government to \"reduce air pollution immediately\".", "More than a million people are estimated to have been detained at camps in the region of Xinjiang.", "President Biden says the US will halve its emissions by the end of the decade.", "Manchester United and Liverpool owners apologise to supporters for their involvement in a proposed European Super League.", "A man is being held on suspicion of murder after an altercation in a car park in Walton-on-Thames.", "Police said the item was found to pose \"no risk\" to the public, but had been destroyed.", "The footballer and food poverty campaigner is launching a new affordable meals project.", "The PM says carbon emissions must fall by almost 80% by 2035 - 15 years earlier than previously planned.", "The billionaire has three months from when an enforcement notice comes into effect to reinstate the sign.", "March saw coronavirus replaced as the leading cause of death for the first time since October.", "Britain's biggest carmaker to suspend output at two factories because of global semiconductor shortage.", "As our cities become smarter, the West must rely less on Chinese tech, UK intelligence chief warns.", "Manchester City move closer to becoming Premier League champions as they beat Aston Villa in a match where both sides end with 10 men.", "The foreign secretary has set out how the UK's reduced aid budget will be spent.", "The author of Voices of a Windrush Generation tells the story of his great-uncle who fought in WWI.", "Driving tests are finally back in gear in England and Wales after being suspended during lockdown.", "Several areas now have more job vacancies than before the pandemic, a study finds.", "Tracy Hercules, who sped off after mistakenly believing police officers were after him, is jailed.", "Republican and Democrat senators criticise Apple and Google for alleged anti-competitive behaviour.", "More details emerge about the former PM's work for now-failed failed finance firm Greensill Capital.", "Speaking at a virtual summit, Boris Johnson urges world leaders to \"build back greener\".", "Johnny Mercer left government on Tuesday over protections for troops who served during the Troubles.", "Ezekiel Hermon's flat is set to be demolished and says the council must do more to find a new home.", "Graves for those who fought in World War One and Two are maintained in 154 countries worldwide.", "Scientists found remains of the sauropod in rocks from what is today the Atacama desert.", "Campaigners are challenging the government over directly awarding contracts during the pandemic.", "The rule change effectively bans travel amid soaring infection rates and a rapidly rising death toll.", "But Arlene Foster adds the effect of restrictions due to be eased will need to be monitored.", "Sir James faced criticism in 2019 over relocating his company's global headquarters to Singapore.", "The energy firm will pay more than £650,000 after taking payments on Christmas Eve instead of January.", "An instrument in the Perseverance rover produces oxygen from the planet's carbon dioxide atmosphere.", "The airport tells the BBC that it turned down requests from airlines to operate additional flights.", "The European Super League is on \"standby\" despite nine of the 12 founding teams withdrawing, says Real Madrid president Florentino Perez.", "A police search for a \"suspicious package\" at the hospital had led to disruption.", "The supermarket giant says customers have swapped traditional loaves for speciality breads and wraps.", "Protests continue after a Minnesota police chief and the officer who killed a black motorist quit.", "Carl Abrahams was leaving a cemetery with his sons when he was stopped by PC Charlie Harrison.", "Ludwig Ahgren has more than 282,000 paying subscribers after a month-long Twitch ‘subathon‘.", "Fair Isle is one of the UK's most remote communities - but every adult has now had a second vaccine.", "Arlene Foster's defamation action against Dr Christian Jessen centres on an \"attack\" on her marriage.", "The PM was quizzed by Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer over accusations of \"Tory sleaze\".", "The Duke of Edinburgh's ceremonial funeral will be held on Saturday in line with Covid regulations.", "The scheme was devised to grant a dying man's wish to avoid a ban on traditional burials.", "Some rare footage of two wild pandas having a fierce fight has been captured by researchers in China.", "Travel trade group Abta warns that the cost of testing is still a \"significant restriction\" for people.", "More than £186,000 was raised on a GoFundMe page set up after Mary Agyapong died with Covid-19.", "US personnel will also go, despite Afghan warnings of civil war if international forces withdraw.", "Real Madrid's three first-leg goals are enough to knock Liverpool out of the Champions League after a goalless draw at Anfield.", "President Biden is to announce on Wednesday US troops will leave by mid-September instead of May.", "Denis Fawsitt could not see his regular numbers, so asked for a lucky dip instead and won £116,124.", "Isobel Rowbotham describes seeing Jack Merritt moments after he had been fatally wounded.", "A million students currently learning online will go back to university campuses next month.", "Residents within the SE16 and N3 postcodes are being urged to take a Covid-19 test.", "The gang mainly targeted Asda stores, stealing perfume, thousands of nappies and razor blades.", "Justine Jianikos has terminal cancer which was only spotted after it had spread, she says.", "US envoy John Kerry will hold talks in Shanghai ahead of a climate summit hosted by President Biden.", "A monastery is one of the \"more unique vaccination clinics\" as Caldey Island's monks get Covid jab.", "The airport says some travellers are facing waits of up to six hours.", "Sir James Dyson defends moving his firm's headquarters to Singapore and says Dyson is a British firm.", "Boris Johnson clashes with Sir Keir Starmer over the best way to investigate allegations.", "People falling over bollards and rubber kerbs in a north Wales town have been caught on CCTV.", "Rescuers have so far saved six of the commercial ship's crew but 12 are still missing.", "The Nicola Faith was found just 177m from its last known position, a rescue expert says.", "A boy tells how he replied to an advert on Snapchat and was groomed to sell drugs at the age of 14.", "The UK's largest supermarket saw full-year sales soar but the pandemic hit its bottom line.", "Using different shots for the first and second doses might give better protection, say experts.", "The move is expected to delay the country's vaccination programme by several weeks.", "The broadcast of the show's final was postponed following the Duke of Edinburgh's death on Friday.", "A \"significant\" number of confirmed and probable cases have been found in Lambeth and Wandsworth.", "Bill Crothers's position was \"agreed\" to by the Cabinet Office, a letter from a lobbying watchdog reveals.", "Chelsea are through to the semi-finals of the Champions League for the first time since 2014 after a 2-1 aggregate win over Porto.", "Concern over officials' links to failed bank Greensill Capital spark a crackdown in Whitehall.", "Young black people are three times more likely to be out of work than white peers, research shows.", "The YouTuber has been accused of sexually assaulting the TikTok star, but says the claims are false.", "Her Majesty receives the wand and insignia of the Lord Chamberlain in a private ceremony at Windsor.", "The Ever Given's insurers call Egypt's claim \"extraordinarily large\" and \"largely unsupported\".", "Richard Wyn Lewis denies defrauding retired lecturer Gerald Corrigan who was shot outside his home.", "Lord Parker, a former head of MI5, receives the wand and insignia of office at a ceremony in Windsor.", "A review of the state of Britain's native woods and trees finds only 7% are in good condition.", "A Cookstown teenager teams up with the Afghan Women’s Orchestra in a peace-building video.", "Keir Starmer says claims about lobbying show a \"return of Tory sleaze\" as he calls for MPs to clean up \"sleaze and cronyism\".", "The NI secretary says the Bobby Storey funeral decision has had a \"very substantial impact\".", "A series of burglaries targeted the west London homes of multimillionaire celebrities.", "Why Labour's push for a vote on a parliamentary inquiry in to Greensill is part of a long-term plan", "Sir Richard, one of the UK's richest men, was found dead and a woman hurt at his mansion in Dorset.", "A royal occasion descended into bewilderment and chuckles after a swarm of bees descended.", "Campaigning will resume after tributes to Prince Philip in the Commons, Holyrood and the Senedd.", "Huge plumes of smoke filled the sky above the Caribbean island, forcing thousands from their homes.", "Thousands of people in Saint Vincent have been evacuated after the La Soufrière volcano erupted.", "Petrol bombs and bricks have been thrown at police during another night of violence in Northern Ireland.", "Members of the public gather at Buckingham Palace to lay flowers and show support for the Queen.", "Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh married in November 1947. Winston Churchill described it as a flash of colour in the grey post-war Britain.", "The Prince of Wales says the Duke of Edinburgh would be \"amazed\" by the reaction to his death.", "The former PM now thinks he should have written to the Treasury over Greensill Capital, says a friend.", "Australia's PM attends a commemorative service in Sydney, as tributes pour in from around the world.", "Travellers from the US, Canada and France are among those who will be required to stay in hotels.", "The \"matchstick figures\" artist, better known for his industrial scenes, used to holiday in Berwick.", "Gun salutes have been fired across the UK, in Gibraltar and at sea in memory of the Duke of Edinburgh.", "From his rescue as a toddler to thwarting wartime sea raids, the duke - and his outlook on life - was shaped by the navy.", "A sign was displayed on Buckingham Palace's gates announcing the Duke of Edinburgh's death and its flag lowered to half-mast.", "Officials are said to be wary of encouraging large crowds amid pandemic restrictions.", "Tributes continue to be paid to the Duke of Edinburgh after his death at the age of 99.", "What was it like to take on the part of the Duke of Edinburgh in the award-winning Netflix series?", "The Queen's \"beloved\" husband of 73 years, the longest-serving consort in British history, died at Windsor Castle on Friday morning.", "The star, who appeared on the seventh series of Big Brother in 2006, had anorexia.", "The Duke of Edinburgh saw 18 presidents elected in his lifetime and met many of them with the Queen.", "A total of 450,136 second doses were received on Friday - with 106,878 first doses also given.", "Rachael Blackmore becomes the first female jockey to win the Grand National with victory on Minella Times at Aintree.", "This video has been removed for rights reasons.", "Three women will bid to become the first female jockey to win the Grand National at Aintree on Saturday.", "The city near Luxor has been hailed as one of the most important finds since Tutankhamun's tomb.", "The Duke of Edinburgh's life was filled with contradictions but will be remembered most for his unstinting support of the Queen.", "The policemen were on road safety duty when they drove at 89mph in a seized vehicle.", "From a Christmas morning at Sandringham, to a Canadian hotel, here are some of your Prince Philip stories.", "An open letter signed by 20,000 says a report into racial inequality \"provoked national indignation\".", "On the Good Friday Agreement's anniversary, the Irish PM warns against a \"spiral back\" to violence.", "Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, won widespread respect for his steadfast and constant support of the Queen.", "The US performer, whose real name was Earl Simmons, suffered a heart attack earlier this month.", "The 23-year-old was not breathing but regained consciousness after being given CPR, police say.", "Hundreds take to the streets in Cardiff to call for leisure centres and gyms to reopen on Monday.", "Key photographs, from his early days in the Greek island of Corfu to school days in Scotland and his life alongside the Queen.", "Crowds gathered outside Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle and people laid floral tributes.", "Boris Johnson and Sir Keir Starmer lead the condolences, as parties suspend election campaigning.", "Activists say more than 80 people were killed in the city of Bago in protests against the military coup.", "Former Aeroflot director and Russian exile Nikolai Glushkov was unlawfully killed, a coroner rules.", "ONS estimates that one-in-350 people in the UK currently have coronavirus", "An ally of Matt Hancock tells the BBC he \"acted in entirely the correct way\" after the 2019 meeting.", "During their 73-year marriage, he was the Queen's public support and the person who knew her best.", "The ceremony is split over two days for the first time, with more winners to be revealed on Sunday.", "For pals James and Nathan, the awards are about more than hauling badly-packed rucksacks up hills.", "People across the world pay tribute to Prince Philip following his death at the age of 99 on Friday.", "Further tributes are paid across the sporting weekend to Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, who died on Friday aged 99.", "The Duke of Edinburgh's children share reflections on his legacy and \"astonishing achievement\".", "Leeds United play the whole second half with 10 men as they secure an outstanding win and slow Manchester City's charge to the Premier League title.", "Alex and his two children came to lay flowers at 01:00 BST in memory of the Duke of Edinburgh.", "Dr Gibson served as the MP for Norwich North from 1997 to 2009 when he was forced to resign.", "La Soufrière on Saint Vincent island spews ash 6 km into the air, as 16,000 people are evacuated.", "The last vessels blocked by the Ever Given have now passed through the Suez Canal, authorities say.", "More than 300 homes in the Tampa Bay area have been ordered to be evacuated.", "A man is arrested on suspicion of murdering a woman who was found seriously injured in Greenwich.", "The rapper's lawyer says DMX is surrounded by his family at a hospital in White Plains, New York.", "Demonstrations are held across the UK against a bill to impose new restrictions on protest.", "Litter pickers in Cardiff have collected a \"couple of thousand\" silver canisters in just weeks.", "The rapid tests are being made available for free, ahead of the next stage of lockdown easing.", "Conservationists urge Tenby tourists to enjoy the stray mammal's temporary visit \"from a distance\".", "He suffered \"life changing injuries\" after jumping from cliffs near a beach, say rescuers.", "Justin Welby asks for acts of love, charity and international aid to be continued after Covid.", "Police said \"thousands\" had gathered at The Meadows in Edinburgh where violence erupted.", "The traditional showdown between Oxford and Cambridge universities takes place on the Great Ouse this year.", "The BBC spoke to several women who have accused three famous classical musicians of sexual abuse.", "Police were attacked at the Cloughfern roundabout in the O'Neill Road area on a second night of trouble.", "Earlier a 47-year-old man was charged with riot and throwing a petrol bomb following trouble at the Cloughfern roundabout.", "The equine brought the A55 in Gwynedd to a standstill when its vehicle broke down.", "Pilot events will see if tests, ventilation and other measures can make large gatherings Covid-safe.", "The community is increasingly concerned about a \"large gathering\" in Dorstone, police say.", "Lucille Downer, a great-grandma originally from Jamaica, died after a \"sustained\" attack, say police.", "One blaze, which spread across three hectares, was caused by people cooking, fire crews say.", "Runaway leaders Manchester City move to within four wins of the Premier League title after two second-half goals see off third-placed Leicester.", "Egypt's pioneering ship captain has been targeted over false rumours about her role in the incident.", "Richard Okorogheye has not been seen by his family since he left his home on 22 March.", "Lucille Downer, a great-gran originally from Jamaica, suffered a \"sustained\" attack, police say.", "The FA Cup final will be among events to only admit fans who get a negative test or prove immunity.", "The Carabao Cup final between Tottenham and Manchester City will have 8,000 fans in attendance after it is confirmed as a pilot event to test the return of big crowds.", "Avon and Somerset Police say the people arrested had failed to disperse from the city centre.", "More than 100 people are arrested after a demonstration against a bill to impose restrictions on protests.", "The former Adidas owner and his wife were tied up and assaulted by burglars at their estate near Paris.", "Non-essential click and collect services are also able to resume business as Covid restrictions ease.", "Cambridge win the 166th Boat Race in a contest moved to Cambridgeshire because of the coronavirus pandemic.", "Rangers set up an Old Firm derby with Celtic in the fourth round of the Scottish Cup after they easily dispatch Cove Rangers at Ibrox.", "A union conference hears staff are subjected to \"derogatory sexualised\" language and violence.", "A 35-year-old man is charged with murdering a woman who was found stabbed in a street.", "Four-time champion jump jockey Richard Johnson announces his retirement with immediate effect.", "Torrential rain sparked widespread destruction in eastern Indonesia and neighbouring East Timor.", "The parents of a two-week-old boy whose pram was crushed say their \"hearts will always ache\".", "Police have been given extra powers in some parts of Wales to disperse crowds that build up.", "A woman claims she was attacked by a man identified as a prime suspect in the murder of Emma Caldwell.", "The online shopping giant falsely claimed its drivers were not forced at times to urinate in bottles.", "The prince says he has been placed under house arrest as part of a crackdown on critics of the government.", "Ministers also confirm a risk-based \"traffic light\" system will start when foreign holidays resume.", "Millions of doses will be available for export in the coming months, the White House says.", "The prime minister has strongly denied saying the phrase, describing the reports as \"total rubbish\".", "The Serious Fraud Office drops a prosecution over an alleged scandal involving tagging criminals.", "The web designer said he did not think it was possible, but Google regained control of it very quickly.", "Top official Simon Case will conduct the probe - but Labour wants to call in the elections watchdog.", "Hikers will now have to book 24 hours ahead to park at Wales' most popular mountain.", "An average audience of 11m viewers tune into the sixth instalment in the BBC drama's sixth series.", "She was diagnosed with an aggressive form of leukaemia when she was eight weeks old.", "India's Covid sick struggle to get treatment at home due to black marketing of oxygen and drugs.", "Find out which films, actors, directors and production took home a golden statuette.", "Party wants a government minister to face questions in the Commons amid claims by former No 10 aide.", "Two men and a woman die in hospital after the crash just after midnight in Liverpool.", "The SNP leader wants trade to flow freely between Scotland and England if an independent Scotland re-joins the EU.", "Fourteen Russians are among those targeted with asset freezes and travel bans in anti-corruption drive.", "Emergency measures to speed up government procurement has led to accusations of a \"VIP fast track\".", "Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove is being asked by MPs about allegations made by former advisor Dominic Cummings.", "A watchdog will consider if Richard Okorogheye's ethnicity affected the handling of his case.", "Pools, gyms, all shops and restaurants are also opening in Scotland for the first time since December.", "The NHS plans to set out when 40 to 43-year-olds will be invited for the jab \"in the coming days\".", "Jonathan Gibson from Glasgow won the final of the long-running BBC quiz show by four points.", "The day before Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is due for release, her husband talks of his hopes and fears.", "Manchester City win the Carabao Cup for the fourth successive season as Aymeric Laporte's late header beats Tottenham Hotspur.", "Folajimi Olubunmi-Adewole's body was found in the water about six hours after he leapt in to help.", "Paula Vennells steps down from Dunelm and Morrisons after an IT scandal which saw workers wrongfully convicted.", "Boris Johnson's one-time closest ally makes a string of explosive allegations about the PM's conduct.", "An NI Fire Service commander says he is \"angry\" the blaze in the Mourne Mountains was deliberate.", "Nomadland named best film, Chloé Zhao gets best director, while Frances McDormand wins best actress.", "There has been a surge in offences as thieves cash in on the precious metals they contain.", "Folajimi Olubunmi-Adewole's family says he deserves a bravery medal for saving a woman from the river.", "However Liz Truss will not say if a Conservative donor provided the money to Boris Johnson first.", "Large defunct rocket bodies have the potential to break into thousands of pieces, threatening functioning satellites that provide vital services like GPS.", "Leicester City move closer to Champions League qualification as they come from behind to beat Crystal Palace.", "The channel apologises amid criticism of comments made on Celebrities: What Happened to Your Face?", "The government says there is \"no capacity\", but bereaved families say a probe could save lives.", "It is also a record year for diversity in the acting nominations and for female directors.", "The president leads celebrations of the Alabay shepherd dog - a symbol of national cultural pride.", "Two women remain in hospital after a portable heater exploded outside a pub, injuring three people.", "Experts forecast faster growth because of the vaccine rollout and easing of lockdown restrictions.", "Taoiseach Micheál Martin says support would be provided from Dublin with UK government input.", "The singer was closely associated with the Vienna State Opera for most of her long career.", "The British-Iranian woman faces a new court hearing this weekend, following a five-year sentence.", "Delhi hospitals run out of beds and oxygen as families struggle to save their loved ones.", "England's Ben Kay and Wales' Shane Williams are among those recruited.", "Shaan Mir is charged with murder and attempted murder following an altercation in Walton-on-Thames.", "Autumn bookings surge at Thomas Cook and Kuoni as travellers defer summer breaks amid travel uncertainty.", "The internationally-known former Royal Ballet dancer had faced allegations of sexual misconduct.", "A Newsnight-Bellingcat investigation maps the movements of a man thought to have directed the attack.", "Alexei Navalny is on day 19 of a hunger strike over his medical treatment in a Russian jail.", "Millions of children in England will be surveyed in an attempt to tackle \"generational problems\".", "First-time buyers will get cheaper deals if they can stretch to a bigger deposit, analysts say.", "Some cases of the Indian variant have been found that are not linked to travel, a scientist says.", "Elizabeth Mahoney was put to bed in a stranger's house after being discharged from hospital.", "Plaid and Lib Dems have raised concerns, but Labour said \"prizes could be won\" by their introduction.", "Talks have taken place over the creation of a new £4.6bn European Premier League, involving the top sides from across the continent.", "Sheffield United's relegation to the Championship is confirmed with defeat at Wolverhampton Wanderers.", "Four of the eight who died at a FedEx warehouse were members of the Sikh community.", "Pupils from Gordonstoun school lay a wreath off the Moray coast where Prince Philip learned to sail.", "If a horse is being kept in poor conditions, charities do not have the statutory power to act.", "The US space agency is ready to attempt the first powered, controlled flight on another planet.", "The Issa brothers have bought the British fast food chain Leon, which has more than 70 sites.", "Explosives experts are called in as the area near the Palace Pier is cordoned off by police.", "Two years ago an attack on a former Russian spy in the UK sent shockwaves though MI6.", "Paying tribute, the party's leader says he \"fought for peace, human rights and social justice\".", "Staff complaining of racism have been paid off to \"buy their silence\", the BBC is told.", "A union representing job centre staff says three in five feel unsafe interacting with the public.", "The Consumer Product Safety Commission says it is aware of 39 incidents involving the Tread+ treadmill.", "Timeline of events surrounding the poisoning of Russian spy Sergei Skripal, his daughter and a couple in Amesbury.", "The revamped 36-team Champions League is agreed with the new format due to start in 2024.", "Millions more around the world watch the service across online channels, including YouTube.", "The Czech Republic expels 18 Russian diplomats after linking the operatives to a 2014 explosion.", "The family, who recently moved to the area, have been forced to flee their home, a councillor says.", "Environment Secretary George Eustice says current systems are \"quite robust,\" but might be tweaked.", "Ticket-holders for the outdoor concert in Liverpool will have to provide a negative test beforehand.", "Cillian Murphy, JK Rowling and Sir Sam Mendes lead tributes to the \"fearless and magnificent\" actress.", "The Home Secretary criticises Facebook's privacy plan for its apps in a speech on child protection.", "The vote is expected to pave the way for President Bashar al-Assad to serve another seven-year term.", "The Peaky Blinders star's husband Damian Lewis says she armed her family with \"courage to go on\".", "Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham are among 12 clubs who agree to join a new European Super League.", "Charles Geschke set up Adobe in 1982, giving the world the ubiquitous PDF technology.", "YouTube star-turned-boxer Jake Paul wins his fight with ex-UFC fighter Ben Askren with a first-round knockout inside two minutes.", "Uefa and the Premier League have strongly condemned 12 major European clubs, including the 'big six' from England, signing up to a breakaway European Super League.", "Reigning world champion Ronnie O'Sullivan says he was \"harassed\" by a \"boozed-up\" fan while he was relaxing prior to his first-round win.", "The funeral of their grandfather marked the princes’ first public appearance together in more than a year.", "The sister of journalist Lyra McKee has spoken of her grief on the second anniversary of her death.", "Players who compete in a European Super League will be barred from international competitions, world football's governing body Fifa says.", "International concern grows after doctors for the jailed Putin critic say he needs urgent medical help.", "Leicester City boss Brendan Rodgers says his side have \"the chance to create history\" after reaching their first FA Cup final since 1969 at the expense of Southampton at Wembley.", "It is only the second time there have been fewer than 2,000 cases recorded in a day since early September.", "They sped up and down a dual carriageway after seizing it from a driver, a misconduct panel hears.", "The University of Cape Town's library and a historic windmill are hit as all students are evacuated.", "Former Liverpool and Tottenham midfielder Danny Murphy explains why he cannot see any positives from plans for a breakaway European Super League involving England's 'big six' clubs.", "Ingenuity has become the first rotorcraft to fly on another planet. This is how it works.", "Nicola Sturgeon wants a four nations inquiry into the pandemic to start by the end of the year.", "Leaders of the UK's biggest hospitality firms sign an open letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson.", "Delyn's Rob Roberts, who invited an intern to \"fool around\", faces no further action from party.", "Moses Christensen will serve at least 28 years in prison for stabbing Richard Hall at a beauty spot.", "Sales and profits soar at the online fashion group, which now has 25 million customers around the world.", "Hashem Abedi and two other men are accused of assaulting an officer in HMP Belmarsh last May.", "Tiger Woods was driving close to double the 45mph speed limit when he crashed in February, according to Los Angeles County's sheriff.", "The head of the vaccine rollout says all under-30s will be offered the Moderna or Pfizer vaccine.", "Protesters and HS2 workers clash as work begins on felling a wood said to have inspired the author.", "Islamic scholars and NHS leaders say Muslims can still get the vaccine during Ramadan.", "Infections fell by two-thirds in lockdown but one in 200 people still have the virus, a study says.", "Physicists may have just made a major breakthrough in our understanding of the Universe.", "The 57-year-old was diagnosed with a \"really rapid, really aggressive\" bladder cancer last year.", "The Putin critic has been diagnosed with spinal hernias and his health is worsening, a lawyer says.", "Peter Ainsworth - former shadow environment secretary and MP for East Surrey - has died aged 64.", "Customers wanting tickets to visit Buckingham Palace's garden must wait in an online queuing system.", "The Duke of Cambridge says investing in nature is a cost effective way of tackling global warming.", "\"How could it happen,\" police in Norway ask of the man who died with no-one reporting him missing.", "Families had challenged the Czech government's ban on unvaccinated children entering pre-schools.", "Petrol bombs and fireworks have been thrown at police near a peaceline in Northern Ireland.", "Politicians called for calm after nights of unrest left more than 50 police officers injured.", "Richard Okorogheye was last seen by his family on 22 March, when he left their home in west London.", "Police were attacked and petrol bombs thrown in the latest disorder close to a Belfast peaceline.", "A woman in Japan becomes the world's first Covid patient to receive a transplant from living donors.", "Susan Lowe is among the carers who struggled to get pain relief for a loved one during the pandemic.", "The pig was on its way to an abattoir when it escaped from the trailer in north Devon.", "Naana Aisha Issaka's appeal raises nearly £40,000 after her Instagram video goes viral.", "Police were attacked, a bus hijacked and a press photographer assaulted during the disorder.", "The bar, with pizza oven and TV, does not comply with outdoor shelter guidelines, a council says.", "The Philippines and Australia are the latest countries to limit the AstraZeneca jab to older people.", "A woman who survived the fatal blaze says she \"cannot fathom\" why it took so long for those affected to learn what caused it.", "About 14,000 people in that age group booked an appointment within the first two hours.", "Neil Astles, 59, who had the AstraZeneca vaccine in March, died from a blood clot on Sunday.", "The communities secretary says arrivals under a new scheme will be helped to access housing and jobs.", "The drop in England and Wales comes amid efforts to reassure the public about vaccine safety.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Thursday evening.", "Companies are expecting more people to travel as the lockdown eases further on Monday.", "Police were called to a property in Dorset after Sir Richard Sutton and a woman were stabbed.", "China's capital has overtaken New York as it bounced back quickly from the pandemic, according to Forbes.", "The UK's leading sports bodies are backing the use of 'vaccine passports' and Covid testing as a \"credible\" means of allowing full capacities at venues.", "The M25 and A2 are closed in both directions due to a lorry hanging off the side of a bridge.", "Beauty queen Caroline Jurie and another contestant are arrested after a fracas at the contest.", "A decline in cases has stalled but deaths have not followed the same pattern, scientists say.", "The health secretary says the vaccine rollout remains on track to jab all adults by the end of July.", "Using the Body Mass Index to measure health inspires stigma and should be scrapped, MPs say.", "Richard Okorogheye's body was found in a pond in Epping Forest, two weeks after he went missing.", "Kyaw Zwar Minn spends the night in his car after saying the military attaché \"occupied\" the embassy.", "Analysts say rise in visitors to retail parks shows shoppers keen to return to physical shopping.", "The Wales Millennium Centre says a decision on their introduction needs to be made \"urgently\".", "Alan Willson went to the park after his son called him to say he was under attack.", "Bitcoin emissions in China exceed the total emissions of the Czech Republic and Qatar, study says.", "A poem in a Newham mural praises a local library and parks, but calls the crime rate \"unfortunate\".", "It comes as workers were suspended over sexual exploitation, three years after a similar scandal.", "The military says it is now fully in control of Palma, which was invaded by militants on 24 March.", "It comes amid questions over David Cameron's links to collapsed finance firm Greensill Capital.", "More than 300 homes in the Tampa Bay area have been ordered to be evacuated.", "The rapid tests are being made available for free, ahead of the next stage of lockdown easing.", "The US Supreme Court has handed Google a major win in a decade-long battle over copied code.", "Pupils will learn about historical and current diversity under the new curriculum.", "SSP increases from £95.85 to £96.35 a week in April, but unions say it is too little to live on.", "The South Korean electronics giant said the mobile phone market had become \"incredibly competitive\".", "The BBC spoke to several women who have accused three famous classical musicians of sexual abuse.", "Earlier a 47-year-old man was charged with riot and throwing a petrol bomb following trouble at the Cloughfern roundabout.", "The Canadian popstar says his \"heart breaks for innocent civilians being senselessly murdered\".", "Campaigners have called for CPR to be taught to all pupils in Wales, as in England and Scotland.", "Eleven Ukrainian women were among those detained, the Ukrainian consulate told the BBC.", "Lucille Downer, a great-grandma originally from Jamaica, died after a \"sustained\" attack, say police.", "People from ethnic minorities win in all four individual film categories for the first time.", "There is growing speculation that a certificate scheme could be built into the main NHS app.", "Wales will become the first UK nation to reach the milestone, the Welsh government says.", "Boris Johnson says the next step on the lockdown roadmap can happen, with retail and hospitality reopening.", "Six prisoners have reportedly returned while 35 had refused to escape in the attack by gunmen.", "Like other publishers, it has seen demand for books surge during lockdown.", "Social media footage appears to show masked men taking part in a loyalist band parade in Portadown.", "Everyone in top four priority groups will have been offered a Covid jab by Friday, ministers claim.", "People are encouraged to raise money on what would have been the late NHS fundraiser's birthday.", "Landowner James Weld says base jumpers are putting lives at risk by encouraging others.", "Richard Okorogheye was last seen by his family on 22 March, when he left their home in west London.", "The Police Federation says \"older more sinister elements\" are influencing younger people to attack officers.", "The plans are passed but there was a dispute over whether or not Welsh history will be compulsory.", "The FA Cup final will be among events to only admit fans who get a negative test or prove immunity.", "At least 50 people died in Friday's crash, which was caused by a vehicle slipping onto the tracks.", "Non-essential click and collect services are also able to resume business as Covid restrictions ease.", "The former Adidas owner and his wife were tied up and assaulted by burglars at their estate near Paris.", "Cambridge win the 166th Boat Race in a contest moved to Cambridgeshire because of the coronavirus pandemic.", "Torrential rain sparked widespread destruction in eastern Indonesia and neighbouring East Timor.", "PM Boris Johnson pays tribute to the former Welsh secretary, saying she will be \"sorely missed\".", "Two-week-old Ciaran Leigh Morris died after a car hit his pram in the West Midlands.", "The parents of a two-week-old boy whose pram was crushed say their \"hearts will always ache\".", "Leading travel industry figures react with dismay to Boris Johnson's update on the lockdown roadmap.", "All over-50s and at-risk adults have been offered a vaccine, the Welsh government says.", "The 26 clinics, providing treatment for 6,000 new parents, will open by April 2022, NHS England says.", "French authorities investigate after an undercover video claims to show secret luxury dining.", "Boris Johnson is to detail measures including an expected traffic light system for foreign travel.", "A man who has accused his former drama teacher of sexual abuse speaks out for the first time.", "Alphabet sees earnings soar as people stuck at home in the pandemic used more of its services.", "Officers arresting the 73-year-old in Colorado are seen reviewing video where her shoulder \"pops\".", "Millions of doses will be available for export in the coming months, the White House says.", "The prime minister has strongly denied saying the phrase, describing the reports as \"total rubbish\".", "Accident investigators warn of more crashes in Wales unless action is taken at level crossings.", "Top official Simon Case will conduct the probe - but Labour wants to call in the elections watchdog.", "Jonty Bravery threw a six-year-old boy from a 10th floor viewing platform at London's Tate Modern.", "Chelsea produce a composed performance to secure a draw and put themselves in a promising position after their Champions League semi-final first leg against Real Madrid.", "Usman Khan mixed with high-profile terrorists, an inquest into the Fishmongers' Hall attack hears.", "Those who are due to turn 42 by 1 July can also book their jabs on the NHS website.", "Fourteen Russians are among those targeted with asset freezes and travel bans in anti-corruption drive.", "The monarch is seen carrying out virtual audiences for the first time since Prince Philip's death.", "Delays to speech and language skills are a top concern for primary schools, researchers say.", "Jonathan Gibson won the competition by four points and got a perfect score in his specialist subject.", "Many of the 93,000 fixed penalties issued in England and Wales were discriminatory or unfair, MPs argue.", "The large-scale operation was found by police, firefighters and a chemicals expert.", "Jonathan Gibson from Glasgow won the final of the long-running BBC quiz show by four points.", "Ian Rivers, who escaped across Syria in 2013, will use the stars and a sextant to navigate.", "Lacey Turner has has two miscarriages and believes the current system needs reforming.", "This month saw 13 days of air frosts in the UK, compared with the previous record of 11 in April 1970.", "Boris Johnson's one-time closest ally makes a string of explosive allegations about the PM's conduct.", "Whitbread, which also owns Beefeater, expects a summer bounce as Covid restrictions ease on 17 May.", "Folajimi Olubunmi-Adewole's family says he deserves a bravery medal for saving a woman from the river.", "The bill was passed in the House of Lords after peers withdrew their plans for monitoring stalkers.", "The public are asked to 'make a stand' against arsonists after 100 wildfires in the past 24 hours.", "The divisive footwear company's sales reached a record $460m in its first quarter.", "Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s husband wants to protect their girl from the \"ups and downs” of the case.", "Leicester City move closer to Champions League qualification as they come from behind to beat Crystal Palace.", "Sales of fiction, non-fiction and audio books all jumped last year, the industry body says.", "The House of Lords vote to shield residents from the cost of fire prevention measures.", "The controversial routine is among the nominees for Bafta's must-see TV moment of the last year.", "The channel apologises amid criticism of comments made on Celebrities: What Happened to Your Face?", "Two women remain in hospital after a portable heater exploded outside a pub, injuring three people.", "Parents tell MPs their children were restrained unnecessarily and isolated from their families.", "The PM has hosted a cabinet meeting after a series of claims about his comments and conduct.", "More than 13m adults have strongest level of protection against Covid as 42-year-olds invited for vaccine.", "A \"quick-thinking\" teacher and support worker detained a suspect at Crawley College, police say.", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have been announced as campaign chairs of the star-studded event.", "The City of London Corporation set out plans on Tuesday to create 1,500 new residential units by 2030.", "Autumn bookings surge at Thomas Cook and Kuoni as travellers defer summer breaks amid travel uncertainty.", "Police have named the victim as Loretta Herman, from north east London.", "Mohammed Ali Ege is wanted in connection with the 2010 murder of 17-year-old Aamir Siddiqi.", "The ex-PM says he should have used \"formal\" channels, amid a row over his contacts with ministers.", "Campaigning will resume after tributes to Prince Philip in the Commons, Holyrood and the Senedd.", "Thousands of people in Saint Vincent have been evacuated after the La Soufrière volcano erupted.", "Huge plumes of smoke filled the sky above the Caribbean island, forcing thousands from their homes.", "The Prince of Wales says the Duke of Edinburgh would be \"amazed\" by the reaction to his death.", "Thomas Schreiber is charged with murder, attempted murder and dangerous driving.", "Australia's PM attends a commemorative service in Sydney, as tributes pour in from around the world.", "A total of 475,230 second jabs were given on Saturday, along with 111,109 first vaccinations.", "West Midlands Police says it has identified the mother and she is receiving \"appropriate care\".", "The princess says she wants to follow her father's example of \"a life well lived and service freely given\".", "A suspect has been released under investigation over the murder of Stuart Lubbock in 2001.", "A no-nonsense moderniser, the duke's last service to the monarchy may be in the way he departs it, reports the BBC's Jonny Dymond.", "Bridgend was one of the hardest-hit areas, but now has one of the lowest case rates in Wales.", "The star, who appeared on the seventh series of Big Brother in 2006, had anorexia.", "A total of 450,136 second doses were received on Friday - with 106,878 first doses also given.", "Rachael Blackmore becomes the first female jockey to win the Grand National with victory on Minella Times at Aintree.", "Shared grief over Prince Philip's death is an \"ideal opportunity\" to mend rifts within the Royal Family, Sir John Major says.", "Victims' families will mark the 32nd anniversary of the stadium disaster privately on Thursday.", "Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, won widespread respect for his steadfast and constant support of the Queen.", "The 23-year-old was not breathing but regained consciousness after being given CPR, police say.", "Video of officers addressing the Good Friday congregation, from the altar, circulated online.", "Ex-Emmerdale actress Gemma Oaten posted an emotional video saying: \"I wish I could have done more\".", "The drama wins four prizes including best film, while Promising Young Woman wins best British film.", "Final preparations were under way on 11 April 2021 as shops, pubs and zoos all got ready to welcome back customers.", "Activists say more than 80 people were killed in the city of Bago in protests against the military coup.", "The rise of jockey Rachael Blackmore - the modest trailblazer who made Grand National history", "Key photographs, from his early days in the Greek island of Corfu to school days in Scotland and his life alongside the Queen.", "Shoppers have been rushing back to the High Street, where queues were seen outside some retailers.", "People are urged to be considerate when non-essential retail rules ease in England and Wales on Monday.", "An ally of Matt Hancock tells the BBC he \"acted in entirely the correct way\" after the 2019 meeting.", "The ceremony is split over two days for the first time, with more winners to be revealed on Sunday.", "Japan's Hideki Matsuyama shoots a 65 on Saturday to take a four-shot lead into the final day of the Masters, with England's Justin Rose tied for second.", "Strong winds tore across the state on Sunday and Monday, damaging homes and leaving thousands without power.", "A remembrance service has been held at Canterbury Cathedral as Sir John Major pays tribute.", "\"We've lost the grandfather of the nation\". Prince Andrew says of his father, the Duke of Edinburgh.", "Hideki Matsuyama holds on to win the Masters by one shot and become the first Japanese man to claim a major title.", "A rapid review of US patients says people being vaccinated should be reassured by the findings.", "Members of the Royal Family release previously unpublished photographs of the Duke of Edinburgh.", "The boss of Europe's biggest holiday company thinks successful vaccine programmes can prevent another washout.", "There had been concerns that large numbers would have to self-isolate after a false positive result.", "Bodycam footage shows an officer shouting \"drop it\" before fatally shooting Adam Toledo in the chest.", "The food delivery firm suffered a technical glitch, but says it has resolved the situation.", "A monastery is one of the \"more unique vaccination clinics\" as Caldey Island's monks get Covid jab.", "Sima Kotecha was harassed while preparing for a broadcast in Leicester city centre.", "Politicians complain that only three NHS scripts have been issued since the law changed in 2018.", "Scientists confirm they have made \"chimera\" embryos from long-tailed macaques and humans.", "Figures show 19,196 people tested positive in the week to 7 April, the lowest number since September.", "The SNP manifesto promises to increase frontline health spending by 20% if the party wins the election.", "Vaccine certificates could help to reopen society but risk discrimination, a UK equality body warns.", "Arlene Foster's defamation action against Dr Christian Jessen centres on an \"attack\" on her marriage.", "A BBC team meets the Taliban, a group that clearly sees itself as Afghanistan's government-in-waiting.", "The toymaker is launching new cars based on electric models and making some from recycled materials.", "Sir David Attenborough fronts a new documentary on lockdown's effect on the natural world.", "The owners of the landmark Edinburgh department store say they are \"very surprised\" the signs have been removed.", "Mohammed Ali Ege is wanted in connection with the murder of 17-year-old Aamir Siddiqi in 2010.", "Rebecca Bostock's case went undiagnosed for 16 months before an emergency operation saved her life.", "Britain's Dan Evans claims the biggest win of his career by beating world number one Novak Djokovic 6-4 7-5 in Monte Carlo.", "Firms and academics unite in the “massive challenge” to devise a \"roadmap to net zero\".", "Kanye West debuted the iconic shoes, now worth an estimated $1m, on stage at the 2008 Grammys.", "Bill Crothers's position was \"agreed\" to by the Cabinet Office, a letter from a lobbying watchdog reveals.", "Darron Coster spent 35 minutes helping those in the Manchester Arena attack, an inquiry is told.", "A vulnerable landlord was \"controlled\" in a plan to steal part of his £3.5m estate, a court hears.", "Vladyslav Dryhval was detained by armed officers on The Mall on Tuesday evening, the Met said.", "Lord Parker, a former head of MI5, receives the wand and insignia of office at a ceremony in Windsor.", "Reopening dates were announced at Stormont following a meeting of the executive.", "The supermarket giant says customers have swapped traditional loaves for speciality breads and wraps.", "Pte James Towers' medal, received for his bravery delivering orders under fire, sells for £248,000.", "The firm saw a social media backlash after a nurse claimed staff were turned away for beauty treatments.", "A High Court claim by the retailer argues its rival's Cuthbert the Caterpillar infringes its trademark.", "Data leaked to BBC News shows a rise in the number of hours before patients are offloaded.", "A study of 59 people compared the drug with a conventional antidepressant.", "Real Madrid's three first-leg goals are enough to knock Liverpool out of the Champions League after a goalless draw at Anfield.", "US personnel will also go, despite Afghan warnings of civil war if international forces withdraw.", "Isobel Rowbotham describes seeing Jack Merritt moments after he had been fatally wounded.", "The Duke of Edinburgh's life was filled with contradictions but will be remembered most for his unstinting support of the Queen.", "As MPs announce another inquiry into the Greensill row, David Cameron suggests he will co-operate.", "Seven-year-old Harvey Tyrrell was found unresponsive by a friend outside the King Harold pub in 2018.", "Concern over officials' links to failed bank Greensill Capital spark a crackdown in Whitehall.", "Charity retailers ask givers to book before just turning up with donations as people flock back.", "Helen Whitelaw appeared on Tipping Point before Motor Neurone Disease rendered her speechless.", "A campaign group claims the \"image-obsessed\" platform is dangerous for children's health and privacy.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Thursday evening.", "Rob Brydon said \"it would seem so strange if they didn't\" do another episode of the show.", "Thousands of viewers contacted the BBC to say they felt the amount of coverage was excessive.", "Tory peer Eric Pickles says civil service too close to private sector, amid Greensill lobbying row.", "The airport says some travellers are facing waits of up to six hours.", "An email from the French embassy warns of \"serious threats\" after anti-blasphemy protests.", "The broadcast of the show's final was postponed following the Duke of Edinburgh's death on Friday.", "People in Scotland are now able to travel between council areas and meet in groups of six outdoors.", "Bill Crothers, who is embroiled in a row over working at Greensill, did not seek advice over another role.", "New figures from the BPI show rap and hip hop streams are at an all-time high.", "Scale of cancelled treatments is revealed with hospitals facing 'dire' backlog after Covid surge.", "Arsenal impressively sweep aside Slavia Prague to reach the Europa League semi-finals with a fine away victory in the second leg.", "Tensions boil over into some of the worst violence in the Israeli-occupied sector for months.", "Ex-postmasters describe their joy at their convictions being quashed after a long fight for justice.", "Javell Hall said the DNA on the murder weapon was not his and so must have been his brother's.", "The government borrowed £303bn in the year to March, reflecting the cost of measures to support the economy.", "The plan would increase US capital gains taxes and the top marginal income tax rate.", "Labour says Boris Johnson is at the centre of cronyism allegations engulfing the government.", "A group of 39 sub-postmasters have their convictions for stealing money quashed in Court of Appeal.", "A Model Y made multiple trips on a test track without a human in the driver's seat, engineers found.", "Ronnie O'Sullivan's hopes of a record-equalling seventh Crucible title end with a second-round final-frame loss to Anthony McGill.", "India's government and parts of the media ignored warnings about a rising wave of cases, experts say.", "The UK government's fan-led review into English football will consider how the ownership of clubs is structured.", "Richard Glenn is banned for three years over the visit to the Costa Rica lapdancing venue.", "A study found no mutations associated with a parent's exposure in the 1986 nuclear accident.", "About 105,000 people in the UK would test positive, statistics suggest, down from 130,000 a week before.", "The teenager was confirmed dead at the scene and officers are trying to find and tell his family.", "A US man has reportedly been arrested and charged after telling a match \"I did storm the Capitol\".", "Six activists are acquitted of causing criminal damage despite a judge saying they had \"no defence\".", "City of London Police say the case is being treated as a missing person investigation.", "Demand for flights from India to the UK has soared as travellers rush to beat Friday's quarantine deadline.", "The country remains out of step with other major nations by refusing to commit to deeper emissions cuts.", "The picture of Louis on his bike was taken by the Duchess of Cambridge to mark his third birthday.", "The officials said it was important for women be told about the potential risks of the jab.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 16 and 23 April.", "A full trade agreement in principle should be agreed between the UK and Australia by June", "Attempts by Indonesia to rescue 53 crew seem in vain as their oxygen supply is thought to have run out.", "Wembley is given an extra Euro 2020 last-16 tie - which could involve England - as Dublin loses its four fixtures because of Covid-19 issues.", "Alexei Navalny refused food in a Russian jail for 24 days but his doctors appealed to him to stop.", "A judge says civil service conduct was \"an egregious breach of the principle of transparency\".", "More than a million people are estimated to have been detained at camps in the region of Xinjiang.", "An MP questions why no prosecution was brought despite a \"clear and flagrant breach\" of regulations.", "Researchers at Glasgow University identified two cases where they believe cats developed Covid-19 after their owners.", "In Indonesia for a regional summit, Min Aung Hlaing is urged to end the crackdown on protesters.", "The latest estimate for the number - a measure of the rate of infection - is between 0.7 and 0.9.", "The government says a \"short and powerful\" state of emergency will come into force in several areas.", "A series of burglaries targeted the west London homes of multimillionaire celebrities.", "A man is being held on suspicion of murder after an altercation in a car park in Walton-on-Thames.", "The print was discovered on the fragment of a clay vessel made by a Neolithic potter.", "The US president will travel to Cornwall for the G7 for his first overseas trip since his election win.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Friday evening.", "The Wales manager denies three offences after an incident in Salford in November.", "Arsenal supporters protest against the club's owners outside the Emirates Stadium on Friday following their part in the failed European Super League.", "As our cities become smarter, the West must rely less on Chinese tech, UK intelligence chief warns.", "A series of burglaries targeted the west London homes of multimillionaire celebrities.", "The incident comes as India's hospitals are overwhelmed by a spike in cases and oxygen shortages.", "Noel Thomas was jailed for nine months in 2006 for false accounting.", "Simone Perry was sending a WhatsApp message and making a call when five-month-old Renzo drowned.", "Women defy convention by ditching the leotard for a full-body suit at the European championship.", "Doctors say it's a \"crack of light\" after more than a year of campaigning for improved equipment.", "Early trials show Oxford developers may have finally found an effective jab against the disease.", "About one in five people say they still cannot smell properly eight weeks after a Covid infection.", "Accepting an Independent Spirit Award, Mulligan thanked the late star for \"everything she gave us\".", "A rapidly spreading text-message scam is infecting Android phones across the UK.", "Some UK nationals say they are struggling to secure flights home as India sees a surge in Covid.", "He was the co-founder of hip-hop pioneers Digital Underground and produced 2Pac's debut album.", "More details emerge about the former PM's work for now-failed failed finance firm Greensill Capital.", "Robert Page will take charge of Wales as manager at Euro 2020 this summer after Ryan Giggs is charged with assault.", "Details and reaction as First Minister Mark Drakeford announced changes to lockdown rules.", "Paris was stolen from Lisa Lockey in 2019, but later found using the pet's microchip.", "The socialite is accused of helping Jeffrey Epstein groom and sexually abuse underage girls.", "Real-world data found the AZ and Pfizer jabs worked equally well in over-75s and younger people.", "Tomasz Waga died after being found unconscious by a dog walker in a Cardiff street in January.", "Boris Johnson's one-time closest ally makes a string of explosive allegations about the PM's conduct.", "The men aged 26 and 36 were detained over an device left at an officer's home in Dungiven.", "Driving lessons and tests also resume on Friday as Northern Ireland's Covid restrictions ease.", "Lisa Condron wants products to be ranked based on how environmentally-friendly they are.", "The rule change effectively bans travel amid soaring infection rates and a rapidly rising death toll.", "But Arlene Foster adds the effect of restrictions due to be eased will need to be monitored.", "Taoiseach Micheál Martin says support would be provided from Dublin with UK government input.", "The nationalist leader rejects Alex Salmond's \"super majority\" aim and wants to achieve a \"simple majority\" at May's election.", "A BBC Africa Eye investigation uncovers the location of a massacre, and evidence linking it to the military.", "Official statistics suggest one in five people experience ongoing symptoms five weeks after infection.", "First Minister Mark Drakeford and Chief Medical Officer Dr Frank Atherton give a briefing.", "Sir Simon Stevens says the pandemic could bring about radical new ways of working.", "People who attended the party at an outdoor arena are \"letting Manchester down\", a councillor says.", "Police said there was \"a business and personal relationship between the suspect and the victims\"", "An interview with the ex-president was posted by his daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, on Facebook.", "A new code of rights will also enable victims of rape to choose their police interviewer's gender.", "And another study shows even 96-year-olds are producing an impressive immune response.", "Witnesses in Minneapolis have given emotional testimony about being at the scene of Mr Floyd's arrest.", "Ben Hannam spent his weekends with far-right friends and and kept a photo of himself with a Hitler moustache.", "And fewer than one in five people request a test if they have symptoms, a report on test-and-trace says.", "The Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy author became an Irish citizen before his death, his son says.", "The charge has been 5p since it was introduced in 2014, prompting a drastic decline in plastic bag usage.", "Europe is gradually easing lockdown measures ahead of the tourist season.", "Several witnesses gave emotional testimony on day three of the trial, and prosecutors released new arrest footage.", "The Labour leader says it would be \"wrong in principle\" to ask landlords to police a new scheme.", "A woman is held on suspicion of drink-driving and criminal damage after the crash in West Sussex.", "Pop star-turned-vicar Richard Coles on the alcohol addiction that caused his partner's death.", "The details of what caused Tiger Woods' car crash will only be released if the 15-time major winner gives permission for police to share their findings.", "Critics argue the ships erode the city's foundations and cause flooding and pollution.", "The same coat sold by Coast is more expensive than Dorothy Perkins despite both being owned by Boohoo.", "Simon Byrne appears at the Policing Board amid calls for him to resign over Bobby Storey's funeral.", "Metal tycoon Sanjeev Gupta is racing to refinance his business after his financial backer collapsed.", "Online conspiracy theories are exacerbating existing vaccine scepticism.", "Lee Collins, defender and captain of National League club Yeovil Town, dies at the age of 32.", "Genevieve Hansen was off-duty when she came across the scene of George Floyd's arrest.", "Save the Children tells of a \"nightmare situation\", with the youngest victim just six years old.", "Stomont passes a motion censuring party ministers over Bobby Storey's heavily attended funeral.", "The production will be one of the first to open when lockdown restrictions on theatres are eased in June.", "The art collective that sold the customised Nike sneakers has shipped all but one of the 666 pairs.", "Pupils and teachers tell BBC Scotland that some senior pupils will be sitting assessments that are, in effect, exams.", "WTO head Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala says the AstraZeneca deal with India is a good example.", "New rules to help venues reopen outdoors safely this month have sparked anger from industry groups.", "Energy suppliers' environment-friendly tariffs are not always as green as they sound, experts say.", "Richard Okorogheye, 19, was last seen leaving his home in west London last Monday.", "Wales will become the first UK nation to reach the milestone, the Welsh government says.", "A brain surgeon, left shocked and frightened by his cancer diagnosis, says the law needs changing.", "Million students still waiting for a university return date, with calls for it to be April not May.", "Up to 1,000 people may be allowed at some outdoor events in Wales after 12 April as lockdown eases.", "Two men were arrested on suspicion of murder, though one later fled from a hospital, police say.", "After this week's warm temperatures, colder weather over Easter could even bring snow in some areas.", "The Tories gave \"support\" to Boris Johnson in his battle against claims made about his time as London mayor.", "Most low-paid workers will receive a pay rise, but those on furlough will miss out.", "Harry Maguire scores a late winner for England in their World Cup qualifier against Poland.", "Some 2,000 people attend a party that was announced on social media as a joke, defying Covid measures.", "A timeline of events leading up to George Floyd's death has been revealed by authorities.", "British national Philip Mawer was working in Palma when it was stormed by militants last week.", "Azam Mangori, 24, is found guilty of Lorraine Cox's \"deeply disturbing\" murder.", "Samuel Kasumu resigned citing \"unbearable tension\" in Downing Street, but later changed his mind.", "Samuel Kasumu has been unhappy with the government's stance on race for some time, sources say.", "The serving officer was not charged but faces a misconduct hearing over alleged attacks on colleagues.", "Benjamin Hannam is the first British officer to be convicted of a terrorism offence.", "The government-commissioned report finds UK system is \"no longer\" rigged against ethnic minorities.", "The health secretary said the government was putting more research money into tackling the condition.", "Indian minister lashes out at plans to cut emissions dramatically over the next three decades.", "Footage released by US authorities shows alleged smugglers dangling the children over a 14ft wall.", "Richard Okorogheye, who has sickle cell disease, was last seen leaving his home on 22 March.", "Denise Coates earned more than the bosses of every FTSE 100 company combined last year.", "Members of the public gather at Buckingham Palace to lay flowers and show support for the Queen.", "Poppy and Lily Myers had not been seen since leaving their home in Twickenham on Saturday.", "President Biden's actions continue US moves to make it harder for China to obtain its technology.", "Hashem Abedi and two other men are accused of assaulting an officer in HMP Belmarsh last May.", "Officials are said to be wary of encouraging large crowds amid pandemic restrictions.", "A two-minute silence is held at Aintree as the sporting world pays tribute to Prince Philip, who has died aged 99.", "This video has been removed for rights reasons.", "The art collective that sold the customised sneakers will recall the shoes and offer full refunds.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson pays tribute to Prince Philip outside 10 Downing Street.", "From his school days onwards, the Duke of Edinburgh had long and close association with Scotland.", "Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, won widespread respect for his steadfast and constant support of the Queen.", "Islamic scholars and NHS leaders say Muslims can still get the vaccine during Ramadan.", "Former Aeroflot director and Russian exile Nikolai Glushkov was unlawfully killed, a coroner rules.", "Leading travel industry figures react with dismay to Boris Johnson's update on the lockdown roadmap.", "For pals James and Nathan, the awards are about more than hauling badly-packed rucksacks up hills.", "The 57-year-old was diagnosed with a \"really rapid, really aggressive\" bladder cancer last year.", "People across the world pay tribute to Prince Philip following his death at the age of 99 on Friday.", "Derek Draper will receive round-the-clock care, the Good Morning Britain presenter said on Friday.", "The body of Jacqueline Grant, 54, was discovered in her home in the Maryhill area of Glasgow.", "The Home Office says it will benefit 14,000 people, but unions ask why care workers are not included.", "Workers in Alabama were voting on whether to create the first unionised warehouse in the US.", "The former PM now thinks he should have written to the Treasury over Greensill Capital, says a friend.", "Petrol bombs and fireworks have been thrown at police near a peaceline in Northern Ireland.", "Sir Richard, one of the UK's richest men, was found dead and a woman hurt at his mansion in Dorset.", "The city near Luxor has been hailed as one of the most important finds since Tutankhamun's tomb.", "The US performer, whose real name was Earl Simmons, suffered a heart attack earlier this month.", "Key photographs, from his early days in the Greek island of Corfu to school days in Scotland and his life alongside the Queen.", "Crowds gathered outside Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle and people laid floral tributes.", "Boris Johnson and Sir Keir Starmer lead the condolences, as parties suspend election campaigning.", "Pope Francis is reported to have floated the idea of travelling to Glasgow for the climate conference in November.", "A woman in Japan becomes the world's first Covid patient to receive a transplant from living donors.", "A Welsh operator says it is one of many who will not be taking holidaymakers abroad this year.", "Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh married in November 1947. Winston Churchill described it as a flash of colour in the grey post-war Britain.", "Australia's PM attends a commemorative service in Sydney, as tributes pour in from around the world.", "His Royal Highness Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, lived most of his life in the public eye.", "What was it like to take on the part of the Duke of Edinburgh in the award-winning Netflix series?", "Tributes are paid from around the world to the Queen's \"beloved\" husband of 73 years, the longest-serving consort in British history.", "Anger over post-Brexit trading rules is a factor in the violence that has erupted, writes Adam Fleming.", "The Duke of Edinburgh's life was filled with contradictions but will be remembered most for his unstinting support of the Queen.", "The health secretary says mistakes were made when patients were discharged from hospital to care homes during the pandemic.", "The transport secretary says testing for overseas travel must be affordable amid criticism from the travel sector.", "The drop in England and Wales comes amid efforts to reassure the public about vaccine safety.", "It comes after airlines criticised plans to make travellers pay for pre and post-travel testing.", "ONS estimates that one-in-350 people in the UK currently have coronavirus", "Police were called to a property in Dorset after Sir Richard Sutton and a woman were stabbed.", "Police used water cannon for the first time in six years on another night of rioting in Belfast.", "Sir Richard, one of the UK's richest men, was found dead and a woman hurt at his mansion in Dorset.", "The climate campaigner is concerned about the impact of Covid on attendance at the Glasgow summit.", "The UK's leading sports bodies are backing the use of 'vaccine passports' and Covid testing as a \"credible\" means of allowing full capacities at venues.", "It remained open throughout the two world wars, but was the Covid-19 pandemic forced it to shut.", "Petrol bombs and bricks have been thrown at police during another night of violence in Northern Ireland.", "A sign was displayed on Buckingham Palace's gates announcing the Duke of Edinburgh's death and its flag lowered to half-mast.", "More than 10,000 deaths linked to Covid have been recorded since the outbreak began in Scotland last March.", "The Queen's \"beloved\" husband of 73 years, the longest-serving consort in British history, died at Windsor Castle on Friday morning.", "Using the Body Mass Index to measure health inspires stigma and should be scrapped, MPs say.", "Downing Street sources reject reports the COP26 meeting in Glasgow will be postponed until next year.", "During their 73-year marriage, he was the Queen's public support and the person who knew her best.", "The Duke of Edinburgh's children share reflections on his legacy and \"astonishing achievement\".", "BBC News NI charts the rioting in several towns and cities since the end of March.", "La Soufrière on Saint Vincent island spews ash 6 km into the air, as 16,000 people are evacuated.", "Diego Llorente scores a late equaliser for Leeds to deny Liverpool a place in the top four of the Premier League - as uncertainty reigns over what that would mean.", "Officials say Brian Sicknick died after suffering two strokes, a day after being confronted by rioters.", "Millions of children in England will be surveyed in an attempt to tackle \"generational problems\".", "First-time buyers will get cheaper deals if they can stretch to a bigger deposit, analysts say.", "Bank chief Noel Quinn says the \"new reality of life\" is people will not be in the office five days a week.", "Some cases of the Indian variant have been found that are not linked to travel, a scientist says.", "The space agency is celebrating the first powered, controlled flight by an aircraft on another world.", "With record daily spikes all last week, the Indian capital is now the worst-hit city in the country.", "The Labour leader is told he has \"failed this country\" for failing to oppose government lockdown policies.", "Jurgen Klopp is determined to remain as Liverpool boss and \"help sort it\" after reiterating his opposition to the European Super League.", "The show has taken \"a turn for the worst\" says Morrissey's manager after an episode poked fun at him.", "Two-year-old Romeo is unable to leave hospital because of his rare heart condition.", "It means most travel to the UK from India will be banned from 04:00 BST on Friday, amid Covid concerns.", "Greater Manchester Police has warned of flouting restrictions after gathering in Platts Field Park.", "The PM's visit has been called off amid concerns over rising Covid cases in the country.", "Offending items were found at three stores in Birmingham between 2016 and 2017.", "Jose Mourinho is sacked by Tottenham Hotspur after just 17 months in charge.", "The US space agency is ready to attempt the first powered, controlled flight on another planet.", "One eyewitness says the landslide, which happened near homes, gave him \"the shock of his life\".", "Staff complaining of racism have been paid off to \"buy their silence\", the BBC is told.", "The health secretary hails the \"terrific milestone\", urging those eligible to come forward for the jab.", "A union representing job centre staff says three in five feel unsafe interacting with the public.", "Paying tribute, the party's leader says he \"fought for peace, human rights and social justice\".", "The Ingenuity drone completes the first powered, controlled flight by an aircraft on another world.", "Individuals could receive between £75 and £100 to spend on high streets in towns and cities in NI.", "The PM says the government will work to make sure the competition does not go ahead as proposed.", "The guidance says people from different households have to observe 1m social distancing at pub and restaurant tables.", "The Home Secretary criticises Facebook's privacy plan for its apps in a speech on child protection.", "Vaccines for a limited number of people aged between 35 and 39 are being made available from Monday.", "Children's author James Nash was shot by his neighbour who thought he was a spy, an inquest hears.", "The PM says carbon emissions must fall by almost 80% by 2035 - 15 years earlier than previously planned.", "Up to 9.4 million people have not yet ensured they can cast a ballot in May's elections.", "Marc Conway describes coming face to face with terrorist Usman Khan at Fishmongers' Hall in London.", "One victim was found in the front passenger seat and the other was in the back after the accident in Texas.", "East Kent Hospitals Trust admits failings that came to light after family's campaign for \"justice\".", "Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham are among 12 clubs who agree to join a new European Super League.", "Uefa and the Premier League have strongly condemned 12 major European clubs, including the 'big six' from England, signing up to a breakaway European Super League.", "The first minister confirms that the most significant stage in lockdown easing will go ahead as planned.", "Players who compete in a European Super League will be barred from international competitions, world football's governing body Fifa says.", "International concern grows after doctors for the jailed Putin critic say he needs urgent medical help.", "Aaron Gray rushed to help the family escape minutes before the blaze spread.", "A US jury found Derek Chauvin guilty of all charges in the death of a black man who died during his arrest.", "Leicester City boss Brendan Rodgers says his side have \"the chance to create history\" after reaching their first FA Cup final since 1969 at the expense of Southampton at Wembley.", "Scientists will see how the immune system copes second time round, by deliberately infecting volunteers.", "Plans for the reality show featuring \"hot Instagrammers\" have sparked anger in the coastal community.", "A major review of policing during the pandemic says officers regularly struggled to enforce restrictions.", "The University of Cape Town's library and a historic windmill are hit as all students are evacuated.", "Travellers from India are banned from Friday apart from UK and Irish residents, who must quarantine in hotels.", "Former Liverpool and Tottenham midfielder Danny Murphy explains why he cannot see any positives from plans for a breakaway European Super League involving England's 'big six' clubs.", "Ingenuity has become the first rotorcraft to fly on another planet. This is how it works.", "Uefa president Aleksander Ceferin says the European Super League is a \"disgraceful, self-serving\" proposal.", "Pupils will no longer have to follow strict two metre physical distancing rules when they return.", "The move should lead to more people being told to get tested for Covid-19.", "The Swiss bank's risk chief is leaving after it revealed the fallout from two major clients.", "The US Supreme Court has handed Google a major win in a decade-long battle over copied code.", "DVLA staff are \"scared to go to work\", a union says, as a four-day strike starts in Swansea.", "The bodies of the three men who had been on board the missing Nicola Faith were discovered last month.", "SSP increases from £95.85 to £96.35 a week in April, but unions say it is too little to live on.", "All over-50s and at-risk adults have been offered a vaccine, according to the Welsh government.", "\"Mrs Vicar\" is being cared for at an RSPCA centre after having the plastic ring removed by vets.", "First doses of a Covid vaccine have been given to 60% of UK adults, while 10% have had a second jab.", "First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says \"we just don't know exactly what role they will play\", adding that a \"grown up debate\" is needed.", "The Grade II-listed John Summers Clock Tower was home to a steelworks' general office.", "The \"irresponsible\" pair were seen with a young child on the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway (KWVR).", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday morning.", "Chris Sutton has opened up about the struggle of watching his dad, footballer Mike Sutton, suffer with dementia.", "Small towns \"can be very resilient and very sustainable,\" an academic says.", "Two-week-old Ciaran Morris died after a car hit his pram in the West Midlands on Sunday.", "The US president's son talks to the BBC about addiction, grief and his scrutinised work in Ukraine.", "The Welsh Government unveils its plan for a \"green, prosperous and fair\" economic recovery.", "There is growing speculation that a certificate scheme could be built into the main NHS app.", "Researchers looked at how likely 600,000 patients were to develop one of 14 common brain conditions.", "Jack Colmer says the DIY project was a response to \"shameful\" photos of rubbish in Hyde Park, Leeds.", "Benefits of the AstraZeneca jab outweigh the risks, the UK regulator says, amid blood clots concern", "The IMF has upgraded both its UK and global forecasts compared with what it projected in January.", "Wales will become the first UK nation to reach the milestone, the Welsh government says.", "The government is to take more time to examine a £150m scheme to redevelop Leeds Bradford Airport.", "One woman, who lives in the area, says she \"felt like I was going to be followed and shouted at\".", "Everyone in top four priority groups will have been offered a Covid jab by Friday, ministers claim.", "Social media footage appears to show masked men taking part in a loyalist band parade in Portadown.", "People are encouraged to raise money on what would have been the late NHS fundraiser's birthday.", "Six prisoners have reportedly returned while 35 had refused to escape in the attack by gunmen.", "The UK's regulator is to investigate the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab over a possible link with blood clots.", "Richard Okorogheye was last seen by his family on 22 March, when he left their home in west London.", "No American will be forced by the government to obtain proof of vaccination, the White House says.", "Qari Abdul Rauf is spotted in Rochdale, where he groomed young girls more than a decade ago.", "Tributes are paid to the actor, who played dad Martin Goodman in the hit Channel 4 comedy.", "Half the fashion chain's 400 stores will reopen, saving 2,000 jobs, but the rest are left behind.", "Face masks in classrooms in England will remain at least until May, says education secretary.", "The Labour leader visited a church on Good Friday but says he was unaware of its beliefs on LGBT+ rights.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday evening.", "Ten arrests have been made in recent days, with further violence in Carrickfergus and Londonderry on Monday.", "It comes after airlines criticised plans to make travellers pay for pre and post-travel testing.", "Introducing Covid status certificates risks creating a \"two-tier Britain\", critics say.", "Two-week-old Ciaran Leigh Morris died after a car hit his pram in the West Midlands.", "Figures show it shrank 2.4% between January and March, a smaller drop than other parts of the UK.", "Leading travel industry figures react with dismay to Boris Johnson's update on the lockdown roadmap.", "Jurgen Klopp says Liverpool made it \"too easy\" for Real Madrid to win the quarter-final first leg between the sides.", "The 26 clinics, providing treatment for 6,000 new parents, will open by April 2022, NHS England says.", "The Liberal Democrat leader says local councils should be given a bigger role over climate policies.", "Sunny and windy weather led to a surge in renewable sources of energy, the operator says.", "Three boys are arrested after Fares Maatou was attacked with \"a large bladed item\", police say.", "Action is being taken at hotspots as Covid rules are changed to allow six people to meet outdoors.", "In Indonesia for a regional summit, Min Aung Hlaing is urged to end the crackdown on protesters.", "Opposition parties call for a contract with a GP-support service to go through a tendering process.", "Hospitals say patients have been dying from a lack of oxygen as cases and deaths continue to rise.", "One woman says she could see \"thick black smoke\" at the site from miles away.", "Patients are dying because of a lack of medical oxygen supplies, doctors warn.", "Two men jumped into the water after spotting a woman fall from London Bridge, police say.", "The party wants a \"thorough investigation\" into Boris Johnson's conduct, amid a row over lobbying.", "SpaceX's Dragon Endeavour spacecraft has docked with the International Space Station.", "About one in five people say they still cannot smell properly eight weeks after a Covid infection.", "A scan detected the vessel at a depth of 850m, well below the survivable limit, the navy says.", "The officials said it was important for women be told about the potential risks of the jab.", "Labour says Boris Johnson is at the centre of cronyism allegations engulfing the government.", "A full trade agreement in principle should be agreed between the UK and Australia by June", "Attempts by Indonesia to rescue 53 crew seem in vain as their oxygen supply is thought to have run out.", "England win the Women's Six Nations for the third year in a row with a hard-fought final win against France.", "The health secretary hails a 'milestone' as data shows a further 12m people have received both doses.", "At a climate summit, President Bolsonaro had promised to boost spending and tackle deforestation.", "The socialite is accused of helping Jeffrey Epstein groom and sexually abuse underage girls.", "Premier League, EFL and WSL clubs join in a four-day boycott of social media platforms in an effort to combat abuse and discrimination.", "It comes after Dominic Cummings claimed Boris Johnson had once had plans to get donors to fund the work.", "Boris Johnson's one-time closest ally makes a string of explosive allegations about the PM's conduct.", "Driving lessons and tests also resume on Friday as Northern Ireland's Covid restrictions ease.", "The Wales manager denies three offences after an incident in Salford in November.", "People in Delhi resort to social media and desperate phone calls to try to find oxygen for Covid patients.", "Newcastle substitute Joe Willock scores a dramatic stoppage-time equaliser to damage Liverpool's hopes of Champions League football.", "The 12 clubs that agreed to join a new European Super League have \"binding contracts\" and \"cannot leave\", says Real Madrid president Florentino Perez.", "The fatal crash, on the M5 in Gloucestershire, closed the route between Thornbury and Stroud.", "People in Delhi resort to social media and desperate phone calls to try to find oxygen for Covid patients.", "The pop star's directorial debut tops the infamous Razzies - the awards for the year's worst movies.", "The ambulance technician died after the vehicle he was in was struck while on a 999 call.", "The teenager was confirmed dead at the scene and officers are trying to find and tell his family.", "Owner Roman Abramovich and the Chelsea board say they 'deeply regret' the decision to join the controversial European Super League.", "The semiconductor shortage is affecting firms from carmakers to smartphone manufacturers.", "Watford win automatic promotion back to the Premier League after Ismaila Sarr's penalty seals a narrow win over Millwall.", "Younger people are being urged to get vaccinated as more than half the population have had one dose.", "MSPs pay tribute to Prince Philip in a special session at Holyrood after parties suspend election campaigning.", "The pilot became trapped in a tree when he crashed into the remote Powys hillside.", "Zoe Stacey says she wants to breastfeed her son, William, for longer than a year.", "Secondary pupils in six councils are among those returning for full-time, in-class lessons for the first time in months.", "The ex-Labour leader says a new law may be needed after the row over David Cameron and Greensill Capital.", "Millions are participating in the Kumbh Mela even as India overtakes Brazil in Covid infections.", "British actress Nicola Charles alleges that two co-stars contacted Australia's immigration service.", "Footfall doubles as queues form outside branches of Primark, JD Sports and TK Maxx.", "Four men are handed life terms after the gang killing, arranged in revenge for a stabbing.", "Police have named the victim as Loretta Herman, from north east London.", "Apple and Google's rules state that no location data from app users can be shared.", "It is the first time all pupils in Northern Ireland have been in school since before Christmas.", "Thomas Schreiber is charged with murdering one of UK's richest men, Sir Richard Sutton, in Dorset.", "Treatment works are allowed to release sewage into waterways after heavy rain to stop it backing up.", "The princess says she wants to follow her father's example of \"a life well lived and service freely given\".", "A no-nonsense moderniser, the duke's last service to the monarchy may be in the way he departs it, reports the BBC's Jonny Dymond.", "A £1,000 reward has been offered after Darius vanished from his home in Worcestershire on Saturday.", "As Britain grieves his death, so do some Pacific tribespeople who revere him as a spiritual figure.", "Former PM Gordon Brown says £22bn is needed so vaccines can be administered in lower income countries.", "The drama wins four prizes including best film, while Promising Young Woman wins best British film.", "Key photographs, from his early days in the Greek island of Corfu to school days in Scotland and his life alongside the Queen.", "Shoppers have been rushing back to the High Street, where queues were seen outside some retailers.", "GPs can now prescribe it to treat Covid patients on a case-by-case basis, the NHS has announced.", "Get all the latest news, live updates and content about Prince Philip from across the BBC.", "Strong winds tore across the state on Sunday and Monday, damaging homes and leaving thousands without power.", "Westminster, Holyrood, Stormont and the Senedd dedicated the day to memories of Prince Philip.", "The Duke of Edinburgh amused dignitaries as he accepted the freedom of Cardiff in 1954.", "The former Labour cabinet minister was part of the \"Gang of Four\" who quit the party to form the SDP.", "The former PM is at the centre of a row over his efforts to influence ministers for a finance firm.", "Members hold minute's silence to remember the Duke of Edinburgh, who died aged 99 on Friday.", "The ex-PM says he should have used \"formal\" channels, amid a row over his contacts with ministers.", "Shoppers head back to the High Street as the latest stage of England's lockdown easing sees stores reopen.", "Tributes have been paid to the actor, who played mobster Tony Soprano's father Johnny.", "One shop owner said it will \"take years\" to recover from the impact of Covid-19.", "She was given up when she could not work, but her latest owners have taught the old dog new tricks.", "NHS Test and Trace says 44 cases of the South African variant in two areas is \"significant\".", "Video of officers addressing the Good Friday congregation, from the altar, circulated online.", "Thousands of viewers contacted the BBC to say they felt the amount of coverage was excessive.", "One firefighter has died and two are seriously hurt after a massive blaze at a historic factory in St Petersburg.", "A woman describes \"desperately\" searching for her daughter after the Manchester Arena attack.", "The Scottish Parliament holds a special session in which MSPs offered their condolences following the death of the 99-year-old.", "The fatal shooting of Daunte Wright was accidental, police say, as crowds defy a curfew.", "The Duke of Edinburgh's death will be marked in Westminster, Holyrood, Cardiff and Stormont.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday evening.", "Assembly members express their condolences to the Royal Family in a special sitting at Stormont.", "A bustling Norwich city centre marks a welcome return to High Street shopping as lockdown eases.", "Iran's foreign ministry blames Israel for Sunday's incident at the Natanz uranium enrichment plant.", "China's regulators slapped a $2.8bn fine on the e-commerce giant over monopoly concerns", "UK ministers wants the Supreme Court to rule on whether aspects of the bills are beyond Holyrood's powers.", "West Midlands Police says it has identified the mother and she is receiving \"appropriate care\".", "Shared grief over Prince Philip's death is an \"ideal opportunity\" to mend rifts within the Royal Family, Sir John Major says.", "Ofcom says the station will not be penalised after a presenter charged musicians £200 to play songs.", "MPs vote to stop flights where the journey could be made by train in under 2.5 hours.", "A jury has been sworn in at the inquest into the death of two graduates killed at Fishmongers' Hall.", "A US jury found Derek Chauvin guilty of all charges in the death of a black man who died during his arrest.", "Members of the Welsh Parliament were recalled to a special session to honour the Duke of Edinburgh.", "Hideki Matsuyama holds on to win the Masters by one shot and become the first Japanese man to claim a major title.", "Bavaria's premier finally says he may be the conservatives' candidate to replace Angela Merkel.", "The rags-to-riches rise of a fiercely anti-communist Hong Kong tycoon who ended up in jail for protesting.", "The record figures for the first quarter of the year are skewed due to last year's nationwide lockdown", "Poldark actor Aidan Turner is playing Leonardo da Vinci in a new historical drama.", "Shows by Alicia Keys, Haim and Mrs Brown's Boys won't go ahead as planned this June.", "Damian Lewis and Helen McCrory vowed to get meals to health workers during the coronavirus crisis.", "Reopening dates were announced at Stormont following a meeting of the executive.", "British number one Dan Evans comes from a set down to beat David Goffin and reach the semi-finals of the Monte Carlo Masters.", "Gary Stewart's wife Jude died in January, but the pandemic meant restrictions on the funeral service.", "The 21-year-old university student spent 58 days in hospital, including in intensive care.", "Rachid Khadla is jailed for cruelty to his three children, who he bullied and assaulted for years.", "Harry Kane scores twice to earn a point for Tottenham against fellow top-four chasers Everton at Goodison Park.", "The boss of Europe's biggest holiday company thinks successful vaccine programmes can prevent another washout.", "Concerns are growing for 12-year-old Darius who vanished from his Worcestershire home on Saturday.", "Lord Kerslake says links between Greensill Capital and the government must be \"thoroughly investigated\".", "Bodycam footage shows an officer shouting \"drop it\" before fatally shooting Adam Toledo in the chest.", "The UK's vaccine advisers encourage them to discuss the risks and benefits with their doctor.", "Sarah Everard's body was found in woodland but a cause of death has yet to be released.", "Publisher Simon & Schuster says it won't distribute the work following a backlash online.", "Covid rules and then rumours the birds were nesting means Cardigan's Christmas tree is still up.", "The vehicle, which he had repainted in military green, will convey his coffin to the funeral on Saturday.", "SpaceX will build a lander that the US space agency will use to return humans to the Moon this decade.", "Legendary former Wales and British and Irish Lions captain and coach John Dawes dies at the age of 80.", "Raúl Castro has stepped down as first secretary of Cuba's Communist Party ending a 60-year career.", "It follows a complaint that alcohol was served at the Welsh Parliament in breach of Covid rules.", "England all-rounder Ben Stokes will be out for up to 12 weeks after it was determined he would need surgery on a fractured finger.", "The funeral congregation was socially distanced, with the Queen seated alone, because of Covid rules.", "Growing the economy will help to mitigate the pandemic fallout, says Economy Minister Diane Dodds.", "Politicians complain that only three NHS scripts have been issued since the law changed in 2018.", "The health secretary is accused of \"cronyism\" but the government says he acted \"entirely properly\".", "The Duke of Edinburgh's life was filled with contradictions but will be remembered most for his unstinting support of the Queen.", "Parents and those who run baby and toddler groups call for indoor restrictions to be lifted.", "The ONS estimates about 130,000 people in the UK would have had coronavirus in the week to 10 April.", "Hammerson, whose centres include the Bullring and Brent Cross, is \"resetting rents to more affordable levels\".", "Scientists confirm they have made \"chimera\" embryos from long-tailed macaques and humans.", "People in Scotland are now able to travel between council areas and meet in groups of six outdoors.", "Police believe the missing RAF gunner Corrie Mckeague died after climbing into a waste bin in 2016.", "The group will assess the prescription of puberty blockers for under-16s, NHS England says.", "Bill Crothers, who is embroiled in a row over working at Greensill, did not seek advice over another role.", "Sam Merrill says he's no hero after running into the blazing flat to save the woman trapped inside.", "A look back at the deaths of black Americans since the emergence of Black Lives Matter.", "An inquest is opened and adjourned into the death of 16-year-old Wenjing Li at her family's takeaway.", "Arsenal impressively sweep aside Slavia Prague to reach the Europa League semi-finals with a fine away victory in the second leg.", "They were reported to prosecutors for offences including the alleged ill-treatment of patients.", "The online grocery retailer has teamed up with Oxford self-driving firm Oxbotica.", "The footage was released after city leaders and the victim's parents had called for full transparency.", "The party's manifesto for the Senedd election says it would cut tax if 65,000 new jobs are created.", "This year should see the second-biggest-ever rise in CO2 emissions as economies rebound from Covid.", "European Super League plans could make clubs more valuable, but risk alienating fans and players.", "Jimmy Carter's running mate lost heavily to Ronald Reagan in the 1984 presidential election.", "A huge cliff fall saw some seaside homes lose parts of their gardens to the beach below.", "India's government and parts of the media ignored warnings about a rising wave of cases, experts say.", "The writer and producer, who worked with Meat Loaf, Celine Dion and Bonnie Tyler, was 73.", "Lukasz Koczocik describes how he went \"face to face\" with the Fishmongers' Hall knife attacker.", "A major review of policing during the pandemic says officers regularly struggled to enforce restrictions.", "Natasha Lewis, of the GB bobsleigh team, was fatally hit by a car while she was on her morning run.", "Former Liverpool and Tottenham midfielder Danny Murphy explains why he cannot see any positives from plans for a breakaway European Super League involving England's 'big six' clubs.", "Some 635,000 people under 35 came off company payrolls in the year to March, official figures show.", "Diego Llorente scores a late equaliser for Leeds to deny Liverpool a place in the top four of the Premier League - as uncertainty reigns over what that would mean.", "Antiviral medicines could be another tool to fight an anticipated third wave, Boris Johnson says.", "Here are key elements of a trial that gripped the US.", "After spending £2.6m on the new briefing room, it will now be used by Boris Johnson and officials instead.", "The Labour leader is told he has \"failed this country\" for failing to oppose government lockdown policies.", "For Altou, a 19-year-old model, having a ‘slim thick’ body is the key to getting more likes and more work.", "People gathered outside court in Minneapolis erupt in cheers as the jury's verdicts are read out.", "The discovery in the Cairngorms is only the eighth time a cow wheat shieldbug has been recorded in Scotland.", "The PM says the government will work to make sure the competition does not go ahead as proposed.", "The guidance says people from different households have to observe 1m social distancing at pub and restaurant tables.", "All six Premier League teams involved in the European Super League formally withdraw from the competition.", "The PM tells a briefing on 20 April 2021 he hopes people will be able to take a pill at home that stops \"the virus in its tracks\".", "Mayur Shelke sprang into action when a six-year-old boy fell on to the tracks.", "Officials say Brian Sicknick died after suffering two strokes, a day after being confronted by rioters.", "Jurgen Klopp is determined to remain as Liverpool boss and \"help sort it\" after reiterating his opposition to the European Super League.", "NI's first and deputy first ministers say the attempted attack in Dungiven is vile and deplorable.", "Any motorway without a hard shoulder will need to have radar technology to detect stopped vehicles.", "People on both sides of the Irish border were polled for centenary programme.", "After less than a day of deliberation, jurors find Derek Chauvin guilty of all charges over George Floyd's death.", "It comes after BBC Panorama revealed they were being used to silence staff complaining of racism.", "Aldi brings back its controversial cake for charity, but M&S says it should use its own character.", "The PM says carbon emissions must fall by almost 80% by 2035 - 15 years earlier than previously planned.", "The victim, aged in her 20s, was attacked in a Manchester park shortly after midnight.", "The first minister confirms that the most significant stage in lockdown easing will go ahead as planned.", "The European Super League has been created \"to save football\", says Real Madrid president Florentino Perez.", "A report finds 181 of the high-risk patients seen by Dr Michael Watt were given a wrong diagnosis.", "The security agency says thousands of UK workers have been approached by spies using fake profiles.", "Two retired police officers and a solicitor are accused of perverting the course of justice.", "It means most travel to the UK from India will be banned from 04:00 BST on Friday, amid Covid concerns.", "Despite a surge at reopened stores in England and Wales, the chain lost £1.1bn in sales under lockdown.", "Offending items were found at three stores in Birmingham between 2016 and 2017.", "The average cost of car insurance has fallen by £87 in 12 months, according to new data.", "First Minister Nicola Sturgeon confirms that non-essential shops, gyms and hospitality will be opened from 26 April.", "Idriss Déby dies just hours after provisional election results set him on course for a sixth term.", "Prices could rise in some parts of the UK after the supermarket's takeover, the competition watchdog says.", "A US jury found Derek Chauvin guilty of all charges in the death of a black man who died during his arrest.", "The Tory MP criticises the scope of a law designed to protect veterans from unfounded prosecutions.", "The nationalist leader rejects Alex Salmond's \"super majority\" aim and wants to achieve a \"simple majority\" at May's election.", "A BBC Africa Eye investigation uncovers the location of a massacre, and evidence linking it to the military.", "A teachers' union warns a lack of funding during the pandemic is placing staff and pupils at risk.", "Twelve UK girls, aged between 12 and 16, were part of a chat group that led to \"serious self-harm\".", "Health minister's warning comes as it emerges that NI's Nightingale Hospital will close within days.", "Sachin Tendulkar says he is in hospital \"as a matter of abundant precaution under medical advice\".", "And another study shows even 96-year-olds are producing an impressive immune response.", "Visitor numbers are being increased as infection rates fall and the vaccine rollout continues.", "Kayaking silver-medallist Nathan Baggaley and his brother were found guilty by an Australian court.", "Witnesses in Minneapolis have given emotional testimony about being at the scene of Mr Floyd's arrest.", "The boss of an ageing hospital with a collapsing roof says it needs \"more than short-term fixes\".", "Pupils will be allowed to sing outside alone or in choirs as long as they are socially distanced.", "The new owner will get rocks to climb but they will not be able to make changes, say auctioneers.", "Europe is gradually easing lockdown measures ahead of the tourist season.", "Several witnesses gave emotional testimony on day three of the trial, and prosecutors released new arrest footage.", "The Labour leader says it would be \"wrong in principle\" to ask landlords to police a new scheme.", "Hundreds of people gather on the steps outside the Senedd, in breach of Wales' Covid rules.", "The Seal Alliance warns that getting too close to the animals can lead to their injury and death.", "A student starts a petition after being disgusted by Cardiff's litter and \"blame game\".", "The lifting of more restrictions depends on continued progress in tackling the outbreak.", "Visitors from the Philippines and Bangladesh also face a ban on travel to England from next Friday.", "Cristiano Ronaldo's moment of frustration at the weekend is turning into something positive for the family of a six-month-old who needs expensive medical treatment.", "The same coat sold by Coast is more expensive than Dorothy Perkins despite both being owned by Boohoo.", "Simon Byrne appears at the Policing Board amid calls for him to resign over Bobby Storey's funeral.", "Just one of 20 retailers contacted by The Wildlife Trusts says it will remove peat from its shelves this year.", "Foyle College in Londonderry has written to past pupils about the outstanding debt of £821,000.", "Stomont passes a motion censuring party ministers over Bobby Storey's heavily attended funeral.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 26 March and 2 April", "Idles and Lanterns on the Lake sever ties with SSD Concerts, which is taking it \"very seriously\".", "Some staff fear the charity has not learnt the lessons of the 2018 Haiti scandal, the Times reports.", "The art collective that sold the customised Nike sneakers has shipped all but one of the 666 pairs.", "A player has staked a claim for the prize, which will be paid when validated, Camelot says.", "Pupils and teachers tell BBC Scotland that some senior pupils will be sitting assessments that are, in effect, exams.", "The regulator confirms the deaths to the BBC, but says the benefits continue to outweigh any risk.", "The festival, Canterbury Cathedral, West End theatres and comedy clubs will all get a share of £400m.", "An expert says a national strategy is needed to reintroduce people back into their communities.", "Campaigners say banning residents aged 65 and over from taking trips outside homes is unlawful.", "New rules to help venues reopen outdoors safely this month have sparked anger from industry groups.", "Energy suppliers' environment-friendly tariffs are not always as green as they sound, experts say.", "Two pilots who ejected from a jet which crashed into woodland are \"doing fine\" says RNAS Culdrose.", "They say demanding proof of a jab or test would be \"dangerous\" amid reports that trials are planned.", "The Easter weekend warning comes as latest figures show the lowest number of daily cases since mid-September.", "After this week's warm temperatures, colder weather over Easter could even bring snow in some areas.", "At least 50 people are dead and scores more injured in the island's worst rail disaster in decades.", "Nurses from the country were recruited 20 years ago in a bid to tackle a staffing shortage.", "The asteroid that killed off the dinosaurs gave birth to tropical rainforests, a study suggests.", "Capitol Police say one officer is dead and another is injured after the attack in Washington.", "A union says members will strike from 6 to 9 of April due to the number of Covid cases at the site.", "Some 2,000 people attend a party that was announced on social media as a joke, defying Covid measures.", "The animals, which police say were not owned by the woman, got into her garden before attacking her.", "A timeline of events leading up to George Floyd's death has been revealed by authorities.", "British national Philip Mawer was working in Palma when it was stormed by militants last week.", "Petrol bombs, bricks and bottles were thrown at police as violence flared at Sandy Row.", "They could be used to help theatres and sports stadiums reopen, says the culture secretary.", "The 21-year-old posted a video addressing the recent accusations, saying he believed they were 18.", "A submersible has reached the USS Johnston, which lies 6.5km beneath the waves in the Pacific.", "Azam Mangori, 24, is found guilty of Lorraine Cox's \"deeply disturbing\" murder.", "Benjamin Hannam is the first British officer to be convicted of a terrorism offence.", "New research says there is a clear link between video game boxes and \"problem gambling behaviours\".", "The cases identified by the medicines 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miles (100km) off the coast of Bali early on Wednesday morning.\n\nSix warships, a helicopter and 400 people are involved in the search.\n\nSingapore and Malaysia have dispatched ships, and the US, Australia, France, and Germany have offered assistance.\n\nThe German-built submarine had been conducting a drill but failed to report back and contact was lost, the navy said.\n\n\"We know the area but it's quite deep,\" First Admiral Julius Widjojono told the AFP news agency.\n\nSome reports said contact was lost with the submarine after it was given clearance to dive into deeper waters.\n\nMeanwhile, an oil spill found near where the submarine dived could point to fuel tank damage, or could also be a signal from the crew, the navy said.\n\nThe missing vessel is one of five submarines operated by Indonesia. It was made in the late 1970s, and underwent a two-year refit in South Korea that was completed in 2012.\n\nA navy spokesman told the BBC the incident was the first time Indonesia had lost one of its submarines. But similar incidents have happened elsewhere. In 2017, an Argentine military submarine went missing in the southern Atlantic with 44 crew on board.\n\nIts wreck was located a year later and officials said that the submarine had imploded.", "Instagram has announced the launch of a tool to enable users to automatically filter out abusive messages from those they do not follow on the platform.\n\nIt follows a number of footballers speaking out about experiencing racist, sexist and other abuse on Instagram.\n\nDirect messages (DMs) containing words or emojis deemed offensive will be removed from view.\n\nThe tool will be available in the UK, France, Ireland, Germany, Australia, New Zealand and Canada within weeks.\n\nMore countries will then receive the relevant update in the coming months.\n\n\"Because DMs are private conversations, we don't proactively look for hate speech or bullying the same way we do elsewhere,\" Instagram blogged.\n\nThe tool focused on message requests from people users did not already follow “because this is where people usually receive abusive messages”, it added.\n\nInstagram consulted with anti-discrimination and anti-bullying groups to curate a list of terms, phrases and emojis deemed offensive.\n\nFor example, Liverpool Football Club criticised the platform after some of its players were sent racist monkey emojis.\n\nBut users can also add their own definitions to this list, through the Hidden Words section of the app’s privacy settings.\n\nThis feature already exists to filter out abuse in comments on Instagram posts.", "TikTok is facing a legal challenge from former children's commissioner for England Anne Longfield over how it collects and uses children's data.\n\nThe claim is being filed on behalf of millions of children in the UK and EU who have used the hugely popular video-sharing app.\n\nIf successful, the children affected could each be owed thousands of pounds.\n\nTikTok said the case was without merit and it would fight it.\n\nLawyers will allege that TikTok takes children's personal information, including phone numbers, videos, exact location and biometric data, without sufficient warning, transparency or the necessary consent required by law, and without children or parents knowing what is being done with that information.\n\nIn response, the video-sharing app said: \"Privacy and safety are top priorities for TikTok and we have robust policies, processes and technologies in place to help protect all users, and our teenage users in particular. We believe the claims lack merit and intend to vigorously defend the action.\"\n\nTikTok has more than 800 million users worldwide and parent firm ByteDance made billions in profits last year, with the vast majority of that coming via advertising revenue.\n\nThe claim is being launched on behalf of all children who have used TikTok since 25 May 2018, regardless of whether they have an account or their privacy settings. Children not wishing to be represented can opt out.\n\nMs Longfield told the BBC she was focusing on TikTok because, while all social media platforms collected information, TikTok had \"excessive\" data collection policies.\n\n\"TikTok is a hugely popular social media platform that has helped children keep in touch with their friends during an incredibly difficult year. However, behind the fun songs, dance challenges and lip-sync trends lies something far more sinister.\"\n\nShe alleges the firm is \"a data collection service that is thinly veiled as a social network\" which has \"deliberately and successfully deceived parents\".\n\nShe added that those parents have a \"right to know\" what private information is being collected via TikTok's \"shadowy data collection practices\".\n\nThe case is being represented by law firm Scott and Scott. Partner Tom Southwell said he believed the information collected by TikTok represents \"a severe breach of UK and EU data protection law\".\n\n\"TikTok and ByteDance's advertising revenue is built on the personal information of its users, including children. Profiting from this information without fulfilling its legal obligations, and its moral duty to protect children online, is unacceptable.\"\n\nThe case is not without precedent.\n\nIn 2019, the Chinese firm was given a record $5.7m fine by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), for mishandling children's data.\n\nThe firm has been fined in South Korea over how it collects children's data, and in the UK, it has been investigated by the Information Commissioner's Office.\n\nThat action revolved around Musical.ly, which was incorporated into TikTok, knowingly hosting content published by users under the age of 13.\n\nTikTok was ordered to delete the data and set up an age verification system.\n\nAccording to Ofcom, 44% of eight to 12-year-olds in the UK use TikTok, despite its policies forbidding under-13s on the platform.\n\nThe legal action against TikTok was first brought by an anonymous 12-year-old girl last year, supported by Ms Longfield.\n\nAt the time, Ms Longfield said she was waiting to see the result of another case before proceeding with suing TikTok.\n\nThe case in question was brought by Which? director Richard Lloyd on behalf of four million iPhone users who, he alleges, were illegally tracked by Google.\n\nDespite being launched in 2017, the case has still not had the go-ahead and is due to be heard by the Supreme Court soon.\n\n\"It could be difficult for similar cases to succeed if the Supreme Court dismisses Mr Lloyd's ability to bring his claim,\" said Richard Leedham, partner at law firm Mishcon de Reya.", "(L-R) Alan Foster, Donald Denton and Peter Metcalf are on trial\n\nPolice accounts about the Hillsborough disaster were changed to remove references to officers being \"like headless chickens\", a court has heard.\n\nRetired Ch Supt Donald Denton, 83, retired Det Ch Insp Alan Foster, 74, and former solicitor Peter Metcalf, 71, deny perverting the course of justice.\n\nNinety-six Liverpool fans died as a result of the tragedy on 15 April 1989.\n\nMr Metcalf's barrister told the jury he was \"honestly doing his job as a solicitor\" after the disaster.\n\nThe trial is about the aftermath of a crush at Sheffield Wednesday's Hillsborough stadium during an FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest.\n\nMr Denton, Mr Foster and Mr Metcalf are accused of altering police statements to \"mask failings\".\n\nThe jury at a Nightingale court in Salford heard the alleged amendments focused on areas where South Yorkshire Police (SYP) expected to face criticism at an inquiry which was ordered by the government to look at safety at sports events.\n\nSarah Whitehouse QC, prosecuting, said an account by PC Peter Finnerty originally said no instructions were given to police officers on the day.\n\nShe told the court in his statement he said: \"I am sure many of them, like me, felt like headless chickens running about.\"\n\nA note on the original statement, which appeared to be in Mr Foster's handwriting, instructed a detective inspector to review the account and an amended version was produced without the comments, the court heard.\n\nThe people who lost their lives in the Hillsborough disaster\n\nThe jury was told PC William Crawford said in his statement he thought the force was \"very light on manpower\" and usually a group of officers would be stationed at the tunnel to direct fans away from the central pens, where the fatal crush happened.\n\nMr Metcalf, a solicitor acting for SYP, suggested a review of those comments, Ms Whitehouse said.\n\nShe told jurors: \"The statement was amended by deleting all reference to the shortage of manpower and use of serials in the centre tunnel.\"\n\nIn an account by Insp Robert Creaser, references to a request to delay the kick-off and difficulties with police radios were removed, the court heard.\n\nMs Whitehouse said: \"It is important to understand that the vetting process was targeted at reducing or removing references to the failings by the South Yorkshire Police.\"\n\nThe jury was shown a letter sent to William Woodward QC, who was representing the force at the inquiry, in which Mr Metcalf said: \"It seems to instructing solicitors that the objective to be pursued at the inquiry is the presentation of South Yorkshire Police in the best possible light, consistent with the facts that are brought out.\"\n\nNinety-six people died as a result of the crush at Hillsborough\n\nJonathan Goldberg QC, defending Mr Metcalf, said the Hillsborough disaster had become synonymous with \"cover up\" but he predicted the jury would find no evidence to justify that.\n\n\"Cover-up is and always was a libel, which has just grown exponentially in the media over the decades without justification,\" he said.\n\n\"The defence in a nutshell is that Mr Metcalf was honestly doing his job as a solicitor... in accordance with the law in 1989,\" he said.\n\n\"So from his perspective, the real perversion of justice is having to stand trial... for just doing his job.\"\n\nMr Denton, of Sheffield; Mr Foster, of Harrogate, and Mr Metcalf, of Ilkley, each deny two counts of perverting the course of justice.\n\nThe trial, which is expected to last up to 16 weeks, continues.\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.", "Jim Steinman sold more than 190m records and won four Grammy awards, his official website said\n\nJim Steinman, the colourful composer behind hits like Bat Out Of Hell and Total Eclipse Of The Heart, has died at the age of 73.\n\nHis brother Bill told the Associated Press that the songwriter and producer had died of kidney failure on Monday after being ill for some time.\n\n\"I miss him a great deal already,\" he added.\n\nSinger Meat Loaf, with whom Steinman scored his biggest hits, said goodbye with the words: \"Fly Jimmy Fly\".\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 Meat Loaf This article contains content provided by Facebook. 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Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nBonnie Tyler also paid tribute, saying she was \"absolutely devastated\" by news of her friend's death.\n\nOutside of music, \"he was also a funny, kind, supportive, and deeply caring human being,\" the Welsh singer wrote.\n\n\"The world is a better place for his life and his work and a worse one for his passing.\"\n\nKnown for his bombastic, operatic compositions, Steinman hit the big time in 1977 with the Meat Loaf album Bat Out Of Hell.\n\nStyled as a rock opera, it contained hits like You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth and Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad as well as the title track - and became one of the biggest albums of all time, with more than 50 million copies sold around the world.\n\nThe high-camp, over-the-top production was often imitated but never bettered - including by Steinman himself, although he came close on Bat Out Of Hell's 1993 sequel, which spawned the worldwide number one single, I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That).\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nHe later won the album of the year Grammy for his work on Celine Dion's Falling Into You; and worked on Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, Whistle Down The Wind, which opened in the West End in 1998.\n\nThe Bat Out Of Hell album trilogy received its own stage musical in 2017, with every song penned by Steinman.\n\nAnd while rock critics often looked down upon his extravagant and expansive style, the composer remained nonplussed.\n\n\"If you don't go over the top, how are you ever going to see what's on the other side?\" he once asked.\n\n\"There is no other songwriter ever like him,\" Meat Loaf said as Steinman was inducted to the Songwriters' Hall Of Fame in 2012.\n\n\"I can never repay him. He has been such an influence, in fact, the biggest influence on my life, and I learned so much from him that there would be no way I could ever repay Mr Jim Steinman.\"\n\nAmong the composer's other famous hits were Bonnie Tyler's Holding Out For A Hero, Barry Manilow's Read 'Em And Weep, Air Supply's Making Love Out Of Nothing at All and the Cher/Meat Loaf duet Dead Ringer For Love.\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 MeatLoafVEVO 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\nBorn and raised in New York, Steinman started his career in musical theatre, writing a score for a college production of Bertolt Brecht's A Man's a Man in 1968.\n\nHe followed that up with an original musical, The Dream Engine, which he later described as \"a three-hour rock epic with tons of nudity\".\n\nThe show, in which he also starred, caught the attention of a Broadway producer, who offered him a job at New York's Public Theater upon graduation.\n\nThere, he worked on several projects, including an adaptation of Wagner's Das Rheingold. But his first big success came when Yvonne Elliman recorded his song Happy Ending for her 1973 album Food of Love.\n\nThe same year, an actor called Marvin Lee Aday auditioned for Steinman's musical More Than You Deserve. The pair struck up a close friendship and, after Aday changed his name to Meat Loaf, they started work on the Bat Out Of Hell project.\n\nSteinman and Meat Loaf regularly fell out, but always ended up reconciling\n\nIt took several years to complete, and was rejected by four record labels. But when it was finally released in 1977, it became an immediate success in the UK and Australia. US fame followed a year later, after Meat Loaf performed on Saturday Night Live.\n\nDespite the record's success, Steinman maintained that his best song was Bonnie Tyler's Total Eclipse Of The Heart.\n\n\"That song never goes away. It's the biggest karaoke song in the world and it's been covered dozens of times,\" he told iHeartRadio in 2017. \"It's one of my children and I'm as proud of it as I am the others. I try not to play favourites but yeah, it's special.\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nHe had several fallings out with Meat Loaf over the years, which often ended up in the court room, but they reconciled just as frequently, last working together on the 2016 album Braver Than We Are.\n\n\"There will be much more to say in the coming hours and days as we prepare to honour this giant of a human being and his glorious legacy,\" it read.\n\n\"For now, do something that makes you feel young, happy and free. He'd want that for you!\"\n\nHis manager David Sonenberg said Steinman suffered a stroke four years ago and that his health had recently been declining.\n\n\"Having the opportunity to work with him was one of the greatest privileges of my career,\" she said. \"My thoughts and prayers go out to his family and friends.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Tributes to Jim Steinman, 'the Wagner of rock'", "Lee Waters had criticised the attention given to \"US domestic news\" compared to the Welsh election\n\nA government minister has apologised for criticising media coverage of the George Floyd murder trial verdict.\n\nWelsh Labour minister Lee Waters had said that Wales would have \"a better election campaign\" if it was given the same attention as \"US domestic news\".\n\nEx-police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty of murdering Mr Floyd after kneeling on his neck during his arrest in Minneapolis last May.\n\nThe incident sparked worldwide protests against racism and excessive force.\n\nMr Waters, a deputy minister for transport in the Welsh government, posted his comments on Twitter while watching BBC television's Ten O'Clock News, which was covering the jury's verdict live on Tuesday night.\n\nHe wrote: \"If people in Wales had access to as much media coverage of decisions that effected Wales as they do of US domestic news we'd have a better election campaign.\"\n\nElections to the Welsh Parliament are taking place on 6 May.\n\nSIGN UP FOR WALES ALERTS: Get extra updates on BBC election coverage\n\nMr Waters later deleted the post, saying: \"On reflection, insensitive timing. Not detracting from the enormity of the issue, just frustrated that News at 10 turned itself into News24.\"\n\nThe minister's original comments had been criticised as \"rancid\", \"horrific\" and \"ignorant\" by other users of the social media platform.\n\nThe death of George Floyd sparked protests around the world, including one outside the Senedd in Cardiff Bay\n\nShane Andrews from Cardiff said: \"I think you should delete this Lee. Poorly timed electioneering and the decisions across the pond send a message to many across the world - that Black Lives Matter.\"\n\nReaction from other political parties was also critical of the Welsh Labour minister.\n\nA Plaid Cymru spokesperson said: \"Lee Waters' tweet was highly inappropriate, ill-judged and thoughtless.\n\n\"The murder of George Floyd and the subsequent trial is of worldwide significance and a potent reminder that so much more needs to be done to tackle structural and institutional racism - including here in Wales.\"\n\nFor the Welsh Liberal Democrats, a spokesperson said: \"To make the comparison between the death of an individual at the hands of the police and his opinion of political coverage in Wales is both foolish and exceptionally poor judgment. We're glad to see he's deleted his tweet.\"\n\nWelsh Labour did not directly respond to criticism of Mr Waters's tweet, but pointed to comments on the verdict by party leader Mark Drakeford, who said: \"We in Wales have felt for George Floyd's family and black people over this last year.\n\n\"With accountability must now come peace and new resolve from us all to end structural racism.\"\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\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mariners in France are being taught how to navigate a mini Suez Canal.\n\nThe replica waterway is part of the Port Revel Training Facility.", "Saskia Jones and Jack Merritt were killed during a conference on rehabilitating offenders\n\nA man working at Fishmongers' Hall stabbed an attacker with a large decorative spear after deciding \"he had to be hurt\", an inquest has heard.\n\nLukasz Koczocik described how he grabbed the ornament from a wall and went \"face to face\" with Usman Khan.\n\nKhan killed Jack Merritt and Saskia Jones and attacked others at a prisoner education event on 29 November 2019.\n\nAnother witness recalled how the 28-year-old had remained \"expressionless\" as he stabbed her.\n\nThe inquest jury at London's Guildhall was told how head porter Mr Koczocik sprang into action after a housekeeper ran downstairs, shouting \"someone's got stabbed\".\n\nLukasz Koczocik attacked Khan with a spear he had grabbed from the wall\n\nThe Polish national said he went upstairs and saw a man with two knives who was being confronted by three men \"holding objects\", including a chair and a sign.\n\nHe said Khan was \"defending himself from the objects that were hitting him\" and did not stop even when \"they hit this man on the head with the chair\".\n\nMr Koczocik said he then \"froze for a few seconds\" before he pulled the ornamental spear, known as a boarding pike, from the wall.\n\n\"The next thing I remember - me going back to the lobby area and being with this man face to face.\n\n\"I decided he had to be hurt, because I realised what was happening. I tried to stab him,\" he said.\n\nMr Koczocik told the jury he tried to stab the attacker in the face and stomach\n\nThe head porter described how he tried to stab Khan in the face but \"he was batting me away\", and when he jabbed at his stomach he said he heard a \"metal clink\".\n\nKhan then grabbed the pike with one hand and dragged himself \"closer to me\", Mr Koczocik said, cutting at his hand and shoulder.\n\n\"I dropped the pike because he cut the tendon in my hands,\" he said, adding that he was probably only still alive because other people carrying makeshift weapons crowded Khan.\n\nButler Jeffrey Stevelman, who witnessed the confrontation between Mr Koczocik and Khan, described the scene as \"absolute chaos\".\n\nHe told the inquest there had been a \"Mexican standoff\" and Khan had stood there and opened his jacket and started shouting: 'I've got a bomb, call the police, I've got a bomb.'\n\n\"You stand there and try to process it. It was just unreal,\" he said.\n\nStephanie Szczotko said it was only when she saw blood on her blouse she realised how badly injured she was\n\nStephanie Szczotko, who also gave evidence, told the jury how Khan had stabbed her during the attack.\n\nThe former student had been at the event in central London due to her work with prisoners as part of her criminology degree at Cambridge.\n\nShe said she first heard screams and shouts, and \"a cluster of people\" had fled past her before \"I saw a man run towards me\".\n\nMs Szczotko, who suffered wounds to her arms and torso, said Khan had a knife raised above his head and she raised her arm \"instinctively\" as he struck.\n\n\"For a moment I felt I was just paused in that moment,\" she said. \"I remember looking at him with shock and confusion.\"\n\nWhen asked about her witness statement, in which she described how her attacker \"didn't seem particularly bothered or psyched up\", she replied that he had been \"expressionless\".\n\nThe Guildhall also heard from Samy Sadek, an emergency doctor who described how he was met by several \"very distressed\" armed police officers after being called to the attack.\n\nDescribing what he saw upon entering the hall, the consultant said there were \"numerous police officers, there was a lot of noise by way of shouting - there was lots and lots of blood\".\n\nEmergency doctor Samy Sadek said everything was done to try to save Mr Merritt and Ms Jones\n\nDr Sadek said he saw Ms Jones, 23, being given CPR at the foot of a staircase, but felt the extent of her injuries meant \"there was no intervention we were able to provide to save her life\".\n\nHe described how as he examined other casualties, including 25-year-old Mr Merritt, he was told there was a bomb.\n\nThe consultant explained that he and his team \"were attempting to establish whether there was an ongoing threat\" but \"no-one was able to tell us if there was one or more assailant\".\n\nDr Sadek told the Guildhall he and his colleagues began massaging Mr Merritt's heart but \"we were not able to resuscitate Jack\".\n\nWhen asked whether every effort had been put in to help both victims, Dr Sadek replied: \"Absolutely everything was being done.\"\n\nUsman Khan sat at the same table as Saskia Jones before the knife attack\n\nSimon Bird, a maintenance electrician working at the hall that day, also gave evidence. He described how he heard Khan shouting for the front doors to be opened.\n\nHe said: \"I heard a voice from someone I now know to be Usman Khan: 'Open the effing door, open the effing door.'\n\nMr Bird, who said Khan had a large kitchen knife in his hand, said he then witnessed what he described as \"a river of blood\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "At a hair salon in Minneapolis, the guilty verdict against Derek Chauvin was greeted with relief and tears.\n\n\"We can start the healing process, knowing that we have someone on our side,\" Alicia Whitfield told the BBC.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The critical moments of the trial so far\n\nThe death of George Floyd, a 48-year-old black man, while he was being restrained by a white police officer, Derek Chauvin, during an arrest in Minneapolis in May 2020, shocked the world and sparked global protests about racism and police brutality.\n\nChauvin's three-week trial - on charges of murder and manslaughter - has now resulted in his conviction.\n\nHere are five key moments from the trial which heard from 45 witnesses and saw hours of video footage filmed by bystanders.\n\nSome of the most powerful testimony came in the first days of the trial when witnesses spoke of what they saw that day.\n\nDarnella, who was 17 at the time of Mr Floyd's death, filmed the video that went viral around the world. She told the jury there were nights when she stayed up \"apologising to George Floyd for not doing more and not physically interacting and not saving his life\".\n\n\"When I look at George Floyd, I look at my dad. I look at my brothers, I look at my cousins, my uncles. Because they are all black,\" she said.\n\nEmotional testimony also came from Charles McMillian, 61, who had been among the first on the scene and had tried to persuade Mr Floyd to get in the police car.\n\nHe broke down in tears watching graphic footage of the arrest in court, saying he had felt \"helpless\" as events unfolded and explained that he had confronted Chauvin after Mr Floyd was taken away in an ambulance because \"what I watched was wrong\".\n\nThe defence has argued that the presence of bystanders influenced Chauvin's actions that day. The court heard from one Minneapolis police officer, Peter Chang, that the crowd had been \"very aggressive to the officers\", while Nicole McKenzie, who trains the city's police on providing medical care, said the presence of bystanders at an arrest could make it harder for officers to see signs of distress in those they detained.\n\nAnother powerful moment came when Mr Floyd's girlfriend of three years, Courteney Ross, took the stand.\n\nShe described their first meeting, in the lobby of a Salvation Army homeless shelter, where Mr Floyd worked as a security guard, and how he had been devastated by his mother's death in 2018.\n\nMs Ross also told the court they both suffered from chronic pain, which led to an off-and-on struggle with opioid addiction.\n\n\"We got addicted and tried really hard to break that addiction many times,\" she testified.\n\nOne of the defence's arguments has been that Mr Floyd died largely because of complications from the opioids and methamphetamine he had in his system at the time of his arrest.\n\nAnother key issue at the heart of this trial has been whether Derek Chauvin violated policies on restraint when he kneeled on George Floyd's neck for nine and a half minutes.\n\nThe head of Minneapolis police, Chief Medaria Arradondo, was one of the prosecution's most high-profile witnesses and had fired Chauvin a day after the arrest.\n\nHe told the court that the police officer should have stopped applying \"that level of force\" the moment Mr Floyd stopped resisting. \"It's not part of our training and it's certainly not part of our ethics or values\" to continue with such force, he said.\n\nSome 45 people gave evidence during the trial including (from left to right) Dr Martin Tobin, Charles McMillian and Courteney Ross\n\nDefence witness Barry Brodd, a use-of-force expert, said Chauvin had been \"justified\" and acted \"with objective reasonableness\" because of the \"imminent threat\" Mr Floyd posed in resisting arrest.\n\nHowever, he did concede under cross-examination that the dangers of positional asphyxia - not being able to breathe in a certain position - were well-known among law enforcers.\n\nThe cause of Mr Floyd's death was arguably central to this trial, with the prosecution maintaining he died from asphyxia while the defence pointed to Mr Floyd's drug use and general poor health.\n\nDr Martin Tobin, an expert in pulmonary medicine, used video footage to explain what was happening to Mr Floyd's breathing during the nine and a half minutes he lay under Chauvin's knee.\n\nEven \"a healthy person, subjected to what Mr Floyd was subjected to, would have died,\" he said.\n\nA key witness for the defence, forensic pathologist David Fowler, said Mr Floyd's death should have been classified as \"undetermined\" rather than as a homicide, because there were \"so many conflicting different potential mechanisms\".\n\nComplicating factors included Mr Floyd's drug use and possible exposure to carbon monoxide poisoning from the police car's exhaust, said Dr Fowler, who was chief medical examiner for the state of Maryland until his retirement in 2019.\n\nHowever, under cross-examination he agreed that Mr Floyd should have been given immediate medical attention when he went into cardiac arrest, as there still was a chance to save his life.\n\nJust before the defence rested its case, the man on trial - Derek Chauvin - confirmed to the judge that he would not testify.\n\n\"I will invoke my Fifth Amendment privilege today,\" he said, referring to the constitutional right to remain silent in fear of self-incrimination.\n\nAsked by the judge whether this was his decision alone, and whether anyone else had unfairly influenced his decision, Chauvin responded: \"No promises or threats, your honour.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The three key arguments used by Chauvin's defence\n\nChauvin pleaded not guilty to charges of second-degree unintentional murder - for which he could be jailed for up to 40 years - third-degree murder, and manslaughter.\n\nThe jury took under a day to return a unanimous verdict convicting him of all charges.", "Allegra Stratton is to become spokeswoman for COP26\n\nDowning Street has scrapped plans to launch new White House-style press conferences after spending £2.6m on a venue to host them.\n\nThe PM's media chief Allegra Stratton - who had been due to front the briefings - has confirmed the move to the BBC.\n\nShe will instead become the spokeswoman for the COP26 climate summit.\n\nThe government was criticised for the price tag of its new facilities at 9 Downing Street, which will now be used by the prime minister and officials.\n\nResponding to the news, Labour's Deputy Leader Angela Rayner accused Boris Johnson of \"running scared of scrutiny\".\n\nShe added: \"Instead of wasting millions of pounds of taxpayers' money on a pointless vanity project, the prime minister should have used the money to give our NHS heroes a pay rise.\"\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden insisted the venue was \"not a waste of money\" adding that the room previously used for press conferences had been too small and was \"not fit for purpose\".\n\nHe said the \"modern press facility\" was similar to what other leaders around the world have and would be used by future governments, not just the current one.\n\nMr Johnson used the room to host a Covid press conference on Tuesday.\n\nThe plan to hold televised press conferences, similar to those seen in the United States, was announced by Mr Johnson in July last year.\n\nHe said the daily televised coronavirus briefings being held at the time showed the public wanted \"more direct, detailed information from the government\".\n\nI lived through a million daily televised briefings by the European Commission, when I worked at the BBC's Brussels bureau.\n\nI saw how much work officials did to prepare them and how much time was wasted by journalists trying to get spokespeople to deviate from the prepared script.\n\nI assumed something similar would happen when Westminster got its own version.\n\nThere have long been rumours that some in Number 10 thought the same way and it seems that they've won the internal argument.\n\nIt's also surely no coincidence that Downing Street has just appointed a new director of communications, who seems to have a more traditional view of how the government should interact with the media than some previous staffers in Number 10.\n\nThe total cost of the refit of the briefing room was revealed by a Freedom of Information request from the Press Association - £2,607,767.67, largely excluding VAT.\n\nCosts included £1,848,695 for the \"main works\", £198,024 on \"long lead items\", and £33,395 on broadband equipment.\n\nLabour attacked it as a \"vanity project\" which threatened to \"unbalance\" British politics, and the party's leader, Sir Keir Starmer, said the opposition should be given a right of reply.\n\nThe briefing room at 9 Downing Street cost £2.6m to refit\n\nThe briefings fronted by Ms Stratton had been due to start in October last year, but the government said they had been delayed because ministers were continuing to hold coronavirus briefings.\n\nMs Stratton has been given the job of the government's spokeswoman for COP26 - a UN climate change conference due to take place in November in Glasgow, chaired by former business secretary Alok Sharma.\n\nShe said: \"I am delighted to be starting this new role.\n\n\"The COP26 climate conference is a unique opportunity to deliver a cleaner, greener world and I'm looking forward to working with the prime minister and Alok Sharma to ensure it is a success.\"", "Sir James Dyson texted the prime minister last March when he was involved in efforts to provide ventilators\n\nLabour has called for a \"thorough investigation\" into Boris Johnson's contacts with inventor Sir James Dyson.\n\nShadow Cabinet Office minister Rachel Reeves said the messages between the prime minister and Sir James opened up a \"new urgent corridor of inquiry\".\n\nThe texts - seen by the BBC - show Mr Johnson saying he could \"fix\" tax issues relating to Dyson staff who came to the UK to work on the pandemic.\n\nThe PM said he made \"no apology\" for trying to get ventilators for the NHS.\n\nLabour has said the text messages are part of a pattern of government \"sleaze\" and has called on the cross-party Liaison Committee of senior MPs to investigate \"as soon as possible\".\n\nMs Reeves claimed there was \"a growing feeling that if someone has access to a telephone number of someone like the prime minister or the chancellor, then they are able to gain special treatment\".\n\nLiaison Committee Chair Sir Bernard Jenkin said the MPs would consider Ms Reeves request adding that the prime minster was due to appear in front of the committee before the summer recess.\n\nIn March last year, the Department of Health feared the NHS in England would need as many as 20,000 additional ventilators to deal with Covid patients.\n\nIt asked companies, including Dyson, which is based in Singapore, to help.\n\nThe prime minister is understood to have called Sir James on 13 March and asked him to participate.\n\nDyson answered the call - although subsequently the company was not called upon to provide ventilators to the NHS.\n\nSir James contacted the Treasury for assurances there would be no extra tax to pay for employees who came to the UK to help.\n\nWhen he failed to get a response, he texted the prime minister directly.\n\nIn exchanges seen by the BBC, Mr Johnson messaged Sir James saying: \"[Chancellor] Rishi [Sunak] says it is fixed!! We need you here.\"\n\nWhen the businessman sought further reassurance for the tax status of the firm and \"senior individuals\", Mr Johnson replied: \"I am First Lord of the Treasury and you can take it that we are backing you to do what you need.\"\n\nTwo weeks later, Mr Sunak told a group of MPs that the tax status of people who came to the UK to provide specific help during the pandemic would not be affected.\n\nOn Wednesday, Mr Johnson said he made \"no apology for moving heaven and earth\" to persuade businesses to help bolster supplies of equipment and ventilators to treat coronavirus patients.\n\nHe said he had done the \"right thing\" and that \"any prime minister\" would have done the same in the circumstances.\n\nSNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford called on Mr Johnson to reveal \"how many more Covid contracts he personally fixed\" and publish all personal exchanges on these contracts.\n\nBut Mr Johnson said there was \"nothing to conceal about this\" and he would share details with MPs.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said Mr Johnson had abided by the ministerial code, governing conduct in office, and had \"informed officials in a timely manner\" after his contact with Sir James.\n\nHe added that he did not know when the prime minister would publish his exchanges with Sir James.\n\nSeparately, it is understood some in government have suggested the prime minister should be less willing to share his personal contact details - but officials have denied that he was told to change his mobile phone number.\n\nIt was also revealed recently that former Prime Minister David Cameron had contacted several ministers - including Chancellor Rishi Sunak, whom he texted - on behalf of the failed finance firm Greensill Capital.\n\nSeveral inquiries have been launched looking into the work of lobbyists, whose job it is to influence government policy.\n\nMr Cameron has denied that he broke any codes of conduct or any government rules on lobbying.\n• None What is lobbying? A brief guide\n• None What is Greensill lobbying row about?", "Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, known as Tommy Robinson, is representing himself at the trial at the Royal Courts of Justice\n\nA Syrian schoolboy and his family faced death threats due to an \"anti-Muslim message\" presented by Tommy Robinson, a court has heard.\n\nThe English Defence League founder - whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon - is being sued by Jamal Hijazi.\n\nNow 17, Jamal was filmed being attacked in the playground at Almondbury School in Huddersfield in October 2018.\n\nMr Yaxley-Lennon, 38, who accused the teenager of attacking \"young English girls\", denies libel.\n\nThe High Court heard Mr Yaxley-Lennon posted two Facebook videos, viewed by nearly one million people, after footage of the assault on Jamal went viral.\n\nHe claimed the boy \"was not innocent,\" had \"beat a girl black and blue\" and \"threatened to stab\" another boy at his school, allegations the teenager denies.\n\nMr Yaxley-Lennon's comments \"turned Jamal into the aggressor, and the bully into a righteous white knight\", said Catrin Evans QC, representing the Hijazi family.\n\nThe allegations had \"a devastating effect on Jamal and his family\" and led to them being relocated in early 2019, Ms Evans said.\n\nShe described Mr Yaxley-Lennon as \"a well-known extreme-right advocate with convictions for violence, as well as fraud and drug offences\".\n\nHe had \"used his social media platforms, in particular his Facebook account, to spread his extremist views\", Ms Evans added.\n\nShe said Mr Yaxley-Lennon \"falsely accused Jamal\" of attacks \"without any direct knowledge of the events in question\".\n\nMs Evans told the court Jamal was bullied shortly after he started at the school in 2016, having come to the UK with his family as refugees from Homs in Syria.\n\nShe added: \"The bullying, and the failure to do enough about it, culminated in 2018 in a series of incidents in the school, including serious threats made to Jamal.\"\n\nMs Evans said a fellow pupil attacked Jamal in October 2018 and \"simulated waterboarding\" by pouring a bottle of water over his face when he was on the ground.\n\nAfter the video of the incident went viral, it \"received mass national media coverage\", Ms Evans told the court.\n\n\"The defendant has tried to use Jamal's case as a platform for one of his anti-Muslim rants\", Ms Evans added.\n\nMr Yaxley-Lennon, who is representing himself at the trial, is defending his comments on the basis they are substantially true.\n\nIn written submissions, Mr Yaxley-Lennon said he had \"uncovered dozens of accounts of aggressive, abusive and deceitful behaviour by the claimant, including acts which speak the truth to the matters complained of\".\n\nReferring to the alleged \"waterboarding\" incident, Mr Yaxley-Lennon added: \"Not only was the claimant the bully and not the victim in this incident, he has subsequently been shown to be the aggressor on multiple occasions, indulging in violent and abusive behaviour.\"\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 family of George Floyd have expressed relief over the murder conviction of Derek Chauvin - who knelt on Floyd's neck for more than nine minutes during his arrest.\n\nHis death and last words \"I can't breathe\" sparked global protests against racism and excessive police force.\n\nSpeaking after the verdict, brother Philonise Floyd said \"today we are able to breathe again\".", "For Altou, a 19-year-old model, having a ‘slim thick’ body is the key to getting more likes and more work.\n\nShe’s one of thousands of women worldwide who have taken Apetamin, an appetite-stimulant promoted by social media influencers as a quick fix for the extreme hourglass figure popularised by celebrities like Kim Kardashian.\n\nIt’s widely available online. But a new BBC Three documentary, Dangerous Curves: Get Thicc, Get Sick?, reveals that many don’t realise Apetamin is actually an unlicensed medicine - and its misuse is causing serious harm.\n\nThe UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) told the BBC, ‘Apetamin is an unauthorised medicine which should not be sold, supplied or advertised without a licence. Taking unauthorised medicines can have serious health consequences’.\n\nThe MHRA is investigating the sale of this product following the BBC’s enquiries.\n\nDangerous Curves: Get Thicc, Get Sick? is on BBC iPlayer now\n\nHave you seen Apetamin advertised in or available in the UK? Are you affected by the issues raised in this story? Please share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:", "People gathered outside court in Minneapolis erupted in cheers upon hearing that Derek Chauvin had been found guilty of all charges over George Floyd's death.\n\nThe former police officer has been convicted on all three charges - second degree murder, third degree murder and manslaughter.\n\nChauvin was filmed with his knee on George Floyd's neck last May, sparking global protests against racism.\n\nRead more: US jury finds ex-officer guilty of Floyd murder", "At this week's PMQs Sir Keir Starmer was attempting to generalise from the specific.\n\nWhile the PM’s texts are now under scrutiny, Labour want to create the impression that cronyism is endemic, citing the wider issue of the awarding of government contracts during the pandemic.\n\nBut his other aim was to address and enhance a feeling the party is picking up amongst ‘red wall’ voters.\n\nAnd that is, that they are not getting a fair crack of the whip.\n\nSo that’s why so much of PMQs was devoted to drawing comparisons between the treatment of nurses, steel workers, the self-employed and wealthy business people.\n\nThe SNP’s Ian Blackford went on a similar tack.\n\nBoris Johnson is hoping that voters will understand that sometimes people in leadership roles may have to act unconventionally in a crisis.\n\nAnd he cited the former Labour leader Tony Blair – who expressed understanding of the PM’s position – to attack the current Labour leader.\n\nThis was presumably anticipated by Sir Keir, as he played the former leader trump card, reminding MPs that the activities of David Cameron had begun the focus on the contacts between business and government.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThousands of people around Russia have joined unauthorised rallies to protest against the detention of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny.\n\nThey are calling for Navalny, who has been on hunger strike for weeks, to receive proper medical care. More than 1,000 people were reportedly arrested.\n\nNavalny, 44, was jailed in February and is demanding medical attention for acute back pain and leg numbness.\n\nThe largest protest was in Moscow, but others took place in major cities.\n\nThese included St Petersburg, Vladivostok in the Far East, a number of cities in Siberia, and the central city of Vladimir where Navalny is being held.\n\nThe largest rally was in Moscow on Wednesday where thousands defied police warnings\n\nThe opposition had hoped Wednesday's protests would be the largest in years, but reports suggest they have been smaller than those that took place shortly before Navalny was jailed.\n\nMore than 14,000 people protested in 29 cities, police said. This included 6,000 people who gathered in Moscow.\n\nBut estimates from monitoring groups tend to far exceed official police figures. One such group, OVD-Info, said more than 1,000 people had been detained nationwide.\n\n\"This is one of the last gasps of a free Russia,\" one protester told Reuters news agency. \"We came out for Alexei.\"\n\n\"This is a fight for the future,\" another demonstrator, Andrei Zamyatin, told AFP.\n\nOthers were less hopeful about the impact the mass action could have. \"I don't think this protest can save Navalny,\" Alexander Butuzov told AFP.\n\n\"There would need to be at least 200,000 to 300,000 people in the streets,\" he said.\n\nPolice urged protesters to go home and detained people nationwide\n\nThe protesters defied stark warnings from the authorities and a heavy police presence in most major cities.\n\n\"Any aggressive actions by participants in unauthorised public meetings, especially attempts to provoke clashes with law enforcement officials, will be regarded as a threat to public safety and immediately suppressed,\" the interior ministry said earlier this week.\n\nIn Moscow, riot police urged people to leave the protest area and formed barricades to try and contain the demonstrators' route.\n\nThey earlier cordoned off the area around Manezh exhibition hall, where Mr Putin addressed both houses of parliament during his annual state of the nation speech.\n\nIt's hard to tell the size of a rally when crowds are banned from gathering in one place, and that's the point. In Moscow, protesters were constantly diverted by police, as roads were closed.\n\nFewer came out than in January when Alexei Navalny was arrested - but that's hardly surprising. The price of protesting is rising in Russia: you face a beating, losing your job - at worst, a prison sentence.\n\nMany of Navalny's supporters who did make it out on Wednesday said they were afraid, but they were passionate: in Moscow, they shouted for Navalny's freedom and they called Vladimir Putin a killer.\n\nFor once, the police stood back and let them march - no dragging screaming protesters into their vans.\n\nIn St Petersburg it was different: hundreds were arrested there, some stunned with electric shockers by police.\n\nTeam Navalny are claiming success. But their goal was to get him released, or at least get him a doctor, and the Kremlin is unlikely to be persuaded by Wednesday's crowds.\n\nOn Monday, Navalny was moved to a prison hospital where the authorities said his condition was \"satisfactory\".\n\nThe FSIN prison service added that he was being examined by a doctor daily and had agreed to take vitamins.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alexei Navalny: what you need to know\n\nBut Navalny's doctors warned he would \"die within the next few days\" if not given urgent medical attention for his back pain and leg numbness.\n\nHe started a hunger strike on 31 March in protest at not being able to see his own medical team. His doctors say recent blood test results indicate he could suffer kidney failure and go into cardiac arrest at any moment.\n\nWestern countries say Navalny was poisoned with a nerve agent last August and only narrowly survived. After his transfer to intensive care in Berlin, toxicologists concluded that the poison was Russian weapons-grade Novichok.\n\nThe West blamed the Russian state for the attack, and Navalny accused President Vladimir Putin directly. The Kremlin denied any involvement and disputed the conclusion about Novichok.\n\nNavalny was jailed in February for violating the terms of a 2014 suspended sentence for fraud. He says the case is politically motivated.\n\nThe European Court of Human Rights found violations of justice in the case against him.", "Victoria White said she was shocked at how fast the birth was\n\nA woman has described how she started giving birth in an Uber while dashing to a north London hospital.\n\nDuring the eight-minute journey, Victoria White's waters broke and her daughter's head emerged.\n\nAt the entrance to Whittington Hospital, Ms White gave one more push and her baby - who has not yet been named - was born.\n\n\"It didn't quite make sense in my head that I'd given birth. You usually have a time to prepare yourself,\" she said.\n\nMs White first felt contractions at 03:00 BST on Saturday. She called the hospital but it was decided she would wait a little longer before going in, as the contractions were 10 minutes apart.\n\nBy 03:45 they had become more frequent so it was decided she should go in.\n\n\"I thought I had time because it took three days from this point for my previous child to be born but about three minutes in to the Uber journey, I said to my husband: 'I feel like I need to push.'\n\n\"You have no control over your body at that point. I felt a pushing sensation and pushed and I told my husband that something's burst and that was my waters breaking all over the Uber.\n\n\"Just as the Uber was arriving at the hospital I could feel that I had delivered my daughter's head.\n\nThe family haven't decided on a name for their newborn daughter\n\n\"I managed to take about five steps from the Uber and managed to get to the hospital entrance and the receptionist looked at me and shouted: 'I'll get a midwife!'\n\n\"Immediately three midwives came running towards me. I think they brought a wheelchair and they said something like crouch down and I just replied, 'It's here, it's coming' as that's all I could manage.\"\n\nImmediately afterwards Ms White gave one final push and her daughter was born.\n\n\"After that push there was just this silence: my body stopped, the pain stopped, the contractions stopped and I just turned to my husband and I think I just said to him: 'What on earth just happened?' We were both in shock. My body was shaking for a good hour afterwards.\"\n\nVictoria White's daughter was born at the Whittington Hospital in Archway\n\nShe added: \"The whole thing took about 10 minutes. According to my Uber app, I got into it at 04:15. According to the hospital she was born at 04:25.\"\n\nAfterwards, her thoughts turned to the Uber driver.\n\n\"Usually you say, 'Hello, how are you?'... we didn't even have any conversations with him or anything other than me shouting at him 'It's coming, it's coming'.\n\n\"When we got out the Uber we didn't thank him for anything; we were obviously in a rush and we just left him and his water burst-stained car. I was concerned, once my head and brain had caught up - I hope he's OK and that it hadn't traumatised him.\"\n\nThe next day Ms White contacted him through the Uber app to thank him.\n\n\"I said, 'I'm the woman who basically ruined your car last night' - can I cover the costs of cleaning? He was like, 'No, no, congratulations, it was my pleasure, I'm so glad everything was OK, I don't need anything.'\"\n\nShe added: \"He grasped the emergency. He didn't potter around or drive slowly. He did exactly what we needed him to do.\n\n\"If it had taken two minutes longer it would have been a lot more dangerous because none of us know how to deliver a baby.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK is likely to see a \"summer surge\" in Covid cases as lockdown is relaxed, a government scientist says.\n\nProf Adam Finn, of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, says modelling points to a rise in cases, as many adults are not immunised.\n\nHe said the UK was still \"vulnerable\" and the dates for easing restrictions may need adjusting.\n\nThe PM has said there is nothing in the data to suggest the next step in easing lockdown cannot go ahead as planned.\n\nBut Boris Johnson said that most scientists were \"firmly of the view\" that there would be a third wave of the virus at some point this year.\n\nFor the first time since September, UK government figures showed fewer than 2,000 Covid patients in hospital on Tuesday. There are 2,004 people in hospital according to Wednesday's figures.\n\nMore than 10.7 million people in the UK have had two doses of the vaccine. It means that one in five UK adults are fully vaccinated.\n\nProf Finn, from the University of Bristol, told BBC Breakfast the prime minister was right that the UK will see a further wave of Covid-19 cases.\n\n\"The models that we've seen on JCVI clearly point to a summer surge in cases as the lockdown is relaxed, because there are still many people in the adult population who've not been immunised,\" he said.\n\nTalk of a new wave is alarming given what the UK has been through this winter - and what other countries are facing now.\n\nA rise in infections is sadly inevitable, but that does not mean it will be as devastating as it was in January.\n\nThe vaccination programme should see to that.\n\nBut that does not mean we should be complacent. Significant numbers remain unvaccinated and despite how good the vaccines are, they will not work for everyone. There is also the impact of new variants to contend with - although the significance of these is still unknown.\n\nSome models suggest there could be in excess of 100,000 deaths over the coming year or so. But others say it may be no worse than a bad flu season with around 30,000 deaths.\n\nWhen the next wave will come is also not clear. Eventually it is expected the virus will become seasonal like flu. But that cannot be a given for this year - hence the summer warnings.\n\nIt's why government scientists are insisting we move forward carefully.\n\nBut why in the long-run we can learn to live with Covid.\n\nProf Finn said there was \"quite a wide range of uncertainty\" over how big the wave would be \"because it depends on how quickly the vaccine rollout continues\" as well as how many people come forward for vaccination.\n\nIt also depends on how people behave as the lockdown is gradually relaxed, he said.\n\n\"If people move too far forward with that too fast, we'll see things start to come up earlier,\" Prof Finn said.\n\n\"The sense that the problem is all over, I'm afraid is a flawed one, we're still in a vulnerable situation, and there are still significant numbers of people who potentially could be harmed by this infection if this happens.\"\n\nIn England, the next relaxation of lockdown restrictions is due no earlier than 17 May, when it's hoped people can meet in groups of up to 30 outdoors and six people or two households can meet indoors.\n\nFurther steps to relax rules in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are taking place this month.\n\nWhen asked if dates for easing lockdown may need to be adjusted, Prof Finn said it was a \"balancing act\".\n\n\"I think if we do start to see significant rises in cases in some parts of the country, they may need to adjust back those dates in order to avoid the situation coming into effect,\" he said.\n\nOn Wednesday, a further 2,396 coronavirus cases were reported in the UK and another 22 people have died within 28 days of a positive test, according to government figures.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock has said the government is \"on track\" to offer a first dose of a coronavirus vaccine to all adults in the UK by the end of July.\n\nPeople aged 45 and over are now being offered the vaccine in England and Scotland. In some areas of Wales 40 to 49-year-olds are being invited, while in Northern Ireland vaccine appointments are now being made available to a limited number of 35-39 year olds.", "Mark Drakeford said the changes to lockdown rules were \"not electioneering\"\n\nBringing forward the easing of some Covid restrictions has nothing to do with the upcoming election in Wales, First Minister Mark Drakeford has said.\n\nThe Welsh Labour leader had been accused of playing politics after changing a number of lockdown measures during the election campaign.\n\nHowever, Mr Drakeford said it was \"nothing to do with electioneering\" and was based on scientific advice.\n\nThe Senedd election is on 6 May.\n\nOn Monday, Mr Drakeford announced new changes to lockdown measures, allowing up to six people from any households to be able to meet outside - including in private gardens - from Saturday.\n\nPreviously, dates to reopen gyms and allow people to form extended households - were moved forward to 3 May instead of the proposed 10 May.\n\nOutdoor wedding receptions for up to 30 people will be allowed from 26 April, again a week earlier than originally planned.\n\nThe Welsh Conservatives accused Mr Drakeford of \"playing politics\" by changing the timetable out of lockdown during the election campaign.\n\nHowever, speaking on a BBC Wales Ask The Leader programme Mr Drakeford said: \"The coronavirus rates in Wales are the lowest in the UK - the vaccination rates are the best in the UK.\n\n\"That creates a context in which we could restore more freedoms to people more quickly than we had anticipated.\"\n\nWhat's happening? On 6 May, people will vote to elect 60 Members of the Senedd (MSs). The party that can command the support of a majority of MSs will form the Welsh government. Find out more here.\n\nWhat powers does the Senedd have? MSs pass laws on aspects of life in Wales such as health, education and transport - and have some tax powers.\n\nMr Drakeford said he would announce more changes for the hospitality sector at Friday's Welsh government lockdown review briefing.\n\nHowever, he would not be drawn on whether he would follow England's lead and allow pubs and restaurants to open indoors on 17 May.\n\nCurrently, no date has been set for the reopening of indoor hospitality in Wales, but it could be in time for the Spring Bank Holiday at the end of May.\n\n\"I want to do it in the orderly way that we do,\" Mr Drakeford said, speaking about any proposed changes.\n\n\"That decision will lie the other side of the election, but I will set out what a Labour government would do in the three weeks that follow the election, as we have regularly given a forward signal to indoor hospitality to the rest of the tourism industry and other things about what we think the public health context would now allow.\"\n\nLeaders debate: If you would like to be part of the virtual audience for the BBC Wales Election 2021 Leaders Debate on 29 April, please email us your details to waleslive@bbc.co.uk.\n\nMr Drakeford said a Welsh Labour government was \"leaving the options open\" on income tax rates.\n\nHe previously said a Welsh Labour government would not raise rates of income tax until \"at least\" the economic impact of coronavirus has passed.\n\nWhen asked when he would consider increasing the tax, Mr Drakeford suggested he might lower it: \"We are leaving the option open when we get past the current period.\n\n\"We will look to see when the recovery is under way what the circumstances are. We didn't raise income tax in the last five years\".\n\nOn the pre-Christmas lockdown, Mr Drakeford said it was the \"hardest decision\" he had to make last year.\n\nHe said the government \"took a lot of flak for it\" and had \"no support from the opposition parties\".\n\nIn fact, Plaid Cymru and health professionals had called on him to introduce the lockdown earlier.\n\nAsk The Leader with Mark Drakeford can be seen on the BBC iPlayer.\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", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nAll six Premier League teams involved in the European Super League (ESL) have now withdrawn from the competition.\n\nManchester City were the first club to pull out after Chelsea had signalled their intent to do so by preparing documentation to withdraw.\n\nThe other four sides - Arsenal, Liverpool, Manchester United and Tottenham - have all now followed suit.\n\nItalian side Inter Milan are also set to withdraw as they no longer wish to be involved with the project.\n\nBBC Sport understands bosses at the Serie A club are preparing for their exit following Tuesday night's dramatic developments.\n\nThe 12-team Super League, set up by the seven afore-mentioned teams and Spain's Atletico Madrid, Barcelona and Real Madrid and Italy's AC Milan and Juventus was announced on Sunday to widespread condemnation.\n\n\"Despite the announced departure of the English clubs, forced to take such decisions due to the pressure put on them, we are convinced our proposal is fully aligned with European law and regulations,\" the ESL said on Wednesday, adding it was \"convinced that the current status quo of European football needs to change\".\n\nIn an interview with Italian newspaper la Repubblica, Juventus chairman Andrea Agnelli said the remaining clubs will \"press ahead\" and the project still had \"a 100% chance of being a success\".,\n\n\"Real Madrid president Florentino Perez is insisting on the idea of keeping the group together to push for change,\" says Spanish football expert Guillem Balague.\n\n\"Barcelona say they agreed to the ESL, but only if the Season Ticket Holders Assembly approve it, which could be their way out.\"\n\nBalague also says Atletico Madrid are meeting on Wednesday morning to review their position.\n• None 'Owners of big six must beg for forgiveness'\n\nManchester City confirmed they have \"formally enacted the procedures to withdraw\" from the Super League.\n\nLiverpool said their involvement in the proposed breakaway league \"has been discontinued\".\n\nManchester United said they had \"listened carefully to the reaction from our fans, the UK government and other key stakeholders\" in making their decision to not take part.\n\nArsenal apologised in an open letter to their fans and said they had \"made a mistake\", adding they were withdrawing after listening to them and the \"wider football community\".\n\nTottenham chairman Daniel Levy said the club regretted the \"anxiety and upset\" caused by the proposal.\n\nChelsea confirmed they have \"begun the formal procedures for withdrawal from the group\" that they only joined \"late last week\".\n\nUefa president Aleksander Ceferin welcomed the reversal, adding: \"I said yesterday that it is admirable to admit a mistake and these clubs made a big mistake.\n\n\"But they are back in the fold now and I know they have a lot to offer not just to our competitions but to the whole of the European game.\n\n\"The important thing now is that we move on, rebuild the unity that the game enjoyed before this and move forward together.\"\n\nUK Prime Minister Boris Johnson posted on Twitter: \"I welcome last night's announcement. This is the right result for football fans, clubs, and communities across the country. We must continue to protect our cherished national game.\"\n\nLabour leader Keir Starmer added that this \"must be a watershed moment, where we change our game to put fans first again\", while Liberal Democrats leader Ed Davey tweeted: \"This must be the start of a fans-led football revolution.\"\n\nIn a statement, the European Super League said: \"Given the current circumstances we shall reconsider the most appropriate steps to reshape the project, always having in mind our goals of offering fans the best experience possible while enhancing solidarity payments for the entire football community.\"\n\nEnglish football's 'big six' were part of a group that announced plans to form the breakaway league, which they hoped to establish as a new midweek competition.\n\nIt was condemned by fans, football authorities and government ministers in the UK and across Europe by Uefa and league associations.\n\nAround 1,000 fans gathered outside Chelsea's Stamford Bridge ground before their game against Brighton on Tuesday to protest at their club's involvement.\n\nManchester United executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward, who was involved in the Super League discussions, has announced he will step down from his role at the end of 2021.\n\nLeading players at some of the six clubs signalled their disapproval of the planned breakaway league.\n\nLiverpool captain Jordan Henderson said on social media his side's \"collective position\" is they do not want the Super League to take place.\n\n\"We don't like it and we don't want it to happen,\" read a message that was also posted by many fellow Liverpool players.\n\nAfter City confirmed their withdrawal, England winger Raheem Sterling posted: \"Ok bye.\"\n\nUefa had hoped to stave off the threat of a European Super League with a new 36-team Champions League, which was agreed on Monday.\n\nIn announcing their proposals for a Super League that would eventually comprise of 20 teams, the 12-club group said the Champions League reforms did not go far enough.\n\nReal Madrid president Florentino Perez, who was named as the ESL's chairman, said the competition was set up \"to save football\" because young people are \"no longer interested\" in the game because of \"a lot of poor quality games\".\n\nNone of the Spanish and Italian sides have yet released a statement after the six Premier League teams pulled out.\n\nWhat did each club say?\n\nThe Arsenal board said they did not intend to \"cause such distress\" and that they joined the Super League because they \"did not want to be left behind\" and wanted to ensure the club's future.\n\n\"Our aim is always to make the right decisions for this great football club, to protect it for the future and to take us forward,\" they added.\n\n\"We didn't make the right decision here, which we fully accept.\"\n\nManchester United said that they \"remain committed to working with others across the football community to come up with sustainable solutions to the long-term challenges facing the game\".\n\nLiverpool said the club had \"received representations from various key stakeholders, both internally and externally\" before reaching their decision and thanked them for their \"valuable contributions\".\n\nLevy said that Tottenham felt it was \"important\" to take part in \"a possible new structure that sought to better ensure financial fair play and financial sustainability whilst delivering significantly increased support for the wider football pyramid\".\n\nHe added: \"We should like to thank all those supporters who presented their considered opinions.\"\n\nChelsea said that after having had \"time to consider the matter fully\" they had decided that their \"continued participation in these plans would not be in the best interests of the club, our supporters or the wider football community\".\n\nManchester City said they have \"formally enacted the procedures to withdraw from the group developing plans for a European Super League\".\n• None Meet the man who stole millions from work to sustain his gambling habit\n• None 'Food is more than calories': Different strategies to help you achieve a healthy weight", "Tributes have been paid to US songwriter and producer Jim Steinman, who has died at the age of 73.\n\nSteinman helped to create hits like Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell and Bonnie Tyler's Total Eclipse of the Heart.\n\nTyler told the BBC: \"He was such a lovely, funny, kind, supportive, deeply caring person, as well as an incredible songwriter of the most iconic songs.\"\n\nSteinman also worked on 1996 musical Whistle Down the Wind with Andrew Lloyd Webber, who said he was \"unique\".\n\n\"He was a one-off. One of the nicest, kindest people I've ever met in this business,\" Lord Lloyd-Webber told BBC Radio 4's The World at One on Wednesday.\n\n\"To say that he loved [German composer Richard] Wagner would be an understatement. He was kind of the Wagner of rock, if you like.\"\n\nJim Steinman sold more than 190 million records and won four Grammy awards\n\nSteinman and Lloyd-Webber's compositions for Whistle Down the Wind included the future Boyzone number one No Matter What.\n\nThe theatre impresario added that his late friend was \"the warmest man possible\".\n\n\"One of the funniest evenings I ever had with him was - because he was so generous - there were six of us and he took all six of us to this Mexican restaurant in New York,\" he recalled.\n\n\"He said to the waiter [pointing at] the big menu there, 'We'll have one of everything', which was typical of him. And the waiter said, 'Mr Steinman, are you sure you want one of everything?' He said, 'No you're right, we need six of everything!'\n\n\"These trolleys of food appeared, and he was extraordinary.\"\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 bonnietylerVEVO 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\nTyler took Total Eclipse of the Heart to number one in the UK and also had a huge hit with Holding Out for a Hero, which Steinman co-wrote. She told The World At One she was \"so privileged\" to have his songs in her repertoire.\n\n\"Jim writes these very bombastic sort of Wagnerian kind of music,\" she said. \"When you see him play the piano, he starts with his hair all lovely and dry. By the time he is finished it's dripping with sweat and it's all stuck around his face because he plays with such vigour.\"\n\nTyler remembered she specifically asked her record label to let her work with Steinman after hearing his epic work with Meat Loaf.\n\nThe Bat Out of Hell singer, with whom Steinman scored his biggest hits, said goodbye on Facebook with the words: \"Fly Jimmy Fly.\"\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 Meat Loaf 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\n\"Having the opportunity to work with him was one of the greatest privileges of my career,\" she tweeted. \"My thoughts and prayers go out to his family and friends.\"\n\nSteinman's brother Bill told the Associated Press that the songwriter had died of kidney failure on Monday after being ill for some time.\n\n\"I miss him a great deal already,\" he said.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Ella was the first person in the UK to have air pollution listed as the cause of death\n\nA coroner has called for a change in the law after air pollution led to the death of a nine-year-old girl.\n\nElla Adoo-Kissi-Debrah, who lived near the South Circular Road in Lewisham, south-east London, died in 2013.\n\nAn inquest had found air pollution \"made a material contribution\" to her death.\n\nCoroner Phillip Barlow said there is \"no safe level of particulate matter\" in the air and called for national pollution limits to be reduced.\n\nElla was the first person in the UK to have air pollution listed as the cause of death on their death certificate, following the inquest ruling by Mr Barlow last December.\n\nIn a report to prevent future deaths, he said the government should reduce existing legally binding targets for particulate matter pollution to bring them in line with World Health Organisation (WHO) guidelines.\n\nElla lived 25m from the South Circular Road, one of the capital's busiest roads\n\nResponding to the report, Ella's mother Rosamund Adoo- Kissi-Debrah, called on the government to act on the coroner's recommendations, warning \"children are dying unnecessarily because the government is not doing enough to combat air pollution\".\n\nIn his report, Mr Barlow called for more information about air pollution and its impact to be made available to the public.\n\n\"As the parent of a child suffering from severe asthma, I should have been given this information but this did not happen,\" Ms Adoo-Kissi-Debrah said.\n\n\"Because of a lack of information I did not take the steps to reduce Ella's exposure to air pollution that might have saved her life. I will always live with this regret.\n\n\"But it is not too late for other children.\"\n\nProf Stephen Holgate, an expert who gave evidence at Ella's inquest, said the report had \"shone a brilliant white light on the importance\" of the issue of air pollution and called on the government to \"start to treat this with the seriousness that it deserves\".\n\nHe added: \"If this was happening to water and 40,000 deaths were being brought forward due to poisoning in water, we'd be outside Parliament shouting.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah: \"All children have the right to breathe clean air\".\n\nParticulate matter consists of tiny particles known as PM2.5. These have a diameter of less than 2.5 micrometres across - that is one-four-hundredth of a millimetre, or about 3% of the diameter of a human hair.\n\nThese particles are so small they can lodge in the lungs and even pass into the bloodstream. There is evidence they can damage blood vessels and organs.\n\nThe WHO guidelines suggest keeping an average concentration of PM2.5 under 10 micrograms per cubic metre of air (µg/m3), to prevent increased deaths.\n\nThe UK limit, based on European Union (EU) recommendations, is a yearly average of 25 µg/m3.\n\nAn inquest into Ella's death also found levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) near her home exceeded WHO and EU guidelines.\n\nThis report is looking at what the government can do to protect people.\n\nIt is not legally binding but the fact it is so clear in its recommendations will make it much harder for the government to ignore the issue of pollution.\n\nIt has been described by many experts to me as a \"public health emergency\".\n\nAs we emerge from lockdown and car use heads towards levels that were seen prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, toxic fumes are on the rise again\n\nAs Ella's mother Rosamund said to me, the coroner has made the issue \"simple.\" It's about the death of a nine-year-old girl.\n\nWhat will the government do to prevent this from happening again?\n\nThe Environment Bill, currently being debated in Parliament, calls for a new target on air pollution to be set before 2022.\n\nMs Adoo-Kissi-Debrah said: \"I invite the government to act now to reduce air pollution. Immediately. Not in eighteen months, not in five years - that's not fast enough.\n\n\"People are dying from air pollution each year. Action needs to be taken now or more people will simply continue to die.\"\n\nSarah Woolnough, chief executive of the British Lung Foundation, said limiting air pollution to WHO guidelines would be \"a game-changer, potentially preventing thousands more families facing the death of a loved one because of air pollution.\"\n\nElla was classified as disabled due to her respiratory problems\n\nShe said children, older people and the 6.5 million people in the UK living with respiratory disease are all at risk from toxic air.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"Our thoughts continue to be with Ella's family and friends.\n\n\"We will carefully consider the recommendations in the report and respond in due course.\n\n\"We are delivering a £3.8bn plan to clean up transport and tackle NO2 pollution and going further in protecting communities from air pollution, particularly PM2.5 which is especially harmful to human health.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Darryn Frost pursued Khan on to London Bridge armed with a narwhal tusk which he had taken from a wall\n\nA former prisoner sprayed a fire extinguisher to try and stop a terror attacker who was shouting he would \"blow you all up\", an inquest heard.\n\nJohn Crilly described how he tackled Usman Khan, who was armed with knives and what appeared to be a suicide belt.\n\nKhan killed Jack Merritt and Saskia Jones and attacked others at Fishmongers' Hall on 29 November 2019.\n\nAnother witness said he thought \"everyone was dead\" after later hearing what he thought was the belt exploding.\n\nMr Crilly, who attended a prisoner education conference at the venue, was one of three men who tried to tackle Khan, another of them armed with a narwhal tusk taken from inside.\n\nHe knew Jack Merritt through the Learning Together programme.\n\nRecalling the moment he came face to face with an armed Khan inside the building, he said: \"He had two big knives on his hands, there was no missing them.\"\n\nThe inquests into the deaths of Ms Jones, 23, and Mr Merritt, 25, heard Mr Crilly describe Khan as \"shouting and jumping about like a loon. He was going nuts, shouting Allahu Akbar\".\n\n\"As I got closer I could see the [suicide] belt, pretty clearly. Like a black bodybuilder-belt with bits stuck to it, bits of iron, bits of silver, a contraption,\" he said.\n\nFormer prisoner John Crilly described how he tackled Usman Khan at Fishmongers' Hall\n\nAnswering Jonathan Hough QC, counsel to the inquiry, Mr Crilly described how he tried to \"distract\" Khan and \"call his bluff\".\n\n\"I was hoping it [the belt] was fake. He started shouting and saying things like: 'I'm going to blow you all up,' so I said 'blow it then'.\n\n\"He said, 'I'm waiting for the police'.\"\n\nMr Crilly said he tried without success to stop Khan using a series of makeshift weapons including an ornamental chair, before he picked up a fire extinguisher to tackle the armed suspect.\n\nSaskia Jones and Jack Merritt were killed by Usman Khan during the conference on rehabilitating offenders\n\nHe continued: \"I just sprayed him with it, it seemed to have an effect on him - like, blinded him.\n\n\"He started running through the foam so I thought I'd have to back off and spray him again.\"\n\nMr Crilly was among the three men who followed as Khan went outside onto London Bridge.\n\n\"He looked back and would try and stab one of us. The three of us would be swapping places,\" he said.\n\nHe described how he first hit Khan in the head with the extinguisher and then \"grabbed his hands and tried to wrestle the knife off him\".\n\nThe Guildhall heard Khan had been wearing a fake suicide vest\n\nDarryn Frost, a communications manager within the Prison and Probation Service, was also at the event and told the jury hearing \"screams\" was his \"call to action\".\n\nHe said he grabbed a narwhal tusk from the wall and ran towards another delegate, Steve Gallant, who appeared to be trying to keep Khan \"at bay\" with \"an old mahogany chair\".\n\nHe explained how after he hit Khan in the stomach with the tusk, he passed it to Mr Gallant and went to grab another one before chasing the terrorist out of the hall.\n\nOnce on London Bridge, Mr Frost again struck the attacker with the tusk as he, Mr Crilly and Mr Gallant, fought with Khan.\n\n\"As he ran towards me I thrust it into him. I don't think he expected to be struck by this. The force of it made him kind of buckle over,\" he said.\n\nHe described how Mr Crilly then used the fire extinguisher again and an unarmed Mr Gallant forced Khan to the ground.\n\nUsman Khan had been jailed in 2012 over a plot to blow up the London Stock Exchange\n\n\"I dropped the narwhal tusk and jumped onto the assailant,\" he explained.\n\nMr Frost told the inquests when police arrived and told people to leave Khan, he continued to hold him down as he did not want him to be shot.\n\nHe said police again shouted for him to run away but \"they didn't know how he had a bomb and that he had threatened to set it off when police arrived, so I refused to move. I wouldn't leave Khan alone.\"\n\nOnce he had finally been pulled away by an officer Mr Frost said he \"three cracks and an echo\", which he thought was the bomb going off.\n\n\"I thought then that everyone was dead,\" he said.\n\nMr Gallant, then an inmate at HMP Springhill, told the inquests Khan had \"moved towards me, pulled back his coat, and showed me his bomb.\n\n\"It looked fake, I chose to ignore it,\" he said.\n\nHe described how he first used a narwhal tusk to \"whack\" the terrorist and then hurled a chair.\n\nOnce on London Bridge, Mr Gallant said he \"somehow\" managed to grab Khan and hold him to the ground.\n\nThe former prisoner added he \"waited for my moment\" to let go of Khan once police had arrived.\n\n\"I heard some shots. And then I turned and I saw Usman,\n\n\"I thought I had seen him reach to his belt or the middle of his body, try to get up, then he was shot again and Tasered,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A lucky UK-ticket holder has won the jackpot prize of £59m in the EuroMillions draw.\n\nTuesday's winning numbers were 5, 17, 28, 41 and 46 with the Lucky Star numbers 10 and 11.\n\nThe winner correctly matched all five of the EuroMillions numbers as well as the two Lucky Star numbers.\n\nCamelot's Andy Carter, senior winners' adviser at the National Lottery, said it was \"amazing news\" that someone had scooped the top prize.\n\nHe said it was the second UK EuroMillions jackpot winner this month, after a another ticket-holder scooped the 122m jackpot on 2 April.\n\nThat anonymous player became the UK's fifth biggest National Lottery winner and the win would put them in the top 1,000 on the Sunday Times rich list 2020.\n\nEuroMillions puts the odds of winning the jackpot at around 1 in 139,838,160.\n\nLast month, an 80-year-old man bagged more than £100,000 in the draw after forgetting his glasses and being unable to pick his regular numbers.\n\nDenis Fawsitt would normally use family birthdays for his weekly ticket, but as he could not see, went for a lucky dip instead.\n\nAnn Fawsitt said she had a small sherry and her husband Denis had a drop of whisky to celebrate the win\n\nHe and his wife Ann, 75, said they were planning to make over their Derbyshire home and garden with the £116,124 winnings.\n\nThe highest amount ever won on EuroMillions was €210m (£180m), which was taken home by a Swiss player in February this year.\n\nOne couple from Northern Ireland, who won £115m in the EuroMillions lottery two years ago have already given away more than half to loved ones.\n\nAnother couple who won £1m in the draw last month said they would be able to buy a bigger home to help them care for their youngest son who has scoliosis.\n\nTickets for EuroMillions are sold in nine countries - the UK, France, Spain, Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Irish Republic, Portugal and Switzerland - with ticket-holders in all those countries trying to win a share of the same jackpot each week.", "An exhibition calling for an end to executions in Iran took place in London in October\n\nFour of the world's five top executioners in 2020 were Middle East states, Amnesty International says.\n\nIran, Egypt, Iraq and Saudi Arabia accounted for 88% of the 483 reported executions worldwide, according to a report by the human rights group.\n\nIt accuses them of displaying \"a ruthless and chilling persistence\" when most of the world was focused on saving people's lives from a deadly virus.\n\nThe global total was the lowest in a decade, but it did not include China.\n\nChina is believed to execute thousands of people each year, but the data on its use of the death penalty is a state secret.\n\nSecrecy in North Korea and Vietnam also made it impossible to verify reports from those two countries.\n\nThe 483 executions in 18 countries reported during 2020 represented a decrease of 26% compared to 2019's 657 executions, and a fall of 70% from a peak of 1,634 executions in 2015, Amnesty International said on Wednesday in its annual report on use of the death penalty.\n\nIn the Middle East, the overall number fell from 579 in 2019 to 437 in 2020. That was largely driven by an 85% drop in recorded executions in Saudi Arabia, where 27 took place, and a 50% reduction in Iraq, which carried out 45.\n\nHowever, the report says the decreases were overshadowed by a 300% rise in Egypt, which put 107 people to death and became the world's third most frequent executioner.\n\nTwenty-three of those people were convicted in cases relating to political violence, after what Amnesty said were grossly unfair trials marred by forced \"confessions\" and other violations.\n\nThere was also a spike of 57 executions in October and November following a botched break-out attempt at al-Aqrab prison in which several police officers and death-row inmates died.\n\nIran, which carried out at least 246 executions, remained in second place globally behind China.\n\nAmnesty said Iranian authorities increasingly used the death penalty as \"a weapon of political repression\" against dissidents, protesters and members of ethnic minority groups.\n\nThey also executed three people for crimes that occurred when they were below the age of 18, in violation of international humanitarian law.\n\nAmnesty accused Qatar of taking \"an alarming step backwards\" by carrying out its first execution in 20 years. A Nepali man convicted of murder was shot by firing squad last May.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Art released me from my prison cell'\n\nA government body in Saudi Arabia attributed the sharp decline in executions there in part to \"a moratorium on the death penalty in drug-related offences\". But Amnesty said it might also have been due to a desire by the kingdom to avoid criticism over the issue overshadowing its G20 presidency.\n\nIn the US, the Trump administration resumed federal executions after a 17-year-long gap and put 10 people to death in under six months.\n\n\"As the world focused on finding ways to protect lives from Covid-19, several governments showed a disturbing determination to resort to the death penalty and execute people no matter what,\" Agnès Callamard, Amnesty's secretary general, said in a statement.\n\n\"The death penalty is an abhorrent punishment and pursuing executions in the middle of a pandemic further highlights its inherent cruelty.\"\n\nMs Callamard said people on death row were unable to access in-person legal representation, and that many of those wanting to provide support had to expose themselves to considerable health risks.\n\n\"The use of the death penalty under these conditions is a particularly egregious assault on human rights,\" she added.", "China has today announced it has administered more than 200 million vaccine doses .\n\nAfter the US, which has delivered 213 million doses, it is the country with the second highest number of vaccinations in the world.\n\nChina is aiming to vaccinate 40% of the country's population by the end of June, and has in recent days been strengthening calls for eligible recipients to get vaccinated amid concerns that at its current pace of between three and four million a day, it will not reach that target.\n\nMedia have repeatedly said the country remains at risk of a domestic outbreak - via infected people entering the country from overseas - unless vaccination is accelerated.\n\nOutlets observe the number of new Covid-19 cases worldwide has been rising for eight consecutive weeks.\n\nToday, however, the National Health Commission's spokesperson has commented that in China, \"some people have reported that it has been difficult to make an appointment for a second dose\".\n\nOn Sina Weibo, China's version of Facebook or Twitter, users are talking about how that has been their experience, with commenters saying that they've still not been notified about when they will receive a second dose , or have simply been told a second appointment is currently not available.\n\nIt is more likely this is due to staff shortages than vaccine shortages. China is one of the world's largest vaccine producers, and it says it has the capacity to provide five billion doses annually .", "Fashion label Chanel has lost an EU court battle with Chinese technology firm Huawei over its famous logo.\n\nJudges ruled in favour of Huawei, which had sought an EU-wide trademark for a logo it wanted to use, but the fashion house said it was too similar.\n\nThe EU General Court in Luxembourg ruled on Wednesday that the logos \"share some similarities but their visual differences are significant\".\n\nIt found that Chanel's logo had more rounded curves and thicker lines.\n\nIn 2017, the Chinese technology firm had applied for EU trademark protection for a logo it would use for computer hardware.\n\nFrench firm Chanel opposed the bid, arguing the two vertical intertwining semi-circles were too similar to its protected logo, which it uses to sell make-up, perfumes, clothing and accessories.\n\nTwo years ago, the EU Intellectual Property Office dismissed Chanel's objection, saying there was no similarity and the public were not likely to be confused by the two.\n\nChanel then challenged the ruling at the General Court, which dismissed the appeal on Wednesday.\n\n\"The figurative marks at issue are not similar. The marks must be compared as applied for and registered, without altering their orientation,\" the tribunal of judges said.\n\n\"In particular, Chanel's marks have more rounded curves, thicker lines and a horizontal orientation, whereas the orientation of the Huawei mark is vertical. Consequently, the General Court concludes that the marks are different,\" it said.\n\nThe latest decision can also be appealed to the European Court of Justice.\n\nChanel declined to comment on the ruling.", "No more smart motorways without hard shoulders will be able to open without additional safety measures in place, the government has said.\n\nIt said any new \"all lane running\" roads would need radar technology installed first to detect stopped cars.\n\nSmart motorways use technology and other measures to cut congestion, such as opening the hard shoulder.\n\nBut there are fears about their safety after fatal accidents involving stationary cars being hit from behind.\n\nIn a written statement to Parliament, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said that for every hundred million miles driven there were fewer deaths on all-lane motorways than conventional ones.\n\nBut he added: \"We are determined to do all we can to help drivers feel safer and be safer on our roads - all our roads.\"\n\nHe said Highways England would now accelerate the introduction of a number of safety measures set out last year.\n\n\"Most significantly, radar-based stopped vehicle detection technology will now be installed on all operational all lane running (ALR) motorways by September 2022, six months earlier than planned,\" he said.\n\n\"Highways England has also made a commitment that no ALR motorways will open without radar technology to spot stopped vehicles, enable lanes to be closed where necessary and get help to drivers quickly.\"\n\nOther measures include upgrading cameras so motorists ignoring closed lanes indicated by red X signs can be caught and prosecuted, and putting more signs up about distances to emergency refuge areas.\n\nThe RAC's head of roads policy, Nicholas Lyes, said the motoring organisation was \"concerned that drivers will still need to wait up to 18 months before all cameras are enforcing red X lane closed signs\".\n\nHe said: \"Enforcement is vital in getting all drivers to obey these signs as anyone who disregards them is at a much greater risk of being in collision with a stranded vehicle.\"\n\nSmart motorways, which use technology to maintain the flow of traffic and give information on overhead displays, have existed in England since 2002.\n\nThe \"all lane running\" versions - which involves opening the hard shoulder permanently to drivers - began in 2014.\n\nBut a coroner in Sheffield found in January that such roads \"present an ongoing risk of future deaths\" after two people were killed when a lorry ploughed into their vehicles while they were stationary on the M1 in South Yorkshire.\n\nClaire Mercer, whose husband Jason Mercer died in the accident in June 2019, and who now campaigns against smart motorways, said: \"It's all compromises. Nothing is new. Nothing short of giving back the hard shoulder in every single instance will be acceptable.\"\n\nShe said she was sitting in a coffee shop with her husband Jason just before he was killed.\n\n\"We were sat chatting. At 8 o'clock he got up to leave, kissed me goodbye, told me he loved me, and apparently he was dead by 8:15,\" she said.\n\nHer husband and another motorist, Alexandru Murgeanu, had stopped after a minor collision.\n\nShe said over the past few months support for her campaign had grown exponentially.\n\n\"I just don't understand why they [the government] are digging in against accepting public opinion... People are starting to get really angry about being ignored.\"\n\nIn 2019, 15 people were killed on \"all lane running\" and \"dynamic hard shoulder\" motorways. This is four more deaths than in 2018.\n\nThe number of people being killed on motorways without hard shoulders increased each year from 2015 to 2019, and totalled 39 deaths.\n\nBy contrast, on so-called \"controlled motorways\" - a type of smart motorway which have variable speed limits and a hard shoulder - there were 24 deaths in that period.\n\nOn conventional motorways, which cover more of the UK than smart motorways, there were 368 fatalities from 2015 to 2019.\n\nThe Highways England report found that crashes between moving and stationary vehicles were more likely on such motorways.\n\nBut collisions between two or more moving vehicles - which is how more people die - were less likely due to speed regulation.\n\nThe Commons' Transport Select Committee has launched an inquiry into smart motorways, with chairman and Tory MP Huw Merriman warning there are \"genuine worries\" about the roads.\n\nAnd the AA and RAC have raised concerns that vehicles that break down on sections of road with no hard shoulder face greater dangers than before.\n\nReacting to the Department for Transport's update, AA president Edmund King said: \"It is encouraging that progress has been made on our demands to make 'smart' motorways safer. The objective should be to create the safest roads we can.\n\n\"The number one improvement advocated by the AA and our members is to increase the number of emergency refuge areas (ERAs) and retrofit them to older schemes to ensure they are placed at approximately 0.75 miles apart.\n\n\"More ERAs, together with improving the accuracy of stopped vehicle detection radar, should be the urgent priorities.\"\n\nThere are plans for about 800 miles of smart motorway in the UK by 2025 - up from just under 500 miles currently.\n\nAt the moment parts of the smart motorway network are not monitored by radar technology, but by human observation from watch centres.\n\nIt's the nightmare scenario. Breaking down on a motorway, without a hard shoulder to take refuge on, and with cars and lorries whizzing past inches away.\n\nThe government says smart motorways are safer than conventional ones. And it points out that hard shoulders themselves are far from safe. People get killed waiting there, too.\n\nMany motorists will find all this hard to accept, especially when they see other drivers ignoring speed limits or lane closures when incidents occur.\n\nBut the government needs to convince them. It's cheaper to have smart motorways than bigger roads.\n\nThat's why it says it's going all out to improve safety on roads it claims are already very safe. It wants to reassure people.\n\nThe question is, will critics be persuaded?", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nManchester United co-chairman Joel Glazer says the club \"apologise unreservedly for the unrest\" caused by the proposed European Super League.\n\nThe rare public comment from the American came after Liverpool owner John W Henry apologised to supporters.\n\nUnited, Liverpool and four other Premier League sides withdrew from the ESL on Tuesday after a backlash.\n\n\"We failed to show enough respect for its deep-rooted traditions,\" Glazer said in an open letter to fans.\n\nThe 50-year-old admitted efforts \"in seeking to create a more stable foundation for the game\" did not honour the conventions of promotion and relegation within the wider football pyramid.\n\n\"For that we are sorry,\" he said. \"This is the world's greatest football club and we apologise unreservedly for the unrest caused during these past few days.\n\n\"Manchester United has a rich heritage and we recognise our responsibility to live up to its great traditions and values.\"\n\nBBC Sport's Simon Stone said: \"It is rare indeed for Glazer to speak about United. He has done one interview with MUTV at the time of the takeover in 2005 - and that is it.\"\n• None European Super League Q&A: Why it failed - and will clubs try again?\n\nGlazer said they will work to \"rebuild relationships\" across football \"with a view to working together on solutions to the long-term challenges facing the football pyramid\".\n\n\"We also realise that we need to better communicate with you, our fans, because you will always be at the heart of the club,\" he continued.\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge, who is president of the Football Association, said in a tweet that he is pleased that football supporters' opposition to the ESL had been \"heard and listened to\".\n\nEarlier on Wednesday, Henry took sole responsibility for the \"unnecessary negativity\", saying: \"In this endeavour I've let you down.\n\n\"The project put forward was never going to stand without the support of the fans.\n\n\"Over these 48 hours you were very clear that it would not stand. We heard you. I heard you.\"\n\nFerran Soriano, chief executive of Premier League leaders Manchester City - another of the English clubs involved in the proposal - apologised in an email to the club's supporters.\n\n\"We failed to remind ourselves of the unbreakable link between the passion of our fans and the right to have the opportunity to earn success. It is a truth that is fundamental to the DNA of Manchester City and the board deeply regrets taking a decision that lost sight of the historic values of the club,\" he said.\n\n\"We made a mistake and we sincerely apologise to our fans for the disappointment, frustration and anguish caused by the last 72 hours.\"\n\nIn other developments on Wednesday:\n• None Juventus chairman Andrea Agnelli admitted the project could not proceed after the Premier League clubs withdrew.\n• None AC Milan, Inter Milan and Atletico Madrid followed suit, taking the total withdrawals to nine.\n• None Rival managers, chairmen and officials called for tighter regulations and possible punishments for the six English clubs.\n\nBefore Liverpool's statement confirming the club's withdrawal, captain Jordan Henderson had said on social media his side's \"collective position\" was that they did not want the breakaway to go ahead.\n\n\"We don't like it and we don't want it to happen,\" read a message that was also posted by many fellow Liverpool players.\n• None All six Premier League teams withdraw from European Super League\n• None 'Big Six owners must beg for forgiveness after abysmal European Super League plan\n\nReds manager Jurgen Klopp and midfielder James Milner also voiced their opposition to the plans after their Premier League game at Leeds on Monday.\n\nIn a video released by Liverpool, Henry also apologised to Klopp, the players and chief executive Billy Hogan, promising to do all he could to win back the supporters' trust.\n\n\"They have absolutely no responsibility for this disruption,\" added Henry. \"They were the most disrupted, and unfairly so. This is what hurts most. They love your club and work to make you proud every single day.\"\n\n'It was nearly the worst idea I ever heard'\n\nManchester United Supporters' Trust chief executive Duncan Drasdo told BBC Sport: \"Driven from the Manchester United owners, it has tarnished the club. It has been damaged and there's been huge damage to the relationship with owners at a lot of these clubs and in some cases irreparable and they will need to do something to try to turn that around. \"\n\nIn a statement, Liverpool supporters group Spirit of Shankly said Henry's apology was a \"PR exercise\" that was \"too little, too late\". It added: \"We need a fundamental change in football governance. One that is fair for the whole football pyramid, not just the rapacious elite.\"\n\nFormer Liverpool winger John Barnes went as far as suggesting a salary cap needed to be introduced to ensure \"a level playing field\" for every team in the Premier League.\n\nThe Chelsea Supporters Trust (CST) say they have \"little or no confidence\" in the club's board after its involvement in the ESL and said the positions of chairman Bruce Buck and chief executive Guy Laurence were \"untenable\".\n\nIn their statement CST also say Buck defended the Super League to fans during a forum on Monday evening. The club withdrew its plans to join the Super League 24 hours later after witnessing the negative reaction from supporters and fears about the reputational damage it could do to the club.\n\nBut the CST statement said: \"We are disappointed that an apology has not been included in the statement. The legacy of our club was put at risk for what appears to have been solely for financial gain.\"\n\nSouthampton boss Ralph Hasenhuttl said: \"I think it was nearly the worst idea I ever heard. It underestimated the power of the fans and how much they love football and it is for everybody. We are all happy the first battle is won but I think it is not over yet. \"\n\nCrystal Palace chairman Steve Parish told BBC Breakfast the ESL plans were an \"attempted coup\" and added: \"What Uefa need to do is start looking after the game and stop pandering to these people and trying desperately to keep them inside the tent because they're going to be inside the tent now whatever happens.\"\n\nBrighton chief executive Paul Barber said the rules needed to be \"tightened significantly\" to make sure this never happened again.\n\nWhen asked whether the six English clubs should be punished with points deductions, he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that was \"certainly something the Premier League and Football Association need to look at\".\n\nWest Brom manager Sam Allardyce said the idea of a Super League had merely been put on hold and without \"better protection\" we would see similar proposals \"again and again\".\n• None Meet the man who stole millions from work to sustain his gambling habit\n• None 'Food is more than calories': Different strategies to help you achieve a healthy weight", "A majority of people on both sides of the Irish border believes Northern Ireland will have left the UK within 25 years, a poll suggests.\n\nMost respondents said they thought NI would still be part of the UK in 10 years time, but not in 25 years.\n\nIn NI, 49% of people said if there was a border poll today they would vote to remain in the UK, with 43% backing a united Ireland and 8% undecided.\n\nThe poll was commissioned by BBC NI's Spotlight programme.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, where a vote would have to be held in parallel with any border poll in Northern Ireland, 51% said they would vote for a United Ireland, 27% would vote for Northern Ireland to stay in the UK and 22% were not sure.\n\nWhen asked if they thought NI woud be part of the UK in 10 years, 55% in NI and 59% in the Republic of Ireland said they thought it would be.\n\nBut when asked if this would be the case in 25 years, 51% of people in NI and 54% in the Republic said NI would have left the UK.\n\nThe poll also suggested that only 40% of people in Northern Ireland saw its formation 100 years ago as a cause for celebration.\n\nMost people on both sides of the Irish border believed there was a potential for a return to political violence in Northern Ireland, according to the poll.\n\nThe poll was carried out over the Easter period when clashes were taking place in a number of areas across Northern Ireland, sparked by loyalist anger over the Northern Ireland trade protocol and the Police Service of Northern Ireland's handling of a republican funeral during the pandemic.\n\nOf those surveyed in Northern Ireland, 76% agreed with the proposition that \"the dispute over Northern Ireland's status remains unresolved and there is still a potential for violence in the future\".\n\nIn the Republic, an even higher proportion, 87%, echoed that view.\n\nA total of 48% of those surveyed in Northern Ireland told the pollsters they want the controversial trade protocol introduced as part of the UK's EU Withdrawal Agreement scrapped, in line with demands from the DUP and other unionist parties, while 46% wanted the protocol to be retained.\n\nUnionists have claimed the protocol, which requires checks on goods moving across the Irish Sea from Great Britain to Northern Ireland, threatens the constitutional integrity of the UK.\n\nInterviewed for the Spotlight programme, Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Micheál Martin insisted the protocol was not tearing the UK apart, while Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was working to \"sandpaper\" away what he described as the \"ludicrous barriers\" to trade across the Irish Sea.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson pledges to end \"ludicrous barriers\" Between Great Britain and Northern Ireland\n\nIn the Republic, a majority of those surveyed supported the Irish government's defence of the trade protocol, with 74% saying it should not be scrapped.\n\nAlthough within Northern Ireland a larger number of people rejected the trade protocol than backed it, the poll also provided an indication that a majority wants to retain some form of economic link with the EU.\n\nSome 56% of those surveyed in Northern Ireland told the pollsters that they wanted their assembly members (MLAs) to vote to stay within the EU Single Market when the matter is put to a vote at Stormont in three years' time.\n\nOnly 38% indicated they wanted to leave the EU Single Market.\n\nIn Northern Ireland 37% of people surveyed told the pollsters they would like to see a border poll within the next five years, whilst a further 29% want it to happen at some point after that.\n\nHowever the prime minister told the Spotlight programme that he cannot see any Northern Ireland secretary considering a border poll for a \"very, very long time to come\".\n\nThe prime minister told BBC Northern Ireland that as \"a proud unionist\" he views the centenary of Northern Ireland's formation as a cause for celebration.\n\nHowever only 40% of the people surveyed agreed with the proposition that \"the formation of Northern Ireland 100 years ago was an achievement which should be celebrated\", while 45% disagreed with the statement.\n\nOutright celebration of the centenary turned out to be the least popular of five options included in the survey.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, 48% agreed that the partition of Ireland and the creation of a land border 100 years ago was \"a negative development which should be regretted\".\n\nA total of 50% wanted to concentrate on current challenges such as the Covid pandemic rather than the centenary, whilst 61% backed marking Northern Ireland's formation in a neutral manner acknowledging the differing opinions on the subject.\n\nThe same proportion, 61%, agreed with the statement \"Northern Ireland's history is not just about constitutional politics and the centenary should provide an opportunity to showcase its sporting, business, scientific and cultural achievements\".\n\nIn the Republic, celebrating the formation of Northern Ireland was even more unpopular with just 12% agreeing with the proposition.\n\nThe most popular options were marking this year's centenary in a neutral manner, which was favoured by 74% of those surveyed and regretting partition - a view 71% agreed with.\n\nThe poll commissioned by BBC Northern Ireland's Spotlight programme was carried out by the NI Pollsters LucidTalk and the Irish polling firm Ireland Thinks.\n\nThe margin of error is +/- 2.5%.\n\nThe results from a number of other questions in the survey regarding what should happen to the Irish flag, national anthem, the Stormont Executive and the health service in the event of a United Ireland will be released on BBC Northern Ireland's political programme The View on Thursday night.\n\nFull details of the poll will be available via the BBC NI news website and other BBC news and current affairs programmes during the course of the week.\n\nView the full, detailed results for Northern Ireland here and the Republic of Ireland here.\n\nYou can watch Spotlight - A Contested Centenary and The View on the BBC iPlayer.", "After less than a day of deliberation, jurors have found Derek Chauvin guilty of all charges over George Floyd's death.\n\nThe jury returned guilty verdicts of second degree murder, third degree murder and manslaughter.\n\nThe former police officer was filmed kneeling on Floyd for more than nine minutes during his arrest last May.\n\nChauvin will remain in jail until he is sentenced.\n\nRead more: US jury finds ex-officer guilty of Floyd murder", "New research questions the environmental impact of rising imports of used cooking oil (UCO) into the UK and Europe.\n\nChip fat and other oils are considered waste, so when they are used to make biodiesel it saves carbon emissions by displacing fossil oil.\n\nBut such is the demand across Europe that imports now account for more than half of the UCO that's made into fuel.\n\nAccording to the study, there's no way to prove these imports are sustainable.\n\nWith no testing of what's coming in, experts believe it is also ripe for fraud.\n\nReducing emissions from transport is proving to be one of the toughest challenges for governments all over the world.\n\nThere's not enough waste oil to meet demand in the UK and Europe\n\nThey've encouraged the use of biofuels as an important means of curbing carbon from cars and lorries.\n\nBiofuels are normally a blend of fossil fuel and oil made from plants or vegetables.\n\nThe fact that these crops can be re-grown and soak up more CO2 means they cancel out the carbon emitted when used in engines.\n\nSoy and palm oil were once widely used as components of biodiesel but this practice has been widely discredited because it encourages deforestation.\n\nSo for the last decade or so, the use of used cooking oil has expanded massively as an alternative feedstock for fuel.\n\nChip fat and other waste oils have become a key component of biodiesel with an effective industry springing up across Europe to collect and process the product.\n\nBut with the amount of biodiesel made from UCO increasing by around 40% every year since 2014, there simply isn't enough chip fat to go around.\n\nPalm oil is often used for biodiesel, but has fallen out of favour because of increasing deforestation\n\nAccording to a report from the campaign group Transport & Environment, more than half of the UCO used in Europe is imported.\n\nTheir study suggests this is highly problematic when it comes to impacts on the environment.\n\nWhile UCO is considered a waste material in the UK, in China, Indonesia and Malaysia it has long been used to feed animals. The report raises the question of what people in these countries are replacing the UCO with, when it is exported.\n\nIn 2019, Malaysia exported 90 million litres of UCO to the UK and Ireland. Figures for their exports to other European countries aren't available but the flow of UCO is likely to be similar.\n\nWith a population of around 33 million, that's close to three litres per head of used oil that's collected and exported to the UK and Ireland alone.\n\nBy comparison, Thailand, which has a population of 70 million people, managed to collect around five million litres of UCO in 2019.\n\nRapeseed oil is often used as a source for biodiesel but it raises issues about using land for fuel\n\n\"Because we are buying it, they have less used cooking oil to use on the things that they were previously using it for,\" said Greg Archer with Transport & Environment.\n\n\"And they're just buying more virgin oil and that virgin oil is largely palm oil, because that's the cheapest oil available.\n\n\"So indirectly, we're just encouraging more deforestation in Southeast Asia.\"\n\nAnother major problem with UCO is the suspicion of fraud.\n\nBecause of demand from Europe, the price of UCO is often higher than palm oil. The worry is that some unscrupulous traders are simply diluting shipments of UCO with palm.\n\nAs oils of different types are mixed in bulk for transport, and no testing of the materials is carried out, some experts believe fraud is rife.\n\nBiodiesel has expanded rapidly across Europe with used cooking oil often used as a feedstock\n\nThe suggestion of fraud anywhere along the chain of supply is rejected by the European Waste-to-Advanced Biofuels Association (EWABA), who say there are robust certification schemes in place.\n\n\"It is widely known that the European Commission has taken relevant steps to completely curb unsound market practices in biofuel markets,\" said Angel Alberdi, EWABA's secretary general.\n\nHe says a new database being developed by the EU will ensure that trading, certification and sustainability data on all bio-liquids will have to be registered.\n\n\"The combination of revised certification schemes and the pan-EU track and trace database will ensure that no sustainability issues arise in the whole biofuels and bio-liquids supply chain,\" he told BBC News.\n\nOthers in the field are concerned that the database idea, which was first mooted in 2018, may not be effective in stemming suspected fraud.\n\nThe report from Transport & Environment points out that with shipping and aviation looking to decarbonise by using biofuels, demand for UCO could double over the next decade.\n\n\"Rising the demand beyond sustainable supply levels would increase these concerns, and risks of using 'fake' UCO, potentially leading to indirect impacts such as deforestation.\"", "TikTok is banning users who are posting pornographic and violent videos as their profile pictures to circumvent moderation, in a unique viral trend.\n\nBBC News alerted the app to the \"Don't search this up,\" craze, which has accumulated nearly 50 million views.\n\nTikTok has also banned the hashtags used to promote the offending profiles and is deleting the videos.\n\nUsers say the trend is encouraging pranksters to post the most offensive or disgusting material they can find.\n\nBBC News has seen clips of hardcore pornography shared as profile pictures on the app, as well as an Islamic State group video of the murder of Jordanian pilot Muadh al-Kasasbeh, burned to death in a cage in 2015.\n\nTom, a teenager from Germany, whose surname we have agreed not to use, first contacted BBC News about the trend.\n\nHe said: \"I've seen gore and hardcore porn and I'm really concerned about this because so many kids use TikTok.\n\n\"I find it especially worrying that there are posts with millions of views specifically pointing out these profiles, yet it takes ages for TikTok to act.\"\n\nTom added he had reported multiple users to the app for posting the offensive profile-picture videos.\n\nOn the platform users can put videos as their profile pictures, rather than a still image.\n\nVideos about the trend are being posted in English and Spanish languages on the app.\n\nThe shocking videos are being posted as user profile pictures to circumvent moderation systems\n\nThe offending accounts are often named with a random jumble of letters and words and have no actual TikTok videos uploaded to them apart from inside the profile box.\n\nSome of the accounts have tens of thousands of followers waiting for the profile picture to be changed to something shocking.\n\nRegular users are able to find these accounts by watching otherwise mundane TikTok videos advertising usernames people should \"search up\" to find the most shocking clips.\n\nAnd these videos are being recommended by the TikTok algorithm on the app's main For You Page.\n\nThe offending accounts are being advertised with viral videos challenging people to \"search them up\"\n\nExperts say the trend is unique and highlights an unknown vulnerability in TikTok.\n\n\"TikTok has a rather positive reputation when it comes to trust and safety so I would not fault them for not having moderation policies and tools for a toxic phenomenon they were not aware of,\" Roi Carthy, from social-media moderation company L1ght, said.\n\n\"Clearly TikTok is working to stop this trend - but for users, as always, vigilance is key.\n\n\"TikTok fans should be conscious of the risks on the platform and parents should make an effort to learn what new apps their children are using, along with the content and human dynamics they are exposed to.\"\n\nTikTok is one of the world's fastest growing apps, with an estimated 700 million monthly active users around the world.\n\nA spokesman for the company said: \"We have permanently banned accounts that attempted to circumvent our rules via their profile photo and we have disabled hashtags including #dontsearchthisup.\n\n\"Our safety team is continuing their analysis and we will continue to take all necessary steps to keep our community safe.\"\n\nDisabling a hashtag meant the term could not be found in search or created again, TikTok added.\n\nIts moderation teams are also understood to be analysing and removing similar copycat terms being used for the trend.\n\nBBC News tried to speak to one user who posted an explicit video to their profile but did not receive a response.", "Tatiana Akhmedova says her ex-husband tried to drive a wedge between her and her son\n\nThe son of a Russian billionaire helped his father hide millions of pounds from his mother after a divorce settlement, a London High Court judge has ruled.\n\nTatiana Akhmedova, who is Russian but lives in London, should have received £453m following a ruling in 2017.\n\nBut having only received £5m, she sued her ex-husband, accusing him of trying to conceal his wealth.\n\nShe also sued her eldest son who she said had been his father's \"lieutenant\" and actively assisted his schemes.\n\nRuling in Ms Akhmedova's favour, Mrs Justice Knowles quoted Tolstoy, saying: \"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.\n\n\"With apologies to Tolstoy, the Akhmedov family is one of the unhappiest ever to have appeared in my courtroom.\"\n\nJudges heard that Farkhad Akhmedov, a 65-year-old businessman, had not \"voluntarily\" paid a penny of the divorce settlement - thought to be the biggest award of its kind made in the UK.\n\nThey heard that he transferred a superyacht, the Luna, worth around £340m, and an art collection worth around £110m into the ownership of trusts in Liechtenstein.\n\nIn a WhatsApp message disclosed during legal proceedings, Mr Akhmedov told his son that he would \"burn\" all of his wealth rather than give it to her.\n\nTemur replied, saying he agreed, adding that she \"didn't deserve\" a penny.\n\nFarkhad Akhmedov was sued by his ex-wife, along with his son Temur\n\nIn her judgment at the High Court in London on Wednesday, Mrs Justice Knowles ordered Farkhad Akhmedov, and a network of companies he had used to hide his wealth, to hand over hundreds of millions of pounds to his ex-wife.\n\nThe judge also said very large sums had been transferred to Temur, a London trader, and concluded he must pay his mother around £75 million.\n\nThe judge said Temur was an \"untruthful and unsatisfactory witness who lied in respect of various aspects of his evidence\".\n\n\"Temur has learned well from his father's past conduct and has done and said all he could to prevent his mother receiving a penny of the matrimonial assets,\" she said.\n\n\"I find that he is a dishonest individual who will do anything to assist his father, no doubt because he is utterly dependent on his father for financial support.\"\n\nIn a statement, Ms Akhmedova said that her ex-husband's behaviour had \"left a trail of destruction and pain in his wake\" and had attempted to drive a \"wedge\" between her and her son.\n\nShe added: \"Today's judgement is the inevitable conclusion given Farkhad's failure to behave honourably in the first instance.\"\n\nFarkhad Akhmedov said: \"Entirely predictably, given its original wrong and misguided judgment, the London court has ruled in favour of visiting 'the sins' of the father on an innocent and loyal son.\"\n\nA spokesman for his son said: \"Like millions of young people, Temur has been caught up in the break-up of his parents' marriage. He never sought to take sides or get involved but inevitably found himself sucked into the vortex of a bitter family dispute.\n\n\"His subsequent actions were only ever motivated by his desire to end the war between his parents.\"", "The woman was attacked in a park in Wythenshawe, Manchester\n\nA woman was raped by a group of men in a park in what police described as a \"random and sickening attack\".\n\nThe victim, aged in her 20s, was attacked at about 00:30 BST at Kirkup Gardens in Wythenshawe, Manchester.\n\nGreater Manchester Police said it was \"truly horrendous\" and the woman was being supported by specialist officers.\n\nPatrols have been stepped up in the area as officers continue to search for evidence.\n\nNo arrests have been made and the force are appealing for anyone with information to get in touch.\n\nCh Insp Cara Charlesworth said: \"At this stage, this appears to have been a random and sickening attack and our officers are working tirelessly to identify those responsible.\n\n\"In the meantime, we have increased our police presence in the area, and the public should feel reassured that if they have any concerns they can approach our officers directly.\"\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. Starmer: Is it right to change tax rules for Dyson?\n\nBoris Johnson said he made \"no apology for moving heaven and earth\" to get ventilators during the pandemic, amid a row over lobbying by Sir James Dyson.\n\nIn text messages seen by the BBC, the prime minister promised to \"fix\" tax changes the entrepreneur wanted.\n\nMr Johnson said any PM would have done the same in the circumstances, to secure ventilator supplies.\n\nBut Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was part of a pattern of government \"sleaze\" centred on the prime minister.\n\nTrading verbal blows with Mr Johnson at Prime Minister's Questions, he claimed there was \"one rule for those who have the prime minister's phone number and another for everybody else\".\n\nThe text messages were sent between Sir James and Mr Johnson in March last year, when coronavirus hit the UK.\n\nSir James wanted to ensure that Dyson workers returning to the UK to help with the pandemic response were not penalised by the tax system.\n\nThis happened after the government asked businesses - including Dyson - to help supply more ventilators, amid concern about a shortage of the equipment as coronavirus infections increased.\n\nIn the House of Commons, Mr Johnson insisted he had done the \"right thing\", saying: \"I make absolutely no apology at all for shifting heaven and earth and doing everything I possibly could, as I think any prime minister would in those circumstances, to secure ventilators for the people of this country.\"\n\nBut Sir Keir compared the way Mr Johnson responded to Sir James' concerns with the government's treatment of steelworkers, nurses and three million self-employed people who have been left out of coronavirus support schemes.\n\nHe claimed there was a \"pattern to this government\".\n\n\"Every day there are new allegations about this Conservative government: dodgy PPE deals; tax breaks for their mates; the health secretary owns shares in a company delivering NHS services,\" Sir Keir said. \"Sleaze, sleaze, sleaze, and it's all on his watch.\"\n\nMr Johnson took a swipe at Sir Keir, telling MPs: \"Captain Hindsight snipes continually from the sidelines. This government gets on with delivering on the people's priorities.\"\n\nI understand Number 11 - the chancellor's team - were uneasy about what Sir James Dyson was asking for in his approach to them, and it's suggested they had quite deliberately not responded to his firm's requests before Sir James himself then texted the PM directly about the tax issue.\n\nI'm told Chancellor Rishi Sunak did not and has never had any personal contact with Sir James.\n\nWhen it comes to publication of texts, the Treasury set a precedent a few weeks ago, when it published Mr Sunak's texts to David Cameron about Greensill.\n\nAt PMQs, the prime minister said he would \"share all the details with the House\".\n\nBut one of the big issues with rules about how ministers are meant to behave is the proliferation of politics being done by text and WhatsApp.\n\nWhatever happened in the case between Boris Johnson and Sir James Dyson, the rules contained in the ministerial code don't really cover the reality of how people communicate now.\n\nSNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford called on Mr Johnson to reveal \"how many more Covid contracts he personally fixed\" and publish all personal exchanges on these contracts.\n\nThe prime minister said there was \"absolutely nothing to conceal about this\" and that he was \"happy to share\" the details with MPs \"as indeed I have shared them with my officials immediately\".\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said Mr Johnson's text exchanges with Sir James had been \"referenced\" in correspondence sent by Sir James's company \"as evidence of a guarantee they believed they had been given\".\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said Mr Johnson had abided by the ministerial code, governing conduct in office, and had \"informed officials in a timely manner\" after his contact with Sir James.\n\nHe added that he did not know when the prime minister would publish his exchanges with Sir James.\n\nIn March last year, the Department of Health feared the NHS in England could need as many as 20,000 additional ventilators on top of the 5,000 it had - along with an existing 900 to treat children.\n\nThe prime minister is understood to have called Sir James on 13 March and asked him to participate.\n\nDyson answered the call and said it spent £20m on developing its own design - though subsequently the company was not called upon to provide ventilators to the NHS.\n\nBut the BBC has discovered that Sir James also raised his concerns with the Treasury, and later the prime minister, about rules that could see staff brought into the UK for the project needing to pay tax.\n\nIn text exchanges seen by the BBC, the PM messaged Sir James saying: \"[Chancellor] Rishi [Sunak] says it is fixed!! We need you here.\"\n\nWhen the businessman sought further reassurance for the tax status of the firm and \"senior individuals\", Mr Johnson replied: \"I am First Lord of the Treasury and you can take it that we are backing you to do what you need.\"\n\nTwo weeks later, Mr Sunak told a group of MPs that the tax status of people who came to the UK to provide specific help during the pandemic would not be affected.\n\nSir James said he was \"hugely proud\" of his firm's response in \"the midst of a national emergency\", and that he would \"do the same again if asked\".\n\nHe said: \"When the prime minister rang me to ask Dyson to urgently build ventilators, of course, I said yes.\n\n\"Our ventilator cost Dyson £20m, freely given to the national cause, and it is absurd to suggest that the urgent correspondence was anything other than seeking compliance with rules, as 450 Dyson people - in UK and Singapore - worked around the clock, seven days a week to build potentially life-saving equipment at a time of dire need.\n\n\"Mercifully, they were not required as medical understanding of the virus evolved. Neither Weybourne (Dyson's holding company) nor Dyson received any benefit from the project; indeed commercial projects were delayed, and Dyson voluntarily covered the £20 million of development costs.\"\n\nSir James also said his company had not claimed \"one penny\" from governments in any jurisdiction in relation to Covid.", "A cupcake factory supplying major supermarket chains has said it is working with health officials after an outbreak of Covid at its site in north Wales.\n\nThe Cake Crew said 42 members of staff have tested positive for the virus at the production facility in Bala, Gwynedd.\n\nIt said those identified and their contacts were now self-isolating.\n\n\"Everyone who is affected are being contacted by the local Test, Trace and Protect teams and provided with additional advice for themselves, their household and other contacts,\" said a statement from a joint incident response team, which includes the company, health board officials and Public Health Wales, and both Gwynedd and Shropshire councils.\n\nThe response team said a pupil from Ysgol Godre'r Berwyn in the town has also tested positive for Covid linked to the cake factory outbeak.\n\nThey are also self-isolating, along with close contacts at the 3-18 school campus.\n\nThe Cake Crew supplies its cupcakes and other cakes to major retailers across the UK\n\n\"We send our best wishes to all who have been impacted and urge them to continue to follow the advice provided to help stop the spread of the virus,\" added officials.\n\nThe outbreak has already taken the Bala and Mawddwy area to the position as Wales' highest current case-rate hotspot, although only results from more than five days ago are recorded so far.\n\nThe area has only had 122 positive cases through the whole of the pandemic, and had been the 12th lowest rate of more than 400 communities across Wales.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Dr Michael Watt worked at the Royal Victoria Hospital as a neurologist\n\nAlmost 20% of patients seen by neurology consultant Dr Michael Watt were given a wrong diagnosis, a report has found.\n\nA review of 927 of Dr Watt's high-risk patients found 181 people received a diagnosis described as \"not secure\", Health Minister Robin Swann said.\n\nHe was speaking as the Belfast Trust announced the recall of a further 209 neurology patients seen and discharged by Dr Watt between 1996 and 2012.\n\nThis is the third such recall.\n\nDr Watt was at the centre of Northern Ireland's biggest patient recall linked to his work at Belfast's Royal Victoria Hospital.\n\nMr Swann said he had met patients and families affected by the recall in October last year.\n\n\"While this report is statistical in nature, it deals with individuals, their families and their experiences,\" he said.\n\n\"I know that many will have had their confidence in our health service shaken and I remain committed to helping restore it.\"\n\nMr Swann \"unreservedly apologised\" to those patients who have been affected.\n\n\"I also want to acknowledge that in announcing a further recall, more patients will be affected,\" he said.\n\n\"It is deeply regrettable that this experience should happen to any of our patients and it is even more so when I consider the total number of patients involved.\"\n\nIn May 2018, the Belfast Trust recalled 2,500 patients for review after concerns were raised about the clinical work carried out by Dr Watt.\n\nThis was followed by a further 1,044 patients who were recalled in November 2018.\n\nThe RQIA regulatory body is also conducting a review into patient deaths.\n\nAn independent inquiry was elevated to a statutory public inquiry late last year but has yet to start hearing evidence.\n\nThose affected by this latest recall were seen and discharged between 1996, when Dr Watt began his career, and 2012 and who are taking certain prescribed medications for specific neurological conditions.\n\nThe Belfast Trust said those affected would have received a letter asking them to set up a telephone review to ascertain whether the medication is appropriate for their condition.\n\nExtra clinics have been set up to facilitate face-to-face interviews where necessary.\n\nBelfast Trust chief executive Dr Cathy Jack said she was \"truly sorry\" over the further recall.\n\n\"I absolutely understand that this will cause worry and anxiety to a number of people and their families and I am deeply sorry for that,\" she said.\n\n\"I also accept this next stage may be very difficult for those patients who have already been reviewed and whose diagnoses may have been changed as a result of our two previous recalls.\n\n\"Again, I want to express the trust's sincere regret for all the hurt and pain caused over the last number of years and for the harm that has undoubtedly been done.\n\n\"It is absolutely imperative that we put right any past wrongs and while this is painful, it is vital we assure ourselves that former patients, now discharged and who are taking very specific medication, are taking it for the correct reasons.\"\n\nUlster Independent Clinic and Hillsborough Private Clinic are recalling 57 and 10 former patients respectively.\n\nSeparately, the trust also reviewed case notes of 66 patients who had a blood patch procedure under the care of Dr Watt and who did not have a clinical review as part of the recall process.\n\nIt found that for 45 patients there was no clinical evidence to support that a blood patch was required.\n\nAnd, for 46 patients the care was unsatisfactory and fell below the standard expected by the trust.\n\n\"We are deeply sorry for this and for the undue hurt these patients experienced,\" the trust added.\n\nColm Gildernew, who chairs the health scrutiny committee at Stormont. described it as a scandal that has caused immense distress.\n\n\"The neurology inquiry has revealed again more examples of a lack of transparency, deficits in governance arrangements and accountability within the health service,\" he said.\n\nThe Sinn Féin assembly member asked what lessons had been learned?\n\nMeanwhile DUP assembly member Pam Cameron, deputy chair of the committee, asked about a timetable and scale of resource for financial redress for those entitled to compensation.\n\nMr Swann could not provide a definitive date but added: \"Redress payments will be paid because this is a failure of our systems that has to be corrected.\"", "The UK inflation rate rose to 0.7% in the 12 months to March, up from 0.4% in February, pushed up by the increased cost of fuel, transport and clothes.\n\nThe figure from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) was slightly below economists' forecasts, with lower food prices offsetting other price rises.\n\nFuel prices in March showed their biggest annual increase since January 2020, the ONS said.\n\nInflation is forecast to rise further due to higher energy and oil prices.\n\nThe Bank of England has forecast that inflation could reach 1.9% by the end of 2021, with other experts saying it will exceed 2% before the end of year.\n\nThe March inflation figure would have been higher without a fall in food prices, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.\n\nONS deputy national statistician Jonathan Athow said: \"The rate of inflation increased with petrol prices rising and clothes recovering from the falls seen in February.\n\n\"However, food prices fell back on the year, as prices of some staples were lower than at the start of the pandemic.\"\n\nInflation had unexpectedly eased in February, in part because of the biggest annual fall in clothing and footwear costs since 2009.\n\nDiscounting, which had been commonplace in February, eased somewhat in March, the ONS said, however it was still unseasonably high.\n\nPantheon's chief UK economist, Samuel Tombs, believes the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) will reach the Bank of England's 2% target rate as early as May.\n\nAt the last big fiscal event, Chancellor Rishi Sunak let it be known that what keeps him awake at night is the risk that interest rates rise, making the public finances unsustainable.\n\nThe Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has indicated a one percentage point rise in interest rates would add around £20bn to the cost of servicing the debt.\n\nSo with consumer price inflation now heading back to its official target of 2% - some say as soon as next month - how much sleep should the chancellor lose?\n\nIf you listen to those who spend their entire waking lives speculating about these things, interest rates swaps traders in the City, after looking at the inflation figures they're evenly split between those who think we'll have a rate rise by the end of 2022 and those who think it will take longer. But they're only pricing in a quarter of a percentage point, even then.\n\nBy which time, if the OBR's forecasts are right, the budget deficit will be coming down, slowing the rise in debt as the economy grows.\n\nRight now it amounts to a calming message to Rishi: relax, Chancellor, and go back to sleep.\n\n\"Looking ahead, CPI inflation looks set to jump to about 1.7% in April, driven primarily by a large semi-annual increase in electricity and natural gas prices, as well as the anniversary of the collapse in oil prices at the start of the pandemic,\" he said.\n\n\"April's data also will be collected after shops reopened and hospitality businesses resumed outdoor service, so the inflation rates for clothing and food service activities probably will both rise.\"\n\nAnd Paul Craig, at Quilter Investors, said that with the UK economy opening from lockdown, inflation had reached a turning point.\n\n\"Price growth is now on an upward trajectory, and should remain so for some time to come,\" he warned. \"From here, inflation may tick markedly higher if the steady drip of consumer spending morphs into a waterfall as lockdown restrictions are lifted and households spend some of their accumulated pandemic savings.\"\n\nClothes prices are back on the rise, after having fallen sharply in February.\n\nInflation fell in the early months of lockdown last year, with petrol hitting as low as 106.2p per litre in May. The ONS said on Tuesday that pump prices hit 123.7p a litre in March.\n\nDomestic energy bills are also rising. Regulator Ofgem's price cap on household bills rose from the beginning of this month.\n\nLaith Khalaf, financial analyst at AJ Bell, said: \"The big question is whether the economic recovery, combined with fiscal and monetary stimulus, will start to foster a more sustained, inflationary trend that has the potential to get out of hand.\"\n\nBut he added: \"This risk isn't likely to come home to roost anytime soon, with unemployment expected to rise later this year, thereby acting as a drag on rising wages.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the Retail Price Index (RPI), used to calculate train ticket price rises and student loan interest, rose from 1.4% to 1.5%.", "Charities said countries \"ravaged\" by disease, war and poverty were among those losing aid\n\nCuts to humanitarian aid by the UK are a \"tragic blow for many of the world's most marginalised people\", 200 charities said in a joint statement.\n\nOrganisations including Save the Children and Oxfam said humanitarian assistance was being reduced by more than £500m.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said the changes reflected a \"strategic shift\" in UK aid spending.\n\nHe also said the £18m aid budget given to China will be reduced to £900,000.\n\nFollowing the economic shock of the coronavirus crisis, the chancellor cut the foreign aid budget from 0.7% to 0.5% of total national income - a reduction of around £4bn.\n\nThe Foreign Office controls 80% of aid spending - £8bn - and the priorities were set out by Mr Raab in a written statement.\n\nMore than £1bn will be spent on Covid and global health, £500m towards tackling climate change and £400m on getting girls into education.\n\nMr Raab said it was a \"challenging financial climate\" due to Covid-19, but said the government had sought \"maximum strategic coherence, impact and value for taxpayers' money\".\n\nBut aid charities said even the priority areas were receiving less than before, and £500m less was being spent on humanitarian aid.\n\nThe 200 charities, which also include Christian Aid and Care International, said: \"Today's announcement is a tragic blow for many of the world's most marginalised people the UK once supported, and for the UK's reputation as a trusted development partner.\n\n\"The government has not even spared countries ravaged by humanitarian crisis, disease, war and poverty.\"\n\nKevin Watkins, chief executive of Save the Children, accused the government of \"making cuts with no consideration for the human harm they will cause\" after reducing aid in Yemen, \"the world's biggest humanitarian crisis\".\n\nThe government announced it was cutting foreign aid last November but it has still to say precisely where the axe will fall. Charities are waiting anxiously to see which programmes will lose funding, and which will survive.\n\nBut we are getting some indications from government now about its priorities: climate change, Covid and global health, girls' education, supporting open societies, trade and economic development and so on.\n\nThe numbers announced by the Foreign Office allow charities to calculate how much less will be spent on each area than before. That will help them plan. What these numbers will not do is diminish the controversy.\n\nMinisters argue the decision to cut aid has been made, it is time to decide how best to make it happen.\n\nBut aid charities and many MPs - including a goodly number of Conservatives - still oppose the cuts and are working to stop them. Plans for a legal challenge are being considered.\n\nCritics say the government can't ignore a legally binding target to spend 0.7 per cent of national income on aid.\n\nThe FCDO reckons it can make the cuts without holding a vote to change the law. Campaigners might want a judge to decide who is right.\n\nFor now, the government is pressing ahead with cuts it says are needed to keep the Treasury in funds for other priorities.\n\nOf the £8bn, the Foreign Office will give more than £3bn to multilateral organisations, such as the World Bank.\n\nHalf of all UK bilateral aid will be spent in Africa, a third in the Indo-Pacific and South Asia.\n\nThe remaining humanitarian aid budget, focused on countries most at risk of famine such as Yemen, Syria, Somalia and South Sudan, is £906m.\n\nMr Raab also announced he would cut Foreign Office aid to China by 95%, to £900,000.\n\nBut other parts of government, such as the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, give more aid to China and have yet to say if they will cut their payments too.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nJuventus chairman Andrea Agnelli says the European Super League (ESL) project cannot proceed as AC Milan, Inter Milan and Atletico Madrid joined the six Premier League clubs in withdrawing.\n\nAgnelli was one of the chief architects of the breakaway plans, which involved 12 clubs from England, Spain and Italy.\n\nBarcelona and Real Madrid are yet to comment.\n\n\"To be frank and honest no, evidently that is not the case,\" said Agnelli, on whether the ESL could still happen.\n\n\"I remain convinced of the beauty of that project, of the value that it would have developed to the pyramid, of the creation of the best competition in the world, but evidently no. I don't think that project is now still up and running.\"\n\nAgnelli has been replaced as chairman of the European Club Association by Paris St-Germain president Nasser Al-Khelaifi, the Qatari who resisted repeated attempts to persuade the French club to become founder members of the breakaway league.\n\nAtletico Madrid and Inter Milan announced their withdrawal on Wednesday morning, followed by statements from AC Milan and Juventus.\n\nAgnelli was described as a \"snake and a liar\" by Uefa president Aleksander Ceferin on Monday after the announcement of the breakaway plans on Sunday evening.\n\nThe Juventus chairman resigned his position as chairman of the European Clubs' Association on Sunday and refused to take calls from Ceferin.\n\nIn a statement, Juventus said there were \"limited chances that the project be completed in the form originally conceived\" but that the club \"remains convinced of the soundness of the project's sport, commercial and legal premises\".\n\nThe six Premier League clubs involved all withdrew within hours of each other on Tuesday following a furious backlash against the plans.\n\nManchester City were the first club to pull out after Chelsea had signalled their intent to do so by preparing documentation to withdraw.\n\nThe other four English sides - Arsenal, Liverpool, Manchester United and Tottenham - then followed suit late on Tuesday evening.\n\nIn announcing their withdrawal on Wednesday, Atletico Madrid said \"harmony is essential\" between the club and the fans, and added that the first-team squad and coach Diego Simeone had backed their decision because \"sporting merits must prevail over any other criteria\".\n\nIn their statement, Serie A side Inter Milan said they were \"committed to giving fans the best football experience\", adding: \"Our engagement with all stakeholders to improve the football industry will never change.\"\n\nAC Milan said \"the voices and the concerns of fans around the world have clearly been expressed\" about the plans and the club \"must be sensitive to the voice of those who love this wonderful sport\".\n• None 'Owners of big six must beg for forgiveness'\n\nThe 12-team Super League was announced on Sunday to widespread condemnation.\n\n\"Despite the announced departure of the English clubs, forced to take such decisions due to the pressure put on them, we are convinced our proposal is fully aligned with European law and regulations,\" the ESL said earlier on Wednesday, adding it was \"convinced that the current status quo of European football needs to change\".\n\n\"Real Madrid president Florentino Perez is insisting on the idea of keeping the group together to push for change,\" says Spanish football expert Guillem Balague.\n\n\"Barcelona say they agreed to the ESL, but only if the season ticket holders' assembly approve it, which could be their way out.\"\n\nLiverpool, Manchester United and Manchester City chiefs apologised to their supporters on Wednesday.\n\nCeferin welcomed the reversal by the clubs, saying: \"I said yesterday that it is admirable to admit a mistake and these clubs made a big mistake.\n\n\"But they are back in the fold now and I know they have a lot to offer not just to our competitions but to the whole of the European game.\n\n\"The important thing now is that we move on, rebuild the unity that the game enjoyed before this and move forward together.\"\n\nSpeaking at prime minister's questions, UK prime minister Boris Johnson said the withdrawals were \"the right result for football fans, for clubs and for communities across the country\".\n\nHe also promised a \"root-and-branch investigation\" into football governance and what the government could do to \"promote the role of fans in that governance\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer added the proposals \"would have destroyed football\" and that \"we now need to get on with the other changes that are necessary\".\n\nThe League Managers' Association (LMA) welcomed the decision of the clubs to withdraw, saying: \"There is no place in our game for clandestine collusion, driven by opportunism, with such a blatant disregard for the history and integrity of our game.\"\n\nThe LMA also called for a club licensing system that sets out a \"clear and unified governance structure, with consistent game-wide checks and balances\".\n\n\"The future of football should be one that upholds the values of integrity and transparency. Owners, and those responsible for the direction of the game, must be more connected to, and significantly more accountable to the game itself,\" it added.\n\nThe Football Supporters' Association said \"the cabal of billionaire owners overplayed their hand\" and all efforts needed to be poured into the review of football governance in order to \"rebalance the power structure of the domestic game\".\n\nIn a statement, the Professional Footballers' Association praised players \"who stood up for the game they love\" and former players who \"used their platforms effectively and often devastatingly\" to \"passionately articulate why the preservation of the domestic game is so important\".\n\nThe English Football League said it hoped events over the past few days would lead to \"much needed change to the distribution of wealth\" in domestic leagues to ensure all clubs can have a \"sustainable future\".\n• None Meet the man who stole millions from work to sustain his gambling habit\n• None 'Food is more than calories': Different strategies to help you achieve a healthy weight", "Britain's jobs growth is being led by cities and towns in the North and Midlands, according to a report.\n\nHiring has gathered pace since lockdown started to ease, but the growth is unevenly spread, joint research by the Centre of Cities think-tank and jobs site Indeed found.\n\nBarnsley and Mansfield have seen the biggest rises in job vacancies, while Aberdeen and Belfast had the lowest.\n\nThe study analysed vacancies in 63 cities and large towns.\n\nIt found that in some parts of the country job postings now exceed their pre-pandemic level. Nine cities or towns now have more job vacancies than before the pandemic, led by Barnsley (+21%), Mansfield (20%) and Stoke (17%).\n\nOther places where postings have recovered least are led by Aberdeen (-53%), Belfast (-39%) and Crawley (-39%). Towns and cities in south east England figured heavily among places at the bottom of the recovery list.\n\nLondon is among the areas showing the slowest recovery, with job postings in the capital still 26% below their pre-pandemic level.\n\nElena Magrini, senior analyst at the Centre for Cities, said: \"Places reliant on tourism, aviation and office workers have been particularly hard hit and still have high shares of people who are unemployed or on furlough.\"\n\nCrawley, for example, is home to Gatwick Airport, which has been hard hit by job cuts due to the coronavirus collapse in air travel.\n\nMs Magrini added that despite the patchy recovery, there are reasons for optimism. \"Once we have reopened the economy, policy makers need to focus on building back better - growing the economy by creating better paid, higher skilled jobs for people right across the country,\" she said.\n\nThe improving picture in the North and Midlands was partly driven by the mix of available jobs.\n\nRecoveries have been strongest in areas with a greater pre-pandemic share of postings in occupations related to the production and distribution of goods, such as manufacturing, driving and stocking, as well as essential services like healthcare, social care and education.\n\nOn the other hand, places with a higher share of pre-pandemic job opportunities in food and beverage services and hospitality and tourism are lagging behind.\n\nPawel Adrjan, head of EMEA research at Indeed, said: \"Cities and towns in the North and Midlands have been buoyed by rising manufacturing, distribution, healthcare and education jobs. But at the same time areas reliant on hospitality, tourism and higher paying jobs that can be performed from home have seen only sluggish growth.\n\n\"We've seen how quickly the jobs market reacts to policy and public health announcements and policy makers will hope the eventual unwinding of Covid-19 restrictions will help level up the jobs recovery.\"", "George Floyd repeatedly told the police officers who detained him that he could not breathe\n\nThe US has been convulsed by nationwide protests over the death of an African-American man in police custody.\n\nGeorge Floyd, 46, died after being arrested by police outside a shop in Minneapolis, Minnesota.\n\nFootage of the arrest on 25 May shows a white police officer, Derek Chauvin, kneeling on Mr Floyd's neck while he was pinned to the floor.\n\nMr Chauvin, 44, has since been charged with murder.\n\nTranscripts of police bodycam footage show Mr Floyd said more than 20 times he could not breathe as he was restrained by the officers.\n\nThe key events that led to Mr Floyd's death happened within just 30 minutes. Based on accounts from witnesses, video footage and official statements, here's what we know so far.\n\nIt began with a report of a fake $20 (£16.20) bill.\n\nA report was made on the evening of 25 May, when Mr Floyd bought a pack of cigarettes from Cup Foods, a grocery store.\n\nBelieving the $20 bill he used to be counterfeit, a store employee reported it to police.\n\nMr Floyd had been living in Minneapolis for several years after moving there from his native Houston, Texas. He had recently been working as a bouncer in the city but, like millions of other Americans, was left jobless by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMr Floyd was a regular at Cup Foods. He was a friendly face, a pleasant customer who never caused any trouble, the store owner Mike Abumayyaleh told NBC.\n\nBut Mr Abumayyaleh was not at work on the day of the incident. In reporting the suspicious bill, his teenage employee was just following protocol.\n\nIn a call to 911, made at 20:01, the employee told the operator he had demanded the cigarettes back but \"he [Floyd] doesn't want to do that\", according to a transcript released by authorities.\n\nThe employee said the man appeared \"drunk\" and \"not in control of himself\", the transcript says.\n\nShortly after the call, at around 20:08, two police officers arrived. Mr Floyd was sitting with two other people in a car parked around the corner.\n\nAfter approaching the car, one of the officers, Thomas Lane, pulled out his gun and ordered Mr Floyd to show his hands. In an account of the incident, prosecutors do not explain why Mr Lane thought it necessary to draw his gun.\n\nMr Lane, prosecutors said, \"put his hands on Mr Floyd, and pulled him out of the car\". Then Mr Floyd \"actively resisted being handcuffed\".\n\nOnce handcuffed, though, Mr Floyd became compliant while Mr Lane explained he was being arrested for \"passing counterfeit currency\".\n\nCourt transcripts from police body cameras show Mr Floyd appears co-operative at the beginning of the arrest, repeatedly apologising to the officers after they approach his parked car.\n\nMr Lane asks Mr Floyd to show his hands at least 10 times before ordering him to get out of the vehicle.\n\nIt was when officers tried to put Mr Floyd in their squad car that a struggle ensued.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Minnesota governor on George Floyd death: 'Thank God a young person had a camera to video it'\n\nAt about 20:14, Mr Floyd \"stiffened up, fell to the ground, and told the officers he was claustrophobic\", according to the report.\n\nMr Chauvin arrived at the scene. He and other officers were involved in a further attempt to put Mr Floyd in the police car.\n\nDuring this attempt, at 20:19, Mr Chauvin pulled Mr Floyd away from the passenger side, causing him to fall to the ground, the report said.\n\nHe lay there, face down, still in handcuffs.\n\nThat's when witnesses started to film Mr Floyd, who appeared to be in a distressed state. These moments, captured on multiple mobile phones and shared widely on social media, would prove to be Mr Floyd's last.\n\nMr Floyd was restrained by officers, while Mr Chauvin placed his left knee between his head and neck.\n\nFor more than nine minutes, Mr Chauvin kept his knee on Mr Floyd's neck, the prosecutors say. The duration was initially given as eight minutes and 46 seconds but Minnesota prosecutors have since revised the time.\n\nThe transcripts of bodycam footage from officers Lane and J Alexander Kueng show Mr Floyd said more than 20 times he could not breathe as he was restrained. He was also pleading for his mother and begging \"please, please, please\".\n\nAt one point, Mr Floyd gasps: \"You're going to kill me, man.\"\n\nDerek Chauvin is charged with second degree murder\n\nOfficer Chauvin replies: \"Then stop talking, stop yelling. It takes heck of a lot of oxygen to talk.\"\n\nMr Floyd says: \"Can't believe this, man. Mom, love you. Love you. Tell my kids I love them. I'm dead.\"\n\nA female bystander told the police: \"His nose is bleeding, come on now.\"\n\nAbout six minutes into that period, Mr Floyd became non-responsive. In videos of the incident, this was when Mr Floyd fell silent, as bystanders urged the officers to check his pulse.\n\nOfficer Kueng did just that, checking Mr Floyd's right wrist, but \"couldn't find one\". Yet the other officers did not move.\n\nAt 20:27, Mr Chauvin removed his knee from Mr Floyd's neck. Motionless, Mr Floyd was rolled on to a gurney and taken to the Hennepin County Medical Center in an ambulance.\n\nHe was pronounced dead about an hour later.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In June Panorama spoke to local people to piece together the moments leading up to George Floyd's death\n\nOn the night before his death, Mr Floyd had spoken to one of his closest friends, Christopher Harris. He had advised Mr Floyd to contact a temporary jobs agency.\n\nForgery, he said, was out of character for Mr Floyd.\n\n\"The way he died was senseless,\" Harris said. \"He begged for his life. He pleaded for his life. When you try so hard to put faith in this system, a system that you know isn't designed for you, when you constantly seek justice by lawful means and you can't get it, you begin to take the law into your own hands.\"\n\nGeorge Floyd dies after being arrested by police outside a shop in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Footage shows a white officer, Derek Chauvin, kneeling on Mr Floyd’s neck for several minutes while he is pinned to the floor. Mr Floyd is heard repeatedly saying \"I can’t breathe\". He is pronounced dead later in hospital. Four officers involved in the arrest of George Floyd are fired. Protests begin as the video of the arrest is shared widely on social media. Hundreds of demonstrators take to the streets of Minneapolis and vandalise police cars and the police station with graffiti. Protesters lie on the streets in Portland, Oregon Protests spread to other cities including Memphis and Los Angeles. In some places, like Portland, Oregon, protesters lie in the road, chanting \"I can’t breathe\". Demonstrators again gather around the police station in Minneapolis where the officers involved in George Floyd’s arrest were based and set fire to it. The building is evacuated and police retreat. President Trump blames the violence on a lack of leadership in Minneapolis and threatens to send in the National Guard in a tweet. He follows it up in a second tweet with a warning \"when the looting starts, the shooting starts\". The second tweet is hidden by Twitter for \"glorifying violence\". Members of a CNN crew are arrested at a protest A CNN reporter, Omar Jimenez, is arrested while covering the Minneapolis protest. Mr Jimenez was reporting live when police officers handcuffed him. A few minutes later several of his colleagues are also arrested. They are all later released once they are confirmed to be members of the media. Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin after being charged over the death of George Floyd Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, 44, is charged with murder and manslaughter. The charges carry a combined maximum 35-year sentence. Demonstrators set fire to rubbish in New York Violence spreads across the US on the sixth night of protests. A total of at least five people are reported killed in protests from Indianapolis to Chicago. More than 75 cities have seen protests. At least 4,400 people have been arrested. Curfews are imposed across the US to try to stem the unrest. President Trump threatens to send in the military to quell growing civil unrest. He says if cities and states fail to control the protests and \"defend their residents\" he will deploy the army and \"quickly solve the problem for them\". Mr Trump poses in front of a damaged church shortly after police used tear gas to disperse peaceful protesters nearby. Tens of thousands of protesters again take to the streets. One of the biggest protests is in George Floyd’s hometown of Houston, Texas. Many defy curfews in several cities, but the demonstrations are largely peaceful. A memorial service for George Floyd is held in Minneapolis. Those gathered in tribute stand in silence for eight minutes, 46 seconds, the amount of time Mr Floyd is alleged to have been on the ground under arrest. Hundreds attended the service, which heard a eulogy from civil rights activist Rev Al Sharpton. As the US saw another weekend of protests, with tens of thousands marching in Washington DC, anti-racism demonstrations were held around the world. In Australia, there were major protests in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane that focused on the treatment of indigenous Australians. There were also demonstrations in France, Germany, Spain and the UK. In Bristol, protesters tore down the statue of a 17th century slave trader and threw it into the harbour. Pallbearers bring the coffin into the church A funeral service for George Floyd is held in Houston, Mr Floyd’s home town. Just over two weeks after his death in Minneapolis and worldwide anti-racism protests, about 500 guests invited by the Floyd family are in attendance at the Fountain of Praise Church. Many more gather outside to show their support.\n• None Why is a US city in flames?", "The 25-minute pursuit ended when Hercules lost control and crashed into a ditch\n\nA man who never held a driving licence fled from police he wrongly believed were after him in a 110mph car chase.\n\nTracy Hercules, 22, sped away when he saw a patrol car approach with its blue lights and siren on.\n\nThe officers, who had been heading to an unrelated call, gave chase, pursuing Hercules for 25 minutes until he crashed into a ditch.\n\nHercules, who admitted dangerous driving, was jailed for eight months at Lincoln Crown Court.\n\nEdna Leonard, prosecuting, told the court the defendant had pulled out in front of the police car near Spalding, Lincolnshire, on 8 March.\n\nHe then drove at speeds of up to 110mph (177km/h) in a 60mph limit area in a bid to get away, the court was told.\n\n\"He twice went through red traffic lights and caused other drivers to take evasive action to avoid a collision,\" Ms Leonard said.\n\n\"At one point he smashed into a traffic bollard while turning right and damaged his vehicle.\n\n\"Smoke was coming from the tyres, but Hercules continued driving at high speed through Baston [village] at 60mph in a 30-limit area, causing fear to two pedestrians,\" she told the court.\n\nPolice later deployed a stinger, but the defendant drove through it, again travelling at speed before losing control and ending up in a ditch, the prosecutor added.\n\nRecorder Charles Falk, passing sentence, told him: \"This was seriously bad driving.\n\n\"You put your life in danger, the lives of police officers in danger and the lives of members of the public in danger.\"\n\nHercules, of Wellington Way, Market Deeping, admitted charges of dangerous driving, having no licence or insurance and possession of cannabis.\n\nHe was also issued with a 22-month driving ban.\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "About 3.98 million people signed up for Netflix between January and March\n\nVideo-streaming giant Netflix has reported a slowdown in subscriber growth, sending its shares tumbling.\n\nAbout 3.98 million people signed up for Netflix between January and March, well short of the projected 6 million.\n\nThe company said a lack of new shows may have contributed to the shortfall, adding that it expected this to recover as sequels to hit shows are released.\n\nNetflix shares fell 11% in after-hours trading to $489.28, wiping $25bn off the company's market capitalization.\n\nThe streaming service added 15.8 million new subscribers last year as Covid-19 forced people around the world to stay home.\n\nMuch of that growth came in Asia, where Netflix added 9.3 million new subscribers in 2020, an increase of about 65% over the previous year.\n\nBut the pandemic has proven a double-edged sword for Netflix, because it also disrupted its production pipeline.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: The BBC speaks exclusively to the author who wrote the books that inspired the Netflix series Bridgerton.\n\n\"These dynamics are also contributing to a lighter content slate in the first half of 2021, and hence, we believe slower membership growth,\" the company said in its quarterly letter to shareholders.\n\nThe company projected poor customer growth ahead, with an additional 1 million new streaming customers in the second quarter, far short of the previously predicted 5 million.\n\nNetflix also faces increasingly stiff competition from new streaming services entering the market.\n\nDisney+, a much newer streaming service, already has 100 million subscribers, compared with Netflix's 207.6 million.\n\nEven with sluggish customer growth, Netflix has reported revenues of $7.16bn and net income of $1.71bn.\n\nNetflix predicted stronger growth in the second half of the year when it releases new seasons of \"You,\" \"Money Heist,\" \"The Witcher\" and action movie \"Red Notice,\" among other titles.\n\n\"We had those ten years where we were growing smooth as silk,\" Netflix chief executive Reed Hastings said on a streamed earnings call, according to an AFP report.\n\n\"It is just a little wobbly right now.\"", "House sales and property prices recorded an early spring surge amid government moves to stimulate the housing market.\n\nData from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) shows that UK property transactions in March hit the highest monthly level since modern records began in 2005.\n\nThe housing market has been relatively immune to the Covid crisis as people reconsider where they want to live.\n\nOfficial data also shows average UK house prices rose 8.6% in a year.\n\nThere were 180,690 UK property sales in March, the non-seasonally adjusted HMRC figures show, which was more than double the number in March last year and 50% higher than February.\n\nStamp duty holidays across the UK were set to finish at the end of March, but announcements - including in the Budget on 4 March - extended these deadlines in England, Wales and Northern Ireland into the summer.\n\nA new guarantee scheme for low-deposit mortgages in the UK was also announced in the Budget. These home loans are now available.\n\n\"What will be interesting to see is whether this growth is sustainable or simply a reaction to the stamp duty holiday. The next three months will give us a better indication of this,\" said Gareth Lewis, commercial director at property lender MT Finance.\n\n\"As much as this latest lockdown in particular has been hard, it is encouraging that people have not hunkered down and retreated but carried on with their plans to move.\"\n\nThat demand for moving home will not be cheered by many first-time buyers who have now seen property prices record their highest annual growth rate in more than six years.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics (ONS) said average house prices increased over the year to the end of February in England to £268,000 (up 8.7%), in Wales to £180,000 (up 8.4%), in Scotland to £162,000 (up 8%) and in Northern Ireland to £148,000 (up 5.3%).", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I was sacked by text' - former veterans minister Johnny Mercer MP\n\nA former veterans minister has hit out at the government as \"the most distrustful, awful environment I've ever worked in\".\n\nTory MP Johnny Mercer told Times Radio \"almost nobody tells the truth,\" and election pledges had not been delivered.\n\nIt follows his departure over legal protections for British troops who fought during the conflict in Northern Ireland known as the Troubles.\n\nNo 10 has pledged action on the issue.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Newsnight in an interview that will air later on Wednesday, Mr Mercer said Boris Johnson had failed to deliver on promises to protect ex-soldiers who served in Northern Ireland from prosecution.\n\nHe told the programme he had been \"sacked by text\" after offering to resign at the end of Wednesday, but refusing to go earlier.\n\nOn Tuesday, a No 10 spokesperson said the PM had \"accepted\" Mr Mercer's resignation.\n\nLeo Docherty, who replaced Mr Mercer on Wednesday, promised legislation to offer \"protection\" to ex-soldiers who served during the Troubles.\n\nThey have been excluded from a bill making its way through Parliament which aims to prevent unfounded prosecutions over conflicts overseas.\n\nThe Overseas Operations Bill, which MPs debated on Wednesday, will only cover conflicts abroad such as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.\n\nMr Mercer told BBC Newsnight legislation for troops who fought in Northern Ireland had been promised repeatedly but \"has never appeared\".\n\n\"The government's been promising for a long time this bill. If I thought there was any prospect of that bill coming, I clearly would have stayed,\" he added.\n\nThe Plymouth Moor View MP said he had asked officials before his departure whether a \"single word had been committed to paper\" and had been told \"no\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Troubles: What led to Northern Ireland's conflict?\n\nSpeaking to Times Radio, he said \"nothing has been done\" over the issue of Northern Ireland veterans, despite previous Conservative commitments.\n\n\"Politics is a question of integrity, this whole trust thing,\" he added.\n\n\"This is the most distrustful, awful environment I've ever worked in, in government. Almost nobody tells the truth is what I've worked out over the last 36 hours.\n\n\"I don't think anyone really can get on their high horse about trust and ethics and all the rest of it in politics, because as far as I'm concerned, most of it is a bit of a cesspit\".\n\nOn Wednesday, the PM's official spokesman said details new legislation for Northern Ireland would be announced \"in the coming weeks\".\n\n\"There is more to be done on the issue of the Northern Ireland legacy and we are committed to making progress on this as quickly as possible,\" he added.\n\n\"We are engaging with Northern Ireland parties and the community in Northern Ireland, including victims' groups as well as the Irish government, on the way forward.\"\n• None Troubles prosecutions limit 'should apply to all'", "Ezekiel Hermon has lived in Saxelby House in the city for 25 years\n\nThe last resident in a Birmingham tower block says he feels \"isolated and vulnerable\" after waiting over two years for new council accommodation.\n\nEzekiel Hermon has lived in Saxelby House for 25 years. All other residents have been moved as part of demolition plans and he is being taken to court.\n\nHe lives in a two-bedroom flat and said he had not been offered suitable properties.\n\nThe city council said it sympathised and would continue to support him.\n\nThe tower block is being cleared to make way for more affordable homes in Birmingham, the local authority said.\n\nResidents started to be rehoused in April 2019 through a property bidding system, with tenants being offered two options as alternative accommodation.\n\nThe rehousing of residents began in April 2019, the council said\n\nTo date, the council said Mr Hermon had been given four alternatives, consisting of one- and two-bedroom properties, which have all been refused.\n\nBut Mr Hermon, 46, said he had only been offered one-bedroom retirement flats in high-rise tower blocks, which he said he could not face after becoming \"mentally imprisoned\" in his own home.\n\n\"I am 46 - when this started I was 44... I'm not retired?,\" he said.\n\n\"Why would I come out of a tower block to go back into a tower block? I've just got [been offered] one bedrooms.\"\n\nMr Hermon lives on the 12th floor of Saxelby House and says it is a strange living there with no neighbours\n\nMr Hermon said he was taking medication as a result of his situation, and was fearful of noises he heard at night.\n\n\"When you come back at the night, I just have to take a deep breath and shut everything out and go into my flat... seeing all the doors that once had your neighbours in... and you see them all gone... no-one will know exactly how it is to be up there,\" he said.\n\nThe council said his case had been looked at by the government ombudsman who supported the council in trying to find him alternative accommodation.\n\nRegular safety checks are made at the block and as no new accommodation has been found, the authority said it had \"reluctantly had to take his case to court\".\n\nThe tower blocks are to be cleared to make way for new homes\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.", "Philip Edwards used the firm to sell his property in Hawarden, Flintshire\n\nTwo solicitors face disciplinary action over work on an allegedly fraudulent \"quick sale\" property scheme.\n\nWolverhampton-based Kumari-Banga Solicitors' service to homeowners has been investigated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA).\n\nTwelve of their clients have been compensated after they sold homes through speedyproperty.co.uk, including one seller in Flintshire.\n\nA representative for the two solicitors said they did not wish to comment.\n\nPartners Meena Kumari and Teena Kumari Banga are facing a hearing of the Solicitors' Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) over allegations they acted in conveyancing transactions they either knew, or should have known, were fraudulent.\n\nMeanwhile, West Midlands Police is continuing to investigate Speedy Property which, in adverts across newspapers and online, promised house sellers a fast-cash, quick-sale service.\n\nA number of people have been arrested and released pending further inquiries by the force's economic crime unit.\n\nBBC Wales reported in August 2017 how Philip Edwards received only £68,000 from the £165,000 sale of his three-bedroom home in Hawarden, Flintshire, after selling through speedyproperty.co.uk.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Speaking in 2017, Philip Edwards said he was \"mortified\" after incurring what he says is a £96,000 loss\n\nBBC Wales has been told the remaining proceeds of the sale were paid out to two firms which had connections to Speedy Property.\n\nMr Edwards, who was suffering from cancer, only became aware of these payments on completion of the sale, for which he was represented by Kumari-Banga.\n\nHe initially remained as a tenant in the house, which he inherited from his parents, but was evicted after falling behind with rent payments while in hospital.\n\nHe eventually moved into sheltered accommodation with his wife and stepson.\n\nThe SDT has confirmed Ms Kumari and Ms Kumari-Banga will face a hearing on 21 June, which is expected to last five days.\n\nThey are alleged to have acted in conveyancing transactions they knew to be fraudulent, or which they should have known bore the \"hallmarks\" of fraud or money laundering.\n\nThey are also accused of failing to carry out proper inquiries into these transactions, or to properly advise their clients or obtain informed consent about payments to third-party companies.\n\nMs Kumari faces a further allegation of entering into a referral arrangement and receiving fee income from this work \"in circumstances which compromised her independence and that of her firm\".\n\nThe allegations against both solicitors cover a period from 2013 to mid-2017, and their legal practice is subject to SRA conditions pending conclusion of the disciplinary hearing.\n\nThe SRA's investigation focused on the solicitors' conduct in their conveyancing work for customers of the scheme.\n\nThe SRA has so far paid out nearly £875,000 to a dozen former clients of the firm through its compensation fund.\n\nThe fund is discretionary and makes grants to clients of law firms if their financial loss occurred while receiving legal services.\n\nIt is not dependent on any finding of dishonesty on the part of a solicitor.\n\nSolicitor Nigel Cole said many of those affected by the case were \"very vulnerable\"\n\nPortsmouth solicitor Nigel Cole represented Philip Edwards and a number of other clients in their claim against Kumari-Banga.\n\nMr Edwards was among six of his clients who received grants through the SRA's compensation fund earlier this year.\n\n\"I'm pleased that this is over for them and that they've finally received some money back for this,\" said Mr Cole.\n\nMr Cole said previously that many of those affected by the case were \"very vulnerable,\" including elderly and infirm homeowners or those with serious illnesses.\n\nAn SRA spokesman said: \"Some of Kumari-Banga's clients came to us having suffered financial hardship because of the firm's failure to account for their money.\n\n\"So far, we have made 12 payments from our compensation fund totalling nearly £875,000.\n\n\"Not every application will be successful… there are certain criteria that need to be met.\n\n\"But a number of vulnerable people will have had their not-insubstantial funds returned to them.\"\n\nIn connection with Speedy Property, West Midlands Police said: \"Eight people have been arrested on suspicion of fraud and money laundering offences and have been released under investigation.\n\n\"A further 10 people have been voluntarily interviewed. The investigation is ongoing.\"\n• None '£96k not paid out' by home sale firm", "The owner of the Daily Mail newspaper and MailOnline website is suing Google over allegations the search engine manipulates search results.\n\nAssociated Newspapers accuses Google of having too much control over online advertising and of downgrading links to its stories, favouring other outlets.\n\nIt alleges Google \"punishes\" publishers in its rankings if they don't sell enough advertising space in its marketplace.\n\nAssociated Newspapers' concerns stem from its assessment that its coverage of the Royal Family in 2021 has been downplayed in search results.\n\nFor example, it claims that British users searching for broadcaster Piers Morgan's comments on the Duchess of Sussex following an interview with Oprah Winfrey were more likely to see articles about Morgan produced by smaller, regional outlets.\n\nThat is despite the Daily Mail writing multiple stories a day about his comments around that time and employing him as a columnist.\n\nDaily Mail editor emeritus Peter Wright told the BBC's Today programme that the search engine's alleged actions were \"anti-competitive\".\n\nHe suggested that the Daily Mail's search visibility dropped after using online advertising techniques \"which were allowing us to divert advertising traffic away from Google to other ad exchanges, which paid better prices - and this was their punishment\".\n\n\"We think it's time to call this company out,\" he said.\n\nThe Daily Mail's MailOnline site is one of the world's most-read websites. It has 75 million unique monthly visitors in the US alone, according to the lawsuit, which was filed in New York on Tuesday.\n\nA Google spokeswoman said: \"The Daily Mail's claims are completely inaccurate.\n\n\"The use of our ad tech tools has no bearing on how a publisher's website ranks in Google search.\n\n\"More generally, we compete in a crowded and competitive ad tech space where publishers have and exercise multiple options. The Daily Mail itself authorises dozens of ad tech companies to sell and manage their ad space, including Amazon, Verizon and more. We will defend ourselves against these meritless claims.\"\n\nSeparately, Google is facing antitrust lawsuits brought by the US Justice Department and attorneys general in several states.\n\nThe technology giant has denied abusing its market power and has previously said the ad technology market is competitive.", "An artist's impression of the dinosaur whose remains scientists discovered in Chile\n\nScientists have identified a new species of dinosaur from parts of a skeleton found in northern Chile.\n\nThe creature's remains were unearthed in the Atacama desert - the world's driest - near the city of Copiapó.\n\nExperts say the plant-eating titanosaur had a small head and long neck, and an unusually flat back.\n\nStudies suggest the creature lived in what would then have been a lush landscape of flowering plants, ferns and palm trees.\n\nA team led by Chilean geologist Carlos Arévalo unearthed the remains in the 1990s and carried out research in the 2000s. The findings, published in the journal Cretaceous Research, were made public on Monday.\n\nThe remains, according to the team, included parts of a humerus, a femur and the ischium, and vertebral elements of the neck and back. They represent a small sub-adult individual, with an estimated length of 6.3m (20ft).\n\nThe creature was a sauropod, or a long-necked, long-tailed, plant-eating dinosaur. It was found in beds dating from the Late Cretaceous, the last epoch before dinosaurs were wiped out 66 million years ago.\n\nThe creature has been named Arackar licanantay, which means Atacama bones in the indigenous Kunza language.\n\nThe remains will eventually be exhibited in Chile's Museum of Natural History. The head of the museum's palaeontology area, David Rubilar, said: \"This represents a relevant milestone for the Chilean palaeontological heritage.\"\n\nThis is the third dinosaur named from Chile and the third titanosaur from the western side of the Andes in South America, the team said. In 2014, one of biggest dinosaurs ever discovered was unearthed in Argentina, also a titanosaur whose estimated length was more than 37m.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Pallab Ghosh reported on the 'biggest dinosaur ever' discovered in 2014\n• None 'One who causes fear' dinosaur found in Argentina", "It was a tense day at the White House. It began with Joe Biden saying he was praying for the “right verdict” in the Derek Chauvin trial, and his press secretary spending much of her subsequent news conference deflecting questions about whether that was a reckless statement.\n\nIt ended with the president and Vice-President Kamala Harris marking what they said was a just resolution to the case.\n\nTheir statements were delivered in the Cross Hall of the White House - the same location Barack Obama chose to announce the killing of Osama bin Laden.\n\nThe message was clear, that this was another historic day; another victory for justice. Biden warned, however, that the verdict was just a “step forward”, and “not enough”.\n\nBoth he and Harris specifically pointed to a history of systemic racism in the US, which Biden called a “stain on our nation’s soul\".\n\nTo overcome that history, he said, requires lawmakers to act and for the American people to continue to work.\n\nIt shouldn’t take a “murder in the full light of day”, captured on video and stretched over nine minutes, as Biden said, to get the nation’s attention anymore.", "Heathrow Airport has refused to allow extra flights from India before the country is added to the UK travel red list on Friday.\n\nIt turned down the requests from airlines because of concerns about queues at passport control.\n\nThe airport told the BBC that it did not want to exacerbate existing pressures at the border by allowing more passengers to fly in.\n\nFrom 0400 on Friday many arrivals from India will be refused entry.\n\nBritish and Irish passport holders, and people with UK residence rights, will be allowed in, but must quarantine in hotels for 10 days.\n\nLast week, a director at the airport said the situation at the border - which is operated by the Home Office - had become \"untenable\" because of delays in processing arriving passengers.\n\nFour carriers requested to operate an additional eight flights from India as travellers seek to fly before the enforced quarantine comes into effect. Currently, 30 flights a week are operating between the UK and India.\n\nThe Civil Aviation Authority confirmed that it also received applications for charter flight permits from India to the UK - but these had been declined or withdrawn as they did not meet the qualifying criteria.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"We are in a global health pandemic - people should not be travelling unless absolutely necessary.\n\n\"Every essential check helps avoid the risk of importing dangerous variants of coronavirus which could put our vaccine rollout at risk.\"\n\nSince then, online travel agent Skyscanner said searches for flights returning to the UK from India had increased by more than 250%.\n\nWhen the new rules come into effect, anyone arriving in England or Scotland from India will need to stay in a government-sanctioned quarantine hotel for 10 days and follow a strict coronavirus testing regime at their own expense.\n\nThere are currently no direct international flights from India into Wales or Northern Ireland.\n\nIn England, a stay in one of the quarantine hotel costs £1,750 per passenger travelling alone. That includes transport, tests, food and accommodation.\n\nEvery additional adult, or child over 12, must pay £650, while children aged five to 12 pay £325.\n\nA briefing document drawn up by officials at Public Health England shows that between 25 March and 7 April, 3,345 arrivals from India were registered in UK border travel data. Of those 161 - or 4.8% - tested positive for Covid-19 after a PCR test.\n\nEarlier this week, Prime Minister Boris Johnson cancelled a planned trip to India, which had been due to take place on 26 April.", "Tory MP Johnny Mercer says he was \"forced\" to resign as a defence minister over the treatment of veterans who served in Northern Ireland.\n\nNo 10 confirmed his exit on Tuesday - ahead of the Overseas Operations Bill returning to the Commons on Wednesday.\n\nThe new law is designed to protect veterans from unfounded prosecutions.\n\nBut British soldiers who served in Northern Ireland will be excluded from the bill. Mr Mercer called that a \"red line\" for him staying in government.\n\nIn response, Boris Johnson said the government was \"committed to doing more over the coming months, including for those who have served in Northern Ireland\".\n\nA No 10 spokesperson said Prime Minister Boris Johnson had \"accepted\" Mr Mercer's resignation and thanked him for his service as a minister.\n\nBut posting a resignation letter on Twitter immediately afterwards, Mr Mercer said he had been \"relieved of my responsibilities in government\".\n\nThe MP - who is a former Army captain - wrote that the government had \"abandoned people in a way I simply cannot reconcile\" in allowing \"endless investigations\" into historic killings to continue.\n\nHe added: \"Veterans are being sectioned, drinking themselves to death and dying well before their time, simply because the UK government cannot find the moral strength or courage we asked of them in bringing peace to Northern Ireland in finding a political solution to stop these appalling injustices.\"\n\nPlans were announced last year by the government to restrict the number of Troubles killings which could be fully investigated under a new approach where \"new, compelling evidence\" would be required.\n\nBut the Overseas Operations Bill would go further for other veterans, such as those who served in Iraq or Afghanistan, proposing a five-year limit on criminal prosecutions.\n\nSix former soldiers who served in Northern Ireland during the Troubles are currently facing prosecution.\n\nIn 2019, the Public Prosecution Service in Northern Ireland said of 32 \"legacy cases\" it had ruled on since 2012, 17 related to republicans, eight to loyalists, and five were connected to the Army.\n\nIn his letter, Mr Mercer said \"no discernible efforts have been made\" to introduce similar legislation to cover Northern Ireland veterans, despite previous pledges, adding: \"I can see no prospect of this changing.\"\n\nBoris Johnson says the Overseas Operations Bill will address \"vexatious\" claims against veterans\n\nThe Tory MP said he was \"deeply proud of my predecessors who served in Northern Ireland\", adding they were \"not second-class veterans\" and deserved \"the protection of the Overseas Operations Bill like everyone else\".\n\nNo 10 later shared a letter from the PM to Mr Mercer, thanking him for \"highlighting the importance of legislating to protect our Armed Forces against vexatious and repeated claims\".\n\nMr Johnson wrote: \"The conclusion of the enactment of the Overseas Operations Bill is a crucial part of that, addressing veterans who have served overseas.\n\n\"But we are committed to doing more over the coming months, including for those who have served in Northern Ireland.\"\n\nWhile the government has not moved on Mr Mercer's calls, it has changed course over another contentious part of the bill, ahead of the debate on Wednesday.\n\nThe law had come under fierce criticism by human rights groups, former military commanders and lawyers for including a \"presumption against prosecution\" after the five-year time frame for the most serious of crimes - namely torture, genocide and crimes against humanity.\n\nLabour's Lord Roberts brought an amendment to the bill in the House of Lords to ensure the rule does not apply for those actions, which won the support of peers.\n\nAnd now, ahead of the debate, the Ministry of Justice has conceded to the amendment, promising to exclude torture, genocide and crimes against humanity from the rule.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Ministry of Defence said: \"Whilst we maintain nothing in this bill prevents those accused of breaking the law from being prosecuted, we have listened to concerns, and in order to send a powerful message to the international community, amendments will be made to the Overseas Operations Bill.\"\n\nHowever, the department confirmed it would seek to overturn three other amendments agreed by peers earlier this month.", "The Lyrid meteor shower, pictured in 2020 from Germany, happens every year in April\n\nSkygazers will be able to see the Lyrid meteor shower on Thursday morning, with up to 18 meteors per hour expected to light up UK skies.\n\nThe shower is due to peak at 13:00 BST on 22 April, but astronomers say the best time to view it will be early morning or after sunset.\n\nMeteor showers, or shooting stars, are caused when pieces of debris, known as meteorites, enter Earth's atmosphere.\n\nThe shooting stars are named after the constellation of Lyra the Harp.\n\nTania de Sales Marques, an astronomer at the Royal Observatory Greenwich, said: \"Since the peak occurs during the day the best time to try to spot the shower will be before sunrise on the 22nd or after sunset.\n\n\"It is expected that this meteor shower will produce around 18 meteors per hour.\"\n\nBut she said the Moon will be bright in the sky because it is at a waxing gibbous phase, \"so conditions won't be very favourable\".\n\nThe meteors are pieces of debris falling from the Thatcher Comet, which is expected to return to the inner solar system in 2276 after an orbital period of 415 years.\n\nMs de Sales Marques said the Lyrid shower has been observed as far back as 687 BC, which is the oldest known record of any meteor showers still visible today.\n\n\"It is a moderate shower with the occasional fireballs, nicknamed the Lyrid Fireballs,\" she said.\n\nThe Lyrid meteor shower happens every year between 16-25 April.", "One landfill site in Wales is said to contain \"warfare chemicals\" including mustard gas\n\nToxic waste including mustard gas is buried among more than 1,500 disused landfill sites across Wales.\n\nNatural Resources Wales (NRW) data reveals hundreds of the sites contain hazardous waste and only a few dozen are protectively lined.\n\nThe organisation said it worked with councils to ensure old landfills were not a pollution risk.\n\nDr Paul Johnston of Greenpeace's Exeter University science unit said: \"Many of these landfill sites are ticking time bombs.\n\n\"There's a huge variety of problems out there, ranging from asbestos to PCBs to radioactive material, to more recent chemicals like PFOA and pesticide waste that has been dumped in a large number of locations.\"\n\nPCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls) were banned in 1986, having been used since the 1920s as cooling and insulating fluids for transformers and capacitors.\n\nWhen incinerated they can produce highly toxic dioxins - one was used in an assassination attempt on Ukranian politician Viktor Yushchenko in 2004.\n\nPFOA, or perfluorooctanoic acid, is used to make Teflon and has been linked to cancer and birth defects.\n\nElsewhere, the data reveals \"low-level radioactive waste\", at Buckley, Flintshire. Cwmrhys quarry, Lampeter, has\"cyanide containers\" and at Bagillt, Flintshire, land is said to be \"contaminated\" with arsenic.\n\nNear Furnace, Ceredigion, the data said in 1989 \"landfill gas was in explosive concentration\" but was considered a \"minimal risk.\"\n\nPAHs, or polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, are said to be buried in Caerphilly.\n\nThese have been linked to skin, lung, bladder, liver, and stomach cancers.\n\nDr Paul Johnston has warned tips are \"ticking time bombs\" that must be dealt with\n\nDr Johnston said: \"With the climate crisis set to bring more flooding and coastal erosion to the UK, some of these sites are at even higher risk of leaking their toxic contents.\n\n\"This is a difficult and costly problem to tackle, but we're going to have to do it at some point, or there'll be some nasty surprises in store.\"\n\nOlder landfills often were not lined before waste was dumped, meaning chemicals could leak. Even modern lined landfills will eventually leak, according to studies.\n\nProf Kate Spencer, of Queen Mary University of London, called landfill \"a huge problem\" that needed \"serious government investment\".\n\n\"At the moment it is being left to local authorities to deal with the problem when it almost becomes a crisis and we need a much more proactive response to assess what the scale of the situation is,\" she said.\n\nOld landfills were often not lined, meaning chemicals could leak from them, according to studies\n\nShe feared a \"sticking plaster approach\" was being taken.\n\nOf 20,000 sites in the UK, about 1,500 were \"at risk\" on the coast, Prof Spencer said.\n\n\"We are talking about very large numbers of sites that are vulnerable to climate change,\" she added.\n\n\"We can't possibly just remove all that waste.\"\n\nProf Spencer asked whether sites could be remediated or repurposed, or waste from them recycled.\n\n\"The occurrence of acute pollution events is presumably quite low, because we are not reading about them killing fish, or whatever else might be happening,\" he said, with the vast majority of sites being \"washed through\" over the decades.\n\n\"Most of them won't be causing a problem,\" he added, but moving Wales' landfill elsewhere could run into billions of pounds and he does not believe there is \"any prospect\" of it being moved.\n\nProf Kate Spencer feared a \"sticking plaster approach\" was being taken to landfill\n\nIt is unclear how much waste is in each site.\n\n\"If you have 200,000 tonnes in there that would cost you £40m to move. And you have got 1,500 sites there to move,\" Mr Brown said.\n\nThe cost would be higher if waste was hazardous.\n\n\"Where's the money going to come from?\" he said.\n\nNRW's lead waste policy specialist, Gareth Lewis, said the agency worked with councils to stop old landfills becoming future pollution risks.\n\nHe said it had \"details on the type and quantity of waste deposited\".\n\n\"We have addressed a number of closed sites that otherwise could have caused pollution incidents,\" he added.\n\n\"Older permitted sites like these are reviewed consistently by ourselves and local councils to ensure we minimise the risk to people, animals and the environment.\"\n\nEnvironmental consultancy firm boss, Mike Brown, said most old landfill \"won't be causing a problem\"\n\nThe Welsh Local Government Association said landfill use was falling because \"of higher recycling and use of energy from waste\".\n\n\"There are responsibilities for managing sites whilst operational and then for dealing with maintenance of closed sites,\" a spokesman said.\n\nHe said \"most\" landfills were now owned privately and charged for dumping.\n\n\"Natural Resources Wales is responsible for licensing the sites and overseeing compliance with environmental legislation,\" he said.\n\nThe Welsh government said it had previously given councils and NRW £12m for landfill \"investigation, risk assessment and remediation work\".\n\n\"We continue to provide funding for authorities to receive contaminated land training, ensuring relevant officers can manage and regulate matters of land contamination,\" a spokesman said.\n\nIn 2015, Monsanto, BP and Veolia agreed to contribute to cleaning up Brofiscin Quarry, reportedly polluted with Agent Orange derivatives. That began in 2011.\n\nHerbicide Agent Orange was sprayed on Vietnam's jungles by US forces during the Vietnam War to uncover the enemy. It has been linked to increased cancer rates and birth defects.\n\nIn 2008, Hansard recorded MP Mike Hancock asking Parliament about deformed cattle born at Brofiscin.", "The Ever Given has been anchored in the Great Bitter Lake, the canal's midway point, since being refloated on Monday\n\nThe last ships stranded by the giant container vessel that was stuck in the Suez Canal have now passed through the waterway, the canal authorities say.\n\nMore than 400 vessels were left waiting at either end of the canal when the 400m-long Ever Given became wedged across it on 23 March.\n\nBut Egypt's Suez Canal Authority says the shipping traffic jam is now over.\n\nOfficials have opened an investigation into the incident and expect to made their findings public early next week.\n\nThe results could have major legal repercussions, as various parties seek to recoup the costs of the repairs to the ship and the canal, as well as the salvage operation.\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\nThe 220,000-tonne Ever Given was finally freed last Monday after a major salvage operation involving a flotilla of powerful tug boats and dredging vessels that shifted an estimated 30,000 cubic metres (1.1m cubic ft) of mud and sand.\n\nThe operation allowed hundreds of ships, carrying millions of tons of cargo, to start moving through the waterway.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. (29 March 2021) The stranded container ship is seen finally on the move and no longer blocking the canal\n\nA total of 85 ships, carrying cargo weighing 4.2 million tons, passed through the canal in both directions on Saturday, the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) said in a statement.\n\nThese were expected to include the last 61 ships out of the 422 that were queuing when the Ever Given container vessel was dislodged.\n\nThe canal authorities are under pressure to upgrade the waterway's technical infrastructure to avoid further disruption in the future.\n\nThey have said they will demand at least $1bn (£720m) in compensation for the losses resulting from the blockage.\n\nIn an interview with the privately-owned Sada el-Balad TV on Wednesday, SCA chairman Osama Rabie said that the Ever Given vessel would not leave the Great Bitter Lake, where it is currently being held, until the compensation was paid by the vessel's owner.\n\nMr Rabie also said that about 800 people had helped to free the ship, adding that they would be rewarded for their \"great efforts\".\n\nThe vessel's technical managers, Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement, said on Monday that its initial investigations suggested it had veered off course due to strong wind. They also ruled out any mechanical or engine failure as a cause.\n\nHowever, Mr Rabie believes the impact of the wind was not the main reason for the incident, and that \"technical or human errors\" may have been to blame.\n\n\"The Suez Canal has never been closed because of bad weather,\" he earlier told reporters.\n\nHe also denied size was a factor, saying larger ships had used the waterway.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Several hundred people marched in London chanting \"kill the Bill\"\n\nFormer Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn urged marchers to \"stand up for the right to protest\" as protests against the Police and Crime Bill were held around the UK.\n\nKill the Bill demonstrations took place in London, Birmingham, Liverpool, and Bristol among other places.\n\nMr Corbyn said the bill would prevent protest without police approval.\n\nPolice said 26 people were arrested after a minority refused to leave after the London protest.\n\nSpeaking in Parliament Square in central London, Mr Corbyn invoked figures such as the suffragettes and Nelson Mandela as he urged the crowd to oppose the bill.\n\n\"Stand up for the right to protest, stand up for the right to have your voice heard,\" he said.\n\nHe said the protests against the bill were sparked after police dispersed the crowd at the \"perfectly correct and proper vigil\" for Sarah Everard, who was killed as she walked home in south London.\n\n\"I want a society where it is safe to walk the streets, where you can speak out, you can demonstrate and you don't have to seek the permission from the police or the home secretary to do so,\" he said.\n\nMore than 1,000 people gathered peacefully in Bristol\n\nSeveral women addressed the crowd and shared personal experiences of abuse and being drugged.\n\nProtesters carried anti-sexism placards and chanted \"women scared everywhere, police and Government do not care\" as they marched past Downing Street.\n\nThe protests were prompted by the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, which propose to give police in England and Wales more power to impose conditions on non-violent protests, including those which are deemed too noisy or a nuisance.\n\nAnyone refusing to follow police directions about a protest could be fined up to £2,500.\n\nIn London, police scuffled with protestors at the demonstration\n\nMinisters and police have defended the proposals, saying they were needed to tackle demonstrations such the ones by Extinction Rebellion in 2019, where mass occupations of roads and bridges in London and elsewhere stretched police resources to the limit.\n\nMost of the crowd of several hundred people in London dispersed peacefully after the rally, but police said they made arrests after a \"small minority\" refused to leave.\n\nIn Bristol, more than 1,000 people gathered for a peaceful protest, after demonstrations on 23 March and 26 March ended in clashes with police.\n\nEarlier Kill the Bill protests had taken place under lockdown, but the latest demonstrations are the first since coronavirus rules on outdoor gatherings were eased on Monday in the latest stage of the government's roadmap out of lockdown.\n\nUnder the current rules, people can meet outdoors in groups of six or two households. But there is an extra provision to allow outdoor protests with more than six people - as long as organisers carry out a risk assessment and take all reasonable steps to limit the spread of the virus.\n\nAt the Bristol protest, about 100 demonstrators began marching again later in the evening, Avon and Somerset Police said. They forced police to briefly close part of the M32 motorway by sitting in the road.\n\nHundreds of people also marched through Newcastle city centre, and other places that saw protests of varying scales included Birmingham, Liverpool, Newcastle, Bournemouth, Brighton, Weymouth and Luton.", "US rapper and actor DMX is in serious condition in hospital following a heart attack, says his lawyer Murray Richman.\n\nMr Richman told US media he didn't know whether the heart attack was brought on by a drug overdose, as reported by TMZ.\n\nDMX has publicly battled substance abuse for years, and spent several periods in rehab.\n\nHe is seen as a hip-hop icon, and has collaborated with artists including JAY-Z, Ja Rule, Eve and LL Cool J as well as appearing in films.\n\nThe 50-year-old, whose real name is Earl Simmons, was taken to hospital in White Plains, New York late on Friday evening, Mr Richman said, where he is surrounded by his family.\n\n\"He was on life support,\" the lawyer said. \"He's been taken off of life support. He is breathing on his own but there is a little brain activity.\"\n\nThe father-of-15 has served jail sentences in the past on charges including animal cruelty, reckless driving, drug possession and weapons possession.\n\nIn 2018 he made headlines by playing one of his own songs to a judge in court when he was facing charges of tax fraud. After listening to the song, the judge said DMX was a \"good man\" and gave him one year in prison.\n\nIn 2016 he stopped breathing and had to be resuscitated in a hotel car park in New York state.\n\nDMX has a career spanning more than 20 years, and as well as music, he has appeared in films including Cradle 2 the Grave and Romeo Must Die, both starring Jet Li.\n\n\"Earl is a sweet guy,\" Mr Richman said. \"Earl was a person who could tell such a story. He was a person with such depth. It's a heartbreaker.\"", "President Joe Biden has released a statement about today's attack, saying he and First Lady Jill Biden were \"heartbroken to learn of the violent attack\".\n\nHe offered his \"heartfelt condolences to Officer Evans’ family, and everyone grieving his loss\".\n\nHe added that he had ordered flags at the White House to lowered to half mast.\n\nAcknowledging that it had been \"a difficult time\" for those working in and around the Capitol, he expressed \"the nation’s gratitude\" to the Capitol police force and first responders.", "Seven people have died from unusual blood clots after getting the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in the UK, the medicines regulator has confirmed to the BBC.\n\nIn total, 30 people out of 18 million vaccinated by 24 March had these clots.\n\nIt is still not clear if they are just a coincidence or a genuine side effect of the vaccine.\n\nThe Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency says the benefits continue to outweigh any risk.\n\nThe World Health Organization and the European Medicines Agency have echoed this conclusion.\n\nA spokeswoman for AstraZeneca said: \"Patient safety remains the company's highest priority.\"\n\nHowever, concern has led to other countries including Germany, France, the Netherlands and Canada to restrict the vaccine's use only to older people.\n\nThe data released by the MHRA on Friday showed 22 cases of cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) which is a type of blood clot in the brain.\n\nThese were accompanied by low levels of platelets, which help form blood clots, in the body. The MHRA also found other clotting problems alongside low platelet levels in eight people.\n\nNow the MHRA has confirmed, in an email to the BBC, that \"sadly seven have died\".\n\nDr June Raine, the chief executive of the MHRA, said: \"The benefits… in preventing Covid-19 infection and its complications continue to outweigh any risks and the public should continue to get their vaccine when invited to do so.\"\n\nInvestigations are under way to determine if the AstraZeneca vaccine is causing the very rare blood clots. Earlier this week the European Medicines Agency said it was \"not proven, but is possible\".\n\nTwo issues are raising suspicions. The first is the unusual nature of the clots which, including low levels of platelets and rare antibodies in the blood that have been linked to other clotting disorders.\n\n\"This raises the possibility that the vaccine could be a causal factor in these rare and unusual cases of CVST, though we don't know this yet, so more research is urgently needed,\" said Prof David Werring, from the UCL Institute of Neurology.\n\nThe other issue is the difference between the Oxford-AstraZeneca and the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines.\n\nThere have been two cases of CVSTs after Pfizer in the UK, out of more than 10 million vaccinated, but these did not have the low platelet levels.\n\nHowever, there remains uncertainty around how common these clots normally are. Estimates range from two cases per million people every year to nearly 16 in every million in normal times and the coronavirus has been linked to abnormal clotting, which may be making these clots more common.\n\nGermany has reported 31 CVSTs and nine deaths out of the 2.7 million people vaccinated there, with most cases in young or middle-aged women.\n\nSimilar data on who has been affected in the UK has not been published in the UK, but a wider mix of people are thought to have been affected.\n\nAll medicines, from vaccines to paracetamol, have the potential to cause severe side effects.\n\nThe seasonal flu jab has around a one-in-a-million chance of causing the nerve disorder Guillain-Barre syndrome.\n\nSo, the real question is: Are the risks worth the benefits?\n\nEven if the vaccine was the cause, and this is still not proven, the numbers suggest around one death in every 2.5 million people vaccinated.\n\nHowever, this has to be weighed against the known threat posed by coronavirus.\n\nIf 2.5 million 60-year-old people caught coronavirus then around 50,000 would die. If they were all 40-year-olds then around 2,500 would die.\n\nThis balance of risk and benefit will continue to be assessed as more safety data comes in and as the vaccine programme moves into younger people, who are at lower risk of dying from Covid-19.\n\nOne scientist has told the BBC that evidence is growing that the blood clot events are \"causally related\", although he stressed that the benefits of taking the AstraZeneca vaccine still far outweighed the risks of not getting the jab.\n\nProf Paul Hunter, a medical microbiologist at the University of East Anglia, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"It is not uncommon to get clusters of rare events purely by chance.\n\n\"But, once you find that cluster in one population and it then crops up in another - such as previously in the German and now in the English - then I think the chances of that being a random association is very, very low.\n\n\"Clearly more work needs to be done, but I think the evidence is shifting more towards it being causally related at the moment.\"\n\nHowever, public health expert Prof Linda Bauld, of the University of Edinburgh, told BBC Breakfast the cases were \"rare events\" and stressed there was no event \"at the moment of a causal link - that the vaccine would be directly causing these outcomes\".\n\nShe urged the public to continue coming forward for a jab, and added: \"Covid itself increases the risk of blood clots quite significantly and it's possible that that may be part of the explanation why we're seeing this.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nA New Zealand rugby commentator has apologised after mimicking a Japanese player's accent following a Super Rugby Aotearoa game.\n\nSpeaking after the Otago Highlanders' 33-12 victory over Canterbury Crusaders, Joe Wheeler highlighted the performance of Highlanders and Japan flanker Kazuki Himeno.\n\nHe adopted a fake Japanese accent, with social media users labelling him \"immature\", \"racist\" and \"disgusting\".\n\nHe later admitted he had \"stuffed up\".\n\n\"I've spoken with [Himeno] and apologised to him and the Highlanders and our Sky crew,\" Wheeler said on Twitter .\n\n\"I absolutely accept this is not the standard expected of the sideline team. I've got some work to do obviously, but I'm absolutely committed to doing better.\"\n\nHimeno said on Twitter he accepted Wheeler's apology.\n\nWheeler's actions were condemned by Sky New Zealand chief executive Sophie Moloney, who said the network \"will keep striving to reflect and respect everyone in our community\".\n\nWheeler is a former Highlanders forward who also played for Suntory Sungoliath in the Japanese Top League until 2020.", "Wally the walrus was being protected by lifeguards on the RNLI slipway in Tenby\n\nThousands of miles from home Wally is more used to a quieter life, away from humans, in the Arctic.\n\nBut, after straying unusually far south into Tenby, Pembrokeshire, the walrus has become a bit of a tourist attraction for visitors over Easter.\n\nNow authorities are asking them to leave Wally in peace, after reports of jet skiers, surfers and paddle boarders \"disturbing\" him by getting too close.\n\nConservation groups have urged people to \"enjoy him from a distance\".\n\nThey have been keeping a close eye on the mammal, who has been nicknamed Wally ever since he was first spotted on the Welsh cliffs.\n\nThe walrus is believed to have arrived from the Arctic on an ice floe, and was initially seen off County Kerry earlier this month, before he ended up on the Welsh coast.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Pembrokeshire Coast / Arfordir Penfro This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt was first seen in Wales on rocks near Broad Haven South beach before heading to Tenby, and had spent a few days on the RNLI slipway, with lifeboat crews keeping people away from it.\n\nIn a statement, authorities warned the public to leave Wally alone, as the sunshine draws crowds to the area.\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 statement, issued by the RSPCA, Tenby's Harbour Master, Welsh Marine Life Rescue, Tenby Lifeboat Service, British Divers Marine Life Rescue, Natural Resources Wales, and CSIP Marine Environmental Monitoring, warns that people have been getting \"too close\".\n\nThe walrus is protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act, 1981, and anyone caught disturbing the animal may be committing a criminal offence.\n\nOne photographer captured Wally on a trip to the area on 30 March\n\n\"We understand it's exciting and unusual to have the walrus take up a temporary residence in Tenby, and that over the bank holiday weekend many people may wish to visit the area in the hope of catching a glimpse of him,\" the statement said. \"However, it's in his best interests to be left alone as much as possible, so we're asking people to remember he is a wild animal and avoid the temptation to get near to him and disturb him.\n\n\"We're really concerned to hear reports that some people have tried to get close to him by using jet skis or paddle and surf boards - this really isn't in his best interest and we urge people to act responsibly this weekend and if they find themselves in the area, to enjoy him from a distance.\"", "Trouble began before 20:00 BST on Friday, when fireworks and other missiles were thrown at police\n\nThe Northern Ireland secretary and first minister are among those who have appealed for calm after a night of disorder in south Belfast.\n\nNI Secretary Brandon Lewis said the unrest on Friday evening was \"completely unacceptable\".\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster warned young people not to get \"drawn into disorder\".\n\nPetrol bombs, bricks and bottles were thrown at police during sustained rioting in the Sandy Row area.\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said 15 officers were injured and eight people arrested.\n\nThree teenage boys aged 13, 14 and 17 have since been charged with riot.\n\nThree men and a woman have also been charged, while another man has been released on bail pending further enquiries.\n\n\"Violence is never the answer,\" said Mr Lewis. \"There is no place for it in society.\n\n\"It is unwanted, unwarranted and I fully support the PSNI appeal for calm.\"\n\nHe said his thoughts were with the officers injured.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Petrol bombs, bricks and bottles were thrown at police\n\nMrs Foster, who is leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), said many young people were \"hugely frustrated by the events of this last week\" but that causing injury to police officers would not make things better\".\n\n\"I appeal to our young people not to get drawn into disorder which will lead to them having criminal convictions and blighting their own lives.\"\n\nCommunities Minister Deirdre Hargey blamed the disturbances on the \"reckless rhetoric from political unionism\".\n\nThe Sinn Féin MLA said the DUP and others had \"fed young people with misinformation and lies that their identity is under threat when it isn't\".\n\nDamage from the disorder was visible on Saturday morning\n\nUp to 100 people had gathered in the Shaftesbury Square area, where a loyalist protest had been expected.\n\nTrouble began before 20:00 BST, when fireworks and other missiles were thrown at police.\n\nCh Supt Simon Walls, Belfast district commander, said 15 officers were injured after being subjected to \"a sustained attack by rioters who threw a number of objects at police including heavy masonry, metal rods, fireworks and manhole covers\".\n\nCh Supt Walls said four officers were unable to report for duty on Saturday due to their injuries.\n\nHe appealed to anyone who had \"any influence in communities\" to use it to ensure young people are kept safe and away from harm.\n\nWithin 12 hours of the riot, the streets had been cleaned and normal life resumed.\n\nBelfast is quick to recover. The city has had plenty of practice.\n\nThe ugly scenes on Friday night were a reminder of the old Belfast. The trouble came on the 23rd anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement.\n\nPolitical divisions remain and have been exacerbated by the row over Brexit's Northern Ireland Protocol and the controversy over the funeral of the senior republican and former head of IRA intelligence Bobby Storey.\n\nBefore Friday night, violence on the streets had been avoided in recent months.\n\nEfforts are now being made to ensure the Sandy Row riot is not repeated.\n\nMark Lindsay, chairman of the Police Federation, which represents rank and file officers, said: \"There's a lot of frustration and a lot of anger, because once again we see ourselves being pulled into the middle of political and social argument.\n\n\"These are police officers trying to do their best on a day and daily basis, but they find themselves at the butt of attacks and criticism and they're very, very annoyed and very frustrated about that.\"\n\nHe said the actions had an impact on the families of officers, and some would have to take time off work to recover from their injuries.\n\nThe \"political rhetoric and the social rhetoric\" had built over the last week, and it was \"no great surprise\" it had resulted in violence, he added.\n\nUlster Unionist Party assembly member Mike Nesbitt said the scenes must not be repeated.\n\nMr Nesbitt, who also represents the party on the Policing Board, said anyone taking part was \"making a huge strategic mistake\".\n\n\"Tell me any time when street violence has advanced the cause that you purport to support,\" he said.\n\n\"It was a huge error and it must not be repeated.\"\n\nSinn Féin West Belfast MP Paul Maskey said it was \"deeply concerning to see these types of incidents at the height of the Covid pandemic and as we are beginning to make good progress\".\n\n\"This is a time for calm heads and responsible leadership,\" he added.\n\nSouth Belfast MP Claire Hanna blamed what she described as \"usual suspects with no vision\" for creating \"tension for electoral gain\".\n\n\"History repeats, people lose hope, kids get criminal records, communities pull apart. There's a better way,\" she said.\n\nStormont's Justice Minister Naomi Long, who is the leader of the Alliance Party, said the disorder was \"in no-one's best interests\".\n\n\"It's incumbent on leaders to behave responsibly and dial down the inflammatory rhetoric over recent days,\" the Alliance Party leader tweeted.", "Police were called to the attack in Rowley Regis near Dudley on Friday\n\nA woman has died after being attacked by two escaped dogs in her garden.\n\nPolice said the woman, in her 80s, was found suffering from serious injuries at an address in Rowley Regis near Dudley in the West Midlands on Friday.\n\nDespite the efforts of emergency services, she was pronounced dead at the scene in Boundary Avenue.\n\nWest Midlands Police said the dogs did not belong to the woman, but managed to get into her garden before attacking her.\n\nBoth dogs have been seized to establish their breed.\n\nA 43-year-old local man has been detained on suspicion of being the person in charge of a dog dangerously out of control.\n\nHe remains in custody for questioning.\n\nPolice said the victim sustained dog bite injuries, although a post mortem will take place in due course to establish the cause of death.\n\nA police scene and presence will remain in place in the area as work is carried out to establish the full circumstances of what occurred.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "People enjoyed the sun on the steps of the Senedd in Cardiff Bay\n\nBeauty spots in Wales have been busy on Good Friday as the sunny weather continued into the Easter weekend.\n\nCar parks were full in both the Brecon Beacons and Snowdonia as tourists took advantage of more relaxed Covid rules.\n\nRestrictions were eased last weekend to allow people in Wales to travel anywhere within the country and meet up with one other household outside.\n\nPolice issued warnings earlier this week after crowds gathered in Cardiff Bay, leading to violence and littering.\n\nExtra stewards, barriers and bins were put in place ahead of the Easter weekend to prevent the issues reoccurring.\n\nThe Brecon Beacons National Park Authority tweeted on Friday to say five of its car parks in \"waterfall country\" were full, while cars lined the A470 near Pen y Fan, the highest peak in the national park.\n\nIn north Wales, car parks at Pen y Pass, near Snowdon, and at Bala Lake in Gwynedd were said to be busy.\n\nThe car park at Pen y Pass was full on Friday\n\nSome of those who visited Cardiff Bay on Friday said they were appalled by the mess earlier in the week.\n\nVisitor Naomi Randall said: \"We've been keeping our rubbish, looking out for recycling bins, keeping it in our bags.\"\n\nBen and Molly, who were also visiting Cardiff Bay, called for people to be \"responsible\" and said littering was \"disrespectful\".\n\nBala Lake in Gwynedd was busy with visitors on Friday\n\nThe latest Welsh coronavirus rules allow people to travel anywhere in Wales, while overnight stays in self-contained accommodation are also allowed.\n\nHowever, it is still against the rules for people from other UK nations to travel into Wales, without a reasonable excuse.", "Police were attacked with petrol bombs and fireworks at the Cloughfern roundabout in the O'Neill Road area\n\nPolice were attacked with petrol bombs and fireworks in Newtownabbey on a second night of trouble in Northern Ireland.\n\nOfficers were targeted at the Cloughfern roundabout in the O'Neill Road area.\n\nA crowd of 30 to 40 people blocked the roundabout with two burning cars at about 20:00 BST.\n\nIt followed Friday's night of violence in which 27 police officers were injured in Belfast and Londonderry.\n\nIn Newtownabbey, on the outskirts of Belfast, police closed off surrounding roads before approaching the roundabout. It was then they came under attack.\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) appealed for calm and asked anyone with any influence in the community to try to ensure young people do not get caught up in criminality.\n\nThe situation appeared to have been brought under control by 22:15 BST.\n\nAlliance assembly member John Blair said the violence had to be \"utterly condemned\" and there was a \"need for calm and for parents to check where their children are\".\n\nSinn Féin assembly member Gerry Kelly said the the disturbances in loyalist areas were \"an out-working of the DUP's rhetoric and undermining of the PSNI and criminal justice system\".\n\n\"By their words and actions they have sent a very dangerous message to young people in loyalist areas,\" he said.\n\nDUP leader Arlene Foster condemned violence that took place in south Belfast on Friday night.\n\nA crowd of 30 to 40 people blocked a roundabout with two burning cars at about 20:00 BST\n\nThe situation was brought under control by 22:15 BST", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHuge crowds have again gathered in Cardiff Bay, despite coronavirus restrictions still being in place.\n\nHundreds of people were seen partying close together on the steps outside the Senedd on Friday evening.\n\nIt follows similar scenes outside the same building earlier in the week, when three police officers were injured and litter was dumped on the waterfront.\n\nCardiff council leader Huw Thomas said people who took part should be \"deeply ashamed of themselves\".\n\nCovid rules state only six people from two different households can meet outdoors.\n\nHundreds of people were seen gathered on the steps of the Senedd on Friday evening\n\nOn videos posted on Twitter, people could be seen singing and drinking from later afternoon and well into the evening.\n\nMr Thomas said police had taken over from council marshals, who had been patrolling the site in the day, after the situation \"escalated\".\n\nBBC Wales has attempted to contact South Wales Police for comment. It is not known if any arrests have been made.\n\nOne Cardiff Bay resident said there were more than 1,000 people at the Senedd\n\nMath Wiliam, who lives in Cardiff Bay and works for a Plaid Cymru Member of the Senedd and is a member of the party, said: \"There were hundreds, possibly over 1,000 people, out in Cardiff Bay engaging in what I would describe as partying, with the largest cohort assembled on the steps of the Senedd.\n\n\"There was no adherence to social distancing rules, which was unsurprising given that many people were heavily under the influence.\"\n\nHe added the number of people coming to the bay had been \"increasing daily\".\n\nBBC Wales reporter Mark Hutchings said \"hundreds\" were gathered and it was \"calm, if noisy, at the time, though no social distancing\".\n\nCrowds could be seen stretched across the waterfront on the steps of the Senedd\n\nMr Thomas said: \"We have been in close communication with the police throughout the day.\n\n\"This is concerning and disappointing. It flies in the face of the regulations, which are there to keep us safe.\n\n\"I anticipate a bombsite there tomorrow. We'd put out extra wheelie bins, but rubbish is just being dumped. The clear-up will mean an unnecessary cost to the council and so the taxpayer.\n\n\"But this is about public health and a clear abuse of the rules. I worry about a spike in cases after this. It in fact risks prolonging restrictions, rather than easing them, as people there seemed to be complaining about.\"\n\nIt comes after a student launched an online petition for more bins in Cardiff Bay after rubbish was dumped there earlier in the week.\n\nCans and empty bottles could be seen on the steps of the Senedd\n\nWales' Covid restrictions were eased last Saturday, with people allowed to travel anywhere within the country and meet a maximum of six different people from two different households outdoors.\n\nHowever, pubs remain closed until at least 26 April and it is still against the rules to travel between Wales and the other UK nations without a reasonable excuse.\n\nCrowds in Cardiff Bay were still there on Friday evening\n\nEarlier this week, police said violence and anti-social behaviour would \"not be tolerated\" as people gathered in the same area on Tuesday.\n\nSouth Wales Police said a number of missiles, including bottles, were thrown at officers, three of whom suffered minor injuries, during the disorder earlier in the week.\n\nCardiff council said on Wednesday that it had taken three hours to clean up the \"unacceptable amount of litter\" in Cardiff Bay and the city's parks.\n\nPolice were monitoring the scene, but it is not yet known if any arrests have been made", "Extra \"Do not touch\" signs have been put up following the incident\n\nGraffiti artwork on display in South Korea has been damaged by a couple who thought brushes and paint laid in front of the piece were for visitors' use.\n\n\"They thought they were allowed to do that as participatory art and made a mistake,\" the head of the exhibition in Seoul told Reuters news agency.\n\nAfter staff spotted fresh brushstrokes CCTV footage identified the accidental vandals, a man and woman in their 20s.\n\nThe untitled piece is estimated to be worth about $500,000 (£360,000).\n\nIt was painted by US graffiti artist JonOne in front of an audience in Seoul in 2016.\n\nIt has since been displayed at various venues, along with the paint and brushes used in the live performance - which are regarded as integral parts of the artwork.\n\nKang Wook, the head of the exhibition at Seoul's Lotte World Mall, told Reuters: \"We are currently in discussions with the artist about whether to restore it.\"\n\nThe couple contributed black splotches to the artwork\n\nPolice found and questioned the couple at the gallery. Organisers decided not to press charges and the pair were released.\n\nThe incident prompted the gallery to put up a small fence in front of the graffiti with additional signs saying: \"Do Not Touch\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Last year a tourist broke a 19th-Century sculpture while posing for a photo in an Italian museum", "Hundreds of people were seen singing and drinking alcohol outside the Senedd in Cardiff Bay on Friday evening, despite coronavirus restrictions still being in force.\n\nLarge gatherings are banned in Wales under Covid rules, with a maximum of six people from two households allowed to meet outdoors.\n\nThe leader of Cardiff council, Huw Thomas, said he worried about a spike in cases following the gathering.\n\nIt comes after similar scenes earlier in the week when three police officers were injured and litter was left strewn across the ground outside the Welsh Parliament building.", "Professor Jessica Meeuwig, the Director of the Centre for Marine Futures at the University of Western Australia, has told the BBC about her hopes for a new ocean monitoring system.\n\nThe UK government funded project, known as BRUVS, will focus on monitoring marine life in ten British Overseas Territories including Pitcairn and Ascension Island.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Petrol bombs, bricks and bottles were thrown at police\n\nPetrol bombs, bricks and bottles were thrown at police during sustained rioting in the Sandy Row area of Belfast on Friday night.\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said eight officers were injured and seven people arrested.\n\nUp to 100 people had gathered in the Shaftesbury Square area where a loyalist protest had been expected.\n\nTrouble began before 20:00 BST, when fireworks and other missiles were thrown at police.\n\nSpeaking on Friday night, Belfast's PSNI District Commander, Ch Supt Simon Walls, called for calm after a \"small local protest developed into an attack on police\".\n\nHe said objects that had been thrown at officers included \"heavy masonry, metal rods, fireworks and manhole covers\".\n\nOn Saturday morning damage was visible at the scene of the riot\n\nCh Supt Walls said the eight injured officers had sustained \"burns, head and leg injuries\".\n\n\"I am appealing to all those involved to stop this appalling behaviour immediately.\n\n\"Police are trying to protect those living in the Shaftesbury Square, Donegall Road and Sandy Row areas and it is completely unacceptable that my officers are coming under sustained attack.\n\n\"I would encourage anyone who has influence to use it now and stop the rioting before anyone else is injured, or worse.\"\n\nA small crowd of protestors also gathered in Ballymena at the Larne Road Link, which was closed by police along with the Crebilly Road.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Love Ballymena This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 PSNI advised people to avoid Sandy Row when rioting broke out.\n\nPetrol bombs were thrown at police lines, with sustained rioting since about 20:00 BST.\n\nFor several hours, police and rioters, including some young teenagers, played a cat and mouse game through the streets.\n\nOne photographer was injured by flying glass. Some shops and businesses have been damaged.\n\nAt the start, about 12 police vehicles and officers in riot gear corralled rioters into Donegall Road.\n\nA line of police jeeps then blocked access at the junction of Bradbury Place.\n\nDozens of protestors hurled bricks and bottles and a bin, which was set alight, was pushed up against a police vehicle.\n\nOn Friday, a small crowd of protestors also gathered in Ballymena at the Larne Road Link, which was closed by police along with the Crebilly Road.\n\nSpeaking to BBC News NI, Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) MLA Christopher Stalford, whose constituency office is in Sandy Row, said everyone must \"abide by the law\".\n\n\"Given the actions of the deputy first minister, some may think that it's alright to break Covid guidance in relation to public gatherings - that is not the case,\" he said, referring to Sinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill and her attendance at the funeral of Bobby Storey last June.\n\nEarlier this week, the Public Prosecution Service announced that no one would face charges over their attendance at the funeral, provoking a furious political backlash among unionists.\n\nA bin was set on fire and pushed up against a police vehicle\n\n\"We should all abide by the law and I don't want to see a situation where young people end up with a criminal record or their lives destroyed because they've acted out of frustration at recent political developments,\" Mr Stalford added.\n\nUlster Unionist Party leader Steve Aiken pleaded for those involved to \"please stop this violence\".\n\n\"It will not achieve anything, and undermines the legitimate concerns that you have and is damaging our own communities,\" he posted on social media.\n\nSinn Féin West Belfast MP Paul Maskey said \"dangerous and irresponsible rhetoric\" from the DUP and political unionism has \"heightened tensions\".\n\nMr Maskey said it was \"deeply concerning to see these types of incidents at the height of the Covid pandemic and as we are beginning to make good progress\".\n\n\"This is a time for calm heads and responsible leadership,\" he added.\n\nSouth Belfast MP Claire Hanna said it was \"sad to see disorder in Sandy Row\".\n\nShe blamed what she described as \"usual suspects with no vision\" for creating \"tension for electoral gain\".\n\n\"History repeats, people lose hope, kids get criminal records, communities pull apart. There's a better way,\" she said.\n\nStormont's Justice Minister Naomi Long said the disorder was \"in no-one's best interests - not the officers dealing with it and not the mostly young people risking their futures by engaging with it\".\n\n\"It's incumbent on leaders to behave responsibly and dial down the inflammatory rhetoric over recent days,\" the Alliance Party leader tweeted.\n\nThe Police Federation for Northern Ireland, which represents officers, said that \"once again the outworkings of political flux in Northern Ireland results in our colleagues being attacked\".\n\n\"No excuse for violence and condemnation across the political spectrum would be welcome,\" it tweeted.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nPep Guardiola says he will \"never forget this season\" as runaway leaders Manchester City closed in on the Premier League title with victory at third-placed Leicester.\n\nSecond-half goals by Benjamin Mendy and Gabriel Jesus left City requiring 11 points from seven matches to seal a third league crown in four seasons.\n\n\"I love the Premier League more than any other competition. We are close, very close,\" added Guardiola after his team moved 17 points clear at the top.\n\n\"The champions are Liverpool, they have the crown - but we are close to taking it.\"\n\nGuardiola said City's efforts were \"incredible\" given most matches this season have been played without spectators because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"In lockdown without spectators - every game we were there,\" he added. \"I will never forget this season.\"\n\nIn their first match since announcing club-record scorer Sergio Aguero is to leave at the end of the season, Guardiola's free-scoring side were frustrated before Benjamin Mendy broke the deadlock.\n\nFernandinho had a goal disallowed, Kevin de Bruyne's free-kick hit the bar and Riyad Mahrez was denied against his former club by Kasper Schmeichel's save.\n\nHowever, France defender Mendy produced a lovely curling finish after stepping inside a challenge from Marc Albrighton before Gabriel Jesus sealed the points for the visitors from close range.\n\nLeicester thought they had taken the lead on the stroke of half-time through Jamie Vardy but his celebrations were cut short by an offside flag.\n• None Reaction as Man City close in on title plus Premier League latest\n• None How Man City are battling history to land the quadruple\n\nThis was the perfect start to a huge month for Guardiola and his players as they attempt to close in on a historic quadruple.\n\nHaving started April with a controlled, disciplined and impressive win against a team that had taken 16 points off the supposed big six this season, they could end it with the Carabao Cup, and a place in both the FA Cup final and the semi-finals of the Champions League.\n\nIt is no longer a question of if they win the Premier League for the third time in four seasons, but when.\n\nRaheem Sterling, Ilkay Gundogan, Phil Foden and Bernardo Silva started on the bench at the King Power Stadium yet the visitors never looked back once Mendy took advantage of a weak challenge by Albrighton to curl his side ahead.\n\nThe second goal was a joy to watch.\n\nFollowing De Bruyne's defence-splitting pass, Sterling and Jesus played a one-two before the latter poked the ball over the line for his side's 105th goal in 47 matches in all competitions this season.\n\nGuardiola's side have kept more clean sheets (28) and conceded fewer goals (26) in all competitions than any other side in Europe's top five leagues in 2020-21.\n\nThey now turn their attention back to the Champions League, a competition they have yet to win, and the visit of Borussia Dortmund to the Etihad on Tuesday.\n\nOn this evidence, it has hard to see City losing again this season.\n\nTop four hopes still in Leicester's hands\n\nLeicester were unable to recycle the counterattacking masterplan that earned Brendan Rodgers' side a thrilling 5-2 win at the Etihad last September.\n\nThey managed just two attempts on target against the best team in the country but ultimately came up short in their first match after the international break.\n\nChelsea's surprise home defeat by struggling West Brom earlier on Saturday means Leicester's hopes of playing in the Champions League for the second time in six seasons remain very much in their own hands.\n\nThey have responded well to setbacks in the past.\n\nAfter going out of the Europa League in February, the Foxes took seven points from four games and beat Manchester United to reach the FA Cup semi-finals for the first time since 1982.\n\nLeicester continue to flourish under Rodgers but will want to learn the lessons from this defeat and quickly move on, with West Brom, Crystal Palace and Newcastle among the clubs still to visit the King Power before the end of the season.\n\n'We got disorganised' - what they said\n\nLeicester boss Brendan Rodgers: \"For the first hour, we were solid and defensively strong but not as efficient with the ball. We're disappointed with the goals, we got disorganised.\n\n\"We lost to the better team. The players kept going and we had some good chances but we can have no complaints.\n\n\"They are a fantastic team, you see the likes of Raheem [Sterling] coming into the game and he's a world-class player.\n\n\"There's no shame, we won a great game up at their place, we lost today. We'll look at it and we'll have a good week next week.\"\n\nManchester City boss Pep Guardiola: \"We had the goal disallowed, we hit the crossbar, it was quite a similar game to Everton.\n\n\"We had to be patient, don't concede and don't give them chances. We are not going to win in five or 10 minutes, it was important to have patience.\"\n• None Manchester City have won each of their past 15 away games in all competitions and are unbeaten in 18 on the road (W16 D2), last losing an away fixture in November 2020 against Tottenham (2-0 in the Premier League).\n• None Leicester failed to muster a single shot in the first half for the first time in a Premier League game since December 2019 against Liverpool.\n• None Jamie Vardy made his 300th league appearance for Leicester since his debut in August 2012, with the striker scoring 135 goals in those games, 93 more than any other Foxes player in that time.\n• None Benjamin Mendy netted just his second Premier League goal for Manchester City, with those two coming in his past six appearances in the competition, after failing to find the back of the net in his first 39.\n• None Gabriel Jesus has scored in five of his six Premier League appearances against Leicester (5 goals) - only scoring more against Everton (7) in the top flight.\n\nWhile Leicester have a full week to prepare for next Sunday's match at fellow top-four hopefuls West Ham (14:05 BST), Manchester City now turn their thoughts to Europe and a Champions League quarter-final first-leg home tie with Borussia Dortmund on Tuesday (20:00).\n• None Offside, Leicester City. Kasper Schmeichel tries a through ball, but Wesley Fofana is caught offside.\n• None Rodrigo (Manchester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Daniel Amartey (Leicester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. James Maddison (Leicester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Ricardo Pereira. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None A new series of eager entrepreneurs hoping to strike the deal of a lifetime\n• None Epic films for you to choose from this Easter weekend", "The amount of litter left by crowds partying in Cardiff Bay on Good Friday has been branded \"absolutely disgusting\".\n\nClean-up supervisor Tony Tobenas said a crew had to be drafted in especially to deal with the mess on Saturday from about 04:30 BST.\n\n\"The thing is we are supplying the bins for them and they are just not using them - they're just throwing it on the floor,\" he said.\n\nMr Tobenas said crowds had been gathering at the bay from early afternoon since the Welsh government lifted its \"stay local\" ban allowing people to travel further afield within Wales.\n\n\"It is demoralising but it is what it is,\" he said.", "Free climber George King, 21, has been met by police after climbing a skyscraper hotel without safety equipment in Barcelona.\n\nHe has previously spent time in jail for climbing The Shard in London in 2019.", "Lucille Downer was a great grandmother who had spent her working years as a cook in a care home\n\nAn 85-year-old woman died when two large dogs got into her garden through a hole in a fence and attacked her, police said.\n\nThe victim, who has been named as Lucille Downer, suffered a \"sustained\" attack and was found with serious injuries in Rowley Regis on Friday.\n\nShe was a mother, grandmother and great-grandmother and her \"family will miss her dearly\", relatives said.\n\nSupt Phil Asquith said her death was \"tragic and horrific\".\n\nA 43-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of being the person in charge of a dog dangerously out of control.\n\nHe has been bailed while inquiries continue and the dogs are being tested to establish their breed, West Midlands Police said.\n\nMrs Downer's family, who released their statement through the force, said she was born in Jamaica and emigrated to the UK in her early 20s.\n\n\"Since arriving in the UK, Rowley Regis has always been her home and her family will miss her dearly,\" they said.\n\nShe had spent her working years as a cook at a care home in West Bromwich.\n\nFlowers have been put near the scene\n\nFlowers have been placed in her driveway in Boundary Avenue, with one displaying the message \"RIP Nan\".\n\nSupt Asquith, of West Midlands Police, told a press conference earlier that neighbours and family who live nearby responded \"very quickly\" after the dogs escaped from a neighbouring property.\n\n\"The dogs will have unfortunately carried out a fairly sustained attack so there were multiple injuries, mainly caused as a result of the delay in getting into the garden,\" he said.\n\nHe said officers were called to the scene at about 15:20 BST by neighbours who said she was \"under attack from dogs from a neighbouring property\".\n\n\"Our officers attended, by which point the dogs had returned through a hole in the fence to the adjacent property and then, unfortunately, despite the best efforts of medical professionals, that lady died at the scene,\" he said.\n\nPolice have been at the scene since Friday's attack\n\nThe dogs were tranquilised and transported to secure kennels where they were being tested to determine their breed.\n\nSupt Asquith described the dogs as \"large\" but would not speculate on whether or not they were banned under the Dangerous Dogs Act, adding DNA samples had been taken from them.\n\n\"Fortunately, these types of incidents are rare,\" he said.\n\n\"This presented no wider threat to the public. It was a hole in adjacent premises so they weren't running in the streets.\"\n\nSupt Phil Asquith said specialist officers were supporting the victim's family\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n• None Woman in her 80s killed by two escaped dogs\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Social media groups involving teenage girls that led to \"suicidal crises\" and \"serious self-harm\" have been uncovered by police, BBC News has learned.\n\nTwelve girls, aged between 12 and 16 years old and from across southern England, were part of an Instagram chat group whose name refers to suicide.\n\nThe group was discovered when three of the girls went missing and were found seriously unwell in London.\n\nInstagram says it found no suicide or self-harm related content in the group.\n\nBBC News has obtained a police briefing about the investigation which discovered the online groups.\n\nIt says \"peer-to-peer influence increased suicidal ideation amongst the children involved to the extent that several escalated to suicidal crises and serious self-harm.\"\n\nThe group came to the notice of police when three of the girls, who had been reported missing, travelled by train to meet in London.\n\nThey were found seriously unwell in a street and taken by ambulance to hospital for emergency treatment.\n\nOne of the girls mentioned they had first met each other online and discussed suicide, according to the briefing which was published on 25 March.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. After Molly Russell took her own life, her family discovered distressing material about suicide on her Instagram account\n\nPolice officers then examined digital devices to identify the name of the online group and its other members.\n\nSeven of the 12 girls had self-harmed prior to being traced by the police. Children's social care services from seven different local authorities have been involved in safeguarding children identified as members of the group.\n\nBBC News understands that some of the children had met on other social media platforms but were part of a closed Instagram group - a direct message thread - whose title explicitly mentions the words \"suicide\" and \"missing\".\n\nIn November 2020, Instagram introduced new technology to recognise self-harm and suicide content on its app.\n\nFears about the impact of this content on young and vulnerable people been raised since 14-year-old schoolgirl Molly Russell killed herself after seeing graphic images on the platform.\n\nMolly's father, Ian, told the BBC at the time that the \"pushy algorithms\" of social media \"helped kill my daughter\".\n\nFacebook, which owns Instagram, does not deny that the name of the closed group referenced \"suicide\" but says it has not been removed from the platform because the content of the messages does not break its rules.\n\nIn a statement, a company spokesperson said it was co-operating with the police.\n\n\"[We] reviewed reports but found no content that broke our rules, nor in fact any suicide or self-harm related content,\" they said.\n\n\"We don't allow graphic content, or content that promotes or encourages suicide or self-harm, and will remove it when we find it.\n\n\"We'll continue to support the police and will respond to any valid legal request for information.\"\n\nBritish Transport Police, which led the investigation, declined to comment.\n\nIf you've been affected by issues raised in this story, sources of support are available via the BBC Action Line here.\n\nYou can call Samaritans free on 116 123, email them at jo@samaritans.org, or visit www.samaritans.org to find your nearest branch.", "Richard Okorogheye was in the first year of a business and IT degree at Oxford Brookes when he disappeared\n\nPolice have directly appealed to a missing student to get in touch, as a search of a forest near where he was last seen enters a third day.\n\nRichard Okorogheye has not been seen by his family since 22 March, when he left their home in the Ladbroke Grove area.\n\nThe 19-year-old, who has sickle cell disease, took a taxi to Loughton, Essex. He was last seen near Epping Forest on CCTV.\n\nThe Met Police called on Mr Okorogheye \"to let us know you are safe\".\n\nDet Supt Danny Gosling said: \"My message to Richard is clear. Our only concern is your safety.\n\n\"You are not in trouble and have done nothing wrong.\n\n\"If you read or hear this message we would ask you to contact us, or someone you trust, to let us know you are safe.\n\n\"Your loved ones and many other people who you do not even know, are very concerned.\"\n\nThe 19-year-old left home without his medication\n\nMr Okorogheye was seen boarding the number 23 bus southbound in Ladbroke Grove, Kensington, at about 20:45 GMT on 22 March.\n\nHe did not take his medication or any money when he left home.\n\nCCTV footage showed the Oxford Brookes student was dressed all in black and had a black satchel bag with a white Adidas logo across his lower back.\n\nCCTV images show Mr Okorogheye at about 00:30 BST on 23 March walking alone on Smarts Lane, Loughton, towards Epping Forest\n\nHe is now known to have taken a taxi from west London to Loughton where he was then captured on CCTV, walking alone on Smarts Lane towards Epping Forest at 00:39 GMT on 23 March.\n\nA large team of specialist search officers and police dogs have been searching the forest since Thursday.\n\nNothing of relevance to the investigation has been found, police said.", "The Merchant Seaman's Memorial in Cardiff Bay was urinated on and surrounded by smashed beer bottles\n\nA man in the Merchant Navy feels \"filled with rage\" after seeing illegal partygoers in Cardiff Bay urinate on a memorial to merchant seamen.\n\nBradley Jones has been down to clean the memorial - also surrounded by broken bottles on Friday night - saying he \"wouldn't have been able to sleep\".\n\nMr Jones, a tugboat mate, called on Cardiff Council to \"fully protect\" The Merchant Seaman's Memorial.\n\nThe council has now erected security fencing around the memorial.\n\nCardiff Bay has already seen chaos over the Easter bank holiday weekend, with thousands of people drinking and gathering illegally at the steps of the Senedd.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Jones, whose father and uncles were also in the Merchant Navy, said he was sent pictures and videos of the memorial from Friday night because of his connections to it and that it \"really distressed\" him.\n\nHe said: \"I can only describe it as an internal rage, because that memorial is not only a memorial for people we have lost but it's also a memorial for people who don't have a grave or who were lost at sea.\n\n\"It is a place where their family go to and remember them.\n\nCardiff council has responded to the problems by erecting a security fence around the memorial\n\n\"People urinated on it and smashed glass and people just generally disrespected it there.\n\n\"It was really, really painful for me, and it will be painful for a lot people in the Merchant Navy and a lot of people in the general public.\"\n\nMr Jones, 25, went down to the area earlier after police were forced to disperse large crowds from the immediate area on Friday night.\n\nBradley Jones (middle) has family members in the Merchant Navy, including uncles Steve Spear (left) and Michael Spear\n\nHe said he felt \"like he needed to go down there\" to see if there was any permanent damage and to do what he could to clean up.\n\n\"I went down there because I just wouldn't be able to go home to sleep, knowing that,\" he said.\n\n\"The mess was still there, and even though it'd be gone in five or six hours I just wouldn't rest easy until that area was clean.\n\n\"It took me half an hour, I went away still filled with rage, but you know I've done a small part of what I could do, and I just felt that.\n\n\"I'm just calling on the council to fully protect that memorial which is effectively a grave for those who were lost at sea.\"\n\nThe Merchant Seaman's Memorial is in the form of a sleeping face fused with a ship's hull, made by riveting plates of metal together\n\nMr Jones said he knows that \"90% of young people are respectful\" but that the 10% need to \"know that you have that freedom to act in that stupid way because those people lost their lives\".\n\nThe council said the protective fencing around the memorial was erected after teams worked for hours to clean up the bay area.\n\n\"Last night, bins were left unused and the ground was littered with rubbish. Council staff have been on site since the early hours of the morning, working hard to clear and clean the area,\" it added.", "More than one in three teachers told a survey they had been verbally abused\n\nTeachers face \"derogatory sexualised\" language as well as violence and threats from pupils in the classroom, a union conference has heard.\n\nThe NASUWT conference condemned schools and colleges that claim \"unacceptable\" student behaviour is \"part of the job\".\n\nA survey of over 4,700 union members found 38% had been verbally abused, and 10% threatened with violence.\n\n\"We need to reclaim our classrooms, but we cannot do it alone,\" said NASUWT executive member Wendy Exton.\n\nTeachers are often left with no access to appropriate support and many school and college leaders do not receive adequate training, a motion passed at the conference said.\n\nThe website Everyone's Invited has now gathered more than 13,400 testimonies of pupils' experiences.\n\nMs Exton said criminal issues such as drugs, violence, knives and country lines \"spill over\" into the classroom, and go unreported \"as schools are afraid of the repercussions\".\n\nShe said too many excuses were made for poor behaviour, \"from living on a council estate to trauma and even lack of tobacco\".\n\n\"Today's behaviour directed to us as teachers include not only vile language, but derogatory sexualised terms, threats to ourselves and our families, and indeed, violence itself,\" Ms Exton said.\n\n\"In classrooms, many staff are struggling alone with extreme behaviours.\"\n\nThe survey of 4,700 NASUWT members found that in addition to verbal abuse and threats, 6% of teachers had been subjected to physical violence by pupils in the last year.\n\nThe motion at the conference applauded teachers who have balloted for industrial action in order to refuse to teach violent pupils.\n\nRosemary Carabine, another member of the union's executive, questioned why teachers should have to use workplace grievance procedures or industrial action to feel safe at work from \"daily\" threats and aggression, in some cases.\n\nDr Patrick Roach, NASUWT general secretary, said the union was \"unequivocal\" that teachers should not have to endure any form of abuse in the classroom or online.\n\n\"The union is continuing to take steps, up to and including industrial action and refusal to teach ballots, where members report to us that serious pupil indiscipline or abuse is going unchallenged by their school,\" he said.\n\nA spokesperson for the Department for Education said: \"In no circumstances should teachers be subjected to abuse simply for doing their jobs.\"\n\nThe department said it had \"ambitious plans\" to improve behaviour in schools, including making behaviour management a core part of early teacher training, and improving guidance for schools.\n\nIt is also funding £10m \"behaviour hubs\", where schools with \"exemplary behaviour cultures\" share practices with others that want to improve, the spokesperson said.\n\nMeanwhile, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson told the NASUWT conference that investing in the next generation of teachers was \"crucial\" to the pandemic recovery plans.\n\nIn the pre-recorded speech, he said more needs to be done to improve teacher training as the quality of teaching was the \"single most important factor\" in education.", "A mother and daughter reunited in a care home in south London when visiting rules were first eased in March\n\nCare home residents in England will be allowed two regular visitors indoors from 12 April, the government has said.\n\nCurrently people in care homes can have just one face-to-face visitor, but as part of the next step of lockdown easing it will be extended to two.\n\nThey will be able to hold hands - but visitors must be tested and wear PPE.\n\nVisitors will also be able to bring babies and young children with them, meaning some residents could meet grandchildren for the first time.\n\nPeople living in care homes were first allowed one regular, nominated visitor again in early March - leading to many loved ones finally being reunited after lockdown.\n\nThe government has now said that from 12 April - which is the date for the planned next step of lifting lockdown - visitor numbers can be increased because of a drop in community infection rates and the vaccine rollout.\n\nBabies and toddlers will also be able to accompany visitors, and will not be counted as one of the two.\n\nHowever, the age of young children included has yet to be announced and the government said full guidance will be published later this week.\n\nMeanwhile, the essential care giver scheme - whereby relatives or specially trained assistants to residents with particularly complex needs have greater access to a home - will also continue, the government said.\n\nThe scheme was set up to help residents with advanced dementia, some autistic people and residents with a learning disability who needed a particular person to provide certain aspects of their care.\n\nMore than £340m of government funding has been earmarked to extend rapid testing to care homes and free PPE (personal protective equipment) until March 2022.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ruthie Henshall: \"It is beautiful to see the joy in her\"\n\nActor Ruthie Henshall is an essential care giver for her mother Gloria, who has dementia and lives in a care home.\n\nThey were recently reunited as rules on visiting care homes were eased, and Ruthie says that \"the light is back on in her [mother's] eyes\".\n\nShe told BBC Breakfast she was shocked at how much her mother had \"gone downhill\" over the last year, but that the difference in her mental health in just two weeks was \"incredible\".\n\n\"She's saying words again, and she's not been saying anything,\" she said.\n\n\"It is beautiful to see the joy in her and it is absolutely imperative that people get to see their loved ones. We are running out of time with our loved ones.\"\n\nRuthie can now go into the care home and feed her mother lunch, read to her or sing her favourite songs - Someone to Watch Over Me or I Dreamed A Dream.\n\nShe stressed care giving does not always have to be about changing and dressing a loved one. \"It is performing a something for her that is good for her care and wellbeing,\" she said.\n\nRuthie welcomed the announcement on visits, saying it was \"vital that we get family in\".\n\n\"The entertainment, the people, the life. It all comes in, they can't go out,\" she said.\n\nThe government also said that in the coming weeks, some visitors will be able to take tests at home rather than having them done at the care home.\n\n\"Our aim is to make visiting to care homes as normal as possible by the summer,\" said the government's care minister, Helen Whately.\n\nShe said the government continued to \"follow the science\", but that \"things are looking up\".\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson added: \"I'm particularly pleased to allow residents to have more visitors, including grandchildren, given the isolation and concern felt by so many this past year.\"\n\nIn addition, outdoor visits - as well as those inside pods or behind screens - will be able to continue for people who are not nominated as a regular visitor.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Anne Thompson holds hands with her mum Kathleen for the first time in months as care home visiting rules are eased in England in March\n\nThe announcement on visits was welcomed by Mike Padgham, the chairman of industry body the Independent Care Group - but called for residents aged over-65 to be allowed to take trips outside homes.\n\nAccording to the latest government guidance - which is facing a legal challenge - trips to see family or friends \"should only be considered\" for under-65s while national Covid restrictions apply because they increase the risk of bringing Covid into a home.\n\nBut campaigners say the ban is unlawful.\n\nMr Padgham, who runs four homes in North Yorkshire, said: \"It is hard to object to a party of over-65s going out in a minibus, for example, to enjoy a change of scenery and some fresh air, provided they were careful.\n\n\"We would like to see the government give greater guidance on this going forward.\"\n\nIn Scotland, care home residents are allowed to choose two people to visit indoors once a week, while in Wales, indoor care home visits are allowed for one visitor.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, government guidance states that where possible, visiting should be facilitated where there are well ventilated designated rooms or visiting pods - but families are still being denied visits, the nation's older people's commissioner has claimed.\n\nIt comes as a further 52 people died within 28 days of testing positive for coronavirus, according to UK government figures released on Friday - although the data does not include Wales.\n\nThe number of cases also increased by 3,402 - the lowest daily rise reported since mid-September, although again the figures do not include Wales.\n\nMore than 4.9 million people are now fully vaccinated with both doses, while in total 31.3 million first doses have been given.\n\nAs the Easter Bank Holiday began on Friday, Boris Johnson urged people to obey the rules and not mix indoors, even if they are vaccinated.\n\nHow will the increase in visitor numbers at care homes affect you? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also 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.", "Officers were invited inside to address the congregation\n\nA Good Friday service at a Catholic church in south London was shut down for breaching national lockdown restrictions, police said.\n\nMet Police said officers found some worshippers without masks and not socially distancing at Christ the King church on Balham High Road on Friday.\n\nVideo of officers addressing the congregation, from the altar of the church, has been circulating online.\n\nThe church said all \"government requirements have been complied with\".\n\nA representative of Polish Catholic Mission Balham, which runs the church, added worshippers \"obeyed\" the police \"without objection\".\n\n\"We believe, however, that the police have brutally exceeded their powers by issuing their warrant for no good reason,\" the spokesman added.\n\n\"We regret that the rights of the faithful have been wronged on such an important day for every believer, and that our worship has been profaned.\"\n\nOn Saturday, the Archbishop of Southwark, John Wilson, visited the church to discuss the incident.\n\nRector of the Catholic Polish Mission, Stefan Wylezek, said he intended to contact the Met to discuss how the situation was handled.\n\nPolice say they were called to reports of large groups of people queuing outside Christ the King church on Balham High Road\n\nCommunal worship in churches, synagogues, mosques, gurdwaras, temples and meeting rooms is allowed under current government guidance.\n\nThe number allowed at any service is determined by a risk assessment on the building where it is held.\n\nIn a statement, the Met Police said: \"Some people were not wearing masks and those present were clearly not socially distanced.\n\n\"We are particularly concerned about the risk of transmission of the Covid-19 virus as a result of large indoor gatherings at which people are not socially distanced and some are not wearing masks.\n\n\"As such, officers made the decision that it was not safe for that particular service to continue.\"\n\nNo fines were issued to worshippers.\n\nThe Met said it was \"engaging with the church authorities\" in connection with numerous events taking place at the church over the Easter period.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock describes the UK's vaccination programme as \"spectacular\" after the news that more than five million people have received a second dose.\n\nIt means nearly one in 10 adults in the UK has now received both jabs.\n\n\"This is vital so everyone can get the strongest possible protection against Covid-19 as we progress along the road to freedom, allowing us to reclaim the things we love,\" he says.\n\nThe Department of Health says the UK remains on track to achieve the prime minister's target of offering a first dose to those aged 50 and over by mid-April, as well as all adults by the end of July.\n\nVaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi says: \"Vaccines are an incredibly important part of our route out of lockdown and this pandemic, and it's vital people take advantage of the protection they provide.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nFour-time champion jump jockey Richard Johnson has announced his retirement with immediate effect.\n\nThe 43-year-old was in tears as he revealed his shock decision after riding Brother Tedd into third place at Newton Abbot on Saturday.\n\n\"After nearly 30 years in the saddle, the time has come for me to retire,\" he said.\n\nJohnson enjoyed more than 3,800 victories in his career - only AP McCoy has ridden more winners in jump racing.\n\nIn a message to followers of the sport, he said: \"Thank you for every cheer, every shout of encouragement, it's given me enormous strength over the years. I am so very grateful to you all.\"\n\nJohnson finished runner-up 16 times to McCoy in the jockeys' championship, but the pair enjoyed a strong friendship and rivalry.\n\n\"Sometimes those who challenge us the most teach us the best,\" said 20-time champion McCoy on Twitter.\n\n\"You did both to me for over 20 years. I will be forever grateful to you, thanks buddy. When you go home tonight look in the mirror you'll see what a champion looks like. Enjoy your retirement.\"\n\nJohnson, who was in tears when McCoy retired in 2015, went on to be champion jockey himself four years running.\n• None All the entries for Saturday's Grand National\n\nHe won the Cheltenham Gold Cup for a second time in 2018 on Native River, 18 years after scoring with Looks Like Trouble.\n\nOther major triumphs included the Queen Mother Champion Chase with Flagship Uberalles in 2002 and the Champion Hurdle on Rooster Booster a year later.\n\nHis brilliant last-gasp success in the 1999 Stayers' Hurdle on Anzum was the first of his 23 winners at the Cheltenham Festival, and he was an awarded an OBE for services to racing in 2019.\n\nTrainer Philip Hobbs, who saddled many of Johnson's winners, said: \"He's been an amazing role model.\n\n\"You could not get anybody better for future jockeys to see what they need to do, how to conduct yourself and everything that is needed to be a good jockey.\"\n\nFellow trainer Henry Daly said: \"I can honestly say we never had a crossed word - which is astonishing because I'm a grumpy git.\"\n\nThe Herefordshire-born rider, known affectionately as 'Dicky', had more than 20,000 rides over 27 years.\n\nHis final one came on Brother Tedd - the horse he rode to victory in McCoy's farewell race at Sandown six years ago.\n\nTom Scudamore: \"Simply the finest bloke and friend you could wish to have. When I grow up I want to be like Richard Johnson.\"\n\nAidan Coleman: \"Richard Johnson has been my hero from when he spoke to me on my first ever ride, can't find the words to describe what he means to me from both a personal and professional point of view.\"\n\nHarry Skelton: \"Words wouldn't be able to describe how good a person Richard Johnson is. He is the ultimate role model to any human in general life not just a jockey.\"\n\nJonjo O'Neill junior: \"So determined, yet so humble and gracious. People like him just aren't made every day. Strong as an ox, the ultimate champion. Just an unbelievable man.\"\n• None A new series of eager entrepreneurs hoping to strike the deal of a lifetime\n• None Epic films for you to choose from this Easter weekend", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLiverpool thrust themselves firmly back into the battle for a place in the Premier League's top four as they outclassed abject Arsenal at Emirates Stadium.\n\nChelsea's shock thrashing at home to West Brom earlier in the day opened the door for Liverpool - and Jurgen Klopp's men burst straight through it in style with a victory that leaves them in fifth, only two points behind Thomas Tuchel's side.\n\nThe only surprise was that it took dominant Liverpool so long to make their superiority count.\n\nThey finally got the breakthrough they deserved after 64 minutes when Diogo Jota headed Trent Alexander-Arnold's brilliant delivery past Arsenal goalkeeper Bernd Leno moments after he replaced Andy Robertson.\n\nIt was not only the decisive moment of the contest but also a timely reminder of the quality Alexander-Arnold possesses at a time when England manager Gareth Southgate feels he can do without him.\n• None 'A top-four dogfight is not a success - but things look brighter for Liverpool'\n\nLiverpool doubled their lead four minutes later when Mohamed Salah took advantage of poor defending by Arsenal's Gabriel then slid a cool finish through Leno's legs.\n\nJota was the beneficiary of more good work from Alexander-Arnold when he slammed home his second from close range with eight minutes left - by then, though, the game had become a formality.\n\nKlopp said Liverpool \"have to show we are really fighting for it\" when asked about getting back in the running for a Champions League place.\n\n\"It was a very important statement. In our position it is clear, everything that has happened to us this season means we don't have it in our hands,\" he added.\n\n\"We have to win our games and others have to lose but we have to [put] pressure on them. That is what we did with the result but we are still not in. We have to fight and we will fight and that is the statement for us and nobody else.\"\n\nEngland manager Southgate's exclusion of Alexander-Arnold for the opening World Cup qualifiers shocked Klopp - and the defender's performance in north London showed why.\n\nSouthgate currently prefers Chelsea's 21-year-old Reece James, who he seems to regard as the more complete defensive and attacking package, Manchester City's Kyle Walker and Atletico Madrid's Kieran Trippier, believing Alexander-Arnold needs to improve his club form to merit inclusion amid a relatively indifferent season for the Premier League champions as a team.\n\nKlopp is clearly satisfied with Alexander-Arnold, though, and that is hardly surprising after the right-back showed what a threat he offers as Liverpool overpowered Arsenal.\n\nHe showcased his sublime delivery for Jota's opener then demonstrated his energy and awareness to steal back possession high up the pitch in the build-up to the prolific Portugal forward's second goal.\n\nKlopp said afterwards he did not want to \"make another discussion\" but added that \"Alexander-Arnold had showed his class again\".\n\n\"If somebody says Trent is not [in good shape] then I have to say they are wrong, that is all. I am not responsible for [Southgate's] decisions,\" Klopp added.\n\nIt was a display that responded to Southgate's decision to drop him in the perfect manner and suggested England must have serious quality at right-back if Alexander-Arnold is in serious danger of missing Euro 2020.\n\nLiverpool and Klopp had a hugely satisfying night all round. Brazil's Fabinho gave a masterclass in the midfield anchor role, demonstrating what the side missed when he was deputising in central defence to cover for injuries to Virgil van Dijk, Joe Gomez and Joel Matip.\n\nKlopp's side may be in a miserable run of six successive home defeats but their away form is sustaining them and this comfortable three points, on the back of the previous victory at Wolves, gives them real hope of Champions League qualification.\n\nWith a Champions League quarter-final first leg away to Real Madrid on Tuesday, Liverpool suddenly look like a team with renewed purpose and momentum.\n\nLacklustre Arsenal get what they deserve\n\nThe only positive about this Arsenal performance was the fact they kept Liverpool out for 64 minutes - although that was more down to the Premier League champions' lack of cutting edge up than especially good work by the Gunners.\n\nThe hosts were dreadful and fortunate not to be beaten far more heavily. This was miserable stuff from Arsenal.\n\nThe only work Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson, complete with extravagant new moustache, had to do all night was clutch a straightforward shot from substitute Cedric Soares in the second half.\n\nYes, Arsenal lost influential left-back Kieran Tierney right on half-time, but that was no excuse for what Mikel Arteta's side served up. They offered no punch in attack, no fight in midfield and were eventually overwhelmed in defence.\n\nArsenal saved themselves by coming from three goals down to earn a point in their last league game at West Ham but there was never the slightest hope of a comeback against Liverpool.\n\nThey sit in ninth place, four points adrift of Everton having played two games more, and much now rests on their Europa League quarter-final against Slavia Prague.\n\nThey will have to produce much better than they did here, their night summed up by the anonymous performance of main striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, who spent much of his game as an auxiliary left-back before being substituted.\n\n'I take the blame, it's my responsibility' - what they said\n\nArsenal boss Mikel Arteta: \"They were better in every department. I take the blame, it's my responsibility. They were the best team by far. They won by three goals and it could have been more.\n\n\"They won every duel, every second ball, every challenge. To be fair, I'm in shock. I didn't expect that one coming. It's my job to make things better. Today we hit a really low level. It was not acceptable.\n\n\"For sure we cannot hit that level again. When you represent this club you have to stand up and take the challenge.\"\n\nLiverpool boss Jurgen Klopp: \"As a package it was a good performance. We finished our situations off. Arsenal were not really in the game for the whole 95 minutes. That was down to us.\n\n\"We had to keep going and keep the momentum. I wasn't frustrated at half-time. We had to work hard and when you do that you have a good chance of winning.\n\n\"When people talk about you in the wrong way, you want to react. It was a sensational cross by Trent for the [first] goal.\"\n\nReds continue fine form on the road - the stats\n• None Each of Liverpool's last six Premier League victories have come away from home. In their league history, this is only the second time they've had such a run, with each of their six wins between February and August 1955 all coming on the road.\n• None Mohamed Salah has been directly involved in nine goals in nine Premier League appearances against Arsenal, scoring seven and assisting two more.\n• None Liverpool registered their biggest margin of victory in an away top-flight match against Arsenal.\n• None Premier League matches between Arsenal and Liverpool have now produced 169 goals, more than any other fixture in the competition's history.\n• None Arsenal have only picked up one victory from their last 12 Premier League matches against Liverpool (D4 L7).\n• None This was Mikel Arteta's 50th Premier League game in charge of Arsenal (W21 D12 L17), with the Spaniard losing four more games in that period than his predecessor Unai Emery.\n\nLiverpool play the away leg of their Champions League quarter-final against Real Madrid on Tuesday (20:00 BST) before hosting Aston Villa in the Premier League next Saturday (15:00).\n\nArsenal's Europa League home leg against Slavia Prague takes place on Thursday (20:00), after which they visit Sheffield United in the Premier League on Sunday (19:00).\n• None Attempt saved. Sadio Mané (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Mohamed Salah.\n• None Attempt missed. Sadio Mané (Liverpool) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Trent Alexander-Arnold with a cross following a set piece situation.\n• None Gabriel Magalhães (Arsenal) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Diogo Jota (Liverpool) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Offside, Liverpool. Diogo Jota tries a through ball, but Sadio Mané is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Thomas Partey (Arsenal) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Goal! Arsenal 0, Liverpool 3. Diogo Jota (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Sadio Mané.\n• None Attempt saved. Georginio Wijnaldum (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt saved. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Roberto Firmino with a through ball. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None A new series of eager entrepreneurs hoping to strike the deal of a lifetime\n• None Epic films for you to choose from this Easter weekend", "A police van patrols on the promenade next to Brighton Beach, East Sussex, on Good Friday\n\nPeople should not socialise indoors with other households even if they are vaccinated, Boris Johnson has said.\n\nAs the Easter Bank Holiday weekend began, the PM said \"we're not yet at that stage\" as coronavirus vaccines \"are not giving 100% protection\".\n\nPolice forces across England have also called for people to obey the rules over the bank holiday.\n\nIt is the first weekend since England's rules were relaxed to allow outside gatherings of more than two people.\n\nWith groups of up to six or two households allowed to meet, councils and police forces are preparing for beauty spots and parks to be busy.\n\nBut, despite unseasonably warm weather earlier this week, the weekend is forecast to be mild before temperatures drop further from Sunday, with a warning of snow in northern Scotland.\n\nRules have also recently been relaxed in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland - with people also allowed to meet outside in small groups.\n\nIn a video published on Twitter to answer questions about the rule changes, the prime minister addressed the question: Can I meet family and friends indoors if they are vaccinated?\n\n\"I'm afraid the answer is no, because we're not yet at that stage,\" he said.\n\n\"We're still very much in a world where you can meet friends and family outdoors under the rule of six or two households.\n\n\"And even though your friends and family members may be vaccinated, the vaccines are not giving 100% protection, and that's why we just need to be cautious.\n\n\"We don't think that they entirely reduce or remove the risk of transmission.\"\n\nHe later tweeted: \"This Easter weekend, please remember that outdoors is generally much safer than indoors.\"\n\nPeople wrapped in blankets as they took a punt tour along the River Cam in Cambridge on Good Friday\n\nAnd despite the milder weather, people gathered on Brighton Beach\n\nMore than 4.9 million people in the UK have now been fully vaccinated - receiving both doses - while 31.3 million first doses have been given.\n\nPfizer said its vaccine prevented 91% of coronavirus cases in the six months after people are given their second dose.\n\nMeanwhile, a recent study found a single dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab offered 76% protection for three months, and this went up to 82% after the second dose.\n\nSeveral police forces have also issued warnings ahead of the bank holiday. The Metropolitan Police said officers will be \"highly visible\" in open spaces in London to remind people in groups of more than six that they could be fined.\n\n\"After a long and difficult few months, let's not undo all of that hard work now,\" said Deputy Assistant Commissioner Jane Connors.\n\n\"We can expect to see parks and beauty spots busier than usual,\" she said, adding: \"Don't crowd in open spaces and do follow the rule of six, or, only meet up with one other household.\"\n\nOther forces have said they will be patrolling parks and beaches, with Merseyside Police planning to remind people that alcohol is banned at some beaches.\n\nAlso pleading with people to follow the rules, Sussex Police said: \"Warm blankets and hot drinks are the way forward this weekend - not bringing friends or family into your home.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Police Scotland said if anyone was visiting their local beauty spots, they should do \"safely and respectfully\".\n\nRules have been relaxed in Scotland, where the \"stay at home\" order has been lifted and replaced with \"stay local\".\n\nIn Wales, since last weekend people have been allowed to meet groups of six or two households outdoors, as well as travel within the country for holidays with their own household.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, up to six people from two households are allowed to meet in a private garden and 10 people in public spaces.\n\nIt comes as a further 52 people died within 28 days of testing positive for coronavirus, according to UK government figures released on Friday - although the data does not include Wales.\n\nThe number of cases has increased by 3,402 - the lowest since mid-September.\n\nPolice officers monitored people enjoying the warm weather on Wednesday at the Forest Recreation Ground in Nottingham\n\nThe small strip of sand at Chalkwell Beach, Southend, appeared busy on Wednesday\n\nEarlier this week, parks an beaches were busy as the UK saw a spell of warm weather, including its hottest March day since 1968 as temperatures topped 24.5C on Tuesday.\n\nTwo parks in Nottingham were closed after large crowds failed to socially distance and left rubbish behind.\n\nForecasters predict that this weekend will be milder, ahead of air from the Arctic moving in from Sunday night and bringing colder weather across the UK - with even gales and snow possible in some areas.\n\nA yellow weather warning predicting heavy snow showers has been issued for northern Scotland from 18:00 BST on Sunday.\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 Premier League\n\nMatheus Pereira and Callum Robinson scored twice as struggling West Brom overwhelmed 10-man Chelsea and emphatically ended the 14-match unbeaten start to Thomas Tuchel's tenure at Stamford Bridge.\n\nThe Baggies were as brilliant as the Blues, who had Thiago Silva sent off in the 29th minute, were abject.\n\nThe result moves the 19th-placed side to within seven points of 17th-placed Newcastle, and even if they do not manage the improbable and escape relegation, they will look back on this day with great pride.\n\nTuchel said he \"did not see the second half coming\". His side took the lead through Christian Pulisic in the 27th minute, but then lost Thiago and conceded twice in first-half stoppage time before West Brom inflicted further damage after the break.\n\n\"There is no need to concede five goals when you have our quality,\" he told BBC Sport. \"We are all in on that - myself included.\n\n\"We could not adapt to the situation, which is a surprise as we were leading. We are normally confident enough to defend, but we were sloppy and kept making big mistakes. It's tough to digest.\n\n\"I did not see that second half coming. We tried to give a bit of security with a back three, but we were never in a flow. We had some chances but we didn't defend well.\"\n\nTwo minutes after Pulisic was quickest to react when Marcos Alonso's free-kick came off the post, Thiago was shown a second yellow for a rash challenge on Okay Yokuslu.\n\nThat was followed by a horror show in first-half stoppage time as Pereira took centre stage. The Brazilian's first effort was a cute finish over Edouard Mendy before he finished off a gorgeous move with a low strike between three defenders. In between those goals, Matt Phillips produced a strike that came off the woodwork.\n\nWest Brom then went for the jugular after the break as substitute Robinson made it 3-1 with a sensational side-foot volley before Mbaye Diagne finished off a sweet move with an even sweeter strike.\n\nEngland midfielder Mason Mount, brought on at half-time, tapped in to reduce the deficit but the Baggies resisted other Chelsea threats before Robinson capped off a great day for the visitors with a clipped finish.\n\n\"I am delighted - not only with the win, but the style,\" Allardyce said.\n\n\"It has been coming for a while, but our lack of finishing has cost us. What we saw today is what we have been missing. The quality of our goals and our football brought us a fantastic result. We were desperate for it.\n\n\"We started really well, we pressed and didn't sit back. I had three weeks to think about this game and sort the tactics. We said, 'Let's go, let's go challenge them' and it worked extremely well.\"\n• None Reaction to the match at Stamford Bridge\n\nWas this Thomas Tuchel's first major tactical misjudgement?\n\nHis reasons for leaving some first-team regulars from the first XI, including Mount and Kai Havertz, was because he wanted the freshest legs on the pitch because of the extra exertions of his benched players during the international break.\n\nThose who started might have been sharper physically, but they were mentally sluggish at times with Thiago paying the biggest price.\n\nIt was a risk to start the 36-year-old Brazilian, who had just returned from two months out with an injury. He took 'one for the team' when he pulled back Pereira on the edge of the area, but his second booking was inexcusable for a player of his stature.\n\nDane Andreas Christensen, who had deputised for Thiago, came on as midfielder Hakim Ziyech made way.\n\nStriker Timo Werner came into the match short of confidence and having missed a 'sitter' for Germany against North Macedonia. He probably wished he reacted as quickly as Pulisic did for the Blues goal, although he did set up Mount's goal.\n\nBy that stage, both he and his team-mates were probably wishing they were still on international duty.\n\nA side who had conceded only two goals in Tuchel's previous 14 games were outwitted and embarrassed by one who had struggled to score this season.\n\nChelsea have four days to recover before they face Porto in the Champions League quarter-finals.\n\nThis was the perfect storm for West Brom - a day when their players were on song in contrast to their counterparts.\n\nPereira has been one of the shining lights for the Baggies during this difficult season, and even though he only signed a permanent deal last summer it might prove difficult to hang on to him if they go down.\n\nThe timing of his run for the first goal from goalkeeper Sam Johnstone's punt downfield was perfection, as was his clinical finish for the second.\n\nRobinson, who only came on in the 37th minute for the injured Branislav Ivanovic, immediately adapted to the momentum of his team. His finish for West Brom's third was the pick of the bunch.\n\nAllardyce has never experienced relegation from the Premier League during his long managerial career - if he maintains that record this season then it will arguably be his greatest feat.\n• None Chelsea have conceded eight goals in their two games against West Brom in the Premier League this season, the most they have shipped against one side in a single campaign in the competition.\n• None Chelsea conceded five-plus goals in a home Premier League game for only the second time, last doing so against Arsenal in October 2011 (3-5).\n• None Allardyce is the first manager to win away at Stamford Bridge in the Premier League with three different clubs (Bolton Wanderers, Crystal Palace, West Brom).\n• None Chelsea conceded at home under Tuchel for the first time in all competitions, in the Blues' eighth game at Stamford Bridge with the German coach in charge.\n• None Pulisic's opener for Chelsea was his first for the Blues in his last 21 appearances in all competitions, since netting against Leeds in December in the Premier League.\n• None Thiago's red card on 29 minutes was Chelsea's earliest in the Premier League since August 2017 when Gary Cahill was sent off against Burnley after just 14 minutes.\n• None Johnstone is the first goalkeeper to provide a Premier League assist for West Brom and just the second to do so this season, after Ederson for Manchester City v Tottenham in February.\n• None Pereira's two goals for West Brom came just two minutes and 46 seconds apart, with these the Brazilian's first goals in nine league games.\n• None Robinson is the first player in Premier League history to score at least twice in home and away games against Chelsea within a single season.\n\nChelsea are at Porto on Wednesday in their Champions League quarter-final first leg (20:00 BST) before they travel to Crystal Palace next Saturday (17:30). West Brom host Southampton in the league, a week on Monday (18:00).\n• None Goal! Chelsea 2, West Bromwich Albion 5. Callum Robinson (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from the right side of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Matheus Pereira with a through ball.Goal confirmed following VAR Review.\n• None Attempt blocked. Mbaye Diagne (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Callum Robinson.\n• None Offside, West Bromwich Albion. Kyle Bartley tries a through ball, but Matt Phillips is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Mason Mount (Chelsea) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Kai Havertz.\n• None Attempt blocked. Timo Werner (Chelsea) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Andreas Christensen.\n• None Attempt missed. Okay Yokuslu (West Bromwich Albion) header from very close range is just a bit too high. Assisted by Matheus Pereira with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Kurt Zouma (Chelsea) left footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Timo Werner with a headed pass following a corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None A new series of eager entrepreneurs hoping to strike the deal of a lifetime\n• None Epic films for you to choose from this Easter weekend", "Student Isidora Jovanovic was disgusted when she went for a walk in Cardiff Bay and saw bottles, cans and food packaging thrown everywhere.\n\nSo the 24-year-old decided to take action and has launched a petition asking Cardiff council to provide more bins.\n\n\"Although 100% the onus is on us to clear up our rubbish, I think that putting some more bins there could really help,\" she said.\n\nMichael Michael, Cardiff council's cabinet member for clean streets, recycling and the environment, said more than 1,100 large bins had already been added to tackle the litter problem.", "Emma Caldwell's body was found in May 2005\n\nA woman has come forward claiming she was attacked twice by a man later identified as a prime suspect in the murder of Emma Caldwell.\n\nShe claims one of the attacks happened in the same remote woods where Ms Caldwell's body was found in 2005.\n\nThe woman, who worked as a street prostitute, told police the man who attacked her was Iain Packer.\n\nShe also named him in a \"Beware Book\" used by street workers to warn others against violent and abusive clients.\n\nEmma Caldwell had been a sex worker in Glasgow's red-light district when she disappeared on 4 April 2005.\n\nThe 27-year-old's body was found five weeks later, 40 miles away in woods near Roberton in South Lanarkshire.\n\nShe was naked and had been strangled.\n\nFour Turkish men were arrested and charged with her murder, however the case later collapsed and they were all released.\n\nSixteen years later no-one has been convicted of Emma's murder.\n\nA BBC investigation has now discovered at least four sex workers told police they were also taken to the same remote woodland by a client in the months before Emma was killed.\n\nTwo of the women said they were forced to strip and were left terrified by him. All identified the same man as being their alleged attacker.\n\nThe man they all picked out from police photobooks is 48-year-old Iain Packer.\n\nMr Packer was questioned six times by police during the investigation into Emma's murder and admitted to police that he had taken her and at least five other women to the remote woods for sex.\n\nIn 2019 he featured in a BBC Disclosure programme, during which he insisted to journalist Sam Poling that he had never been violent towards any women and denied having killed Emma Caldwell.\n\nDays after the interview, he was arrested and later convicted for attacking his former partner by choking her.\n\nOne woman, who spoke to the BBC for a new podcast series investigating the murder said that she identified her attacker to police in 2005 and also named the man in a logbook kept by a drop-in support service for women involved in street prostitution.\n\nA BBC investigation has discovered at least four sex workers told police they were taken to the same remote woodland\n\nThe logbook, known as the 'Beware Book', was a collection of warnings from prostitutes to other women about dangerous clients.\n\nThe woman, who asked not to be identified, has told the BBC that she was taken down to the Roberton woods by a client - whom she later identified as Packer - where he was sexually violent with her.\n\nShe said she named him in the logbook in the months before Ms Caldwell went missing and again to police in the weeks after her body was found.\n\nShe said he also picked her up from Glasgow's red-light district and took her to Pollok Park in the south of the city where he raped and beat her.\n\nFor the past four years, I have investigated the murder of Emma Caldwell.\n\nI have examined closely the police's botched inquiry into who killed her, and I have exposed a man whom I grew to believe was a prime suspect.\n\nWhen I began working on a podcast into Emma's case, I wanted to try to speak with as many women as possible who had lived and worked in the same world she did.\n\nEmma had turned to prostitution to fund her drugs habit and lived in a women's hostel in Glasgow. She had few friends but I managed to track down a number of those whom she was close with.\n\nI never expected to hear what I did. There wasn't a single woman I spoke to who hadn't been raped while selling sex on the streets of Glasgow. There wasn't a single woman who hadn't been beaten, attacked and humiliated.\n\nThe stories they told me spoke of a world in which the women lived with only a hopeful expectation of survival, not a guaranteed one.\n\nOne woman would pull out a strand of her hair whenever she got into a client's car. She would lean back and discreetly rub it into the carpet behind the passenger seat.\n\nShe hoped it would give police a forensic trail of her last movements. She knew it wouldn't save her life but it would maybe help find those who took it.\n\nAnother woman would ensure she kept the used condoms after sex with every client. She would secretly drop them where they had had sex, knowing both their DNA was on it.\n\nThat they had to live like this, I found difficult. But worse was hearing how the women were treated by those whose job it was to protect them - the police.\n\nThe women spoke of reporting rapes and attacks to the police and said they were rarely believed. They said they felt silenced, as though their voices were worthless.\n\nYet some of these women had vital information about Emma's case.\n\nSeveral spoke of a violent client who had taken them to the same woods where Emma's body had been found.\n\nOne woman described repeatedly being taken down a motorway by a client she was scared of. Four women picked the same man out of a photobook, stating he had been violent to them.\n\nI investigated all of this, and the evidence I found pointed to one man as a prime suspect - Iain Packer.\n\nHe was the man all these women had either named or identified from police photobooks.\n\nEverything I learned suggested he was a sexually violent man who had raped women. I even discovered evidence which alleged he had raped Emma in the months before she went missing.\n\nPacker himself admitted to police that he had taken several women - including Emma - down to the woods where her body was found.\n\nDespite the women repeatedly telling police about their violent experiences with Packer, the police arrested and charged four Turkish men. The case against them collapsed within months.\n\nIt is 16 years today since Emma went missing and no-one has been convicted for her murder.\n\nThe women I have spoken to say they feel angry and betrayed. They want to know why their experiences and their testimonies were ignored.\n\nAnd it's a question I'd like answered too.\n\nConcerns over the conduct of the Emma Caldwell murder inquiry were such that in 2015, Scotland's public prosecutor, the Lord Advocate, ordered Police Scotland to re-investigate not only who killed Emma Caldwell, but also what went wrong in the original investigation.\n\nIn a statement to the BBC, Police Scotland said the case remained open and a team of detectives continued to examine the circumstances of Ms Caldwell's death.\n\nA report was sent by Police Scotland to the Crown Office in June 2018 and, following further guidance received from the Crown Office, Police Scotland said the investigation continues.\n\nThe Crown Office said it could not comment on a live investigation.", "Two doses have now been given to 9.9% of adults, government figures show\n\nMore than five million people in the UK have received a second dose of a Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nThe latest figures show an additional 246,631 second doses, bringing the total to 5.2 million.\n\nIt means 9.9% of over-18s have received both injections. First doses have been given to 31.4 million people.\n\nAs the vaccination programme takes effect, daily reported deaths fell to 10, their lowest number since 14 September.\n\nHowever, reporting lags may mean lower than usual figures for deaths because of the bank holiday.\n\nThe UK also reported another 3,423 confirmed coronavirus cases.\n\nIn a post on Twitter, Prime Minister Boris Johnson welcomed the \"milestone\" in the vaccination programme, adding: \"I urge everyone to take up their second dose as soon as they are offered it.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said it meant that 50% of over-80s have now had their second jab.\n\nIt comes as the UK begins to relax some coronavirus restrictions.\n\nEngland has allowed gatherings outside of up to six people or as two households since Monday, while the reopening of outdoor hospitality and all shops is planned from 12 April.\n\nRules on visits to care homes in England will also be relaxed from 12 April to allow two regular visitors indoors, the government has announced.\n\nWales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have also begun to allow outdoor socialising.\n\nBut Mr Johnson has warned people against mixing with other households indoors over the Easter weekend, even if they have been vaccinated.\n\nThe number of second doses given has exceeded the figure for people getting their first jab on each of the last four days, as the government focuses on fully vaccinating the priority groups.\n\nVaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi said that vaccinating the most vulnerable groups would address 99% of mortality from Covid-19.\n\nThe figure of 107,420 for first doses on Friday was the lowest since the government began publishing daily updates, although the bank holiday may have reduced available appointments.\n\nVaccinations and ongoing lockdown restrictions also mean the number of Covid patients in hospital has fallen to 3,536 at the last UK-wide count, its lowest level since 5 October.\n\nDr Nikki Kanani, GP and medical director for primary care at NHS England, said the latest figures were a testament to the work of volunteers and medical staff on \"the biggest vaccination programme in NHS history\" and \"the fastest in Europe\".\n\nThe prime minister has warned that the UK does not know \"exactly how strong\" its defences will be against a new wave of Covid-19 cases, as countries in Europe face rising infections and a slow vaccine rollout.\n\nItaly has begun a strict three-day lockdown over Easter as it battles a third wave with about 20,000 cases a day.\n\nFrance has also announced a third national lockdown, lasting for at least three weeks, as it faces a peak of about 5,000 people in intensive care.", "The FA Cup semi final and final at Wembley Stadium in London will form part of the pilots\n\nThe government is to trial a series of measures in England, including Covid passports, to allow the safe return of sports matches, events and nightclubs.\n\nPasses would show if a person had been vaccinated, had a recent negative test, or natural immunity.\n\nTrial events in the coming months will also explore how ventilation and testing before and after could help crowds return.\n\nAny use of passes would be \"time-limited\", the sports minister has said.\n\nThe pilots, which will include the FA Cup final, will last until mid-May, and some of the listed events will not be trialling vaccination certification, including those taking place in Liverpool.\n\nSports Minister Nigel Huddleston described the trials as a \"learning experience\", saying no decisions had yet been made on processes or vaccination certificates.\n\nHe said the earlier pilots \"almost certainly won't involve any element of certification\", and that the government would also be looking at mitigations such as one-way systems and hygiene measures.\n\nMr Huddleston said the PM would receive a report on the trials at the end of May, and suggested further events could be added later in the year.\n\nThe plans come as the UK reported another 2,297 cases and 10 deaths within 28 days of a positive test - although Wales and Northern Ireland were not reporting data.\n\nMore than 31.5 million people have received a first dose of the vaccine, and nearly 5.4m have received both jabs, according to the latest government figures. All adults are due to be offered vaccination by the end of July, the government has said.\n\nMeanwhile, Downing Street has confirmed countries will be in a risk-based \"traffic light\" system when foreign holidays resume.\n\nThe pilots will include the FA Cup semi final and final in London's Wembley Stadium, the World Snooker Championship in Sheffield, a mass participation run at Hatfield House in Hertfordshire, and several events in Liverpool including an evening at a nightclub, a business conference and a cinema screening in the city.\n\nThe FA Cup final will be using certification.\n\nThe first pilot event will be a comedy night in Liverpool on 16 April where audience members will be tested for Covid before and after the show.\n\nThe University of Liverpool's Prof Iain Buchan, who will be helping run the city's trials, told BBC Breakfast taking part would involve giving consent when booking a ticket, receiving text messages about Covid safety, minimising your contacts before the event, and getting tested as close to the event as possible.\n\nProf Buchan added that people would be told not to attend if they developed any symptoms and the events would be held in well-ventilated places.\n\nAfter the event, people would be asked to minimise their contacts and get another test five days later, for the purposes of research, he said.\n\nDates have been set for pilots that might determine how we get back into big events - although it was a slightly confused picture earlier in terms of exactly which venues would be trialling what.\n\nThe details, it seems, are still being ironed out. Notable by its absence from the plans, for now, is any mention of pubs.\n\nThe freedom to head to your local for a pint had become something of a focal point over fears of a \"checkpoint society\".\n\nNot long ago, Boris Johnson suggested it could be up to individual landlords on whether they wanted to ask for proof of someone's Covid status.\n\nRegardless of whether that idea's quietly on the backburner or gone for good, there's still doubt in the Tory ranks.\n\nOne MP tells me they still have plenty of reservations, although they could possibly get their head around temporary plans for larger events only. Another says they remain firmly against any kind of domestic certification.\n\nThe government, however, has given itself a bit of time to chew everything over - whether that means the results of the pilots or the political mood.\n\nNews of the trials, particularly Liverpool's nightclub pilot, was welcomed by industry body the Night Time Industries Association.\n\nBut NTIA chief executive Michael Kill called for further trials across a wider scope of businesses in the sector, expressing concern \"that this will only give an acute view of the challenges faced within such unique environments where one size does not fit all\".\n\nThe NHS is said to be working on a system to allow people to demonstrate their status through an app or paper certificate.\n\nThe government said it was also working with clinical and ethical experts on exemptions for people for whom vaccination is not advised and repeat testing would be difficult.\n\nNo 10 said it did not want the scheme, which it is describing as \"Covid-status certification\", to be used on public transport or in essential shops.\n\nBusinesses in England which can reopen in the coming weeks, including pubs, restaurants and non-essential retail will not have to use the system for now.\n\nHowever, sources say requiring a certificate to access hospitality further down the line - perhaps to reduce the need for social distancing - has not been ruled out.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said the government was doing everything it could to ensure people could return to events and travel \"as safely as possible\".\n\nCabinet Office Minister Michael Gove, who is leading the review into the use of Covid passports, has called certification for international travel an \"inevitability\".\n\nWriting in the Sunday Telegraph, he also said it could also be a \"valuable aid\" in reopening parts of the domestic economy faster.\n\nHowever, critics, including more than 40 Tory MPs and privacy campaigners, have suggested a Covid passport scheme could be \"discriminatory and counterproductive\".\n\nFormer Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who now sits as an independent, and senior Tory Iain Duncan Smith are among a broad coalition of MPs who have pledged their opposition.\n\nTheir concerns have been echoed by leading scientists, including infectious diseases expert Dr Mike Tildesley, who said he was \"very much against the idea of domestic travel passports at the moment\" when many people have not been offered the vaccine and uptake was inconsistent among communities.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast he recognised the need for security so that mass events could resume but said we need \"a fair system that isn't discriminating against certain members of society\".\n\nProf Melinda Mills, director of the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science at the University of Oxford, also appeared on the programme, and said there were \"still a lot of open questions\" about the scheme.\n\nThey included practical questions and ethical ones, she said, such as: \"Do I have to pay for the testing if I haven't been vaccinated or had that opportunity?\"\n\nThe sociologist acknowledged the scheme could work as an incentive for people to get vaccinated, but added that it could also inspire forgery if paper documents are used.\n\nWhile the proposed plans cover England only, the government is discussing the scheme with Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nUnder the government's plan to ease England's lockdown, legal limits on social contact could be lifted by 21 June, if strict conditions are met.\n\nThe government said its risk-based traffic-light system for international travel would \"help ensure the UK's vaccine progress isn't jeopardised and provide clear guidance for travellers\".\n\nInternational leisure travel will not be allowed until 17 May at the earliest.\n\nAfter this point, travellers from countries in the green category will not have to isolate, although pre-departure and post-arrival tests will still be needed.\n\nFor countries assigned red and amber, restrictions would remain as they are now, with arrivals required to enter quarantine or self-isolation.\n\nThe list of countries included in each category will be drawn up closer to the time, and the government continues to advise people not to book summer holidays abroad.\n\nFurther detail on international travel will be provided on Monday, along with information about a review into social distancing - which is examining how and when distancing requirements and the working from home guidance could be lifted, and whether Covid certification could facilitate changes to the rules.", "A UK ticket-holder has won Friday's £122m EuroMillions jackpot - scooping the fifth biggest ever National Lottery win.\n\nThe lucky winner matched all seven numbers - the five EuroMillions as well as the two Lucky Star numbers.\n\nCamelot said a ticket-holder has staked a claim for the prize, which will be paid out once it has been validated.\n\nThe win would put the player in the top 1,000 on the Sunday Times rich list 2020.\n\nThe full prize amount is £122,550,350.80 and the winning numbers were 04, 21, 34, 40, 47, with the Lucky Star numbers 02 and 05.\n\nIt is the second UK EuroMillions jackpot winner this year, after someone won the £39m jackpot in the draw on New Year's Day.\n\nBritain's richest ever lottery winner secured a jackpot of £170m in October 2019. They chose to stay anonymous.\n\nThe second highest prize - £161m - went to Colin and Chris Weir, from North Ayrshire, Scotland, in 2011.\n\nThe following year, Adrian and Gillian Bayford, from Suffolk, won £148m.\n\nThe fourth highest UK winner, who also chose to remain anonymous, took home £123m in 2019.\n\nThe highest amount ever won in the EuroMillions was in February when a Swiss player took home 210 million euros (£180m).\n\nTickets for EuroMillions are sold in nine countries - the UK, France, Spain, Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Irish Republic, Portugal and Switzerland - with ticket-holders in all those countries trying to win a share of the same jackpot each week.", "The asteroid impact 66 million years ago led not just to the extinction of dinosaurs, but other forms of life\n\nThe asteroid impact that killed off the dinosaurs gave birth to our planet's tropical rainforests, a study suggests.\n\nResearchers used fossil pollen and leaves from Colombia to investigate how the impact changed South American tropical forests.\n\nAfter the 12km-wide space rock struck Earth 66 million years ago, the type of vegetation that made up these forests changed drastically.\n\nThe team has outlined its findings in the prestigious journal Science.\n\nCo-author Dr Mónica Carvalho, from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institution in Panama, said: \"Our team examined over 50,000 fossil pollen records and more than 6,000 leaf fossils from before and after the impact.\"\n\nThey found that cone-bearing plants called conifers and ferns were common before the huge asteroid struck what is now the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico.\n\nBut after the devastating impact, plant diversity declined by roughly 45% and extinctions were widespread, particularly among seed-bearing plants.\n\nWhile the forests recovered over the next six million years, angiosperms, or flowering plants, came to dominate them.\n\nModern tropical rainforests are dense, with thick canopies - unlike those of the late Cretaceous Period\n\nThe structure of tropical forests also changed as a result of this transition. During the late Cretaceous Period, when the dinosaurs were still alive, the trees that made up the forests were widely-spaced. The top parts did not overlap, leaving open sunlit areas on the forest floor.\n\nBut post-impact, forests developed a thick canopy that allowed much less light to reach the ground.\n\nSo how did the impact transform the sparse, conifer-rich tropical forests of the dinosaur age into the rainforests of today, with their towering trees dotted with multi-coloured blossoms and orchids?\n\nBased on their analysis of the pollen and leaves, the researchers propose three different explanations.\n\nFirstly, dinosaurs could have kept the forest from growing too dense by feeding on and trampling plants growing in the lower levels of the forest.\n\nA second explanation is that falling ash from the impact enriched soils throughout the tropics, giving an advantage to faster-growing flowering plants.\n\nThe third explanation is that the preferential extinction of conifer species created an opportunity for flowering plants to take over.\n\nThese ideas, say the team, aren't mutually exclusive, and could all have contributed to the outcome we see today.\n\n\"The lesson learned here is that under rapid disturbances... tropical ecosystems do not just bounce back; they are replaced, and the process takes a really long time,\" said Dr Carvalho.", "The former Royal Ballet dancer had faced allegations of sexual misconduct\n\nLiam Scarlett, the internationally-known choreographer who left the Royal Ballet last year after claims of sexual misconduct, has died at the age of 35.\n\nHis family called it a \"tragic, untimely death\". The cause of death has not been disclosed.\n\nA day earlier, the Royal Danish Theatre had reportedly cancelled his show over allegations of unacceptable behaviour.\n\nThe Royal Ballet cleared him after an independent investigation, but the British choreographer left the company.\n\nScarlett had joined the Royal Ballet in 2006 as a dancer and retired six years later to dedicate himself to choreography. The artist-in-residence was responsible for creating some of the company's major recent shows, including a new production of Swan Lake in 2018.\n\nHis work also included Despite, and Consolations and Liebestraum.\n\nBut he was suspended from his post in August 2019 after the allegations of misconduct with students emerged. Australia's Queensland Ballet also cancelled work with him as a result.\n\nOn Friday, the Royal Danish Theatre announced it was cancelling a planned production of the ballet Frankenstein, for which Scarlett was the guest choreographer, over alleged misconduct towards its staff in 2018 and 2019, the Times reported.\n\nIn a statement announcing the death, the family said: \"At this difficult time for all of our family, we would ask that you respect our privacy to enable us to grieve our loss.\"\n\nThe Royal Opera House said on Twitter: \"Our thoughts are with his friends and family at this very sad time.\"\n\nThe Royal Ballet said it was \"deeply saddened to hear the news of Liam Scarlett's death\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Vladimir Putin's most prominent critic, Alexei Navalny, was jailed in February\n\nDoctors for the jailed Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny say he \"will die within the next few days\" if not given medical attention.\n\nDoctors say recent blood test results indicate he could suffer cardiac arrest or kidney failure at any moment.\n\nNavalny has been on a hunger strike for 19 days, to demand proper treatment for acute back pain and leg numbness.\n\nThe Russian ambassador to the UK has said that Mr Navalny will not be allowed to die in prison.\n\nA prominent critic of President Vladimir Putin, Mr Navalny was jailed in February for old embezzlement charges.\n\nFour doctors, including his personal physician, Anastasia Vasilyeva, have written to prison officials to ask for permission to see him urgently.\n\nIn the letter, which Dr Vasilyeva posted on Twitter, the experts said Alexei Navalny's potassium had reached \"critical levels\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Команда Анастасии Васильевой This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"This means both impaired renal function and that serious heart rhythm problems can happen any minute,\" it explained.\n\nHaving blood potassium levels higher than 6.0 mmol (millimoles) per litre usually requires immediate treatment. Navalny's blood test results, which were obtained by his lawyers, showed his were at 7.1, the letter said.\n\nThe doctors have urged prison officials to let them examine Navalny immediately, \"taking into account the blood tests and his recent poisoning\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Russia's ambassador to the UK Andrei Kelin: \"He (Alexei Navalny) will not be allowed to die in prison\"\n\nIn an interview with the BBC's Andrew Marr recorded on Friday but aired on Sunday, Russia's ambassador to Britain, Andrei Kelin, said that Mr Navalny was not in danger.\n\n\"Of course he will not be allowed to die in prison, but I can say that Mr Navalny behaves like a hooligan absolutely in trying to violate every rule that has been established,\" he said, adding that Mr Navalny was attempting \"to attract attention\".\n\nMr Kelin added that Mr Navalny, who is serving a two-and-a-half-year jail term, would be released from earlier if \"he will behave normally\".\n\nMr Navalny, 44, nearly died in August 2020 when he was poisoned with the chemical nerve agent, Novichock. He accuses President Vladimir Putin of ordering the poisoning, which the Kremlin denies.\n\nNavalny's wife Yulia said her husband now weighed 76kg (168 pounds), which is down 9kg since starting his hunger strike, according to AP.\n\nAlexander Polupan, who was one of the doctors to treat Navalny after the poisoning, posted an image of his blood test results, and said they were an \"absolute indication\" that he needed urgent medical care or he would \"die within the next days\".\n\nAlso joining the call for action are more than 70 well known writers, artists and academics, who have have signed a letter calling on President Putin to ensure Navalny receives adequate medical care.\n\nThe letter was published in The Economist and France's Le Monde newspaper, and included the signatures of Hollywood actors Jude Law, Ralph Fiennes and Benedict Cumberbatch, Harry Potter author JK Rowling and director Ken Burns.\n\nUS President Joe Biden told reporters on Saturday that Navalny's medical treatment is \"totally unfair and totally inappropriate\". In March, US intelligence concluded that the Russian government was behind the nerve agent attack. The Biden administration imposed sanctions on senior Russian officials, and now Moscow is doing similar in retaliation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alexei Navalny: what you need to know\n\nNavalny says he is suffering from acute back pain and numbness in his right leg. Earlier this month, he complained of a persistent cough and high temperature, and was moved to a sick ward in the prison in the town of Pokrov.\n\nHe went on the hunger strike to demand access to his own medical team. Russia's prison authorities say he has refused treatment from their doctor.\n\nNavalny's lawyers, who have been visiting him in custody, say there are no doctors at the prison and the medical unit on-site is run by a single paramedic.\n\nHuman rights campaigners say the prison is known for its especially harsh conditions, and Amnesty International said Navalny had been incarcerated in conditions that amount to torture and may slowly be killing him.", "Speaking to the BBC's Huw Edwards, ahead of the duke's funeral, he said: \"He spoke with the passion of a man who both cared about it, and knew about it, knew about it a lot\".", "Yulia and Sergei Skripal both survived being poisoned in March last year\n\nA senior Russian military intelligence officer commanded the team suspected of the Salisbury poisoning, evidence uncovered by the BBC's Newsnight and the investigative website Bellingcat suggests.\n\nDetails of the \"third man's\" trip to London in March 2018 have been assembled after the investigative website obtained his phone records and shared them with the BBC.\n\nIn February, Bellingcat published information identifying Denis Sergeyev as a man who travelled to London under the false identity of Sergei Fedotov.\n\nThey also established details of his career and connection to his country's military intelligence service, known by its Russian acronym, the GRU, and linked him to a 2015 suspected poisoning in Bulgaria.\n\nNewsnight understands that Denis Sergeyev holds the rank of major general in the GRU. The other two men (Alexander Mishkin and Anatoly Chepiga) are colonels.\n\nThe pattern of his communications while in the UK indicates that Maj Gen Sergeyev liaised with officers in Moscow. Independently, sources speaking to Newsnight have pointed to Maj Gen Sergeyev being the operational commander.\n\nThe developments come as Prime Minister Theresa May called for an end to Russia's \"irresponsible and destabilising activity\", describing the Salisbury poisoning as a \"truly despicable act\".\n\nRussia denies any involvement in the attack.\n\nEvidence suggests Denis Sergeyev ran the operation to poison the Skripals\n\nMaj Gen Sergeyev arrived at London's Heathrow airport on the morning of Friday 2 March, and left on the afternoon of Sunday 4 March, after Novichok nerve agent was placed on the Skripals' front door handle in Salisbury, Wiltshire.\n\nAnalysis by Bellingcat of position data from his phone shows that he stayed near Paddington station in west London, whereas the other men took a room in Bow, east London.\n\nDuring his visit, Maj Gen Sergeyev shunned wi-fi networks, using 4G and 3G connections to access the internet hundreds of times.\n\nHis billing records show that he used secure messaging apps such as WhatsApp, Viber and Telegram, which might have been the way that he communicated with the other suspected members of his team.\n\nAlthough he spent much of his 2018 visit to the UK secreted away in Paddington, the phone data shared with Newsnight shows that on the morning of 3 March, Maj Gen Sergeyev made his way to the centre of the city, passing by Oxford Circus on his way to the Thames Embankment.\n\nIt was there, as shown by correlating his position data with police information about the other suspects, that there was a 30 to 40-minute window when Maj Gen Sergeyev could have met the others before they caught a train from nearby Waterloo station to carry out their final reconnaissance in Salisbury.\n\nPolice are still probing the questions of when Mr Chepiga and Mr Mishkin were given the Novichok nerve agent and how they disposed of it on 4 March.\n\nIn addition to contaminating Mr Skripal, his daughter Yulia and Det Sgt Nick Bailey, in July 2018 the poison claimed the life of Dawn Sturgess and caused her partner Charlie Rowley - who found the discarded Novichok container - to fall ill.\n\nBellingcat has established that while travelling to the UK and on all of the other operational trips he made during 2017-18, Maj Gen Sergeyev only spoke to a single telephone number, a Russian \"ghost mobile\" believed to be his connection to GRU headquarters.\n\nAlthough it resembles a pay as you go SIM, this number produces no cell tower or IMEI (the unique serial identifying the handset using a SIM card) information, and has for years remained unregistered to any individual, a violation of Russian law.\n\nMaj Gen Sergeyev took 10 calls from the Russian number while in London - and phoned it himself before departing Paddington on Sunday 4 March.\n\nWhile he was booked to leave on the same flight that evening as Colonels Chepiga and Mishkin, it is now believed that Maj Gen Sergeyev took an earlier flight home from Heathrow that afternoon. He left about an hour after police say the others planted the Novichok at Mr Skripal's home.\n\nRecords show that, using his Sergei Fedotov alias, Maj Gen Sergeyev had visited the UK before, in 2016 and 2017. On the latter occasion, almost exactly one year before the poisoning, Colonel Mishkin was also in the country at the same time. Investigators believe that the Salisbury plan may have taken shape during this 2017 visit.\n\nAlthough the evidence suggests long-term GRU surveillance of Mr Skripal and his daughter, as well as planning for an operation, it seems that the decision to take action in March 2018 may have been a last minute one. Christo Grozev from Bellingcat says the phone records show Maj Gen Sergeyev \"frantically calling travel agents\" on 1 March in order to book flights to London.\n\nBellingcat's coup in obtaining his phone records follows its success in accessing travel, passport, and motoring databases for the suspects.\n\nSeparately, journalists from the BBC Russian Service discovered that Maj Gen Sergeyev's wife works as a teacher in Moscow and that the couple listed the address of the GRU training academy as their own home on an official registry.\n\nContacted in February, Mrs Sergeyeva described claims that her husband was part of the Salisbury operation as \"a fairy story\".\n\nResponding to Newsnight's story, the Metropolitan Police said: \"The investigation team continues to pursue a number of lines of inquiry, including identifying any other suspects who may have been involved in carrying out or planning the attack. We are not prepared to discuss further details of what remains an ongoing investigation.\"", "A police officer who used racist language towards a colleague has been dismissed.\n\nChris Tyler, formerly of Cambridgeshire Police, used the slur at a staff Christmas party in December 2019 and was also accused of colluding with another colleague to deny he used the words.\n\nIt concluded the second officer had no case to answer.\n\nThe five-day hearing, which concluded on Friday, was told Mr Tyler was at the party on 17 December and used the slur towards a British Pakistani colleague who was sitting at the same table and within earshot of Insp Lee Levens.\n\nThree days later, Insp Levens told Mr Tyler that the officer in question had made a complaint about the language used.\n\nIt was alleged both officers agreed to deny the words were used and claimed that \"play the card\" was misheard.\n\nMr Tyler was accused of denying the comment was made, discriminating against the colleague and his wife and failing to treat them with respect and courtesy.\n\nThe hearing, held at the East of England Showground, found he breached standards of professional behaviour.\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Jane Gyford said: \"The public should be able to trust that police officers will act with utmost integrity and professionalism at all times.\n\n\"We expect the highest standards from our officers, but the conduct of PC Tyler has been found to have fallen short of our expectations.\n\n\"Hate crime and racism have no place in society and no place in policing.\"\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.", "Poldark actor Aidan Turner has said he is \"glad\" that a new historical drama about Leonardo da Vinci reflects the artist's sexuality.\n\nThe Amazon Prime TV series stars Turner as the Renaissance painter, architect and inventor.\n\nIn it, Leonardo is depicted as having male lovers. Some historians have argued he was gay or bisexual.\n\n\"It's such a huge part of who he was\" Turner told Leonardo: The Official Podcast.\n\n\"And his motivation for doing so much.\"\n\nThe star agreed with podcast host Angellica Bell that discovering fresh perspectives on the artist's life had also led to him \"looking at his paintings slightly differently\".\n\n\"There's something almost tortured in some of it,\" he added. \"You can see something else and feel something else, something more visceral about it.\n\nMatilda De Angelis and Freddie Highmore also star in the drama\n\n\"Once you realise the sexuality is such a huge part of any person, you know, to even contemplate not discussing the sexuality of a person is just mind-boggling.\n\n\"So I'm glad that's something that, even from the early drafts of the scripts... that that was present in our story.\"\n\nThe drama series, which is a love story and a murder mystery, explores what made Leonardo tick. Each of the eight episodes focuses on a different painting of his and the story behind it.\n\nIt also features Giancarlo Giannini as his master, Andrea del Verrocchio, and The Undoing star Matilda De Angelis as his muse - Caterina of Cremona.\n\nLast month however, The Guardian claimed the relationship between the artist and his on-screen female muse rested on \"virtually no historical evidence\". \"Why can't we accept that Da Vinci was gay?\" asked its writer Jonathan Jones.\n\nTurner said he learned a lot about da Vinci while playing him\n\nThe polymath's sexuality has been widely discussed down the centuries, including by psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud in his 1910 essay, Da Vinci, A Memory of His Childhood.\n\nCourt records, found at the start of the 1900s, showed that Leonardo was accused of alleged interaction with a male prostitute. But the case before Florentine magistrates in 1476 was thrown out due to lack of evidence.\n\nThe Evening Standard said the new series released on 16 April \"plays fast and loose with historical fact - with mixed results\".\n\n\"We're in a boom time for historical drama that doesn't stick to the rules of the genre - just look at success stories like The Favourite and The Great,\" wrote Katie Rosseinsky.\n\n\"Perhaps that's why the show's creators decided to shake things up. The end result, though, lacks cohesion - it feels more like a sketch than a masterpiece.\"\n\nMeanwhile, The Telegraph awarded three stars, describing the show as \"stonkingly chaste Aidan Turner in Horrible Histories minus the laughs\".\n\nJournalist Ed Power called it \"a quick sketch rather than the fuller portrait one of history's greatest minds surely merits.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Almost 100 years after he entered the world on a dining room table in Corfu, Prince Philip's final journey began at 14.38 BST on a chilly spring afternoon in the English town of Windsor.\n\nThe duke's coffin was carried by Grenadier Guardsmen from the inner hall of Windsor Castle onto a green Land Rover, waiting outside.\n\nThe vehicle - built in 2003 in the West Midlands town of Solihull - was designed by the duke himself.\n\nThe coffin was draped with the duke's personal standard, with flowers chosen by the Queen and the duke's Admiral of the Fleet Naval Cap and sword, pointing forwards.\n\nAs the military band in the castle grounds played the national anthem, the Queen - wearing a face mask - made her way from the Sovereign's Entrance of the castle to the State Bentley.\n\nUnder bright blue skies, the eight-minute procession then began, led by Prince Charles and Princess Anne, the duke's two eldest children.\n\nPrinces William and Harry were either side of their cousin, Peter Phillips. The State Bentley followed behind - the Queen, for once, behind her husband, rather than two steps in front.\n\nBefore the coffin entered St George's Chapel, a minute's silence was held - both in the castle and around the country.\n\nAnd then, step by step, Royal Marines took the coffin into the chapel, followed by the duke's family - all of them, by now, wearing black masks.\n\nAs the coffin was carried into the chapel, illuminated by shafts of light from the stained glass windows, the choir sang, and the Dean of Windsor began the service.\n\nThe BBC's Eleanor Oldroyd was the only reporter or broadcaster inside the chapel - she was in a small, specially-built studio above the high altar.\n\n\"Doing something inside the chapel is very special, it's a very unique position, and it's a very responsible position as well,\" she says. \"It's a moving time for a lot of people.\"\n\n\"There was one moment when I just saw the Duke of York, sitting two seats along from the Queen, just turn to her and check - just as if he was checking that she was OK,\" says Ms Oldroyd.\n\n\"I don't know whether that's what he was doing, but it felt to me a little moment of concern to mother from son.\"\n\nAt 15.42, the coffin was lowered into the Royal Vault. \"A real moment of drama and theatre, but also a very moving moment,\" says Ms Oldroyd. The duke's final journey had ended.\n\nAnd then, as the Queen stood alone, the choir sang the national anthem.\n\nTwo minutes later, the funeral finished and the guests left the chapel. The duke was in his resting place and his epic, international adventure - which began on a Greek island in 1921 - was over.\n\nAll pictures are subject to copyright.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nNewcastle took a big step towards securing their Premier League status with a dramatic win against 10-man West Ham.\n\nIssa Diop's own goal and a Joelinton tap-in had put the hosts in a commanding position at the break.\n\nHowever, West Ham, who had Craig Dawson sent off for two first-half bookings, drew level from a Diop header and a Jesse Lingard penalty that was awarded after a VAR review.\n\nBut with the visitors seemingly on top, Newcastle had the final say, substitute Joe Willock heading an important winning goal that lifts Steve Bruce's side up to 15th in the table, with a nine-point cushion to the bottom three.\n\nWest Ham remain fourth but have now played a game more than fellow Champions League hopefuls Chelsea and Liverpool, who will have the opportunity to leapfrog the Hammers before they play again.\n\nDavid Moyes' side had arrived in the north-east of England looking for a third consecutive win but were ultimately punished for a sluggish first half in which they conceded twice and had Dawson sent off.\n\nPrior to his dismissal Dawson's heavy touch saw him clatter Joelinton, allowing the impressive Allan Saint-Maximin to race clear and fire in a shot that Hammers goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski and defender Diop contrived to turn into their own goal.\n\nDawson, who had been booked earlier for a foul on Joelinton, received his second yellow card in the aftermath and was dismissed.\n\nTo compound matters Fabianski dropped a simple catch from a corner five minutes later to present Joelinton with a tap-in for Newcastle's second.\n\nHowever, the visitors improved after the break and were unfortunate not to claim a share of the spoils in a thrilling finale.\n\nSteve Bruce has repeatedly claimed that Newcastle's season may have been on a different trajectory if he had been able to field Miguel Almiron, Saint-Maximin and Callum Wilson on a regular basis.\n\nAnd while Wilson started on the bench against the Hammers, Almiron and Saint-Maximin were both excellent as the hosts took control of the contest.\n\nSaint-Maximin in particular provided the thrust to Newcastle's early attacking play, beating opponents at will to create several excellent openings after cutting in from the left flank.\n\nAnd it was entirely predictable that he would contribute as Newcastle made the breakthrough, accelerating away from Mark Noble, albeit benefiting from some calamitous play from Fabianski and Diop in the process.\n\nHaving just returned to full fitness Newcastle's biggest concern will be that the Frenchman hobbled off after 64 minutes.\n\nIn his absence they retreated further and further into their own half, handing West Ham the ascendancy before securing back-to-back league wins for only the second time this season.\n\nIn the build-up to this encounter Bruce had suggested that Moyes' accomplishments this season were worthy of the manager of the year award.\n\nAnd when Lingard levelled matters after home defender Ciaran Clark had been penalised for a handball his claim appeared to be gaining yet more weight.\n\nThe Scot has set West Ham on course for their best Premier League finish ever and whatever he said at the interval clearly inspired a side that had toiled during the first period.\n\nMaking light of their numerical disadvantage, they displayed excellent character and on another day might have come away with an unlikely point.\n\nJarrod Bowen, Lingard and Vladimir Coufal all had good sights at goal before Diop headed in to give them further impetus.\n\nAnd when on-loan Manchester United midfielder Lingard registered his seventh goal in as many games for the Hammers, it seemed as though there would be some reward for their second-half dominance.\n\nMoyes will now hope they can carry that level of performance forward to next Saturday's potentially pivotal fixture against Chelsea in the race for a top-four spot.\n\n'There always seems to be a drama' - what they said\n\nNewcastle manager Steve Bruce, speaking to BBC Sport: \"I couldn't be more pleased with the way we played first half. We had threat, were dangerous every time, we got men forward.\n\n\"All of the stuff in the first half, we didn't do in the second. It is understandable, you go too deep and we made it comfortable for West Ham.\n\n\"I had seen the referee running over to have a look and I couldn't understand why. By all accounts it is a penalty. If it is we have to accept it. We tried to change instantly and put two strikers up the pitch. It has paid off.\n\n\"It was terrific from Saint-Maximin - it is important that he stays well. He has a badly swollen ankle. He is a very very good player.\"\n\nOn being safe? \"I can't say that. With this club there is always a sting in the tail. There is no disputing it has been a difficult last few weeks but we have lost one of our last seven games and are starting to show that bit of consistency.\"\n\nWest Ham manager David Moyes, speaking to BBC Sport: \"It was costly mistakes that can happen in football. We weren't playing badly - a couple of big mistakes gave Newcastle a leg up. We showed great character in the second half, the sad part was the last 10 minutes.\n\n\"Maybe when it went 2-2 they had no choice but to come out and do something else. At 2-2 I was hoping we would be able to see it out. I thought we played well - we made individual mistakes, got a sending off. It wasn't because we played badly.\"\n• None Newcastle became the eighth side to hit the 800-goal milestone at home in the Premier League (801 goals).\n• None West Ham lost for the first time in their 23 Premier League encounters with teams in the bottom half of the table since David Moyes returned to the club (W14 D8).\n• None Newcastle enjoyed their fifth Premier League double over West Ham (also 1993-94, 1994-95, 2010-11 and 2017-18), something they've done as many times in the competition only against Spurs.\n• None West Ham have scored four own-goals in the Premier League this season, more than any other side and the Hammers' joint-most ever in a single campaign in the competition (also four in 2000-01).\n• None West Ham's Craig Dawson was sent off for the first time ever in his 345th appearance in English league football.\n• None The two occasions in the Premier League this season to see a player score at both ends have come courtesy of West Ham - Issa Diop v Newcastle and Tomas Soucek v Arsenal in March.\n• None West Ham's Jesse Lingard has posted his best-ever goal tally in a single Premier League season (nine goals in 10 games).\n• None Joe Willock has scored three goals in nine Premier League appearances for Newcastle after netting just one in 40 for Arsenal.\n\nNewcastle travel to Anfield to face Liverpool in their next Premier League fixture on Saturday, 24 April (12:30 BST).\n\nWest Ham host Chelsea later the same day also in the Premier League (17:30 BST).\n• None Attempt blocked. Callum Wilson (Newcastle United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Miguel Almirón.\n• None Attempt blocked. Saïd Benrahma (West Ham United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Manuel Lanzini.\n• None Substitution, West Ham United. Manuel Lanzini replaces Jesse Lingard because of an injury.\n• None Goal! Newcastle United 3, West Ham United 2. Joseph Willock (Newcastle United) header from the centre of the box to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by Matt Ritchie with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jacob Murphy (Newcastle United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Miguel Almirón.\n• None Goal! Newcastle United 2, West Ham United 2. Jesse Lingard (West Ham United) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nThe world of sport has paid tribute to Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, on the day of his funeral.\n\nA minute's silence was held at football's early kick-offs, as well as before qualifying at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix in Imola.\n\nSchedules across sport were adjusted to avoid clashing with the funeral, which was held at St George's Chapel, Windsor, on Saturday.\n\nThe Duke died at the age of 99 on 9 April.\n\nIn football, the Football Association recommended no games were played between 14:45 and 16:15, with all matches in the English Football League (EFL) moved to either 12:30 or 17:30.\n\nIn addition to holding a minute's silence, players and officials also wore black armbands.\n\nThere was also no Premier League match between 14:45 and 16:15, with a minute's silence taking place in the early kick-off between Newcastle United and West Ham United.\n\nChelsea played Manchester City in the FA Cup final at Wembley in a game kicking off at 17:30 and a minute's silence took place before kick-off.\n\nA period of silence was held at men's English Premiership and Women's Premier 15s rugby union matches across the country.\n\nPlay was paused at the World Snooker Championship at the Crucible in Sheffield to hold a minute's silence, while the same occurred at matches in cricket's County Championship.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nHarry Kane suffered a late injury after scoring twice to rescue a point for Tottenham against Everton at Goodison Park.\n\nNine days before the Carabao Cup final and 58 days before England's European Championship opener, Kane limped off in stoppage time with an apparent ankle problem.\n\nThe striker seemed to land awkwardly after jumping for a header when defending a corner late on.\n\nManager Jose Mourinho said he did not know how serious the injury was.\n\n\"That's also a question I want an answer to as soon as possible but it's too early,\" Mourinho said.\n\n\"For him to come out it is not because it's nothing, it's something.\n\n\"We all felt the same fears of something that stops him playing Wednesday [against Southampton in the Premier League] and especially Sunday [the Carabao Cup final] but we will see.\"\n\nKane had earlier been at his clinical best, capitalising on two mistakes in the Everton defence to put Spurs ahead in the first half and grab a second-half equaliser.\n\nIn between Kane's strikes Gylfi Sigurdsson levelled from the penalty spot and gave Everton the lead by finishing off a fine team goal.\n\nEverton pushed hardest for a winner and had the best chance to win it but Joshua King's effort was saved by Hugo Lloris and Richarlison fired the rebound over from 12 yards.\n\nA draw suited neither side's pursuit of European football, with Tottenham staying seventh, five points behind fourth-placed West Ham and Everton a point and a place worse off, though they do have a game in hand.\n\nKane to the rescue but at what cost?\n\nKane walking gingerly before bending down and holding his right ankle will strike fear into every Tottenham and England fan.\n\nHe left the field of his own accord but did so immediately and shaking his head.\n\nKane has suffered a series of ankle injuries in the past which only adds to the concern.\n\nIn 2018-19 he had two significant spells out with a left ankle injury and in 2017-18 he missed a month with an injury to the right ankle. He also endured separate absences of six and four weeks during the 2016-17 campaign.\n\nEarlier this season he injured both ankles earlier but ultimately returned sooner than expected.\n\n\"Obviously it's always worrying when you see him limping because he doesn't fall over easily,\" team-mate Eric Dier told Sky Sports.\n\n\"He takes a lot of knocks. It's early days to say how bad it is but I'm sure he's a tough boy so will do what he can to be ready.\"\n\nKane had earlier shown his massive importance to his team once more, slamming home two sharp finishes from his only opportunities in an otherwise underwhelming Spurs performance. He has been involved in 62 goals in 62 appearances under Jose Mourinho.\n\nHis latest strikes were his 20th and 21st of this season, taking him two clear in the race for the golden boot. They also lifted him into seventh on the all-time Premier League scorers chart, clear of Robbie Fowler and Jermain Defoe.\n\nEverton were much improved from their toothless performance in a goalless draw with Brighton on Monday. It was two mix-ups at the back that cost them three points.\n\nFor Kane's opener Michael Keane misjudged a header and flicked a cross into the Spurs striker's path and the England defender was involved again for Kane's second goal.\n\nAs a tame cross came in, he headed the ball into his fellow centre-back Mason Holgate and it deflected to Kane in the box. For a second time Kane gave the returning Jordan Pickford no chance.\n\nThere were positive signs in the rest of Everton's performance, however. They created opportunities despite the continued absence of their top scorer Dominic Calvert-Lewin because of injury.\n\nSigurdsson's second was a delightful left-footed guide into the far corner from Seamus Coleman's cross after the Ireland international had played a slick one-two with Richarlison.\n\nEverton also benefited from clumsiness by Sergio Reguilon, who rushed into the back of James Rodriguez to foul the Colombian for Everton's penalty. There was not much contact but enough for the spot-kick to be awarded.\n\nThe Toffees are now five games without a win in the league but this was a much more promising display.\n\n\"If we made less mistakes in the box we can win the game,\" manager Carlo Ancelotti said.\n\n\"It was one of the best performances we have played here at home. We created the opportunities to win the game.\"\n\nSpurs surrender winning position again - the best stats\n• None The past five meetings between Everton and Tottenham at Goodison Park in all competitions have produced 26 goals (10 for Everton, 16 for Spurs), an average of 5.2 per game.\n• None Everton have failed to win any of their past five Premier League matches (D3 L2), their longest such run since December 2018 under Marco Silva.\n• None No Premier League side has dropped more points from winning positions this season than Tottenham (20).\n• None Everton have scored all five of the penalties they have taken against Spurs in the Premier League (Cottee, Unsworth x2, Ferguson, Sigurdsson).\n• None Only versus Chelsea (6) has Everton's Gylfi Sigurdsson scored more Premier League goals than against Tottenham (5). Indeed, Sigurdsson is the third player to score a Premier League double against Spurs having played for them in the competition, after Darren Bent (April 2010, Sunderland) and Matthew Etherington (December 2011, Stoke).\n• None Only Alan Shearer (7) and Sergio Aguero (6) have scored 20+ goals in more different Premier League seasons than Spurs' Harry Kane (5 - level with Thierry Henry).\n• None Harry Kane has been directly involved in 62 goals in 62 appearances in all competitions for Spurs under Jose Mourinho (45 goals, 17 assists) - no Premier League player has more goal involvements in this period (since 23 November 2019).\n\nSpurs play Southampton on Wednesday (18:00 BST kick-off) in the Premier League before their Carabao Cup final against Manchester City at Wembley a week on Sunday.\n\nEverton's next match is away at Arsenal on Friday, 23 April (20:00 BST).\n• None Attempt missed. James Rodríguez (Everton) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Gylfi Sigurdsson.\n• None Substitution, Tottenham Hotspur. Dele Alli replaces Harry Kane because of an injury.\n• None Attempt missed. Ben Godfrey (Everton) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left following a corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Richarlison (Everton) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.\n• None Attempt saved. Joshua King (Everton) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by James Rodríguez.\n• None Attempt missed. Séamus Coleman (Everton) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Allan.\n• None Attempt blocked. Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Son Heung-Min.\n• None Attempt missed. Erik Lamela (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Pierre-Emile Højbjerg. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None One simple thing that could improve your life!\n• None Why are Hong Kong citizens having to decide whether to move to the UK?", "Rachid Khadla was obsessed with fitness and dieting, the Crown Prosecution Service said\n\nA fitness-obsessed father who forced his daughter to sign a contract to \"never get fat\" has been jailed for 30 months.\n\nRachid Khadla, from Windsor, Berkshire, violently attacked and manipulated his three children for years, Reading Crown Court heard.\n\nThe 56-year-old was found guilty by a jury of assault and cruelty to his children, now all adults.\n\nSentencing, Judge Kirsty Real described him as \"a bully\".\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said Khadla was obsessed with fitness and dieting.\n\nHe forced his daughter to sign a document to say she would \"do lots of exercise\" and \"never get fat, even until I die\", it added.\n\nProsecutor Alex Krikler told the court Khadla also threw a chair at her, aged nine, causing a keloid on her ear needing \"numerous operations and treatments\".\n\n\"She describes being made to feel worthless and stupid by her father,\" he said. \"There was anxiety and eating disorders.\"\n\nAll three children were regularly physically assaulted with a wooden spoon on their hands, and were told who they could be friends with and what activities they could do.\n\nKhadla's behaviour came to light in 2019, when his teenage son told police his father had strangled him and punched him in an attack.\n\nIn a victim impact statement, his eldest son said the abuse, which started when he was five, had left him with \"long-term mental health issues\".\n\nHe described his father as a smart man \"plotting and calculating every move\".\n\nHe added the abuse led to him being bullied at school, but it \"was almost enjoyable compared to the life I left at home\".\n\nKhadla, of Dedworth Road, Windsor, pleaded not guilty to two counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and three counts of cruelty to a child.\n\nPassing sentence Judge Real said he had \"effectively ruined their childhoods\" through \"multiple incidents of cruelty over many years\".\n\nShe said: \"You were a bully, and you have been unwilling to accept or acknowledge that.\"\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nSheffield United were relegated to the Championship after Willian Jose's first goal for Wolves secured victory.\n\nThe visitors knew, following Newcastle's win over West Ham earlier on Saturday, that they had to avoid defeat at Molineux to delay their inevitable demotion for a few days.\n\nBut it was Wolves who edged a poor game of few chances, when they broke downfield after Enda Stevens' shot had been blocked. Adama Traore created room close to the goalline and delivered a low cross into the six-yard box, which Jose swept home.\n\nIt broke the Brazilian's Wolves duck in his 11th game for the club, having signed on loan from Real Sociedad in January.\n\nThe Blades tried to respond and Stevens brought an excellent save from Rui Patricio with a powerful shot from an angle.\n\nHowever, there was no preventing a relegation that has seemed certain since an abysmal start to the season brought just one point from their opening 13 games.\n\nAnd at the final whistle, a number of Blades players dropped to their haunches.\n\nSheffield United's relegation came on the same day that Norwich's immediate return to the Premier League was confirmed.\n\nInterim Blades boss Paul Heckingbottom believes the club should follow the Canaries' example and keep as much of the squad together as possible.\n\n\"It has to be the goal to come straight back,\" he said.\n\n\"This incredible journey started in League One. Look at Norwich, Watford, Bournemouth, who are doing well after they got relegated last season. Keeping the group together has to be a priority.\"\n\nIf it was a night to celebrate for the Wolves goalscorer, there was only more frustration for Rhian Brewster.\n\nThe 21-year-old arrived amid much expectation from Liverpool at the start of the season but the £23.5m striker is yet to score for the Blades.\n\nHe never looked like doing so in this game, although in fairness to Brewster, the service he received was inadequate.\n\nIt can only be hoped his and Sheffield United's confidence can be restored by dropping down a level. Norwich's promotion back to the top flight on Saturday - a year after they were relegated - underlines the potential for clubs going down to return at the first opportunity.\n\nEvidently, there are issues that need to be addressed at Bramall Lane.\n\nHeckingbottom has presided over four successive Premier League defeats since replacing Chris Wilder last month. His team have only scored once in that time.\n\nIndeed, Sheffield United are still one goal short of matching the all-time lowest tally in an English league season - with Loughborough scoring just 18 times in the second tier in 1899-1900.\n\nThey are also still three short of matching Derby's total of 20 goals from their 2007-08 campaign, which is the fewest in Premier League history.\n\nOn Friday, chairman Prince Musaad Bin Khalid Al Saud announced he was standing down, leaving another key role needing to be filled. The resolve of owner Prince Abdullah bin Mosa'ad bin Abdulaziz Al Saud to drive the rebuild will be tested over the coming months.\n\nIf there is any consolation from a chronic campaign for Sheffield United fans, it can be found in the difficulties of their great rivals from across the city.\n\nSheffield Wednesday are also mired in relegation trouble and the Steel City is bracing itself for both senior clubs going down in the same season for the first time.\n\n\"There's a lot of hurt in that dressing room,\" added Heckingbottom. \"That game encapsulates our season.\n\n\"Everyone knows and we have to look forward. We have to behave in the correct way, on and off the pitch. Careers are at stake. The fight is there but we have come up short.\"\n\nBetween them, Wolves and Sheffield United had failed to score in the first half of 47 league games before this meeting, so perhaps it was no surprise the opening period ended goalless.\n\nThere was an element of fortune about the only time either side even threatened to break the deadlock before half-time.\n\nWilly Boly seemed to get the ball trapped between his legs following Willian Jose's neat chest control and backheeled it to clear it away. By chance, the manoeuvre sent the ball looping towards goal and had Oliver Norwood not dropped back to the goalline and been perfectly placed to head away, it would have gone in.\n\nThe lack of goal threat from Wolves merely underlined how badly Mexican forward Raul Jimenez has been missed since he fractured his skull at Arsenal in November.\n\nWillian Jose received a slap on the back from his manager when he was replaced 12 minutes from time but the 29-year-old is no replacement for Jimenez, who was inspirational in successive seventh-placed finishes for Wolves.\n\n\"Willian works very hard for the team,\" said Nuno.\n\n\"He works a lot between the lines. The goal was missing, but today he got the goal and we go from there. The obligation of goalscoring is not just with the strikers.\"\n\nA top-half finish is the only target they have to aim for now and even that will take some work given Wolves are four points adrift of Arsenal and Leeds, having played a game more.\n\nStill, there were a couple of milestones to cheer for Wolves, who have achieved back-to-back wins for the third time this season and achieved a top-flight double over their opponents for the first time since 1964-65.\n\nAnd strangely, all Wolves' six home wins this season have come against teams from London and Yorkshire.\n• None With six games remaining, Sheffield United have suffered the joint-earliest relegation in Premier League history, alongside Ipswich Town (1994-95), Derby County (2007-08) and Huddersfield Town (2018-19).\n• None Only Sunderland in 2005-06 and Derby in 2007-08 (11 points each) have had fewer points on the board after 32 games in a Premier League season than Sheffield United this term (14).\n• None Wolves have secured their first league double over Sheffield United since the 2013-14 League One campaign.\n• None Sheffield United have equalled their record number of league defeats in a single season (26 - also in 1975-76 and 2010-11), while the Blades have lost 16 Premier League games by a single goal this season, the most one-goal defeats in a single top-flight campaign since Ipswich Town in 1985-86 (also 16).\n• None After a run of 35 Premier League games without a goal or assist, Adama Traore has now scored (one) or assisted (two) a goal in each of his last three games in the competition.\n\nWolves are next in action on Sunday, 25 April, when they entertain Burnley (12:00 BST). Sheffield United entertain Brighton on Saturday, 24 April (20:00 BST).\n• None Offside, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Adama Traoré tries a through ball, but Fábio Silva is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Adama Traoré (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Vitinha.\n• None Adama Traoré (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Adama Traoré (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from the right side of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Nélson Semedo following a fast break.\n• None Attempt saved. Fábio Silva (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Adama Traoré.\n• None Attempt saved. Romain Saïss (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from very close range is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Fábio Silva.\n• None Attempt missed. Fábio Silva (Wolverhampton Wanderers) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by João Moutinho with a cross following a set piece situation.\n• None Enda Stevens (Sheffield United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Adama Traoré (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Offside, Sheffield United. Enda Stevens tries a through ball, but Lys Mousset is caught offside. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Pupils and staff from Gordonstoun school cast a wreath into the Moray Firth from the Ocean Spirit in a tribute to former pupil Prince Phillip\n\nPupils at the Duke of Edinburgh's former school have paid tribute to him by laying a wreath at sea in his memory.\n\nGordonstoun school remembered Prince Philip during an event at Hopeman Harbour in Moray.\n\nPupils gathered on the school's yacht, Ocean Spirit, which was anchored off the Moray harbour.\n\nA lone piper played Flowers of the Forest on the harbour wall as a wreath was laid in the water.\n\nAs a pupil at the exclusive boarding school in the 1930s, Prince Philip learned to sail in the sea in the Moray Firth.\n\nGordonstoun's principal Lisa Kerr said the school had spent the last week reflecting on \"how proud we are in shaping what was important to the duke\".\n\nShe added: \"We can't have large-scale gatherings at the moment, but to be able to have a smaller tribute to him which is still an appropriate scale is great.\n\n\"For us to put together this tribute felt like the right thing to do in these circumstances - it represents his love of the Moray Firth, Hopeman Harbour and Gordonstoun.\"\n\nThe Ocean Spirit was was anchored off Hopeman Harbour in Moray\n\nThe floral tribute was left in the seas where Prince Philip learned to sail\n\nMs Kerr said the school had provided stability after the turbulent early years of the prince's life.\n\nShe said: \"When he came to Gordonstoun in 1934 as the school's tenth pupil it was a place where he found security and stability and a place where he was able to discover his true self and become the very best version of himself.\n\n\"It was somewhere that he developed his love of the sea, his love of sport, his connection with the outdoors and particularly built his focus on service to others, which is such an important part of the Gordonstoun curriculum even today.\"\n\nThe school has released new pictures of the duke sailing a boat when he would have been about 15 years old.\n\nPrince Philip captured on camera in 1937 - when he would have been about 15 - at the helm of one of Gordonstoun's boats, a two-mast, 14-ton boat named Diligent\n\nMs Kerr said his connection to Gordonstoun was \"lifelong\", and he had written to the school in the final days of his life.\n\nThree of Prince Philip's children and two grandchildren attended Gordonstoun.\n\nMs Kerr added: \"When he came to Gordonstoun as a parent or grandparent, there was no pomp and ceremony.\n\n\"There's a lovely story of how he came to one of Prince Edward's drama performances and he sat in a seat with a handwritten sign that simply said 'mum and dad'.\"\n\nPupils gathered at Gordonstoun to observe the minute's silence for Prince Philip", "The Duke of Edinburgh's four children, and three of his grandchildren including Princes William and Harry, were among the mourners as his coffin was transported to St George's Chapel in a modified Land Rover.", "The Indianapolis Sikh community say they feel traumatised by the attack\n\nOfficials in Indianapolis have released the names of the eight people who were killed when a gunman opened fire at a FedEx warehouse on Thursday night.\n\nAmong the victims were four members of the local Sikh community - including a mother, a father and two grandmothers. Other victims include two 19-year-olds, a university graduate and a father.\n\nLocal Sikhs say they feel \"traumatized\" by the attack.\n\nIt remains unclear if Sikhs were targeted, authorities say.\n\nAbout 90% of workers at the facility are members of the local Sikh community, police chief Randal Taylor said.\n\nHere's what we know about the victims.\n\nThe family of Amarjeet Kaur Johal (centre) say they are heartbroken\n\nJohal was a \"mother, grandmother and member of the Indianapolis' Sikh community\", according to the Indianapolis Star.\n\nHer granddaughter, Komal Chohan, says she is \"heartbroken\" at the death of her \"naniji\", or grandmother.\n\n\"I have several family members who work at the particular facility and are traumatised,\" Ms Chohan said in a statement released by the Sikh Coalition.\n\n\"My nani, my family, and our families should not feel unsafe at work, at their place of worship, or anywhere,\" she said. \"Enough is enough - our community has been through enough trauma.\"\n\nMr Singh only started working at the FedEx facility this week and had told everyone how excited he was, an in-law, Harjap Singh Dillon, told the New York Times. He said Mr Singh had been working a night-shift sorting mail when the attack happened.\n\nAn active member of the local temple, Mr Singh had moved to Indianapolis from California.\n\n\"He was a simple man,\" Mr Dillon said. \"He used to pray and meditate a lot, and he did community service.\"\n\nAuthorities provided Mr Singh's age as 68, but his family told the newspaper that he was 70.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Indianapolis police: 'Emotions are very high' after FedEx facility shooting\n\nA mother of two sons, Ms Sekhon began working at the FedEx facility six months ago on an overnight shift, her niece told the New York Times.\n\n\"She was a workaholic, she always was working, working. She would never sit still unless she felt really bad,\" her brother-in-law, Kuldip Sekhon, told the Associated Press news agency.\n\nWhile officials said Sekhon was 48, her relatives said she was 49.\n\nFamily members show pictures of Jaswinder Kaur at a vigil in Indianapolis\n\nMs Kaur had been planning to make her \"renowned yogurt\" to celebrate for her granddaughter's second birthday at a large family gathering on Saturday, Rimpi Girn, a family member, told the New York Times.\n\n\"And today we're gathering to plan a funeral,\" she said.\n\nAuthorities said Kaur was 64, but her family told media outlets she was 50.\n\nThe parents of Samaria Blackwell (centre) say she was a keen basketball player\n\nSamaria Blackwell was a 19-year-old soccer and basketball enthusiast who dreamed of becoming a police officer.\n\nHer parents, Jeff and Tammi Blackwell, said they were \"blessed by the Lord to have such a fun-loving, caring daughter as the baby of our family\", in a statement posted on GoFundMe page launched to fund funeral and other expenses.\n\n\"Samaria was tenacious in everything she did, from playing basketball and soccer to being a lifeguard for Indy Parks,\" they said. \"As an intelligent, straight-A student, Samaria could have done anything she chose to put her mind to.\"\n\nMr Weisert was a former Air Force officer who served in Vietnam and had previously worked as a mechanical engineer \"to make ends meet\", his son, Mike Weisert, told the New York Times. Mike Weisert said his father had been thinking of retiring in the coming months.\n\nMr Weisert's wife of 50 years, Mary Carol Weisert, told local broadcaster WKRC she felt \"terror, horror, fear, shock\" at his death. \"I don't know how else to describe it.\"\n\nMary Carol Weisert shows a photograph of her husband John Weisert, who was killed in the attack\n\nA fan of action and classic movies, he enjoyed playing country and bluegrass guitar, according to the New York Times.\n\nMike Weisert described his father as \"a very decent, kind man, very dedicated to protecting and providing for the ones he loved\".\n\nMs Smith was a sister and daughter, the Indianapolis Star reported her family saying.\n\nThe recent High School graduate was awaiting her first pay cheque after starting work at the plant two weeks ago, a family member told the newspaper.\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 IndyStar 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\n\"She was a lovely, beautiful and youthful teenage girl,\" a family member told the Indianapolis Star. \"She had just started to buckle down and get a job and take life a little more serious.\"\n\nMr Alexander was a former Butler University student who had worked at FedEx for several years, according to the Indianapolis Star.\n\n\"He was a great kid. He loved to play golf. Had a big heart - always had a smile on his face,\" Albert Ashcraft, a former FedEx colleague, told the newspaper.\n\n\"Everybody liked him,\" Ashcraft said. \"He was always saving somebody's ass. People would bring doughnuts in and he was always sticking doughnuts back for his drivers.\"\n\n\"The Butler community is mourning the loss of Matthew Alexander, a former student who was killed tragically along with seven others at the FedEx facility in Indianapolis. We want to extend our deepest sympathies to Matthew's friends and families during this time of great sorrow,\" the university said in a tweet.", "More than 1,200 church leaders have urged PM Boris Johnson not to introduce Covid vaccine certificates, saying they are an \"unethical form of coercion\".\n\nIn an open letter, the leaders - who include Anglican and Catholic ministers - warn passports could create a \"surveillance state\".\n\nThe government says it is reviewing whether to use vaccine certificates and \"no decisions have been taken\".\n\nThe UK equality watchdog says passports could create a \"two-tier society\".\n\nGovernment ministers have said that certificates would allow people to show if they have been vaccinated, had a negative test or had natural immunity from a confirmed infection in the previous six months.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"We are considering a range of evidence around Covid-status certification and whether it may have a role in opening up higher risk settings safely. The review is ongoing and no decisions have been taken.\"\n\nAs restrictions ease, certificates could play a role in reopening theatres, nightclubs and mass events like festivals, plus allow social distancing to be relaxed in hospitality venues.\n\nBut in the open letter to the prime minister, church leaders warned that introducing the passports would create a \"medical apartheid\".\n\n\"This scheme has the potential to bring about the end of liberal democracy as we know it and to create a surveillance state in which the government uses technology to control certain aspects of citizens' lives,\" the letter said.\n\n\"As such, this constitutes one of the most dangerous policy proposals ever to be made in the history of British politics.\"\n\nThe church leaders said that, regardless of the government's final decision, they would not refuse entry to their churches to anybody without a vaccine passport - or any other certificate which they have labelled \"proof of health\".\n\nThe open letter invited \"leaders in churches of Christian organisations\" from the UK to sign the letter, with copies going to the prime minister, leaders of the devolved governments and all MPs.\n\nThe government's suggestion of vaccine certificates has united MPs from all sides of the Commons, with No 10 facing criticism from those in both Conservative and opposition parties.\n\nMore than 70 MPs railed against the plan earlier this month, arguing that demanding medical proof in order to take part in local community life, such as going to the pub, was discriminatory and divisive.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said he was \"very worried\" vaccine passports could lead to discrimination against people who have not received a jab.\n\nAnd Tory MP Steve Baker labelled such certificates a \"ghastly trap\" that unfairly penalise those advised not to have a vaccine.", "A two-gun salute was fired at Hillsborough Castle on Saturday\n\nA two-gun salute at Hillsborough Castle marked Northern Ireland's tribute to the Duke of Edinburgh for his funeral on Saturday.\n\nThe guns sounded at 15:00 BST and at 15:01 BST, as a minute's silence was observed across the UK.\n\nThe same Lambeg drums that had once entertained the Queen and the Duke were later beaten in the prince's memory.\n\nPrince Philip died at Windsor Castle on 9 April, aged 99. His funeral took place at St George's Chapel.\n\nNorthern Ireland First Minister Arlene Foster observed the silence outside Enniskillen Castle and Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) Chief Constable Simon Byrne stood in tribute to the Duke at police headquarters.\n\nOn Saturday at 19:00 BST, Lambeg drums were played briefly outside the gates of Hillsborough Castle as a mark of respect to Prince Philip.\n\nThe tribute had been planned in advance but the exact timing was not publicised to avoid a large gathering of people.\n\nThe drums were the same ones used in 1953 at Hillsborough to entertain the Queen and the Duke during their visit to Northern Ireland.\n\nThe encounter was captured on Pathé newsreel footage and later recreated for the Netflix series The Crown.\n\nThe scene with the Lambeg drums was recreated for an episode of Netflix series The Crown\n\nAt the time, the Queen was on her first visit to Northern Ireland since her coronation the previous month.\n\nFilm footage shows her smiling at the front door of Hillsborough Castle with the Duke of Edinburgh as two drummers play.\n\nThe drums played were the same ones used to entertain the Queen and Prince Philip in 1953\n\nA number of tributes were also placed at the gates of Hillsborough Castle throughout the day.\n\nA card left with a bunch of flowers said: \"HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, thank you for your service and sacrifice.\"\n\nPrince Philip's passing was also marked in Armagh at the Royal School where young people and teachers gathered to remember him.\n\nThe Royal couple visited the school in 2008. Many young people there have a special connection to Prince Phillip because they have participated in the Duke of Edinburgh Award - one of his most enduring legacies.\n\nThe silence was observed at Royal School Armagh\n\nHe set up the scheme in 1956 to encourage young people to volunteer, learn physical activities and skills and undertake an expedition.\n\nIn 2016, almost 1.3m young people were taking part in the scheme in more than 130 countries and territories worldwide.\n\nA number of formal tributes were also laid at the gates of Hillsborough Castle throughout the day.\n\nA card left with a bunch of flowers said: \"HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, thank you for your service and sacrifice.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mark Simpson This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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End of twitter post 2 by President of Ireland\n\nA spokesperson for the Irish government said this was as a mark of respect and was customary on the death of a national or international figure.", "Pregnant women should be offered a Covid jab when other people their age get one, the UK's vaccine advisers say.\n\nThey say the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are preferable because data from the US in 90,000 pregnant women has not raised any safety concerns.\n\nUp until now, only women with underlying health conditions or those whose risk of exposure to the virus was high were eligible.\n\nThe shift in advice brings the UK into line with other countries.\n\nThe Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation now advises that pregnant women should all be offered the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccines where available, at the same time as the rest of the population.\n\nThey are encouraged to discuss the risks and benefits of the vaccines with their doctor before making the appointment, but it is not a requirement.\n\n\"There is no evidence to suggest that other vaccines are unsafe for pregnant women, but more research is needed,\" it added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why it's recommended you get the Covid vaccine if you're pregnant\n\nCurrently, there is a lack of data on the AstraZeneca vaccine in pregnancy because pregnant women were not included in trials, but the JCVI says more evidence may be forthcoming in the near future.\n\nThe JCVI has already said that, as a precaution, adults under 30 should be offered an alternative to the AstraZeneca jab because of evidence possibly linking it to extremely rare blood clots in adults.\n\nProfessor Wei Shen Lim, Covid-19 chair for the JCVI, said: \"We encourage pregnant women to discuss the risks and benefits with their clinician - those at increased risk of severe outcomes from Covid-19 are encouraged to promptly take up the offer of vaccination when offered.\"\n\nDr Edward Morris, president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, said: \"Vaccination offers pregnant women the best protection from Covid-19, which can be serious in some women.\n\n\"We believe it should be a woman's choice whether to have the vaccine or not after considering the benefits and risks, and would encourage pregnant women to discuss with a trusted source like their GP, obstetrician or midwife, or a healthcare professional in a vaccination centre.\"\n\nDr Mary Ross-Davie, from the Royal College of Midwives, said the new advice was \"a sensible step\" by the vaccines committee.\n\nShe said midwives and obstetricians \"will be there to support pregnant women to make an informed decision that is right for them\".\n\nWomen can be vaccinated at any time during their pregnancy although they may prefer to wait until after the first trimester or the first scan, the RCOG said.\n\nAlthough pregnant women are at no greater risk of being infected by the virus, they are more likely to have complications from Covid-19.\n\nData shows that one in five pregnant women who become unwell with Covid needs to have her baby delivered early.\n\nAs the UK's vaccination programme is now inviting people in their 40s, clarity on advice for pregnant women on the vaccine was needed.\n\nMore than 32 million people in the UK have received a first dose of a Covid vaccine.\n\nWomen who are planning pregnancy or are breastfeeding can be vaccinated with any vaccine, depending on their age and clinical risk group, the JCVI said.\n\nIt said it would closely monitor the evidence on Covid-19 vaccination in pregnancy and update its advice as required.\n\nAre you pregnant? How do you feel about this news? Email: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n• None Who can get another Covid jab this autumn?", "Police officer Jonathan Mattingly (centre) was shot during the raid in March 2020\n\nA US publisher says it will not distribute a book by a police officer involved in the fatal shooting of black woman Breonna Taylor.\n\nJonathan Mattingly, who was shot in the leg during a raid on Ms Taylor's home last year, is writing a book telling his version of what happened.\n\nHer killing spurred Black Lives Matter protests across the US.\n\nAfter an online backlash, Simon & Schuster said it would not distribute the book on behalf of its publisher.\n\nMr Mattingly's book, The Fight for Truth: The Inside Story Behind the Breonna Taylor Tragedy, will be released by independent publisher Post Hill Press, it was reported on Thursday. The publisher releases conservative political books, among other genres.\n\nMore than 20,000 people signed a petition calling on Simon & Schuster, which has a deal to distribute Post Hill Press's books, to cancel arrangements to distribute the title.\n\nLater on Thursday, Simon & Schuster said it would \"not be involved\".\n\n\"Like much of the American public, earlier today Simon & Schuster learned of plans by distribution client Post Hill Press to publish a book by Jonathan Mattingly,\" the publisher said on Twitter. \"We have subsequently decided not be involved in the distribution of this book.\"\n\nPost Hill Press said it would press on with the work.\n\n\"His [Mattingly's] story is important and it deserves to be heard by the public at large. We feel strongly that an open dialogue is essential to shining a light on the challenging issues our country is facing,\" a spokesperson said in a statement provided to the Associated Press.\n\nNews of Mr Mattingly's book generated fierce criticism, with author Roxane Gay among those condemning the move.\n\nKentucky State representative Attica Scott, a Democrat, wrote on Twitter that \"people love to profit off of Black pain and tragedy. It sells.\"\n\nMr Mattingly, 48, was one of three plainclothes officers who conducted a raid on Ms Taylor's home in Louisville, Kentucky, on 13 March 2020. Police had a warrant to search for drugs but none were found.\n\nWhen they entered the apartment, Mr Mattingly was shot in the leg by Ms Taylor's boyfriend Kenneth Walker, who said he fired a single shot after fearing an intruder was breaking into the apartment.\n\nThe officers returned fire, killing Ms Taylor, a 26-year-old emergency medical technician. Mr Mattingly fired at least one of the shots that hit Ms Taylor, but not the one that killed her, a FBI report said.\n\nMs Taylor's name became a global rallying cry as people demanded a thorough investigation into her death.\n\nIn September, a grand jury cleared Mr Mattingly and the other officers of murder charges.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend Kenneth Walker describes the night she was killed by police\n\nMr Mattingly, who still serves as a police officer, has previously said the case had \"nothing to do with race\".\n\nLast year, he accused city officials of failing \"all of us in epic proportions for their own gain and to cover their asses\".\n\nIn October, the officer sued Mr Walker for assault and battery. His lawyer accused Ms Taylor's boyfriend of causing \"severe trauma, mental anguish, and emotional distress,\" when he shot Mr Mattingly.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nChelsea ended Manchester City's hopes of winning an historic quadruple as they edged a closely-fought FA Cup semi-final at Wembley.\n\nCity and Chelsea had both secured their places in the last four of the Champions League this week - but Pep Guardiola's side had their sights set on a unique haul of four trophies as they close in on the Premier League title and also face Tottenham here in the League Cup final on 25 April.\n\nChelsea had other ideas, however, and they deserved the victory given to them when Hakim Ziyech slid home Timo Werner's pass in the 55th minute to set up an FA Cup final against either Leicester City or Southampton.\n\nZiyech had a goal ruled out for offside before he scored but that was enough to beat a lethargic City, who made eight changes from their Champions League win against Borussia Dortmund and now have the added worry of the sight of Kevin De Bruyne limping off injured in the second half.\n\nChelsea had a very late scare as keeper Kepa Arrizabalaga clawed away Rodri's injury-time header but manager Thomas Tuchel can now reflect on a hugely satisfying week as his impressive start at Stamford Bridge gathers momentum.\n\nTuchel faced a huge week as his fine start to life at Chelsea would be further shaped by the Champions League quarter-final second leg against Porto before this FA Cup semi-final meeting with a Manchester City side in hot pursuit of all four major trophies.\n\nAnd it was no wonder Chelsea's German manager was sporting a beaming smile at the final whistle as this part of his mission was accomplished in excellent fashion.\n\nCity were seen off after Porto were beaten over two legs to leave Chelsea moving towards the climax of their season contemplating a Champions League semi-final against Liverpool's conquerors Real Madrid and an FA Cup final.\n\nNo-one could begrudge them this victory as Chelsea, from the first whistle, showed more purpose and drive than a laboured and much-changed City side.\n\nZiyech's pace and finishing power troubled City from the start and it was fitting the man of the match slid in the winner from Werner's pass, the latter getting his reward for tireless work.\n\nThere is organisation, efficiency and threat about this Chelsea side and they have put themselves in with the chance of climaxing what started as a troubled season with silverware.\n\nMan City run out of energy and inspiration\n\nPep Guardiola always played down the chances of what many regarded as the Holy Grail of winning all four big trophies - the Champions League, the Premier League, the FA Cup and the League Cup.\n\nAnd he was proved right as City finally ran out of energy and inspiration at Wembley.\n\nCity are back here in eight days to play Spurs in the League Cup final, the Premier League is effectively sewn up, and they face Paris St-Germain in the Champions League semi-final.\n\nThis still has the potential to be magnificent campaign - the most spectacular and successful in Manchester City's history - but there will be no quadruple.\n\nGuardiola made eight changes here after the win away to Borussia Dortmund, although you could hardly describe the side he sent out as weakened.\n\nCity, however, just lacked spark. Raheem Sterling was subdued once more and Guardiola will anxiously await the medical report on the injured De Bruyne.\n\nGuardiola has huge faith in Ederson's deputy Zack Steffen, his FA Cup keeper, but he was caught in no-man's land when he came to solve the problem caused by Werner's run for the goal.\n\nThe bottom line is that even a side as outstanding as Manchester City cannot produce results every time - and this was one of those days.\n\n'We wanted to be brave' - what they said\n\nChelsea boss Thomas Tuchel, speaking to BBC Sport: \"It was a very, very strong performance. I'm very happy and proud.\n\n\"We played an excellent 35 minutes in the first half. We had to suffer for 10 minutes. We then played another 30 minutes so strong and got the lead and could have got another. I am very proud of my team.\n\n\"A good defence is also having the ball and ball possession. It is a very good clean sheet. We were not lucky to escape with a clean sheet, we worked hard for it.\n\n\"The guys are ready to cover for each other if anyone loses a duel. We wanted to be brave today with the ball and against the ball and we did it.\"\n\nManchester City boss Pep Guardiola, speaking to BBC Sport: \"We played a good last 15 minutes. We had struggled to find our place in the pockets but congratulations to Chelsea in a tight game.\n\n\"We arrived sometimes in that position but after that we didn't create. We conceded the goal but after we reacted well, especially after Phil Foden and Ilkay Gundogan came on.\n\n\"The team that defends with eight players in the final third it is not easy. This type of game the margin is so tight. In general we controlled well. We didn't create many clear-cut chances but we arrived more than them.\"\n\nOn Kevin De Bruyne: \"It doesn't look good, he has pain. We will see. Tomorrow he will have a test.\"\n• None Chelsea have reached the FA Cup final in four of the last five seasons - only Arsenal (21) and Manchester United (20) have reached the competition's showcase on more occasions than Chelsea (15).\n• None Chelsea boss Tuchel has become the first ever German manager to reach the English FA Cup final.\n• None Manchester City have now been eliminated at the semi-final stage in three of their five seasons under Guardiola, with the team knocking them out the other two times going on to win the competition (Arsenal in both 2017 and 2020).\n• None Since Tuchel's first game in charge of Chelsea in January, the Blues have kept more clean sheets in all competitions than any other side in the top five European leagues (14).\n• None Chelsea have kept 14 clean sheets in 19 games in all competitions under Tuchel, one more than they did under Frank Lampard in 29 matches this season.\n• None Four of Ziyech's five goals for Chelsea have come in cup competition, while three of his five strikes for the Blues have been assisted by Werner.\n• None Werner has been involved in 19 goals in all competitions this season (10 goals, 9 assists), at least three more than any other Chelsea player.\n• None In his 11th appearance for Man City in all competitions, this was the first time goalkeeper Zack Steffen has ended on the losing side, having won each of his first 10 games for the club.\n\nChelsea are next in action when they host Brighton in the Premier League on Tuesday, 20 April (20:00 BST).\n\nManchester City travel to Aston Villa in the Premier League on Wednesday, 21 April (20:15 BST) before returning to Wembley for the Carabao Cup final against Tottenham on Sunday, 25 April (16:30 BST).\n• None Attempt saved. Rodrigo (Manchester City) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Phil Foden with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Rodrigo (Manchester City) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Rúben Dias with a cross.\n• None Offside, Chelsea. Emerson tries a through ball, but Christian Pulisic is caught offside.\n• None Substitution, Chelsea. Kurt Zouma replaces Thiago Silva because of an injury. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Sergei Skripal, 66, and his daughter Yulia, 33, were found unconscious but both survived the attack\n\nOn 4 March 2018 emergency services received a phone call from members of the public in Salisbury who had seen an old man and a young woman ill on a bench. It was a call that would set in motion a chain of events leading to a major crisis with Russia.\n\nAfter the pair were taken to hospital, local police did an online search on the name of the man taken ill.\n\nThe result set off alarm bells. He was a former Russian spy.\n\nA call came into the duty officer at MI6 headquarters that Sunday evening.\n\nThe realisation that Sergei Skripal - a man who had provided MI6 with secrets from his time in Russian military intelligence - had been targeted sent shock waves through the building, challenging the very core of its work in recruiting agents to work with the organisation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA few hours later, the next call went to Porton Down, home to Britain's biological and chemical research establishment.\n\nA rapid-response team was quickly deployed. Samples analysed in labs on-site identified A234, a military-grade nerve agent from the Novichok family developed by the Soviet Union in the Cold War.\n\nThe revelation caused shock. Detective work by police would identify two officers from Russian military intelligence as the main suspects and a perfume bottle as the means of delivery of the nerve agent onto Mr Skripal's front door handle.\n\nA local woman, Dawn Sturgess would die months later when she came into contact with the Novichok after it had apparently been discarded.\n\nAlexander Mishkin (left) and Anatoliy Chepiga are thought to have carried out the Salisbury attack\n\nRussia denied any role - even putting the two accused men on TV to say they had visited Salisbury simply to see the cathedral spire - but London was convinced it knew who was behind the attack.\n\nWhen another former Russian intelligence officer, Alexander Litvinenko, was killed in 2006 (that time by radioactive polonium) the response was delayed and perceived as weak.\n\nLondon was determined to learn its lesson.\n\nEvery known Russian intelligence officer operating under diplomatic cover in the UK (apart from the declared liaison officer for each Russian intelligence service) was quickly expelled - 23 in total.\n\nMany other countries then followed suit, with 60 expulsions in the US. It seemed as if the Kremlin was taken by surprise by the strength of the reaction.\n\nBut two years on, the legacy of those events looks more uncertain.\n\nBritish officials believe they did real damage to Russian intelligence operations in the country but that damage is likely to have been short term as new spies were dispatched to replace them and as Russia continues a shift to rely on alternative means of espionage.\n\nIn the Cold War, spies under diplomatic cover and illegals were the primary way the Russians could recruit and run agents and steal secrets.\n\nNow there is cyber-espionage and the use of people travelling under different cover, as say businessmen, to operate.\n\nIn the wake of the attack, there was also considerable talk of a tougher line over Russian money and influence in London. But there has been relatively little public sign of action.\n\nThe failure to publish the parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee's \"Russia Report\" about influence and subversion in British life before the election has only added to questions as to whether the appetite to deal with this broader issue remains strong.\n\nThere are also cracks in Western unity over a tough line on Russia, with President Emmanuel Macron of France pushing for trying to improve relations with the Kremlin and uncertainty over the position of the Trump administration in Washington.\n\nUK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Russia President Vladimir Putin met during an international summit on Libya in January\n\nMr Skripal himself has not appeared in public since the poisoning.\n\nMI5 and the Home Office carried out a \"refresh\" to check on the level of protection for defectors like Mr Skirpal - something officials acknowledge was overdue.\n\nThe poisoning itself was a failure, several senior officials who served in British intelligence concede.\n\nA risk assessment was carried out when Mr Skripal was swapped out of a Russian prison in 2010 but the Russia of 2018 was very different from Russia then.\n\nRussia appears to have stepped up a long-standing campaign to track defectors from 2014, including in the US as well as UK.\n\nThat was also the point at which relations began to deteriorate rapidly over the crisis in Ukraine and Crimea and in which other alleged operations, like the deployment of online trolls to interfere in US politics increased.\n\nOne question western intelligence officials have been asking is whether Russia has been deterred from taking such action again by the Western response.", "The BBC's Eleanor Oldroyd was concealed in a small sound-proof booth above the high altar Image caption: The BBC's Eleanor Oldroyd was concealed in a small sound-proof booth above the high altar\n\nThe BBC's Eleanor Oldroyd, who has reported on two royal funerals and three weddings, was the only reporter or broadcaster inside St George's Chapel today. So what was it like inside?\n\nAfterwards, she said: “Doing something inside the chapel is very special, it’s a very unique position, and it’s a very responsible position as well… it’s a moving time for a lot of people.”\n\nShe reported from a small, specially-built, sound-proofed, “hermetically-sealed” box above the high altar. It will come down in the coming days.\n\n“I was being very careful to make sure the door was completely shut, apart from anything else. The dread would be that you draw attention to yourself,” she said.\n\nIn position from 13:30 BST, she had a TV monitor to see the procession begin to arrive outside the chapel.\n\n\"You can feel your heart beating much more rapidly and insistently at that point. Because, however many years of broadcasting you’ve done, you don’t get the chance to do this very often.”\n\nThe coffin being lowered into the vault was “a real moment of drama and theatre, but also a very moving moment\", she said, adding that many people had said they had been moved by the buglers on the Last Post, or the national anthem, or the arrival of the Queen on her own into the chapel.\n\nShe described one moment that viewers on TV may have missed. The Duke of York, sitting two seats along from the Queen, turned to her \"just as if he was checking that she was OK\".\n\n\"I don’t know whether that’s what he was doing, but it felt to me a little moment of concern from mother to son.”", "Helen McCrory played seven lead roles at the National Theatre\n\nStars have paid tribute to Peaky Blinders and Harry Potter actress Helen McCrory who has died of cancer aged 52.\n\nCillian Murphy, who starred alongside her in the BBC drama, described her as \"fearless and magnificent\".\n\nAlso known for her stage performances, National Theatre artistic director Rufus Norris said she was \"one of the great actors of her generation\".\n\nHer husband, actor Damian Lewis, announced her death on Friday \"after an heroic battle with cancer\".\n\nHe said he was \"heartbroken\", and that she was a \"beautiful and mighty woman\".\n\nAs well as her film and TV credits, she played seven lead roles at the National Theatre, whose boss Rufus Norris said: \"With her incisive wit and ferocious intelligence, she was one of the most charismatic and distinctive performers.\"\n\nShe also worked at the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Almeida and the Donmar Warehouse, and earned rave reviews for her role in Uncle Vanya in London and New York in 2002 and 2003.\n\nCarrie Cracknell, who directed McCrory in a stage production of Medea, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme she was one of \"very, very few\" people who knew about her illness and was \"sworn to secrecy\".\n\n\"Helen wanted to be very private about her illness and I understand why,\" she said. \"When you live in the public spotlight you have to find the space to protect the things that are just for you. And certainly that was, it was for her and her family and her very closest friends.\"\n\nMs Cracknell said working with McCrory was \"one of the highlights of my professional life\".\n\n\"She had this extraordinary, fierce depth of character and complexity and ability to articulate so many parts of the human condition.\"\n\n\"She was this tiny, tiny woman and she would stand in the middle of the Olivier stage and sort of be possessed really, it was like she was transforming,\" she said.\n\nShe said McCrory's charity work and commitment to her family had defined her last few years of life, with her not wanting people to focus on her illness.\n\n\"She faced up to it with a level of bravery and humour that was completely extraordinary and as ever was teaching people how to live so it was a remarkable thing.\"\n\nSir Richard Eyre, who gave McCrory one of her first significant stage roles in the 1990s, said one of the most upsetting things about her death was that \"we will be deprived of major performances that she would have been able to give\" and described her as a successor to Dame Judi Dench.\n\nLewis and McCrory met in the 2003 play Five Gold Rings\n\nIn 2003, she met Lewis when they both starred in a play called Five Gold Rings at the Almeida Theatre in London.\n\nMcCrory was nominated for two of London's Olivier Awards for playing Rosalind in As You Like It in 2006, and for The Last of the Haussmans in 2013.\n\nThe actress was perhaps best known for playing Aunt Polly, the matriarch of the Shelby clan, in all five series of hit BBC period gang drama Peaky Blinders from its start in 2013.\n\nPeaky Blinders creator Steven Knight said: \"Helen was one of the great actors of her generation. She was so powerful and controlled and this is so sad.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Helen McCrory starred as Aunt Polly in all five series of Peaky Blinders\n\nMurphy, who played Tommy Shelby in the show, added he was \"broken-hearted to lose such a dear friend\", describing her as \"a beautiful, caring, funny, compassionate human being\".\n\n\"She elevated and made humane every scene, every character she played,\" he said, adding it was \"a privilege to have worked with this brilliant woman... I will dearly miss my pal\".\n\nBBC director of drama Piers Wenger added: \"Helen was one of the finest actresses this country will ever see.\"\n\nActor Michael Sheen, who worked with McCrory on the 2006 film The Queen and more recently in ITV drama Quiz, described her death as \"heartbreaking\" and said it had been \"an honour to work with her and know her\" in a post on social media.\n\n\"So funny, so passionate, so smart and one of the greatest actors of our time,\" he tweeted.\n\n\"From the first moment I met her when we were just kids it was obvious she was very special.\"\n\nAlongside a photo of McCrory, actress Dame Helen Mirren wrote on Instagram: \"A great actress and a great person. this is so very very sad.\"\n\nMcCrory married Homeland star Lewis in 2007 and they had two children.\n\nLast year, the couple raised more than £1m to provide NHS workers with meals from high street restaurants during the pressures of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nComedian Matt Lucas, who worked with them on the FeedNHS campaign, tweeted that she \"will be remembered not just for her remarkable stage and screen performances, but also for her selflessness and generosity\".\n\nMcCrory played Narcissa Malfoy, the wife of Lucius Malfoy and Draco's mother, in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 and Part 2.\n\nIn her tribute, Harry Potter author JK Rowling wrote: \"I'm devastated to learn of the death of Helen McCrory, an extraordinary actress and a wonderful woman who's left us far too soon.\n\n\"My deepest condolences to her family, especially her husband and children.\"\n\nWith Jason Isaacs as Lucius Malfoy (left) and Tom Felton as Draco Malfoy in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows\n\nHer other screen roles included the MP Clair Dowar in 2012 James Bond movie Skyfall, and former Prime Minister Tony Blair's wife Cherie in the films The Queen and The Special Relationship.\n\nShe provided the voice of Stelmaria, Lord Asriel's snow leopard daemon, in the recent BBC One TV series His Dark Materials, and the show's Twitter account called her \"uniquely talented\".\n\nFilm and theatre director Sir Sam Mendes, who directed Skyfall, remembered her as \"an astonishing talent, a fabulous person, and an absolute true original\".\n\nShe played Cherie Blair in 2006 film The Queen", "Peloton has called the safety warning 'inaccurate and misleading'\n\nSafety regulators in the US have urged owners of a Peloton treadmill to stop using the product \"immediately\" if they have children or pets in the home.\n\nThe Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) says it is aware of 39 incidents including one death, involving the Peloton Tread+.\n\nPeloton had already confirmed the death last month and said children should stay away from the machines.\n\nOn Saturday, Peloton called the CPSC's warning \"inaccurate and misleading\".\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 CPSC issued the \"urgent warning\" on Saturday, releasing video footage of a child being dragged under one of the machines.\n\nIt said the machine posed \"serious risks to children for abrasions, fractures, and death\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by US Consumer Product Safety Commission This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 US Consumer Product Safety Commission\n\nThe CPSC said it believed at least one of the 39 incidents occurred while a parent was running on the treadmill. It also warned that children could be seriously injured while the Tread+ is being used by an adult and not just during cases where children have been left unsupervised.\n\nThe regulator advised owners of the machine to use it only in a locked room and to keep objects such as exercise balls away from it.\n\nPeloton said in a press release that the machine was \"safe for members to use in their homes and comes with safety instructions and warnings to ensure its safe use\".\n\n\"Like all motorised exercise equipment, the Tread+ can pose hazards if the warnings and safety instructions are not followed,\" it added.\n\nThe company told owners of the machine not to let children under the age of 16 use the treadmill and to keep children, pets, and objects away from the Tread+ at all times.", "The UK has named two Russian nationals suspected of the attempted murder of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May said the suspects entered the UK on Russian passports using the names Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov. Moscow denies any involvement in the attack.\n\nIn an interview with Russia's state-run international broadcaster, RT, on 13 September, the two men said they were in the UK to visit the \"wonderful town\" of Salisbury and see its \"famous\" cathedral.\n\nInvestigative website Bellingcat has since claimed Mr Boshirov is actually an intelligence officer by the name of Colonel Anatoliy Chepiga.\n\nMr Skripal and his daughter were discovered unconscious on a bench in the Wiltshire city of Salisbury on 4 March. A second poisoning incident in nearby Amesbury in July is believed to be linked to the attack.\n\nThe British government says a military-grade Novichok nerve agent was used.\n\nHere's what we know so far about the movements of the Skripals and the Russian suspects on 2, 3 and 4 March.\n\nTwo suspects using the names Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov arrive at London Gatwick Airport from Moscow on Aeroflot flight SU2588.\n\nPolice say the men are thought to be officers from Russia's military intelligence service.\n\nThe men say they work in the sports nutrition business and were in the UK on holiday.\n\nRussian officials have denied claims by the Bellingcat website that Mr Boshirov is Col Chepiga - who is reported to have been working undercover for the past nine years after serving with a special forces unit under the command of the GRU - Russia's military intelligence service.\n\nThey travel to London's Victoria station before heading to Waterloo for about 18:00 GMT. They then make their way to the City Stay Hotel in Bow, east London, for the first of their two-night stay.\n\nTraces of Novichok, below the levels that would cause health concerns, were later found in their room.\n\nThe Russian suspects arrive in Salisbury from Waterloo on what police believe was a reconnaissance mission.\n\nSergei Skripal's 33-year-old daughter, Yulia, flies into London's Heathrow Airport on a flight from Russia. It is believed she was picked up by a family friend.\n\nThe Russian suspects return from Salisbury to London by train.\n\nThe Russian suspects again take the London Underground from Bow to Waterloo, before continuing their journey by train to Salisbury.\n\nMr Skripal's red BMW is seen in Salisbury in the area of London Road, Churchill Way North and Wilton Road.\n\nLondon Road is home to Salisbury's cemetery, where Mr Skripal's wife Liudmila and son Alexander are buried.\n\nThe suspects arrive at Salisbury station. They are about a mile from Mr Skripal's home.\n\nThe men are filmed on CCTV at a Shell petrol station on Wilton Road, not far from Christie Miller Road, where Mr Skripal lives. Police believe this was moments before the Novichok was sprayed on the door handle of Mr Skripal's house.\n\nThe Russians are seen on CCTV on Fisherton Street, possibly on their way to the train station. They pass close to where the Skripals would later spend the afternoon having a drink and a meal together in the centre of Salisbury.\n\nMr Skripal's car is seen driving down Devizes Road, towards the town centre.\n\n1) Mr Skripal, 66, and his daughter arrive at the Sainsbury's upper level car park at the Maltings shopping precinct.\n\n2) They then head to the Mill pub.\n\nThe two Russian suspects return to London by train, arriving in the capital at approximately 16:45 GMT.\n\n3) The Skripals dine at Zizzi restaurant and stay until 15:35 GMT.\n\nTraces of a military-grade nerve agent are later found at the Mill and Zizzi.\n\n4) Emergency services receive the first report of an incident. Police find the Skripals on a bench in an \"extremely serious condition\".\n\nThey are taken to hospital along with police officer Det Sgt Nick Bailey, attending the incident. All three were later discharged.\n\nThe suspects board the London Underground to London Heathrow Airport.\n\nThe men are caught on CCTV going through passport control at Heathrow.\n\nThe pair depart on Aeroflot flight SU2585 to Moscow.\n\nA massive clean-up operation was launched to decontaminate nine sites known, or thought, to be contaminated with the nerve agent.\n\nUK authorities said the highest concentration of Novichok was found at Mr Skripal's house, but the operation involving more than 200 personnel, included eight other sites.\n\nWiltshire and Novichok again hit the headlines in July, when another couple fell ill in suspicious circumstances, in Amesbury, only a few miles from the Skripal investigation.\n\nParamedics are called twice to a flat in Muggleton Road, Amesbury, after Dawn Sturgess, 44, collapses.\n\nA friend of the couple, Sam Hobson, said Ms Sturgess appeared to have had a fit and was \"foaming at the mouth\".\n\nParamedics return to same address after Ms Sturgess's friend Charlie Rowley also falls ill.\n\nPolice initially think the two had been using heroin or crack cocaine from a contaminated batch of drugs, however they declare a major incident after Ms Sturgess and Mr Rowley need treatment for suspected exposure \"to an unknown substance\".\n\nTests at the UK's military research lab, Porton Down, find the pair had been exposed to the nerve agent Novichok.\n\nFive areas the victims are believed to have visited prior to falling ill are cordoned off: in Amesbury they are Muggleton Road, Boots pharmacy and the Baptist church, while in Salisbury and John Baker House in Rolleston Street and Queen Elizabeth Gardens.\n\nMs Sturgess dies in hospital on 8 July. Mr Rowley remains in a critical condition.\n\nPolice later confirm the Novichok that poisoned Ms Sturgess and Mr Rowley came from a small bottle found during searches of Charlie Rowley's house on Muggleton Road.\n\nThe counterfeit Nina Ricci perfume bottle, with a specially-adapted applicator, had been picked up by Mr Rowley from a charity bin on 27 June.\n\nHe told police he got some of the contents on himself while he was putting the bottle parts together. Ms Sturgess applied some of the substance to her wrist before feeling unwell.\n\nThe working assumption of police is that the bottle was a container discarded after the Skripals' poisoning, according to BBC security correspondent Gordon Corera.", "The vehicle is based on SpaceX's Starship design\n\nNasa has chosen Elon Musk's company SpaceX to build a lander that will return humans to the Moon this decade.\n\nThis vehicle will carry the next man and the first woman down to the lunar surface under the space agency's Artemis programme.\n\nAnother goal of the programme will be to land the first person of colour on the Moon.\n\nThe lander is based on SpaceX's Starship craft, which is being tested at a site in southern Texas.\n\nSpaceX was competing against a joint bid from traditional aerospace giants and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, as well as Alabama-based Dynetics. The total value of the contract awarded to Musk's company is $2.89bn.\n\n\"With this award, Nasa and our partners will complete the first crewed demonstration mission to the surface of the Moon in the 21st century as the agency takes a step forward for women's equality and long-term deep space exploration,\" said Kathy Lueders, the organisation's head of human exploration.\n\n\"This critical step puts humanity on a path to sustainable lunar exploration and keeps our eyes on missions farther into the Solar System, including Mars.\"\n\nArtwork: Nasa wants to return to the Moon this decade, but this time it wants to stay\n\nThe Artemis programme, initiated under the Trump administration, had targeted a return to the lunar surface in 2024. But a shortfall in funding of the landing system has made that goal unattainable.\n\nElon Musk has been developing the Starship design for years. Resembling the rocketships from the golden age of science fiction, it is a crucial component of the entrepreneur's long-term plans for settling humans on Mars.\n\nFor now, though, it will serve as the lander that ferries astronauts from lunar orbit to the surface.\n\nWith a spacious cabin and two airlocks, allowing astronauts to exit the craft for moonwalks, it's a far cry from the cramped, spindly lunar module (LM) that carried 12 men to the surface under the US Apollo programme between 1969 and 1972.\n\nThe new vehicle will be known as the Human Landing System (HLS).\n\nIn recent times, Nasa has chosen more than one company when procuring space transport services, giving it options if one of them fails to deliver.\n\nBill Nelson - President Biden's pick as Nasa chief - is set to appear at his confirmation hearing next week\n\nBut Nasa has received only $850m of the $3.3bn it requested from Congress to build the Moon lander. In a statement, Ms Lueders said that \"while it remains the agency's desire to preserve a competitive environment at this stage of the HLS program\", its current budget precluded it from selecting two companies, as it was expected to.\n\nCost is believed to have been a major factor; SpaceX's bid was the lowest of the three competitors \"by a wide margin\".\n\nMs Lueders explained: \"I made a determination that it would be in the agency's best interests to make an initial, conditional selection of SpaceX.\"\n\nThe decision has caused a stir in Congress. Nasa is undergoing a transition of power following Joe Biden's election as President. It is being run by an interim administrator, and Mr Biden's pick to run the agency - former senator and astronaut Bill Nelson - will appear at his confirmation hearing next week.\n\n\"I am disappointed that the acting Nasa leadership decided to make such a consequential award prior to the arrival of a new permanent Nasa administrator and deputy administrator,\" said congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson, the democrat chair of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology.\n\nA Starship prototype \"belly flops\" back to Earth during one of its flight tests\n\n\"The decision to make the award today also comes despite the obvious need for a re-baselining of Nasa's lunar exploration program, which has no realistic chance of returning US astronauts to the Moon by 2024.\"\n\nNasa is targeting the Moon's South Polar region for the first landing with astronauts since 1972. This area holds abundant deposits of water-ice, which could be turned into rocket fuel and breathable air to support a future lunar base.\n\nBut touching down here also presents challenges, because the angle of the Sun casts long shadows that obscure surface features as the craft comes down to land.\n\nEngineers will need to navigate the problem as they refine their plans for the first Artemis landing.\n\nSpaceX had been in a run-off against the National Team - consisting of Blue Origin (founded by Bezos), Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Draper - and defence contractor Dynetics.\n\nIt represents another milestone for the 19-year-old company founded by Musk, which initially had to overcome widespread scepticism about its plans to bring down the costs of spaceflight. SpaceX almost ran out of money, but was kept going by a fortuitous contract award from Nasa in 2008.\n\nStarship is a far cry from the spindly Lunar Module used for the Apollo-era landings\n\nSince then, it has achieved huge success launching commercial satellites and picked up a lucrative contract to fly people to the ISS.\n\nThe Starship vehicle is currently being tested at a facility in Boca Chica, South Texas. A number of uncrewed prototypes have already been launched to altitudes of 10km or more, before being brought back down in an attempt to land them softly on the ground. However, the last few test flights ended with the vehicles exploding, either close to or on the pad after their return.\n\n\"This is an exciting time for Nasa and especially the Artemis team,\" said Lisa Watson-Morgan, programme manager for the Human Landing System at the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville.\n\n\"During the Apollo programme, we proved that it is possible to do the seemingly impossible: land humans on the Moon. By taking a collaborative approach in working with industry while leveraging Nasa's proven technical expertise and capabilities, we will return American astronauts to the Moon's surface once again, this time to explore new areas for longer periods of time.\"\n\nThe Artemis programme aims to establish a long-term presence on the Moon, including the establishment of a lunar base.", "Blossoms will headline the gig at Liverpool's Sefton Park\n\nMusic fans in Liverpool are to get the chance to enjoy a near-normal gig as part of a government pilot event.\n\nA crowd of 5,000 will see headline act Blossoms without having to social-distance or wear face coverings.\n\nBut they will only get into the 2 May event by having a negative Covid test.\n\nMeanwhile, the FA Cup semi-final between Leicester City and Southampton at London's Wembley Stadium will host a crowd of 4,000 later as part of a series of government trial events.\n\nOn Sunday, the UK recorded 1,882 new Covid cases and 10 deaths within 28 days of a positive test, according to the latest government figures. The number of deaths recorded over the weekend tends to be lower because of reporting delays.\n\nMore than 32.8 million people have had their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, while more than 9.9 million people have had their second dose.\n\nThe outdoor concert at Sefton Park will operate below its capacity of 7,500.\n\nTicket-holders will be required to take a lateral flow test, which can produce a result within 30 minutes, at a local testing centre before entry, the Department for Digital Culture Media and Sport said.\n\nAttendees will also be asked to take a test after the concert - and will have to provide contact details to NHS Test and Trace to ensure they can be reached if someone who attended tests positive.\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden said: \"We're one step closer to a summer of live events now our science-led programme is under way.\n\n\"Testing different settings and looking at different mitigations is key to getting crowds back safely.\"\n\n\"I hope it won't be too much longer until gigs are back for good,\" he added.\n\nAnnouncing Blossoms as headliners, Claire McColgan, director of Culture Liverpool, told BBC Radio 5 Live's Breakfast it was nearly two years since the city had held outdoor mass-attendance events.\n\nShe said scientists would assess how attendees move and respond during the gig, and voluntary tests taken afterwards will be used to identify any infections that might arise.\n\n\"The stuff you see on stage is just a tiny, tiny part of it,\" she said. \"It's loads of people's jobs - it's 60,000 jobs across our city region.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the results from the concert would \"inform our approach to ensuring future big events can take place safely\".\n\nThe event will be organised by music promoter Festival Republic in partnership with Culture Liverpool.\n\nGreg Parmley, chief executive of Live, the UK's live music industry body, said the outdoor pilot was \"a hugely positive development and brings the summer festival season one step closer\".\n\nThe government is trialling crowds at a series of events in England. The first of these - the World Snooker Championships - began on Saturday, with a reduced crowd of 213 watching at Sheffield's Crucible Theatre.\n\nOrganisers hope the crowd will be at its full capacity of 980 by the final on 2 May.\n\nOther events planned as part of the pilot scheme include other events in Liverpool including an evening at an indoor nightclub, a business conference and a cinema screening.\n\nA mass-participation 6.2 mile (10km) run was scheduled for later this month at Hatfield Park in Hertfordshire but has since been postponed.\n\nUnder the government's roadmap for easing lockdown in England, large events can restart from 17 May at the earliest - but with limits on audience numbers - and nightclubs will be able to reopen no earlier than 21 June.\n\nThe Welsh government is planning to hold a series of pilot events for audiences of up to 1,000 people after 12 April.\n\nA target date for the restart of large events in Scotland and Northern Ireland has not yet been set.\n\nMeanwhile, leaders of the UK's biggest hospitality businesses have signed an open letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson urging him to \"stick\" with England's roadmap to reopen the economy.\n\nThe letter in the Sunday Telegraph, signed by the chief executives of Mitchells & Butlers, Fuller's, Young's, JD Wetherspoon, Pizza Hut and Alton Towers owner Merlin, said two-thirds of hospitality venues \"couldn't open outdoors from 12 April, and none is breaking even\".\n\nThe signatories added: \"The prime minister set out the right path. He should stick to it and not let it be derailed by talk of vaccine passports in pubs and restaurants.\"\n\nSefton Park in Liverpool hosted capacity crowds the summer before the pandemic struck\n\nThe Night Time Industries Association admitted the reopening of outdoor hospitality in England had led to a \"challenging\" weekend.\n\nThe association's Michael Kill told BBC Breakfast: \"As you can appreciate it is a very challenging environment. It's great to be back - it's been a very busy weekend and the majority of customers have adhered to measures that have been put in place by the businesses.\"\n\n\"I think there is going to be a bit of a bedding in period for people to get used to things and for things to settle - particularly over the first weekend,\" he added.", "Two Russian men suspected of carrying out the 2018 Salisbury poisonings are being linked to an explosion at an arms depot in the Czech Republic.\n\nEvidence links the 2014 explosion, and an attempted poisoning in Bulgaria, to a unit of Russian military intelligence - the GRU - the BBC has learnt.\n\nEuropean intelligence agencies believe the GRU's Unit 29155 is tasked with sabotage, subversion and assassination.\n\nThe Russian government said the claims were unfounded and absurd.\n\nCzech authorities say they are expelling 18 Russian diplomats believed to be intelligence operatives in retaliation for the explosion, which killed two people.\n\nCzech Prime Minister Andrej Babis said the country had to react to revelations tying the blast to the GRU.\n\nThe country will inform Nato and European Union allies about its suspicions, and will discuss the matter at an EU foreign ministers' meeting on Monday, its acting Foreign Minister Jan Hamacek said.\n\nThe Russian foreign ministry said it would \"take retaliatory measures that will force the authors of this provocation to fully understand their responsibility for destroying the foundation of normal ties between our countries\".\n\nA huge explosion tore apart an ammunitions storage depot in a forest in the Czech Republic on 16 October 2014.\n\nWindows in nearby buildings were blown out and local schools were evacuated as emergency vehicles rushed to the scene. The remains of two men - aged 56 and 69 - who worked at the site were found more than a month later.\n\nThe blast was assumed to have been an accident.\n\nBut painstaking detective work by Czech authorities has pointed the finger at Moscow - and Unit 29155 of the GRU.\n\nIn the wake of the Salisbury poisoning, European security services have been investigating a series of previously unexplained events.\n\nFor Czech police, that included the October 2014 explosion. A crucial find, sources close to the investigation have told the BBC, was an email sent to Imex Group, the company which operated the depot.\n\nIt claimed to come from the National Guard of Tajikistan. It asked for two men to be given access to the site for an inspection visit. Scans of their passports were attached. The men were said to be Ruslan Tabarov from Tajikistan and Nicolaj Popa, a Moldovan citizen.\n\nThe pictures on the passports match those of the two men accused by Britain of the Salisbury poisoning.\n\nThe two men travelled to the UK in March 2018 under the names Ruslan Boshirov and Alexander Petrov.\n\nBoth were caught on CCTV at Salisbury and identified by the Metropolitan Police as suspects in smearing Novichok nerve agent on the door handle of the house of former GRU officer Sergei Skripal.\n\nSkripal and his daughter fell ill while a local woman, Dawn Sturgess, was killed months later by Novichok from a discarded perfume bottle.\n\nThe investigative site Bellingcat soon after identified Ruslan Boshirov as Anatoly Chepiga and Alexander Petrov as Alexander Mishkin, both GRU officers.\n\nThe pair then appeared on Russian TV denying involvement, claiming they were sports nutritionists who visited Salisbury to see the spire of the cathedral.\n\nPassport scans were given to gain access to the site in the Czech Republic\n\nOn 11 October 2014, the men used the same cover identities they used in Salisbury - Ruslan Boshirov and Alexander Petrov - to arrive at Prague airport.\n\nThey stayed in Prague for two days (Chepiga's presence had previously been noted based on social media posts but not linked to the explosion).\n\nThey then booked into accommodation in Ostrava, near the ammunition depot on 13 October. They were booked to stay until the 17 October.\n\nThe explosion took place on the 16th and that day the pair headed to Vienna airport to fly to Moscow. The authorities do not appear to know exactly how the depot was blown up.\n\nTwo suspects pictured on CCTV at Salisbury railway station, England, in March 2018\n\nDawn Sturgess was poisoned after inadvertently spraying herself with Novichok in a perfume bottle\n\nAnother clue, the BBC has learnt, was the email used to request the men's visit to the arms depot. It was traced to a user in Russia rather than Tajikistan and when entered in a Skype directory linked to a username \"Andrey O\".\n\nThe commander of Unit 29155 was first reported by the New York Times to be Andrey Averyanov and he is believed to have used Andrey Overyanov as a cover identity.\n\nWhy would Russian intelligence blow up the arms depot?\n\nOne of the people storing weapons there was a Bulgarian arms dealer called Emilian Gebrev, sources have told the BBC.\n\nThat provided another link to Unit 29155.\n\nIn April 2015, six months after the Czech explosion, Gebrev fell seriously ill in the Bulgarian capital Sofia. After a month in hospital, he was released but then fell sick again. Despite suspicions, Bulgarian authorities made little progress amid talk it was simply food poisoning.\n\nIt was only after events in Salisbury in 2018 that people paid more attention.\n\nA third man, using the name Sergei Fedotov had been identified as coming to the UK to oversee the Salisbury poisoning. And he was also found to have been in Bulgaria at the time of Gebrev's poisoning.\n\nBulgarian authorities found that Fedotov and two other men from Unit 29155 had checked into a hotel in the same complex as Gebrev's office in April 2015 and insisted on rooms with a view of the underground car park.\n\nSurveillance of that car park released by a Bulgarian prosecutor last year shows one man approaching the cars of Gebrev, as well as his son and business partner who would also fall ill.\n\nA toxic substance is believed to have been smeared on the handles - similar to the way Novichok was placed on the handle of Sergei Skripal's house.\n\nAlthough he had a return flight booked two days later, Fedotov left the country on April 28th - the day of the poisoning.\n\nIt has been reported he was supplying weapons to a number of countries against Moscow's wishes, possibly including Ukraine, or to other countries in competition with Russian suppliers, including in Asia.\n\nAnd one business deal may also have brought him into direct conflict with powerful Russian businessmen linked to the GRU.\n\nThe explosion at the Czech depot in October 2014 looks like it could have been an initial attempt to hurt Gebrev's business or issue a warning which was then followed up with an attempt to kill him.\n\nPainstaking detective work into the blast by Czech authorities has pointed the finger at Moscow\n\nBut the only people to die were two innocent Czech men working at the depot. (There were also explosions at Bulgarian arms factories in 2015 although no link has publicly been made.)\n\nOn Saturday, the Czech Prime Minister announced evidence linked the explosion to the GRU and said 18 employees of the Russian embassy - identified as intelligence operatives - had to leave the country within 48 hours.\n\nCzech police issued pictures of the two suspects saying they wanted to speak to them. Russian authorities say their constitution prevents the men being extradited.\n\nCzech ministers pointed the finger specifically at Unit 29155. European intelligence officials say its mission is sabotage, subversion and assassination.\n\nThey think it numbers around 200 but with only 20 or so of those involved in carrying out operations with the rest support staff.\n\nAs well as Salisbury, Bulgaria and now the Czech Republic, the unit has been linked to other operations including an attempted coup in Montenegro in 2016.\n\nA number of European countries are investigating past travel to see if it correlates with suspicious events. That means this revelation may not be the last.\n\nThe pair involved in Salisbury and now linked to the Czech explosion have not been seen since they were identified in 2018. But Unit 29155, western intelligence officials say, is still active.\n\nUK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said the UK stands \"in full support of our Czech allies, who have exposed the lengths that the Russian intelligence services will go to in their attempts to conduct dangerous and malign operations in Europe\".", "A specially-modified Land Rover hearse, which Prince Philip helped to design over 16 years, will convey his coffin to the funeral on Saturday.\n\nThe vehicle was manufactured at Land Rover's factory in Solihull in 2003. The Duke requested the vehicle be repainted in military green and helped to design the open top rear of the car.", "Facebook's Oversight Board has delayed its decision regarding former US President Donald Trump's possible return to Facebook and Instagram.\n\nMr Trump was banned from Facebook in January after the Capitol Hill riots.\n\nThe Board said the delay was due to the time it has taken to review over 9,000 public responses to cases.\n\nA decision was originally due by 21 April. In a statement on Twitter, the Board said it would make a decision \"in the coming 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 Oversight Board This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe ruling will be the biggest decision the Oversight Board has had to make since it started taking on cases last year.\n\nThe Board was set up to rule on difficult or controversial moderation decisions made by Facebook.\n\nThe 20-member committee, established by Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg, is often referred to as \"Facebook's Supreme Court\". It operates as an independent entity, although its wages and others costs are covered by the tech company.\n\nThe committee is made up of journalists, human rights activists, lawyers and academics.\n\nThe group has already ruled on nine cases including:\n\nIt's not just Mr Trump's account that is banned. Earlier this month Facebook extended their ban to include the \"voice of Trump\" after his daughter-in-law and Fox News contributor Laura Trump posted a video of her interviewing the former president.\n\nSeveral Big Tech platforms took action after the Capitol Hill riots that left five people dead and more than 100 police officers injured. The former president was accused of inciting violence and repeatedly spreading disinformation.\n\nHe is suspended on YouTube, but chief executive Susan Wojcicki has said they may lift the ban when the threat of \"real-world violence\" decreases.\n\nHe is permanently banned on Twitter.\n\nAccording to data from CrowdTangle, some of Mr Trump's Facebook posts were among the most popular in the US.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Facebook's Top 10 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt has been a few months without Mr Trump on social media and with the threat of that being permanent, he has been considering creating a platform of his own.\n\nTrump adviser Jason Miller told Fox News in March that he expects the former Republican president will return with his \"own platform\".\n\nIt's hard to understate Facebook's use to Donald Trump.\n\nHe and his high-profile supporters expertly used the platform to drum up support.\n\nRegularly his updates would be some of the most read, shared and commented-on posts on the platform.\n\nHis ability to bypass traditional media and speak directly to people on social media was a key plank of Trumpism.\n\nThis decision then is hugely important to Mr Trump's future political ambitions.\n\nAnd if you look at the decisions that the Oversight Board has already made, he has reason to be optimistic.\n\nIn making its decisions, the board has to try to weigh up the rights of freedom of expression with public safety. For most of their rulings so far this year they have erred on the side of free speech.\n\nNo-platforming works - we have not heard much from Trump since his election defeat. His megaphone has been taken away, and he desperately wants it back.\n\nHe's talked about launching his own social media platform - but building a social network takes time and there are no guarantees of success.\n\nA far easier route to social media influence would be for Facebook to allow him back.", "Prince Philip is being remembered as the longest-serving consort in British history, who sacrificed a naval career to give steadfast support to his wife. But it is easy to forget he had endured an exceptionally turbulent childhood, writes historian Philip Eade.\n\nHe was abruptly separated from his parents and four elder sisters at the age of eight, and destined never again to live in the same home as his immediate family.\n\nIn later years, while out and about on royal duties, he would gain a reputation for his quizzical, ragging and, at times, startlingly blunt remarks. And to friends, his emotional reserve was every bit as striking as his bluff, no-nonsense exterior.\n\nHis tendency to hide his feelings meant that even those who knew him well were occasionally taken aback by his bouts of prickliness - presumed to be legacies of his unsettled early life.\n\nPrince Philip was born in Corfu in 1921 eight years after the assassination of his grandfather, King George I of Greece.\n\nHe was the youngest child and only son of Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark and Princess Alice of Battenberg.\n\nHe was little more than a year old when his father was sent into exile by an army court martial following Greece's calamitous defeat in a war with Turkey.\n\nThe family's subsequent flight across the Adriatic Sea to Italy aboard a British warship, with the infant Philip sleeping in a converted orange crate, was helped by King George V of the UK, Andrew's first cousin. The monarch's determination to rescue them owed much to his regret at having failed to save another first cousin, Tsar Nicholas II, during the Russian Revolution five years earlier.\n\nEventually, the family settled on the outskirts of Paris at St-Cloud, in a garden cottage owned by Philip's aunt. Philip attended a small day school nearby, but in 1930 his world was again thrown apart when his mother, whom he had always adored, suffered a severe mental breakdown.\n\nPrince Philip with his mother and father, circa 1925\n\nAlice, who was the daughter of Prince Louis of Battenberg (whose family name was anglicised to Mountbatten during World War One), had been born profoundly deaf. She learned to lip-read in several different languages.\n\nBrave, energetic and determined not to let disability hold her back, she had served as a latter-day Florence Nightingale during the Balkan Wars of 1912-13, setting up and nursing in front-line hospitals.\n\nThree decades later, during the war-time Nazi German occupation of Greece, she hid Jews in her house in Athens, earning, like Oskar Schindler, Israel's award of Righteous Among the Nations.\n\nIn the years immediately after the family's flight from Greece, however, her behaviour had grown disturbingly strange. One doctor who saw her, diagnosed her as a paranoid schizophrenic who believed that she was the only woman on Earth, and married to Christ.\n\nEventually, Alice's mother (Philip's grandmother) bowed to the advice of psychiatrists, and agreed that her daughter should be committed to a secure sanatorium. So she arranged - while the family was staying for Easter 1930 with Alice's uncle, the Grand Duke of Hesse - for a doctor to arrive one day while the children were out. He would forcibly sedate Alice, bundle her into a car and drive her off to a clinic near Lake Constance.\n\nThe committal of Philip's mother, on 2 May, marked the end of his family life, although he and his sisters would not have realised this when they arrived back at the grand-ducal palace that evening to find their mother gone.\n\nAlice and Andrew's marriage had been under strain for several years but it, in effect, ended at that point. They hardly saw each other from then on, although they would never divorce.\n\nAndrew stopped acting as her husband. He freed himself from many of his responsibilities as father too, shutting up the family home at St-Cloud and thereafter leading a rather aimless life, drifting between Paris, Monte Carlo and Germany, interspersed with sporadic fruitless interventions in Greek affairs.\n\nHe saw Philip now and again during the school holidays, but otherwise left him in the care of Alice's family, the Milford Havens and Mountbattens, in England.\n\nWithin 18 months of the family break-up, Philip's sisters were all married to German princelings, so the disappearance of both their parents was of far less consequence for them than it was for their eight-year-old brother.\n\nFirst, he lived with his maternal grandmother at Kensington Palace, before moving in with his uncle, Alice's elder brother George, the Marquess of Milford Haven - whose son David would become Philip's closest childhood friend (and later best man).\n\nFor the next eight years, \"Uncle Georgie\" acted as Philip's guardian, turning up in loco parentis at school prize-givings and sports days. During some school holidays, he provided a home for Philip at Lynden Manor, on the Thames between Windsor and Maidenhead.\n\nPhilip only saw his mother a handful of times during the first two years of her confinement.\n\nAt the sanatorium, Alice was told her son would be going to boarding school at Cheam in England - her daughter Cecilie careful to reassure her that, although at first nervous at the idea, Philip had become \"thrilled\" at the prospect.\n\nFor five years, from the summer of 1932 to the spring of 1937 - by which time she had largely recovered her equilibrium - Philip neither saw nor heard from his mother at all. It was not in his nature to overstate the effect of all this. \"I just had to get on with it,\" he later told one biographer.\n\nPrince Philip's mother, Princess Alice, went on to live a semi-cloistered life as a nun on the island of Tinos\n\nYet being separated from his mother at such a critical stage in his upbringing undoubtedly left its mark.\n\nHowever fond he was of his grandmother, uncle and aunt, and appreciative of the homes they provided him, they could never make up for the family home he had lost.\n\nWhen an interviewer asked him what language he had spoken at home as a boy, his immediate and rather cross retort was: \"What do you mean, 'at home'?\"\n\nHis apparent way of coping was to banish introspection and remain cheerful and purposeful. In the absence of his own father, various surrogates helped shape the young prince's increasingly forthright character.\n\nThe headmaster of Cheam was a cheerful clergyman and staunch disciplinarian who used a cane to punish daytime offences and a sawn-off cricket bat for those caught having pillow fights after lights out.\n\nPhilip's first beating as a new boy prompted him to ask the headmaster's wife: \"Do you like Mr Taylor?\" The experienced Mrs Taylor countered expertly. \"Do you, Philip?\" she asked. \"No,\" answered the boy unequivocally. \"I do not.\"\n\nBut as time passed, Philip grew to like not only Mr Taylor but also everything else about Cheam, the tough regime of which he later extolled in a preface to a history of the school: \"Children may be indulged at home, but school is expected to be a Spartan and disciplined experience in the process of developing into self-controlled, considerate and independent adults. The system may have its eccentricities, but there can be little doubt that these are far outweighed by its values.\"\n\nHis more timid and sensitive son, Prince Charles, who had a miserable time at Cheam, may not have entirely agreed with this assessment. He also found it impossible to share his father's enthusiasm for Gordonstoun, an even more Spartan educational establishment in Moray, where Philip went at the age of 13 and eventually rose to be head boy.\n\nPhilip's housemaster at Gordonstoun, Robert Chew, was also in charge of \"character building\" at the school during its early years. By the time Prince Charles was sent there, Chew had risen to headmaster and Charles later shuddered when he remembered him as \"a remote and austere character who adhered to the founder's beliefs with the conviction of a true disciple\".\n\nThe founder he referred to was Kurt Hahn, an eccentric Jewish emigre from Salem School in Germany, where Philip had spent a year just after the rise of Hitler in 1933-34.\n\nPrince Philip (centre left) taking part in an historical pageant at Gordonstoun School in 1933\n\nHahn, the prince's most influential mentor during his time at Gordonstoun, pitted his young charges against what he declared was a five-fold decay of civilisation - the decay of fitness, the decay of initiative and enterprise, the decay of care and skill, the decay of self-discipline, and the decay of compassion.\n\nHahn and Gordonstoun provided Prince Philip with a much-needed sense of stability after the various upheavals of his childhood. But his later years there were overshadowed by the death of his sister Cecilie, and her family, in a plane crash on their way to London for a family wedding in 1937.\n\nIt fell to Hahn to break the news to 16-year-old Philip, who would never forget the \"profound shock\" with which he listened in the headmaster's study to what had happened.\n\nPerhaps more resilient than most boys due to the various other blows he had suffered before that, he \"did not break down\", so his headmaster later recorded. \"His sorrow was that of a man.\"\n\nSix months later, Philip suffered yet more sorrow when his guardian Georgie Milford Haven died from cancer at the age of 45.\n\nAn obscure figure in most accounts of the Mountbatten family, in terms of sheer intelligence and ability and charm, Georgie was as remarkable as any of them.\n\nGeorge Mountbatten with his wife Nadejda (centre left) and friends in Deauville, France, 1924\n\nAt the age of 10, he set up a workshop at his father's castle, equipped with lathes, a forge and foundry. So it was no surprise that as a young naval officer, he would go on to design a system of fans, radiators and thermostats for air-conditioning his quarters. He even fashioned a device, controlled by an alarm clock, for making his early morning tea - 20 years before such a gadget appeared on the market.\n\nHis remarkable ingenuity helped fire his nephew Philip's budding interest in invention and design, and when Philip grew up, he too would be forever in search of the latest gadgets.\n\nMany who knew Georgie had confidently predicted a brilliant career, and that he would, like his father, eventually succeed to the position of First Sea Lord. But he lacked the obsessive zeal and ambition that characterised his more dazzling younger brother, Louis Mountbatten, known in the family as \"Dickie\", who now stepped in and took over what remained of the job of bringing their nephew up.\n\nMountbatten later maintained that he had already marked Philip down as \"an exceptional person\", the telling moment having been \"out shooting one day, when he was eight or nine. It was rough. The way he coped, told me.\"\n\nHaving no son of his own served to focus Mountbatten's attention on his nephew and, although Philip occasionally bridled at his uncle's often showy assumption of parental responsibility, there is no doubt that he had an important influence on him. It was Mountbatten who steered Philip away from his original intention to become a fighter pilot and towards a career in the Royal Navy.\n\nMost crucially, it was his uncle who arranged for Philip to entertain Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret on the eve of war in 1939, during a royal visit to the Royal Naval College at Dartmouth. By this time, Philip was a cadet there.\n\nIt was on this occasion that Princess Elizabeth famously fell in love with the handsome young prince, and she never appears to have contemplated marrying anyone else.\n\nShe was only 13 at the time, however, and it wasn't until several years later, while on leave from active service and staying at Windsor for Christmas 1943, that Prince Philip, five years her senior, first showed signs of reciprocating her feelings.\n\nThe romance began in earnest soon after the end of the war, and it is generally assumed that he proposed to her while staying at Balmoral in the summer of 1946.\n\nKing George VI was at first far from eager to give his consent, not least since several of his closest friends were vehemently opposed to Philip. They whispered darkly about his \"Teutonic strain\" and suspected that his uncle Louis Mountbatten, a notorious intriguer, was proposing to use him as a Trojan horse to help bring the monarchy more into line with his own \"rather pink\" political outlook.\n\nMountbatten had long been viewed by courtiers as unsound on account of his friendliness with Labour politicians such as Tom Driberg - not to mention Mountbatten's notoriously left-wing wife, Edwina.\n\nBut the King's misgivings about the prospective match had far more to do with his reluctance to break up his close family unit - \"Us Four\", as he called them - so soon after the war, and to lose his beloved eldest daughter at such a young age.\n\nFor Prince Philip, on the other hand, the prospect of marriage to Princess Elizabeth offered the chance at long last for him to regain the family life that he had lost at the age of eight.\n\nQueen Elizabeth II with Philip, Duke of Edinburgh - and their two children, Charles and Anne - circa 1951\n\nOne of his more telling thank-you letters to Queen Elizabeth, after staying with the Royal Family, bore moving testimony to how much he relished \"the simple enjoyment of family pleasures and amusements and the feeling that I am welcome to share them\".\n\nHaving been deprived of these \"simple pleasures\" at such a young age, he was understandably eager now to start a family of his own.\n\nHis raising of that family - the Royal Family - stands alongside his support for the Queen and modernising influence on the monarchy as his most important legacies.\n\n- Philip Eade is the author of Young Prince Philip: His Turbulent Early Life", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Duke of Edinburgh has been laid to rest in an intimate funeral at St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle.\n\nThe Dean of Windsor paid tribute to Prince Philip's \"kindness, humour and humanity\" during the ceremony.\n\nThe congregation wore masks and was socially distanced in line with Covid rules, with the Queen seated alone.\n\nThe duke's children walked behind his coffin in a funeral procession, followed by a national minute's silence.\n\nMore than 730 members of the armed forces took part in the event, but there was a limit of 30 mourners inside St George's Chapel, under coronavirus rules.\n\nHis coffin was carried the short distance to St George's Chapel on a modified Land Rover, which the duke himself helped to design.\n\nThe funeral procession was headed by the Band of the Grenadier Guards, the Major General's party, and military service chiefs.\n\nPrincess Anne and Prince Charles made up the front row behind the vehicle, followed by Prince Edward and Prince Andrew.\n\nPrince William and Prince Harry walked either side of their cousin Peter Phillips.\n\nThe brothers sat on opposite sides of the aisle but were seen chatting together after they left the service.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were seen chatting with the Duke of Sussex after the service\n\nThe Queen sat alone because of coronavirus restrictions\n\nVice Admiral Sir Timothy Laurence and the Earl of Snowdon also walked behind the coffin, trailed by members of the duke's household staff.\n\nThe Queen, 94, travelled with a lady-in-waiting in the State Bentley at the end of the procession.\n\nMembers of the Royal Family walked behind the duke's coffin\n\nA ceremonial gun fire at nine locations across the UK and in Gibraltar marked the start and end of the national minute's silence.\n\nNo planes landed or took off at Heathrow for six minutes to coincide with the silence and all major sporting events were rescheduled to avoid a clash with the funeral.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe funeral service was conducted by the Dean of Windsor, with the Archbishop of Canterbury pronouncing the blessing.\n\nThe Dean paid tribute to Prince Philip's \"kindness, humour and humanity\" and the \"many ways in which his long life has been a blessing to us\".\n\n\"We have been inspired by his unwavering loyalty to our Queen, by his service to the nation and the Commonwealth, by his courage, fortitude and faith,\" he said during his bidding.\n\nThe duke's association with the Royal Navy and love of the sea was also a focus of the service but no sermon was delivered, in line with his wishes.\n\nThe music included the 1860 hymn Eternal Father, Strong to Save, by William Whiting, which is associated with seafarers and the maritime armed services.\n\nThere was a reduced choir of four singers but the congregation did not sing, in line with coronavirus restrictions.\n\nBuglers of the Royal Marines sounded Action Stations - a signal that all hands should be ready for battle - as the coffin was lowered into the Royal Vault at the end of the service.\n\nThe duke's insignia was displayed on the altar in St George's Chapel\n\nBuckingham Palace said the funeral plans had been modified to take into account public health guidelines.\n\nThe funeral took place entirely within the grounds of the castle and the public were asked not to gather there or at other royal residences.\n\nBut the ceremonial aspects of the day and the service remained in line with Prince Philip's wishes and reflected his military affiliations and personal elements of his life.\n\nAhead of the funeral, the Queen shared a favourite photograph of herself with her husband in Aberdeenshire.\n\nTaken by the Countess of Wessex in 2003, the picture shows the couple relaxing on a picnic rug on the grass at the Coyles of Muick beauty spot, near the Queen's private estate of Balmoral.\n\nThe Queen released one her favourite photos ahead of the funeral\n\nSilence descended across Windsor High Street at 15:00 to mark the start of the duke's funeral.\n\nThe Royal Family had asked members of the public to stay away because of coronavirus restrictions. And the streets of this town were far emptier than they would otherwise have been.\n\nBut hundreds still gathered in the sun to pay their respects.\n\nAs the funeral service was under way in St George's Chapel, a short distance away in Windsor's Guildhall a wedding was coming to an end.\n\nMikey Durnian said he and his partner Jodie had rearranged their wedding five times because of the pandemic.\n\nHe said it had felt \"strange\" to learn last week that their wedding would be taking place just metres away from Prince Philip's funeral.\n\n\"Obviously we're overjoyed. This day has been in the making a long time. But obviously, there's a lot of people around to mourn.\"\n\nJodie added: \"We definitely didn't want to overtake from anything that's happening today. It is a very sad occasion. But we are delighted to finally be married.\"\n\nThe 30 guests at the funeral wore morning coats with medals, or day dress, but not military uniform.\n\nThe Queen and duke's four children - the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, the Duke of York and the Earl of Wessex - and eight grandchildren attended, but none of their young great-grandchildren.\n\nSpouses of the children and grandchildren are among the congregation, including two who have married into the family in recent years - Jack Brooksbank and Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, husbands of Princesses Eugenie and Beatrice.\n\nBut the Duke of Sussex's wife, Meghan, is heavily pregnant and was advised by her doctors not to fly in from the US. She was said to have watched the service from home.\n\nThe other mourners included the children of the Queen's sister, Princess Margaret, and three of Prince Philip's German relatives - Bernhard, the Hereditary Prince of Baden; Donatus, Prince and Landgrave of Hesse; and Prince Philipp of Hohenlohe-Langenburg.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Poet laureate Simon Armitage has written an elegy for Prince Philip", "In public, Prince Philip always took second place\n\nHe outlived nearly everyone who knew him and might explain him.\n\nAnd so we have been left with a two-dimensional portrait of the duke; salt-tongued and short-tempered, a man who told off-colour jokes and made politically incorrect remarks, an eccentric great-uncle who'd been around forever and towards whom most people felt affection - but who rather too often embarrassed himself and others in company.\n\nWith his death will come reassessment. Because Prince Philip was an extraordinary man who lived an extraordinary life; a life intimately connected with the sweeping changes of our turbulent 20th Century, a life of fascinating contrast and contradiction, of service and some degree of solitude. A complex, clever, eternally restless man.\n\nHis mother and father met at the funeral of Queen Victoria in 1901. At a time when all but four of Europe's nations were monarchies, his relatives were scattered through European royalty. Some royal houses were swept away by World War One; but the world into which Philip was born was still one where monarchies were the norm. His grandfather was the King of Greece; his great-aunt Ella was murdered along with the Russian tsar, by the Bolsheviks, at Ekaterinberg; his mother was a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria.\n\nHis four older sisters would all marry Germans. While Philip fought for Britain in the Royal Navy, three of his sisters actively supported the Nazi cause; none would be invited to his wedding.\n\nWhen peace came, and with it eventual economic recovery, Philip would throw himself into the construction of a better Britain, urging the country to adopt scientific methods, embracing the ideas of industrial design, planning, education and training. A decade before Harold Wilson talked of the \"white heat of the technological revolution\", Philip was urging modernity on the nation in speeches and interviews. And as the country and the world became richer and consumed ever more, Philip warned of the impact on the environment, well before it was even vaguely fashionable.\n\nEighteen months after his birth, his family was in exile\n\nHis childhood quickly taught him the values of self-reliance\n\nHe was forged by the turmoil of his first decade and then moulded by his schooling. His early years were spent wandering, as his place of birth ejected him, his family disintegrated and he moved from country to country, none of them ever his own. When he was just a year old, he and his family were scooped up by a British destroyer from his home on the Greek island of Corfu after his father had been condemned to death. They were deposited in Italy. One of Philip's first international journeys was spent crawling around on the floor of the train from an Italian port city, \"the grubby child on the desolate train pulling out of the Brindisi night,\" as his sister Sophia later described it.\n\nIn Paris, he lived in a house borrowed from a relative; but it was not destined to become a home. In just one year, while he was at boarding school in Britain, the mental health of his mother, Princess Alice, deteriorated and she went into an asylum; his father, Prince Andrew, went off to Monte Carlo to live with his mistress; and his four sisters married and went to live in Germany. In the space of 10 years he had gone from a prince of Greece to a wandering, homeless, and virtually penniless boy with no-one to care for him.\n\n\"I don't think anybody thinks I had a father,\" he once said. Andrew would die during the war. Philip went to Monte Carlo to pick up his father's possessions after the Germans had been driven from France; there was almost nothing left, just a couple of clothes brushes and some cuff-links.\n\nBy the time he went to Gordonstoun, a private school on the north coast of Scotland, Philip was tough, independent and able to fend for himself; he'd had to be. Gordonstoun would channel those traits into the school's distinct philosophy of community service, teamwork, responsibility and respect for the individual. And it sparked one of the great passions of Philip's life - his love of the sea.\n\nPhilip adored the school as much as his son Charles would despise it. Not just because the stress it put on physical as well as mental excellence - he was a great sportsman. But because of its ethos, laid down by its founder Kurt Hahn, an exile from Nazi Germany.\n\nPrince Philip became one of the youngest first lieutenants in the Royal Navy\n\nBut he had to give up his career to support the Queen\n\nThe Duke of Edinburgh's children would not bear his name, Mountbatten\n\nThat ethos became a significant, perhaps the significant, part of the way that Philip believed life should be lived. It shines through the speeches he gave later in his life. \"The essence of freedom,\" he would say in Ghana in 1958, \"is discipline and self-control.\" The comforts of the post-war era, he told the British Schools Exploring Society a year earlier, may be important \"but it is much more important that the human spirit should not be stifled by easy living\". And two years before that, he spoke to the boys of Ipswich School of the moral as well as material imperatives of life, with the \"importance of the individual\" as the \"guiding principle of our society\".\n\nAnd at Gordonstoun was born one of the great contradictions of Philip's fascinating life. The importance of the individual was what in Kurt Hahn's eyes differentiated Britain and liberal democracies from the kind of totalitarian dictatorship that he had fled. Philip put that centrality of the individual, and individual agency - the ability we have as humans to make our own moral and ethical decisions - at the heart of his philosophy.\n\nAnd yet he was throughout his life, first in the navy and then in the many decades of life in the Palace, tightly bound by rules of tradition, of precedent, of command and hierarchy. He had little, if anything, in the way of agency. Did he say one thing and do another, as members of the Royal Family are often accused of? Or was his first choice - to serve - by necessity his last?\n\nThe navy ran deep in the Duke of Edinburgh's family. He is pictured sitting at the wheel of the nuclear-powered submarine HMS Churchill\n\nPrince Philip gave between 60 and 80 speeches every year, decade after decade, on topics that reflected his vast range of interests\n\nAt Dartmouth Naval College in 1939, the two great passions of his life would collide. He had learned to sail at Gordonstoun; he would learn to lead at Dartmouth. And his driving desire to achieve, and to win, would shine through. Despite entering the college far later than most other cadets, he would graduate top of his class in 1940. In further training at Portsmouth, he gained the top grade in four out of five sections of the exam. He became one of the youngest first lieutenants in the Royal Navy.\n\nThe navy ran deep in his family. His maternal grandfather had been the First Sea Lord, the commander of the Royal Navy; his uncle, \"Dickie\" Mountbatten, had command of a destroyer while Philip was in training. In war, he showed not only bravery but guile. It was his natural milieu. \"Prince Philip\", wrote Gordonstoun headmaster Kurt Hahn admiringly, \"will make his mark in any profession where he will have to prove himself in a trial of strength\".\n\nOthers had their reservations about the brilliant and ambitious young officer. In peace, once he had his own command, he drove his men hard, much too hard for some. \"If he had a fault, it was a tendency to intolerance,\" wrote one biographer. That kind of comment would recur. Contemporaries were more blunt. \"One of his crew,\" writes another biographer, \"said he would rather die than serve under him again.\"\n\nIn Dartmouth in 1939, as war became ever more certain, the navy was his destiny. He had fallen in love with the sea itself. \"It is an extraordinary master or mistress,\" he would say later, \"it has such extraordinary moods.\" But a rival to the sea would come.\n\nWhen King George VI toured the Naval College, accompanied by Philip's uncle, he brought with him his daughter, Princess Elizabeth. Philip was asked to look after her. He showed off to her, vaulting the nets of the tennis court in the grounds of the college. He was confident, outgoing, strikingly handsome, of royal blood if without a throne. She was beautiful, a little sheltered, a little serious, and very smitten by Philip.\n\nPrince Philip with his uncle, Earl Mountbatten, at the Royal Marines Barracks in 1965\n\nThe Queen, with one of the Royal corgis, chats with polo-playing Prince Philip at Windsor Great Park\n\nTheir engagement was announced in July 1947\n\nDid he know then that this was a collision of two great passions? That he could not have the sea and the beautiful young woman? For a time after their wedding in 1948, he did have both. As young newlyweds in Malta, he had what he so prized - command of a ship - and they had two idyllic years together. But the illness and then early death of King George VI brought it all to an end.\n\nHe knew what it meant, the moment he was told. Up in a lodge in Kenya, touring Africa, with Princess Elizabeth in place of the King, Philip was told first of the monarch's death. He looked, said his equerry Mike Parker, \"as if a tonne of bricks had fallen on him\". For some time he sat, slumped in a chair, a newspaper covering his head and chest. His princess had become the Queen. His world had changed irrevocably.\n\nFor someone who almost never displayed anything close to self-pity, and rarely spoke of his own emotions, he was by his own standards candid about the loss of his naval calling. \"There's never been 'if only',\" he said once, \"except perhaps that I regret not having been able to continue a career in the navy\". Those who knew the man and his passions are blunter. The former First Sea Lord, Admiral Lord West, says Philip did his duty; but of the end of his time in the navy he says, \"I know it was a huge loss to him. I know it.\"\n\nThat moment, when princess became Queen, revealed another great contradiction of Philip's life. He was born and brought up in a world almost entirely run by men. He was a rugged, physical man who was brought up and then worked in an entirely male environment. He celebrated masculinity, telling Mike Parker on the birth of his first son Charles, \"It takes a man to have a boy.\" But literally overnight, and for 65 years to follow, it became his life to support his wife, the Queen.\n\nHe would walk behind her. He would give up his job for her. He would apologise if he came into a room after her. At her coronation he knelt before her, his hands enclosed by hers, and swore to be her \"liege man of life and limb\". His children would not bear his name, Mountbatten. \"I'm nothing but a bloody amoeba,\" he exclaimed at that. But there was nothing to be done. She was the Queen. He was her husband.\n\nPrince Philip talked of the upending of circumstance little. \"Within the house,\" he said of the time before the Queen's accession, \"I suppose I naturally filled the principal position. People used to come and ask me what to do. In 1952 the whole thing changed very, very considerably.\"\n\nPrince Philip had hundreds of patronages and projects with a focus on youth, science, the outdoors and sport\n\nThe transition to life in the Palace was brutal. \"Philip,\" said his equerry, \"was constantly being squashed, snubbed, ticked off, rapped over the knuckles... I felt Philip did not have any friends or helpers.\" Philip may not have helped himself; one biographer writes that in the early years Palace staff felt he was \"difficult to deal with... prickly... arrogant... defensive\". He was looked upon with suspicion by some in the court, as something of an adventurer, as perhaps a fortune hunter. He had German blood, and this was just after the herculean effort of defeating Nazi Germany.\n\nIn response, Philip began what would become a lifetime of near-ceaseless activity; abroad he was at the side of the Queen on the long tours they undertook, sometimes breaking off to pursue interests particular to him - sporting, industrial or research. She nearly always travelled with him as her companion; but he also travelled alone. It was he, not she, that made the farewells to colonial possessions in the 1950s and 1960s.\n\nAt home there were patronages and projects, hundreds upon hundreds of them, with a focus on youth, science, the outdoors and sport. He played cricket, squash, polo; he swam, sailed, rowed and rode horses and carriage drove. He learnt to fly, and developed his own photographs.\n\nWithin the Palace he was a moderniser, striding the corridors, rootling around the cellars, trying to find out what everyone did. He took over the management of the estate at Sandringham and over the years significantly redeveloped it.\n\n\"He believes he has a creative mission,\" wrote an early biographer, \"to present the monarchy as a dynamic, involved and responsive institution that will address itself to some of the problems of contemporary British society.\"\n\nHe was young and very good looking; he smiled and joked and was at ease in front of the cameras. When he visited a boys' club in London in the late 1950s, a photo shows him with a broad smile on his face, looking crisp in a double-breasted pinstripe suit, his hair slicked back with brilliantine, surrounded by the upturned faces of boys and their mothers all shoving and trying to get close to him. There is more than a whiff of Beatlemania to the moment.\n\nIn his study on the first floor of Buckingham Palace, overlooking the gardens and Green Park, surrounded by thousands of books, with a model of his first command HMS Magpie to one side, he would research and write and type out his speeches. (In 1986 he would buy, always the moderniser, what he called a \"splendid gadget\" that he called \"a miniature word processor\".) He gave between 60 and 80 speeches every year, decade after decade, on topics that reflected his vast range of interests.\n\nOut of the speeches comes a picture of the man. For someone who sat through so much of it, he was clearly impatient with ceremony. \"A lot of time and energy,\" he told students and staff at the Chesterfield College of Technology, \"has been spent on arranging for you to listen to me to take a long time to declare open a building which everyone knows is open already.\"\n\nReflecting his dizzying range of interests, there was sometimes a touch of the gentleman-farmer to his thoughts - well-organised arguments that don't really go anywhere, a lot of anecdotal evidence (\"it seems to me...\") garnered from his extensive travels.\n\nDespite modernising instincts, he was a conservative, somewhat suspicious of the machinations of the big city. He spoke of \"urban dwellers\" and of the \"average citizen\" dumping rubbish from their car. He preferred practical solutions to highfalutin theory - \"The enterprise is doomed,\" he told the Commonwealth Conference on Industrial Relations, \"if it is allowed to enter the rarefied atmosphere of theory.\"\n\nHe was an environmentalist before anyone really knew what that was. He warned of the \"greedy and senseless exploitation of nature.\" And in 1982 he brought up a topic that now grips us, but back then was almost never spoken of, \"a hotly-debated issue directly attributable to the development of industry... the build-up of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere,\" which he referred to as the \"greenhouse effect\".\n\nHis relationship with his eldest son improved in later years\n\nAnd he constantly did himself down, shrugging as to why anyone should want to hear him speak: \"I have very little experience of self-government,\" he told one audience, \"I am one of the most governed people you could meet....\" His example of irrational behaviour? - \"making and listening to speeches on important occasions\". Or speaking before the Brussels Expo in 1958 - \"I feel I can claim to be an expert at going round exhibitions.\" He knew most speeches were a dull formality that had to be got through - and he was happy to let his audience have a laugh at his expense.\n\nIt is another contradiction in a life of them; that someone who cared so much about how we live our lives, about how to pursue a good and moral life, about how government and society might try to channel our instincts, should end up being popularly portrayed as a saloon-bar bore, his retirement from public life in 2017 accompanied by lists of his \"gaffes\", off-colour comments and salty jokes.\n\nThat he could be rude, startlingly so at times, there is no doubt. Part of it was impatience, that dynamo whirring away, the desire to get things done double-quick. Part of it may have been deafness, inherited from his almost wholly deaf mother. But part of it was just plain bad manners, a disregard for what others felt and a thoughtlessness that came from position and temperament.\n\nThere was for a long time a fair amount of barking and shouting at those who failed to please him, and not a lot of thanking those that did.\n\nLooking back down the decades, two great contrasts stand out. The first, that between a life led in the public eye, and a really quite private man. The boy shuttling between guardians and schools and countries quickly learnt to seal off his private side from public view. Inside the Palace it became his world view. Most of his biographers' personal queries were met with a shrug, as if to say \"I don't know why you are bothering\". He once said of his son Charles: \"He is a romantic, I am a pragmatist. And because I don't see things as a romantic would, I'm [perceived as] unfeeling.\" There can be little doubt that he was stung by the accusation. But his inner thoughts were not for public consumption.\n\nAnd the second great, related, contrast is that between the near unceasing whirl of his public life, and a degree of solitude in his private. Of course there was family, though all his sisters pre-deceased him. But few, if any, great friendships are recorded, a corollary of his private nature and the pattern of his many decades. \"Life,\" wrote one biographer, \"hasn't enabled him to build up friendships. He is going round the world at such a lick.\" And royalty is its own curious cage, repelling outsiders. \"What the royal family offers you is friendliness,\" said the late James Callaghan, prime minister in the 1970s, \"not friendship.\"\n\nMajor General Charles Stickland of the Royal Marines, of which for 64 years Philip was Captain General, tells of when the duke flew into an exercise in Norway. He was supposed to say a quick hello to the enlisted men and then have lunch with the commanding officer. Instead he \"asked two of the corporals to spoon food into his mess tin, sat on a Bergan [rucksack], told stories and chatted away with my troops when he was supposed to be having a posh lunch and then got back on the helicopter, having inspired a group of young men as to why it was great to be a Royal Marine\".\n\nIt was vintage Philip; no ceremony, hierarchy pushed to one side, the big group over the more intimate gathering.\n\nBecause of his desire for privacy, because of his position, and because nearly all who knew him best have gone, our understanding of him will always be incomplete. But that's also because of what kind of person he was, because of the contradictions and contrasts that emerged over the decades. \"A mercurial man like His Royal Highness,\" said the artist and architect Sir Hugh Casson, \"needs a loose fit portrait.\"\n\nHe was asked once what his life had been about (the sort of question that normally received an incredulous snort). Had it been about supporting the Queen? \"Absolutely, absolutely,\" he replied. He didn't see himself as a leader, though lead he could. And his own achievements he consistently played down. Accepting the Freedom of the City of London in 1948, he spoke for himself and for what he called other \"followers\", with trademark modesty. \"Our only distinction,\" he said, \"was that we did what we were told to do, to the very best of our ability, and kept on doing it.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Shoppers will return to streets when all retailers in Northern Ireland can reopen at the end of April\n\nNorthern Ireland can begin rebuilding its economy under plans to ease Covid-19 restrictions from next week, Economy Minister Diane Dodds has said.\n\nOn Thursday the Stormont executive agreed reopening dates for some sectors, including hairdressers, non-essential retail and hospitality.\n\nThe current lockdown has been in place for more than 100 days in a bid to curb the spread of coronavirus.\n\nMrs Dodds said precautions would still be needed to reopen businesses safely.\n\n\"But it does mean we can get on with opening our economy, recovering our economy,\" she told BBC News NI's The View programme.\n\nShe said growing the economy would help to mitigate the fallout from the pandemic, including a potentially huge spike in unemployment.\n\nThe announcement has received a cautious welcome from businesses.\n\nCommunities Minister Deirdre Hargey told The View she was glad the executive had reached consensus.\n\n\"There was no dissent around the table - it [was] a good day to give hope to the public,\" she said.\n\nPeter McCleery, who runs a cafe in Comber, County Down, said that preparing to resume trade would be like opening a new business.\n\nThe cafe has no outdoor space so it is due to open on 24 May, several weeks after hospitality businesses that have outdoor facilities.\n\nShutters are set be lifted from the doors of pubs in Northern Ireland for the first time this year\n\n\"Even with those dates we have to plan ahead and recruit staff and train staff,\" he told BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme.\n\n\"We're starting again from a fresh sheet - we're looking forward to it.\"\n\nThe owner of a County Armagh hotel situated a short distance from the Irish border said he was concerned that business that would have to deal with the consequences of the differing restrictions in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.\n\nJason Foody said it was not the job of his hotel staff \"to police the roads and people that come through our door\".\n\nThe Republic of Ireland has recently lifted the 5km (three miles) travel limit that applied under its highest level of restrictions.\n\nBusiness owners have been busy preparing their premises for reopening\n\nMr Foody said: \"Previously if we were seeing [people with] addresses... from areas that shouldn't have travelled we were saying it to them but people have to travel for different reasons too and if it's for essential reasons you can't stop them.\n\nHe said the hotel was \"getting a huge amount of calls\" from people in the Republic of Ireland who were wanting to book a stay.\n\nJules Stothard, who owns a pub in Dromara, County Down, said her business had been open for about three months over the past 13 months.\n\nShe would be \"ecstatic\" to see her customers again but had a \"bit of anxiety about the financial side\".\n\n\"We are grateful to the government for the grant but every penny we have had has gone,\" she said.\n\n\"We were so ecstatic that we could open again but then reality strikes - we won't have the customers at the capacity to sustain our business without help.\"\n\nOutdoor dining and drinking at cafes and bars will be allowed from 30 April\n\nTourist attractions also face challenges when they reopen - the Marble Arch Caves in County Fermanagh will have reduced capacity for its tours, says its manager Kate McGrath.\n\n\"We will get there but need to clarify bubble numbers,\" she added.\n\nProposed dates leaked to the media on Thursday had suggested outdoor hospitality for pubs would have to wait until 10 May before being allowed to welcome back customers, with indoor venues not reopening before 1 June.\n\nHowever, Mrs Dodds had raised concerns in a letter to the first and deputy first ministers about the proposed dates, saying it was her preference for unlicensed premises to open earlier, on 23 April, followed later by licenced premises.", "This was nothing like the grand funeral that had long been planned. In normal times there would have been hundreds of guests from around the world joining the Queen and the Royal Family in mourning the Duke of Edinburgh. But many who knew him made the same observation: that the pared down nature of it was more in keeping with his character.\n\nOne aspect of this extraordinary event was unchanged, however, for this was a family that knows the eyes of the world will intrude on their private joys and private sorrows alike.\n\nFrom the crenellated rooftop of the Round Tower, which dominates the distinctive Windsor sky line, I watched, as silence descended on the Quadrangle beneath the private royal apartments.\n\nIt is where the Duke of Edinburgh had died and where the Queen has been in residence throughout this period of mourning. To the left sits the monarch's private chapel, where, in that quiet space, the duke's coffin had lain for a week.\n\nAt just before 14:40, the bearer party, eight officers of the Grenadier Guards, brought his coffin out of the private chapel into the sun: out of its private domain and into the public. It was topped by a wreath of white flowers, his naval cap, and the ceremonial sword given to him by his father-in-law George VI on his marriage to the then-Princess Elizabeth.\n\nThis was the moment when the private sorrow of a family mourning their loss in their own home became wrapped - by the imperatives of royal duty - into the very public solemnity of regal ceremony and national commemoration.\n\nThere were echoes of modern continuities, too. The duke's grandsons, princes William and Harry, walked behind his coffin just as they had walked, as children, behind the coffin of their mother 24 years ago.\n\nAs the Queen sat alone in St George's Chapel just feet from the coffin of her husband, she did so in the public gaze, a gaze that has followed her throughout her long life and was there again, even at this moment of intense private anguish.\n\nThe duke's direction of his own funeral could be seen in the details. The modified Land Rover that carried this most travelled of men on his last journey was made to his own design. Much of the music had been chosen by him. And the prince who had, in life, frequently expressed exasperation with long sermons, had specified before he died: no sermon, no eulogy.\n\nThere was something poignant about the unadorned nature of the ceremony. At a grand state occasion with 800 guests, the intimacy of the family at the heart of it can be lost. Not today. The family sat in socially distanced household bubbles, in facemasks, just as countless families across the country have.\n\nAnd as they watched the coffin being lowered into the Royal Vault, the absence of state pageantry made it easier to see the human beings behind the regal titles - to see the family. For that, and that alone, was what was there - a family, familiar to us all, alone and grieving.\n\nWhen the service was over, I watched the Queen return to her private apartments by car, accompanied by her lady-in-waiting, Lady Susan Hussey. The other members of the family chose to walk through the bright sunshine, up the hill to the Quadrangle beneath the Round Tower and in front of the private apartments.\n\nThe Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall arrived first, casting long, sharply defined shadows on the green of the lawn, followed quickly by the others; princes William and Harry walking together. The group of 25 or 26 stood in the centre of the lawn for many minutes. Clad in mourning black they, at last, relaxed and smiled as they greeted one another in solace and open affection.\n\nThis is a family that knows it must live its life in the public eye. It is the British royal condition, demanded by its subjects, who are often transfixed by the mystique of royalty, bound to this family by ties of loyalty and affection that can seem hard to define and articulate. But they are also sometimes unforgiving or simply indifferent.\n\nIt is a condition that is bequeathed to them by the ancestors who lie in the vaults beneath St George's Chapel, and one which, in turn, will be passed on to those who follow.", "Police said a man was arrested attempting to enter a service yard at Buckingham Palace on Thursday\n\nA man who allegedly tried to break into Buckingham Palace while carrying a knife has been charged.\n\nPolice said a man had been arrested on Thursday morning attempting to enter a service yard through a gate at the rear of the royal residence in London.\n\nChorrie Thompson, 46, of Ashcombe Park, Neasden, has been charged with trespass on a protected site and possession of a blade in a public place.\n\nHe was due appear in custody at Westminster Magistrates' Court.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police were called to Moorland Road after reports of \"concern for a man\"\n\nA man in his 70s has been arrested on suspicion of murder.\n\nPolice were called to Moorland Road in Plympton, Devon, at 06:10 BST following reports of \"concern for a man\" who was declared dead at the scene.\n\nThe arrested man is being held with a woman in her 40s who was apprehended on suspicion of assisting an offender, both suspects are from Plymouth.\n\nDevon and Cornwall Police is treating the death of the victim, who was in his 40s, as unexplained.\n\nA police cordon is in place and officers are appealing for witnesses to come forward.\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Twelve months later, the prince had appeared to be in good health when he accompanied the Queen on the royal barge, the Spirit of Chartwell, which formed part of the rain-drenched Diamond Jubilee river pageant on 3 June 2012. He and the Queen stood for most of the 80-minute journey, as they were accompanied by 1,000 boats travelling seven miles down the River Thames to Tower Bridge. However, the duke was admitted to hospital with a bladder infection before the Diamond Jubilee concert on 4 June.", "The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were seen chatting with the Duke of Sussex after the service\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge and the Duke of Sussex were seen talking together as they left the funeral of their grandfather, the Duke of Edinburgh.\n\nThe brothers spoke as they left St George's Chapel in Windsor, alongside the Duchess of Cambridge.\n\nIt is the first public meeting of the pair since Prince Harry stood down from royal duties more than a year ago.\n\nLast month, Prince Harry hinted at ongoing difficulties between him and Prince William.\n\nIn an interview with Oprah, he said the two were on \"different paths\", and that \"the relationship is 'space' at the moment\".\n\nOn Saturday, the princes walked with their cousin Peter Phillips in between them, as they walked behind their grandfather's coffin on its short journey to the chapel.\n\nIt was nearly 24 years since the two brothers made a similar walk together at the funeral of their mother Diana, Princess of Wales.\n\nPrince William and Prince Harry walked either side of their cousin Peter Phillips, who trailed slightly behind them\n\nAt the funeral service, the 30 members of the congregation wore face masks and socially distanced in line with Covid restrictions, with the Queen seated alone.\n\nAlso alone, Prince Harry sat on the opposite side of the aisle to his brother and sister-in-law Catherine.\n\nPrince Harry's wife, Meghan, who is pregnant with their second child, did not attend the funeral on the advice of her doctor and instead stayed at their home in California.\n\nThe service, conducted by the Dean of Windsor, paid tribute to Prince Philip's \"kindness, humour and humanity\" and the \"many ways in which his long life has been a blessing to us\".\n\nThe body language didn't look encouraging on the walk down to the chapel, though it was hardly the occasion for fraternal chit-chat.\n\nThe cameras did catch William and Harry as they left the chapel after the duke's funeral. Harry was talking to Catherine - William seemed a little reluctant to engage.\n\nThere is a rift. It is a distraction nobody would have wanted on a solemn occasion such as this and certainly not their grieving grandmother.\n\nWilliam feels let down and Harry appears to feel resentful. He is also very caught up in the lifestyle and attitudes of California.\n\nSo what impact, one wonders, will this brief but intense re-immersion in his old life have had on Harry?\n\nHe's been surrounded by his family on a day of heightened emotion. He's been surrounded too by the military and ceremonial: two things which he professes to admire.\n\nEverything today must have said \"duty\" to him, the thing many say he's walked away from.\n\nWill it have given Harry any second thoughts about the path he's taken? Will it have softened William's disappointment with his younger brother?\n\nAnd most important, did they find time for a proper heart to heart, in deference to the memory of their grandfather who would undoubtedly urge them to move on and sort this out?\n\nThe duke's association with the Royal Navy and love of the sea also featured heavily, including through the 1860 hymn Eternal Father, Strong to Save, by William Whiting.\n\nAfter the ceremony, Prince Harry joined Prince William and Catherine as they left the chapel. The three chatted together as they made their way up the hill to the main grounds of the castle.\n\nLike the other royal spouses, the Duchess of Cambridge was not part of the pre-funeral procession and was instead taken to the chapel by car\n\nMeghan and Prince Harry sent a floral wreath which included the national flower of Greece, to represent Prince Philip's heritage, and sea holly, to represent the Royal Marines.\n\nThe card on the wreath was handwritten by Meghan, who is skilled in calligraphy and used to write wedding invitations.", "Poet laureate Simon Armitage has written an elegy for Prince Philip, entitled The Patriarchs - An Elegy.\n\nIt starts with the snow on the day Prince Philip died, the \"unseasonal singular flakes\", and notes that to \"eulogise one man is to pipe up for a whole generation\".", "In a marriage that lasted more than seven decades, Prince Philip was the Queen's support in public at significant national moments - and in private the person who knew her best.\n\nAs one private secretary once put it: \"Prince Philip is the only man in the world who treats the Queen simply as another human being. He's the only man who can.\"\n\nIt was a marriage based on love. They chose one another.\n\nAlthough it wasn't the first time their paths had crossed, the photographs from their meeting at Dartmouth Naval College in 1939 reveal the beginning of their life together.\n\nHe was the dashing 18-year-old cadet who caught 13-year-old Princess Elizabeth's eye, larking about playing croquet and tennis.\n\nWhat started as a teenage crush developed over the years into friendship with letters exchanged and occasional visits during the war years. While he was away serving with the Royal Navy, the young princess kept a picture of him in her room.\n\nPrincess Elizabeth (third from left) was photographed with her parents at the chapel at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth in July 1939 along with naval cadet Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark (standing second from right)\n\nHis childhood had been nomadic - born a prince of Greece but then exiled, he found himself bounced around Europe, the royal equivalent of sofa-surfing.\n\nHe had to be fiercely independent, a self-starter and emotionally strong. She had grown up largely behind palace walls, sheltered from the real world. Her character was reserved, shy and thoughtful. They complemented each other.\n\nTheir grandson Prince William would later sum up their connection, saying: \"He makes her laugh because some of the things he says and does and the way he looks at life is obviously slightly different than her, so together they're a great couple.\"\n\nAlthough he had made his intentions known a year earlier, it wasn't until 1947, after Elizabeth's 21st birthday, that the public announcement of their engagement was made.\n\nPrince Philip helped to design the platinum and diamond engagement ring using stones from a tiara belonging to his mother, Princess Alice of Greece.\n\nShortly before their wedding, Prince Philip wrote to the Queen Mother saying he had \"fallen in love completely and unreservedly\".\n\nThe royal couple at Buckingham Palace after their wedding\n\nThe couple were married in front of 2,000 guests in Westminster Abbey. Just two years after the end of World War Two and with the country still reeling from the conflict, their wedding was a rare moment of celebration, Winston Churchill calling it \"a flash of colour on the hard road we travel\".\n\nThe following year, their eldest son Charles was born, and then their daughter Anne. Prince Philip was progressing rapidly through the ranks of the navy and the young family spent time living in Malta while he served on HMS Chequers.\n\nThey were able to live a relatively normal life and film footage from the time shows a young couple, relaxed in each other's company, enjoying life in a warm climate away from palaces and duty.\n\nAll that was to change on 6 February 1952, with the premature death of King George VI. Queen Elizabeth was just 25 years old and Prince Philip aged 30. They always knew the princess was destined to become Queen but had expected a few more years to live their own lives.\n\nFor the duke, her accession meant giving up any ambitions he might have had within the Royal Navy. For a man used to commanding ships, to suddenly be relegated to a supporting role cannot have been easy.\n\nAnd let's not forget this was the 1950s when it was extremely rare for a husband to be outranked by his wife. For the Queen, also a young mother, the role she was born to fulfil had to come first.\n\nIf their relationship suffered due to the shifting of their positions, it did so behind closed doors.\n\nPrince Philip took some time to define his role as his wife's consort - often battling courtiers in the process.\n\nIn 1956, he spent four months travelling around distant Commonwealth nations which led some to question his commitment to his wife. But once the pair had settled into a rhythm, the pattern was set for the decades to come.\n\nWith President John F Kennedy and his wife Jackie at Buckingham Palace\n\nThe duke enabled the Queen to perform her role as head of state while he took on the role of head of the family. To the outside world she was the boss - in private the roles were reversed. Prince Philip was in charge of the barbecue while she did the washing up - as seen in the 1960s documentary about the Royal Family.\n\nHe would accompany her at big national moments - state visits, the state opening of Parliament, Remembrance events, anniversaries and thanksgiving services. Watch the footage - you will often a see a little glance between them, a small smile. Private moments in the most public of forums.\n\nThe duke would often be the one at engagements chatting animatedly to crowds or guests, paving the way or breaking the ice for the Queen's arrival. It was a double act which worked.\n\nBut the relationship also worked because they spent time apart. As the duke himself once said: \"It's the secret of a happy marriage to have different interests.\"\n\nThe annual Trooping the Colour parade in 2009\n\nThe Queen famously loves dogs and horses and spends a considerable amount of her free time keeping up with her race trainers and breeders. Prince Philip was a prolific sportsman throughout his life, took a keen interest in the running of the family estates and, in his later years, could often be seen carriage riding around Windsor Great Park or Sandringham.\n\nIn 2012, Prince Harry said: \"Regardless of whether my grandfather seems to be doing his own thing, sort of wandering off like a fish down the river - the fact that he's there, personally, I don't think she could do it without him.\"\n\nFinally deciding he had \"done his bit\" after years of service, Prince Philip retired from public life in 2017. It meant we became used to seeing the Queen either on her own, or supported by another member of the family when carrying out her official duties. Up until March 2020, the duke could most usually be found in Wood Farm on the Sandringham estate in Norfolk.\n\nHe was a man who famously did not like a fuss, and after years of having to get dressed up, make small talk and shake hands, there's little doubt he enjoyed the time simply reading, writing and painting. The downside being that the Queen's role necessitated she stay largely in London and Windsor. No doubt they were in touch regularly, but physically, they were separated.\n\nHowever, when the Covid-19 pandemic hit, it was decided the two of them should shield together at Windsor Castle looked after by a small, dedicated staff which became known as HMS Bubble.\n\nFrom March 2020, in the final months of their marriage, because of the pandemic they spent more time together than they otherwise might have done. Within the confines of the castle, they would have had endless hours to reflect on the extraordinary things they had seen and experienced together.\n\nFor more than 70 years they have been the one constant in each other's lives and the Queen will feel Prince Philip's loss deeply and profoundly.\n\nNever showy or openly demonstrative - theirs will be remembered as an enduring royal love story.\n• None An extraordinary man who led an extraordinary life", "The Duke of Edinburgh has been remembered in a series of events across Scotland as his funeral took place at St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle.\n\nA gun salute at Edinburgh Castle marked the beginning and end of the national pause for reflection at 15:00.\n\nAt Prince Philip's former school - Gordonstoun in Moray - pupils fell silent for three minutes in tribute.\n\nThey also laid a wreath in the sea off Hopeman Harbour where he learned to sail as a boy.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe duke died at Windsor Castle on Friday 9 April, aged 99. He was married to the Queen for 73 years.\n\nPrince Philip's long association with Scotland began with his schooldays in Moray and continued with family trips to Balmoral in Aberdeenshire every summer.\n\nA photograph shared by the Queen ahead of his funeral shows the couple smiling at the top of Coyles of Muick - a beauty spot close to the Scottish estate - in 2003.\n\nThe photograph of the couple was taken by the Countess of Wessex and published on the Royal Family's Twitter account\n\nA series of remembrance events took place across Scotland to mark the day of the duke's funeral.\n\nYoung sailors on board Gordonstoun school's 80ft training boat, Ocean Spirit of Moray, laid a wreath in a tribute that recognised his lifelong connection to the sea.\n\nA wreath was laid at sea by pupils of Gordonstoun, where Prince Philip learned to sail\n\nOn the shore, a lone student piper played whilst displaying the Duke of Edinburgh's coat of arms on a banner presented to the Gordonstoun pipe band by the Queen in 2019.\n\nIn Aberdeen, a beach sand artist created a large sand picture in tribute to the duke while veterans gathered in remembrance.\n\nThe Duke of Edinburgh was fond of Scotland and enjoyed attending the Braemar Gathering highland games\n\nElsewhere, the Royal Standard was raised at the peak of Ben Nevis by members of the Outward Bound Trust to mark the duke's support of the charity.\n\nThe trust also raised flags at Snowdon in Wales, and Scafell Pike in the Lake District.\n\nIn Edinburgh Nicola Sturgeon observed the minute's silence at 15:00 on the steps of the first minister's official residence, Bute House.\n\nAfter the funeral Ms Sturgeon said: \"The many tributes paid to the Duke of Edinburgh in recent days have shown the depth of his contribution to public life over more than 70 years as well as his longstanding ties to Scotland.\n\n\"Many have reflected on his distinguished wartime record, his commitment to countless charities and organisations, and his love and support for The Queen throughout their marriage.\n\n\"Today, as The Queen and the Royal Family mourn the death of a loved one, we take this opportunity to celebrate and honour an extraordinary life.\"\n\nSeven Scottish Cup fourth-round ties had been moved to avoid a clash with the funeral, including the Rangers v Celtic match which will now be held on Sunday.\n\nIn horse racing, the Scottish Grand National at Ayr has also been delayed by 24 hours from its traditional Saturday slot.\n\nPrince Philip at the helm of Diligent when he was around 15\n\nMeanwhile new pictures of the duke sailing a boat during his teenage years at Gordonstoun have been released.\n\nPhilip was captured on camera in 1937 - when he would have been around 15 - at the helm of one of Gordonstoun's boats, a two-mast, 14-ton boat named Diligent.\n\nIn another shot, he grins at the cameraman while helping with the washing up.\n\nPhilip's time at the prestigious boarding school under the eye of his eccentric headmaster Dr Kurt Hahn, inspired him to start his Duke of Edinburgh's Award scheme.\n\nThe images were taken by the great-uncle of a former pupil, who then contacted the school.\n\nAnother previously unseen image shows a young Prince Philip doing the washing up\n\nOn Friday, Gordonstoun pupils took part in an early-morning run by way of tribute to Philip.\n\nMorning runs were compulsory at the school until the 1990s and more than 100 students and staff, in household groups, ran a 3.5km route from Gordonstoun House to the nearby coastguard watchtower which Philip reopened in 1955.\n\nThe watchtower replaced a wooden hut which the duke, a member of the \"Watchers\" - a precursor to the Coastguard - helped build in 1935.\n\nThe Duke of Edinburgh's affinity with the north east of Scotland has also been highlighted by the minister of Crathie Kirk, the church used by the royal family when at Balmoral Castle.\n\nRev Kenneth MacKenzie is the minister of the parish of Braemar and Crathie and domestic chaplain to the Queen, who visits the church for Sunday services with members of her family, when staying at the castle.\n\nHe said: \"Over the last few days, many different tribes and nations have, with some justification, laid claim to the duke, and while I seek no argument with those who claim that he was 'thoroughly European', 'archetypically British', 'adopted by the Commonwealth', 'Baptised Orthodox', 'Confirmed Anglican' or whatever - let me try to set the record straight.\n\n\"I think HRH The Duke of Edinburgh was one of us.\"\n\nRev McKenzie added he was a \"man of faith with an active and enquiring mind\" and said he had a keen interest in the church a national and institutional level, including the decisions and discussions of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.\n\nThe minister recalled: \"He was never slow to question how this 'so-called faith' was being lived out in any given parish and community - and speaking for myself, I loved him for it.\"", "Why Are The Police Putting Down Their Guns?\n\nHundreds of firearms officers hand in their permits to carry weapons.", "The Queen has led her family in mourning at the funeral of her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, in the grounds of Windsor Castle .\n\nA national minute's silence was held at 15:00 BST, just before the service began.\n\nThe ceremonial funeral is taking place entirely within the grounds of the castle and the public have been asked not to gather there or at other royal residences.", "John Torode and Gregg Wallace will host the final\n\nThe final of BBC One's MasterChef will air on Wednesday night after being postponed following the death of the Duke of Edinburgh on Friday.\n\nAnnouncing the rescheduled air date, the BBC confirmed it will be shown at 8pm and made available on BBC iPlayer.\n\nThe finale of the cooking series was due to air on Friday, but the BBC suspended its scheduled programming to cover Prince Philip's death at 99.\n\nThe change meant that the MasterChef UK final was replaced by news programmes.\n\nEastEnders was similarly affected, while BBC Four was taken off air completely.\n\nMike Tomkins, Alexina Anatole and Tom Rhodes are the BBC MasterChef finalists 2021\n\nThe coverage of the duke's death reportedly sparked a large number of complaints from viewers.\n\nIn response the BBC said: \"We are proud of our coverage and the role we play during moments of national significance.\"\n\nIn a tweet on Tuesday, the BBC Press Office confirmed the new broadcast date for the final of the long-running cooking show, that began in 1990.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 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\nIt means fans will finally get to see amateur chefs Mike Tomkins, Alexina Anatole and Tom Rhodes battle it out in front of hosts Gregg Wallace and John Torode to be crowned winner of the 17th series.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The government has announced a review covering David Cameron's efforts to lobby ministers on behalf of finance firm Greensill Capital.\n\nThe former prime minister has been criticised for contacting ministers via text on behalf of the company, which collapsed in March.\n\nDowning Street said the probe would be led by lawyer Nigel Boardman on behalf of the Cabinet Office.\n\nLabour says the government's response is \"inadequate\".\n\nMr Cameron has said he has not broken any codes of conduct or lobbying rules.\n\nBut in a statement on Sunday weeks after reports of his lobbying emerged, the former Tory leader said that he should have contacted ministers through \"formal\" channels.\n\nA spokesman for the former PM told the BBC: \"David Cameron welcomes the inquiry and will be glad to take part.\"\n\nMr Cameron began working as an adviser to Greensill Capital in August 2018, two years after he stepped down as prime minister.\n\nIn recent weeks, newspaper reports have revealed he texted Chancellor Rishi Sunak and other Treasury ministers on behalf of the company.\n\nMr Cameron said he had been trying to involve the company in a government-backed emergency loans scheme for firms hit by the Covid pandemic.\n\nThe government went on to reject his plans to involve Greensill in the so-called Covid Corporate Financing Facility.\n\nIt has also been revealed that Mr Cameron met Health Secretary Matt Hancock for a \"private drink\" in 2019 to discuss a payment scheme for the NHS.\n\nAn ally of Mr Hancock said he had \"acted in entirely the correct way\".\n\nIf you hope that the review that is meant to clear up what happened in this instance will propose some big crackdown, forget it. Just like the organisation that provides rules for former ministers, it has no power of sanction, no statutory, or legal force.\n\nSources suggests its remit is to find out narrowly what happened with Mr Cameron and Mr Greensill, not to start a conversation about the rights and wrongs of lobbying, let alone to propose a new system.\n\nThat is not to cast aspersions either on the ability of the senior lawyer who will carry out the work, who may well turn up more interesting nuggets.\n\nHe'll report by the end of June, and has been promised access to the information he needs. But the remit is tightly drawn, suggesting little appetite in government for a big rethink of the landscape.\n\nDowning Street insists the prime minster understands the significant public interest and wants to look at the issues raised and get more details.\n\nWhile there is no love lost between Boris Johnson and David Cameron, and it is pretty much impossible to think of a similar case where a serving PM commissions an investigation into one of his predecessors, Labour is already warning that it could be a \"Conservative cover-up\".\n\nDespite that rather dramatic language, do not forget there are questions that remain for current government figures about conversations they had with Mr Cameron and Mr Greensill.\n\nA Cabinet Office spokesperson said the review would look into \"the decisions taken around the development and use of supply chain finance (and associated schemes) in government, especially the role of Lex Greensill and Greensill Capital\".\n\n\"Mr Boardman will have access to all necessary government information required to conduct the review and will engage with those involved at the time when decisions were made.\"\n\nThe spokesperson also said that Mr Boardman would report his findings to the prime minister \"no later than the end of June 2021\" and that he will pause his work as a non-executive director of the Business Department while the review is carried out.\n\nThe BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg says it is understood the review will not have legal powers, and is likely to come up with findings rather than recommendations.\n\nAnd Mr Boardman has not been asked to suggest ways of tightening up the lobbying system, but has been given a limited remit to ascertain how decisions about Greensill Capital were made.\n\nThe shadow cabinet office minister, Rachel Reeves, said what the government has announced \"doesn't go far enough\".\n\n\"There is a real risk that the government are attempting to brush under the carpet or cover up this scandal of cronyism, of contracts and of involvement of the former prime minister in lobbying current ministers\" she said.\n\n\"It is essential that everybody involved in this scandal comes before parliament and answers serious and important questions about possible wrongdoing\" she added.\n\nMr Cameron's predecessor at No 10, Gordon Brown, welcomed an inquiry, adding: \"it's important to get to the bottom of this\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gordon Brown: “Public office should not be a platform for private gain”\n\nThe ex-Labour leader told BBC News: \"I don't really think former ministers and prime ministers should be engaged in lobbying for particular commercial companies, when they are lobbying their successors whom they know very well and could have privileged access to.\n\n\"Lobbying in this commercial way could also be a stain on our democracy, and therefore an inquiry is completely appropriate.\"\n\nFormer ministers and senior civil servants are banned from lobbying for two years after they leave government, a rule Mr Cameron followed.\n\nMr Brown had suggested earlier on Monday the ban should be extended to five years if existing rules prove inadequate.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Daunte Wright's aunt, Naisha Wright: \"He was loved, he was ours\"\n\nThe resignations of a police chief and of an officer who shot dead a black motorist in Minnesota have failed to end unrest over Sunday's killing.\n\nChief Tim Gannon and Officer Kim Potter have quit the Brooklyn Center force.\n\nMrs Potter said she shot Daunte Wright accidentally, having mistakenly drawn her gun instead of her Taser, a stance backed by Mr Gannon.\n\nDespite the resignations fresh clashes between police and protesters erupted for a third night.\n\nMr Wright's mother has been speaking about her last phone call to her son. In tears, she told reporters she could never have imagined he would be killed.\n\nThe death happened in a suburb of Minneapolis, a city already on edge amid the trial of a white ex-police officer accused of murdering African American George Floyd.\n\nOn Tuesday night bottles and other projectiles were thrown at the Brooklyn Center police headquarters and officers responded by firing tear gas, stun grenades and rubber bullets.\n\nMore than 60 people were arrested, Minnesota State Patrol Colonel Matt Langer told reporters.\n\nTear gas was fired at protesters for a third night in Brooklyn Center\n\nAnother demonstration broke out in Portland, Oregon, on Tuesday night, with about 100 protesters marching on the Portland Police Association Building.\n\nFlames were seen coming out of the side of the police building about an hour later. The Portland Police Bureau declared the gathering a riot.\n\nPortland was the centre of mass demonstrations last year, in the wake of the killing of George Floyd.\n\nSpeaking to reporters earlier, Brooklyn Center Mayor Mike Elliott said he had appointed 19-year veteran Tony Gruenig to take over for Tim Gannon.\n\nOn Monday, Mr Gannon had said the shooting of Mr Wright appeared to be an \"accidental discharge\" after Mrs Potter mistook her service pistol for a stun gun.\n\nDaunte Wright was shot after being stopped by police for a traffic violation\n\n\"I appreciate the officer stepping down,\" the mayor said, adding that he hoped her leaving would \"bring some calm to the community\".\n\nHe said the city had intended to fire Mrs Potter. \"We want to send a message to the community that we are taking this situation seriously,\" he added.\n\nMeanwhile, prosecutors are expected to decide whether to charge Mrs Potter on Wednesday, the Associated Press news agency reported.\n\n\"We have to make sure that justice is served... Daunte Wright deserves that. His family deserves that,\" Mr Elliott said.\n\nThe Wright family have spoken of their ordeal on the night Daunte was killed, holding a news conference near the courthouse where police officer Derek Chauvin is standing trial for George Floyd's murder.\n\nIn an emotional speech, his mother Katie described what she said was the worst day of her life.\n\nKatie Wright was overcome with emotion as she spoke about her son's last moments\n\nShe said her son called her after he was pulled over, and that she offered to give insurance details to police over the phone.\n\nShe said she heard police order him to get out of the vehicle. There was a scuffling sound and an officer told him to hang up the phone.\n\nWhen she was eventually able to call back, his girlfriend answered and told her he had been shot.\n\n\"She pointed the phone toward the driver's seat and my son was laying there, unresponsive,\" she said in tears.\n\n\"That was the last time that I've seen my son.\"\n\nThe family were joined by relatives of George Floyd and by Ben Crump, a lawyer who is representing both families.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police release footage of arrest and shooting of Daunte Wright.\n\n\"Every pistol, every Taser has a safety on it,\" she said.\n\n\"I watched that video like everybody else watched that video. That woman held that gun in front of her a long damn time.\"\n\nUpon hearing the news that the police officer who shot Daunte Wright had resigned, along with the police chief, Amber Young, a food services co-ordinator at a Salvation Army in Minneapolis, said she had two reactions.\n\nShe was glad but felt the announcements should have come sooner.\n\nStanding outside the Brooklyn Center police department, she described how upset she had been with the actions of the police.\n\n\"She should have been fired,\" said Ms Young, referring to the police officer. \"Her resignation should not have come before [that].\"\n\nWhen it comes to the police chief, she said simply: \"I'm glad he's gone. He showed no concern for the community.\"\n\nMr Wright was pulled over for an expired tag on his car licence plate. Family members and advocates say he was racially profiled.\n\nPolice released body camera footage on Monday showing Mr Wright fleeing from officers after they told him he was being arrested for an outstanding warrant.\n\nAs Mr Wright re-enters his car, Officer Potter is heard shouting \"Taser\" several times before firing a shot.\n\nIn a one-sentence resignation letter to city officials. Mrs Potter wrote that she \"loved every minute of being a police officer... but I believe it is in the best interest of the community, the department, and my fellow officers if I resign immediately\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duke of Edinburgh's Award \"a chance to discover abilities\"\n\nThe impact the Duke of Edinburgh's Award has had on thousands of people will be his everlasting legacy, Wales rugby captain Alun Wyn Jones has said.\n\nThe youth achievement award was established by Prince Philip in 1956.\n\nJones, a gold award holder and ambassador, said it taught him skills he had used in his rugby career.\n\n\"Whether it be life skills, independence, self-awareness - I've probably utilised those to some extent,\" he said.\n\n\"There's a lot of people I'm sure who'll have a lot of gratitude to be involved in the award,\" he added.\n\nThe programme aims to inspire and transform the lives of young people aged 14 to 24 through volunteering, physical activities and expeditions and operates in more than 140 countries.\n\nIt is based on the principles and philosophy of the UK's first Outward Bound centre, which was established in Aberdyfi, Gwynedd, in 1941.\n\nThe centre's pioneer was the duke's mentor German educationalist Kurt Hahn, who had also set up boarding school Gordonstoun, where the duke was educated.\n\nIan Gwilym is senior relationships manager at the DofE and also ran a DofE group at his local rugby club Ystradgynlais RFC in the Swansea Valley.\n\nAlun Wyn Jones helping out with a DofE group at Ystradgynlais RFC\n\nHe said: \"I've been fortunate to meet the Duke of Edinburgh on many occasions but more importantly thousands of young Welsh people have as well.\n\n\"The way he dealt with young people - with genuine interest, he had a certain grit. He related to young people… he had a genuine interest in finding out what they did for their DofE.\n\n\"There was always a little joke if young people had not done a foot expedition but done a canoe venture [instead] there was always a very humorous joke about canoeing being easier - 'sitting down and the river taking them through the miles of the countryside' - that does stick in my mind.\"\n\nMr Gwilym said he had witnessed young people being transformed after taking part in the programme: \"It's a really powerful programme. The key ingredient is seeing young people grow in confidence.\n\n\"For certain individuals you will see them entering the DofE world as a shy person that struggles to converse, that has low self esteem... they have to become a team member and they have to communicate because when you're on an expedition in a strange mountain environment or a coastal path, if you shrink in that environment then it's not such an enjoyable experience.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nShuhani Shohid, from Newport, said the award instilled her with confidence and led her to a career as a primary school teacher.\n\n\"I was quite a shy individual who lacked a lot of confidence,\" she said.\n\n\"After attending the sessions for the bronze award and completing the expedition I was amazed how much I'd learnt about myself.\n\n\"I threw myself into so many activities I would never have done and being an ethnic minority in the community - a British Bangladeshi Muslim - doing these things is completely out of the norm.\"\n\nShuhani Shohid said taking part in the award boosted her confidence\n\nShe went on to complete her silver and gold awards and eventually became an ambassador.\n\n\"Once I became an ambassador and I saw the impact I can have on young people,\" she said.\n\n\"The Duke of Edinburgh has been a huge part of my journey in deciding my career.\"\n\nGeorgia Williams, from Flintshire, said she credited the award with getting her a university place.\n\nGeorgia Williams said she credited the scheme with getting her into university\n\n\"I didn't get my grades for university but in fact the experience I got on my DofE journey and the opportunities I gained from it actually allowed me to have my first choice university when I didn't have the grades,\" she said.\n\n\"I was such a shy girl but straight away I was chucked into not knowing anybody and in a completely different environment.\"\n\nShe said she had also been inspired to teach and was now a primary school teacher working in Luton\n\nAnd she said she was thankful to the duke for creating the opportunity, which she said had \"changed my life completely\".\n\nGeorgia Williams is now a young ambassador and speaks at events\n\nMs Shohid agreed: \"I'd like to say a huge, huge thank you to him for establishing the award… if it wasn't for the initial start it wouldn't have happened so definitely a huge thank you to him.\"\n\nMr Gwilym added: \"I think his impact has been absolutely phenomenal.\n\n\"The programme has grown, the demand for the DofE today is stronger than its ever been and that's a fantastic legacy.\"\n\nAnd Jones said the programme had a bright future: \"The award itself will live on and his legacy will live long in the memories of everyone involved in the Duke of Edinburgh's Award.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The River Usk in Monmouthshire is just one Welsh river falling foul of sewage discharges\n\nRaw sewage was dumped into Welsh rivers more than 100,000 times last year - for almost 900,000 hours.\n\nThe discharges happened across more than 2,000 water treatment works and sewer overflows across the Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water network in 2020.\n\nBut the not-for-profit operator has insisted it is working to meet all environmental regulations.\n\nIt said more monitoring equipment meant more sewage spills were also being detected.\n\nThe details of how many \"spills\" from combined sewer overflows (CSOs) happened in Wales in 2020 come from Welsh Water itself, and campaigners said they accepted the firm was \"far better\" than other companies in the industry on transparency.\n\nIt follows a BBC Panorama investigation, which accused Welsh Water of breaching regulations on sewage discharges on the River Usk in Monmouthshire.\n\nThe company told the programme it did not accept its sites were operating illegally.\n\n\"We continue to invest significantly in our network so that we minimise the impact of our activities on the environment,\" said a Welsh Water official.\n\n\"However, these solutions and processes can sometimes take many years to resolve in order to fully investigate, design solutions, and secure funding.\"\n\nThe water firm said it was spending £42m in a five-year programme to upgrade its storm overflow network, with £19m being spent on 300 treatment works to ensure they were monitored and met permit conditions.\n\nBut Afonydd Cymru, the umbrella body representing six river trusts across Wales, said it was pressing Welsh Water on the issue, following the Panorama investigation.\n\n\"Have we got a complete failure in terms of regulatory enforcement on CSOs?\" asked the body's chief executive Gail Davies-Walsh.\n\nOfficial figures from Welsh Water show there were 106,094 discharges from its CSO sites in 2020.\n\nIn total, the combined time sewers and treatment workers were spilling untreated effluent into rivers reached 872,976 hours.\n\nOne treatment works at Coed y Cwm in Rhondda Cynon Taf was discharging into the River Taff for 2,959 hours during the year, in what was termed 180 \"significant spill\" incidents.\n\nAnother nearby works at Cilfynydd near Pontypridd was also sending sewage into the river for a total of 2,877 hours, in another 162 spill incidents.\n\nThe Llanfestiniog treatment works in Gwynedd was discharging sewage for 4,375 hours into a stream feeding the Afon Cynfal during the year, with monitors recording 346 spill incidents.\n\nThere are about 3,000 combined overflow outfalls on the Welsh water network\n\nCombined storm or sewer overflows (CSOs) play an essential role in stopping sewage from backing up into homes and businesses when it pours down or threatens to flood.\n\nThey usually release storm waters into rivers or the sea.\n\nThere are about 3,000 CSOs across the 23,000 miles (3700km) of sewer networks in Wales.\n\nWelsh Water said each one, along with more than 800 waste waterworks, are all tightly regulated by Natural Resources Wales and operate under strict permit conditions.\n\nIt also said it was important to recognise climate change has brought more frequent extreme weather events to Wales, with 2020 named the third wettest winter on record since 1910.\n\nGail Davies-Walsh at Afonydd Cymru said the overall discharge figures for Wales were \"massive\".\n\n\"Am I surprised? Not really. We unfortunately knew they were of this scale,\" she said.\n\n\"But we have to be careful here. That is the number of spills. The question I am asking Welsh Water to answer is: 'Of that number - how many are outside their permits?\"\n\nWelsh Water said its operations are \"highly regulated and closely monitored\" by the Welsh government's environment authority, Natural Resources Wales.\n\n\"Whilst CSOs are mainly operating as designed and permitted, we do recognise that more needs to be done,\" added a spokesman.\n\n\"However, this requires significant additional funding and development of infrastructure and will take many years to deliver.\"\n\nThe operator said it had installed an additional 1,000 spill monitors at overflow sites since 2017, covering more than 90% of its CSOs.\n\n\"This is a crucial first step so that we can identify and understand the scale of the issues we need to address,\" they added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Researchers in Sichuan Province, southwest China have captured some infrared footage of a rare fight between two rival wild pandas. They say its likely the fight was over a courtship.", "Boris Johnson must launch a \"full\" inquiry into David Cameron's attempts to lobby ministers on behalf of a finance firm, Labour has said.\n\nThe ex-prime minister's work for Greensill Capital has been heavily criticised, with a government-backed investigation set up.\n\nMr Johnson said this would have \"carte blanche\" to \"ask anybody\" the questions that needed to be answered.\n\nBut Labour said the probe had \"all the hallmarks of a Conservative cover-up\".\n\nMr Cameron, who started work for Greensill Capital in 2018 - two years after leaving Downing Street - contacted several ministers on its behalf, including Chancellor Rishi Sunak.\n\nThe contacts related to government loans during the pandemic.\n\nMr Cameron has said he did not break any codes of conduct or rules on lobbying - attempts to influence government policy - and that he welcomes the investigation launched by Mr Johnson.\n\nLawyer Nigel Boardman will step aside from his government job to lead the review, focusing on the government's use of supply-chain finance, a technique in which Greensill Capital specialised.\n\nA Cabinet Office spokesperson said it would look \"especially\" at the role played in government by the company, and its founder Alexander \"Lex\" Greensill, who gave Mr Cameron a job after he had left office.\n\nThe review will not have legal powers and is understood to be likely to produce \"findings\" rather than recommendations. It will report back to the PM in June.\n\nInstead of this, Labour wants 16 MPs from different parties to form a special committee and spend eight months examining Mr Cameron's contact with government, and wider rules on lobbying.\n\nThe party plans to use a Commons debate on Wednesday to force a vote on the issue.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe prime minister said Mr Boardman would be given \"pretty much carte blanche to ask anybody whatever he needs to find out\".\n\n\"I would like it to done quickly, but I want him to have the maximum possible access so we can understand exactly what's happened,\" he added.\n\nAsked about Mr Cameron's behaviour, he replied: \"That's a matter for Nigel Boardman.\"\n\nBusiness Minister Paul Scully answered a Commons question from Labour on Greensill Capital on Tuesday.\n\nThe government said Mr Scully was appearing before MPs because his department - rather than Mr Sunak's Treasury - was responsible for a loan scheme at the centre of the row.\n\nLabour accused the chancellor of \"running scared of scrutiny\", but a Treasury source said the opposition had failed to \"grasp how these loan schemes work\".\n\nLex Greensill has yet to comment on the row\n\nGreensill Capital was approved as a lender under the Coronavirus Large Business Interruption Scheme, launched at the start of the crisis.\n\nBut the British Business Bank, which vetted lenders for the scheme, said on Tuesday it had not been approached by Mr Cameron on behalf of the company.\n\nLabour is pushing ministers to explain Mr Cameron's role in trying to involve Greensill in a separate Covid loan scheme run by the Bank of England.\n\nMr Cameron texted and phoned Mr Sunak to ask him to broaden the scope of the Covid Corporate Finance Facility (CCFF) so Greensill could be allowed to take part.\n\nMr Sunak has released two text replies to Mr Cameron, in which he told the former Tory leader that Greensill's proposals were not possible but he had \"pushed\" officials to explore alternatives.\n\nThe firm's bid to be included in the CCFF scheme was eventually rejected.\n\nBut Labour shadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds said Mr Sunak's replies suggested \"the door seemed to be open for Greensill and David Cameron\".\n\nLabour is also calling on Health Secretary Matt Hancock to reveal all his contact with Mr Cameron, after it was revealed had had met the former PM and Mr Greensill for a \"private drink\" in 2019 to discuss a new payment scheme for the NHS.\n\nGreensill Capital's app, which allowed staff to be paid early for hours they had already worked, went on to be used by some NHS Trusts.\n\nMr Hancock said ministers had not been \"involved\" in NHS decisions to use the app and confirmed that he had attended a \"social meeting organised by the former prime minister\" and reported it to officials \"in the normal way\".", "The Duke of Edinburgh on a visit to Harland and Wolff in July 1977\n\nTributes have been paid to Prince Philip during a special sitting of the Northern Ireland Assembly.\n\nAssembly members met at midday and put on record their condolences to the Royal Family.\n\nThe union flag is flying at half mast from Parliament Buildings until the end of this week.\n\nPrince Philip, Queen Elizabeth II's husband, died on Friday, aged 99, and his funeral will take place on Saturday.\n\nSpeaker Alex Maskey, of Sinn Féin, opened tributes by saying Prince Philip had a record of public service to which few could compare.\n\nHe also paid tribute to him for establishing the Duke of Edinburgh Awards.\n\n\"His priority was on opening the door for young people to participate, whatever their background,\" he said.\n\nHe also paid tribute to the \"reconciliation efforts\" over the years.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said Prince Philip's service had been carried out with \"dedication, humanity and humour\".\n\n\"A sometimes blunt humour, which we got to appreciate here, on his many occasions when he visited Northern Ireland,\" she said.\n\nA gun salute took place at Hillsborough Castle in County Down marking Prince Philip's death\n\nMrs Foster said he \"redefined the role of a royal\" and his work with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) was \"literally decades ahead of its time\".\n\nShe said more than two million people had secured a Duke of Edinburgh Award, and more people from Northern Ireland had participated in the scheme than any other part of the UK.\n\n\"A true intergenerational legacy to our youth, our United Kingdom and the world's environment,\" Mrs Foster said.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said there had been \"significant interventions\" over the past two decades by the Royal Family to assist in the building of relationships between Britain and Ireland.\n\n\"I acknowledge that the Queen and Prince Philip and their family were directly impacted by the conflict and regrettably endured sorrow and pain as a result of their personal loss and their bereavement,\" she said.\n\nMichelle O'Neill acknowledges the impact of Northern Ireland's conflict on the Royal Family\n\n\"Yet having endured such personal loss, the Royal Family set about working towards advancing peace and reconciliation.\"\n\nThe IRA murdered the Queen's cousin, Lord Louis Mountbatten, in the Republic of Ireland in 1979.\n\nInfrastructure Minister and SDLP MLA Nichola Mallon said the prince had a part to play in \"sustaining the new bond of shared endeavour across these islands\".\n\n\"We should also reflect on the role that he played alongside Queen Elizabeth in building relationships, setting aside enmity and promoting reconciliation, most visibly during their recent visit to Ireland,\" she said.\n\nThe Queen and Prince Philip met Martin McGuinness, the then deputy first minister, in Belfast in 2012\n\nUlster Unionist Party (UUP) leader Steve Aiken said Prince Philip had \"garnered so much respect and affection\" and he \"was a great friend to Northern Ireland\" who was \"greatly saddened by the horrors of the Troubles\".\n\nHe also paid tribute to Ms O'Neill and the SDLP for their remarks regarding the duke's death.\n\n\"While we may disagree on much, those are welcome sentiments,\" he said.\n\n\"I appreciate your sympathy and reaching out to those of us who hold the union and monarchy dear.\"\n\nJustice Minister and Alliance Party leader Naomi Long said Prince Philip demonstrated what it \"means to be a supportive husband to a powerful woman\".\n\n\"He was a reformer and moderniser of the Royal Household as he encouraged more informality and less protocol and engagements, and also promoted the use of new technology, particularly television,\" she said.\n\n\"His work spanned his patronage of many charities at home and abroad.\"\n\nThe Green Party's Rachael Woods said he would be dearly missed by his grandchildren.\n\n\"The duke's passing reminds us to appreciate and treasure our grandparents and families when we can.\"\n\nPrince Philip at Hillsborough Castle during his last official visit to Northern Ireland in 2017\n\nTraditional Unionist Voice (TUV) leader Jim Allister said there would now be \"difficult, tough days for the Queen\".\n\n\"I do pray that she finds the strength to carry on in the remarkable era that has been her rule over us,\" he said.\n\nThe Duke of Edinburgh was the longest-serving royal consort in British history.\n\nOn Saturday, a 41-gun salute echoed across County Down from Hillsborough Castle, the Queen's official residence in Northern Ireland.\n\nIn Scotland, political parties suspended their campaigning on Friday for the Scottish Parliament election following the announcement of Prince Philip's death.\n\nThe main political parties in Wales also said they would suspend campaigning for the 6 May Senedd election.\n\nTributes to the duke are to be paid in the Scottish and Welsh Parliaments on Monday.\n\nThe House of Commons, which was supposed to be on its Easter break until Tuesday, is being recalled a day early, with MPs giving their tributes to the duke from 14:30 BST.\n\nA period of national mourning will end after 17 April, when Prince Philip's funeral will take place at St George's Chapel, in the grounds of Windsor Castle.\n\nA national minute's silence will be held to coincide with the start of the funeral at 15:00 BST.", "More than 12,500 people have died with coronavirus, since the first reported death in Scotland on 13 March 2020.\n\nHere are the stories of some of those who have lost their lives.\n\nIf you would like to pay tribute to a loved one lost to Covid, please use the form below or email newsonline-scotland@bbc.co.uk and ensure you have read our terms and conditions and privacy policy.\n\nJean was born in 1937 Maryhill and spoke often and fondly of her childhood in \"the Butney\". This involved real hardships - including war-time evacuation to Holytown - though Jean's memories were all good and Maryhill became a touchstone when dementia became a factor in recent years.\n\nWorking at Rolls-Royce Hillington, Jean was transferred to its Derby HQ where, as a young woman, she made small component parts for jet engines. Even in her 80s, Jean could still perform all the machinist actions (with sound effects).\n\nShe loved to paint landscapes and had a life-long passion for music, especially jazz (with Frankie and Ella being constants). She was a great singer and dancer, always up for fun and laughs, brightening up any party.\n\nHer family said Jean was a fabulous mum to two daughters, a brilliant friend, and a warm-hearted women with kindness for everyone and anyone. She died on 27 October 2020.\n\nRashelle Baird's family describe her as \"kind, bubbly, and always the life and soul of the party\".\n\nThe 27-year-old mother-of-three from Brechin had put off appointments to get the vaccine because she was busy with her children.\n\nHer family stressed she was not anti-vaccine. \"She wanted to get her vaccine but she put her kids first,\" her father Stephen said.\n\nRashelle, who had asthma, initially thought she had caught a cold from her children, but her symptoms worsened and she was admitted to hospital.\n\nShe died in November 2021 after several days in Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, having been placed in an induced coma in the intensive care unit.\n\nDavid Trower worked as a clerical officer in the A&E department of University Hospital Monklands in Airdrie before retiring in 2016.\n\nBut he was committed to the NHS and even in retirement he chose to continue to work shifts, through NHS Lanarkshire's staff bank, right up until February. He died on 9 March 2021, aged 67.\n\nHis colleagues thought highly of him, saying: \"We have many happy memories of shifts together, laughs, nights out, and listening to all his stories of his many holidays abroad. We will miss him.\"\n\nBernadette White, his sister, said he was a caring, gentle and loving man with a wicked sense of humour.\n\nShe added: \"The last seven years, I would say, is when David started to live his life, doing the things that made him happy without having to worry about anyone else.\"\n\nStephen Stewart met his future wife, Heather, at a youth club when he was just 14. They got engaged on his 17th birthday and he had just turned 20 when they married.\n\nThe couple, who lived in Motherwell, came from \"very different\" backgrounds but they grew up together during their 25-year marriage while raising their only child.\n\nStephen took pride in his work for concrete manufacturer FP McCann, latterly as a lab technician working out what strength the concrete needed to be for certain projects.\n\nOutside work, he loved fishing, computer games, gadgets and during the first lockdown he managed to build a hot tub shelter with the help of a series of YouTube videos.\n\nHe died of Covid pneumonia at University Hospital Wishaw on 19 February 2021, aged 45.\n\nNan Douglas worked her way up from shorthand typist to headteacher during a remarkable career.\n\nShe was already a mother of three when she left her job as a school secretary at West Calder High School to enrol at Moray House in Edinburgh where she qualified as a primary school teacher.\n\nAfter losing her husband John when she was just 43, she found solace in working with disabled children and went on to be appointed head of Pinewood Special School in Blackburn, West Lothian.\n\nFollowing a spell living in Cornwall during her retirement, she returned to Scotland where she hosted a \"living wake\" with 80 friends and family on her 90th birthday.\n\nShe lived independently in Milnathort, Kinross, and was admitted to hospital for a minor issue just before Christmas 2020. But she picked up Covid and never left. She died on 19 February 2021, aged 95.\n\nGraeme McGrath's greatest passions were rowing and the River Clyde.\n\nOn the day of his funeral, fellow rowers held oars in a guard of honour at Glasgow Green in a tribute appreciated by his wife Anne and their three sons.\n\nFor 40 years Graeme volunteered with the Glasgow Humane Society and was often called on to row rescue boats on the Clyde, or to help evacuate families during floods.\n\nAfter undergoing a kidney transplant in his 50s, he was unable to get out on the river as much. He retired from his job as a Thomas Cook travel agent and moved to Prestwick in Ayrshire.\n\nBut he still felt the pull of the Clyde and regularly returned to the city to meet friends and row safety boats at regattas.\n\nHe died with Covid on 15 February 2021 at Crosshouse Hospital in Kilmarnock, aged 66, after being admitted for an infection affecting his heart.\n\nTommy Morrow spent most of his life in the Maryhill area of Glasgow, where he met his partner Jackie and raised their children, Demi and Mark.\n\nHis family described him as a character and not a day went by without them laughing at his jokes.\n\nHe loved camping and fishing in places like Stornoway with his friends but the most important people in his life were his family, including grandchildren, Lacey and Louden.\n\nDuring his career he worked in various well-known hotels and restaurants in Glasgow but he had not worked for some years due to poor health, including COPD.\n\nHe died with Covid on 15 February 2021, aged 53. \"It was so cruel - he was so close to getting the vaccine,\" his family said.\n\nTommy Rooney was a bus driver for 36 years and hugely popular with colleagues at First Bus in Larbert.\n\nOn the day of his funeral they were among dozens of people who lined the streets and applauded as his cortege passed the depot.\n\nFirst Bus operations manager Jason Hackett told the Falkirk Herald that Tommy was the \"heart and soul\" of the Larbert station.\n\nMarried to Margaret, the Bonnybridge man had two daughters and a granddaughter who described him as a \"humble but proud family man who put everyone else's needs before his own\".\n\nAn avid Celtic fan, he spent much of the pandemic driving key workers to their essential duties. He died on 12 February 2021, aged 57.\n\nDavid Gray's first grandchild - a girl called Islay - was born in July 2020. The proud \"papa\" used to say that she was the love of his life and she gave him a reason to wake up in the morning.\n\nTragically, the 62-year-old only got to spend five months with her before falling ill with Covid. He died on 3 February 2021.\n\nDavid lived in Erskine and worked for BAE Systems for 20 years, first as a mechanical fitter then as records manager dealing with secret files for the Ministry of Defence.\n\nHis family describe him as \"music daft\" - he played guitar and he was performing a gig with his band in Glasgow when he met his wife, Joyce, 40 years ago.\n\nThey went on to have two children - Darren and Danielle - as well as his beloved Cocker Spaniels, Buster and Shimmer, who he described as his \"bairns\".\n\nHarry Osborne was a Dunkirk veteran whose life was full of adventures - his daughter said he was still able to recall stories until just a few days before he died.\n\nMr Osborne was deployed to France months after joining the Territorial Army in Glasgow, served with the 77th Highland Field Regiment of the Royal Artillery and later became a surveyor.\n\nFriends recall how upon joining, he promised his mother he would not swear and instead would say \"cricky jings\", which became his nickname in the forces.\n\nHe was also known as a keen golfer with a \"wicked sense of humour\".\n\nMr Osborne died from Covid-19 on 25 January, nine months after celebrating his 100th birthday.\n\nConnie Simpson's grandchildren say she was more like a pal than a granny - she was full of fun and laughter, and was always the first up to dance at a party.\n\nBorn in Kinning Park, Glasgow, she moved to the east end after marrying John who she met at the Barrowlands when they were teenagers.\n\nWhile John was away with the Merchant Navy, she brought up their four children in a house \"surrounded by love\", before taking work as a curtain consultant.\n\nShe was fabulous even in her 80s - she loved getting her hair, eyebrows and manicure done, meeting friends at Mecca Bingo in Parkhead and at a local pensioners' club.\n\nConnie died on 23 January 2021 at Stobhill Hospital in Glasgow, aged 82.\n\nSheila Gartly was as \"bright as a button\" and the \"heart of our family\", her loved ones said.\n\nShe was born and brought up in Deskford, Moray, before marrying and moving to Keith in 1954. Widowed in 1975, she remarried but lost her second husband in 2005.\n\nDuring her working life she had jobs in a florist and in a fish shop - both of which she thoroughly enjoyed.\n\nShe loved to watch the birds in her garden, read her daily newspaper, listen to traditional Scottish music, and the spring and summer when the nights were lighter and flowers bloomed.\n\nIn 2019 she had surgery on a broken leg but she was recovering well. She died with Covid on 19 January 2021, aged 86.\n\nAlex Goldie was an electrical engineer who latterly worked as a lecturer at Stow College in Glasgow before his retirement.\n\nHis family said he was a gregarious man, always interested in other people, who took great delight and pride in the antics and education of his two great-grandsons, Charlie and Joe.\n\nDuring his long life he enjoyed skiing, tennis, pottery, sailing, golf, holidays in Europe, Australia and North America, single malts and red wine.\n\nHe had been well cared for by Randolph Hill nursing home in Dunblane for 19 months after developing dementia. Covid restrictions meant he had not seen his family, other than by Skype, for a year.\n\nHe is thought to have contracted the virus on a trip to A&E after a fall. He died on 14 January, aged 100.\n\nVincent Logan became one of the youngest bishops in the world when he was ordained Bishop of Dunkeld in 1981, aged 39.\n\nHe served the Roman Catholic diocese for almost 32 years before his retirement in 2012.\n\nThe Scottish Catholic Church said he was \"dedicated and energetic\" and had \"an energy and zeal in all he did\".\n\nBorn in Bathgate in 1941, he was ordained a priest in Edinburgh in 1964. He died on 14 January, aged 79, the day after his friend the Archbishop of Glasgow, Philip Tartaglia.\n\n\"Both bishops succumbed to the lethal effects of the coronavirus,\" the current Bishop of Dunkeld, Stephen Robson, added.\n\nThe Archbishop of Glasgow, the Most Reverend Philip Tartaglia, died suddenly at his home in the city on 13 January - the Feast of St Mungo, the Patron Saint of Glasgow.\n\nHe had been self-isolating after testing positive for Covid shortly after Christmas.\n\nBorn in Glasgow in 1951, he was ordained a priest in 1975 and had served as leader of Scotland's largest Catholic community since 2012.\n\nScotland's Catholic bishops described Archbishop Tartaglia as a \"gentle, caring and warm-hearted pastor who combined compassion with a piercing intellect\".\n\nAmong those who paid tribute were First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and Glasgow City Council leader Susan Aitken, who described the archbishop as \"a true Glaswegian\".\n\nLiz Shingleston was a well-known figure in the village of Dunragit and her death on 13 January had a big impact on the small community near Stranraer.\n\n\"Her hearse passed the bottom of the village and the amount of people who turned out to pay their respects was overwhelming,\" said her daughter, Lisa.\n\nLiz spent her early childhood in New Luce but moved to the railway station cottage in Dunragit where her father worked as a signalman.\n\nDuring a varied working life, Liz left school to work in the laboratory of the nearby Nestle factory and later replaced her own mother as the local school's dinner lady.\n\nThe 73-year-old was devoted to her grandchildren and great-grandson but she also liked to treat herself to afternoon tea (with Prosecco) at Trump Turnberry.\n\nHugh Polland, who was known as Shug to his friends and family, was born and raised in Glasgow's Easterhouse.\n\nHe was well known in the area where he ran the Casbah Pub for many years during the 1980s and early 90s.\n\nA huge Celtic fan, he loved to play golf and took up photography later in life - becoming \"unofficial photographer\" at many friends' weddings, christening and parties.\n\n\"Everyone wanted him at their party not just to take photos but because of his personality,\" said his son, Tony McAllister. \"Everyone loved him because what you seen is what you got.\"\n\nShug died at Glasgow Royal Infirmary on 5 January, aged 70. His sudden death has left his family heartbroken.\n\nFor more than 75 years George Wight lived on his dairy farm in the village of Drumoak in Aberdeenshire.\n\nBut he had more than one string to his bow - as well as being a dairy farmer, for 25 years he was also the publican of his local, the Irvine Arms.\n\nA loyal Aberdeen FC fan, he was one of the lucky ones - he was in Gothenburg in 1983 to see the his beloved Dons lift the European Cup Winners Cup.\n\nHe was devoted to his family, including wife Claire and their four children, and despite suffering a series of bereavements and health setbacks, he always bounced back.\n\n\"He was an inspiration and a hardy soul who kept going no matter what life threw at him,\" they said. George died at a nursing home on 4 January 2021, aged 85.\n\nHugh Bell loved to dance. As a young man, when he doing his national service with the RAF, he was a regular at the dancing at the YMCA in Paisley.\n\nIt was there he met the love of his life, Margaret. They were married for 63 years and had two children Alan and Stuart. Margaret passed away in 2013.\n\nA keen ballroom dancer, Hugh was often first on the dance floor and in his later years he enjoyed dancing to the entertainment at Southerness caravan park, near Dumfries, where Stuart and his friend had a holiday home.\n\nHe was a bright, bubbly sociable man who spent a career in logistics before working as a lollipop man in his retirement.\n\nHugh died on 31 December at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley, aged 92.\n\nDavid Warnock was a keen sportsman who loved squash, tennis, rugby, football, cycling and climbing munros.\n\nIn fact, it was on the tennis courts in Aberdeen that he met his teenage sweetheart, Zena. He was 17 and she was 14 - they were married for 62 years.\n\nAn electrical engineer, he worked for Pye Communications, moving first to Cambridge and then Edinburgh.\n\nHe was a quiet man who never complained about anything and was happiest around his family - including four children, 11 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.\n\nHis second great-grandchild was born shortly after he died in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary on 31 December. He was 85.\n\nHenry Anderson, an SNP councillor on Perth and Kinross Council, died with Covid on 27 December.\n\nHe had represented the Almond and Earn ward since 2012 and colleagues said he would be \"hugely missed\".\n\nAmong those who paid tribute to the 68-year-old was Deputy First Minister John Swinney, who described him as \"a good, decent man and a faithful councillor\".\n\nMurray Lyle, the leader of Perth and Kinross Council, said Mr Anderson was an excellent advocate for his ward and \"passionate about local issues\".\n\n\"I had the pleasure of working with Henry for several years on the Local Review Body and always his enjoyed his company, good humour and sense of fun when we were out visiting planning sites.\"\n\nTeenage sweethearts Bryson Mitchell and his wife Irene were due to celebrate their diamond wedding anniversary in January,\n\nThey met when he was an 18-year-old apprentice electrician and was assigned to a contract with the company where Irene, who was 16, was working.\n\nAfter marrying in 1961, Bryson spent his adult life in Paisley and 35 years working as an aircraft electrician with British Airways.\n\nThe couple had two children and four grandchildren, who described him as a quiet man with a great sense of humour. \"He was kind and generous, very hardworking, and he lived for his family,\" they said.\n\nHe was in hospital being treated for an acute illness when he contracted Covid. He died on Christmas Eve, aged 82.\n\nAs a child, Sandy Adam survived pioneering surgery to remove his voice box - an operation that left him unable to speak normally.\n\nInstead he learned a different way to communicate - oesophageal speech (swallowing air) - by drinking lots of lemonade. He had a life-long hatred of the fizzy drink after that.\n\nAfter training to be a dentist in Dundee, he returned to his hometown of Aberdeen. In addition to surgeries around the city, at one time he worked at Craiginches Prison one afternoon a week.\n\nA father and a grandfather, he loved tinkering with cars, pranking his two children and sitting in the sun with a glass of red wine.\n\nThe 81-year-old, who had dementia, died on 16 December, shortly after testing positive for Covid.\n\nDavid Barr was born and grew up in Paisley and for more than 40 years he worked in the town's Anchor Mill.\n\nAs well as being a keen bowler, a church elder, and an active member of Martyrs Church Men's Club, he had a gift for carpentry.\n\nThe dolls houses and garages that he made for his children and grandchildren were much loved and they are still treasured.\n\nHis favourite place in the world was the East Neuk of Fife, where he spent many happy holidays.\n\nDavid had an underlying respiratory condition and he was admitted to hospital with shortness of breath in December. He died within days of being diagnosed with Covid on 16 December, aged 86.\n\nAna Lisa Sayson was a nurse who moved from the Philippines to work for the NHS in Scotland.\n\nShe was a staff nurse at Stobhill Hospital in Glasgow before she moved to Glasgow Royal Infirmary during the Covid crisis. The mother-of-two died on 15 December after testing positive for the virus.\n\n\"Ana Lisa was a much-loved member of the team and an incredibly compassionate nurse who was devoted to the care of her patients,\" said John Stuart, the chief nurse at Glasgow Royal Infirmary.\n\n\"Ana Lisa came to our country from the Philippines to care for our loved ones and my heart goes out to her family and especially her husband and children.\n\n\"My thoughts, and the thoughts of all of her NHS family here in Glasgow, are with them at this terribly sad time.\"\n\nBilly and May Fannin were married for 62 years after meeting at a ballroom in Glasgow in 1955.\n\nMay was a bookkeeper who gave up her job to look after her grandchildren in the 1980s. \"Her life revolved around her four grandchildren,\" their younger daughter Jennifer told BBC Scotland.\n\nBilly was a joiner by trade but his real passion was singing, performing under the name Scott Allan. And as a member of Equity, he also took on work as an extra on TV programmes like Take the High Road and Taggart.\n\nHe loved being the centre of attention and \"if he was chocolate he would have eaten himself\", Jennifer joked.\n\nWhen the couple from Barrhead caught Covid, their two daughters also fell ill with the virus and had to self-isolate. They were heartbroken they could not be with their 84-year-old mother when she died in hospital on 6 December.\n\nBut they chose not tell their 88-year-old father about her death, as he was also in hospital and had dementia. Jennifer was able to visit him to say goodbye before he slipped away just eight days after the passing of his wife.\n\nShe was president of the city's Bangladesh Association, a civil servant at Glasgow City Council and, according to her family, \"a pillar of the community\".\n\nThey said she was a \"devoted mother, daughter, aunt and friend [but] she would prefer to be remembered as a social activist, volunteer and community advocate\".\n\nBoth Mridula and her husband, Sarwar Hassan, were admitted to hospital with Covid in November. He was discharged but Mridula was moved to Aberdeen for specialist treatment.\n\nHer husband and two sons were able to spend time with her before she died at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary on 12 December, aged 50.\n\nBridget Turner and her husband Alan worked for years in the window blinds industry before setting up their own business, A&B Window Blinds, in 1992.\n\nThey lived next door to the shop in Paisley, where Bridget worked in the office and Alan went out to do the measuring. Their years of hard work paid off and the family business remains successful.\n\nThe mother-of-three \"loved a good gab and a good catch-up with friends\", according to her daughter, Lisa. \"She was amazing, such a good friend to lots of people.\"\n\nWhen the children were young, family holidays were spent at the Isle of Whithorn but later the couple, who moved to Greenock, spent winters in Gran Canaria where they made friends from around the world.\n\nBridget was treated for Covid at Inverclyde Royal Hospital, where she received \"amazing care\". She died, aged 71, on 7 December after saying goodbye to her family.\n\nAndrew Slorance was a civil servant in charge of the Scottish government's planning and response to crisis situations - including the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHe grew up in Hawick and became a journalist before joining the Scotland Office. He led the new Scottish Parliament's media team when it opened in 1999, then became the official spokesman for First Minister Alex Salmond.\n\nA father-of-five, he was diagnosed with Mantle Cell Lymphoma in 2015. He documented his experience of the rare cancer - including six rounds of chemotherapy - in a blog he called \"The fight of my life\".\n\nHe relapsed in 2019 and a stem cell transplant scheduled for Easter 2020 was delayed by Covid. While shielding at home in Edinburgh, he spent the first part of the pandemic working on the government's response from a spare room.\n\nMr Slorance was finally admitted to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Glasgow for his stem cell transplant in October. He tested positive for Covid shortly after that and died on 5 December, aged 49.\n\nTributes from across the political spectrum, including First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, have been paid to Mr Slorance. His wife, Louise, told BBC Scotland: \"He was a proud family man who was the life and soul of any party, loving and loyal.\"\n\nAllan Harper was a salesman at Topps Tiles for 23 years, mainly in the Hillington branch.\n\nHe met Caroline through a dating website 21 years ago. They were due to celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary in July.\n\nA father-of-one, he lived in Craigton, in the south-west of Glasgow, where he enjoyed computer games and playing pool with work colleagues.\n\nCaroline said they would spend their days off and holidays together with their three cats \"who sometimes got more attention than me\".\n\nHe was a kind man, a \"true gentleman\" and her \"forever love\", she added. He died on 1 December 2020, aged 60.\n\nEileen Terry was born and brought up in Renfrew before marrying Bob and moving to Milngavie in 1968.\n\nHe was a keen golfer and when their sons, Robert and David, reached secondary school she decided the time was right to join him on the golf course.\n\nIt led to a lifetime's love of the sport and she became the ladies captain of Clober Golf Club in 2001 - the club's centenary year.\n\nHer family say she was a kind and generous lady who was well-known in her local community, where she worked as a home help until her retirement.\n\nShe spent her final years in Mavisbank Nursing Home in Bishopbriggs after developing vascular dementia. She died in hospital on 25 November 2020, aged 84.\n\nDavie Burgess was one of 10 siblings born in the Townhead area of Glasgow, but he had a lifelong love of the fresh air and the scenery of the Scottish countryside.\n\nAs a young man, he worked as a fireman on the steam train to Crianlarich - a trip which included a two-hour stopover allowing him to explore the hills.\n\nLater in life he loved driving up to Acharacle to visit his son and his family, where he could go for long walks with his grandchildren and their dog, Mac.\n\nMarried for 60 years to May, the father-of-three worked for the Milk Marketing Board at Hogganfield Loch. He was a hard worker who even after he \"retired\" took on three jobs, including running a caravan park.\n\nHis family described him as a \"gentleman\" and a \"man of pride\". He died on 25 November, aged 86.\n\nRod Moore spent 40 years with the ambulance service, working as a technician, a paramedic, a trainer and then in managerial roles before returning to the front line and the job he loved.\n\nThe football fan from Falkirk was married to Clare for 31 years and they had a son, Craig.\n\n\"He was my best friend, he was always happy, joking around all the time, he was so funny... he made me laugh every day,\" Clare told BBC Scotland.\n\nAnd he was so close to their son \"you wouldn't have got a sheet of paper between them\", she added.\n\nAlthough they were not able to see Rod for four weeks while he was treated in hospital for Covid, they we allowed one final visit to say goodbye before he died on 21 November, aged 63.\n\nTom Kenmure was a manager at the Tesco distribution centre in Livingston, where he had worked for 28 years.\n\nThe 51-year-old was a friendly, sociable man and in normal times he liked nothing better than driving around the country exploring \"any little shop he could find\".\n\nAfter the restrictions came into force, the father-of-two from Carluke did everything he could to keep himself and his family safe from Covid.\n\nBut on the 6 October he felt a tightness in his chest on his way to work and had to get tested. It came back positive the next day.\n\nHe spent two weeks in Wishaw General before being transferred to an ECMO machine at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. He died on 17 November.\n\nAndrew, or \"Andra\", Kettrick was a porter at Stirling Royal Infirmary for 28 years.\n\nHe would take patients out on \"mystery tours\" in a \"big blue hospital ambulance bus\" his son, also Andrew, told BBC Scotland.\n\n\"The old people loved my dad as he would often stop and buy them all fish and chips or ice cream - all this was paid for out of his pocket,\" he said.\n\nMr Kettrick's work was recognised by hospital bosses and they put him forward for a British Empire Medal which he received in 1991.\n\nThe father-of-three, from Cowie, Stirling, died at Caledonia Court care home in Larbert on 17 November. He was 86.\n\nJim - Flocky - Flockhart was the public face of the firefighters' strike in Glasgow in 1973.\n\nA leading figure in the Fire Brigade Union, he regularly appeared on TV and in newspapers during the controversial 10-day strike over pay.\n\nFirefighting was a dangerous - sometimes fatal - job in the \"tinderbox city\" and Jim was hailed a hero by colleagues after the dispute ended with a famous victory for the strikers.\n\nHe retired to Darvel in Ayrshire where he enjoyed a pint in the Black Bull and spent many years driving friends and local elderly men on trips around Scotland and to Ireland.\n\nA father and grandfather, he died with Covid on 13 November with his daughters Yvonne and Julie by his side. He was 77.\n\nTom Maley never wanted for anything, but after enduring months of Covid restrictions this year the 73-year-old retired joiner set his heart on a big Christmas tree.\n\nIt had been a tough year for the normally sociable pensioner who was renowned for his jokes (good and bad) and was devoted to his wife of 53 years, Georgina, and their family.\n\nThey usually decorate a small table-top tree for the festive season, but this year Mr Maley ordered a 5ft showstopper illuminated with multi-coloured stars to fill the window of their Grangemouth home.\n\nThe great-grandfather will never get to see the tree in its full glory. He died at Forth Valley Royal Hospital in Larbert on 12 November, shortly after falling ill with Covid-19.\n\nHis granddaughter Claire Taylor told BBC Scotland, said: \"My gran has made sure that the tree he ordered will go up and it will shine bright for Granda.\"\n\nTracey Donnelly was born and brought up in Edinburgh but she moved to the north-east of England after meeting her husband, George.\n\n\"I loved her the first time I saw her, and I always will,\" he said. \"She was so loving and kind - just an extra-special person in every way.\"\n\nTracey had four children, three step-children and eight grandchildren, and she worked as a support worker for the North East Autism Society.\n\nCare manager Michael Ross, said: \"She loved her family, and she loved the service-users in her care. This tragic news has ripped the heart out of the team and her colleagues are absolutely devastated.\"\n\nShe died at Sunderland General Hospital in mid-November after testing positive for coronavirus. She was 53.\n\nJim Grant was originally from Bo'ness but he spent most of his life in Grangemouth where he brought up two daughters, Margaret and Senga, with his wife Mary.\n\nHe worked as a labourer at BP before taking early retirement when he was 60.\n\nThe 88-year-old great-grandfather spent his last months at the Caledonian Court care home in Larbert before his death on 8 November. He was one of 20 residents who died in the space of a month after testing positive for Covid-19.\n\nHis granddaughter, Nicole Ritchie, said he was a gentleman who always had a huge smile on his face, and his death had had a huge impact on the family.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland \"As a family, we would like to thank Caledonian Court from the bottom of our hearts. They looked after my grandad for the last 11 months of his life and they couldn't have done a better job, he was so happy and very well looked after.\"\n\nFor more than 20 years until her retirement in February 2020, Liz Khan was a support worker for adults with learning and physical disabilities.\n\nShe also ran a drama group for them - it was always more than a job to her, her family said.\n\nLiz was also an elder at her local church, St Margaret's Parish Church in the Muirhouse area of Motherwell, North Lanarkshire.\n\n\"She devoted her life to her work, church and family,\" her children Stephen, Sonia and Lorraine told BBC Scotland.\n\nLiz died in hospital with Covid on 26 October 2020, aged 67 - eight months into her retirement.\n\nWhen Marie Ward broke her wrist in 2019, she asked her consultant whether she would be able to play the piano once it had healed.\n\nHe assured her she would, but when she replied \"that's great because I couldn't before\", the previously serious and solemn medic cracked up.\n\nShe was always laughing and joking, according to her granddaughter, Abby McNicol, and she enjoyed nothing more than knitting, shopping and a \"good blether\".\n\nMarried to Robert for 53 years, they started life together in a single-end tenement in Househillwood in Glasgow. Moving to a three-bedroom council house in Johnstone was \"like winning the lottery\".\n\nThe mother-of-three and grandmother-of-11 died on 18 October 2020, aged 83.\n\nFrances Brown spent lockdown shielding in her room in the Glasgow care home where she had lived for almost 10 years.\n\nAfter months of keeping in touch via video calls, the 76-year-old was finally able to meet up with her sister, Anne Turnbull, in August.\n\nMs Turnbull said her sister, who had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and bi-polar disorder, had a special bond with staff at the David Cargill care home.\n\nAnd she praised the home which remained Covid-free until a staff member tested positive on 4 October. Frances contracted the virus and died in hospital on 13 October.\n\nIn a statement, the care home described Frances as \"the most incredible woman, a real character, and an absolute pleasure to know and care for\".\n\nAfter a long battle against illness throughout the year, great grandfather Charlie Armstrong died on 10 October.\n\nThe 82-year-old retired property manager from Kirkintilloch, East Dunbartonshire, had been allowed home after receiving treatment at Glasgow Royal Infirmary for chest problems.\n\nEight days later he was readmitted to the hospital and tested positive for coronavirus. The family say they were told he must have contracted Covid during his earlier stay at the Infirmary.\n\nHis wife, Joyce, who was also treated in hospital for the virus, said: \"He was very generous, very loving and very funny and he hated seeing anybody being put down. He didn't like to see injustice. He would stand up for people.\n\n\"We were together for 40 years and he was a very good father and a very good husband to me.\"\n\nMargaret Kerrigan was a \"force to be reckoned with\", according to her family - a matriarch who commanded respect.\n\nShe was born in Plymouth but her family moved to Glasgow when she was young. Growing up in Govan in the 1950s, she learned to be a \"tough cookie\".\n\nIt meant she must have been perfectly suited to her job as bar manager at Curlers in Byres Road in the 1960s. And it was there she met Joe, a customer at the pub, who she married in 1970.\n\nHe worked as a school janitor during many of their 50 years of marriage, and they had four sons, 12 grandchildren and one great-granddaughter.\n\nClydebank Bowling Club provided Joe with a good social life, while Margaret loved having her family around her and going to the bingo.\n\nJoe had dementia and he died at Hill View care home in Dalmuir on 19 April 2020, aged 78. Margaret fell ill during the second wave and died in hospital on 8 October, aged 73.\n\nFormer ambulance technician George Cairns was a resident at LittleInch Care Home in Inchinnan, Renfrewshire.\n\nHis family said the move from his Renfrew flat to the home in January had reinvigorated him and brought out his mischievous sense of humour.\n\nDuring the lockdown period Mr Cairns, who was bipolar, even joked about topping up his tan in the garden.\n\nThe 71-year-old tested positive for Covid-19 on 8 May despite displaying no symptoms, but his condition deteriorated and he died in the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley nine days later.\n\nHis daughter, Gillian, paid tribute to his caring nature, saying: \"Even if you only met him once he would tell you a story, a terrible joke or offer a supportive ear when you needed it the most.\"\n\nRetired farmer Jock Brown was a keen ice hockey player in his youth, and he represented Scotland for six years in the 1950s.\n\nHe told his family that he was selected for the team because he was the only Scotsman who played as goal tender (goalkeeper) at the time. They insist this is not true.\n\nMarried to Mary for 48 years, they had two children and four grandchildren.\n\nHe farmed near Falkirk - on land next to what is now home to The Kelpies - until his retirement in the 1980s.\n\nMr Brown's family said he was a quiet man with a great sense of humour. He had dementia and he died with Covid-19 at Burnbrae care home in Falkirk on 14 May. He was 89.\n\nIna Beaton was a well-known figure on the Isle of Skye and she lived in her own home in Balmaqueen until two years ago.\n\nShe died on 11 May aged 103, the seventh resident of Home Farm care home in Portree to die after contracting Covid-19.\n\nIna lived through the Great War and the 1919 Spanish Flu outbreak. During World War Two she moved to Glasgow to work as a conductress on the trams and survived the Clydebank blitz.\n\nHer grandson, Ailean Beaton, said his loss was shared across the island, especially the north end \"where she was mum, granny, friend to more than just the Beatons.\n\n\"Her crystal memory and broad experience of life in Skye over several generations meant that she contributed to our shared knowledge of the place we're from, its language and culture,\" he added.\n\nBetty Steele grew up in Paisley but later moved to Corby, Northamptonshire - the town known as \"little Scotland\".\n\nShe had seven children, 11 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren, and she lived for her family, according to her granddaughter, Debbie Smiley.\n\nHer house was always the meeting point, and she was the life and soul of the party.\n\n\"She had such a zest for life, and anything she did it was done with care and love for others,\" Debbie added.\n\nJohn Angus Gordon, 83, spent the last few years of his life at the Home Farm care home in Portree on Skye.\n\nHe had dementia and the sense of touch reassured him - he liked to shake a hand or hold the hand of the person he was talking to.\n\nUnable to visit the home, his family spoke to him for the last time in a video-call a few hours before he died on 5 May.\n\nAs he listened to their voices, he reached out to the hand of the carer sitting with him, dressed in full personal protective equipment.\n\n\"We found it quite poignant that my dad put out his hand to hers and she was wearing these blue protective gloves,\" said his son, John.\n\nPaul McCaffrey was an \"amazing dad\" of two children and two step-children who was always busy, according to his partner Caroline McNultry.\n\n\"He was always helping someone, whether he was in someone's house helping them out or just on-the-go in work all the time,\" she said.\n\nThe healthy 49-year-old from Glasgow fell ill after returning home from work at a care home where he was a highly-regarded maintenance manager.\n\nRather than the traditional coronavirus symptoms, he complained of a headache and aching limbs but he was eventually admitted to hospital in Glasgow where he tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nHe was transferred to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary where he could be hooked up to an ECMO machine, which performs the tasks of the lungs. After three weeks, he died on 4 May.\n\nHGV driver Jim Russell kept his lorries so spotlessly clean he was known as \"Big Gorgeous\" by colleagues who joked that he must have worn his slippers in his cab.\n\nHe was a big character who loved cars, trucks, motorbikes, lorries and going to Truckfest with his fiancée Connie McCready, who he affectionately nicknamed \"Isa\" after the Still Game character.\n\nThis photograph was taken at the last concert the couple attended together on 8 March 2020.\n\nThey met online in 2014 and were due to get married last summer but Mr Russell fell ill with Covid three weeks after the concert. He died on 4 May, aged 51.\n\n\"Everyone is talking about life getting back to normal when coming out of lockdown, however for myself and many many others we are terrified as our lives will never be normal again,\" Connie said.\n\nClive Andrews was born in Trinidad and in 1967 he moved to Edinburgh where he \"immediately felt like he belonged\", according to his daughter, Nadine.\n\nThe father-of-six worked as a senior lecturer in ergonomics at Napier College, but he was also committed to the arts.\n\nDevoted to promoting and supporting artists and musicians, he held committee roles with groups including Theatre Alba and the Scottish Arts Council.\n\nHe helped establish the Edinburgh International Harp Festival and volunteered every year for decades with the Edinburgh International Jazz Festival.\n\nClive was a lover of life (and of salsa dancing), his family said. He died at The Elms Care Home in Edinburgh on 3 May 2020, aged 86.\n\nRobert Black was a paramedic but he was also a talented musician and part of the team behind Argyll FM.\n\nPaying tribute to him on social media, the community radio station said he was \"a genuine good guy... everyone was his pal\".\n\nThe Mull of Kintyre Music Festival described him as \"one of our pals\" and a \"true gent, wonderful musician\".\n\nHe was a well-known and loved character in Campbeltown, according to Kintyre Community Resilience Group.\n\nThe father-of-two died in hospital in Glasgow on 2 May.\n\nKaren Hutton was a \"much-loved\" care home nurse who died with coronavirus days after her granddaughter was born.\n\nThe 58-year-old was a staff nurse in the dementia unit at Lochleven Care Home in Broughty Ferry, Dundee.\n\nHer only daughter, Lauren, gave birth to a girl just two weeks ago, according to care home operators Thistle Healthcare.\n\nCare home manager Andrew Chalmers-Gall said: \"Karen was a tenacious advocate for her residents and she always put their needs first.\"\n\nShe died at home in Carnoustie, Angus, on 28 April after testing positive for Covid-19.\n\nMark McCarron Gillan bought his wife, Jan, flowers every Friday - a small gesture but something that she still misses following his death on 27 April.\n\nThey were married for 23 years, after first meeting as teenagers, and they have three daughters - twins Ebony and Hope, who are 20, and Brenna, 19.\n\nWhen his colleagues at a soap factory in Queenslie, Glasgow, learned of his death, they stopped production for the first time since opening.\n\nThey were among dozens of people - including friends and neighbours - who lined the streets on the day of his funeral to say a final farewell to the 53-year-old.\n\nMark loved golf, football and hill walking but he was also a family man. \"There is a such a void left in each of us and every life that he touched,\" his wife said.\n\nAlastair Sinclair split his younger years between Reay in Caithness and Lanark before being called up for national service.\n\nBut his army career was cut short when he stood on a mine in Korea and lost a foot.\n\nHis son told BBC Scotland that he was persuaded to pursue a career in developing artificial limbs as he was being fitted for his own prosthetic.\n\nIn retirement, the father-of-three moved with his wife from Newtown Mearns in East Renfrewshire to Wishaw in North Lanarkshire.\n\nHe moved into Erskine Park care home in Bishopton shortly before lockdown and died, aged 87, five weeks later on 27 April.\n\nPearl Paterson grew up in Dennistoun in the east end of Glasgow and was just 10 years old when World War II broke out.\n\nShe was a teenager when she joined the Women's Land Army but it wasn't until she was in her 80s that she received official recognition - and a badge - for her efforts from the UK government.\n\nPearl spent much of her working life employed as a domestic assistant in hotels across Scotland, before settling in Largs, Ayrshire, with her daughter, Fiona.\n\nAn animal lover, she had a special Chihuahua called Flash, and she read the People's Friend magazine every week.\n\nOn her 91st birthday in March, her family was able wave to her in the conservatory at her care home in Glasgow. She died with Covid-19 on 26 April.\n\nAnnie Munro's home was always filled with people - her husband, six children and many nieces and nephews who would often come to visit.\n\nHer family used to joke that the house in Eaglesham must have \"rubber walls\" and they often had to share beds and would \"wake up with somebody's feet up their nose\".\n\nShe was a real homemaker who could as easily run up a set of curtains as make a batch of jam from fruit she had grown in her own garden. She never turned anyone away who needed help.\n\nA mild-mannered woman, she never had any need to raise her voice - a look over the top of her spectacles was enough to keep her children under control.\n\nIn later life she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's and her daughter, Linda, became her main carer before she moved into a care home. Annie died on 25 April, aged 84.\n\nKnown to all as Gogs, Gordon Reid was a taxi driver from Edinburgh who loved football, played golf, enjoyed a pint and doted on his grandchildren.\n\nHe stopped working as a precaution four days before the lockdown came into force but within a week had fallen ill with Covid-19.\n\nHis wife, Elaine, and daughter Leemo Goudie, were able to spend some time with him in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary before he died on 24 April, aged 68.\n\nLeemo said: \"My dad was a normal guy, no health issues, a non-smoker, fairly fit. It can happen to anyone.\"\n\nAs only a small number of mourners could attend his funeral, people stood and applauded as his hearse passed some of his favourite places in the city.\n\nDavid Allan joined a local running club in Edinburgh in retirement, after spending 36 years as a science technician at the city's Trinity Academy.\n\nThe fit and healthy 64-year-old was training for a half marathon and was planning to take part in some Park Runs in Sydney during a trip to visit his nephew in Australia this year.\n\nWhen the holiday - including a trip to Fiji - was cancelled due to coronavirus restrictions, David was pragmatic and told his wife, Glenda, they could rearrange for a later date.\n\nIt was a shock when he tested positive for Covid-19 after being admitted to hospital with a chest infection. He died on 24 April after more than four weeks in ICU.\n\nGlenda took comfort from the funeral, when neighbours lined the streets, running club friends and former colleagues stood outside the crematorium, and hundreds watched the service online.\n\nAngie Cunningham worked for NHS Borders for more than 30 years before her death.\n\nThe 60-year-old from Tweedbank was a much-respected and valued colleague who provided \"amazing care\" to her patients, the health board said.\n\nAs well as being a much-loved mother, sister, granny and great-granny, she was proud to be a nurse, her family added.\n\nShe died in the intensive care unit at Borders General Hospital from Covid-19 on 22 April, NHS Borders confirmed.\n\nKirsty Jones, a healthcare support worker with NHS Lanarkshire, was a bubbly, larger than life character, according to her colleagues.\n\nShe joined the health board after leaving school at 17 and spent much of her career working with older patients.\n\nBut the 41-year-old recently took up a role on the frontline of the pandemic, working at an assessment centre in Airdrie.\n\nHer husband, Nigel, said she devoted her life to caring for others and was a wonderful wife and mother to their two sons.\n\nAndy McGinley used to say he didn't need to win the lottery - his family meant he was already a millionaire.\n\nHe was brought up by adoptive parents in Glasgow's Maryhill area during World War Two and went on to become a carpenter at John Brown's Shipyard.\n\nAlthough he first met his wife, Margaret, at primary school they lost touch and got together after meeting at the Barrowland Ballroom years later.\n\nThey spent almost all of their 62 years of married life in the same house in Barmulloch, where they had five children. They also had 15 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren.\n\nHe loved his garden, bowls, and a sing-song at family gatherings - his party piece was \"I'm glad that I was born in Glasgow\". He died on 29 April 2020, aged 84.\n\nEvelyn Brown dedicated her life to her family and her community. Born and bred in Peterhead, she was married to Charles for 50 years and they had two children.\n\nShe gave up her job as a bank manager to care for her son Craig after he was born with Down's syndrome in the 1970s.\n\nHer daughter Emma, who was born two years later, said her mother was a selfless woman who loved spoiling her grandchildren with \"gifts and love\".\n\nMrs Brown was an adult Guide leader and later a district commissioner, she volunteered with Barnardo's and was an active member of the Church of Scotland.\n\nAfter her death at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary on 19 April, aged 75, her family raised £3,000 in her name for the hospital's staff garden.\n\nWaqar Hussain Choudhry was a popular shopkeeper in the north of Glasgow.\n\nThe 65-year-old ran a convenience store on Skerray Street in Milton where he was affectionately known as Wacca.\n\nFollowing his death on 17 April 2020, well-wishers left flowers outside the shop he ran for almost 40 years.\n\nThey told The Glasgow Times that the father-of-three served generations of school children and put an extra sweet in their bags.\n\nHis son Zeeshan Chaudhry told the BBC: \"My beloved father was the most amazing hardworking human and parent.\"\n\nJane Murphy was known as \"Mama Murphy\" by close friends and colleagues at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.\n\nShe worked at the city hospital for almost 30 years, first as a cleaner before retraining as a clinical support worker.\n\nThe 73-year-old, from Bonnyrigg, was placed on sick leave due to her age when the pandemic broke out.\n\nIt's understood the mother-of-two died on 16 April.\n\nHer friend Gerry Taylor said: \"She wasn't afraid to tell nurses, doctors or consultants if they were not pulling their weight and they loved her for it.\"\n\nMary McCann, 70, was a \"strong, wonderful woman\" who was dedicated to her family, according to her son, David.\n\nShe spent the last three months of her life in an East Kilbride care home, having being diagnosed with cancer last year.\n\nThe grandmother was doing well in the Whitehills home, where she was putting on weight and smiling again, David said.\n\nBut in early April she developed a urinary tract infection. Her condition deteriorated quickly and within days she was struggling to breathe.\n\nShe died in the care home on 16 April with her son, Derek, by her side.\n\nVerity Watson met her husband Adam (Adie) in a bible class and together they raised three sons, Alan, Gordon and Adam.\n\nThey lived in South Africa for a few years but returned to their beloved home of Rutherglen in 1970.\n\nShe worked at the local Coulls Bakers until retiring aged 72 but in her spare time she enjoyed bowls, knitting and - best of all - a cream cake with a cup of tea.\n\nHer family were unable to be with her when she died at Roger Park Care Home on 15 April 2020, after a short stay in hospital.\n\nHer son Adam said he couldn't thank staff enough for their \"invaluable support\", sitting with his mother in her final moments. She was 98.\n\nDavid Whittick joined the Royal Navy as a pilot on his 18th birthday in the midst of World War Two. Aged 19, as part of 835 Naval Air Squadron, he was flying off aircraft carrier HMS Nairana in the Arctic.\n\nAlmost 70 years later he received the Arctic Star for his role in Arctic Convoys - described by Sir Winston Churchill as \"the worst journey in the world\".\n\nHe survived two serious accidents during his long civilian career with Scottish Airways and later British Airways, before dedicating himself to supporting the Riding for the Disabled charity in his retirement.\n\nHis work - including helping to raise funds for a purpose-built facility at Summerston in Glasgow - led to him being appointed an OBE by the Queen for his services to charity.\n\nHe was married to Joyce for more than 60 years and they had four children. His son, Peter, said he lived a full and active life, even enjoying a trip on a seaplane in January this year. He died at Erskine care home in Bishopton on 14 April, aged 95, after falling ill with coronavirus.\n\nHer daughter Linda, a lawyer for the BBC, had hoped she would survive the virus as she was from \"strong stock\".\n\nShe last saw her mother in March when she travelled from London to warn her they may not be able to visit her during the pandemic.\n\nThe pensioner had been \"extremely distressed\" afterwards, Ms Duncan said.\n\nShe was taken to Edinburgh's Western General Hospital on 12 April and died three days later.\n\nDerek Wilkie worked for 27 years as a firefighter before retiring in December 2017.\n\nHe had senior roles in Badenoch and Strathspey, and Shetland before becoming station commander for Inverness and Nairn District.\n\nColleagues said he was a \"diligent and capable firefighter... with a larger than life personality\".\n\nHis wife and two sons - who all work for the NHS - thanked those who cared for Mr Wilkie and urged people to stay at home.\n\nHe died at Raigmore Hospital in Inverness on 12 April.\n\nFormer Merchant Navy engineer Bill Campbell died of suspected Covid-19 at Erskine Park care home in Bishopton.\n\nThe 86-year-old had dementia and carers initially thought he had a chest infection but he developed a cough and a high temperature.\n\nHis condition deteriorated and he died on Easter Sunday, with his daughter, Linda Verlaque - in full protective clothing - by his side.\n\nShe praised the work of carers at the home but she said his death was \"horrific\" as undertakers came to take away his body in full hazmat gear and goggles.\n\n\"Instead of having people surrounding me and giving me a hug to say everything was all right, everyone was just standing there and we were watching my dad being taken away, which was traumatic,\" she said.\n\nProud Welshman Glyn Edwards did not learn to speak English until he was five years old, but in adulthood he made Edinburgh his home.\n\nA contemporary of Neil Kinnock at Cardiff University, he worked as a civil servant in London before marrying and moving to Scotland.\n\nHe was a regular at Robbie's Bar on Leith Walk where he was known as \"McTaffy\" but he could be a solitary character who could easily lose himself in a book or a concert.\n\nClassical music, politics and poetry were his passions - as a teenager he won a major Welsh poetry contest and his daughter, Mhairi Jarvie, treasures a ring-binder full of his poems.\n\nShe affectionately described her father as a cross between Coronation Street's Ken Barlow and Victor Meldrew - \"intelligent, opinionated, political, but grumpy and a tad anti-social\".\n\nMaths teacher Gerry McHugh was a \"true gentleman\", able to inspire every single student who walked through his door.\n\nHis death would have a \"devastating effect\" on the Notre Dame High School community in Greenock, head teacher Katie Couttie said.\n\nUnable to attend his funeral due to the lockdown, past and current pupils found a unique way to pay tribute to the 58-year-old.\n\nThey wore red and posted images on social media in memory of the lifelong Manchester United fan.\n\nEileen McCarron died in Glasgow Royal Infirmary less than 24 hours after falling ill. She had no underlying health concerns.\n\nA mother of three daughters, she spent 18 years working as a nursery teacher at Save the Children's Charles Street playgroup in Glasgow's Germiston.\n\nShe gave up the job to look after her only grandson, Patrick. Her husband of more than 35 years, also Patrick, died suddenly in 1997, aged just 57.\n\nAs well as volunteering at a Barnardo's charity shop, she liked shopping, knitting, going out for coffees and lunches, and holidays with her family.\n\nShe was 79 when she died on 9 April, leaving her family devastated and unable to comfort each other during lockdown. They had still not been able to hold a memorial service nine months later.\n\nHelen McMillan was 10 days short of her 85th birthday when she died at Almond Court care home in Glasgow's Drumchapel on 9 April.\n\nShe spent most of her life in Summerston, where she widely known as \"Auntie Ellen\" - even to those she wasn't related to.\n\n\"Everybody loved my mum,\" her daughter, Jackie Marlow, told BBC Scotland. \"She knew everybody in the community and was the life and soul of the party.\"\n\nHelen worked in McLellan's rubber factory in Maryhill until she was in her 50s.\n\nA grandmother to Hayley and Josh, she developed dementia in later life but she was still \"pretty agile and loving life\", her daughter said.\n\nMary Martin and her husband, Alex, were keen ballroom dancers.\n\nAlthough their roots were firmly in Glasgow, they spent seven years in Dunblane where they were tasked with encouraging people on to the dancefloor at the Dunblane Hydro.\n\nBefore that, Mrs Martin brought up her family in Mount Vernon, later moving to Bearsden. She had three children, six grandchildren, three great-grandchildren and a great-great grandchild.\n\nHer daughter, Sandra O'Neill, told BBC Scotland she was \"just a wonderful person - gentle and kind\".\n\nIn her later years she had vascular dementia and she lived at the Almond Court care home in Drumchapel. She died there on 8 April, aged 88.\n\nVic and Maureen Sharp, who were both 74, had been together since they were teenagers.\n\nUnderlying health conditions meant the couple from Oakley in Fife were both asked to shield themselves during lockdown.\n\nBut their daughter, Yvonne Sharp, believes the letter came too late and they caught the virus during a weekly trip to the supermarket.\n\nMaureen died in hospital on 8 April and then, Yvonne said, her father \"just gave up\". He died the following day.\n\nOnly six members of the family could attend their funeral but a piper led the funeral cortege through Oakley, where locals lined the streets.\n\nWhen Ann Tonner left the Nazareth House orphanage in Glasgow as teenager, she was one of the few women of colour in the city, according to her son, Tony McCaffery.\n\nShe was \"exotic-looking and quite glamourous\" and was soon in demand as a model for local shops and boutiques before working as a celebrated hot-dog girl in an Odeon cinema.\n\nHer first husband tragically died and her second was largely absent, leaving her to bring up six children and - at times - hold down five jobs at once.\n\nShe was a \"remarkable, formidable woman with a strong work ethic\", Mr McCaffery told BBC Scotland, but she was also a \"gentle soul with an incredibly child-like sense of humour\".\n\nA grandmother and great-grandmother, Mrs Tonner died at a nursing home in Glasgow where she was living with Alzheimer's, on 8 April. She was 84.\n\nMary Nixon was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis when she was just 18 but she was determined to never let it hold her back.\n\nBorn and raised in Greenock, she was a lone parent to four children who described her as a \"strong, independent woman who lived life to the full\".\n\n\"My mum made being a single parent look easy\", her daughter Alexis said. \"We were very happy kids growing up. Everyone loved her and always said she was a 'wee gem'.\"\n\nWhen she fell seriously ill in 2014, her family was told to prepare for the worst, but their \"invincible\" mum rallied, though she lost her mobility.\n\nShe died with Covid on 7 April 2020, aged 66. After everything she had been through in life, her family said they felt \"robbed... that this awful virus has taken her from us\".\n\nJanice Graham was the first NHS worker to die with coronavirus in Scotland.\n\nThe health care support worker and district nurse died at Inverclyde Royal Hospital on 6 April.\n\nOne colleague said she had a \"bright and engaging personality and razor sharp wit\".\n\nAnother said the 58-year-old was the \"most kind, caring and compassionate HCA I have had the privilege to work with\".\n\nHer son, Craig, told STV News he would miss everything about her.\n\nNewly-wed Andy Wyness developed a high temperature and a cough following a trip to Wales.\n\nWhen his symptoms worsened the 53-year-old drove himself from his Wishaw home to an appointment at an assessment centre.\n\nThat was the last time his wife, Sandra, saw him.\n\nThe grandfather, who was a keen bowler, was taken straight to hospital by ambulance. He died on 6 April.\n\n\"Even walking out the house that night, although I knew he wasn't well, I never imagined he would never walk back in,\" Sandra said.\n\nRita Hawthorn spent the first 35 years of her life in Hamilton, where she was born, grew up and had her own family.\n\nBut when her husband, Robert, lost his job as a miner the couple and their three children re-located from the west of Scotland to the far north in 1973.\n\nWhile Robert took up a new job at the Scottish Instruments Factory in Wick, she worked as a cleaner at a nearby job centre and became secretary of the Highlands and Islands Civil Service Union.\n\nShe was sadly widowed at 51 but she was \"fiercely independent\" and went on to fulfil her dreams of travelling - a trip up the Nile, a safari in South Africa, and solo bus tours to Austria and Paris.\n\nRita, who was a mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, fell ill during the first week of lockdown. She died at Caithness General Hospital on 6 April, aged 82.\n\nBill Paul grew up in Giffnock on the south side of Glasgow and did his national service as a radar operator with the RAF in Malta.\n\nIn his youth he was an extremely accomplished tennis player and it was through the sport that he met his first wife, Frances, who died in 1984.\n\nWith his second wife, Liz, he loved to play golf and travel - hobbies that he continued after her death in 2012.\n\nAn extremely active man, he loved to go on cruises with a group of like-minded friends. However his last cruise to the Caribbean was cut short by the pandemic in March.\n\nHe returned home to Arran and fell ill with Covid within a week. He died at Lamlash Hospital on 5 April, aged 81.\n\nMofizul Islam was beginning a new life in Scotland after relocating from Bangladesh when he fell ill with coronavirus.\n\nHis family believe the 49-year-old caught the virus on his daily three-hour journeys between their Edinburgh home and his job at a pizza outlet in Midlothian.\n\nHe died on 5 April and was buried in the Muslim section of a city cemetery but his wife and children were in isolation and unable to attend.\n\nHis death has left the family \"completely helpless\", according to a family friend as they have no documents, no bank account and they are struggling for money.\n\n\"We are very worried about our future because we don't have our father,\" said Mofizul's 19-year-old son, Azahural. \"He was everything for us. And now we are just hopeless.\"\n\nCatherine Sweeney was a \"wonderful mother, sister and beloved aunty\", her family said after her death on 4 April.\n\nBorn and raised in Dumbarton, she worked as a home carer for more than 20 years.\n\nHer family said she would be sorely missed after a \"lifetime of service\" to the community.\n\nAnd they praised the medics at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley who \"heroically\" looked after her in her final days.\n\nJimmy Andrews was 17 years old when began his career in Glasgow Corporation's finance department in 1955.\n\nBy the turn of the century, he had risen to become chief executive of Glasgow City Council and in 2001 he was appointed CBE for services to local government - a \"career highlight\".\n\nHe was born in Kilsyth but spent much of his life living in Strathblane, Stirlingshire, with his wife of 52 years, Mary.\n\nIn retirement, he \"enjoyed life to the full\", spending time with his three children and six grandchildren, and visiting horse racing courses throughout the country.\n\nA gentle, intelligent man with a great sense of humour, he died at Glasgow Royal Infirmary on 3 April 2020, aged 81.\n\nLord Gordon of Strathblane was a former political editor of STV and he founded Radio Clyde.\n\nHe died at Glasgow Royal Infirmary on 31 March after contracting coronavirus, Radio Clyde reported. He was 83.\n\nHis family paid tribute to his \"generosity, his kindness and his enthusiasm for life\".\n\nFormer First Minister Jack McConnell said Lord Gordon had \"an outstanding career in business and public service\".\n\nRyan Storrie was in Scotland to celebrate his 40th birthday with a trip to a Rangers match when he fell ill.\n\nThe father-of-two was from Ardrossan but lived in Dubai.\n\nWhen he developed symptoms, the asthmatic isolated in his hotel room and waited for the virus to run its course.\n\nHis condition deteriorated but he wouldn't let his wife, Hilary, phone 999 as he was convinced he would recover and didn't want to bother the NHS.\n\nShe found him dead in his room on 31 March.\n\nMary and Andy Leaman began self-isolating at the end of March after falling ill with flu-like symptoms.\n\nTheir son, Andy, told the Glasgow Evening Times the couple were married 50 years and doted on their only granddaughter, nine-year-old Anna.\n\nMrs Leaman died at home in Castlemilk on 30 March - four days after the death of Anna's maternal grandfather, Dougie Chambers.\n\nThe schoolgirl lost her third grandparent almost three weeks later when Mr Leaman died in hospital on 19 April.\n\nHer mother, Lynsey Chalmers, told BBC Scotland: \"For a nine-year-old girl whose three grandparents were her world... why does a wee girl need to get punished like that over and over again?\"\n\nRobert Tarbet was \"self-opinionated and witty\", according to his daughter, Paula Karoly, but also \"hardworking, loyal and beautiful\".\n\nHe spent his working life as a plumber with Glasgow City Council before retiring in the early 2000s.\n\nIn his spare time, the sociable man was a mason who was a keen follower of Rangers FC. He loved country and western music and watching musicals in the theatre.\n\nA father and a grandfather-of-three, he was being treated for cancer when he contracted coronavirus.\n\nHe died on 29 March at Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley, aged 76.\n\nSchool janitor Ian Wilson was at home in Coatbridge for two weeks with a high temperature and delirium before being admitted to hospital.\n\nDespite his worsening condition, doctors initially told his wife, Sandra, she would not be able to visit the 72-year-old who had a heart condition and diabetes.\n\nStaff eventually granted access provided she wore protective equipment - a decision which meant she could be at her husband's side when he died on 29 March.\n\nAlthough nurses were unable to comfort her with a hug due to social distancing protocols, Mrs Wilson is grateful they allowed her to be with her partner at the end.\n\n\"I was able to talk to him and just say goodbye. I've got strength from that,\" she said.\n\nDougie Chambers was one of several people who fell ill after the 40th birthday party of his daughter, Wendy, on 7 March.\n\nWithin days, the 66-year-old, who had an underlying health condition, went into hospital and tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nMr Chambers, who was from Castlemilk in Glasgow, died two weeks later, on 26 March.\n\nTwo other members of his extended family - Andy and Mary Leaman - also contracted the virus and later died.\n\nWendy said: \"If we knew then what we know now, we wouldn't have had the party. It wouldn't have happened.\"\n\nDanny Cairns was a healthy 68-year-old before he fell ill with coronavirus, according to his brother, Hugh.\n\nWhen he developed a cough and sore throat at the end of March, he isolated at home in Greenock.\n\nBut within days he was so ill he had to be taken to hospital by ambulance.\n\nIn a video call from his hospital bed, his last words to his brother were: \"I'm on my way out, mate\".\n\nHe died on 26 March, three days after arriving in hospital.\n\nMargaret Innes lived with her daughter, Sally McNaught, in Edinburgh for four years before her death at the very beginning of the pandemic.\n\nShe was housebound and very frail but she loved sitting with their pet cat and dog, doing crosswords and watching quiz shows.\n\nHer favourite soap was Neighbours and she used to say \"I'm off to Australia now\".\n\nMs McNaught said they stopped visitors coming to the house a week before lockdown, they washed their hands, cleaned everything and thought they would be safe.\n\nBut Ms Innes woke up on Mother's Day with severe breathing difficulties. She died on 25 March, three days after going into hospital. She was 93.\n\nHas one of your loved ones died recently after contracting Covid? We would like to pay tribute to some of them on the BBC Scotland website.\n\nIf you would like to see your relative or friend featured, use the form below to send us your details and we could be in touch.\n\nIn some cases your details will be published, 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 next phase in Scotland's Covid vaccination programme will get under way this week as over-45s start to receive invitations in the post.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon confirmed the move as she announced the country's travel ban is to be lifted from Friday.\n\nUnlike in England appointments will be allocated and there are no plans to introduce an online booking service.\n\nTo date, a total of 2,682,706 have received their first jab in Scotland.\n\nMs Sturgeon also announced a further 605,126 people have received their second dose.\n\nShe added: \"Where we are now is that virtually all over 60-year-olds have received at least the first dose of the vaccine and so too have 96% of 55 to 59 year olds and 84% of 50 to 54 year olds.\n\n\"Overall we have given a first dose now to almost 60% of the adult population.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon added that the government has now met its mid-April target of offering a first dose by the middle of this month to everyone over 50, all unpaid carers and all adults with particular health conditions.\n\nThe first minister, who turned 50 last year, will receive her first vaccination later this week.\n\nAsked specifically about the over-45 group, she confirmed letters will start to be sent out \"in the next few days.\"\n• None People 45 or over in England offered Covid vaccine", "The announcement means the US will miss a May deadline for a pull-out agreed with the Taliban last year\n\nUS President Joe Biden is set to announce that American troops will leave Afghanistan by 11 September, officials have told US media.\n\nThe US would miss a May deadline for a pull-out agreed with the Taliban by the Trump administration last year.\n\nThe new deadline would coincide with the 20th anniversary of the terror attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in the US in 2001.\n\nMr Biden had previously said the 1 May deadline would be tough to meet.\n\nUS and Nato officials have said the Taliban, a hardline Islamist movement, have so far failed to live up to commitments to reduce violence.\n\nThe president is due to make the announcement himself on Wednesday.\n\nThe UK is now expected to withdraw 750 British soldiers stationed in Afghanistan by September, with Nato likely to pull its forces out collectively.\n\nGerman Defence Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer told ARD public television early on Wednesday: \"We always said: we'll go in together, we'll leave together. I am for an orderly withdrawal, and that is why I assume that we (Nato) will agree to that today.\"\n\nThe Taliban have been warned that if they attack US troops during the pull-out phase, they \"will be met with a forceful response\", a senior US official told reporters.\n\nMr Biden had decided a hasty withdrawal that would put US forces at risk was not a viable option, the official added.\n\nAt the same time, a review of US choices determined that now was the time to close the book on the 20-year conflict in Afghanistan to focus on more acute threats.\n\nThe Afghan government has not yet responded officially, but the speaker of the Afghan parliament, Mir Rahman Rahmani, warned that the withdrawal of foreign forces in the current circumstances would lead to civil war.\n\nMany here will see this decision as a boost to the Taliban, despite it being a breach of the 1 May deadline the insurgents have insisted is adhered to. It seems unlikely they would now resume attacks on American forces given the short extension period; nevertheless, the Taliban reaction so far has been hostile.\n\nSome in the Afghan government had hoped the new Biden administration would adopt a more \"conditions-based\" approach to the peace process. Instead, that has been explicitly ruled out.\n\nThe slow pace of talks between Afghan and Taliban negotiators so far suggests it will be difficult to reach a power-sharing arrangement before US troops are withdrawn. Perhaps the Taliban's desire for international legitimacy will lead them to compromise.\n\nBut many fear the Taliban will be tempted to wait out the withdrawal, and then push for outright victory or at least dominance. The Afghan government has until now remained reliant on US air strikes to help hold the insurgents back.\n\nThe Taliban said on Tuesday that it will now not attend a summit on Afghanistan's future, due to be held in Turkey later this month, until all foreign forces leave the country.\n\n\"Until all foreign forces completely withdraw from our homeland, [we] will not participate in any conference that shall make decisions about Afghanistan,\" Mohammad Naeem, spokesman for the Taliban office in Qatar, tweeted.\n\nUS Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin are expected to brief Nato allies on the decision in the Belgian capital, Brussels, on Wednesday.\n\nThe United States has spent trillions of dollars and lost more than 2,000 service members since 2001 in what has been its longest war.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Is peace with the Taliban possible? (2019 report)\n\nThe deal signed in February last year said the US and its Nato allies would withdraw all troops in 14 months if the Taliban upheld its promises, including not allowing al-Qaeda or other militants to operate in areas it controlled and proceeding with national peace talks.\n\nAs a condition of starting negotiations with the Afghan government, the Taliban also demanded the release of thousands of their men in a prisoner swap.\n\nDirect talks then began in Doha in September 2020, but a breakthrough has still not been reached.\n\nAlthough the group stopped attacks on international forces as part of the historic agreement, it has continued to fight the Afghan government.\n\nLast month, the Taliban threatened to resume hostilities against foreign troops still in the country on 1 May.\n\nThere are fears that if foreign military forces withdraw before a lasting agreement is reached, the Taliban might seize power.\n\nThe US has some 2,500 troops in the country as part of a 9,600-strong Nato mission.\n\nOctober 2001: US-led bombing of Afghanistan begins following the 11 September attacks on the United States\n\nFebruary 2009: Nato countries pledge to increase military and other commitments in Afghanistan after US announces dispatch of 17,000 extra troops\n\nDecember 2009: US President Barack Obama decides to boost US troop numbers in Afghanistan by 30,000, bringing total to 100,000. He says US will begin withdrawing its forces by 2011\n\nOctober 2014: The US and UK end their combat operations in Afghanistan\n\nMarch 2015: President Obama announces his country will delay its troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, following a request from President Ashraf Ghani\n\nOctober 2015: President Obama announces that 9,800 US troops will remain in Afghanistan until the end of 2016, backtracking on an earlier pledge to pull all but 1,000 troops from the country\n\nJuly 2016: President Obama says 8,400 US troops will remain in Afghanistan into 2017 in light of the \"precarious security situation\". Nato also agrees to maintain troop numbers and reiterates a funding pledge for local security forces until 2020\n\nAugust 2017: US President Donald Trump says he's sending more troops to fight a resurgent Taliban\n\nSeptember 2019: Protracted peace talks between the Taliban and the US break down\n\nFebruary 2020: After months of on-off talks, the US signs a troop withdrawal agreement in Doha with the Taliban", "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.", "Bridgerton's second series is currently in production\n\nNetflix has announced there will be a third and fourth series of its hit period drama Bridgerton.\n\nThe announcement comes before its second series has even completed production.\n\nNetflix has previously said Bridgerton is the biggest series in its history, with 82 million households watching the show in its first month of release.\n\nHowever, the streaming giant counts a view as anybody who watches more than two minutes of a single episode.\n\nTherefore, a subscriber who only watches five minutes of one episode and switches off is given the same weight as somebody else watching all eight episodes in full.\n\nBridgerton is based on Julia Quinn's series of romance novels and produced by Shondaland, which was set up by Grey's Anatomy and Scandal creator Shonda Rhimes.\n\nIn a statement, the fictional Lady Whistledown said: \"Esteemed members of the Ton. It seems we have a rather special announcement. Bridgerton shall return for seasons three and four.\n\n\"This author shall have to add more ink,\" the elusive lady added.\n\nThe first series of the show, which starred Phoebe Dynevor, Nicola Coughlan and Regé-Jean Page was released on Christmas Day.\n\nHowever, it was recently announced that Page will not be returning for series two.\n\nRegé-Jean Page was a fan favourite but will not be returning for Bridgerton's second series\n\nShonda Rhimes said: \"From the first time I read Julia Quinn's delicious Bridgerton series, I knew these were stories that would captivate a viewing audience\n\n\"This two-season pickup is a strong vote of confidence in our work and I feel incredibly grateful to have partners as collaborative and creative as Netflix.\"\n\nBela Bajaria, the vice president of global TV at Netflix said: \"Bridgerton swept us off our feet. The creative team, led by Shonda, knew the material and delivered a beautiful, emotional, romantic drama for our members. They have some exciting plans for the future, and we think audiences will continue to swoon for this show.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Equalities minister Liz Truss plans to set up a new advisory group\n\nThe government's LGBT advisory panel has been disbanded after three members quit last month, the BBC can reveal.\n\nA government spokesman said a replacement for the panel, which was set up under Theresa May's premiership, \"will be set out in due course\".\n\nSome members told the BBC they had been willing to stay on when their terms ended on the 31 March.\n\nA Conservative backbencher has accused the government of a series of \"unforced errors\".\n\nIt's understood the panel has not formally met senior government representatives since last year, although government sources say there has been communication with officials.\n\nEqualities Minister Liz Truss has now written to the remaining members thanking them for their \"constructive input\".\n\nIn the letter, seen by the BBC, Liz Truss said: \"I will also be shortly making an announcement concerning the International LGBT Conference and convening a new body that will take international LGBT rights forward.\"\n\nThe panel was set up as part of an LGBT Action Plan, established under Theresa May. It was to advise ministers \"on issues and policies concerning lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.\"\n\nThree advisers quit last month over the government's handling of LGBT rights and amid claims it was \"dragging its feet\" on a pledge to ban so-called conversion therapy.\n\nThe first to resign, Jayne Ozanne, accused ministers of creating a \"hostile environment\" for LGBT people.\n\nShe said it was \"such a shame\" that Ms Truss was disbanding the advisory panel.\n\n\"It was a force for good, where the needs of LGBT people could be heard and understood.\n\n\"This does nothing to rebuild trust or reassure LGBT community of their grave concerns,\" she added in a Twitter message.\n\nTory MP Crispin Blunt says the government is damaging its reputation\n\nConservative MP Crispin Blunt, who leads the all-party parliamentary group on Global LGBT+ rights, said government delays and inaction mean the prime minister is \"in breach of promise on causes he supports\".\n\n\"The government is led by one of the most socially liberal, live-and-let-live leaders in our history,\" he said, \"yet it is making a series of unforced errors that will serve to wholly unnecessarily alienate LGBT+ people and do untold damage to his reputation\".\n\nIf the prime minister wanted to establish the values of Global Britain on human rights then \"it is hardly the moment to dispose of your experts,\" he added.\n\nNancy Kelley, chief executive of campaign group Stonewall, who was one of the remaining panel members, said: \"Many key commitments from the UK LGBT Action Plan remain incomplete, including delivering an effective ban on conversion therapy, and the pandemic has only deepened the inequalities LGBTQ people experience, particularly in mental health.\"\n\nStonewall was \"keen to continue working with the government to progress LGBT+ rights\", she added, and she urged the government to ensure the new advisory panel included experts on \"both domestic and global LGBT+ policy\".\n\nIn her letter to the panel, Ms Truss said: \"I am pressing ahead with our commitment to ban conversion therapy in order to protect LGBT people from these abhorrent practices. I look forward to announcing these measures shortly.\"\n\nA government spokesman said: \"The LGBT Advisory Panel was created under the previous administration and the term of all panel members ended on 31 March.\n\n\"The Minister for Women & Equalities has written to panel members to thank them for their contributions, and plans for a replacement for the Panel will be set out in due course.\"", "Students will be returning five months after they left for the Christmas holidays\n\nStudents on all university courses in England will return \"no earlier than 17 May\", the government has announced.\n\nAbout a million students, taking courses taught online since Christmas, will be able to go back to university campuses.\n\nSince the start of the year, only students on hands-on courses have been allowed in-person teaching.\n\nBut the wait of another month to fully open was described as \"hugely disappointing\" by Universities UK.\n\nUniversities Minister Michelle Donelan, in a written statement, said the timing was a \"cautious approach to the easing of restrictions\" and \"the movement of students across the country poses a risk for the transmission of the virus\".\n\nUniversity leaders had been lobbying for all students to go back in April - saying it was unfair to keep restrictions on campuses when shops were open.\n\nStudents would be \"bitterly disappointed\" at the slow return to university, said Vanessa Wilson, leader of the University Alliance, describing it as \"nonsensical\".\n\nThe mid-May start is likely to raise further questions about refunds on tuition fees and rent, for a reduced term before the summer break.\n\nGraham Galbraith, vice chancellor of the University of Portsmouth, said delaying for another month until after 17 May was \"unfathomable\".\n\n\"That this date is after many universities will have finished their teaching year shows a government with a cavalier disregard for details. This isn't good enough,\" he said.\n\nStudents on practical courses have already been able to return\n\n\"Students can now buy a book on British history in Waterstones and discuss it with a tattoo artist,\" - but they cannot go into a university and discuss it with their lecturer, said Prof Galbraith.\n\nAbout half of students have been on courses only being taught online - but from next month all students will return to a mix of face-to-face and online classes.\n\nHillary Gyebi-Ababio, the National Union of Students' vice president, said: \"We are pleased that the government has finally remembered that students exist.\"\n\nBut she warned that students would need support after so much disruption - including paying rent on accommodation they were not allowed to use.\n\nThe UCU lecturers' union, which opposed an earlier return, said it would be more \"honest\" to accept that many courses would stay online until the autumn.\n\n\"Restarting in-person activities in mid-May, with only weeks of the academic year left, makes absolutely no sense as most lectures and seminars will already have finished,\" said UCU leader, Jo Grady.\n\nStudents will be offered Covid testing on campus when they return - with an initial three tests under supervision, after which students will be asked to take tests at home.\n\nThere will also be an additional £15m for student hardship support this year, announced the universities minister.\n\nThe 17 May timing aligns the return of students with the next phase of ending the lockdown - when pubs will open indoors and cinemas and theatres can open.\n\nUnlike the mass return of England's school children in March, universities in England have had a patchwork return - prompting criticisms that students were \"forgotten\" in the plans for leaving lockdown.\n\nStudents on courses which required hands-on training, such as medicine and some sciences, had some face-to-face teaching last term.\n\nBut students on courses such as the arts, humanities, business and law had been waiting for a return date - which will now be about five months after they left for the Christmas holidays.\n\nThere are some other universities which have already decided to stay online for all this academic year.\n\nEven without in-person teaching, many students seem to have gone back to their university accommodation - with a survey from the Higher Education Policy Institute suggesting about two thirds of students had been in their term-time addresses.\n\nLabour's shadow universities minister, Matt Western, said: \"Just a week before thousands were hoping to return to campus, they have been let down with yet another late announcement and no explanation of the reasons for this delay.\"", "Water companies have been illegally dumping untreated sewage into rivers in England and Wales, an investigation by BBC Panorama has found.\n\nData analysed by the programme showed some companies have regularly breached the conditions in their permits.\n\nTreatment works are only allowed to put sewage into waterways after wet weather and when they are close to capacity.\n\nThe water industry says it will invest more than a billion pounds over five years to reduce discharges into rivers.\n\nTreatment works are allowed to release sewage into rivers and streams after extreme weather, such as torrential rain, and when they are operating close to full capacity.\n\nThis protects properties from flooding and prevents sewage from backing up into streets and homes.\n\nThe untreated sewage is normally screened and passed through storage tanks before it is dumped.\n\nDischarge permits issued by the Environment Agency specify the level of sewage each works has to treat before it can dump untreated sewage.\n\nBut Panorama's investigation found one water company was discharging sewage without a permit and evidence that another company had given the Environment Agency incorrect information about the sewage it was dumping in the river.\n\nRecent figures published by the Environment Agency reveal untreated sewage, including human waste, wet wipes and condoms, was released into waterways for more than three million hours last year.\n\nPanorama gathered detailed data from 10 water companies in England and Wales through environmental information requests. They were each asked for information on a handful of sewage works.\n\nThe data suggests seven of the 10 companies had treatment works that were breaching their permits by dumping sewage before they were treating the specified volumes.\n\nOne of the worst offenders was the not-for-profit company, Welsh Water. The data shows three of its treatment works were in breach of their permits.\n\nIts Aberbaiden plant illegally dumped untreated sewage into the River Usk on 12 consecutive days in December.\n\nThe Usk is supposed to be a protected river, as it is a Site of Special Scientific Interest and a Special Area of Conservation.\n\nWelsh Water's Aberbaiden plant illegally dumped untreated sewage into the River Usk on 12 consecutive days last December\n\nAngela Jones, who swims in the river every day, was shocked by the programme's findings: \"I know so many people who swim up that area, you know. It's just appalling, absolutely appalling.\n\n\"We can see clearly that they are releasing sewage into the water when they're not allowed to.\"\n\nOpen water swimmers, kayakers, paddlers and dog walkers have been asked to avoid contact with the water during and after sewage spills.\n\nThe Rivers Trust, an organisation which campaigns to protect rivers in England and Wales, has compiled a map of where water companies release treated sewage and overflows of untreated sewage into rivers.\n\nIt advises people not to enter the water immediately downstream of where treated sewage is released, and to avoid the overflow areas, especially after wet weather.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Swim England urges anyone wanting to take up the practice to follow safety guidelines\n\nPanorama also discovered Welsh Water has been using a sewage overflow pipe on the River Usk that doesn't have a permit.\n\nThe company has been illegally dumping untreated sewage through the pipe, sometimes on several occasions a day.\n\nWelsh Water told the programme it hoped to have a permit for the overflow pipe by July and it doesn't accept its sites are operating illegally.\n\nThe company said it works closely with regulators and works hard to comply with all environmental regulations.\n\n\"We continue to invest significantly in our network so that we minimise the impact of our activities on the environment. However, these solutions and processes can sometimes take many years to resolve in order to fully investigate, design solutions, and secure funding.\"\n\nAdditional data about an eleventh water company, Thames Water, was shared with the programme by the campaign group Windrush Against Sewage Pollution.\n\nIt showed the company's giant Mogden treatment works in south-west London has been illegally dumping billions of litres of untreated sewage.\n\nThe data revealed Mogden - which deals with waste from more than two million people in the city - breached its permit on 43 days last year.\n\nAnother Thames Water site, Stanton Harcourt in Oxfordshire, dumped sewage almost continuously for three consecutive months at the start of last year.\n\nThames Water said the sewage is partially treated because it is screened and settled in storage tanks.\n\nIt said a small number of its sewage works have struggled following periods of heavy rainfall and it is investing heavily to improve the sites.\n\n\"Putting untreated sewage into rivers is unacceptable to us, to our customers and to the environment, even when legally permitted,\" the company said. \"We absolutely want to go further, invest more, and play our part in helping the environment to thrive.\"\n\nYorkshire Water failed to report sewage spills into the River Wharfe to the Environment Agency, Panorama found\n\nPanorama also investigated the Wetherby treatment works run by Yorkshire Water.\n\nFootage shot by local campaigner Mark Barrow shows the works dumped untreated sewage into the River Wharfe on several occasions last year.\n\nBut the programme found Yorkshire Water failed to report any of these spills to the Environment Agency.\n\nIts annual filing showed no sewage dumping at all at Wetherby.\n\nYorkshire Water said: \"We have not misled the Environment Agency, this is a single data anomaly within a very large set of data and we will certainly investigate what has happened here. There is a process for correcting submitted data with the Environment Agency and if it is found that there has been an unreported discharge we will report this in due course.\"\n\nPanorama: The river pollution scandal will be on BBC One at 19:40 BST and later on the BBC iPlayer.", "US envoy on climate John Kerry is visiting countries around the world ahead of the summit\n\nUS envoy John Kerry is heading to Shanghai to woo China in advance of a climate summit President Joe Biden is hosting next week.\n\nAfter a major diplomatic row at the UN, both sides hope to co-operate over plans to drastically cut emissions.\n\nThe US wants China to cease building coal-fired power stations and to stop financing coal ventures abroad.\n\nChina wants the US to give more cash to developing countries to obtain clean technology and adapt to climate change.\n\nIt also wants Washington to announce deep cuts in emissions.\n\nSpeaking to CNN, Mr Kerry said China's co-operation was \"absolutely critical\" to battle the climate crisis.\n\n\"Yes, we have big disagreements with China on some key issues, absolutely. But climate has to stand alone.\"\n\nHe is hoping to salvage the superpower relationship to allow progress at President Biden’s virtual summit on 22 and 23 April.\n\nScientists warn that without an agreement between the world’s great polluters there’s little chance of averting dangerous climate change.\n\nBernice Lee, a China expert at the UK think tank Chatham House, said: “This is good news. At least they’re talking in the run-up to the summit. There will be big issues for both sides to resolve. But they must be resolved.\"\n\nNeither party has formally declared its climate masterplan to the UN, and each is struggling to coax more concessions from the other.\n\nCoal-fired power stations are still a major part of China's energy production\n\nThe US was absent from climate negotiations during President Donald Trump’s term of office and it is now being urged to cut emissions to between 57%-63% below 2005 levels this decade.\n\nPresident Biden is expected to declare the formal US offer before, or at, next week’s summit.\n\nChina, meanwhile, has pledged to peak its emissions by 2030, and achieve carbon neutrality by 2060 (that means cutting out all carbon emissions from fossil fuels but still allowing farm emissions of methane – another planet-heating gas).\n\nIt will be pressed to explain the policies that will achieve those targets.\n\nByford Tsang from the think tank E3G told BBC News: “The US has been pushing Japan and South Korea to end overseas coal finance. It will also be pressing the Chinese to stop constructing coal plants in their Belt and Road initiative.\n\n\"It will also want action on China’s domestic coal use. China is operating half the world’s coal capacity – and it’s still been expanding despite the pandemic.”\n\nThe Belt and Road initiative is a sweeping Chinese infrastructure project aimed at expanding global trade links.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What China's One Belt, One Road really means\n\nThe US will also hope to persuade President Xi to attend next week’s virtual summit. Forty world leaders have been invited, including Russia’s Vladimir Putin.\n\nThe summit is a key milestone ahead of the UN climate Conference, known as COP26, in Glasgow this November.\n\nClimate scientists warn that global heating needs to be kept well below 2C above pre-industrial levels, with an aim for an increasingly ambitious 1.5C goal, to avoid the worst of climate breakdown.", "Sahayb Abu and the kit he planned to wear in the attack\n\nAn east London man who called himself the Masked Menace has been jailed for life for plotting a terror attack during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIslamic State (IS) supporter Sahayb Abu bought an 18-inch sword, a knife, balaclavas and body armour online.\n\nThe 27-year-old from Dagenham was arrested on 9 July after discussing guns with an undercover police officer.\n\nHe will serve a minimum of 19 years after being found guilty in March of preparing an act of terrorism.\n\nCCTV image of Sahayb Abu in the hat, with his brother Muhamed, who was acquitted of failing to tell police about the plot\n\nHe had told jurors at the Old Bailey that he bought the items to make a parody video because he had wanted to \"create a rap character\" that would make people \"cry with laughter\".\n\nAbu said he wanted to become a successful rapper like Stormzy and posted videos online of himself rapping about bombs and eliminating opponents.\n\nHe said the name of his \"persona\" was the Masked Menace and that he hoped to get famous through his music and that his videos would get noticed and lead to sponsorship.\n\nBut a jury found Abu guilty after deliberating for more than 21 hours.\n\nAbu was previously convicted of a commercial burglary in June 2018 and served his sentence at Wandsworth and High Down jails alongside inmates convicted of terrorism offences.\n\nAbu was released from prison on 20 March last year, less than four months before his arrest.\n\nHe met the undercover officer, who was commended by Judge Mark Dennis QC, on a Telegram chat group for supporters of IS.\n\nAnti-clockwise from top left - Sahayb Abu's half-sister Asma Aweys, half-brother Ahmed Aweys and younger brothers Suleyman (in white) and Wail Aweys\n\nHis brother Muhamed Abu, 32, of Norwood, south London, was cleared of failing to tell authorities about the plot.\n\nSahayb is one of several extremist siblings from the same London family:\n\nPassing sentence, Judge Dennis told Abu: \"You of all people, having seen what befell your two younger brothers when they signed up to join the Isis cause in 2015 and having seen the course other members of your family have taken...resulting in prison sentences, should have made you, at the mature age of 27, turn your back on the violent extremist cause and promote instead peace and community that underlies the Islamic faith.\n\n\"Instead, within weeks of your own release, you joined others committed to joining that same cause.\"\n\nCommander Richard Smith, head of the Met's Counter Terrorism Command, said: \"He is an extremely dangerous individual but thanks to the efforts of counter-terrorism officers and MI5, he will now spend a considerable time behind bars where he poses no risk to public safety.\n\n\"This is a prime example of how our officers and the security services are working together to keep people safe. Every day, counter-terrorism teams are identifying and targeting individuals and groups with terrorist intent.\"\n\nHe added that as coronavirus restrictions were easing and more people were seeing family and friends, going to shops and places to eat, they should be vigilant and report anything suspicious as the threat from terrorism \"has not gone away\".", "Jake Paul has not yet commented on Justine Paradise's allegations\n\nTikTok star Justine Paradise has accused YouTuber Jake Paul of sexually assaulting her at his home in Los Angeles in 2019.\n\nParadise alleges Paul grabbed her face and forced her to perform oral sex on him, and touched her inappropriately without consent.\n\nShe made the allegations in a 20-minute video posted on YouTube last week.\n\nThe BBC has contacted representatives for Jake Paul for comment but has not yet had a response.\n\nParadise said she had waited for two years to speak out because she had signed a non-disclosure agreement, something which was allegedly required of all guests who entered Paul's home.\n\nThe pair met several times in June and July 2019, when Paradise would visit Paul's home - known as his Team 10 house - in California. Paradise says she was introduced to Paul via a mutual friend.\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 Justine Paradise 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\nOn one particular day that summer, she alleges Paul pulled her into the corner of his studio and started kissing her, which she said she \"was fine with... I did think he was cute\". There were other people in the studio that day to record, she says.\n\nPaul then led her to his bedroom, according to Paradise, where they started dancing and kissing until \"he took it to his bed\", and put her hands in places she did not want.\n\nIn the video - titled Triggered: Jake Paul Sexually Assaulted Me - she says she attempted to move her hands away, to which Paul allegedly replied: \"If nothing's going to happen, what's the point?\"\n\nIn her video, Paradise said: \"Sex is very special and very important to me. Normally, everybody respects me when I don't want to do sexual things, so I thought that it was fine if I went in his room. I thought it would be fine to kiss him, because I thought he would stop if I didn't want to do anything else.\"\n\nHowever, Paul allegedly then forced her to perform oral sex while physically on top of her.\n\n\"He didn't ask for consent or anything,\" Paradise said. \"That's not okay. On no level at all is that okay.\"\n\nShe added Paul then acted cold towards her and did not speak to her again. She says he did not apologise and stopped responding to her text messages.\n\nParadise said she was sharing her story publicly in an attempt to make sure Paul \"realises what he did and doesn't do it again\".\n\nJake Paul has more than 20 million subscribers on YouTube. He is also a rapper and professional boxer.\n\nHe has attracted controversy on numerous occasions. Last summer, amid the coronavirus pandemic, he threw a party at his home in Los Angeles.\n\nEarlier in the year, he was charged with criminal trespass and unlawful assembly during unrest at a mall in Arizona.\n\nJustine Paradise has more than 10,000 YouTube subscribers but is considerably bigger on TikTok, where she has more than 520,000 followers.\n\nPaul has not responded to Paradise's video where she makes the allegations, which was posted on Friday.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Big games at Wembley have been in front of empty stands throughout the pandemic Image caption: Big games at Wembley have been in front of empty stands throughout the pandemic\n\nCharities working with disabled people are criticising plans to exclude vulnerable football fans from being able to apply for tickets for the Carabao Cup final.\n\nIt was announced earlier Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester City will both be allowed 2,000 fans at Wembley for the final on 25 April. But under-18s, people who are clinically extremely vulnerable and pregnant women have been asked not to apply.\n\nLevel Playing Field - a charity that campaigns for inclusive matchday experience and equal access for all disabled sports fans - says it is \"very disappointed\" by the decision.\n\nAnd Louise Rubin, head of policy and campaigns at disability equality charity Scope, says: \"Disabled people have been among the hardest hit by the pandemic and, as the UK begins to recover from coronavirus and open up again, they should be able to access sport and other social events just in the same way as everyone else.\n\n\"Disabled people should be able to make their own choice about what's right for them, rather than being subject to arbitrary and discriminatory blanket policies.\"\n\nThe Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has been approached for a response.\n\nYou can read more here.", "Kanye West has agreed to joint custody of his and Kim Kardashian's four young children.\n\nHis response mirrors Kardashian's divorce filing from 19 February, which began the process of ending their almost seven year marriage.\n\nIn both of their filings, the US rapper and the TV reality star agreed that their marriage should end over irreconcilable differences.\n\nThey have also agreed that they do not need spousal support.\n\nWest and Kardashian have two daughters - North and Chicago, age seven and three respectively- and two sons - Saint, five, and Psalm, who turns two next month.\n\nAccording to Kardashian's filing, they kept their property separate throughout their marriage because of the terms of a pre-nuptial agreement.\n\nThe couple are among the most recognisable stars in the world and are both hugely successful in their own right. Their marriage was one of the most closely followed in recent decades.\n\nKardashian, 40, first found fame in 2007 as the star of reality TV show about her family, Keeping Up With The Kardashians. The show has remained popular since then and is due to air its final series on the E! cable network next year.\n\nLast week her multiple business ventures - including make up, shapewear and mobile apps - saw her gain billionaire status.\n\nWest and Kardashian have been married for almost seven years\n\nWest, 43, is one of the biggest names in rap music, known for global hits like Stronger, Jesus Walks and Gold Digger. He has also found success as a fashion designer.\n\nLast year, West unsuccessfully ran for US president. During his campaign, a series of erratic public appearances and online postings by the rapper sparked concern and led Kardashian to speak out.\n\nShe said her husband had bipolar disorder, was a \"brilliant but complicated person\" and called for greater empathy surrounding his mental health from the public and the media.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Kim had been over the marriage for a long time\": Celebrity blogger Perez Hilton comments on the divorce", "Baroness Williams, pictured here in 2016, was a former education secretary\n\nVeteran politician and Liberal Democrat peer Baroness Shirley Williams has died at the age of 90, the party has announced.\n\nShe was hailed as a \"Liberal lion and a true trailblazer\" by Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey.\n\nOriginally a Labour MP, she was part of the \"Gang of Four\" who quit the party to found the Social Democratic Party.\n\nShe was a leading member of the 1970s Labour government and one of the first women cabinet ministers.\n\nShe later went on to support the SDP's merger with the Liberal Party, which led to the creation of the Liberal Democrats in the late 1980s.\n\nHer career in politics spanned more than 50 years, after she first entered Parliament as the Labour MP for Hitchin in 1964.\n\nShe retired from political life in 2016, after leading the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The late Shirley Williams is described as a “liberal lion” by the current Lib Dem leader.\n\nThe Lib Dems said she died peacefully in the early hours of Monday.\n\nSir Ed said she had been an \"inspiration to millions,\" and news of her death was \"heartbreaking for me and for our whole Liberal Democrat family\".\n\n\"Political life will be poorer without her intellect, her wisdom and her generosity,\" he added.\n\n\"Shirley had a limitless empathy only too rare in politics today; she connected with people, cared about their lives and saw politics as a crucial tool to change lives for the better.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson described her as \"a kind and thoughtful member of the once radical centre left\".\n\n\"Even when we disagreed - as we often did - she had the gift of sounding so completely reasonable at all times.\n\n\"I spent many happy hours sparring with her on Question Time. She will be much missed.\"\n\nBaroness Williams quit Labour in 1981, after becoming dismayed at its drift to the left\n\nBaroness Williams served in several ministerial roles under the premiership of Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson, before landing her first cabinet job in 1974 as the Secretary of State for Prices and Consumer Protection.\n\nWhen Wilson resigned as Labour leader in 1976 his successor, Jim Callaghan, made her Secretary of State for Education and Science.\n\nShe lost her seat in the 1979 election when Conservative leader Margaret Thatcher came to power following the so-called Winter of Discontent.\n\nAfter this, she found herself increasingly out of step with the Labour Party on issues including defence and her support for the UK's membership of the European Union.\n\nShe later quit the party in 1981 - and with leading Labour lights Bill Rodgers, Roy Jenkins and David Owen formed the \"Gang of Four\" which founded the Social Democratic Party.\n\nShirley Williams with the \"Gang of Four\" in 1981\n\nWith growing support, the SDP went on to secure 25% of the vote at the 1983 general election, as part of an electoral alliance with the Liberal Party.\n\nThis only delivered 23 MPs for the fledgling alliance, but then-Labour leader Michael Foot blamed it for reducing his party's share of the vote and giving Margaret Thatcher and the Conservatives another term in government.\n\nThe Alliance fought the 1987 election, but failed to boost its representation in the Commons - with almost 23% of the vote amounting to just 22 MPs.\n\nLord Steel, who led the Liberal Party during the Alliance, said Baroness Williams was a \"key figure\" in helping it come close to breaking the two-party mould in British politics.\n\n\"She was a very, very popular person - much more popular than any of the rest of us,\" he told BBC News.\n\nHe added that she was a \"tremendous public inspirer and communicator, and a real humanitarian\".\n\nIt was decided in 1988 that the SDP and the Liberal Party should merge, leading to the formation of the Liberal Democrats in October 1989.\n\nSir Nick Clegg, who stood down as Lib Dem leader after the 2015 election, said he would \"forever be grateful for the support, candid advice and generosity\" Baroness Williams showed him during his time in charge of the party.\n\n\"Her warmth, commitment to progressive ideals and, above all, her wisdom were a constant inspiration down the years to so many,\" he added.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said Baroness Williams had been \"widely respected across politics and was a tireless champion for the causes she believed in\".\n• None Who were the Social Democratic Party?", "The world’s wealthy must radically change their lifestyles to tackle climate change, a report says.\n\nIt says the world's wealthiest 1% produce double the combined carbon emissions of the poorest 50%, according to the UN.\n\nThe wealthiest 5% alone – the so-called “polluter elite” - contributed 37% of emissions growth between 1990 and 2015.\n\nThe authors want to deter SUV drivers and frequent fliers – and persuade the wealthy to insulate their homes well.\n\nThe report urges the UK government to reverse its decision to scrap air passenger duty on UK return flights.\n\nAnd it wants ministers to re-instate the Green Homes Grant scheme they also scrapped recently.\n\nThe document has come from the UK-based Cambridge Sustainability Commission on Scaling Behaviour Change.\n\nIt’s a panel of 31 individuals who study people’s behaviour relating to the environment. They were tasked to find the most effective way of scaling up action to tackle carbon emissions.\n\nTheir critics say the best way to cut emissions faster is through technological improvements - not through measures that would prove unpopular.\n\nBut the lead author of the report, Prof Peter Newell, from Sussex University, told BBC News: “We are totally in favour of technology improvements and more efficient products - but it’s clear that more drastic action is needed because emissions keep going up.\n\n“We have got to cut over-consumption and the best place to start is over-consumption among the polluting elites who contribute by far more than their share of carbon emissions.\n\n“These are people who fly most, drive the biggest cars most and live in the biggest homes which they can easily afford to heat, so they tend not to worry if they’re well insulated or not.\n\n“They’re also the sort of people who could really afford good insulation and solar panels if they wanted to.”\n\nProf Newell said that to tackle climate change, everyone needs to feel part of a collective effort – so that means the rich consuming less to set an example to poorer people.\n\nHe continued: “Rich people who fly a lot may think they can offset their emissions by tree-planting schemes or projects to capture carbon from the air. But these schemes are highly contentious and they’re not proven over time.\n\nThe wealthy, he said, “simply must fly less and drive less. Even if they own an electric SUV that’s still a drain on the energy system and all the emissions created making the vehicle in the first place”.\n\nSam Hall, from the Conservative Environment Network, told BBC News: \"It’s right to emphasise the importance of fairness in delivering (emissions cuts) - and policy could make it easier for people and businesses to go green - through incentives, targeted regulation and nudges.\n\n“But encouraging clean technologies is likely to be more effective, and more likely to enjoy public consent, than hefty penalties or lifestyle restrictions.\"\n\nBut Prof Newell said existing political structures allowed wealthy firms and individuals to lobby against necessary changes in society that might erode the lifestyles of the rich.\n\nThe recent report of the UK Climate Assembly, for example, proposed a series of measures targeting carbon-intensive behaviours such as shifting away from meat and dairy produce; banning the most polluting SUVs; and imposing frequent flyer levies.\n\nThe Treasury told BBC News that a frequent flyer levy might require the government to collect and store personal information on each passenger.\n\nThis could raise issues of data processing, handling and privacy issues. It would also be hard to keep track of people with multiple passports.\n\nBut the commission’s report said: “The goals of the Paris Agreement on climate change cannot be achieved without radical changes to lifestyles and shifts in behaviour, especially among the wealthiest members of society.\n\n“If change across society is to be brought about at the speed and scale required to meet agreed climate targets, we need to shrink and share: reduce carbon budgets and share more equally.”\n\nThe report is the latest in a long-running dialogue over what it means to be “fair” while tackling climate change.\n\nPoorer nations such as India have consistently argued that they should be allowed to increase their pollution because it’s so much lower per person than emissions from rich nations.\n\nThe issue forms part of the tangled tapestry of negotiations behind next week’s climate summit organised by President Biden and the COP climate summit in the UK scheduled for November.", "Trafalgar Square would feature match screenings as well as food and drink outlets\n\nTrafalgar Square has been earmarked as the preferred location for a Uefa Euro 2020 fan park.\n\nLondon will be one of 12 cities hosting the European Championship, which has been delayed by a year because of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nPlans include all seven games, to be played at Wembley Stadium, being shown on giant TV screens in central London.\n\nThere are also outline proposals for screens to show a \"victory parade\" should England win the tournament.\n\nGareth Southgate's side will play all three group matches at Wembley, the first against Croatia on 13 June.\n\nFive days later England take on Scotland for the first time since 2017, before hosting the Czech Republic in their final group game on 22 June.\n\nBBC Sport understands the English FA has told Uefa it hopes Wembley will be able to host about 20,000 fans for the group games\n\nAll three England group games will be screened in Trafalgar Square, if the Greater London Authority (GLA) plans are approved.\n\nWembley will also host one last 16 tie, as well as both semi-finals and the final on 11 July.\n\nShould England progress to the knockout stages, they would play their last 16 and quarter-final ties abroad, but the proposals allow for both to also be screened in Trafalgar Square.\n\nThe GLA planning application seeks a capacity of up to 12,500 people for the fan park - with free tickets being allocated through a ballot.\n\nThe plans are subject to a licensing application which will be heard at Westminster City Council later this month.\n\nAnd despite the easing of Covid restrictions, the GLA accepts that due to uncertainties around the virus, details of the event may change.\n\nUnder the Prime Minister's roadmap out of lockdown, social distancing measures and limits of people gathering outdoors will still be in place for England's first two group games.\n\nDiscussions of plans for the fan park began in August 2020 with Westminster City Council. A separate meeting with the Met Police has also taken place, the BBC understands.\n\nAdditional proposals for a Uefa Euro 2020 Football Village at Potters Fields Park, near City Hall and Tower Bridge, are also being considered.\n\nPreviously, Greenwich Park was going to be used as the official fan park, had the tournament been able to go ahead as scheduled last year.\n• None Everything you need to know about Euro 2020", "Trade between the UK and EU partially recovered in February, after a steep drop in January following Brexit.\n\nOfficial figures show exports to the EU jumped by 46.6%, £3.7bn, to £11.6bn, following January's 42% slump when firms struggled with new trade rules.\n\nHowever, the Office for National Statistics said exports were still below last year's levels and imports from the EU had seen a weaker recovery.\n\nOther figures from the ONS showed the UK economy grew by 0.4% in February.\n\nThe UK's statistics body said the economy was still 7.8% smaller than a year earlier, before the impact of the pandemic.\n\nLast month's trade figures were the first since new trading rules came into force as a result of Brexit trade rule changes.\n\nBoth the ONS and business analysts said the drop in trade flows was partly caused by stockpiling in December 2020, as businesses tried to get ahead of the introduction of the new rules, depressing trade in January.\n\nIn addition, the end of the temporary trading arrangement between the UK and the EU coincided with the discovery of a new strain of Covid-19 in the UK, which caused further complications and delays, after lorry drivers were required to take tests before crossing the border at the English Channel.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Brexit: The impact on Dutch food exports to the UK\n\nAn ONS spokesperson said: \"Exports to the EU recovered significantly from their January fall, though still remain below 2020 levels. However, imports from the EU are yet to significantly rebound, with a number of issues hampering trade.\"\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses said overall sales had dropped by £2.5bn and its members needed more help.\n\nChairman Mike Cherry said: \"UK exports have tumbled since the end of the [Brexit] transition period.\n\n\"International sales are way down on where they were at this time last year. A fifth of small exporters have halted sales to the EU temporarily and some have already given up on selling into the bloc on a permanent basis.\"\n\nBut a government spokesperson said the statistics showed \"welcome growth\" in the value of trade with the EU in February.\n\n\"This is in line with our predictions last month as we saw increasing volumes of freight traffic to and from the EU.\n\n\"The vast majority of traders and hauliers have adapted well, and our focus now is on making sure that any business that is still facing challenges gets the support they need to trade effectively with the EU.\"\n\nUK imports from the EU rose by 7.3%, or £1.2bn in February to £17.1bn, after dropping 29.7% the month before.\n\nThe ONS said the export increases were driven by machinery, transport equipment and chemicals.\n\nThe ONS said it was too early to make any conclusions about the impact of the new trading arrangements with Europe.\n\nTotal imports of goods from non-EU countries rose by 10.2% to £17.9bn in February, while exports fell by 10.5% to £12.7bn.\n\nMark Callaghan is the chief executive of British Corner Shop, an exporter of British food and drink brands.\n\nBritish Corner Shop chief executive Mark Callaghan says his firm has seen a huge disruption to exports from Brexit\n\nHe says his firm \"battled\" to find a solution to continue to export its products, particularly on the consumer channel into the EU.\n\nBritish Corner Shop had to cut its product range down from 10,000 to 1,400, and is planning to open its own distribution centre in the EU.\n\nThis means the loss of 40 jobs in the UK, and the new centre will see 60 new jobs in the EU.\n\n\"We were jumping with joy when Boris announced in late December that there was a deal with the EU and it would be trade as normal, so we were very excited about that,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"[It would mean] minimal disruption for the business, but that hasn't been the case.\n\n\"We've seen huge disruption, we've seen a massive drop in sales, we've had to reduce our workforce by 40 people and we're moving those jobs into the EU, so I wouldn't say that it's been successful at all.\"\n\nAfter a 42% plunge in January in sales to the EU, February's bounce back of 46.6% is more the kind of figure the government would like associated with Global Britain's new trading era.\n\nBut just as the earlier figures weren't conclusive evidence that the new arrangements for trading with Europe posed a widespread sustained problem, the latest ones don't mean it's back to business as usual either.\n\nMany companies avoided sending goods across the border in the previous month, for fear of disruption or delay, having shipped orders ahead of time where they could. Both January's fall and February's rebound were led by non-perishable items - chemicals, machinery - which are easily stockpiled . That trade resumed in February, while many other exporters managed to get to grips with the new formalities.\n\nBut export levels remain below where they were for much of 2020, and anecdotal evidence suggests some exporters - particularly those of fresh foods - remain overwhelmed by the new checks and forms. They are urging the government to help simplify processes. Meanwhile the pandemic continues to weigh on demand.\n\nWith the EU typically buying more than two-fifths of British exports, tackling remaining issues will be instrumental to getting the economy back on its feet.\n\nCovid restrictions remained in place to varying degrees across all four nations of the UK during January and February.\n\n\"The economy showed some improvement in February after the large falls seen at the start of the year but remains around 8% below its pre-pandemic level,\" an ONS spokesperson said.\n\nSarah Hewin, from Standard Chartered Bank, told the BBC's Today programme the outlook for the UK economy was improving.\n\n\"Confidence does seem to be picking up as vaccinations are spreading. We know households have built up their savings in many cases during lockdown. As lockdown restrictions are eased people are going to be able to go out and spend those savings and that will be a big boost to the economy.\n\n\"As we saw from the scenes yesterday people are keen to get out and spend when they can. There will be more opportunities for travelling and going on holiday and spending in restaurants and pubs will see people spending to go out and enjoy themselves.\"\n\nThe latest ONS data also indicated that the economy did not shrink by as much as initially estimated in January. The statistics body said gross domestic product (GDP) fell by 2.2% in January, an upward revision from its original estimate of a 2.9% drop.\n\n\"A slightly improved January data could mark the final contraction in the current crisis, with the economy beginning to gather strength even before the end of the lockdown,\" said Yael Selfin, chief economist at KPMG UK.\n\nRory Macqueen, principal economist at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, said: \"Clearly much of the economy has adapted to cope with Covid-19 restrictions... if the vaccine programme and lifting of restrictions continue on schedule this provides a firm basis for continuing growth in the second quarter and 2021 overall.\"", "People aged 11 and over are being urged to take a PCR test even if they have no symptoms\n\nA \"significant\" cluster of the South African Covid-19 variant has been found in two areas of south London where surge testing has been implemented.\n\nWandsworth and Lambeth will see additional testing after 44 confirmed and 30 probable cases were identified.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) called it the \"largest surge testing operation to date\".\n\nAll identified cases are isolating or have completed their isolation and their contacts have been traced.\n\nDr Susan Hopkins, chief medical adviser for NHS Test and Trace, said the number of cases was \"significant\" and stressed it was \"really important people in the local area play their part in stopping any further spread within the local community\".\n\nThe Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, urged people in the affected boroughs to get tested \"as soon as possible\".\n\n\"It's vital that we do everything we can to control this variant by taking a test and following the rules,\" he said.\n\nPeople aged 11 and over who live, work or travel through the affected areas are being urged to take a Covid-19 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test, as well as using twice-weekly rapid testing.\n\nPositive results from PCR testing will be sent for genomic sequencing at specialist labs.\n\nThe PCR test has been advised as well as using twice-weekly rapid testing\n\nThe first case was found in early March and the DHSC said the testing operation was aimed at suppressing any possible new cases of the variant.\n\nDr Hopkins said: \"Around one in three people with Covid-19 don't show any symptoms.\n\n\"By taking part you can protect yourselves and your loved ones and help us identify any possible new cases that would otherwise be missed, preventing further transmission and saving lives.\"\n\nSurge testing was previously carried out in three postcode areas of Lambeth in February after a case of the South African variant was discovered.\n\nIn March, intensive testing was put in place in three areas of Wandsworth borough following a small number of cases.", "People aged 11 and over are being urged to take a PCR test even if they have no symptoms\n\nThe outbreak of the Covid-19 variant in south London appears to have been triggered by an individual who travelled from Africa in February, according to documents seen by the BBC.\n\nSurge testing has begun in Wandsworth and Lambeth after 44 confirmed and 30 probable cases were identified.\n\nThe country involved was not on the red list for mandatory hotel quarantine at that time, but it is now.\n\nThe government said \"strong measures\" were in place to find new cases.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman added that the cluster of cases of the South African variant was being taken \"very seriously\" and the \"testing processes that we have in place have been working well\".\n\nThe link has not been proved beyond doubt, but is the working assumption of contact tracers.\n\nAn executive summary of the outbreak published on 12 April at 15:00 BST and marked \"Official Sensitive\" said the individual did self-isolate and requested a home test after showing symptoms.\n\nIt is thought the virus was spread from that individual to members of their household and then to a care home in Lambeth.\n\nA large queue of people lined up waiting to be tested in Brockwell Park, Lambeth\n\nTwenty-three cases of the South African variant were detected in the care home - 13 staff and 10 residents.\n\nSix of the 10 residents infected had received one dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine two or more weeks before their positive test date.\n\nOne of the 13 infected staff had a single Pfizer vaccine dose two or more weeks before their positive test.\n\nThe timing may raise questions about the vaccination of care home workers at a time when the government is considering making the jab mandatory for that group.\n\nOther clusters related to the first outbreak were detected at two primary schools in Wandsworth.\n\nMore than half of the pupils, teachers and their families who could have taken up extra surge testing made available since the cases came to light have now done so.\n\nA total of 544 confirmed and probable cases of the variant have been found in the country overall\n\nAn examination of wastewater in a small area of nearby Southwark also identified the presence of the South African variant, though that has not yet been linked to the outbreak in Lambeth and Wandsworth.\n\nTargeted surge testing is expected to be put in place in Southwark as a result.\n\nThe documents, from the National Covid-19 Response Centre run by the Department of Health, describe the ongoing risk to public health of the outbreak in south London as moderate.\n\nNHS officials previously described the number of cases identified as \"significant\".\n\nPeople aged 11 and over who live, work or travel through the affected areas have been urged to take a Covid-19 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test, as well as using twice-weekly rapid testing.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said the two boroughs were carrying out the \"largest surge-testing operation to date\", with additional testing sites being opened.\n\nAccording to government figures, a total of 544 confirmed and probable cases of the variant have been found in the country overall.\n\nThose living in the affected areas should \"still enjoy the easing of lockdown\", according to the director of public health for Lambeth Council.\n\nWhen asked on the Today programme whether people in the boroughs should stay at home rather than visit shops or pub gardens, Ruth Hutt replied: \"No, we want everybody to follow the advice that still stands around 'hands, face, space'.\n\nShannon Katiyo, Wandsworth's director of public health, said it was \"crucial that residents take an asymptomatic PCR test so that we can identify all cases\".\n\n\"If you test positive by any method, you must isolate in order to prevent passing on the virus,\" she said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Bill Crothers says he was \"transparent\" about the role he took on with Greensill Capital\n\nA top civil servant joined financial firm Greensill Capital as an adviser while still working for the government, a lobbying watchdog has revealed.\n\nBill Crothers's part-time position had been \"agreed\" to by the Cabinet Office, the Office of the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments added.\n\nIts chairman Lord Pickles complained of a \"lack of transparency\" over the situation.\n\nBut Mr Crothers said he had been taken on by Greensill in a \"transparent\" way.\n\nThe disclosure about Mr Crothers - who had been the government's chief procurement officer prior to being taken on by Greensill - is the latest of several stories involving the now-collapsed financial firm.\n\nIt employed former prime minister David Cameron as an adviser from 2018.\n\nThe Financial Times and the Sunday Times revealed that Mr Cameron had contacted several ministers, including Chancellor Rishi Sunak, to push for greater involvement in government loans schemes for the company.\n\nBoris Johnson has set up an inquiry into lobbying - attempts to persuade governments to change policy - including Greensill's role.\n\nGovernment sources said this would also now look at the situation surrounding Mr Crothers.\n\nLord Pickles is asking for Whitehall \"guidance\" on possible \"conflicts of interest\"\n\nMr Crothers, who had already left his job as chief procurement officer but remained a Civil Service employee, joined Greensill as an adviser to its board in September 2015.\n\nThe letter from Conservative peer Lord Pickles to leading civil servant Alex Chisholm says: \"This was agreed by the Cabinet Office under its internal conflicts-of-interest policy.\"\n\nLord Pickles asks for \"guidance on the conflicts-of-interest process\" undertaken.\n\nThe letter adds: \"The lack of transparency around this part-time employment with Greensill may have left the misleading impression that Mr Crothers had wilfully ignored the obligation to seek advice.\"\n\nMr Crothers left the Civil Service in November 2015, two months after taking up his role at Greensill. He became a director of the firm in late 2016.\n\nA letter from Mr Crothers to Lord Pickles, a former Conservative Party chairman, written earlier this week, has also been published.\n\nIn it, he says: \"I am concerned that there may be a view that I did not follow proper process regarding my role with Greensill Capital.\n\n\"I assure you that I completely respect the required process and your office, took steps to comply, and believe that I did so.\"\n\nHe adds: \"I was transparent about the move to Greensill Capital, and it was well known at the time.\"\n\nThe shadow Cabinet Office minister Rachel Reeves said: \"This is an extraordinary and shocking revelation.\n\n\"The Conservatives have weakened the rules so much they may as well rip them up and start again.\"\n\nThe government inquiry in to lobbying is expected to report by the end of June, but Labour says it does not go far enough.\n\nIt will use an opposition day debate on Wednesday to force a vote on whether to establish a new Commons select committee to investigate the issue.\n\nUnlike regular opposition day votes which are symbolic, this one would be binding if it passes because Parliament would be deciding if it should do something.\n\nA Cabinet Office spokesperson said there would be a response to Mr Pickles's letter \"in due course\".\n\nThey added that the \"review into Greensill Capital and supply-chain finance\" would be \"wide-ranging\".\n\nMr Cameron has said he did not break any codes of conduct or rules on lobbying and that he welcomes the investigation launched by Mr Johnson.", "The Nicola Faith fishing boat went missing on 27 January\n\nA wreck found off the north Wales coast has been identified as a fishing boat that sank more than two months ago with three crew on board.\n\nThe Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) confirmed the wreck is that of the Nicola Faith, which failed to return to port in Conwy.\n\nThe bodies of Alan Minard, 20, Ross Ballantine, 39, and skipper Carl McGrath, 34, were all found in March.\n\nThe MAIB is investigating to find out why the vessel sank, in January.\n\nThe bodies of Alan Minard, Ross Ballantine and Carl McGrath were discovered last month\n\nLast week, the MAIB said it had found a \"sunken vessel of interest\" in the Colwyn Bay area.\n\nThe Nicola Faith is 1.9 nautical miles (2.2 miles) off the coast of Rhos Point, having failed to return to port on 27 January.\n\nAndrew Moll, chief executive of the MAIB, said: \"I understand how desperate the families of the crew are for answers, and now that the vessel has been found our investigation can focus on establishing why Nicola Faith sank.\n\n\"A large amount of evidence has already been collected and analysed, and a close look at the results of today's dive survey should increase our understanding of the accident.\n\n\"Until this has been completed it not possible to say whether it will be necessary to recover the wreck for further testing.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEarlier David Mearns, who has led a private search for the Nicola Faith, said the images of the wreck showed the ship was \"largely intact\" and the exposed hull showed \"no damage\".\n\nMr Mearns found the wreckage of the plane carrying footballer Emiliano Sala that went down off the coast of Guernsey in 2019.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nChelsea survived a spectacular late overhead kick from Mehdi Taremi to overcome Porto and confirm a place in the Champions League semi-finals for the first time in seven years.\n\nThomas Tuchel's side went into this 'home' last-eight second leg - with both games being played in Seville during the current Covid-19 pandemic - protecting a two-goal lead they only briefly threatened to surrender in the dying seconds following Taremi's brilliant finish.\n\nChelsea, who will now face either Liverpool or Real Madrid in the semi-final, played within themselves but it was enough to keep a disappointing Porto at bay, the Portuguese side rarely testing keeper Edouard Mendy with their surprisingly cautious approach, which they only cast aside when it was too late.\n\nMendy's poor clearance almost offered Jesus Corona a first-half chance but he could not take advantage, while Christian Pulisic and Mason Mount had opportunities after the break.\n\nTaremi's goal was out of character with the rest of Porto's performance and came too late to alter the inevitable course of this quarter-final.\n• None Best action and reaction from Chelsea v Porto in the Champions League\n\nChelsea manager Tuchel suggested he might have preferred to keep N'Golo Kante on the bench after a recent hamstring problem, until an injury to fellow midfielder Mateo Kovacic forced his hand.\n\nAnd he was rewarded with yet another masterclass from the France international, who showed supreme positional sense, tireless work-rate and that uncanny ability to spot any rare danger before prompting attacks of his own.\n\nKante has been an outstanding figure since Tuchel succeeded Frank Lampard and it is no surprise the German has come to count on him so readily, this understated but world-class performer completing the full 90 minutes despite doubts over his match fitness.\n\nChelsea adopted an understandably conservative approach, taking no chances and refusing to offer Porto any route back into this tie. Porto were largely lacklustre and rarely showed any of the sparkle that saw them shock Italian giants Juventus in the previous round.\n\nThey may not have offered any serious threat of their own, although Mount was denied by superb defending from Porto defender Wilson Manafa.\n\nIn reality, however, there was no need whatsoever for Chelsea to take unnecessary risks that may have allowed Porto back in. This was about game management and, despite that last-ditch scare, for Chelsea it was a job very well done.\n\nChelsea's hopes of claiming the crown for a second time will certainly be rising after this mature performance, even in eventual defeat, to add to the impressive elimination of the powerful La Liga leaders Atletico Madrid in the last 16.\n\nTuchel has Chelsea organised, fiercely disciplined and increasing in confidence - a mood that will only grow as they prepare to face either Liverpool or Real Madrid. Yes, this was a loss but the overall tie will be regarded as a highly satisfactory outcome.\n\nThe Champions League can often be about timing the run of form and there is no doubt Chelsea have built up impressive momentum under Tuchel aside from the 5-2 thrashing at home to relegation-threatened West Bromwich Albion at Stamford Bridge recently.\n\nChelsea will show the requisite respect to whoever they face in the semi-final but they will not fear either Liverpool or Real Madrid, depending on who prevails at Anfield on Wednesday.\n\nTuchel has bolstered their defence and while this was a performance built on those solid foundations and with Kante and Jorginho as the anchors, Chelsea have already shown they have attacking weapons when required.\n\nChelsea will not shout about their Champions League aspirations - but there is no reason why they should not fancy their chances, even though the record will show this 'home' second leg as a defeat.\n\nOnly three shots on target\n• None Chelsea have reached the Champions League semi-finals for the eighth time, more than any other English side in the competition's history.\n• None Porto have exited in the Champions League knockout stages on 14 occasions, with 50% of those eliminations coming at the hands of English sides. Porto have been knocked out by an English team on each of the last three occasions they've reached the knockout rounds (Liverpool in 2017-18 and 2018-19).\n• None There were just three shots on target in this match (1 for Chelsea, 2 for Porto), with two of these coming in added time (Christian Pulisic for Chelsea and Mehdi Taremi's late winner).\n• None This was just Porto's second 'away' victory in the Champions League knockout stages (D6 L13), after their win at Deportivo in the 2003-04 semi-final.\n• None This was Porto's first ever 'away' win against an English side in European competition, with the Portuguese side having failed to win any of their first 21 such games (D3 L18).\n• None Mehdi Taremi's 93rd-minute strike was the latest Chelsea have conceded in a Champions League game (excluding extra-time) since April 2005 against Bayern Munich, when Mehmet Scholl scored in the 95th minute.\n• None Jorginho made eight tackles in this match, the most by a Chelsea player in a Champions League game since N'Golo Kanté against Barcelona in March 2018 (also 8).\n• None Goal! Chelsea 0, FC Porto 1. Mehdi Taremi (FC Porto) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Nanu with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Christian Pulisic (Chelsea) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Hakim Ziyech with a through ball.\n• None Offside, Chelsea. Jorginho tries a through ball, but Hakim Ziyech is caught offside.\n• None Luis Díaz (FC Porto) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Take some time for your wellbeing today\n• None Hear from one of Scotland's top culinary cooks", "The Covid-19 restriction on travelling around Scotland are to be relaxed from Friday, while people are to be allowed to meet up in larger groups outdoors.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said measures were being eased earlier than planned to help people's mental health.\n\nPeople will be allowed to meet in groups of up to six adults from six households in outdoor settings.\n\nAnd they will be permitted to travel across Scotland to do so, as long as they do not stay overnight.\n\nOther restrictions are expected to be eased from 26 April - with premises including shops, gyms, pubs and restaurants due to reopen on a restricted basis.\n\nHospitality businesses will need to close their doors at 20:00 indoors and 22:00 outdoors, with alcohol only allowed to be served outside.\n\nGroups of six people from six different households will be allowed to meet in outdoor hospitality.\n\nRestrictions on travel from Scotland to other parts of the UK are also expected to be lifted from 26 April.\n\nFrom 17 May, pubs will be able to open indoors until 22:30 and contact sports, cinemas, and some small scale events will be able to take place.\n\nAlso from that date in May, up to four people from two households will be able to meet indoors.\n\nOutdoor drinking and dining resumed on Monday in England, with shops, hairdressers, gyms and zoos also opening their doors.\n\nAnd many hospitality and tourism businesses in Scotland have criticised the more cautious approach north of the border.\n\nEmma McClarkin, chief executive of the Scottish Beer and Pub Association, said Ms Sturgeon's announcement \"falls short of what is required to make licensed premises viable\".\n\nShe added: \"We desperately need a return to licensing hours indoors, as well as allowing alcohol to be sold indoors from 26 April.\n\n\"The first minister points to indoor reopening being ahead of England, but without alcohol service it is meaningless to licensed hospitality businesses and little comfort to Scottish brewers and other parts of the supply chain who will see no benefit.\"\n\nHowever, Ms Sturgeon warned that \"we do still need to be cautious\" to keep case numbers down and to prevent new variants of the virus from being imported.\n\nThe changes were announced as the first minister confirmed that Scotland has \"effectively met\" its initial vaccination target of offering a first dose to all over-50s, unpaid carers and adults with particular underlying health conditions.\n\nMs Sturgeon said infection rates had been higher in Scotland than other parts of the UK in recent weeks, but were now \"falling more markedly and more consistently\".\n\nThe first minister said this meant she could confirm a \"very significant re-opening of the economy\" from 26 April, when the whole of Scotland will move into level three of the Covid-19 restrictions system.\n\nScotland's island communities - which have been in level three for some time - will stay in the same level as the mainland in the immediacy, to allow people to travel between areas.\n\nMs Sturgeon insisted that the announcement had nothing to do with the Holyrood election on 6 May\n\nMs Sturgeon said she expected the whole of Scotland to then move to level two on 17 May - allowing people to meet up indoors - and to level one and then zero in June.\n\nAnd she said some changes to the travel restrictions that had not been due to come into force until 26 April would be made earlier than originally planned in an effort to boost people's mental health and wellbeing.\n\nThe first minister insisted the move had nothing to do with the ongoing Holyrood election campaign, saying there was \"a bit of limited headroom\" to make changes due to the fall in case numbers and progress in vaccination.\n\nIt means that people will be allowed to travel across Scotland from Friday of this week, though people are still being urged to stay local for non-essential shopping.\n\nIn addition, people can meet in groups of up to six adults outdoors from Friday.\n\nMs Sturgeon said this would allow \"long awaited and much-anticipated reunions\" of families and friends.\n\nPeople are currently not allowed to leave their local authority areas for anything other than essential travel, and only four adults from a maximum of two households are allowed to meet up outdoors.\n\nHowever, the first minister urged caution over the possibility of foreign travel.\n\nGovernments across the UK are attempting to agree on rules for international travel on a four-nations basis, but Ms Sturgeon warned that it \"remains a significant risk\" given the spread of the virus elsewhere in the world.\n\nShe said a ban on international travel could be \"the price we pay for greater normality here in Scotland\" and necessary to \"protect our progress here\".\n\nScotland recorded just 199 new cases of the virus on Monday - the lowest daily total for seven months - although the figure increased to 221 on Tuesday, with the deaths of a further three people who had previously tested positive also being recorded.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross welcomed the move to ease travel restrictions earlier than planned, having previously said the emergence from lockdown was too slow compared to England.\n\nHe said: \"Scotland's hospitality sector is on its knees and that is compounded by seeing equivalent businesses across the border reopening sooner. Every day that doors stay closed, more jobs are lost.\n\n\"This positive direction of travel is possible thanks to the immense sacrifices people continue to make but the game-changer is the UK's extraordinary vaccine programme.\"\n\nAnd Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar said the changes were a \"welcome announcement for many who have been separated from loved ones for so long\".\n\nHe added: \"We need to ensure that this lockdown is our last. We need to continue, and improve the pace of, the vaccine roll out and ensure the testing and tracing infrastructure is in place to support a return to normal.\"\n\nThe Scottish Greens welcomed the announcement, but said that caution was needed if the country was to avoid another wave of the virus.\n\nThe party's Mark Ruskell said: \"We probably don't want to replicate the images of large groups gathering that we saw in London. A surge in gatherings could create a surge in the virus and avoiding that is hugely important to avoid the risk of a third lockdown.\"\n\nScottish Liberal Democrat health spokesman Alex Cole-Hamilton said he was concerned that the Scottish government had \"consistently acted too late on testing and tracing\".\n\nHe added: \"With hospitality businesses in other parts of the UK now open, the Scottish government must now make sure that financial support is now available to ensure that Scottish businesses don't lose out.\"", "Millions of people watched coverage of the Duke of Edinburgh's death on Friday\n\nThe BBC has received 100,000 complaints from members of the public over its coverage of the Duke of Edinburgh's death, according to the Sun newspaper.\n\nThe corporation cleared its schedules to cover the news when Prince Philip died on Friday, at the age of 99.\n\nEastEnders and the MasterChef final were replaced by news programmes, while BBC Four was taken off air completely.\n\nThe BBC said: \"We are proud of our coverage and the role we play during moments of national significance.\"\n\nHowever, it declined to confirm the number of complaints it received.\n\nThe figures are due to be included in the broadcaster's fortnightly complaints bulletin on Thursday.\n\nA figure of 100,000 would make the coverage of Prince Philip's death the most complained-about piece of programming in BBC history.\n\nOther programmes that attracted a high volume of correspondence included the broadcast of Jerry Springer: The Opera, which received 63,000 complaints in 2005; and Russell Brand's prank call to actor Andrew Sachs, which drew 42,000 complaints in 2008.\n\nThe BBC was not alone in adjusting its schedule to reflect Prince Philip's death, with ITV and Channel 4 both broadcasting extended news coverage.\n\nHowever, many viewers turned away as the day wore on, with ITV's Friday night audience declining by 60% in comparison to the previous week, according to overnight figures.\n\nBBC One's audience also dropped six per cent week-on-week, while BBC Two lost two-thirds of its audience, with just 340,000 people tuning in at any time between 7pm and 11pm.\n\nThe most-watched programme on a single channel on Friday night was Channel 4's Gogglebox, with 4.2 million viewers.\n\nLate on Friday, the BBC put a dedicated form on its website to allow viewers to complain about the TV coverage, in recognition of the volume of complaints.\n\nThe form was removed on Saturday afternoon, after the number of complaints began to fall, the corporation said.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "One firefighter has died and two are seriously hurt after a massive blaze at a historic factory in St Petersburg.\n\nThe fire started at about 12:30 local time (09:30 GMT) on Monday, and quickly spread to all six floors of the Nevskaya Manufaktura building.\n\nStrong winds hampered efforts to put out the flames, with a huge plume of black smoke visible across the city.\n\nThe building dates back to 1841, when it was used to manufacture fabric, and is an iconic landmark in St Petersburg.", "The Queen during a visit to the Royal Australian Air Force Memorial on 31 March\n\nThe Queen has conducted her first in-person royal duty since her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, died on Friday.\n\nThe monarch hosted a ceremony in which the Earl Peel formally stood down as Lord Chamberlain, whose office organises royal ceremonies.\n\nDuring a private event held at Windsor Castle, the Queen accepted her former royal aide's wand and office insignia.\n\nThe Royal Family is observing two weeks of mourning. The duke's funeral will take place at Windsor on Saturday.\n\nA royal official said members of the family would continue \"to undertake engagements appropriate to the circumstances\".\n\nThe Princess Royal undertook an engagement on Wednesday - visiting the Royal Yacht Squadron in Cowes, on the Isle of Wight\n\nThe Earl Peel announced he would retire as Lord Chamberlain last year, with his replacement Andrew Parker, a former MI5 chief, beginning in the role just over a week before Prince Philip died.\n\nTuesday's official engagement was recorded in the Court Circular - a daily list of the events attended by the Queen and her family.\n\nIt said: \"The Earl Peel had an audience of The Queen today, delivered up his Wand and Insignia of Office as Lord Chamberlain and the Badge of Chancellor of the Royal Victorian Order and took leave upon relinquishing his appointment as Lord Chamberlain, when Her Majesty invested him with the Royal Victorian Chain.\"\n\nThe Earl Peel had overseen arrangements for the duke's funeral - known as Operation Forth Bridge.\n\nThe Lord Chamberlain's Office, led by the Queen's Comptroller Lieutenant Colonel Michael Vernon, is tasked with the practical side of the day.\n\nBut in overall charge is Baron Parker who took up his new role on 1 April, following the Earl Peel's retirement after more than 14 years in the post.\n\nAs Lord Chamberlain, the Earl Peel - seen here in 2010 - oversaw the planning of dozens of royal ceremonies\n\nDespite losing her beloved husband of 73 years on Friday and being a week away from her 95th birthday, the Queen is carrying on with the job.\n\nShe never really stopped. On the day it was announced that Prince Philip had died, she had to go through the revised funeral plans which she then approved. They were made public the following day.\n\nOne imagines that, had she wanted to, yesterday's audience to mark the retirement of the former Lord Chamberlain could have been postponed until the period of royal mourning was ended. But that is not her way.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC, the former Prime Minister Sir John Major said he hoped the Queen would be given time and privacy.\n\n\"I know she is the monarch, I know she has responsibilities, but she has earned the right to have a period of privacy in which to grieve with her family,\" he commented.\n\nFew would disagree but the Queen has a work ethic and commitment to duty and service which she has always placed above all other considerations.\n\nThe ceremony at Windsor Castle came after the Queen held a phone call with Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Saturday, according to the Court Circular.\n\nOn Sunday, the Duke of York said the Queen had told her family that Prince Philip's death at the age of 99 \"left a huge void\" in her life.\n\nHe added: \"The Queen, as you would expect, is an incredibly stoic person.\n\n\"She described it as having left a huge void in her life but we, the family, the ones that are close, are rallying round to make sure that we're there to support her.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe funeral, on Saturday at 15:00 BST, will be a much more low-key event due to the pandemic, but Buckingham Palace says the plans reflect Prince Philip's wishes.\n\nHis coffin will be carried in a modified Land Rover, which the duke helped to design, as part of a procession from the State Entrance of Windsor Castle to St George's Chapel.\n\nMembers of the Royal Family will walk behind the coffin, although the Queen will travel separately. Meanwhile, guns will be fired in salute and a bell will toll.\n\nInside the chapel, the Royal Family will wear face masks and keep to social distancing rules. Only 30 people will be able to attend, in line with coronavirus regulations.\n\nThe Duke of Sussex has returned to the UK from his home in the US to attend the funeral, although the Duchess of Sussex will not make the trip on medical advice.\n• None Prince Philip: What time is the funeral?", "It was a tense day at the White House. It began with Joe Biden saying he was praying for the “right verdict” in the Derek Chauvin trial, and his press secretary spending much of her subsequent news conference deflecting questions about whether that was a reckless statement.\n\nIt ended with the president and Vice-President Kamala Harris marking what they said was a just resolution to the case.\n\nTheir statements were delivered in the Cross Hall of the White House - the same location Barack Obama chose to announce the killing of Osama bin Laden.\n\nThe message was clear, that this was another historic day; another victory for justice. Biden warned, however, that the verdict was just a “step forward”, and “not enough”.\n\nBoth he and Harris specifically pointed to a history of systemic racism in the US, which Biden called a “stain on our nation’s soul\".\n\nTo overcome that history, he said, requires lawmakers to act and for the American people to continue to work.\n\nIt shouldn’t take a “murder in the full light of day”, captured on video and stretched over nine minutes, as Biden said, to get the nation’s attention anymore.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lockdown lifting in Liverpool: 'Light at the end of the tunnel'\n\nFor the first time in months, pub gardens, shops and hairdressers have reopened in England, as rules were also eased in the rest of the UK.\n\nShoppers flocked to the High Street, with long queues seen outside some retailers. Other people took advantage of England's gyms and zoos reopening.\n\nThe PM had planned to have a celebratory pint to mark the measures easing, but that has been postponed following the death of the Duke of Edinburgh on Friday.\n\nSnow showers and chilly temperatures in parts of southern England appeared to do little to dampen enthusiasm for outdoor pints.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A Leeds landlord says his pub has had thousands of bookings for their outside area.\n\nScott Westlake, landlord of the Myrtle Tavern in Leeds, said the pub had received 5,000 bookings over the next month for his new outside eating and drinking area.\n\nMr Westlake said: \"If the weather's good, I think most people are optimistic and excited.\n\n\"Atmosphere, ambience, seeing your mates, I think they (customers) are looking forward to that more than anything - and they'll sit in a blizzard for the first few days at least.\"\n\nGroups of people sat at tables outside bars in the Northern Quarter of central Manchester\n\nDrinkers at the Still & West pub in Portsmouth came prepared for all weather\n\nTwo friends enjoy a celebratory drink at the Skylight roof top bar in London\n\nNicholas Hair, landlord and owner of the Kentish Belle pub in Bexleyheath, south-east London, said there was a \"sense of celebration\" in the early hours of Monday as it opened to midnight customers.\n\n\"I'm hoping that this is a sort of rebirth, and that we are reopen for the foreseeable,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile, a town in Lincolnshire has introduced its own European-style pavement cafes to help boost trade.\n\nSeveral hospitality venues in the market town of Louth have been allowed to put seating and tables outside to serve people during the day.\n\nLewis Phillips, general manager of the Masons Arms, which is one of the venues involved in the Louth scheme, said: \"We don't have a lovely big beer garden. So what we've got out the front here is absolutely brilliant.\"\n\nSeveral hospitality businesses in Louth are taking part in the scheme\n\nThe prime minister had planned to have a celebratory pint to mark the measures easing, but that was postponed following the death of the Duke of Edinburgh on Friday.\n\nHowever, Downing Street confirmed that Mr Johnson did have a haircut before he paid tribute to the duke in the House of Commons.\n\nThe PM had previously suggested he would prioritise a visit to the pub over a trip to the hairdressers\n\nMarika Smith, general manager of Hough End Leisure Centre, Withington, Manchester, said all of their swimming times were already fully booked on Monday.\n\nKelly Boad, owner of the Hair & Beauty Gallery in Warwick, opened her salon at midnight for a symbolic \"first cut\" of 2021, adding she is fully booked for the first few weeks.\n\nShoppers rushed back to the High Street, as queues formed outside branches of Primark, JD Sports and TK Maxx and retailers extended their opening hours.\n\nAnother business that reopened in England was Secret Spa, which offers at-home salon and spa treatments in London, Manchester and Brighton.\n\nCo-owner Emily Ewart-Perks said it had \"been such a long time coming\", saying: \"Everyone has really missed the social contact of the day-to-day job and making clients happy.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Long queues were not going to put shoppers off from visiting their favourite High Street retailers\n\nThe rule changes in England from Monday include:\n\nBut the British Beer and Pub Association has estimated that only 40% of licensed premises have the space to reopen for outdoor service.\n\nPeople flocked to salons after months without a haircut\n\nThrillseekers have been enjoying the rides at Thorpe Park in Surrey\n\nIn Northern Ireland, the remaining school year groups 8-11 returned to the classroom. The stay-at-home message has been lifted and up to 10 people from two households can meet in a private garden.\n\nIn Scotland, pupils at schools in six council areas went back to school but not everyone returned on Monday because differing term times mean some schools are still closed for the Easter holidays.\n\nAfter a drop in Covid cases prompted the Welsh Government to bring forward some dates for reopening, all students returned to face-to-face teaching on Monday.\n\nNon-essential shops can also reopen, close-contact services can resume, driving lessons can restart and travel in and out of Wales from the rest of the UK is allowed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Shopper in Liverpool: \"It means life has come back to normal again\"\n\nFamilies descended on London Zoo, which has also been closed for months\n\nShoppers, gym fans, domestic holiday makers, outdoor drinkers and diners, plus those in need of a haircut will share the government's hope that Monday is an irreversible step towards old and cherished freedoms.\n\nSo will the business owners who will be welcoming them back.\n\nBut this significant easing of lockdown is also an important test.\n\nWill customers want or be able to return in sufficient numbers for firms to break even and if they don't, what will it take to make the economy work again?\n\nOnly two in five hospitality venues have any outdoor space and the rules over future inside opening are still unclear.\n\nThe government and the opposition have distanced themselves from requiring Covid certificates for day-to-day life but the government has also hinted individual businesses may require them if they wish.\n\nHospitality chiefs have told the BBC they fear having to choose between two different ways to lose money - half-empty venues without certificates or full ones with extra staff and hassle to check Covid status.\n\nHairdressers are booked solid, retailers are hopeful of high footfall and are welcoming longer opening hours but some holiday parks are reporting subdued bookings as many of their public amenities remain closed.\n\nIt is a test for everyone - but a welcome one for most.\n\nIn a statement, the prime minister said the rule relaxations are \"a major step forward in our roadmap to freedom\".\n\n\"I'm sure it will be a huge relief for those business owners who have been closed for so long, and for everyone else it's a chance to get back to doing some of the things we love and have missed,\" he added.\n\n\"I urge everyone to continue to behave responsibly and remember 'hands, face, space and fresh air' to suppress Covid as we push on with our vaccination programme.\"\n\nUltimate Fitness Gym in Wallsend, north-east England, was among the businesses to have reopened early on Monday\n\nSynchronised swimmers are able to return to indoor pools, which can reopen, such as this one at Clissold Leisure Centre, north London\n\nThe rule changes in England marks the third easing since the country's third national lockdown began on 6 January.\n\nThere is a gap of at least five weeks between each step on the government's \"roadmap\" out of lockdown, to allow the impact of changes on infection rates and hospital admissions to be assessed.\n\nThe next significant date is 17 May, when up to six people from different households could be allowed to socialise indoors.\n\nMore than 32 million people in the UK have now had their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine and of those 7.6m have had their second dose, according to the latest government data.\n\nMeanwhile, 189,665 second doses were administered on Sunday - along with 69,223 first doses.\n\nSaturday marked a record total for second doses, with 475,230 given, while 111,109 were first doses.\n\nA further 13 people are reported to have died within 28 days of a positive Covid test, and there have been 3,568 new infections.\n\nThere can be a lag in reporting coronavirus statistics during weekends.\n\nMeanwhile, surge coronavirus testing is being rolled out in areas of Wandsworth and Lambeth in south London, where cases of the South Africa variant were found.\n\nAll identified cases are self-isolating or have completed their isolation, and their contacts have been traced and asked to self-isolate.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The rule of six applies for those visiting pubs and restaurants outdoors in England", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lockdown lifting in Liverpool: 'Today feels like New Year's Day'\n\n\"Exciting\", \"slightly scary\" and \"an absolute riot\" were some of the verdicts from drinkers enjoying their first night out in months as England reopened outdoor hospitality.\n\nIn London's Soho, locals welcomed seeing the West End \"buzzing again\" with life.\n\nThe streets were packed, with roads closed to give more space for al fresco drinking and dining.\n\nIn Newcastle, people said it was \"worth it\" to brave freezing pub terraces.\n\nOutdoor drinking and dining resumed on Monday for the first time since England's lockdown began on 5 January - although for millions of people who lived under tier 4 restrictions in December, the wait had been even longer.\n\nShops, hairdressers, gyms and zoos were among the other businesses reopening in England, while Northern Ireland's \"stay-at-home\" order was lifted and some rules were eased in Scotland and Wales.\n\nDespite flurries of snow in parts of the country, people flocked to pubs and restaurants to celebrate the return of some of their freedoms.\n\n\"It's full everywhere, It feels like a celebration, basically,\" one drinker told the BBC.\n\n\"Honestly it feels so good, it feels like we're out of prison. We're celebrating a birthday, so it's the best gift, I guess,\" said another.\n\nA woman, who has lived in Soho for 15 years, said it was \"amazing, it's lovely just to see people out, to have life around us, I've missed it so much\".\n\n\"Just to see it buzzing again is beautiful and to see all the local businesses come alive again, it's great,\" she said.\n\nAttila Kulcsar, a media communications manager, said the atmosphere was \"like a return to the 'real' Soho of the 1990s\" - or alternatively \"like how I imagine VE Day\", referring to the scenes of jubilation at the end of World War Two.\n\n\"There is a wonderfully raucous hysteria everywhere. It's very celebratory. There is very little social distancing. A distinct sense that people feel the Covid restrictions have ended,\" he said.\n\nPolice and Covid marshalls were present, he said, but they were not intervening to try to enforce social distancing.\n\nDrinkers in Soho said the atmosphere was celebratory\n\nThe pints kept coming late into the night\n\nIn the Northern Quarter of central Manchester, groups enjoyed drinks as the night drew in\n\nWestminster Council said it was aware of \"isolated incidents of crowding\" but said it had been working with businesses to help them operate safely, including having Covid marshalls offering support with social distancing.\n\nSome described a few anxious moments at the prospect of crowded places for the first time in months. \"But as soon as you sit down to have a beer, it's an absolute riot,\" said one man. \"It's quite overwhelming, but in a good way,\" added his companion.\n\nMany people said they welcomed the crowds and were not concerned about the risk of Covid spreading. Some said they had already been vaccinated, while one group said they had taken rapid lateral flow tests beforehand as a precaution and that being outside reduced the risk of infection.\n\nProfessor Adam Finn, a paediatrician on the Joint Committee for Vaccination and Immunisation, said people should continue to practise social distancing despite the success of the vaccine programme.\n\nAsked on BBC Breakfast whether he would go to a beer garden in the current circumstances, he said: \"If I did, I would certainly avoid close contact with other people.\n\n\"The risks of transmission outside are relatively low, but not if you start coming into very close contact with people. It's not like it's all over, we can all go back to normal.\"\n\nEarlier on Monday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson had urged people to \"continue to behave responsibly\" as the restrictions were eased.\n\nProf Lawrence Young, a virologist and medical oncologist, said the drop in infections in the UK was not only due to the progress in vaccinations, but also because of lockdown restrictions.\n\nThat meant it was important to remain cautious, even on a \"joyous day\" like this, he said.\n\n\"We can't ignore what's going on in the rest of the world - every other day new variants are being reported and infection is rife,\" he said.\n\nIn Newcastle-upon-Tyne, some revellers shrugged off the \"Arctic\" temperatures. \"To be honest, it's quite nice, it's quite cosy,\" said one man sitting in a sheltered terrace. \"We're from the north so we're used to it.\"\n\nA group of women said they had layered up to brave the elements. \"It was really snowing earlier. But I think it's worth it,\" one said.\n\nRobby Scott, managing director of Babucho, an Italian restaurant and bar, said: \"It just sums up 2020 and 2021 that we finally get to open our doors for outdoor dining and we get an Arctic storm. But I don't think people would care at the moment.\"\n\nBut some business owners warned that they cannot survive on the takings from outdoor hospitality alone.\n\nJeremy Joseph, owner of G-A-Y in Soho, said the reopening was \"bittersweet\" as even with the streets crowded, they could only operate at just over 10% of their usual indoor capacity.\n\n\"It's not making money, all we are doing is reducing our losses,\" he told the BBC.\n\nHe said the nightclub had lost about £1.3m in the pandemic and bills were \"continually coming in\".\n\n\"Outside hospitality is not going to cover it,\" he said, adding that the recovery would begin for him on 17 May, when indoor hospitality is expected to resume.\n\nDid you go to a pub or restaurant last night? 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.", "Chinese J-10 fighters were among the Chinese aircraft (file photo)\n\nTaiwan has said a record number of Chinese military jets flew into its air defence zone on Monday.\n\nThe defence ministry said 25 aircraft including fighters and nuclear-capable bombers entered its so-called air defence identification zone (ADIZ) on Monday.\n\nThe incursion is the largest in a year and comes as the US warns against an \"increasingly aggressive China\".\n\nHowever, democratic Taiwan sees itself as a sovereign state.\n\nThe latest Chinese mission involved 18 fighter jets, as well as four bombers, which can carry nuclear weapons, two anti-submarine aircraft and an early warning aircraft, Taiwan said.\n\nThe defence ministry added they dispatched combat aircraft to warn the Chinese jets, while missile systems were deployed to monitor them.\n\nChina has carried out regular flights over the international waters between the southern part of Taiwan and the Taiwanese-controlled Pratas Islands in the South China Sea in recent months.\n\nMonday's incursion also saw the jets fly into the ADIZ to the south-west of Taiwan near the Pratas Islands.\n\nThe latest incident came a day after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the United States was concerned about China's \"increasingly aggressive actions\" towards Taiwan.\n\nIn an interview with NBC he reiterated that the US had a legal commitment to Taiwan and said Washington would \"make sure Taiwan has the ability to defend itself\", adding that it would be a \"serious mistake for anyone to try to change the status quo by force\".\n\nThe news of China's nuclear-capable bombers flying ever closer to Taiwan, in larger numbers each time, has left the world wondering what Beijing is doing.\n\nThere's been speculation ranging from intimidation to a trial run for an actual attack.\n\nSome have also seen it as China pushing back against the United States which has been boosting links with Taipei and moving its navy around the region.\n\nHowever, each time Chinese jets fly these missions, they are pushing the line in terms of where the limit might be that would prompt a more deadly response from Taiwan's armed forces.\n\nThere is much we don't know about Beijing's intentions and much analysis has been guess-work, but here is something that we do know: If you look at the Taiwan-related propaganda inside mainland China it is clearly ramping up, celebrating the might of the PLA air force and decrying enemies on this rogue island.\n\nThe most concerning thing is the possibility that this is being used to gradually soften up the population to the idea of an actual invasion of Taiwan.\n\nAnalysts say Beijing is becoming increasingly concerned that Taiwan's government is moving the island towards a formal declaration of independence and wants to warn President Tsai Ing-wen against taking steps in that direction.\n\nPresident Tsai, however, has repeatedly said that Taiwan is already an independent state, making any formal declaration unnecessary.\n\nThe island has its own constitution, military, and democratically elected leaders.\n\nChina has not ruled out the possible use of force to achieve unification with Taiwan.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police release footage of arrest and shooting of Daunte Wright.\n\nThe fatal shooting of a black man by a police officer in the US city of Brooklyn Center in Minnesota was an accident, the police chief has said.\n\nDaunte Wright, 20, was shot after the officer meant to use a Taser, but mistakenly drew her gun instead, Chief Tim Gannon told reporters.\n\nThe officer was later named as Kim Potter who has worked for Brooklyn Center Police for 26 years.\n\nMr Wright's death has sparked protests and a curfew has been declared.\n\nLate on Monday, crowds defied the curfew to gather for a second night outside Brooklyn Center Police headquarters. Witnesses said some threw fireworks and bottles at officers who responded with tear gas and stun grenades.\n\nTensions in nearby Minneapolis are high as the trial of an ex-officer accused of killing George Floyd continues.\n\nDaunte Wright was pulled over on Sunday for a traffic violation, but there was a struggle when he tried to get back into his car.\n\nAt a news conference on Monday, Chief Gannon played a short video from the body camera worn by a policewoman, which shows Mr Wright trying to get back into his car as officers attempt to handcuff him on the side of the road.\n\nAn officer can then be heard saying \"Taser, Taser, Taser\" - normal police procedure before firing one of the stun guns. Mr Wright is seen to get into his car and drive away, while the same officer says: \"Holy shit, I just shot him\".\n\nDaunte Wright's mother, Katie, said her son called her as he was being pulled over by police\n\n\"It is my belief the officer meant to deploy their Taser but shot him with a single bullet,\" Chief Gannon said, adding: \"There's nothing I can say to lessen the pain.\"\n\nThe officer has been placed on administrative leave - meaning she is paid while investigations take place.\n\nAt the same news conference, Brooklyn Center Mayor Mike Elliott said he would do everything in his power to \"ensure justice is done for Daunte Wright\".\n\n\"Our hearts are aching right now, we are in pain right now. We recognise this couldn't have happened at a worse time. This is happening at a time that all of our community, all of America, indeed all of the world is watching,\" he said.\n\nAngry protests erupted in Brooklyn Center on Sunday night as news of Mr Wright's death spread.\n\nHundreds of protesters chanting his name gathered late outside the police headquarters.\n\nAbout 20 businesses in a nearby shopping centre were later broken into, the StarTribune reported, with sporadic looting spreading to parts of Minneapolis.\n\nIt prompted authorities to enforce an overnight curfew on Sunday night, and on Monday, the mayors of Minneapolis and neighbouring St Paul declared a local state of emergency. Another curfew is in place from 19:00 to 06:00 local time across the two cities.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police used tear gas and flash bangs on Sunday night to disperse protesters\n\nAs darkness fell on Monday, riot police ordered protesters to disperse but the crowd remained, CBS reported. Police then began deploying gas canisters and stun grenades, reporters at the scene said.\n\nMembers of the Minnesota National Guard, already deployed for the trial on murder charges of Derek Chauvin, have also been sent to Brooklyn Center.\n\nNational ice hockey, basketball and baseball games that were due to take place on Monday night were postponed.\n\nOne sign at the protest captured the mood: \"During the trial!!?\" it read in bright orange letters.\n\n\"It's ridiculous,\" said the young man carrying it. \"They know they have a delicate relationship with the black community right now and they should look to be making amends, not this.\"\n\nCity officials had said the shooting could not have happened at a worse time, with tensions high over the George Floyd case.\n\nSome protesters threw bottles and shot fireworks toward police lines. They vented their rage as officers in riot gear stood impassively. \"You took his life, for what?\" screamed a young woman.\n\n\"He was a son, he was a father, he was a black man that deserved to live.\" \"Do you know the difference between a gun and a taser?\" shouted someone else. \"Hell yeah,\" roared the crowd, scorning the police chief's belief that the shooting was a tragic mistake.\n\n\"There's no room for accidents,\" said one man. \"The fact is that we lost another young black male to a police officer.'\n\nMr Wright's mother, Katie, said her heart had been \"broken in a thousand pieces... I miss him so much\".\n\n\"He was my life, he was my son and I can never get that back,\" she said on Monday. \"Because of a mistake? Because of an accident?\"\n\nEarlier, she told how her son had called her during the traffic stop. He said he had been pulled over because of \"air fresheners hanging from his rear-view mirror\". She said she then heard scuffling and the phone line was cut.\n\n\"A minute later, I called and his girlfriend answered, who was the passenger in the car, and said that he'd been shot... and my son was laying there lifeless.\"\n\nThe trial of Derek Chauvin over the death of George Floyd has been under way in the city for two weeks now.\n\nMr Chauvin was filmed kneeling on Mr Floyd's neck for more than nine minutes during an arrest operation in Minneapolis last May.\n\nThe footage of the incident sparked global protests against racism.\n\nThe trial is now into its third week and law enforcement officials have been bracing for possible unrest once the jury reaches a verdict.\n\nGeorge Floyd's death sparked waves of protests around the city, many peaceful but some violent with hundreds of buildings damaged.\n• None Why was trial over George Floyd killing so important?", "A Cookstown teenager has teamed up with the Afghan Women’s Orchestra to star in a music video aimed at peace-building and supporting women's rights.\n\nCara Monaghan will perform on the song Gham Be Haya with Afghanistan’s first women's orchestra - also known as Ensemble Zohra - as part of a partnership with local charity Beyond Skin, funded by the Community Relations Council.\n\nSince recording the song, the Ministry of Education in Afghanistan has banned girls older than 12 from singing in public arenas.\n\nThe campaign #IAmMySong has been launched to reverse this decision.\n\nCara, who's 16, has had a heart condition since birth.\n\nShe underwent life-saving surgeries as a child and said the condition led her to discover her passion for music.", "Brandon Lewis said the decision not to prosecute anyone over the Bobby Storey funeral had a \"very substantial impact\"\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) and Policing Board need to reconnect with communities and build and restore trust, NI Secretary Brandon Lewis has said.\n\nHe said the decision not to charge anyone over the Bobby Storey funeral had a \"very substantial impact\".\n\nMr Lewis was addressing Parliament in the wake of recent rioting.\n\nAlmost 90 police officers have been injured, although recent nights have been quiet.\n\nSome violence has also been linked to police operations targeting the South East Antrim UDA, a paramilitary group involved in organised crime.\n\nMr Lewis told the House of Commons on Tuesday that 88 police officers had been injured in the violence, with 18 arrests made and 15 people charged.\n\nChurch leaders have said the causes of the recent violence were complex and deep-rooted\n\nHe said that in the wake of the Bobby Storey funeral decision, there was a \"very important role for the PSNI and Policing Board to be working with communities to restore and build that trust\".\n\nHe said the decision that was made has had \"a very substantial impact\".\n\nMr Lewis added that there was work that the PSNI and Policing Board \"need to do to reconnect with communities, to show communities that they are there, the PSNI is there for the safety and protection of everybody across the entire community of Northern Ireland\".\n\nAmid calls for the convening of a British-Irish summit to discuss the violence, Mr Lewis said he would look at the \"appropriate time\" for another meeting of the British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference (BIIGC), but he added policing was a devolved matter and did not fall under the remit of the BIIGC.\n\nViolence erupted in many parts of Northern Ireland over the past week\n\nThe lack of trouble in recent nights has been linked to the death of the Duke of Edinburgh, although there were disturbances in Belfast and Coleraine on Friday night, hours after his death was announced.\n\nSaturday also marked the 23rd anniversary of the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, which signalled an end to years of sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe rioting has largely seen youths throwing bricks, fireworks and petrol bombs at lines of police officers and vehicles.\n\nMr Lewis travelled to Belfast last week for a series of political and civic society meetings in the wake of the violence, and was in Northern Ireland again on Monday.\n\nIt comes as church leaders penned an open letter appealing for politicians to provide a unified response to the recent \"heartbreaking\" scenes of violence, saying its causes are complex and deep-rooted.\n\nTheir plea is addressed to Northern Ireland ministers, the British and Irish governments and the European Union.\n\nOn Monday, the Church Leaders' Group (Ireland), which wrote the open letter, met PSNI Chief Constable Simon Byrne - who has faced calls from unionist political leaders to resign - to express concern for injured officers.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Churches in Ireland This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 Churches in Ireland\n\nThey have called for the \"entire\" Northern Ireland Executive to approach the EU and UK government to deal with the fallout of Brexit and the Irish Sea border, and for politicians to express their support for the PSNI.\n\nThe letter stated the intensity of the violence directed at police had been \"horrific\".\n\nIt said the PSNI had a political legitimacy across the community which is enjoyed by few other institutions.\n\n\"It is vital that we address concerns in a way that strengthens our democratic processes rather than undermining them,\" they added.\n\nThe letter was signed by the Reverend John McDowell and Archbishop Eamon Martin, the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland and the Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland respectively, as well as the Reverend Dr David Bruce, moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, the Reverend Dr Tom McKnight, president of the Methodist Church in Ireland, and the Reverend Dr Ivan Patterson, president of the Irish Council of Churches.\n\n\"As Christian Church leaders from across the island of Ireland, we appeal to our political leaders to come together in a unified response to the heartbreaking scenes witnessed on our streets last week and renew their commitment to peace, reconciliation and the protection of the most vulnerable,\" the letter states.\n\nFormer SDLP leader, Baroness Ritchie, raised the recent violence in the House of Lords on Tuesday\n\nIn the House of Commons on Tuesday, Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) MP Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said the violence was not justified.\n\nHe said the issue was trust, and that taking the peace process forward has to be built on trust.\n\n\"That trust was broken in relation to the findings of the Bobby Storey funeral and it has undermined people's trust and confidence in policing and justice in Northern Ireland and there is a two-tier policing system in the eyes of some and that needs to be addressed,\" he said.\n\nParty colleague Ian Paisley said the Bobby Storey funeral decision was the \"straw that broke the camel's back\", but the Northern Ireland Protocol lies at the heart of the issue.\n\nHe said \"all the condemnation in the world will not make that violence go away until actions are taken\".\n\nDemocratic Unionist Party (DUP) MP Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said the violence was not justified\n\nAlliance MP Stephen Farry expressed his \"full support for the PSNI, including the chief constable\".\n\nHe said an EU-UK veterinary agreement would \"take the heat\" out of the controversy around the NI Protocol.\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood said that while policing was devolved, peace was not, and he pressed the secretary of state to hold a meeting of the BIIGC.\n\nThe situation was also earlier raised in the House of Lords by former SDLP leader Baroness Ritchie, who also asked about a British-Irish meeting.\n\nConservative frontbencher Viscount Younger of Leckie said a range of options was being considered, including the BIIGC.\n\n\"Nothing is off the table,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile, Sinn Féin's national chairman and MLA Declan Kearney has accused the DUP of reckless behaviour and \"political vandalism\" against the Good Friday Agreement.\n\n\"The Good Friday Agreement is under renewed assault from those who have always rejected power sharing and the DUP is directly responsible,\" he said.\n\nMr Kearney added that \"bellicose rhetoric\" from the DUP, including the call for Mr Byrne's resignation, was a \"wrecker's charter\".", "An graphical impression of the temporary structures which will hold the crowds and performers\n\nThe Edinburgh International Festival will return to the capital this summer with huge outdoor marquees to stage events.\n\nThree temporary structures, designed for live performance, will be erected in Edinburgh Park and Edinburgh University's Old College Quad.\n\nThe shows will be shorter with no intervals at this year's festival, which runs between 7 and 29 August.\n\nThe programme will be announced on Wednesday 2 June.\n\nOrganisers are optimistic about the festival's return despite continued cancellations of other events.\n\nLater on Tuesday the organisers of the Braemar Gathering said the risk of Covid meant it would be unable to take place this September.\n\nSome of the performances for the Edinburgh International Festival will be streamed online for free during each week.\n\nEdinburgh International Festival director, Fergus Linehan, said: \"We appreciate that these first steps back to live performances will be for audiences closer to home but are delighted to offer a parallel programme of digital work for those further afield.\"\n\nThe festival offered a digital programme of events during lockdown restrictions last year\n\nEdinburgh council officials said it would be \"fantastic\" for audiences to enjoy live performances again.\n\nDonald Wilson, City of Edinburgh Council's culture and communities convener, said: \"After the challenging year we've all had and the disappointment of not being able to enjoy the festival in the usual way last year, it will be fantastic for audiences to share in the live performance experience again with an exceptional outdoor pavilions programme for local audiences alongside the festival's online offering.\"\n\nIain Munro, Creative Scotland's chief executive, added that that the country's \"art and creative sector had been hit hard by covid and its effects continue to have an impact\",\n\nHe added: \"However, it has been truly remarkable how artists and creative organisations across Scotland have adapted to continue to deliver creative work for audiences.\"\n\nThe shows will be shorter with no intervals at this year's festival", "The homes of Frank and Christine Lampard, Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha and Tamara Ecclestone and her husband were broken into in December 2019\n\nAn Italian man has been convicted over his role in one of the biggest domestic burglaries in English legal history.\n\nWatches and jewellery belonging to Frank Lampard, Tamara Ecclestone and the late Leicester City chairman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha were among the items taken during a series of burglaries in December 2019.\n\nAlessandro Donati, 43, from Milan, pleaded guilty at Isleworth Crown Court to conspiracy to burgle.\n\nHe will be sentenced at a later date.\n\nDonati was arrested in Italy under a European Arrest Warrant in October and extradited to the UK the following month.\n\nWith the assistance of an Italian interpreter, he admitted to conspiring to burgle dwellings between 30 November 2019 and 18 December 2019.\n\nThe home of the former Chelsea manager and England international Mr Lampard was the first to be raided on 1 December.\n\nTamara Ecclestone's Kensington mansion was raided on 13 December 2019 as she flew out for a Christmas family holiday\n\nA diamond watch, cufflinks and a clock worth an estimated £60,000 were taken.\n\nThen on 10 December, a Knightsbridge property belonging to the Srivaddhanaprabha family was targeted.\n\nIt was duty free billionaire Leicester City owner Mr Srivaddhanaprabha's home before his death in a helicopter crash outside the King Power Stadium in October 2018.\n\nThis time, 400,000 euros in cash was taken, as well as expensive watches.\n\nThe final burglary, on the palatial home near Kensington Palace that socialite Ms Ecclestone shares with her husband Jay Rutland, saw about £25m worth of valuables stolen.\n\nMs Ecclestone, the daughter of ex-Formula 1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone, was on a Christmas family holiday in Lapland with Mr Rutland, their daughter and their dog at the time.\n\nJudge Martin Edmunds QC remanded Donati in custody ahead of a sentencing date yet to be fixed.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The £140 fee to apply for a gender recognition certificate will be cut to \"single figures\" from next month, according to government sources.\n\nMinisters pledged in September to slash the cost of legally changing gender after deciding against wider reforms.\n\nWhile cost has been cited as a barrier to applying, some LGBT groups say more work is needed.\n\nThe government is working \"at speed\" to make the process more straightforward, a spokesman said.\n\nA consultation was set up in 2018 to explore potential reforms to the way trans people can apply for a gender recognition certificate in England and Wales. This allows someone's acquired gender to be recorded on their birth and marriage certificates.\n\nThe existing process - which requires two medical reports - had been criticised as costly and bureaucratic, with fewer than 5,000 people successfully obtaining a GRC prior to the consultation.\n\nOne option was to remove the medical diagnosis element for England and Wales, and allow people to legally change gender through what's sometimes known as self-identification. This was the subject of a highly-charged debate.\n\nEqualities Minister Liz Truss said the application process needed to be made \"kinder and more straightforward\"\n\nIn September 2020, the government announced it would not fundamentally reform the process, arguing that the \"balance struck\" in the existing legislation was \"correct\".\n\nThe Women and Equalities Minister, Liz Truss, said that there were \"proper checks and balances in the system\".\n\nBut she did promise to make applying \"kinder and more straightforward\", including reducing the fee from £140.\n\nThe cost of applying will fall to about £5 from the start of May, government sources say.\n\nMaking the service completely free would take longer because it would require primary legislation, they added.\n\nNancy Kelley, chief executive of LGBT charity Stonewall, said any fee \"creates a barrier for some trans people\".\n\n\"It's also important that the government commit to a clear timeline of further changes to streamline the application process, and move it online. However, none of these changes are a substitute for meaningful reform to the Gender Recognition Act,\" she said.\n\nLee Clatworthy from national transgender charity Sparkle said that the process remains \"overly long-winded\" and a reduction in cost \"won't compel more to apply\".\n\nThe Equalities Office said: \"The government is committed to making the process of applying for a Gender Recognition Certificate as straightforward and dignified as possible.\n\n\"We are progressing work at speed to simplify this process as well as reducing the fee and further details will be available imminently.\"\n\nMinisters have also pledged to move the whole procedure online, but sources say that is not likely to happen by early May.\n\nWhile the fee reduction is understood to be UK-wide, the consultation does not affect how the gender recognition system operates in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Scottish government has done its own consultation.", "Susan Waring has not been seen since January 2019\n\nThe family of a mother-of-five who was killed by her boyfriend have called on him to reveal where her body is as he was jailed for life for her murder.\n\nAlan Edwards, 48, was ordered to serve a minimum of 27 years at Preston Crown Court for the murder of Susan Waring, whose body has never been found.\n\nHe had claimed he last saw her outside his flat in Darwen on 30 January 2019.\n\nIn a statement, her family said their \"one final request\" was for him \"to tell us where our beloved Susan is\".\n\nMs Waring was last seen shopping with Edwards in Darwen on 29 January.\n\nEdwards, who denied being violent with his girlfriend, claimed during his trial that he kissed her goodbye a day later and never saw her again.\n\nMs Waring's mother reported her missing several days later but her whereabouts are still unknown.\n\nThe prosecution said Edwards was a \"bully\" who killed Ms Waring, disposed of her body and then attempted to cover his tracks.\n\nHis trial heard a forensic examination of Edwards' Blackburn Road flat found blood in numerous locations, with more than 100 spots and traces of Ms Waring's DNA discovered on a rubber Halloween skull mask he was believed to have worn while he attacked her.\n\nAlan Edwards has been ordered to serve a minimum of 27 years in prison\n\nIn a statement read in court, her brother Peter Waring said that as \"a grieving family, we make one final request for Alan Edwards to tell us where our beloved Susan is, so we can have closure\".\n\n\"The last two years have simply been hell for us,\" he said.\n\n\"A nightmare that has continued to cause us turmoil every day.\n\n\"Alan Edwards clearly manipulated Susan, preyed on her vulnerability and used her as a punchbag.\n\n\"This evil man has denied any wrongdoing and has told constant lies about his offending.\"\n\nMore than 100 spots and traces of Ms Waring's DNA were discovered on a rubber Halloween skull mask\n\nSentencing him to life, Mr Justice James Goss said during a \"brief relationship\" with the 45-year-old, Edwards had been \"controlling and violent\".\n\n\"You murdered Susan Waring, [though] precisely what you did and how is known only to you,\" he said.\n\n\"She was blind in one eye, suffered from poor health and had learning difficulties.\n\n\"There is no doubt she was frightened of and dominated by you.\"\n\nSpeaking after the hearing, Det Ch Insp Pauline Stables said while she was \"glad to get justice for Susan's family... their suffering continues whilst her body remains missing\".\n\nAppealing for information about the whereabouts of Ms Waring's remains, she added that Edwards \"continues to deny Susan's murder and as such, is not revealing where he disposed of her body\".\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.", "Drivers in crowded cities should think twice before buying a big SUV, says the head of a motoring organisation.\n\nSteve Gooding, from the RAC Foundation, said: \"We should all choose the right vehicle for the right trip to cut the size of our carbon footprint.\n\n\"It is right to question if suburban drivers need a car capable of ploughing over rivers, across fields and up steep hills just to pop to the shops.\"\n\nHis comments come as research confirms most SUVs are bought by urban drivers.\n\nIt shows that large SUVs - often known as Chelsea tractors - are indeed most prevalent in places such as Chelsea.\n\nThey are typically defined by their extreme size, and off-road features such as high ground clearance and four wheel drive.\n\nThey often face complaints from other road users about their bulk and their pollution - especially during the school run.\n\nThe report from the think-tank New Weather Institute said: \"The numbers stand up long-held suspicions that these vehicles ostensibly designed for off-road are actually marketed successfully to urban users where their big size and higher pollution levels are a worse problem.\"\n\nThe report says areas where SUV owners dominate are also the places where road space is most scarce, and where the highest proportion of cars are parked on the street. It says many large SUVs are too big for a standard UK parking space.\n\nAndrew Simms, from the New Weather Institute, said: \"It turns out that the home of the 'Chelsea tractor' really is Chelsea. One of advertising's biggest manipulations has persuaded urban families that it's perfectly 'normal' to go shopping in a two-tonne truck.\n\n\"But the human health and climate damage done by SUVs is huge and needs to be undone. Just as tobacco advertising was successfully ended, it's time to stop promoting polluting SUV's.\"\n\nThe UK Citizens' Assembly on climate change has supported restrictions on SUVs. But motoring organisations said the analysis was too simplistic.\n\nWhile Mr Gooding supported the principle of making appropriate choices of vehicles, he told the BBC it was wrong to protest against medium sized cars that look like SUVs but don't clog the streets and are economical to run.\n\n\"The term SUV has become so broad as to be unhelpful,\" he said. \"(Some) motorists might just be seeking the comfort and convenience of relatively tall but still modestly-sized cars that come with the SUV badge but are economical to run.\n\n\"The popularity of the SUV body-style looks like it's going to be with us for some time as some auto companies have already released fully electric versions with more to come later this year.\"\n\nEdmund King, from the AA, told the BBC: \"Talk of banning the advertising of SUVs is a naïve approach. Some of the cleanest cars come in the SUV shape but are all electric such as the Jaguar I-Pace, Tesla Model X or Hyundai Kona.\n\n\"The auto industry is developing a wide range of cleaner, greener vehicles with some of the best in SUV styles,\" he said. \"Not all SUVs are large. Small SUVs are among the most popular cars on sale, because they usually offer the high-set driving position, practicality, safety and looks of more traditional off-roaders, but without the high price, running costs or emissions.\"\n\nHe added: \"Cars like the Nissan Juke are often the family car of choice in suburban areas.\"\n\nThe report says advertisers have misled consumers by pushing messages around SUVs such as 'get back to nature' and 'help the environment'.\n\nThe authors have written to the advertising agency Spark44, which runs multiple SUV campaigns, asking them to outline how they plan to meet the UK government's climate change targets.\n\nThe agency says it can't supply a response because it hasn't had long enough to consider the report properly.\n\nA study by the International Energy Agency said increasing demand for SUVs is the second biggest contributor to the growth in carbon emissions.\n\nAnnual emissions from SUVs rose to more than 700 megatonnes of CO2, and if SUV drivers were a country, they would be the seventh in the world for carbon emissions.", "Last updated on .From the section Golf\n\nTiger Woods was driving close to double the 45mph speed limit when he crashed in February, according to Los Angeles County's sheriff.\n\nThe 15-time major champion, 45, had to be \"extricated from the wreck\" of his car by firefighters and paramedics.\n\nWoods' car left the road at about 84-87mph and flipped several times during the accident in California.\n\nWoods was released from hospital earlier this month after sustaining a number of serious injuries.\n\nThere was no evidence Woods had been impaired by drugs or alcohol at the time of the crash.\n\nLA County sheriff Alex Villanueva said: \"The primary causal factor for this traffic collision was driving at a speed unsafe for the road conditions and the inability to negotiate the curve of the roadway.\"\n\nWoods' car crossed the centre-divider before coming to rest several hundred feet away, having hit a tree and rolling several times during the accident in Ranchos Palos Verdes.\n\nThe American required surgery after suffering open leg fractures as well as injuries to his foot and ankle.\n\nIn addition to the speed at the first area of impact occurring at up to 87mph, sheriff Villanueva added the \"estimated speed when the vehicle struck the tree was 75mph\".\n\nLASD Captain James Powers said: \"The car's so-called 'black box' data recorder showed Woods engaged the accelerator and never applied the brake during the incident. That could indicate he may have mistakenly hit the wrong pedal while trying to control the car.\"\n\nPowers added: \"It's believed that when you panic or you have some sort of sudden interruption while you're driving, your initial thought is to hit the brake and it's believed he may have done that but hit the accelerator.\"\n\nThere were were no citations issued because there were no witnesses to the incident.\n\nWoods tweeted his thanks on Wednesday to those who assisted his rescue, adding: \"I will continue to focus on my recovery and family, and thank everyone for the overwhelming support and encouragement I've received throughout this very difficult time.\"\n\nThe former world number one and 2019 Masters champion, who the LASD said was \"fortunate to be alive\" following the incident on 23 February, was the sole occupant in his vehicle and was wearing his seatbelt.\n\nWoods was involved in a car crash in November 2009 which eventually led to admissions of infidelity and the breakdown of his marriage. He then took a break from golf but returned shortly afterwards.\n\nIn 2017, he was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence when he was found asleep at the wheel of his car. He later pleaded guilty to reckless driving.\n• None Why are we the exception to the norm when it comes to sex?\n• None Six life lessons the four-legged friends could teach us", "Under the plans, existing buildings at Leeds Bradford Airport would be demolished and a new terminal built\n\nA £150m proposal to redevelop Leeds Bradford Airport has been delayed to allow Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick more time to consider it.\n\nPlans to demolish existing buildings and build a new terminal were approved by Leeds City Council in February.\n\nBut that decision was referred to the government after objectors said it would contribute to climate change.\n\nThe government said it needed time to allow for \"proper consideration\" of requests for the plan to be called in.\n\nA date for a final decision has not been set, but the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has put in place an order which prevents Leeds City Council from granting planning permission without special authorisation.\n\nLeeds Bradford Airport said the new terminal was not an expansion as it could already expand passenger numbers with its existing facilities.\n\nIt added that the replacement building would be a more efficient and sustainable development helping it to achieve its carbon net-zero goals by 2023.\n\nCampaigners had urged councillors to reject the £150m scheme for Leeds Bradford Airport\n\nA spokesman for Leeds Bradford Airport said: \"We acknowledge the deadline extension and hope the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government will uphold Leeds City Council's approval for our replacement terminal, which will deliver thousands of new jobs and support the region's economy.\"\n\nThe airport estimates the project will support 12,650 permanent jobs across the Leeds City Region, as well as creating 850 construction-related jobs.\n\nThe site handles about four million passengers annually and has already been granted permission to increase that to seven million over a 10-year-period.\n\nIn July 2020, a group of climate scientists warned the expanded airport's greenhouse gas emissions would be higher than those allowed for the whole of Leeds in 10 years' time.\n\nEnvironmental campaigners Greenpeace said the delay over a final decision on the redevelopment plans was a sign the government was \"starting to clock the catastrophic impacts of this proposed expansion\".\n\nRebecca Newsom, Greenpeace UK's head of politics, said: \"But we're just months away from hosting critical global climate talks, and this climate-wrecking mega project is clearly incompatible with our plans to cut emissions, so why only delay the decision and not just call it in now?\"\n\nMeanwhile, in a tweet, the Group for Action on Leeds Bradford Airport, said: \"No airport anywhere should expand. Delaying this decision is good news.\"\n\nMr Jenrick's decision to - in effect - kick this local issue into the long grass has national significance because seven other airports as well as Leeds Bradford also want to expand their operations. They'll all be less optimistic now.\n\nTo be clear, the Leeds plan isn't dead. But it doesn't bode well for the airport that Mr Jenrick says he needs more time to decide whether to kill it or not.\n\nHis note to the airport didn't spell out his reasoning, but it's reasonable to assume Mr Jenrick wanted to avoid another bruising like the one he suffered recently after tacitly approving a plan for a coal mine in Cumbria.\n\nHe was forced into a U-turn on that issue.\n\nSo when will we get a final ruling? The government won't say, but my guess is we'll have to wait for the government's transport decarbonisation strategy due in the coming months that will show how all emissions from transport can be reduced.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.", "China's one-child policy started in the 1980s to slow population growth, with some exemptions eventually coming about.\n\nIn recent years it's been relaxed to allow families' to have two children. But, faced with an ageing population, the north-east could be the first region to drop restrictions all together.\n\nHowever, it's uncertain if this will encourage young families to have more babies, as China Correspondent Stephen McDonell has been finding out.\n\nDigital edit by Joyce Liu, produced by Ellen Jin and filmed by Alex Shaw", "A trial of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid vaccine on children has stopped giving out jabs while the UK's medicines regulator investigates a possible link with rare blood clots in adults.\n\nProf Andrew Pollard from the University of Oxford told the BBC there were no safety concerns with the trial itself, but its scientists were waiting for further information.\n\nEarlier, PM Boris Johnson said people should get their jab when invited.\n\nMore than 31.6 million people in the UK have had a first vaccine dose and a total of 5.4 million people have received a second dose.\n\nTwo vaccines - developed by Oxford-AstraZeneca and Pfizer-BioNtech - are being used in the UK, while a third - from Moderna - has been approved.\n\nThe trial of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine on children, which started in February, is assessing whether the jab produces a strong immune response in those aged between six and 17.\n\nIts suspension comes after a European Medicines Agency (EMA) official, speaking in a personal capacity, said there appeared to be a link with the jab and rare blood clots.\n\nConfirming that the trial on children was being paused, Prof Pollard said: \"Whilst there are no safety concerns in the paediatric clinical trial, we await additional information from the MHRA on its review of rare cases of thrombosis/thrombocytopaenia that have been reported in adults, before giving any further vaccinations in the trial.\"\n\nParticipants are advised to continue to attend all scheduled visits and can contact the trial sites if they have any questions.\n\nUpdates from the EMA and the UK's regulator, the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), are expected in the coming days.\n\nThe EMA said its safety committee had \"not yet reached a conclusion and the review is currently ongoing\".\n\nThe MHRA says the benefits of the jab continue to outweigh any risk.\n\nAll medicines, from vaccines to paracetamol, have the potential to cause severe side effects.\n\nThe seasonal flu jab has around a one-in-a-million chance of causing the nerve disorder Guillain-Barre syndrome, for example.\n\nThe key question is whether the risks are worth the benefits.\n\nEven if the vaccine was the cause, and this is still not proven, the numbers suggest around one death in every 2.5 million people vaccinated in the UK.\n\nFor everyone over the age of 75 infected there is one death per eight Covid infections.\n\nFor those in their 40s it is one death per 1,000.\n\nSo on the face of it, the risk-benefit ratio is clearly in favour of vaccination - if you assume you are going to be infected at some point.\n\nBut what is needed now is more information about who has been suffering from these rare blood clots. How old are they? Do they have any underlying health conditions that could explain what happened?\n\nThis will help narrow down the scale of any potential risks.\n\nAn update from the UK regulator - as well as the European one - is expected in the coming days.\n\nDuring a visit to the AstraZeneca manufacturing plant in Macclesfield, Cheshire, earlier on Tuesday, Mr Johnson defended its vaccine.\n\n\"On the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, the best thing people should do is look at what the MHRA say, our independent regulator - that's why we have them, that's why they are independent,\" said Mr Johnson, who has received the first dose of the vaccine himself.\n\n\"Their advice to people is to keep going out there, get your jab, get your second jab.\"\n\nThe prime minister added: \"The best thing of all is to vaccinate our population, get everybody out getting the jab, that's the key thing and that's what I would advocate, number one.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The PM on the safety of the AstraZeneca jab\n\nThe MHRA is investigating reports of a very rare and specific type of blood clot in the brain, known as cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST), occurring together with low levels of platelets (thrombocytopenia) following vaccination.\n\nA number of countries have suspended the use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab among younger people, including in Germany, which has paused it for people aged below 60, and Canada, where the jab is not being given to those under 55.\n\nIn total, the UK has secured 457 million Covid vaccine doses, of which 100 million are from AstraZeneca. Vaccines from Moderna will be deployed in the UK \"around the third week of April\", Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi has said.\n\nThe MHRA has said it identified 30 cases of rare blood clot events out of 18.1 million doses of the jab administered up to and including 24 March. There have been seven deaths among the 30 cases.\n\nBut the regulator's chief executive Dr June Raine said: \"People should continue to get their vaccine when invited to do so.\n\n\"Our thorough and detailed review is ongoing into reports of very rare and specific types of blood clots with low platelets [the cells involved in clotting] following the Covid-19 vaccine AstraZeneca.\n\n\"No decision has yet been made on any regulatory action.\"\n\nOne of the members of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation - which advises the government on the jab rollout - told the BBC's Newsnight that the issue was being taken seriously and \"we do need to get to the bottom of this\".\n\nProfessor Adam Finn, who was speaking in a personal capacity, said the trial of the jab on children was paused as a \"precautionary measure\" while they wait for clearer information, rather than because any problems had occurred.\n\nAsked if his opinion on the vaccine had changed in the last fortnight, Prof Finn cited thromboses being associated with low platelet count and a lack of associated cases with the Pfizer vaccine as being of particular concern.\n\n\"So those two things do raise the serious possibility that this could be a causal link and certainly means we need to take it very seriously and understand it more clearly,\" he said.\n\n\"I think personally it's surprising that we haven't seen any cases with Pfizer if it's simply uncausal so that's one of the reasons we're concerned about this.\"\n\nThere have been a further 2,379 coronavirus cases in the UK and another 20 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test, according to the latest government figures.", "Royal Mail has said it would never send text messages in the way the scammers do\n\nA retired police officer was left \"devastated and embarrassed\" when scammers posing as the Royal Mail conned him out of £3,000.\n\nThe man, who wanted to be known only as Alan, said he thought the con-artists were \"legitimate and credible\" when he spoke to them on the phone.\n\nHe had fallen prey to a scam text message that claimed a parcel was awaiting delivery.\n\nRoyal Mail has confirmed it would never send such a text message.\n\nVictims receive a text purporting to be from the company which reads: \"Your Royal Mail parcel is awaiting delivery. Please confirm the settlement of 1.99 (GBP) on the following link\".\n\nThe message then links to a website mocked up to look like an official site.\n\nThe page requests personal and payment details, which fraudsters use to steal the victim's identity or target them with further scams.\n\nIn Alan's case, which happened on 27 March, the scammers used his details to call him back, pretending to be his bank alerting him to the deception.\n\nThe fraudsters then got him to transfer money to a new account they claimed to have set up for him.\n\nThe money has since been refunded by the bank.\n\nAlan, a police officer of 25 years from Carlisle, said the crooks appeared \"so credible\" because they were able to provide details about his account, including that he had pending payments.\n\nHe even went online while speaking to them to search their phone numbers which \"came back as legitimate\". This was because the scammers were able to imitate genuine numbers.\n\nAlan said he was \"devastated and embarrassed\" when he realised he had been duped.\n\n\"I used to give people advice for over 25 years on scams and I was caught out,\" he told BBC Radio Cumbria.\n\n\"I thought 'how can I tell my wife and family? They will laugh at me at me and say how stupid are you'.\"\n\nHe said he felt \"helpless and angry\", adding: \"It's one for everybody to be aware of.\n\n\"I wouldn't class myself as vulnerable, I have a previous life of explaining to people what to do and I got caught.\n\n\"If you have any doubt whatsoever just put the phone down, don't explain yourself.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "Elayne Stanley was pronounced dead at the scene of the attack in 2019\n\nA mother-of-three was attacked and killed by her \"protective\" American bulldogs following an argument with her daughter, an inquest has heard.\n\nElayne Stanley, 44, was mauled by the two dogs at her home in Widnes, Cheshire, on 24 September 2019.\n\nAn inquest at Parr Hall in Warrington heard the pets had previously been owned by her partner Paul Leigh.\n\nCourt orders requiring him to take steps to keep the dogs under control were made in 2016.\n\nMiss Stanley's daughter Louise Smith told the court the dogs, DJ and Billy, had lived with her mother for about three years.\n\nShe said: \"My mum was happy with it, she had them around her two children and my two.\"\n\nPhotographs posted online show two dogs believed to be those involved in the attack\n\nThe inquest heard Ms Smith, who was pregnant, had been having a \"heated discussion\" with her mother when, as she went to leave, DJ bit her mother on the leg.\n\nMs Smith said she tried to put Billy into the kitchen but the dog joined in the attack so she went for help.\n\nThe inquest heard neighbours threw bricks at the dogs and eventually managed to contain them in the back garden but Miss Stanley was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nDJ was put down at the scene while Billy was taken away and also later euthanised after two attempts to sedate him were unsuccessful.\n\nJason Lennox, lead dog legislation officer for Cheshire Police, said American bulldogs were \"guarding dogs\" and could pick up on body language during arguments.\n\nHe said: \"DJ has interpreted this as a potential problem and has tried to stop any physical contact.\"\n\nAsked by Ms Smith if the dogs may have detected she was pregnant, he said: \"He may well have sensed you were pregnant and may well have been trying to protect you, or trying to protect you and the baby.\"\n\nCoroner Peter Sigee said Mr Leigh had been called to give evidence but had not attended.\n\nThe inquest heard a transcript of a police interview in which he claimed he was not the owner of the dogs, although he had admitted owning them during court proceedings in 2016.\n\nMs Smith said she was unaware of previous incidents involving the dogs including an attack on another dog, which had to be put down, and an incident where another dog owner was injured.\n\nShe also said she did not know if her mother was aware Mr Leigh had been convicted in 2016 under the Dangerous Dogs Act.\n\nRecording a narrative conclusion, Mr Sigee said Miss Stanley died as a result of multiple dog bite injuries sustained when she was attacked by her two dogs within her home.\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.", "Petrol bombs were thrown at police in Carrickfergus on Monday night\n\nForty-one police officers have been injured as a result of violence in Northern Ireland in recent days.\n\nOn Monday, petrol bombs were thrown in Carrickfergus, a car was set alight in Londonderry and nine officers were injured in disorder in Ballymena.\n\nPolice said the officers were injured after they tried to engage with people present at an un-notified parade.\n\nIn total, 10 arrests have been made across Northern Ireland during disorder over the past week.\n\nOn Tuesday, First Minister Arlene Foster urged young people not to get a criminal record by getting involved in violence.\n\nBut she also said confidence had gone in the senior management of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) over the decision by prosecutors not to charge anyone over the Bobby Storey funeral.\n\n\"It is right that people speak out, but it is right that we say to those young people that two wrongs don't make a right,\" she said.\n\nThere was a police presence in Larne on Tuesday evening\n\nMrs Foster said she had spoken to the chairman of the Police Federation for Northern Ireland to offer her support to rank-and-file officers.\n\n\"The chief constable needs to resign, and needs to resign quickly. Confidence is gone in his leadership, and confidence is gone in his senior management team.\"\n\nProtesters gathered at a roundabout in Larne, County Antrim, on Tuesday evening\n\nOn Tuesday evening, about 80 loyalist protesters took part in a peaceful demonstration at the Antiville roundabout in Larne, while police looked on.\n\nThe A8 was closed in both directions for a short time but has since reopened. There were reports of minor trouble in nearby Linn Road in the town.\n\nDuring the disturbances on Monday night, police said petrol bombs and masonry were thrown at officers \"as they worked to restore order in the areas\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. First Minister Arlene Foster urged young people not to get a criminal record by getting involved in the violence\n\nA stretch of the M2 in Ballymena was also closed for a time after debris and bins were thrown onto it.\n\nIn Derry, a group of about 20 young people were involved in setting a car on fire in Sperrin Park, a seventh night out of eight in which there has been violence in the city.\n\nDetectives are also investigating parades in Portadown and Markethill on Monday.\n\nSocial media footage showed a number of masked men taking part in a loyalist band parade in the Jervis Street area of Portadown.\n\nPolice attended another night of disorder in the Waterside area of Derry on Monday night\n\nThe police and political parties have repeatedly called for calm, with the disturbances blamed on loyalist frustrations over a PPS (Public Prosecution Service) decision not to prosecute people who attended the large-scale funeral of republican Bobby Storey in June 2020, as well as concerns about the NI Protocol in the Brexit deal.\n\nThe leaders of the DUP, UUP and TUV have called for Chief Constable Simon Byrne to resign over the PSNI's handling of the funeral, which was attended by a number of senior Sinn Féin politicians, including Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill.\n\nThe NI Protocol has increased checks and caused disruption for some goods moving between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.\n\nThere has been a concern that loyalist anger would eventually make its way onto the streets.\n\nYou could say the writing was on the wall - literally - since January and growing tension over the Irish Sea border.\n\nBut there is a melting pot of grievances, largely bottled up by lockdown.\n\nThis ranges from policing, to politics to societal problems.\n\nThe rioting was low-level, relatively scattered and localised - there is no sense of a broader, joined-up orchestration.\n\nAnd then there were incidents - unlawful marches - where there was no violence at all.\n\nIn short, no one reason sparked successive days of unrest.\n\nSeveral agendas are at play, including the South East Antrim UDA kicking back at the PSNI after a clampdown on its criminality.\n\nOnce on the streets, will things gather momentum?\n\nOr will a combination of police action against rioters and a de-escalation of tension and political rhetoric calm things down?\n\nPieces of masonry that were thrown at police officers in Carrickfergus on Sunday\n\nCh Supt Davy Beck said he believed there were a number of \"small disaffected groups that are linked to criminality that are involved in orchestrating and promoting this violence\".\n\nHe said while there were tensions across communities there was \"no justification for violence and attacks on police officers and members of public\".\n\n\"When our officers have arrived to deal with situations they are met with petrol bombs, debris, wheelie bins and that takes a degree of orchestration - which is evidence this is not spontaneous,\" he added.\n\nThe senior police officer said he did not want to see young people being criminalised.\n\n\"Not only did their reckless and criminal behaviour place the lives of our officers in danger, but such senseless behaviour shows the blatant disregard those responsible have for the safety of others by throwing debris onto a motorway.\n\n\"It is extremely fortunate no one was seriously injured, or worse.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Police Federation say \"sinister elements\" are influencing younger people to attack police\n\nThe assembly is to be recalled on Thursday morning to discuss the violence.\n\nThe Alliance party secured the 30 signatures needed for the recall.\n\nLast week, the assembly was recalled early as MLAs debated a motion of censure against Sinn Féin politicians in relation to the funeral of Bobby Storey.\n\nDuring the Easter weekend, officers were injured during violence in Belfast, Newtownabbey, Carrickfergus and Derry.\n\nThe Police Federation said some of those who were hurt had potentially \"career-impacting\" injuries.\n\nPolice said the officers injured in Ballymena on Monday were expected to be able to return to duty on Tuesday.", "The findings come from the US Muon g-2 experiment\n\nFrom sticking a magnet on a fridge door to throwing a ball into a basketball hoop, the forces of physics are at play in every moment of our lives.\n\nAll of the forces we experience every day can be reduced to just four categories: gravity, electromagnetism, the strong force and the weak force.\n\nNow, physicists say they have found possible signs of a fifth fundamental force of nature.\n\nThe findings come from research carried out at a laboratory near Chicago.\n\nThe four fundamental forces govern how all the objects and particles in the Universe interact with each other.\n\nFor example, gravity makes objects fall to the ground, and heavy objects behave as if they are glued to the floor.\n\nThe UK's Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) said the result \"provides strong evidence for the existence of an undiscovered sub-atomic particle or new force\".\n\nBut the results from the Muon g-2 experiment don't add up to a conclusive discovery yet.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Scientists say they have found \"strong evidence\" for the existence of a new force of nature\n\nThere is currently a one in a 40,000 chance that the result could be a statistical fluke - equating to a statistical level of confidence described as 4.1 sigma.\n\nA level of 5 sigma, or a one in 3.5 million chance of the observation being a coincidence, is needed to claim a discovery.\n\nProf Mark Lancaster, who is the UK lead for the experiment, told BBC News: \"We have found the interaction of muons are not in agreement with the Standard Model [the current widely-accepted theory to explain how the building blocks of the Universe behave].\"\n\nThe University of Manchester researcher added: \"Clearly, this is very exciting because it potentially points to a future with new laws of physics, new particles and a new force which we have not seen to date.\"\n\nThe finding is the latest in a string of promising results from particle physics experiments in the US, Japan, and most recently from the Large Hadron Collider on the Swiss-French border.\n\nProf Ben Allanach, from Cambridge University, who was not involved with the latest effort, said: \"My Spidey sense is tingling and telling me that this is going to be real.\n\n\"I have been looking all my career for forces and particles beyond what we know already, and this is it. This is the moment that I have been waiting for and I'm not getting a lot of sleep because I'm too excited.\"\n\nThe experiment, based at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, Illinois, searches for signs of new phenomena in physics by studying the behaviour of sub-atomic particles called muons.\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 (fundamental particles).\n\nThe muon is one of these fundamental particles; it's similar to the electron, but more than 200 times heavier.\n\nThe Muon g-2 experiment involves sending the particles around a 14-metre ring and then applying a magnetic field. Under the current laws of physics, encoded in the Standard Model, this should make the muons wobble at a certain rate.\n\nInstead, the scientists found that muons wobbled at a faster rate than expected. This might be caused by a force of nature that's completely new to science.\n\nBased on a 2,700-hectare site near Chicago, Fermilab is America's premier particle physics lab\n\nNo one yet knows what this potential new force does, other than influence muon particles.\n\nTheoretical physicists believe that it might also be associated with an as-yet undiscovered sub-atomic particle. There is more than one concept for what this hypothetical particle might be. One is called a leptoquark, another is the Z' boson (Z-prime boson).\n\nLast month, physicists working at the LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider described results that could point to a new particle and force.\n\nDr Mitesh Patel, from Imperial College London, who was involved with that project, said: \"The race is really on now to try and get one of these experiments to really get the proof that this really is something new. That will take more data and more measurements and hopefully show evidence that these effects are real.\"\n\nProf Allanach has given the possible fifth force various names in his theoretical models. Among them are the \"flavour force\", the \"third family hyperforce\" and - most prosaic of all - \"B minus L2\".\n\nThere are many puzzles about the Universe that we can't currently explain\n\nIn addition to the more familiar forces of gravity and electromagnetism (which is responsible for electricity and magnetism), the strong and weak forces govern the behaviour of sub-atomic particles.\n\nA fifth fundamental force might help explain some of the big puzzles about the Universe that have exercised scientists in recent decades.\n\nFor example, the observation that the expansion of the Universe was speeding up was attributed to a mysterious phenomenon known as dark energy. But some researchers have previously suggested it could be evidence of a fifth force.\n\nDr Maggie Aderin-Pocock, co-presenter of the BBC's Sky at Night programme, told BBC News: \"It is quite mind boggling. It has the potential to turn physics on its head. We have a number of mysteries that remain unsolved. And this could give us the key answers to solve these mysteries.\"", "School staff have been giving clothing, food and furnishings to families that have been struggling financially in the coronavirus pandemic, teachers say.\n\nSome pupils have gone to school without winter coats, while others have been worried about having enough to eat, a National Education Union poll suggests.\n\nThe findings come as the NEU begins its annual conference on Wednesday.\n\nThe Department for Education says it has invested £2bn to help pupils in England in the wake of the pandemic.\n\nThe NEU surveyed 10,696 members in England, Wales and Northern Ireland in March and concluded that schools and colleges had been a \"lifeline\" to many disadvantaged students during the past year.\n\nAsked about the poverty they had witnessed, one union member said: \"We have children that aren't clothed properly, without coats in winter, or have holes in shoes, and my school's inclusion team are excellent at working with the families to get them the support they need quickly and efficiently.\n\n\"We also have a stock of spare clothes that on occasion we can give to families.\"\n\nAnother NEU member said: \"I called home during the first lockdown and spoke to an older sibling who was panicking because the free school meals vouchers email hadn't arrived.\n\n\"It was the evening before a bank holiday weekend and there was no food in the house - I will never forget the panic in that girl's voice.\"\n\nAnother responded: \"We have had pupils and their families move into hostels during the pandemic when they were evicted.\n\n\"They were re-housed - but literally were given a house. No furniture, oven, fridge, washing machine, no carpets. Nothing. We rallied as a school and furnished two homes.\"\n\nDr Mary Bousted, joint general secretary of the NEU, said: \"It is now beyond doubt that child poverty is on the rise. The effects can last a lifetime, and young people have one chance in education.\n\n\"There is no doubt, too, that schools and colleges have been going beyond the call of duty for them during this past year, as they always do.\n\n\"The government, by contrast, spent much of 2020 voicing warm words about its concern for the disadvantaged, including when mounting arguments for the wider opening of schools and colleges in September and January.\"\n\nYet it had \"persistently failed to deliver for the young people in poverty\", Dr Bousted said.\n\nThe NEU survey also asked members about plans to help pupils catch up on lost learning over the past year.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has made £1.7bn of \"catch-up\" funding available in England to help children who have faced disruption from school and college closures during the pandemic.\n\nAs part of the recovery package, summer schools will be introduced this year for pupils who need it most, and tutoring schemes will be expanded.\n\nBut only one in five (21%) of NEU members surveyed thought tuition programmes were an important mechanism for supporting recovery, according to the teaching union poll.\n\nThere are concerns that children have fallen behind academically during the pandemic\n\nOnly 2% thought lengthening the school day or school term were important ways of supporting pupils who have missed in-person learning.\n\nMore than four in five (82%) said schools and colleges should be given the flexibility to decide what is important for pupils' learning and well-being.\n\nAround two in three teachers believe pupils should be supported through sport and exercise (68%) and increased creative and practical learning (66%).\n\nAsked about the benefits that they feel have emerged from the pandemic and what should be retained, more than a third of union members (37%) appreciated the greater levels of communication they had experienced with families by telephone and video link, while 57% said online parents' evenings had been a positive step.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Department for Education said: \"We have already invested £1.7bn in ambitious catch-up plans, with the majority of this targeted towards those most in need, while giving schools the flexibility of funding to use as they believe best to support their pupils.\n\n\"We are working with parents, teachers and schools to develop a long-term plan to make sure all pupils have the chance to recover from the impact of the pandemic - and we have appointed Sir Kevan Collins as Education Recovery Commissioner to specifically oversee these issues.\"", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nJurgen Klopp says Liverpool made it \"too easy\" for Real Madrid to win the quarter-final first leg between the sides, but feels Mohamed Salah's goal offers his side a lifeline in the return game at Anfield.\n\nThe Reds were largely second best throughout an entertaining game against a Real team missing their first-choice centre-back pairing, but packed with impressive attacking talent.\n\nMuch of the damage was done in the first half through Vinicius Junior's low drive after he had chested down a superb long pass from Toni Kroos and a Marco Asensio's close-range finish following a defensive mistake from Trent Alexander-Arnold.\n\nLiverpool came out fighting after the break, pulling a goal back through Salah's finish off the crossbar to spark their best 20-minute spell of the contest.\n\nBut they were stung when Vinicius found the net via a first-time shot following a fine attacking move with 25 minutes to go, leaving them with a mountain to climb in the return leg at an empty Anfield on 14 April.\n\n\"If you want to go to the semi-final, you have to earn the right to do so,\" Klopp told BT Sport. \"We didn't do that tonight, especially in the first half.\n\n\"We just didn't play good enough football to cause Real Madrid more problems. We made it too easy for them.\n\n\"The only good thing I can say, apart from the goal, is it's only the first half of the tie. We didn't deserve a lot more but that one goal and the second half was OK. It gives us a lifeline.\"\n• None Why another Anfield rescue act looks beyond Liverpool now - Lawrenson analysis\n• None Best action and reaction from Tuesday's Champions League games\n\nAt the weekend, Liverpool ripped Arsenal apart, winning 3-0 in a display that some felt represented the turning of a corner for a side that have fallen well short of the standards they set during last season's stellar title-winning campaign.\n\nIf that was one step forward, this was two steps back, with the Reds largely outclassed by a notably superior opponent. They repeatedly gave the ball away under pressure and were - barring a brief rally at the start of the second half - uncharacteristically pedestrian and toothless.\n\nIt said much that manager Klopp opted for a substitution just before the break, correcting his decision to start Naby Keita ahead of Thiago.\n\nIt could easily have been any of the Reds' outfield 10 withdrawn, though, with the front three largely passengers, the centre-back pairing of Nat Phillips and Ozan Kabak looking every bit second-string and Alexander-Arnold and Andy Robertson often found out of position and exposed.\n\nThey were, however, aggrieved that a foul was not awarded for a challenge on Sadio Mane before Asensio's goal - a subject Klopp commented on after the game.\n\n\"The situation with Sadio, what the ref did tonight I have to say I don't understand,\" he added. \"For me that was something personal because he dealt with the situation with Sadio, which was a clear foul, like he was a diver or whatever.\n\n\"From that moment on whenever Sadio went down he didn't get anything. That is not right. That is what I told him after the game, that I thought he was unfair with Sadio.\n\n\"That doesn't change anything at all. He [the referee] didn't lose the game. We were not good enough to get a better result, but in these moments you need just an 'OK' ref. That would have been enough.\"\n\nIt is to the credit of Klopp and his players they were able to rectify some of their problems and get themselves back into the tie through Salah's neat finish.\n\nThey were unable to build on it, though, with Salah and Diogo Jota spurning chances to restore parity.\n\nReal's third goal killed their momentum and turned the match into one Real could manage.\n\nDuring their run to win the Champions League in 2019, Liverpool came back from a 3-0 away leg loss to beat Barcelona on aggregate via a stunning semi-final second leg full of ferocity and attacking brilliance.\n\nThey will need to do produce similar if they are to beat Barca's fierce rivals in eight days time.\n\nReal have not had consistently stellar campaign themselves, but they are now threatening to produce something special when it matters once again.\n\nThey made a habit of coming to life at the business end of a campaign during Zidane's first spell as manager, especially in the Champions League, which they won three times in a row between 2016 and 2018.\n\nIn a seven-day stretch that could be season-defining, with a home La Liga game against fellow title-chasers Barcelona between the two legs of this tie, Real turned on the style for part one, with Vinicius the headline act.\n\nIt should come as no surprise. This is a side that have not lost since January and, in Zidane, have a canny boss capable of picking Liverpool's weak spots out wide and steering his players to ruthlessly exploit them.\n\nMuch of the pre-game noise surrounded the absence of their first-choice centre-back pairing - the talismanic Sergio Ramos (who has a calf injury) and Rafael Varane (who recently tested positive for Covid).\n\nHowever, unlike their opponents, with Virgil van Dijk and Joe Gomez high-profile absentees, Real comfortably overcame their defensive issues, with replacements Nacho Fernandez and Eder Militao excellent, especially during the spell of intense Liverpool pressure.\n\nSalah's goal keeps the tie alive, but it is very much Real's to lose.\n\nReal with superb record after winning first leg\n• None Real have progressed from 15 of their last 16 Champions League knockout matches after winning the opening leg, only failing to do so against Ajax in the 2018-19 last 16.\n• None Only teams from Spain (14) have progressed from more Champions League knockout ties after losing the first leg than sides from England (12), with Liverpool the most recent English club to do so, against Barcelona in the 2018-19 semi-finals.\n• None In all European competitions, no side has beaten Liverpool more often than Real (4, level with Benfica), with the Reds suffering defeat in each of the last four encounters with Los Blancos.\n• None Salah has now scored 27 goals this season, four more than he managed last season, while equalling his tally from 2018-19 - only in 2017-18 (44) did he score more for Liverpool in a single campaign.\n• None Benzema has now appeared in 108 Champions League matches for Real - the outright most by a non-Spaniard, with only Ramos (128), Raul (130) and Iker Casillas (150) playing more for the club in the competition.\n• None Only Kylian Mbappe in April 2017 (18y 113d v Borussia Dortmund) has scored a Champions League brace at the quarter-final stage (or later) at a younger age than Real Madrid's Vinicius (20y 268d).\n• None Asensio has scored in four straight matches for Real in all competitions, managing as many goals over this period as he did across his previous 41 matches (4).\n• None Real boss Zidane took charge of his 50th game in the Champions League, with this his 31st victory in the competition. Indeed, only Jupp Heynckes (32) won more of his first 50 managerial games in the competition than the Frenchman.\n• None Attempt blocked. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Thiago.\n• None Attempt blocked. Georginio Wijnaldum (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Roberto Firmino.\n• None Attempt missed. Thiago (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Mohamed Salah.\n• None Offside, Real Madrid. Casemiro tries a through ball, but Karim Benzema is caught offside. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Why are we the exception to the norm when it comes to sex?\n• None Six life lessons the four-legged friends could teach us", "Deliveroo riders held small protests around the UK on Tuesday\n\nDeliveroo shares have edged up on their first fully open day of trading on the London Stock Exchange.\n\nShares rose more than2% to 286p at 12:00 on Wednesday, when 70,000 retail investors were allowed to trade.\n\nThey are still well below the 390p paid as the shares dived on their debut last week amid big investors' concerns over workers' rights and profits.\n\nHundreds of Deliveroo riders are expected to go on strike on Wednesday as they call for higher pay.\n\nDeliveroo said it was organised by a small \"union [that] does not represent the vast majority of riders\".\n\nThe firm employs 50,000 riders, but only 400 are expected to take part in the strike. They are calling for riders to be paid the living wage after accounting for costs such as fuel, as well as an end to unpaid waiting times.\n\nDeliveroo said its own survey data showed 90% of riders were happy with firm.\n\nThe food delivery firm's share sale marked London's biggest stock market launch for a decade, but the sharp fall seen saw it dubbed \"the worst IPO [initial public offering] in the history of London\".\n\nSmaller investors, known as retail investors, got their first chance to trade their shares on Wednesday as what is described as \"unconditional trading\" began.\n\nDespite small gains on Wednesday, the company's share price is still far below its 390p float price on its debut when big investors and Deliveroo customers could buy or sell shares. The company had initially hoped for a share price of up to 460p.\n\nDeliveroo, which has not yet made a profit, had to accept a lower price, saying it had chosen to \"price responsibly\" and sell its shares at the bottom of its planned price range due to \"volatile\" market conditions.\n\nInvestment bank Goldman Sachs, which was an adviser to Deliveroo and was responsible for stabilising the share price, had to buy about £75m worth of Deliveroo shares to support the share price in the first few days, according to the Financial Times.\n\nAn IPO is one way for private companies to raise cash. An initial public offering sees shares offered to major investors, including pension and insurance companies, as well, sometimes, as private small investors.\n\nThey let the company know what they are prepared to pay for the shares, in conjunction with investment banks and other professional advisers hired by a company.\n\nThe shares then launch on a stock market. Deliveroo shares were only tradeable over the first week by major investors who had bought large chunks. Full trading, allowing anyone to buy and sell, began a week later. Trading on a stock market allows the price to be set freely in the open market by supply and demand.\n\nThe value of the shares, multiplied by how many there are, gives the market value of the company.\n\nSome of the UK's biggest investment fund managers, such as Aberdeen Standard, Aviva Investors, BMO Global, charity fund manager CCLA, Legal and General Investment Management and M&G said they would not buy shares in Deliveroo, citing concerns, including over the working conditions of its riders.\n\nAnalyst Susannah Streeter at stockbrokers Hargreaves Lansdown said that retail investors don't appear to share the same worries.\n\nShe said a surge of interest from smaller investors \"will be some comfort for Deliveroo customers who were encouraged to buy a slice of the company but appeared to have thrown the dice on a disastrous debut.\n\n\"They were locked out of selling their shares for a week, while the company's initial valuation fell sharply. Now they finally have a 'get out of jail' card, but it seems for now that many have kept it in their back pocket, waiting it out for prices to stabilise.\"\n\nNeil Wilson, chief market analyst of Markets.com, warned that the strike action by hundreds of UK riders due to start on Wednesday \"underlines the regulatory risk attached to the stock\".\n\nAbout 400 of the food couriers in five towns and cities are also expected to stage socially-distanced protests over pay and conditions.\n\n\"I'm going on strike for my basic rights and those of all the other riders struggling to get by and support families on Deliveroo poverty pay,\" said Greg Howard, a Deliveroo rider and the chair of the IWGB's couriers and logistics branch.\n\nHe said: \"I've seen conditions decline for years and then working through lockdown I contracted Covid-19 and got very little support from Deliveroo.\"\n\nBut Husain, a driver from Nottingham, told the Deliveroo survey: \"Deliveroo let you work whenever it suits you plus customers are so nice and respectful compared to other platforms. App is really easy to use and understand and shows you when to make good money.\"\n\nDeliveroo said it had surveyed 8,500 riders on Tuesday, and found 89% were happy with the company and flexibility it offers.\n\nA spokesperson said the IWGB union did \"not represent the vast majority of riders who tell us they value the total flexibility they enjoy while working with Deliveroo alongside the ability to earn over £13 an hour.\n\n\"We are proud that rider satisfaction is at an all-time high and that thousands of people are applying to be Deliveroo riders each and every week. Riders are at the heart of our business and today we are beginning a new consultation with riders about how we should invest our new £50m community fund.\"", "Pharrell Williams has called for a federal investigation after his cousin was shot dead by police in the US.\n\nThe Grammy-winning artist went to Donovon Lynch's funeral this week.\n\nDonovon, who was 25, was shot and killed in Virginia on 26 March by a police officer after three separate shootings in the area.\n\nVirginia Beach Police Department (VBPD) said he was \"brandishing a handgun\" before he was shot. The gun was recovered afterwards, officers said.\n\nA criminal investigation into what happened is ongoing, the force says. There will also be an independent investigation by a prosecutor and a review by VBPD's internal affairs department.\n\nBut Pharrell says there are \"too many unanswered city and state questions\" so is calling for an investigation at a higher federal level.\n\nDeshayla Harris, who police say was 29 years old, was killed alongside Donovon.\n\n\"This one is symbolic and a first because I had to speak at my cousin's funeral, and was choked up with emotions,\" Pharrell said on social media, alongside a shot of the funeral programme.\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 pharrell 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\nJustin Timberlake, Timbaland and Pusha T were among those paying tribute in the post's comments by using prayer emojis.\n\nThe officer who shot Donovon has been placed on administrative leave.\n\n\"The Lynch family and the involved officer each deserve a comprehensive and thorough investigation into this incident,\" chief of police Paul Neudigate said last month.\n\nPharrell has previously called for \"transparency, honesty and justice\" from authorities.\n\nHe wrote on Instagram in March that the police shooting was \"a tragedy beyond measure\", adding that his cousin was \"a bright light and someone who always showed up for others\".\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "There was a police presence in parts of Larne on Tuesday night\n\nThe NI Policing Board chairman has called for a redoubling of efforts to calm loyalist tensions and for dialogue with police at all levels of the force.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster has condemned the recent loyalist violence, but has not spoken to Chief Constable Simon Byrne.\n\nMr Byrne briefed the Policing Board on Wednesday about the trouble over the Easter period in a private session.\n\nForty-one police officers have been hurt and 10 people arrested.\n\nThere were no reports of serious disorder on Tuesday night, but police maintained a presence in many areas.\n\nUlster Unionist Party (UUP) leader Steve Aiken said the fact that Mrs Foster had not engaged with Mr Byrne in the wake of the violence was a mistake.\n\n\"I have issues with the chief constable because of past actions and decisions, but that should not be the cause for us to refuse to engage,\" Mr Aiken said.\n\n\"He is the head of the Police Service of Northern Ireland and while he is in post, we should continue to work with him and all his officers.\"\n\nFollowing the Policing Board meeting, chair Doug Garrett said members were unanimous in their condemnation of the recent disorder.\n\nChief Constable Simon Byrne has come under pressure to step down in recent days\n\n\"At this time, there must be a redoubling of efforts to calm tensions and for continued dialogue between the community and police officers at all levels of the PSNI (Police Service of Northern Ireland),\" Mr Garrett said.\n\n\"Nothing is achieved without talking, and leadership is needed from all those with influence so that any concerns can be addressed through the democratic structures in place; and through the board mechanisms for policing oversight and accountability.\"\n\nSome have linked the violence in parts of greater Belfast and Londonderry in recent days to the decision by the Public Prosecution Service (PPS) not to prosecute anyone who attended the funeral of former IRA man Bobby Storey in June 2020.\n\nIt was attended by 2,000 mourners - including Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill - at a time when Covid restrictions were in place.\n\nHer Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) is to examine the PSNI's role in the funeral, after being called in by Justice Minister Naomi Long at the request of the Policing Board.\n\nThe Policing Board meeting was an opportunity in private session - it lasted about 90 minutes - for the chief constable to update the 19-member board on the events of the last number of days.\n\nIt was a factual analysis. He pointed out that 41 officers had been injured in a range of violent incidents.\n\nThis was not a re-examination or a questioning of policing around the Bobby Storey funeral, although I'm told that some members did express support for the chief constable, while others obviously didn't.\n\nBoard chairman Doug Garrett said afterwards that members were unanimous in condemnation of the violence.\n\nHe did say that there must be a redoubling of efforts to calm tensions and that nothing is achieved without talking.\n\nThat will be seen, certainly in some quarters, as implied criticism of Arlene Foster's position in terms of not talking to the chief constable.\n\nMrs Long has asked it to complete the inspection \"by no later than May 14\". Last week, Mr Byrne expressed surprise at the conclusion by the PPS.\n\nMr Garrett told BBC's Evening Extra programme that it was \"not an ideal position\" for senior politicians and police not to talk.\n\nMrs Foster earlier reiterated her calls for the chief constable to step down.\n\nThe leaders of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), UUP, Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV) and Progressive Unionist Party (PUP) have said Mr Byrne's position is untenable over the PSNI's handling of the funeral.\n\nOn Wednesday, Jonathan Powell, the former adviser to Tony Blair at the time of the Good Friday Agreement, said politics has got \"quite hot\" again in Northern Ireland and people are \"playing with matches\".\n\n\"Politicians trying to second guess the police when they're making operational decisions is really a mistake and I hope that the first minister will back off on this and allow the police to proceed with their job,\" Mr Powell said.\n\nIt was view shared by former NI Secretary Shaun Woodward, who said it was \"potentially a dangerous situation\".\n\n\"There's a moment here, where, to borrow Jonathan Powell's words, you need to state your position but now back off,\" he said.\n\n\"Continuing to needle this particular thing will undo much greater issues of community policing in Northern Ireland.\"\n\nPetrol bombs were thrown at police in Carrickfergus on Monday night\n\nMrs Foster said she had a duty to speak out about the PSNI's failure to uphold Covid restrictions during Bobby Storey's funeral.\n\n\"The police, of course, have my full support,\" Mrs Foster told the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme, but added that ordinary police officers had been let down by their senior management.\n\nMrs Foster said Mr Byrne had not asked to meet her and she had not asked to meet him.\n\n\"I have spoken to him [Simon Byrne] on many occasions and told him that the differential treatment for Sinn Féin has to stop,\" Mrs Foster said.\n\n\"He has been warned about it on a number of occasions. However, it continues to happen. That sort of specialised treatment for a political elite is very, very damaging.\"\n\nA phone box was destroyed during disorder in Londonderry on Monday night\n\nSinn Féin's John O'Dowd said at a time when the police were \"under nightly attack\" from loyalists, it would be \"helpful and send out the right signals\" if the first minister would agree to meet the chief constable, along with the deputy first minister.\n\nMr O'Dowd said such a meeting would \"show unity of purpose across the board, across the political spectrum\".\n\nHe said it would \"ensure that those who are orchestrating this violence, those who are putting petrol bombs into the hands of 12-year-olds, get a very, very clear message that it's not acceptable\".\n\nDUP East Londonderry MP Gregory Campbell told BBC's Talkback programme that he had no doubt that Mrs Foster will speak to the chief constable.\n\nHe said ongoing loyalist violence may be hampering unionist efforts to force Mr Byrne to resign.\n\nJustice Minister Naomi Long told the Today programme that policing had been \"undoubtedly\" politicised at a difficult time.\"When any politician declares they have no confidence in the chief constable that is a very serious matter, and when that is the first minister of Northern Ireland, that becomes even more serious.\n\n\"It is incumbent on all of us in public life and those of us in positions of leadership not simply to declare whether or not we believe the chief constable has our confidence, but to work to ensure that he has the confidence of the public and of the community.\"\n\nThe disorder has also been linked to loyalist frustrations over the Northern Ireland Protocol in the Brexit deal.\n\nHMIC was called in by Justice Minister Naomi Long at the request of the Policing Board\n\nThe NI Protocol has increased checks and caused disruption for some goods moving between Great Britain and Northern Ireland, creating an Irish Sea border.\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood said politicians need to \"dial down\" the rhetoric around Brexit and policing.\n\n\"We can't use that kind of language, calling for people to resign, calling for protocols to be scrapped that are never going to be scrapped,\" he said.\"Eleven year olds with petrol bombs don't understand the intricacies of the trading relationship between Northern Ireland and Britain or Northern Ireland and the EU, but tension has been whipped up by politicians.\"\n\nShadow NI Secretary Louise Haigh said the prime minister should be speaking out about the recent violence.\n\n\"The consequences of Brexit always had the potential to upset the very delicate balance of identities in Northern Ireland,\" she told BBC Radio Foyle.\"I don't think enough consideration was given to the consequences of the border down the Irish Sea.\"\n\nNI Secretary Brandon Lewis tweeted that he was being kept \"closely appraised\" of developments by the PSNI and that he was appalled that officers had been injured.\n\nMeanwhile, the HMIC review into the Bobby Storey policing operation will examine whether the PSNI's approach \"was within the parameters of national policing standards in the context of the Covid health protection regulations\", according to the Department of Justice.\n\nIt will also \"offer relevant learning\" to assist policing the regulations going forward.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Claims all over-50s in Wales have been offered a Covid jab have been questioned\n\nClaims all over-50s and at-risk adults with underlying health conditions have been offered a Covid vaccine in Wales have been disputed.\n\nSome people in those groups have said they are still waiting to be contacted to have their jab.\n\nIt comes after the Welsh government said on Monday it had already met the mid-April milestone target set for all UK governments.\n\nOn Tuesday, it said \"plans are in place to make sure no-one is left behind\".\n\nPublic Health Wales (PHW) has said people should contact their health board.\n\nGarry Edwards, 51, from Anglesey, is registered as asthmatic and said he was still waiting for his invitation.\n\nHe said he was previously told by his surgery only second jabs were being given, so he called Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board which confirmed he was on the list and would be called.\n\n\"I know a lot of people who have had, and a lot of people younger than me who have had it - I know people in their 40s who have had it,\" Mr Edwards said on BBC Radio Wales Breakfast with Claire Summers.\n\n\"It's going to be done when it's done but when you are told you are going to be invited to have it... and it hasn't happened, then the statistics are wrong somewhere.\"\n\nOther listeners to the programme messaged to say they were also still waiting for a first vaccine.\n\nBeverley Williams, 57, from Tonypandy, Rhondda Cynon Taf, said she was still waiting to hear about her vaccine through Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board.\n\n\"I've had Covid before so I'm a bit stressed,\" she said.\n\n\"I rang them this morning and they are going to send me another letter and if I don't hear anything by next week, I've got to ring them again.\n\n\"My husband's [vaccine] was late and he only found out he missed his because they rang him to find out why he hadn't turned up.\"\n\nShe added he was then booked in for the jab the same day as the call.\n\nGraham Thomas said it was \"really annoying\" his 84-year-old mother Marion Price was still waiting for her vaccine in Caerphilly.\n\n\"She has asthma and [lung disease] COPD. She's disabled and can't get out of the house.\"\n\nHe said she had received an offer to come to the surgery, but it was known she was housebound: \"She has to have a home visit. She's got a letter saying she is on the priority list but she hasn't had a vaccine.\"\n\nSonja Milano's mother Manuela Levi moved to Bangor, Gwynedd, last summer from Italy.\n\nThe 50-year-old is registered with a GP but has been told to wait two more weeks for news of a vaccine appointment.\n\nMs Milano said: \"I phoned her GP surgery today and was told if nothing has happened by then, to call again.\n\n\"Everybody else around us over 50 has been offered one. I just want to make sure she will get a call.\"\n\nSonja Milano's mother Manuela Levi, 50, has been told to wait two more weeks for news of a vaccine appointment\n\nDr Giri Shankar, incident director for the Covid-19 response at PHW, said vaccinations were delivered by health boards.\n\n\"I can't think of any systematic issue that would have led to several people having not received their vaccinations,\" he said.\n\n\"There may be isolated cases where that has happened, which obviously needs to be looked into, and the health boards are best placed to do that.\n\n\"Without looking into the specific details of each of those cases, it's difficult to say what might have happened, but I think the main thing to say is it's never too late.\n\n\"If you feel you haven't been given an appointment, you should immediately make contact with the health board.\"\n\nIn a statement, the Welsh government said: \"Any person aged 50 or over will have had at least their first vaccination or been sent an appointment, and plans are in in place to make sure no-one is left behind.\n\n\"If health boards have been unable to contact someone on the list, or if an appointment has been missed, systems are in place to go back and check and re-arrange a new appointment for anyone who wants to be vaccinated.\"\n\nInformation is available on the Welsh government website for people who think they should have had an appointment but have not received one.\n\nDr Mair Hopkin said she thought cases of people not being offered the vaccine were \"few and far between\"\n\nDr Mair Hopkin, joint chairman of the Royal College of General Practitioners Wales, said she did not think there was \"potentially a problem\" with delivering the vaccine.\n\nShe said she had heard cases of people not being offered the vaccine were \"few and far between\".\n\n\"There may be very many reasons why people have been left off a list,\" Dr Hopkin said, citing people moving house and records not being updated.\n\nDr Hopkin expressed concern younger people could be harder to reach for vaccination since they could be in education or at work and not \"sitting there waiting for that phone call\".\n\nShe said it was important the young were vaccinated even if they thought they were not at risk.\n\n\"You have to remember that you are putting everyone one else at risk,\" she said.\n\nOn Monday, PHW said 1,493,192 people had received a first dose of the vaccine and 469,251 people were fully vaccinated, having had both jabs.\n\nThe Welsh government also said on Monday it had achieved its \"second milestone\" of offering a vaccine to everyone over the age of 50 and those with underlying health issues.\n\nBut Hywel Dda University Health Board, which covers Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion, said it was on track to meet the UK's mid-April target by 18 April.\n\nChief executive Steve Moore encouraged people to get in touch to secure their first vaccine dose if they have not yet had an appointment.\n\nHe added: \"We have seen an overwhelming response from our wonderful communities across the three counties who have turned up in storms, snow, rain and sunshine to receive their vaccine.\"\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr health board's primary and community care boss, Dr Chris Stockport, said the \"vast majority\" of appointments for unvaccinated people in groups five to nine were now booked.\n\nInvitation letters, he said, were \"sent in the post last week\".\n\n\"Most of these letters have been delivered, but a small number may arrive in the coming days, because of bank holiday postal arrangements,\" Dr Stockport said.\n\nA \"significant number\" of invitations had also been sent to people in their 40s, he said.\n\n\"We are determined to not leave anybody behind,\" he said.\n\nThe uptake of first doses of those in their early 50s across Wales on average was up to 67.2%, while for those in their late 50s, the figure stands at more than 84%.\n\nThe top four priority groups in Wales, which is made up of all over-70s, including care home residents, were offered a jab by mid-February.\n• None All over-50s in Wales offered jab by target date\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The man had to be rescued from Inchtavannach on Loch Lomond\n\nA kayaker thought to have breached Covid rules by travelling from England to camp at Loch Lomond had to be rescued after getting stuck on an island without a paddle.\n\nThe man had been camping on the west side of Inchtavannach over the weekend.\n\nHe returned to his kayak after a walk around the island on Tuesday afternoon to find his paddle missing.\n\nThe police were alerted and the Loch Lomond Rescue Boat sent out to take him back to his car on the mainland.\n\nA statement issued by the rescue boat team confirmed the man and his equipment had been safely dropped off at Aldochly, near Luss.\n\nIt said: \"This person had travelled from England to camp on the island for the Easter weekend.\n\n\"Please could we remind all to stick to the Covid rules and keep people safe.\"\n\nA police spokeswoman said: \"We were made aware of an incident on Tuesday 6 April, at 1.40pm, whereby a member of the public had no paddle and was stranded on an island at Loch Lomond.\n\n\"The local lifeboat service were contacted and the incident handed to them - the man was rescued safe and well.\"\n\nUnder Covid travel restrictions for people living in England, holidays to any other part of the UK will not be allowed until at least 12 April.\n\nIn Scotland, the \"stay at home\" rule ended on 2 April but people are still being asked to \"stay local\". Travel within mainland Scotland will be allowed from 26 April, when tourist accommodation can also reopen with restrictions in place.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said she hoped travel between Scotland and the rest of the UK would resume around the same time.", "Andy Green said he had won the jackpot while playing a blackjack game from bookmaker Betfred\n\nA Betfred punter denied a £1.7m jackpot over an alleged software glitch has won a legal battle to claim the winnings.\n\nAndy Green, from Lincolnshire, scooped the prize in January 2018 while playing a blackjack game on his phone.\n\nThe bookmaker refused to pay out, claiming the error meant the game was not operating properly.\n\nHigh Court judge Mrs Justice Foster ruled in Mr Green's favour and said the company had no grounds for withholding payment.\n\nThe judgement means Mr Green, from Washingborough, will finally receive his payout, plus interest, after a three-year battle.\n\nIn a statement, he said the lengthy row over the payout had made him wish he'd never won.\n\n\"Along with my family, I have been through some very low times and become very down,\" he said.\n\n\"My physical health has also suffered badly, and I sometimes wished I'd never won this money, because it was just making my life a misery.\n\n\"But today, I feel like the world has been lifted off my shoulders and I feel so incredibly happy and relieved - for me, my family and my legal team.\n\n\"The champagne can finally come off ice and be savoured.\"\n\nBetfred apologised for the delay in Mr Green receiving his money and said it would not appeal against the ruling.\n\nMr Green took a screen grab after the money had been credited to his account\n\nSpeaking in 2018, he said he had gone \"absolutely crazy\" after scooping the jackpot on the Frankie Dettori Magic Seven Blackjack game.\n\nFollowing the win, he extended his overdraft and spent more than £2,500 celebrating with family and friends.\n\nIn her ruling, Mrs Justice Foster said when he later contacted Betfred they \"did not seek at this point to suggest other than that he was a big winner\".\n\nBut a few days later, a Betfred director called him to say there had been a \"software error\" and it was rejecting the claim.\n\nMr Green said he felt like he had been kicked and had his \"insides ripped out\" after receiving the call.\n\nAfter he challenged the decision, the company at one stage offered him £60,000 as a token of \"goodwill\" on the grounds he agreed not to talk about it ever again, but he refused.\n\nIn April 2019 he took his case to the High Court aiming to sue Betfred and its parent company, Gibraltar-based Petfre, for £2m, to include the interest he would have earned from the win.\n\nBetfred had argued that the software glitch, which stopped the game from resetting properly while Mr Green was playing, was covered under the terms and conditions of the game.\n\nHowever, Mrs Justice Foster ruled that the wording of the clauses relied upon was \"inadequate\", and \"not transparent or fair and Betfred were not entitled to rely upon them\".\n\nA Betfred spokesperson said: \"Mr Green won the jackpot three times whilst playing a game provided by one of our third-party suppliers.\n\n\"The supplier reported a software problem to us and advised that we should withhold payment.\n\n\"However, we will abide by the court's decision and not appeal. We would like to apologise to Mr Green for the delay in receiving his money.\"\n\nMr Green's lawyer Peter Coyle said he was \"thrilled\" for his client, adding that the judgement would \"give hope to others who may be thinking that the big, rich guys always win\".\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A man who followed and murdered a woman on a night out before disposing part of her body in an alleyway has been jailed for life.\n\nAzam Mangori, 24, killed Lorraine Cox, 32, in his flat above a kebab shop in Exeter in September.\n\nMangori, of Dartmouth Road, Stoke-on-Trent, was found guilty of murder by a jury at Exeter Crown Court, after he admitted preventing a lawful burial.\n\nJudge Justice Garnham said he should serve at least 20 years in jail.\n\nMangori left Ms Cox's body in his flat for a week before dismembering her.\n\nHer remains were found in bin bags in an alley behind his flat, and in a woodland at Newton St Cyres, about 6 miles (9km) away.\n\nLorraine Cox, 32, was described as the \"heartbeat\" of her family\n\nDuring the sentencing the judge said Mangori had \"ended the life of a bright, vivacious, intelligent young woman with her whole life ahead of her\".\n\nHe said Mangori's \"cowardice\" in failing to report her death and attempting to hide the evidence \"served to compound the loss and hurt suffered by her partner, her father, her other family and her friends\".\n\nMs Cox's family had \"suffered eight days of desperate hope and fruitless searching while you sat on your bed deciding how best to escape being held responsible\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Azam Mangori is shown crossing the road as he follows Lorraine Cox in Exeter\n\nA video that Mangori made of himself vaping and listening to music just hours after the killing showed he had been \"remarkably calm\", said the judge.\n\nElise Fallow, Ms Cox's partner, said in her witness statement to the court that her \"heart is broken, never to be repaired\".\n\nShe added: \"Nothing will stop the pain I feel that the love of my life is not by my side.\"\n\nPippa Moore said after the case that her friend Ms Cox was \"quite random\" and would \"always make you laugh\".\n\n\"If there was no party she was the party, she always brought the fun to the party.\"\n\nA video that Mangori made of himself vaping and listening to music just hours after the killing showed he had been \"remarkably calm\", said the judge\n\nSpeaking after the guilty verdict, Ms Cox's family described her as \"the most kind-hearted, loving, generous girl\", adding she was \"the heartbeat of our family\".\n\n\"We hope and pray that no other woman or family has to go through what our beautiful girl suffered, or that any other family suffers the brutal, distressing experience we have all been through,\" their statement said.\n\nMangori, an Iraqi Kurd who was denied asylum in December 2018, told the court he had panicked because he feared being deported.\n\nBut prosecutor Simon Laws QC called Mangori a \"fluent and determined liar\" and said he had smothered her with a T-shirt.\n\nThe court heard after Ms Cox was killed, Mangori used a SIM card from her phone to send messages to her family, partner and friends in an attempt to show she was still alive.\n\nHe also looked at amputation videos in the days before her disappearance, jurors were told.\n\nMangori was caught on camera in shops buying supplies to help him dispose of her body, including bin bags, tape, a suitcase and an air purifier to hide the smell.\n\nMangori is seen on CCTV buying bin bags in Exeter\n\nThe Home Office said after the case that \"foreign nationals who abuse our hospitality by committing heinous crimes should be in no doubt of our determination to deport them\".\n\nA spokesperson said its \"priority will always be to keep the British public safe\" and reforms of the asylum system would \"make it easier to return failed asylum seekers who have no right to remain in the UK\".\n\nMs Cox had been sexually assaulted in Exeter in May 2018 by a man called Robert Prout, 35, of Hawthorn Road, Exeter.\n\nHe was found guilty of the assault and raping another woman by a jury at Exeter Crown Court and jailed for 10 years in January.\n\nThe jury at the murder trial heard that Ms Cox had moved from Exeter to Scotland after the assault, but had returned to visit friends in the city when she was killed by Mangori.\n\nPolice investigating the murder sealed off the area around Mangori's flat and the alleyway where he disposed body parts\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Richard Okorogheye, who has sickle cell disease, left home without his medication\n\nA body found in a pond in Essex has been confirmed as London student Richard Okorogheye.\n\nThe 19-year-old, who had sickle cell disease, had not been seen by his family since 22 March when he left their home in Ladbroke Grove.\n\nOfficers searching for the Oxford Brookes student found a body in a pond in Epping Forest on Monday evening.\n\nPolice said Mr Okorogheye's family had been informed and were being supported by specially trained officers.\n\nMr Okorogheye's death is being treated as unexplained. Police do not believe anyone else was involved.\n\nA post-mortem found no evidence of physical trauma or assault.\n\nThe cause of death is pending whilst further investigations are carried out.\n\nSpecialist police divers were previously seen searching a body of water in the Epping Forest area\n\nDet Supt Danny Gosling said: \"My deepest sympathies go out to Richard's family at this incredibly difficult time.\n\n\"This was not the outcome that any of us had hoped for.\n\n\"I would like to extend my thanks to the many officers, staff and members of the public who have each played a part in the extensive effort to locate Richard.\"\n\nCCTV images show Mr Okorogheye at about 00:30 GMT on 23 March walking alone on Smarts Lane, Loughton, towards Epping Forest\n\nAfter leaving his family home on 22 March, police said he took a taxi to a residential street in Loughton, Essex, where he was last seen on CCTV in the early hours of the following day, walking towards Epping Forest.\n\nHe did not take his medication or any money when he left home.\n\nMr Okorogheye's mother, Evidence Joel, previously said her son had been \"struggling to cope\" with his business and IT degree.\n\nAs someone with sickle cell disease, Mr Okorogheye would only leave the house to go to hospital for regular blood transfusions for his condition, his family explained.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mobile phones should be banned from schools because lockdown has affected children’s “discipline and order,” the education secretary has warned.\n\nGavin Williamson told The Telegraph phones should not be “used or seen during the school day”, though he said schools should make their own policies.\n\nPhones can act as a “breeding ground” for cyber-bullying and social media can damage mental health, he added.\n\n\"It’s now time to put the screens away, especially mobile phones,\" he wrote.\n\n“Technology has been invaluable in keeping children learning during lockdowns and we support its use,\" he said.\n\n“Outside the classroom, the use of mobile phones distracts from healthy exercise and good old-fashioned play.\n\n“Worse, it acts as a breeding ground for cyber-bullying, and the inappropriate use of social media sites.\n\n“While it is for every school to make its own policy, I firmly believe that mobile phones should not be used or seen during the school day, and will be backing head teachers who implement such policies.”\n\nThe government will be consulting on how to help heads remove phones from schools, later this year, he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Two schools in Wales are taking different approaches to the use of mobile phones\n\nThe vast majority of schools already have policies limiting the use of phones in lessons, according to data from Teacher Tapp, an app that conducts daily surveys of about 8,500 teachers.\n\nAccording to the app, about half of secondary schools and most primary schools do not allow phones to be used at break or lunchtime either.\n\n“The real issue flagged by secondary teachers is that rules and sanctions are inconsistently applied, and it isn't always clear whose responsibility it is to remove a phone, or if they are allowed to do so,” Laura McInerney, co-founder of Teacher Tapp, said.\n\n“How the education secretary will change that problem isn't immediately clear.\"\n\nSchools have the power to ban phones from being taken on to the premises.\n\nBut government policy is that it is the responsibility of head teachers to determine whether this is appropriate.\n\nA ban has previously been backed by Nick Gibb, minister for school standards, Matt Hancock, former culture secretary and current health secretary, and Amanda Spielman, chief inspector of Ofsted.\n\nBut no laws have been made to enforce it in the UK.\n\nIn France, the law prevents children from using their phones inside school grounds.\n\nAnd, earlier this year, China’s Ministry of Education announced that pupils would not be allowed to bring mobiles to school without written parental consent.\n\nMica-May Smith, from Bright Futures Education, an education training company, said a blanket ban was a bad idea \"as children may still bring them into school and hide them\".\n\nInstead, there should be a \"collaborative approach with rules in place\" including designated times and areas for use, she said.\n\n\"It is about bringing trust and preparing them for the adult world,\" she added.\n\nPhones should be incorporated into lessons as a \"fundamental part of the curriculum\", said Susan Wessels, deputy head of Framlingham College in Suffolk.\n\n\"Schools are designed to prepare students for the real world,\" she added. \"We must encourage pupils to use their phones constructively.\"\n\nBut half of parents support a ban on phones, a survey by price comparison site uSwitch last year suggested.\n\nShile Ismaila, a parenting blogger at African Mommy says banning phones would \"avoid distractions and helps kids focus on work\".\n\n\"Children spent more time than usual on their phones during the pandemic,\" she added.\n\n\"This was the main way to stay connected to peers which has more or less turned into an addiction now.\"\n\nMr Williamson also wrote about the need for discipline and structure as children return to schools.\n\n“Although remote learning was a tremendous success in terms of enabling children to carry on with their lessons from home, the lack of regular structure and discipline will inevitably have had an effect on their behaviour,” he said.", "Gates at Lanark Way were shut by police but became the centre of violence on Wednesday\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has said he is \"deeply concerned\" about scenes of violence in Northern Ireland.\n\nPolice were attacked, petrol bombs thrown and a bus set on fire in another night of disorder in Belfast.\n\n\"The way to resolve differences is through dialogue, not violence or criminality,\" he said.\n\nThe disturbances took place on both sides of an interface in the loyalist Shankill and nationalist Springfield Road areas of the city on Wednesday.\n\nForty-one police officers were injured in disturbances in parts of Northern Ireland over the Easter period, involving children as young as 13.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe BBC's Ireland correspondent Emma Vardy said crowds of a few hundred on each side threw petrol bombs in both directions on Wednesday night.\n\nThe disruption took place close to where a number of loyalist protesters had earlier gathered.\n\nPolice confirmed a vehicle was set alight at the junction of Lanark Way and the Shankill Road in the west of the city.\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\nOur correspondent said the arrival of a line of police cars interrupted the attacks over the peace wall.\n\nBy 00:30 GMT, a few bottles were being thrown but things were calmer, said BBC correspondent Emma Vardy\n\nThe police and political parties have repeatedly called for calm\n\nPetrol bombs, fireworks and rocks were thrown over the peace wall\n\nNorthern Ireland's power-sharing Executive will meet on Thursday to be briefed about what Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill denounced as \"the violence and street disorder which is causing huge distress in local communities\".\n\n\"Those involved in violence, criminal damage, manipulation of our young people and attacks on the police must stop,\" said Sinn Féin's vice-president.\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\nPolice also confirmed they had received a report of an assault on a press photographer.\n\nThe Police Federation for Northern Ireland said the violence could \"set our society back years\".\n\nCalling for the ongoing street disorder to stop, PSNI Chief Constable Simon Byrne said he was \"open to dialogue with anyone who is willing to work with me to resolve the issues facing our community\".\n\nAddressing the rioters, he tweeted: \"Violence is not the answer.\"\n\nDrone footage shows the bus fire in the Shankill area\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster condemned what she called \"vandalism and attempted murder\" and said it did \"not represent unionism or loyalism\".\n\nShe said the actions \"only serve to take the focus off the real law breakers in Sinn Féin\", and her thoughts were with the driver of the hijacked bus.\n\nPolice Landrovers arrived to try to block off the Springfield Road to prevent more disorder at the Lanark Way interface\n\nJustice Minister Naomi Long of the Alliance Party said \"these are 'real law breakers', burning buses, terrorising passengers and attacking police.\n\n\"Let's focus on that and getting this stopped before someone loses their life.\"\n\nUlster Unionist leader Steve Aiken said the violence was \"unacceptable and unjustified\".\n\nA bus was set alight at the Lanark Way and Shankill Road junction\n\nTaoiseach (Irish PM) Micheál Martin tweeted that he \"utterly condemned\" the unrest, adding: \"Now is the time for the two governments and leaders on all sides to work together to defuse tensions and restore calm.\"\n\nIrish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney said the scenes were \"very disturbing\" and that \"attacks on police, journalists and citizens must be condemned by all\".\n\n\"There are peaceful, democratic and legal channels to address all issues and concerns. Calm and positive leadership needed from all,\" he said.\n\nThe attack on the press photographer, Kevin Scott from the Belfast Telegraph, took place on Cupar Way.\n\nMr Scott told BBC News NI: \"I cover everything as fairly and impartially as possible, working at both sides of the community covering both the positive and the not so positive,\" he said.\n\n\"I won't be deterred from covering stories that are important and note-worthy.\"\n\nSome damage was caused to the camera of Belfast Telegraph photo journalist Kevin Scott\n\nNI Infrastructure Minister Nichola Mallon said the hijacking and attack on a bus was \"sickening\".\n\n\"Those responsible for this and ongoing attacks on the PSNI need to stop,\" she tweeted.\n\nA number of Belfast services, including the Glider buses, have been suspended.\n\nA number of tyres were set on fire at Lanark Way\n\nIn total, 10 arrests have been made across Northern Ireland during disorder over the past week.\n\nThe Easter disturbances have been blamed on loyalist frustrations over a Public Prosecution Service decision not to prosecute people who attended the large-scale funeral of republican Bobby Storey in June 2020, as well as concerns about the NI Protocol in the Brexit deal.\n\nThe leaders of the Democratic Unionist Party, Ulster Unionist Party, Traditional Unionist Voice and Progressive Unionist Party have said the position of Chief Constable Simon Byrne is untenable over the PSNI's handling of the funeral.\n\nThat event was attended by a number of senior Sinn Féin politicians, including the deputy first minister.", "Loneliness is more likely to affect younger people, say researchers\n\nLoneliness during the Covid lockdown has been much more intense in poorer, urban areas and places with a higher proportion of young people, says the Office for National Statistics (ONS).\n\nA study has mapped the factors that makes loneliness more likely in different parts of Britain.\n\nFormer industrial towns with higher unemployment were more lonely.\n\nWhile affluent and older populations were less likely to experience high levels of lockdown loneliness.\n\nAnd high streets with good local businesses can make a positive difference.\n\nThe autumn and winter months - from October 2020 to February 2021 - saw rising levels of loneliness, says the ONS.\n\nAmong the adult population, 7% were \"always or often\" lonely - representing 3.7 million people - more than a million more than during the first lockdown last spring.\n\nThe latest research from the ONS shows the overlapping factors linked to the highest levels of loneliness.\n\nUrban areas, particularly those with declining industries, and higher rates of unemployment and crime, are more vulnerable to loneliness.\n\nThe study found a particularly strong link during the pandemic between joblessness and loneliness in towns and cities outside London.\n\nThe ONS cautions against reading too much into individual local figures, but levels of \"often or always\" lonely are double the national average in places including:\n\nAs previous studies have shown, young adults, even before they were cut off from their social lives during the pandemic, are much more likely to report feelings of loneliness than older people.\n\nIn these self-reported feelings of loneliness, 16 to 24-year-olds were five times more likely to say they had felt lonely in the past seven days than those 65 to 74-year-olds.\n\nThere have been been suggestions that older people become more \"resilient\" in their attitude towards loneliness.\n\nWhile Nick Crofts, head of the Co-op Foundation, which has also published research on loneliness, says it should be \"no surprise\" that young people are are particularly affected,\n\n\"Over more than a year of social distancing, they've seen schools and colleges close while physical interactions with each other have been hugely restricted,\" he said.\n\nThe areas of Britain least likely to have felt lonely during the pandemic are described as \"affluent England\", those with \"countryside living\" and places that feel safer from a lower level of crime.\n\nUrban areas, including former industrial towns, have higher levels of loneliness\n\nRural areas tend to have less loneliness than urban.\n\nOther protective factors against loneliness include having strong local businesses, and access to adult education - with these helping people to stay connected and keep in touch.\n\nThe study grouped together areas such as \"London cosmopolitan\" and \"ethnically-diverse metropolitan living\", and found these to be less likely to be lonely than poorer, post-industrial towns - but more lonely than wealthier or rural locations.\n\nLocal businesses help to protect communities against loneliness\n\nThere are personal factors in this mosaic of loneliness.\n\nThe study shows anxiety levels have also risen during the pandemic - particularly for those living in densely-populated areas - and that feelings of anxiety can be interlinked with loneliness.\n\nPeople who are living alone are more likely to be lonely, particularly those who are widowed or separated - with those with \"no-one to talk to\" being 10 times more likely to report loneliness.", "The seal has been named \"Mrs Vicar\" because of the white ring that was around the neck\n\nA seal that had a plastic ring stuck around its neck for two-and-half years has had it removed after being rescued from a Norfolk beach.\n\nThe animal, named \"Mrs Vicar\", was captured on Horsey Beach, near Great Yarmouth, on Easter Sunday.\n\nIt is being cared for at the RSPCA's East Winch wildlife centre after having the ring taken off by vets.\n\nAlison Charles, manager at the centre, said the wound was \"very sore, but we are hopeful she will recover\".\n\nMrs Vicar was rescued off a Norfolk beach on Easter Sunday\n\nThe adult grey seal had the rigid white plastic ring deeply embedded in her neck, as seals are unable to get them off once their heads go through.\n\nThe RSPCA said as the seal grew bigger it began to cut into the neck and caused a 7cm (2.8in) deep wound, which became infected.\n\nMs Charles said: \"All we can do now is hope that Mrs Vicar is strong enough to pull through.\n\n\"Even if she makes it through the next few days, we are not out of the woods and we will be treating her for a number of months.\"\n\nThe seal is at the RSPCA East Winch wildlife centre which specialises in care for injured seals\n\nPeter Ansell, chairman of the Friends of Horsey Seals which helped rescue the seal, said it was named Mrs Vicar due to the white ring around the neck.\n\nHe said the ring \"turned out to be some type of flange, possibly used in large scale pipework\".\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Face coverings should be worn during lessons and tests as part of Covid safety measures\n\nDriving lessons can restart in England and Wales on 12 April, the transport secretary has confirmed.\n\nGrant Shapps said driving tests will resume 10 days later on 22 April.\n\nThe Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) will offer more tests and examiners, including at weekends and on bank holidays, \"so as many learners can take a test with all necessary safety measures in place\", Mr Shapps said.\n\nTests and lessons are currently suspended because of lockdown rules.\n\nIn Scotland, lessons will resume later on 26 April, with tests restarting on 6 May at the earliest.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, all driving lessons and tests have been cancelled as part of its current lockdown, which began on 26 December.\n\nAlong with car driving lessons, lorry and minibus lessons and driving theory tests can also resume from 12 April in England and Wales.\n\nDriving tests for motorcycles, lorries and cars with trailers can also take place from 12 April. All tests can now be booked online.\n\nThe pandemic has caused disruption for many people learning to drive, with lessons and tests cancelled across the UK.\n\nSome 2.97 million people in Britain aged 16-25 hold a full driving licence, down from 3.32 million people in March 2020.\n\nIt's the smallest total since at least November 2012, according to analysis of Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) records by the PA news agency.\n\nAmelia is frustrated that some people who started learning to drive after her have secured tests before her\n\nAmelia Sully initially had her driving test booked for November 2020. She moved that to February but then that got cancelled, and she's had to reschedule her test for June.\n\nDriving lessons with her parents have been \"stop-start\" due to the stay-at-home rules during lockdown.\n\n\"It's definitely frustrating. I've been a learner driver for over a year since I started on my 17th birthday,\" the 18-year-old from Oxfordshire tells Radio 1 Newsbeat.\n\nHaving a car would have been helpful in cutting down her commute to sixth form from 45 to 15 minutes.\n\n\"It would be great to drive to friends' houses and go out, rather than having to rely on parents to take me to the nearest bus stop,\" she adds.\n\nAs she starts university in September, Amelia is worried if she doesn't pass in June, she'll have to wait even longer before trying again.\n\n\"I've had friends who have booked and they were moved to September. So if I had to book another one, you're looking at the end of the year.\"\n\nCovid safety measures include that learners and instructors should wear face coverings in lessons and tests, unless there is a good reason for them not to, the DVSA says.\n\nPeople doing a test in their own car should clean it beforehand, wiping down the dashboard and car controls.\n\nAt least one window on each side of the car must be open.\n\nThe return of driving lessons on Monday coincides with the next phase of England's lockdown easing - which will see people also returning to gyms, pub gardens and non-essential shops.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "The government should create a food security minister to ensure continued progress in helping to feed poverty-hit people, according to MPs.\n\nA report from the Commons Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee says progress made during the pandemic should be maintained as lockdown eases.\n\nMinisters mobilised their departments during the pandemic, \"but this impetus needs to be sustained,\" MPs say.\n\nAnd the government should consider enshrining in law a \"right to food\".\n\nTory MP Neil Parish, who chairs the Commons committee, said the efforts to feed the most vulnerable people during the Covid-19 crisis should \"set a precedent\" for the future.\n\nThere are 5.9 million adults in the UK who experienced food poverty in the six months up to February and 1.7 million children living in food-insecure households, according to the report.\n\nTo ensure people continue to get help, the MPs called for the introduction of a food security minister who would be backed by \"robust\" cross-government structures to ensure all relevant departments \"prioritise the issue of food insecurity\".\n\nThe government should also consult on how the right to food could be introduced in England, the report urges, in a bid to \"drive action\" across Whitehall.\n\nOther recommendations in the report include:\n\nThe MPs also warned that taxpayer support to the hospitality industry \"will have been wasted\" if its supply chain collapses because suppliers have not received the same level of support.\n\nTherefore, they said, the government must \"urgently assess the impact\" of the closures of hospitality to its suppliers and provide additional financial support as the lockdown is eased.\n\nMr Parish said: \"During the Covid crisis, different government departments pulled together to make sure that the most vulnerable in our society were fed. This should set a precedent.\n\n\"We have a duty to ensure that access to enough nutritious food is a fundamental right for everyone in the UK, which is why, for the second time in a year, our committee urges the government to appoint a new minister specifically to address food security.\"\n\nA government spokesman responded that \"the recent pandemic has proven that the UK has a large, diverse and highly resilient food supply chain that has coped well in responding to unprecedented challenges - and we will review the recommendations set out within this report and respond accordingly\".\n\n\"Since March last year, we have spent more than £280bn to deliver an impressive package of economic and welfare support to protect and support the incomes and needs of families and children - and we continue to work closely with the food industry to ensure people across the country have the food and supplies they need,\" he added.", "Public Health England says people in Salisbury and surrounding areas shouldn't pick up litter unless they have dropped it themselves\n\nThere have been calls for a ban on litter picking in villages near the site of a fatal Novichok poisoning to be lifted.\n\nPeople near Salisbury are still being told not to pick up discarded items, three years after the 2018 attack.\n\nResidents and councillors want Public Health England to reconsider its guidance.\n\n\"The common feeling is that the risk has passed,\" said Steve Milton, clerk of Alderbury Parish Council.\n\nFormer Russian double-agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia collapsed in Salisbury after being poisoned on 4 March 2018.\n\nLocal residents Dawn Sturgess and Charlie Rowley were also exposed to Novichok in nearby Amesbury and Ms Sturgess later died.\n\nPublic Health England (PHE) says that \"as a precaution\" its advice remains \"if you didn't drop it, then don't pick it up.\"\n\nSergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia survived the attack in Salisbury on 4 March 2018\n\nA huge police and military operation took over Salisbury following the 2018 attack\n\nMr Milton said the issue had arisen again as villages were planning clean-ups ahead of entering the Wiltshire Best Kept Village competition.\n\n\"We're definitely going ahead. We're five miles away from Salisbury so we think we would be pretty safe and perhaps they need to be a bit more nuanced in that advice,\" he said.\n\nWiltshire councillor for Alderbury and Whiteparish, Richard Britton, has asked PHE to \"urgently review\" its guidance, saying that he felt the risk was \"incredibly small\".\n\n\"After three years you would think that PHE would have got its act together and reconsidered their advice. Having left it so long I think they owe it to residents to sort this out very quickly,\" he said.\n\nLitter picking will happen in Alderbury said parish council clerk Steve Milton\n\nPHE has said that that while the chances of anything dangerous being found is low, it was important to remember how serious the consequences could be if the chemical was discovered.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"The advice remains \"if you didn't drop it, then don't pick it up. We are keeping the advice under review and will update it in due course.\"\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.", "Greenland's main opposition party has won an election which could have major consequences for international interests in the Arctic.\n\nThe left-wing Inuit Ataqatigiit, which opposes a mining project in southern Greenland, secured 37% of votes.\n\nIts leader said on Wednesday that the Kvanefjeld mine, home to major deposits of rare minerals, would not go ahead.\n\nThe social-democratic Siumut party came second, having been in power for all but four years since 1979.\n\nInuit Ataqatigiit, an indigenous party with a strong environmental focus, will now seek to form a government.\n\nGreenland is a vast autonomous arctic territory that belongs to Denmark. Although it has a population of just 56,000, the result of the election has been closely followed internationally.\n\nGreenland's economy relies on fishing and subsidies from the Danish government, but as a result of melting ice, mining opportunities are increasing.\n\nThe company that owns the site at Kvanefjeld, in the south of the country, says the mine has \"the potential to become the most significant western world producer of rare earths\", a group of 17 elements used to manufacture electronics and weapons.\n\nHowever, disagreement over the project led to the collapse of Greenland's government earlier this year, paving the way for Tuesday's snap election.\n\nMany locals had raised concerns about the potential for radioactive pollution and toxic waste in the farmland surrounding the proposed mine.\n\n\"The people have spoken,\" Inuit Ataqatigiit's leader Múte Bourup Egede told Danish state broadcaster DR on Wednesday morning, adding that the project would be halted.\n\nThe head of the Siumut Party, Erik Jensen, told Denmark's TV 2 he believed the controversy surrounding the Kvanefjeld mine was \"one of the main reasons\" for its defeat, with 29% of the vote.\n\nThe party had supported the development, arguing that it would provide hundreds of jobs and generate hundreds of millions of dollars annually over several decades, which could lead to greater independence from Denmark.\n\nMany residents in the nearby town of Narsaq are concerned about the Kvanefjeld plans\n\nGreenland has hit the headlines several times in recent years, with then-President Donald Trump suggesting in 2019 that the US could buy the territory.\n\nDenmark quickly dismissed the idea as \"absurd\", but international interest in Greenland's future has continued.\n\nThe Kvanefjeld site is owned by an Australian company, Greenland Minerals, which is in turn backed by a Chinese company.\n\nChina already has mining deals with Greenland, while the US - which has a key Cold War-era air base at Thule - has offered millions in aid.\n\nDenmark has itself acknowledged the territory's importance: in 2019 it placed Greenland at the top of its national security agenda for the first time.\n\nAnd in March this year, one think tank concluded that the UK, the US, Australia, Canada and New Zealand - known collectively as the Five Eyes - should focus on Greenland to reduce their dependency on China for key mineral supplies.\n\nThe territory is on the front line of climate change, with scientists reporting record ice loss last year. This in turn has significant implications for low-lying coastal areas around the world.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The acceleration in melting of the ice sheet covering Greenland has shocked researchers\n\nBut it is the retreating ice that has both increased mining opportunities and raised the possibility of new shipping lanes through the Arctic, which could reduce global shipping times.\n\nThis changing reality has also increased focus on long-running territorial disputes, with Denmark, Russia and Canada all seeking sovereignty over a vast underwater mountain range near the North Pole known as Lomonosov Ridge.\n\nRussia, meanwhile, has been increasing its economic and military activities in the Arctic, where it has a long coastline, prompting concern from western governments.", "Anti-government protesters in Hong Kong believe China is undermining their rights and freedoms\n\nHundreds of thousands of Hong Kong citizens expected to move to the UK under a new visa scheme will be helped to access housing, schools and jobs, the communities secretary has said.\n\nAround 27,000 applications have been made for visas brought in after Beijing imposed a national security law in the former British colony.\n\nThe visas give Hong Kong citizens the right to live in the UK for five years.\n\nRobert Jenrick told the BBC ministers wanted to provide \"necessary\" help.\n\n\"If they struggle, then we're here to support them,\" he said.\n\n\"That means local councils being there to provide them with housing, with the benefit system standing behind them, with all the support the state can offer to make sure that no-one gets into difficult times,\" he added.\n\nMeanwhile, one of Hong Kong's leading pro-democracy activists, Nathan Law, has been granted asylum by the UK.\n\nMr Law said the Home Office had accepted he was \"exposed to severe political persecution\" if he returned to Hong Kong.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said the UK has a \"proud history of providing protection to those who need it\".\n\nSince 31 January, Hong Kong residents have been able to come to the UK for up to five years and apply for permanent residency.\n\nThe UK introduced the British National (Overseas), or BNO, visa after China passed a wide-ranging new security law for Hong Kong which makes it easier to punish protesters and reduces the city's autonomy.\n\nThe UK says the law is an erosion of freedoms and rights.\n\nGovernment sources said school places for the new arrivals, many of whom will have young families, were \"a pressure to be acknowledged\".\n\nIf the number of applications for the visas continues to rise at the same rate, they will far outstrip the Home Office's prediction of 154,000 arrivals in the first year of the scheme.\n\nMr Jenrick said he expected the new arrivals to make a \"real and important contribution\" to the UK - and that many had qualifications in teaching, medicine or engineering.\n\nBut community groups have previously raised concerns that BNO visa holders will need help to find jobs and housing.\n\nJabez Lam, the manager of one group, Hackney Chinese Community Services, said he thought around 7,000 people had arrived already.\n\nMany have booked into hotels or Airbnbs while they look for rented accommodation, he said.\n\n\"We believe as the lockdown eases that rate will accelerate,\" said Mr Lam.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is the BNO visa for Hong Kongers?\n\nHis charity has already raised concerns with the government about school admissions and the right to obtain tenancies.\n\nIt also urged police to step up action against UK-based supporters of the Chinese government who might target Hong Kongers.\n\nSimon Cheng, the chairman of another charity, Hong Kongers in Britain, said the UK government should also offer to help people who had taken part in protests against Beijing but who were not eligible for BNO visas.\n\nHe said: \"The BNO visa scheme is rather a life-boat scheme for rescuing people out of tyranny, and some of those may need actual help for resettlement, and to have a launch pad to contribute more to the UK economy and for sure, UK democracy.\"\n\nAlthough the BNO visa states holders have no recourse to public funds in the UK, the government says those who become destitute may be offered assistance to access social housing and other benefits.\n\nThere will be 12 virtual \"welcome hubs\" in the nations and English regions to provide access to housing, education and employment.\n\nTeaching material about the UK's historical links with Hong Kong will be given to schools.", "Adam Price says a Plaid Cymru government will \"empower the people of Wales\"\n\nPlaid Cymru would hold an independence referendum within five years if it came to power in May's Senedd election.\n\nLaunching its manifesto, the party said it offered the \"most radical programme\" in \"any Welsh election since 1945\".\n\nIts plans include creating 60,000 green jobs, extending free school meals and social care free at the point of need.\n\nEconomists cost checking the promises called them \"achievable\" but could not say if \"the spending is adequate to achieve the desired results\".\n\nLaunching the manifesto, in Cardiff Bay, Plaid leader Adam Price said the \"practical, deliverable and fully costed policies\" would lead to a \"fairer, greener, and more prosperous future for Wales\".\n\nMr Price said his party would deliver a referendum within the next Senedd term if it was in government after 6 May.\n\n\"We believe independence to be the only sure and sustainable means to achieving social and economic progress,\" he said.\n\n\"So, a Plaid Cymru government will empower the people of Wales to decide the future of our nation in an independence referendum.\"\n\nHe added: \"Wales has incredible potential as a nation. The problems that we have had for generations are not inevitable.\n\n\"We can solve these problems, together. But the first step is electing a new government that has the ambition to build a new Wales that's better than the old.\"\n\nAdam Price has put independence front and centre of Plaid policy since becoming leader in 2018\n\nMr Price told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast with Claire Summers that Wales needed new leadership after years of Welsh Labour-led governments.\n\nHe said: \"I'm not prepared to accept defeat. The only way that we're going to put Wales on a different path is if we change the political leadership of Wales and have a government that has the vision and ambition for Wales that has sadly been lacking in the last two decades.\"\n\nHe said the \"central question\" for Wales is how to put the country on a \"different\" economic trajectory. He confirmed that if he was the next first minister, he would also take on the role of economy minister.\n\n\"For too long we have been under-delivering in terms of quality jobs and decent wages for our communities and that is the central task of the next government of Wales,\" he said.\n\nThe manifesto's five main policies areas are:\n\nThe pledges include a promise to spend £6bn on a \"green economic stimulus\" to help create 60,000 new jobs, including £4bn on infrastructure.\n\nOther pledges include helping Wales take part in Eurovision, and working towards a country \"transformed\" with racism eradicated by 2030.\n\nRead more on the key points from the manifesto here.\n\nPlaid's manifesto is a hefty document, running to 126 pages, and is full of lofty pledges.\n\nIt says it wants to \"transform\" Wales by 2030 with a long table of possible improvements to the country's economy and society.\n\nThe document aims to set out a positive vision for Wales' future, and at its heart is significant constitutional change, pulling Wales out of the UK.\n\nBut that would need the UK government to come to agreement on a referendum, and for Plaid to win a majority.\n\nThe latter is something no party has ever done, outright, in the Senedd. If it was able to put the manifesto into practice, Plaid might have to pick and choose what to run with.\n\nSo its handy for any future negotiations with other parties that Plaid's shopping list has a lot of options to choose from.\n\nThe party says its \"fully costed\" manifesto pledges had been \"independently verified by two of Wales' leading economists\".\n\nAccording to Prof Brian Morgan and Prof Gerry Holtham, the party says it would borrow £4bn to support its £6bn economic stimulus.\n\nThey concluded that Plaid's current spending commitments \"seem achievable\".\n\nBut they go on to say that the \"areas of greatest uncertainty surround the borrowing target and the estimates of efficiency savings\".\n\nWhat elections are happening? On 6 May, people across Wales will vote to elect 60 Members of the Senedd (MSs). The party or parties that can command the support of a majority of members will form the Welsh government. Find out more here.\n\nWhat powers does the Welsh Parliament have? MSs pass laws on many aspects of day-to-day life in Wales, such as health, education and transport. They also have control over some taxes. Defence, foreign policy and immigration are decided by the UK Parliament.\n\nHow do I vote? Anyone who lives in Wales 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\nThe authors say Plaid Cymru's proposed efficiency savings of 1% per year - aimed at helping to fund some of the manifesto promises - \"have not been specified in any detail\".\n\nOn the party's infrastructure proposals, the economists warn most borrowing would have to be through \"private finance\" which would be costly and take more time.\n\n\"We remain doubtful that the proposed borrowing programme could be completed within a single term of the Senedd,\" they say.\n\nThey also note that the assumptions around the block grant, the sum of money received from the UK Treasury providing the majority of Welsh government funds, is \"optimistic\" but \"not unreasonable,\" with the savings target \"challenging\" but \"not impossible\".\n\nSome manifesto promises, they note, also depend on specific UK government decisions that \"cannot be taken for granted\".\n\nThe document does not cost the independence referendum proposals.", "\"Covid-19 Student Ambassadors\" getting the jab in Detroit on Tuesday\n\nThe White House has ruled out introducing mandatory federal Covid-19 vaccination passports, saying citizens' privacy and rights should be protected.\n\nSchemes to introduce such passports have been touted around the world as a way to enable safe circulation of people while fighting the pandemic.\n\nBut critics say such documents could be discriminatory.\n\nThe US said it did not and would not support a \"system that requires Americans to carry a credential\".\n\nThe country has reported more than 550,000 deaths linked to the virus and nearly 31 million cases, the highest numbers in the world, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nAddressing reporters, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said there would be no \"federal vaccinations database\" or a \"federal mandate requiring everyone to obtain a single vaccination credential\".\n\n\"The government is not now, nor will be, supporting a system that requires Americans to carry a credential,\" she said. \"Our interest is very simple from the federal government, which is Americans' privacy and rights should be protected, and so that these systems are not used against people unfairly.\"\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\nCountries around the world are looking at the introduction of so-called vaccine passports, which would be used to show that a person has been inoculated against Covid-19, as a way of safely reopening mass gatherings and travel.\n\nIn England, a \"Covid status certification\" scheme is being developed to enable concerts and sports matches to take place. It would record whether people had been vaccinated, recently tested negative, or had already had and recovered from Covid-19.\n\nThe European Union is also working on plans to introduce certificates, while in Israel a \"Green Pass\" is already available to anyone who has been fully vaccinated or has recovered from Covid-19, which they have to show to access facilities such as hotels, gyms or theatres.\n\nThe World Health Organization on Tuesday said it did not currently support requiring vaccination passports for travel, because of uncertainty over whether inoculation prevents transmission, and discrimination concerns.\n\nMeanwhile, US President Joe Biden announced on Tuesday that he had brought forward to 19 April the date by which all American adults will be eligible for a Covid vaccine.\n\n\"We have to ramp up a whole-of-government approach that rallies the whole country and puts us on a war footing to truly beat this virus,\" he said.", "Emma Guilbert had moved to Newcastle six weeks before she was killed\n\nA speeding driver who left a student dying in the street after crashing into her has been jailed.\n\nEmma Guilbert had moved from Manchester to Newcastle to study six weeks before she was hit by Mohammed Youssaf.\n\nYoussaf was travelling at 40mph in a 30mph zone and struck the 18-year-old on a pedestrian crossing, sending her flying 120ft (36m) before he drove off.\n\nHe was jailed for 30 months after being found guilty of causing death by dangerous driving.\n\nNewcastle Crown Court heard Youssaf, 33, drove his Peugeot 307 into Ms Guilbert on Wingrove Road in Fenham in November 2018.\n\nWitnesses called the emergency services but Ms Guilbert, who had moved to study psychology at Newcastle University, died in hospital three days later.\n\nYoussaf, of Wingrove Road in Fenham, later handed himself in and claimed he had tried to ring 999 three times but the call failed to connect.\n\nNorthumbria Police found the 999 calls had been incorrectly dialled before being manually deleted from his phone.\n\nHe admitted causing death by careless driving but was found guilty of the more serious offence by jurors.\n\nYoussaf was also banned from driving for 51 months and will have to pass an extended test.\n\nInsp Ian Cutty said Youssaf's driving had been \"appalling\" and he had \"robbed a family of a loving young woman who had just taken her first steps into adulthood\".\n\nPolice said they believe Mohammed Youssaf was travelling at 40mph when he crashed into Emma Guilbert\n\n\"What made his actions so deplorable was the fact that he did not even bother to rush to her aid, instead fleeing the scene in a desperate attempt to avoid justice,\" Insp Cutty said.\n\nMs Guilbert's father Martin said: \"From the day Emma was born she lit up our lives and those around her.\n\n\"Emma went off to university a bright intelligent young woman, full of anticipation and excitement about the new chapter in her life's journey. She had the world at her feet.\n\n\"The day her life ended was the day our family's life changed forever in the most harrowing, tragic, inconceivably inhumane way - because someone took her life, decided to speed in a car, hit our daughter violently and then sped away.\"\n\nMr Guilbert also said he wanted to thank those who came to his daughter's aid.\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.", "Richard Okorogheye, who has sickle cell disease, left home without his medication\n\nA post-mortem examination is due to be carried out on a body found in Epping Forest by police searching for missing student Richard Okorogheye.\n\nThe family of the 19-year-old, who has sickle cell disease, have been spoken to by officers, who are waiting for formal identification.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said the body was discovered in a pond in the woodland.\n\nDet Supt Danny Gosling said Mr Okorogheye's family have been informed.\n\n\"This is an extensive inquiry and we are working tirelessly.\n\n\"Our officers and specialist search teams and dogs have been carrying out extensive searches since Richard was last seen on CCTV in the area.\"\n\nOn Monday, the Met said it had been informed by Essex Police about the body of a man found in a pond\n\nThe Oxford Brookes student, who has sickle cell disease, was last seen by his family on 22 March, when he left their home in the Ladbroke Grove area of west London.\n\nPolice said he then took a taxi to a residential street in Loughton, Essex, where he was last seen on CCTV in the early hours of the following day, walking towards Epping Forest.\n\nThe force previously said Mr Okorogheye's phone had not been in use since his disappearance. He did not take his medication or any money when he left home.\n\nOfficers and police dogs were searching the forest for a fifth day when they made the discovery on Monday afternoon.\n\nMr Okorogheye's mother, Evidence Joel, previously said her son had been \"struggling to cope\" with his business and IT degree.\n\nAs someone with sickle cell disease, Mr Okorogheye would only leave the house to go to hospital for regular blood transfusions for his condition, his family explained.\n\nOfficers have been seen at the Wake Valley pond in Epping Forest following the discovery\n\nCrime scene tape flutters in the trees around the Wake Valley pond.\n\nA few Met officers stand guard, shivering on a bright, freezing morning. They are supporting their Essex Police colleagues, making sure nobody interferes with any evidence.\n\nThere is urgent and important work to do as there is a body to identify and a cause of death to establish.\n\nDetectives must piece together the puzzle of how that person ended up in the pond.\n\nRichard's family and friends are waiting anxiously for answers to those and many other questions.\n\nWhat drew the 19-year-old student from his home nearly two weeks ago? Why did he travel across London then head for the forest after midnight and was anybody else involved?", "Qari Abdul Rauf was convicted of trafficking a child within the UK for sexual exploitation\n\nFresh calls have been made to deport members of a notorious grooming gang after one of the men was spotted in the town where he abused young girls more than a decade ago.\n\nQari Abdul Rauf, Abdul Aziz and Adil Khan were jailed in 2012 for attacks in Rochdale, Greater Manchester.\n\nThe trio have been facing deportation since 2018 after losing an appeal to retain their British citizenship.\n\nMP Tony Lloyd said the government had shown \"grossly unacceptable inaction\".\n\nThe Home Office said the men's cases had recently been reviewed and it \"intends to update the victims through the proper channels when we can\".\n\nRochdale's Labour MP Mr Lloyd was speaking after Rauf, now 51, was apparently photographed shopping in the town.\n\nHe was said to have been stocking up a trolley with drinks at a store, as well as carrying a takeaway food delivery bag.\n\nMr Lloyd said it was \"unthinkable\" that the men's victims still face the possibility of \"walking round a street corner and bumping into them\".\n\n\"Particularly as we've had promises from successive home secretaries, not just in recent months, but over a good number of years now,\" he said.\n\n\"Quite frankly the inaction by the government is unthinkable and grossly unacceptable.\"\n\n(L-R) Abdul Aziz, Adil Khan and Qari Abdul Rauf exploited girls as young as 13\n\nRauf, Aziz and Khan, who are Pakistani nationals, were among nine jailed for crimes including rape and trafficking of girls as young as 13.\n\nIn some cases their victims, who were targeted from 2008, had been raped and handed to men who paid for sex with them in Oldham as well as Rochdale.\n\nThe three men were given jail sentences of between six and nine years.\n\nFormer police detective Maggie Oliver, who resigned over the way the cases were handled by Greater Manchester Police, said news of the sighting of Rauf had made her \"blood boil\".\n\n\"This is just the latest failure about how disgracefully the victims are treated, basically,\" she said.\n\n\"I'm in touch with them regularly and this is the latest in a long line of what they see as the criminal justice system failing them.\n\n\"I know these men have been out and about in Rochdale just carrying on with their lives as if they've done nothing wrong.\"\n\nA Home Office spokesman said: \"What happened in places such as Rochdale remains one of the biggest stains on our country's conscience.\n\n\"The cases of the foreign national offenders involved in these crimes have recently been reviewed at the request of the home secretary and we intend to update the victims through the proper channels when we can.\"\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.", "Thousands of bluebell bulbs were found in sacks having been dug up in a private wood (not the one pictured)\n\nSome 8,000 bluebell bulbs were found dug up after police received a call about suspicious activity in a privately-owned wood.\n\nOfficers arrived to find large sacks and mail bags filled with recently uprooted bulbs from the wood in the Fakenham area, Norfolk Police said.\n\nA walker reported seeing people acting suspiciously in the wood on 23 March.\n\nTwo men and two women, in their 20s and 30s and all from Lincolnshire, have been interviewed, but no arrests made.\n\nThe landowner is in the process of replanting the bulbs and officers are appealing for witnesses.\n\nOne of the sacks found by police containing the dug-up bluebells\n\nBritish bluebells are protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act along with all other native wild plants and bulbs, said Norfolk Police.\n\nIt is an offence to intentionally uproot any wild plant unless authorised to do so, and police are encouraging people to report any suspicious behaviour.\n\nIn 2019, almost 13,000 snowdrops worth about £1,500 were stolen from the Walsingham Estate in Norfolk and two men admitted theft and criminal damage.\n\nOne was jailed for 10 months and the other ordered to complete 200 hours of unpaid work.\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.", "Shops, restaurants and bars will offer QR barcode check-ins once restrictions ease\n\nEngland and Wales' contact tracing app will soon ask users to share details of venues they have checked in to, if they test positive for the coronavirus.\n\nThe update to the NHS Covid-19 app will be deployed ahead of shops reopening in both nations on 12 April, as well as outdoor hospitality in England.\n\nThe authorities will be able to use the information to tell other visitors if they need to be tested for the virus.\n\nBut the system has been designed to protect users' anonymity.\n\n\"The app has been designed with user privacy in mind, so it tracks the virus not people, and uses the latest in data security technology to protect privacy,\" said a spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Social Care.\n\nUntil now, the QR barcode-scanning facility only came into use if local authorities themselves flagged a location as being a virus hotspot by other means.\n\nThis would then trigger a process whereby each phone could check if it had been at one of the affected venues on the dates concerned, and send the owner an alert.\n\nBut the facility has rarely been used, despite more than 106 million check-ins.\n\nIn March, Sky News reported that \"capacity issues at a local level\" were blamed for this, with overburdened health protection teams unclear about what they were supposed to do.\n\nThe decision to automate the system via users' own actions could help address this.\n\nThe QR barcode posters are being relaunched with a simplified design ahead of 12 April\n\nPeople might have reservations about disclosing where they have been and when.\n\nTo address this, the Department of Health has said a \"privacy-protecting\" approach is being taken.\n\nThe app will only share venue history data if users opt in.\n\nAnd rather than any names or other personal details being disclosed, the software will simply inform the system when an infected user had visited the locations.\n\nDepending on the thresholds set - for example how many infected users visited the same place on the same day - other app users can then be told to either monitor their symptoms or immediately get a test, whether they feel ill or not.\n\nIt is not intended that the check-in tool be used alone to force others to self-isolate.\n\n\"People shouldn't be worried about this as effectively they aren't being asked where they were, but rather where an unidentified person testing positive with Covid was,\" commented Prof Alan Woodward, a security expert from the University of Surrey.\n\nFurther details will be revealed in a forthcoming revision to the app's data protection impact assessment (DPIA) document.\n\nPrivacy advocates have, however, raised concerns about a parallel system being run in Scotland.\n\nUsers there are being asked to use a new app - Check In Scotland - to register at venues.\n\nThe Check In Scotland app was launched on 18 December\n\nIt is separate to the Protect Scotland contact-tracing app, and thus not bound to the same privacy-preserving measures demanded by Google and Apple, which provide some of the technology involved.\n\nCheck In Scotland uploads the name, email address and mobile phone number of each user to a \"secure\" centralised database along with the time of their visit to each venue.\n\nThe justification given is two-fold:\n\nUsers are told the data should only be used to try to combat the virus.\n\nBut the DPIA acknowledges that the information could, in theory, be disclosed for other purposes if demanded via a court order or ministerial direction.\n\nSome experts are concerned this leaves the door open to it being \"misused\".\n\n\"The concern is that this infrastructure, once in place, is unlikely to go away because the coronavirus will be with us for a long time,\" said Prof Michael Veale, a lecturer in digital rights at University College London.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. M25 crash: The moment a lorry ended up hanging over bridge\n\nA lorry has crashed through barriers of a motorway and been left overhanging the side of a bridge.\n\nThe M25 has been closed anti-clockwise at junction 2 south of Dartford, Kent, and the A2 is shut in both directions as a result.\n\nHighways England said a \"complex recovery and repair operation\" was under way and the roads would be closed for some time.\n\nKent Police said the driver was not seriously injured.\n\nThe crash in which part of the lorry's trailer went through the safety barrier was reported to Kent Police at about 13:20 BST.\n\nHighways England said \"significant damage\" had been caused\n\nThere are delays to traffic on the M25 from junction 4 on the anti-clockwise carriageway, and over the Queen Elizabeth II Bridge on the clockwise carriageway.\n\n\"Significant damage\" has been caused and congestion stretched 6 miles (10km) approaching the Dartford Crossing, a Highways England spokesman said.\n\nDrivers have been warned to allow extra time for journeys if travelling in the area, or to consider alternative routes.\n\nThe driver was not seriously injured, Kent Police said\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "As Europe considers the next steps over possible side effects of the AstraZeneca vaccine, let's turn to a country in Latin America where the ravages of the pandemic are so bad that such issues feel remote right now.\n\nWe've already reported about the crisis in Brazil where the daily number of Covid-related deaths passed 4,000 for the first time.\n\nDr Pedro Hallal, an epidemiologist from the Federal University of Pelotas in the south of the country, has now described people's desperation in an interview for BBC World Service.\n\n“Our situation is so severe now, with the cases, deaths and ICU [intensive care unit] occupancy, that we pretty much don’t have time to think about the vaccines,\" he said.\n\n\"Unfortunately that is not a priority right now – which is difficult to understand, but this is where we are in Brazil. It’s impossible to be positive nowadays in Brazil.\n\n“Most Brazilian scientists are saying that if the world doesn’t focus on Brazil right now, then maybe the vaccination [success] in other countries might be lost, if a new variant is likely to develop here in Brazil.\"", "Andy Marsh has held the role of Chief Constable at Avon and Somerset Police for five years\n\nThe Chief Constable of Avon and Somerset Police has announced he is stepping down after a turbulent year for the force.\n\nAndy Marsh said it was a \"difficult decision\" but it was time for \"a new challenge\".\n\nHe has held the role since February 2016 and will leave at the beginning of July.\n\nThe past year has seen the force face large protests and disorder including the recent Kill the Bill violence.\n\nUnrest following multiple protests against the government's new Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill in Bristol led to claims that policing had been too aggressive.\n\nMr Marsh said dispersing protesters when gatherings were forbidden under lockdown rules was \"what our communities expect us to do\".\n\nKill the Bill protests in Bristol have seen riot police deployed regularly over the past three weeks\n\nAvon and Somerset Police's senior management was also criticised for failing to intervene to stop Black Lives Matter protesters throwing a statue of slave trader Edward Colston into Bristol Harbour last summer.\n\nDefending his officers' actions that day, Mr Marsh said any intervention by them would have \"risked a violent confrontation\".\n\n\"Had they [police officers] intervened the consequences might have been incredibly serious and we might have become the epicentre of a new wave of protests around the whole world,\" he said.\n\n\"It's been the honour of a lifetime to lead a force filled with officers, staff and volunteers who live and breathe our values,\" said Mr Marsh.\n\nHe joined Avon and Somerset Police as a new recruit in 1987 before being appointed Assistant Chief Constable at Wiltshire Police in 2006.\n\nThe statue of Edward Colston was torn down and thrown into Bristol Harbour in June 2020\n\nAfter serving as Deputy Chief Constable and then Chief Constable at Hampshire Police, he returned to Avon and Somerset to take on his current role.\n\n\"To leave a force I first joined in 1987 has been a difficult decision to make, but I feel it is the right time for me to embark on a new challenge and for another person to take the helm,\" said Mr Marsh.\n\nMr Marsh received the Queen's Police Medal in 2018 and said that he was proud of what the constabulary had achieved in his time as Chief Constable, describing his time with the force as \"the honour of a lifetime\".\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.", "London electro-indie band The xx won the Mercury Prize in 2010 for their eponymous debut album\n\nRecord label Young Turks, which is home to Mercury Prize winners The xx and Sampha, has changed its name to avoid links with the mass killings of Armenians during World War One.\n\nBoss Caius Pawson said he named the label after a Rod Stewart song that evoked \"the solidarity of youth\".\n\nHowever, he said they had since learned how the name was a source of \"hurt and confusion\" for many people.\n\nThe Young Turk regime ruled the Ottoman Empire from 1908 and during the war.\n\nArmenia says 1.5 million people were killed in 1915-16 in an effort to wipe out the ethnic group. They regard it as genocide, and many historians and governments agree the killings were orchestrated.\n\nTurkey accepts that atrocities were committed but rejects the term genocide, estimating that 300,000 died. It argues there was no systematic attempt to destroy the Christian Armenian people and says many innocent Muslim Turks also died in the turmoil of war.\n\nPawson, whose label is also home to FKA Twigs, said it would now simply be called Young.\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 young_ This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Through ongoing conversations and messages that have developed our own knowledge around the subject, it's become apparent that the name is a source of hurt and confusion for people,\" he said.\n\n\"We loved the name for what it meant to us, but in retrospect should have listened more carefully to other voices and acted more quickly.\n\n\"We have always tried to affect positive change and knowing what we do now, it's only right that we change our name\".\n\nPawson added that the label, part of the Beggars Group, had also made a donation to the UK-based Armenian Institute \"in memory of those who were killed and those who survived.\"\n\nHis label has also released music by Kamasi Washington, Sbtrkt and Jack Penate.\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\nChelsea bounced back from a testing few days to earn a commanding first-leg quarter-final away win over Porto in the Champions League.\n\nMason Mount's clever turn and finish in the first half helped bring some welcome relief to Blues manager Thomas Tuchel after his side's heavy defeat to West Brom on Saturday, which was followed by a training ground incident between team-mates Kepa Arrizabalaga and Antonio Rudiger.\n\nBen Chilwell added a late second after a mistake by Corona, moments after substitute Christian Pulisic had hit the bar.\n\nHaving conceded five goals against West Brom, Chelsea produced a dogged defensive performance to earn a seventh clean sheet in nine European games this season.\n\nSkipper Cesar Azpilicueta's vital block denied Corona before Edouard Mendy kept out Pepe's header.\n\nWith both legs of this tie in Spain at Sevilla's Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan Stadium because of coronavirus travel restrictions between Portugal and the UK, this was Porto's 'home' game, meaning Chelsea's two away goals put them in pole position before next Tuesday's second leg.\n\nThis was the perfect response by Chelsea after last weekend's embarrassment - a resilient, determined and professional performance against a team that had eliminated Juventus in the previous round.\n\nTuchel reacted to the West Brom shambles by making five changes, with Rudiger among those recalled despite his 'heated' row with Arrizabalaga.\n\nRudiger played his part in an impressive Chelsea rearguard display, Porto carving out several chances without managing to find a way through.\n\nMendy used his legs to keep out Moussa Marega while Luis Diaz, who scored against Manchester City in the group stage, went close from outside the penalty area.\n\nAt the other end, Timo Werner and Azpilicueta missed headed chances to extend the lead after Mount scored before Chilwell's crucial second - a composed finish after bursting into the penalty area and taking it past the keeper - gave his side a handsome win.\n\nMount continues to flourish, his goal the highlight in what was for long spells a closely-fought contest.\n\nHaving received a pass from Jorginho following a patient build-up, the midfielder turned sharply and beat Agustin Marchesin with an instinctive low finish from an angle.\n\nMount has scored more goals in all competitions than any other Chelsea player since Tuchel was appointed in January.\n\nIn 2020-21, he has found the net for club and country in the Premier League, Nations League, FA Cup, World Cup qualifying and now Champions League.\n\nHaving dropped out of the top four, Chelsea will hope this result can propel them to a strong finish to the season.\n\nThe winners of this tie face Real Madrid or Liverpool in the semi-finals - Real lead 3-1 after the first leg - and the Blues also have an FA Cup semi-final against Manchester City on 17 April.\n• None Having won at Atletico Madrid in February, Chelsea have won consecutive away knockout games in the Champions League for the first time since April 2004 under Claudio Ranieri.\n• None No side has conceded fewer goals (2) or kept more clean sheets (7) in this season's Champions League than Chelsea (level with Man City on both counts).\n• None Since Thomas Tuchel's first game in charge of Chelsea in January, no goalkeeper playing for a top five European league side has kept more clean sheets in all competitions than Edouard Mendy (10).\n• None For the first time since March 2012 against Napoli (John Terry & Frank Lampard), Chelsea have had two different English players score for them in the same Champions League match (Mason Mount & Ben Chilwell).\n• None Porto defender Pepe (38 years 40 days) became the oldest outfield player to appear in a Champions League quarter-final since Manchester United's Ryan Giggs (40 years 123 days) back in April 2014.\n\nChelsea have a London derby at Crystal Palace on Saturday (17:30 BST) to negotiate before the return leg with Porto next Tuesday (20:00).\n• None Offside, FC Porto. Fábio Vieira tries a through ball, but Chancel Mbemba is caught offside.\n• None Goal! FC Porto 0, Chelsea 2. Ben Chilwell (Chelsea) right footed shot from very close range to the bottom right corner.\n• None Christian Pulisic (Chelsea) hits the right post with a right footed shot from the right side of the box. Assisted by Mateo Kovacic with a through ball.\n• None Marko Grujic (FC Porto) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Why are we the exception to the norm when it comes to sex?\n• None Six life lessons the four-legged friends could teach us", "People diagnosed with Covid-19 in the previous six months were more likely to develop depression, dementia, psychosis and stroke, researchers have found.\n\nA third of those with a previous Covid infection went on to develop or have a relapse of a psychological or neurological condition.\n\nBut those admitted to hospital or in intensive care had an even higher risk.\n\nThe study authors pointed to both the effects of stress, and the virus having a direct impact on the brain.\n\nUK scientists looked at the electronic medical records of more than half a million patients in the US, and their chances of developing one of 14 common psychological or neurological conditions, including:\n\nAnxiety and mood disorders were the most common diagnosis among those with Covid, and these were more likely to be down to the stress of the experience of being very ill or taken to hospital, the researchers explained.\n\nConditions like stroke and dementia were more likely to be down to the biological impacts of the virus itself, or of the body's reaction to infection in general.\n\nCovid-19 was not associated with an increased risk of Parkinson's or Guillain-Barré syndrome (a risk from flu).\n\nThe study, published in the Lancet Psychiatry journal, was observational. So the researchers couldn't say whether Covid had caused any of the diagnoses - and some people would have had a stroke or depression in the next six months regardless.\n\nBut by comparing a group of people who had had Covid-19 with two groups - with flu and with other respiratory infections respectively - the researchers at the University of Oxford concluded Covid was associated with more subsequent brain conditions than other respiratory illnesses.\n\nThe participants were matched by age, sex, ethnicity and health conditions, to make them as comparable as possible.\n\nSufferers were 16% more likely to develop a psychological or neurological disorder after Covid than after other respiratory infections, and 44% more likely than people recovering from flu.\n\nOn top of this, the more severely ill with Covid the patient had been, the more likely they were to receive a subsequent mental health or brain disorder diagnosis\n\nMood, anxiety or psychotic disorders affected 24% of all patients but this rose to 25% in those admitted to hospital, 28% in people who were in intensive care and 36% in people who experienced delirium while ill.\n\nStrokes affected 2% of all Covid patients, rising to 7% of those admitted to ICU and 9% of those who had delirium.\n\nAnd dementia was diagnosed in 0.7% of all Covid patients, but 5% of those who'd experienced delirium as a symptom.\n\nDr Sara Imarisio, head of research at Alzheimer's Research UK, said: \"Previous studies have highlighted that people with dementia are at higher risk of developing severe Covid-19. This new study investigates whether this relationship may also hold in the other direction.\n\n\"The study doesn't focus on the cause of this relationship and it is important that researchers get to the bottom of what underlies these findings.\"\n\nThere is evidence the virus does enter the brain and cause direct damage, neurology professor Masud Husain at the University of Oxford, explained.\n\nIt can have other indirect effects, for example by affecting blood clotting which can lead to strokes. And the general inflammation which happens in the body as it responds to infection can affect the brain.\n\nFor just over a third of people developing one or more of these conditions, it was their first diagnosis.\n\nBut even where it was a recurrence of a pre-existing problem, researchers said this did not rule out the possibility that Covid had caused the episode of illness.\n\nProf Dame Til Wykes, at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, said: \"The study confirms our suspicions that a Covid-19 diagnosis is not just related to respiratory symptoms, it is also related to psychiatric and neurological problems.\n\n\"Looking over six months after diagnosis has demonstrated that the \"after-effects\" can appear much later than expected - something that is no surprise to those suffering from Long Covid.\n\n\"Although as expected, the outcomes are more serious in those admitted to hospital, the study does point out that serious effects are also evident in those who had not been admitted to hospital.\"\n• None Fergus Walsh: What does Covid-19 do to the brain?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. “The planet needs our help right now,” party leader Jane Dodds said\n\nThe Welsh Liberal Democrats promised to spend £1bn a year on tackling the \"climate emergency\", as they launched their Senedd election campaign.\n\nSpeaking at the event, the party's leader Jane Dodds said the Lib Dems are the \"only party\" that would \"put recovery first\".\n\nThe Liberal Democrats head into the election having held one seat in the Senedd since 2016.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats are the last of the main parties to launch their election campaign.\n\nAt the event in Cardiff, Ms Dodds outlined some of the party's main policies.\n\nWhat elections are happening? On 6 May, people across Wales will vote to elect 60 Members of the Senedd (MSs). The party or parties that can command the support of a majority of members will form the Welsh government. Find out more here.\n\nWhat powers does the Welsh Parliament have? MSs pass laws on many aspects of day-to-day life in Wales, such as health, education and transport. They also have control over some taxes. Defence, foreign policy and immigration are decided by the UK Parliament.\n\nHow do I vote? Anyone who lives in Wales 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\nMs Dodds said: \"The past year has been tough, life as we know it has changed, but I know Wales is a resilient country and we have the chance to build a better future for our children and our children's children.\n\nThe Welsh Lib Dems plan to put recovery first says leader Jane Dodds\n\n\"The Welsh Liberal Democrats are the only party pledging to put recovery first.\n\n\"We will secure our economic recovery, an environmental recovery and a recovery for our mental health services.\n\n\"The next Welsh government will face a huge challenge in the problems that already existed in our country and which have been made worse as a result of Covid.\n\n\"With ambitious and fully achievable policies ranging from building 30,000 new homes, to investing in our high streets, and freezing the business rates which cripple so many small and medium sized firms, the Welsh Liberal Democrats are presenting radical yet realistic options for Wales' future.\n\n\"Wales cannot afford for any party or any government to put anything other than our recovery first.\"\n\nThe promise to spend £1bn a year on the \"climate emergency\" meets a call made by the Future Generations Commissioner Sophie Howe.\n\nThe Welsh Government's annual budget is about £18bn.\n\nAsked how the party would fund its pledge, Ms Dodds said: \"We're not going to cut anything\".\n\nShe explained that the party would use money that is currently used \"in a different way\".\n\n\"We also want to be able to access private funding and entrepreneurship in order to make sure that we've got the infrastructure there to put the climate at the heart of everything we do.\n\n\"We have a well-costed, very clear-funded way of doing that,\" Ms Dodds added.\n\nChallenged on her claim that the Liberal Democrats are the only party that would prioritise post-pandemic recovery, Ms Dodds said: \"I don't think there's any other party that has as it's headline, 'put recovery first'.\n\n\"That is our very clear message right now in the middle of this pandemic.\"\n\nThe Liberal Democrats are defending one seat at this election.\n\nThat was held by Kirsty Williams who has served as education minister in the Labour-led Welsh government since 2016.\n\nMs Williams is standing down at this election.\n\nThis is a big election for the Liberal Democrats, who are fighting to maintain a presence in the Senedd.\n\nThey say the achievements of their single retiring Senedd member, Kirsty Williams, who has been education minister in the Labour government, prove that holding even one seat can still make a difference.\n\nThe big question is whether that argument will convince their supporters to transfer their allegiance to Ms Williams' successor.\n\nThis may be a national campaign launch, but the battle for the Lib Dems will be intensely local.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMyanmar's ex-ambassador in London spent Wednesday night in his car after saying he was locked out of his embassy.\n\nKyaw Zwar Minn said staff were asked to leave the building by Myanmar's military attaché, and he was dismissed as the country's representative.\n\nBritish Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has condemned the \"bullying actions,\" but the UK has accepted the change.\n\nMyanmar's military seized power in a coup on 1 February, sparking protests and escalating violence.\n\nKyaw Zwar Minn has criticised the military coup, and called for Myanmar's ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to be released.\n\nAbout 600 people - including dozens of children - have been killed so far as pro-democracy protesters demand a return to power of elected leader Ms Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy (NLD) party.\n\nThrough a spokesman out the front of the embassy on Thursday morning, Kyaw Zwar Minn urged the UK government not to recognise the military junta's newly appointed ambassador, and to send them back to Myanmar.\n\n\"There was a coup in Myanmar in February. Now there is the same situation in central London,\" he said, adding embassy staff were being threatened with \"severe punishment if they don't continue to work for the military general\".\n\nKyaw Zwar Minn slept in a car outside the Myanmar embassy in central London on Wednesday night\n\nPolice were reportedly called to stop staff re-entering the building. Protesters gathered outside after news spread that the ambassador had been locked out.\n\nAccording to the Vienna Convention on diplomatic relations, an ambassador's job officially ends once the host country has been informed.\n\nThe Foreign Office confirmed it received the notification, and that it \"must accept the decision taken by the Myanmar regime\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Dominic Raab This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDeputy ambassador Chit Win is said to have taken over as chargé d'affaires in London, Reuters reported, citing diplomats with knowledge of the matter. However, the Foreign Office said it has \"received no formal notification of his replacement\".\n\nA chargé d'affaires serves as the head of a diplomatic mission in the absence of an ambassador.\n\nIn March, Kyaw Zwar Minn called for the release of Ms Suu Kyi and told the BBC that Myanmar was \"divided\" and could be at risk of civil war.\n\nHe maintained that his remarks were not \"betraying the country\", adding that he was standing on \"middle\" ground. In response, the Myanmar government issued a statement saying he had been summoned home, but he stayed in London.\n\n\"He's trying to work in the middle ground but there is no doubt which is the right side,\" the spokesman for Kyaw Zwar Minn said.\n\nDiplomacy has its rules. Most are set out in the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations. These are clear that governments choose who they want to represent them abroad.\n\nSo if the military regime in Myanmar wants to sack its ambassador in London, it can. Under Article 43 of the Convention, it simply has to notify the Foreign and Development Office formally that \"the function of the diplomatic agent has come to an end\". And that is what has happened here. The UK government has no choice but to accept that.\n\nThe foreign secretary can say as many supportive things as he likes about the ambassador but he can't get him back in his job.\n\nThis presents a dilemma for the government. By accepting the ambassador has been sacked, it will face accusations that it is tacitly accepting the authority of the regime in Myanmar. And this is something it does not want to do. So the question may turn to whether the UK will also recognise the now ex-ambassador as some kind of representative of the deposed administration.\n\nIt follows another day of deadly protests in Myanmar. In the northwest town of Taze, at least 11 anti-coup demonstrators were killed in clashes with security forces on Wednesday night. Local media are reporting the troops fired at protesters who fought back with hunting rifles and firebombs.\n\nMyanmar's military seized power on 1 February after overthrowing the government and declared a state of emergency.\n\nJust days later, a protest movement began to emerge, which quickly gained momentum, leading to hundreds of thousands of people taking part in street protests.\n\nA popular model and actor, Paing Takhon, was arrested as part of a growing crackdown on artists and actors. The 24-year-old was active in both online protests and in-person rallies, and has millions of fans in Myanmar and Thailand.\n\nLast week, Ms Suu Kyi was charged with breaking a colonial-era official secrets law, which carries a term of up to 14 years in prison.\n\n8 April: This story was updated after the UK Foreign Office amended the wording of its statement.", "Lee Collins played 470 games in a career that began in 2007 on loan at Hereford United\n\nYeovil Town captain Lee Collins was found dead in his hotel room, an inquest has heard.\n\nThe 32-year-old footballer did not turn up for training on 31 March prompting concerns for his welfare.\n\nHe was found dead in the room he was staying in at Lanes Hotel, West Coker, Somerset that day, the inquest heard.\n\nSenior coroner for Somerset Tony Williams adjourned the hearing ahead of another that will take place in Taunton on or before 7 July.\n\nAvon and Somerset Police said last week that Mr Collins' \"sudden\" death was not being treated as suspicious.\n\nYeovil had been due to play Altrincham in the National League on Friday but the game was postponed.\n\nTribute were left outside Yeovil's Huish Park ground after Collins' death was announced\n\nYeovil manager Darren Sarll said seeing fans' tributes left outside the club's Huish Park ground following Mr Collins' death had brought him \"great comfort\".\n\nMr Collins, from Newport, South Wales, began his career at Wolverhampton Wanderers and spent time at Port Vale, Barnsley, Northampton Town, Mansfield Town and Forest Green Rovers before joining Yeovil in 2019.\n\nHe played his last game for the club on 6 February against Stockport.\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 BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The big tech firms are under scrutiny from regulators around the world\n\nA new regulator aiming to curb the dominance of tech giants has started work in the UK.\n\nThe Digital Markets Unit (DMU) will first look to create new codes of conduct for companies such as Facebook and Google and their relationship with content providers and advertisers.\n\nThe new unit will be based inside the Competition and Markets Authority.\n\nThe regime will be \"unashamedly pro-competition\", said the business secretary.\n\nThe DMU's first job will be to think about codes of conduct to govern the relationships between the tech firms and their users, whether that is small businesses wanting to advertise or news organisations looking to distribute their journalism.\n\nBetween them, Facebook, Google and Amazon control the lion's share of digital advertising revenue.\n\nBefore taking action, the new regulator will have to wait for such codes to be put into law.\n\nDigital Secretary Oliver Dowden said: \"Today is a major milestone on the path to creating the world's most competitive online markets, with consumers, entrepreneurs and content publishers at their heart.\"\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said the pro-competition regime would \"help curb the dominance of the tech giants\".\n\nAndrea Coscelli, chief executive of the CMA, added: \"People shopping on the internet and sharing information online should be able to enjoy the choice, secure data and fair prices that come with a dynamic and competitive industry.\"", "Ateeq Rafiq died after becoming trapped under a Gold Class chair at Vue cinema, based at Star City in Birmingham\n\nThe Vue cinema chain has admitted two health and safety charges over the death of a man crushed under a motorised footrest.\n\nAteeq Rafiq, 24, died after he got his head stuck under a seat while searching for his keys at Birmingham's Star City cinema in March 2018.\n\nVue Entertainment Ltd pleaded guilty to failing to carry out an adequate risk assessment and failing to ensure the safety of visitors to the cinema.\n\nThe Health and Safety Executive told an inquest in 2019 the force that came down on Mr Rafiq was the equivalent to three-quarters of a tonne.\n\nThe inquest, which ended in a verdict of accidental death, was told the reclining chair had been missing a bar that would have allowed him to be released by hand.\n\nCinema staff spent 15 minutes trying to release Mr Rafiq and his wife, Ayesha Sardar, said she remembered him turning \"blue\".\n\nVue Cinemas admitted two charges at Birmingham Crown Court on Tuesday.\n\nBoth were under the Health and Safety at Work Act, and were for \"failing to ensure that persons not in their employment are not exposed to risk to their health or safety\" and for \"failing to make a suitable and sufficient risk assessment\".\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "Not all energy marketed as green comes from renewable sources\n\nGreat Britain's electricity system was the greenest it had ever been at lunchtime on Easter Bank Holiday Monday, its operator has said.\n\nSunny and windy weather, coupled with low demand for power, led to a surge in renewable sources of energy, National Grid Electricity System Operator said.\n\nIt meant low-carbon energy sources made up almost 80% of Britain's power.\n\nThere was no coal generation on the grid and just 10% of power was from gas plants, the operator added.\n\nThe National Grid Electricity System Operator (ESO) said levels of carbon pollution for each unit of electricity consumed dropped to just 39 grams of carbon dioxide - the lowest ever recorded for the grid - at 13:00 BST on Monday.\n\nIt said wind power made up 39% of the energy mix, with solar at 21% and nuclear accounting for 16%.\n\nThe burning of biomass accounted for around 4%. There is debate over the environmental costs of burning biomass, like wood, and the National Grid ESO categorises it separately from low-carbon sources and fossil fuels.\n\nBy comparison, on Tuesday, 24.8% of Britain's energy came from fossil fuels, most of which was gas (combined cycle), while 45.2% was renewable energy sources.\n\nThose fossil fuel figures have been dropping all year. In January, gas accounted for more than 43% of the energy mix, with coal at almost 5%, and then last month just 37% of Britain's electricity was generated from gas.\n\nThe previous record for Great Britain's greenest day was set during lockdown last year, on 24 May.\n\nWhen Britain went into lockdown, electricity demand plummeted and the National Grid responded by taking power plants off the network and the four remaining coal-fired plants were among the first to be shut down.\n\nThe new record may be a cause for celebration as the UK strives for a near zero-carbon society - but it's far from a surprise.\n\nTake the ingredients of a sunny, windy day on a bank holiday when factories are not working - coupled with a lockdown, and you're sure to cook up an impressive percentage of wind power.\n\nBut remember, as investment in renewables increases, these records will be happening regularly.\n\nThe real test for renewables comes when we face a cold, still, overcast February day when demand for heat and light soars and wind power is non-existent.\n\nThat will need much more energy storage than is currently available.\n\nThe government aims to have almost all electricity produced from low carbon sources by 2030 - and despite this week's impressive results, there's still a very long way to go.\n\nLast year as a whole saw many records broken for Britain's electricity mix, with an almost 68-day coal-free run between 10 April and 16 June, and solar providing more than a third of electricity supplies on several occasions during May.\n\nChristmas 2020 was also the first ever coal-free Christmas Day.\n\nMeanwhile, the highest ever amount of electricity generated by wind was on 13 February this year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Here are some coal-fired power stations being demolished over the years\n\nFintan Slye, director at National Grid ESO, said: \"This latest record is another example of how the grid continues to transform at an astonishing rate as we move away from fossil fuel generation and harness the growth of renewable power sources.\n\n\"It's an exciting time, and the progress we're seeing with these records underlines the significant strides we're taking towards our ambition of being able to operate the system carbon free by 2025.\"\n\nA decade ago about 40% of Britain's electricity came from coal\n\nThe record comes ahead of COP26, a UN international climate change summit, due to be held in Glasgow this November.\n\nKate Blagojevic, head of climate at Greenpeace UK, praised the progress on taking fossil fuels out of the energy mix, but added that it was \"no time for the UK government to rest on its laurels\".\n\n\"Carbon emissions from our homes, farms and roads remain stubbornly high, and only a major government intervention can unblock the impasse,\" she said.\n\n\"As the Glasgow climate summit looms closer, ministers really need to up their game on tackling UK carbon emissions right across the board.\"", "Oxfam projects in the Democratic Republic of Congo include water and sanitation works\n\nThe UK has suspended aid funding for Oxfam again after fresh allegations of sexual exploitation and bullying were made against staff.\n\nTwo Oxfam workers in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) were suspended last week following the latest claims.\n\nThe charity had only been allowed to start reapplying for aid funds in March.\n\nIt had served a three-year ban after evidence of sexual exploitation by staff in Haiti came to light in 2018.\n\nThe Foreign and Development Office said Oxfam would not be able to make any applications for UK aid money until the new allegations were resolved.\n\n\"All organisations bidding for UK aid must meet the high standards of safeguarding required to keep the people they work with safe,\" a spokesman said.\n\nThe recent reports \"call into question\" Oxfam's ability to meet those standards, he added.\n\nOxfam said its suspensions of the two members of staff showed \"our commitment to tackle abuses of power\".\n\nThe allegations of sexual exploitation by Oxfam staff in Haiti in 2018 lifted the lid on the dark underbelly of international aid charities.\n\nThe scandal and the reforms that followed were supposed to put an end to that.\n\nBut the latest allegations emerging from the Democratic Republic of Congo pose new questions about whether there has been enough change.\n\nCertainly, the Foreign Office does not think Oxfam yet meets the highest standards of safeguarding.\n\nAfter three years in the cold, just a month after it was finally able to resume applications for UK aid, Oxfam is once again shunned by Whitehall.\n\nEven if this is only a temporary pause in funding, the charity's reputation has suffered another blow.\n\nA spokesman for the charity said it was keeping the Foreign Office and the Charity Commission informed about its investigation in the DRC and it was seeking further information about the ban.\n\nLast week the charity revealed it had suspended the two workers in the DRC as part of an investigation set up in November. But the Times - which revealed the original scandal in 2018 - said whistleblowers were \"frustrated\" at the speed of the inquiry.\n\nCurrent and former Oxfam staff made allegations of sexual exploitation, bullying, fraud and nepotism against 11 people in a letter send to the charity's leadership in February, the paper said.\n\nSome of these complaints dated back to 2015.\n\nAfter claims that staff sexually exploited survivors of the 2010 Haiti earthquake were revealed in 2018, the Charity Commission concluded Oxfam had a \"culture of poor behaviour\" and was issued with a warning over its \"mismanagement\".\n\nWith thousands of people cancelling their regular donations and the government suspending its funding of the charity, Oxfam had to make £16m of cuts.", "Fares Maatou was stabbed near Zzetta Soul Fired Pizza restaurant in Newham\n\nA 15-year-old boy stabbed to death outside an east London pizza restaurant has been named by police.\n\nFares Maatou died at the scene of the attack on Barking Road, Newham, on Friday afternoon.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said officers found the teenager with stab wounds shortly before 16:00 BST, but despite emergency efforts, he was pronounced dead half an hour later.\n\nWitnesses said Fares was wearing his school uniform when he was attacked.\n\nPeople place flowers at the scene in Barking Road, where 15-year-old Fares Maatou was stabbed\n\nThe Met said it believed Fares was attacked with \"a large bladed item\".\n\nTwo boys, 14 and 15, were arrested on suspicion of murder on Friday, while another 15-year-old boy was also held in connection with the incident, a spokesman added.\n\nA post-mortem examination is still due to take place.\n\nTwo boys, 14 and 15, were arrested on suspicion of murder on Friday\n\nFloral tributes and balloons have been placed outside the Zzetta Soul Fired Pizza restaurant.\n\nA member of staff from the restaurant, who asked not to be named, said a FedEx worker, an off-duty police officer and a woman passing by had all rushed to the teenager's aid as he lay injured in the street.\n\n\"They were just shouting at him, 'wake up, wake up, try to breathe',\" he said.\n\nA close friend of Fares said he had been a \"really nice\" person who \"loved life\".\n\nThe tearful 15-year-old, accompanied by her mother, said: \"He would just be there for you.\n\n\"If you ever needed him, he would be there. He had nothing to do with the gang stuff around here.\n\nHer mother, 33, from Stratford, said her daughter, who had been friends with Fares since nursery, had been left \"heartbroken\" and had not stopped crying \"since she found out\".\n\nDespite the efforts of the emergency services, Fares was pronounced dead half an hour after being attacked\n\nDet Ch Insp Perry Benton said Fares's family were, \"of course, absolutely devastated\".\n\n\"I have assured them of my total commitment to bringing to justice those responsible for this senseless killing,\" he said.\n\n\"They will be supported by specialist officers at every stage of what will be a terrible ordeal for them.\"\n\nHe added that officers had \"received a good deal of information from local people\".\n\n\"I thank them for that, and ask anyone with information or any witnesses who have yet to speak with police to please come forward.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Azaylia Diamond Cain was eight weeks old when she was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia\n\nFormer footballer Ashley Cain has announced his eight-month-old daughter Azaylia has died.\n\nShe was diagnosed with an aggressive form of leukaemia at eight weeks old.\n\nHer parents, ex-Coventry City player turned reality star Ashley Cain and partner Safiyya Vorajee, had raised more than £1.5m earlier this year to fund specialist treatment in Singapore.\n\nBut the 30-year-old told his Instagram followers last month that Azaylia had become too ill for the treatment.\n\nIn posts announcing her death, Ashley and Safiyya shared pictures of them cuddling their daughter.\n\nEx on the Beach star Ashley wrote: \"Rest in Paradise Princess. I will always hold you in my heart until I can hold you again in heaven.\"\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 mrashleycain 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\nAzaylia's mum said her baby was \"my angel, my heartbeat, my soul.\"\n\nShe added: \"RIP my precious baby, you will always be with me like a handprint on my heart.\"\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 November, the couple - from Nuneaton in Warwickshire - had urged people to register as stem cell donors after being told their daughter needed a transplant.\n\nIt led to 41,000 people registering within 48 hours.\n\nBut doctors had told them they wouldn't be able to cure Azaylia, whose leukaemia got worse despite a successful bone marrow transplant.\n\nLove Island's Molly-Mae Hague is one of many who've posted tributes online, writing: \"Heaven has gained the sweetest angel, My heart is broken\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Molly-Mae This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLateysha Grace, who's also an MTV reality star, posted: \"So sorry. I honestly can't believe how strong you and your partner have been throughout this\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Lateysha Grace 🏴 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLove Island's Malin Andersson, who recently spoke about the death of her baby and a miscarriage, also sent her love to the couple.\n\nTOWIE's Mario Falcone wrote on Instagram: \"Heartbroken for you mate! Rip little Princess\"\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. 'A person cannot even die peacefully in Delhi'\n\nAs hospitals in Delhi and many other cities run out of beds, people have been forced to find ways to get treatment for sick patients at home. Many have turned to the black market, where prices of essential medicines, oxygen cylinders and concentrators have skyrocketed and questionable drugs are now proliferating.\n\nOn Monday, India recorded a new global high for daily coronavirus cases for a fifth straight day at 352, 991.\n\nAnshu Priya could not get a hospital bed in Delhi or its suburb of Noida for her father-in-law and as his condition continued to deteriorate. She spent most of Sunday looking for an oxygen cylinder but her search was futile.\n\nSo she finally turned to the black market. She paid a hefty amount - 50,000 rupees ($670; £480) - to procure a cylinder that normally costs 6,000 rupees. With her mother-in-law also struggling to breathe, Anshu knew she may not be able to find or afford another cylinder on the black market.\n\nThis is a familiar story not just in Delhi but also in Noida, Lucknow, Allahabad, Indore and so many other cities where families are desperately cobbling together makeshift arrangements at home.\n\nBut most of India's population cannot afford to do this. There are already several reports of people dying at the doorsteps of hospitals because they couldn't afford to buy essential drugs and oxygen on the black market.\n\nThe BBC called several oxygen cylinder suppliers and most of them asked for at least 10 times more than the normal price.\n\nThe situation is particularly dire in Delhi where there are no ICU beds left. Families of those who can afford it are hiring nurses and consulting doctors remotely to keep their loved ones breathing.\n\nBut the struggles are huge from getting blood tests done to getting a CT scan or x-ray.\n\nLabs are overrun and it's taking up to three days for test results to come back. This is making it harder for treating doctors to assess the progression of the disease. CT scans are also used by doctors to asses the condition of the patient but it's taking days to get an appointment.\n\nDoctors say that these delays are putting many patients at risk. RT-PCR tests are also taking days. I know several sick patients who found a bed but couldn't get admitted as they didn't have a positive Covid report.\n\nAnuj Tiwari hired a nurse to assist in the treatment of his brother at home after he was refused admission in many hospitals.\n\nSome said they didn't have any free beds and others said they were not taking new patients due to continuing uncertainty over the supply of oxygen. A number of patients have died in Delhi due to a lack of oxygen supply. The city's hospitals are desperate and some have been issuing daily warnings, saying they are left with just a few hours of oxygen. Then the government swings into action and tankers are sent, which is often enough to run the hospital for a day.\n\nA doctor in Delhi said that was how hospitals were working and \"there are real fears now that a big tragedy may happen\".\n\nGiven the scenario at hospitals, Mr Tiwari paid a hefty amount to procure a concentrator - which can extract oxygen from the air - keep his brother breathing. The doctor also asked him to arrange the anti-viral drug remdesivir, which has been given emergency-use approval in India and is being prescribed widely by doctors. The benefits of the drug - which was originally developed to treat Ebola - are still being debated across the world.\n\nMr Tiwari couldn't find the drug in any medicine shop and eventually turned to the black market. His brother's condition continues to be critical and the treating doctor says he may soon need a hospital where remdesvir could be administered.\n\nIndians are waiting for hours to cremate the deceased as cases surge\n\n\"There are no beds. What will I do? I can't even take him anywhere else as I have already spent so much money and don't have much left,\" he said.\n\nHe added that \"the desperate battle to save Covid patients has shifted from hospitals to home\", and even that is proving to be a daunting task as \"we don't have easy access to oxygen\".\n\nRemdesivir is in such short supply that families of the patients who are being treated at home are rushing to procure it. They want to have the drug in case the patient is required to go to hospital and may need the drug.\n\nThe BBC spoke to several dealers on the black market who said the supply was tight and that was why they were charging such high prices. The government has allowed seven firms to manufacture remdesvir in India and they have been told to ramp up production.\n\nBut several promises of adequate supply from the government have failed to show any result on the ground. Epidemiologist Dr Lalit Kant says the decision to ramp up production was taken too late and the government should have been prepared for the second wave.\n\n\"But somehow the drug is available in the black market, so there is some leakage in the supply system which the regulators haven't been able to plug,\" he says.\n\n\"We learnt nothing from the first wave.\"\n\nAnother drug that is in huge demand is tocilizumab. It is normally used to treat arthritis but studies have shown that it can reduce the chances of a very sick patient needing to go on a ventilator.\n\nDoctors are prescribing the drug mostly to patients who are severely sick. But it has disappeared from the market. Cipla, the Indian company that imports and sells the drug, has been struggling to meet the rising demand.\n\nIt usually costs around 32,480 rupees for a vial of 400mg. But Kamal Kumar paid 250,000 rupees to buy one dose for his father. He said the price was \"mind boggling\" but he had no other option but to pay.\n\nPublic health expert Anant Bhan says the government should have procured the drug in huge quantities as not many can afford to buy it in the black market.\n\n\"This shows that there was no planning. The government failed to anticipate the wave and plan for it,\" he says.\n\n\"People have been left to their own fate.\"\n\nFake remdesivir has also appeared in the black market. When the BBC questioned a dealer that the drug he was offering seemed fake as the firm manufacturing it wasn't on the list of the companies licensed to produce it in India, he replied that it was \"100% original\".\n\nThe packaging was also full of spelling errors. But he shrugged and asked me to get it tested in any laboratory. The firm also has no presence on the internet.\n\nBut such is the desperation that people are willing to buy even questionable drugs. And some have been cheated as well. People are constantly sharing phone numbers of suppliers who can provide anything from oxygen to medicines. But not all of these numbers are verified.\n\nAn IT worker, who did not want to be named, said that he desperately needed to buy an oxygen cylinder and remdesivir, and he got a lead from Twitter. When he contacted the person, he was told to deposit 10,000 rupees as advance payment.\n\n\"The moment I sent the money, the person blocked my number,\" he said.\n\nDesperation is driving people to trust anything in the hour of need and that seems to be fuelling the black market. Several state governments have promised to crack down on black marketing of remdesivir and some arrests have also been made. But the black market seems unfazed.\n\nMr Tiwari says people like him don't have any choice but to pay more.\n\n\"It seems you can't get treated in hospitals, and now you can't save your loved ones even at home.\"\n\nHow have you been affected by coronavirus in India? 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.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"There was the one time my brother didn't call me\"\n\nAn Army veteran who lost his twin brother to suicide has spoken out to encourage others in need to seek help.\n\nAaron Leventhal and his brother Luke were inseparable growing up and both joined the Army in their late teens.\n\nAfter being discharged, Aaron adapted to civilian life, but Luke spiralled into depression before killing himself in April 2009 at the age of 25.\n\nAaron, 37, from Swansea, said: \"I don't want any other families to go through that.\"\n\nAaron, who grew up in Bristol before moving to south Wales, said he was \"lost\" after Luke died.\n\nThe pair had always dreamed of being pilots and Aaron channelled his grief into achieving their joint ambition.\n\nJust three months after Luke's death, he finished his qualifications and gained his private pilot licence.\n\nAaron admitted he was \"lost\" for a year after Luke died\n\nThe former Royal Mechanical and Electrical Engineer craftsman went on to self-fund his training by driving lorry tankers before becoming a commercial airline pilot for FlyBe.\n\nHe did this until the airline collapsed at the beginning of the pandemic and has since returned to his old job until the aviation industry rebounds.\n\nAaron, who lives with his long-term partner Abigail Hall and their seven-year-old daughter Belle in Loughor, said his brother's mental health deteriorated over two or three years.\n\nDuring this time he made several suicide attempts but always rang Aaron who managed to talk him out of it.\n\nOn the night he died, Luke did not call his brother - instead leaving him a note explaining his actions.\n\nDespite his previous attempts, Aaron was surprised at his death because he seemed \"really happy\" in the fortnight beforehand and had just started a new job.\n\nBut he sold his car, which Aaron thought was \"odd\", and in hindsight believes was a sign of Luke's intentions.\n\nLuke was \"really happy\" in the two weeks before he died, Aaron said\n\nThe night before he died, Luke \"repeatedly\" texted his brother pleading with him to come for a night out in Bristol.\n\n\"Due to work commitments I couldn't make it,\" he explained.\n\n\"Only hours later he took his own life. If only I knew that all he wanted was to say goodbye one last time I would have been there in a shot.\n\n\"I wouldn't want any other family or friends to experience the pain of losing someone in this same way.\n\n\"He didn't really understand life. He said 'I can't see the point in anything'. At the time I didn't understand depression - he went up and down and it was really deep.\n\n\"I don't want any other families to go through that. Mental health is a big thing, especially at the moment.\n\n\"After he died I was completely lost for about a year.\"\n\nAaron channelled his grief into training to become a pilot\n\nChannelling his energy and grief into flying allowed Aaron to gradually rebuild his life.\n\nHe feared losing his dream job as a pilot might send him into a downward spiral, but said he had come through the pandemic stronger and wanted others to know there is always hope.\n\nBut he has never forgotten the trauma of his twin brother's death and has set himself challenges ever since.\n\nPart of his mission to raise awareness involves a challenge he is doing with several close friends and family, including climbing Pen Y Fan in the Brecon Beacons 10 times in 24 hours - the equivalent height of Africa's highest mountain, Mount Kilimanjaro.\n\nHe hopes to raise £2,000 for Papyrus - which works to try and prevent suicide among the young.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Yogita Limaye reports from a hospital in Delhi, which is running low on beds and oxygen\n\nIndian hospitals say their patients are dying because of a shortage of oxygen as Covid case numbers and deaths set new records for a third day running.\n\nIndia has recorded nearly a million infections in three days, with 346,786 new cases overnight into Saturday.\n\nAt the Jaipur Golden Hospital in Delhi, 20 people died overnight because of a lack of oxygen, an official said.\n\nThe government says it is deploying trains and the air force to transport supplies to hard-hit areas.\n\nThe number of deaths across India rose by 2,624 in the 24 hours to Saturday, up from 2,263 on Friday.\n\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) said the situation in India was a \"devastating reminder\" of what the coronavirus could do.\n\nEarlier this year, the Indian government believed it had beaten the virus. New cases fell to 11,000 by mid-February, vaccines were being exported, and in March the health minister said India was \"in the endgame\" of the pandemic.\n\nHowever, since then, a new surge has erupted, driven by the emergence of new variants, as well as mass gatherings, such as the Kumbh Mela festival, where millions of pilgrims gathered earlier this month.\n\nHospitals in Delhi have warned they are at breaking point. At the Holy Family Hospital, intensive care units are full and there is no room for any more beds.\n\n\"Almost every hospital is on the edge. If oxygen runs out, there is no leeway for many patients,\" Dr Sumit Ray told the BBC.\n\n\"Within minutes, they will die. You can see these patients: they're on ventilators, they require high-flow oxygen. If the oxygen stops, most of them will die.\"\n\nAt the Jaipur Golden Hospital, a doctor told the BBC the government had allocated 3.6 tonnes of oxygen, to be delivered by 17:00 on Friday.\n\nHowever, the supply - a fraction of what was promised - only arrived at midnight, he told the BBC.\n\nOn Friday, Delhi's Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal pleaded for oxygen supplies on live TV, Reuters news agency reported.\n\n\"All of the country's oxygen plants should immediately be taken over by the government through the army,\" he said.\n\n\"Oxygen, oxygen, can you get me oxygen?\" I wake up this morning to an anguished phone call from a school teacher, whose husband was been battling for his life in a Delhi hospital.\n\nI tell myself: another day of life in a city where breathing has become a luxury for so many. We work the phone, send SOS calls. I text a doctor friend working in critical care.\n\nI pick up the newspaper. Twenty-five critically ill patients have died in a private hospital. The oxygen pressure had been dialled down in critical care, the hospital said.\n\nThere's a photograph of two men and a woman sharing a cylinder on the front page - three strangers, caught up in a tragedy brought upon by government negligence, sharing a lifeline.\n\nAs the day progresses I realise nothing has changed. Patients are dying because there's no oxygen. Medicines are still scarce and on the black market.\n\nThe teacher calls again. The hospital doesn't even have a spare oxygen flow meter, so she has to get one. We work the phones again, send out Twitter appeals. Someone manages to find a device.\n\nDespite government claims, things are going from bad to worse. There are no beds, few medicines. For many it's a slow road to death.\n\nA virologist at the Christian Medical College in the city of Vellore in southern India, Gagandeep Kang, told the BBC more action was needed to stop the spread of the virus.\n\n\"We need to ensure that there are no non-essential activities taking place. You know what Indian weddings are like, and restricting the size of gatherings, whether it is for family reasons, other social reasons or for business or for political rallies. All of that really needs to stop,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"I don't think a national lockdown is required, but I think that in places that are showing a rise in cases, we do need to intervene with greater stringency than we have done in the past.\"", "Labour is calling for a senior minister to face MPs' questions over allegations the PM considered asking Conservative donors to help fund his Downing Street flat refurbishment.\n\nThe party will request the government be summoned to the Commons to address claims by ex-adviser Dominic Cummings.\n\nLabour says Boris Johnson needs to disclose where the money came from.\n\nThe government said \"costs of wider refurbishment in this year have been met by the prime minister personally\".\n\nIt comes amid a row over the lobbying of ministers, including the prime minister, after it was revealed he had exchanged text messages with businessman Sir James Dyson. Mr Cummings denied reports he leaked the messages.\n\nOnce Mr Johnson's closest ally, Mr Cummings was forced out of his Downing Street role at the end of last year, following an internal power struggle.\n\nIn a blistering attack on his old boss on Friday, Mr Cummings questioned the prime minister's \"competence and integrity\".\n\nIn his first blog post since leaving his role at the end of 2020, Mr Cummings:\n\nNo 10 insisted the PM had never interfered in a government leak inquiry.\n\nOn Monday, Labour will ask the Commons speaker to grant an urgent question, a device which allows MPs to question a senior minister at short notice.\n\nMr Cummings promised to answer questions about \"any\" issues when he appears before a Parliamentary inquiry into the government's pandemic response on 26 May.\n\nTory MP Greg Clark, chairman of the Commons Science and Technology Committee, told the BBC the usual procedure would be to publish any documents Mr Cummings provides on lessons learned from the handling of Covid.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer: \"Every day there's more evidence of sleaze and it stinks\"\n\nLike several of his recent predecessors, Mr Johnson and his fiancee Carrie Symonds are living in the flat above No 11 Downing Street, which is larger than the one above No 10.\n\nIn March, Downing Street dismissed as \"speculation\" suggestions that refurbishments carried out last year would be paid for by Tory donors through a charity set up for this purpose, amid reports that the costs had spiralled out of control.\n\nThe Electoral Commission says it is working to establish whether any of the spending on the flat needs to be examined within its own remit on political donations, and therefore needs to be reported and subsequently published.\n\nOn Saturday, Labour also said Mr Johnson needed to reveal whether any of the money was a loan.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said: \"If there is nothing to see here - whether it is the refurb of No 10, whether it is the dodgy contracts, whether it is the privileged access - if there is nothing to see, publish everything, have a full inquiry.\"\n\nIn response to Mr Cummings's claims, a No 10 spokesperson said: \"At all times, the government and ministers have acted in accordance with the appropriate codes of conduct and electoral law.\n\n\"Cabinet Office officials have been engaged and informed throughout and official advice has been followed.\n\n\"All reportable donations are transparently declared and published - either by the Electoral Commission or the House of Commons registrar, in line with the requirements set out in electoral law.\n\n\"Gifts and benefits received in a ministerial capacity are, and will continue to be, declared in transparency returns.\"\n\nResponding to a Parliamentary question, Cabinet Office minister Lord True said that during successive governments the prime minister has been given an allowance of £30,000 a year from the public funds to maintain and furnish the flat in Downing Street.\n\nHe said no work took place in 2019-20 due to the pandemic, but official figures on spending this year are not yet available.\n\nDowning Street contractors have carried out work on painting, sanding and floorboards, Lord True said, while \"any costs of wider refurbishment in this year have been met by the prime minister personally\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNicola Sturgeon says she wants to keep trade flowing across an England-Scotland border if an independent Scotland re-joined the European Union.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr programme, the SNP leader accepted there would have to be a border if an independent Scotland was in the EU.\n\nBut she said Scotland would try to negotiate arrangements to \"keep trade flowing freely\".\n\nOpponents say a hard border with England would be \"dreadful for trade\".\n\nThe SNP want to hold a referendum on Scottish independence if they win a majority in the Scottish Parliament elections on 6 May.\n\nSIGN UP FOR SCOTLAND ALERTS: Get extra updates on BBC election coverage\n\nMs Sturgeon was questioned on the practical details of an independent Scotland re-joining the EU.\n\n\"Of course we want to keep trade flowing across the England-Scotland border, that would be in the interests of Scotland as well and we would work to make sure that happened,\" she said.\n\n\"We will keep trade flowing freely, we will comply with all of the requirements of EU membership.\"\n\nEU regulations set out that 30% of poultry, eggs, milk and fish, as well as 100% of live animals, need to be inspected when entering the single market.\n\nAsked how she would police such a border, Ms Sturgeon said: \"I am not denying what the EU regulations say. I am not denying because of the absurdity of Brexit that all sorts of issues are raised for Scotland completely against our democratic will.\n\n\"We would work as a country to make sure that for our businesses, there is no difficulties in terms of their day to day experiences in trading.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon was pressed further on whether she had modelled the impact of Scottish independence on people's incomes.\n\nShe responded: \"If I was do to all of that modelling now we'd have to redo it when we were asking people to make that choice. I believe it's right to only ask people to make a choice of that magnitude on the basis of quality up to date information.\"\n\nThe Scottish Liberal Democrats treasury spokeswoman Christine Jardine said it was time the SNP \"came clean on whether they are planning tax rises or spending cuts\".\n\n\"This week has not only exposed the SNP as desperately confused over the economics of independence but revealed that they are contemplating a hard border with England,\" she added.\n\n\"This would not only be dreadful for trade but throw up barriers between friends and families.\"\n\nWillie Rennie was on the campaign trail at a dry ski slope\n\nOn the election campaign trail, the Liberal Democrats have been highlighting mental health support for police officers.\n\nParty leader Willie Rennie said the emergency services in Scotland were suffering a mental health crisis because they were working under a government that was \"distracted\".\n\nWhat's 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 government. Find out more here.\n\nWhat powers do they have? MSPs pass laws on aspects of life in Scotland such as health, education and transport - and have some powers over tax and welfare benefits.\n\nScottish Labour it was \"reckless beyond imagining\" for the SNP to call for a referendum during the recovery from the pandemic, while economists warned Scotland was headed for a jobs crisis.\n\nCommenting on Ms Sturgeon's Andrew Marr interview, the party's Scotland spokesman Ian Murray said: \"Hearing the casual way with which Nicola Sturgeon dismisses those independent experts that she is so fond of quoting when they agree with her and her failure to answer any of the tough questions on separation - from effects on income to the border - is playing fast and loose with people's futures.\n\n\"Scotland deserves better than this. Scottish Labour is opposed to independence and a second referendum.\"\n\nOn the campaign trail in Fife, party leader Anas Sarwar said only Labour could hold the SNP to account and ensure that the next parliament was focused on the \"national recovery\".\n\nAnas Sarwar was on the campaign trail in Dunfermline\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said Ms Sturgeon's plans for a \"post-referendum border\" with England would be a \"hammer-blow\" for Scottish businesses.\n\n\"By Nicola Sturgeon's own admission, the SNP are clueless about the economic impact of independence. They've done no analysis on how many jobs it would put at risk or how much damage would be done to Scotland's economy,\" he said.\n\n\"She floundered and didn't have a single convincing answer to dispel the overwhelming evidence that separating Scotland from the rest of the UK would be devastating for jobs and businesses.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the party has been campaigning on the need to protect Scottish jobs and the economy by reopening safely at a slightly faster pace.\n\nLorna Slater, the Scottish Greens co-leader, has been litter-picking in a canal in Edinburgh\n\nThe Scottish Greens have been focusing on \"pointless plastics\" in their campaign, with the party pledging to phase out single use \"non-essential\" plastics by 2025 in a move towards a \"circular economy\".\n\nSpeaking ahead of a litter pick on a canal in Edinburgh, Scottish Greens co-leader Lorna Slater said: \"Plastic pollution is choking our planet, and we need to act.\n\n\"The Scottish Greens will deliver a dramatic reduction in the use of single use plastics where suitable alternatives are available.\"\n• None Scottish election 2021: Who should I vote for?", "Fares Maatou was stabbed near the Zzetta Soul Fired Pizza restaurant in Newham\n\nA 14-year-old boy has been charged with the murder of Fares Maatou, who was stabbed outside an east London pizza restaurant.\n\nFares, aged 15, died at the scene of the attack on Barking Road, Newham, at 16:30 BST on Friday.\n\nWitnesses said he was wearing his school uniform when he was stabbed.\n\nTwo boys, 14 and 15, were held on suspicion of murder on Friday. The charged boy is due to appear at Stratford Youth Court on Monday.\n\nThe 14-year-old is also accused of possession of an offensive weapon, while the 15-year-old has been released on bail.\n\nAnother 15-year-old boy was arrested on suspicion of murder on Saturday and remains in custody.\n\nA third 15-year-old boy, who police say was arrested in connection with the incident, was also bailed until May.\n\nDespite the efforts of the emergency services, Fares was pronounced dead half an hour after being attacked\n\nThe Metropolitan Police believe Fares was in possession of an e-scooter when he was attacked, but officers are keeping \"an open mind\" as to the motive.\n\nA post-mortem examination gave the cause of his death as stab injuries.\n\nDet Ch Insp Perry Benton said: \"I spoke yesterday about how local people have provided fantastic support to our investigation and given us a good deal of information. This has continued over the weekend, and once again I thank them for that.\n\n\"Every piece of information could be vital, so I continue to appeal for anyone who knows anything and any witnesses who have yet to speak with police to please come forward.\"\n\nThere will be an increased police presence in the area, the Met has said\n\nMr Benton added he has assured Fares's family of his \"total commitment to bringing to justice those responsible for this senseless killing\".\n\n\"This remains a fast-moving investigation and there will be further developments,\" he said.\n\nA cordon remains in place and the public can expect an increased police presence in the area, the Met added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "While No 10 is the PM's official residence, he and his fiancee Carrie Symonds live next door at No 11\n\nNo 10 has refused to comment on reports Boris Johnson is considering setting up a charity to pay for refurbishments to his official Downing Street residence.\n\nThe Daily Mail reported that a revamp of the flat lived in by the PM and his fiancee Carrie Symonds could be funded by wealthy Conservative benefactors.\n\nA spokeswoman said Downing Street was a Grade One listed building which had been periodically improved in the past.\n\nLabour said the public had a right to know the cost and who would be paying.\n\nAnd the SNP said greater clarity was needed over any move to set up a new Downing Street fund.\n\nLike several of his recent predecessors, Mr Johnson is living in the flat above No 11 Downing Street, the chancellor of the exchequer's official residence.\n\nThe four-bedroom flat, which is much larger than the flat above No 10 once occupied by Margaret Thatcher, was extensively refurbished by David and Samantha Cameron in 2011 at a cost of £30,000.\n\nThe couple spent the maximum £30,000 public grant available to prime ministers each year for the upkeep of their accommodation.\n\nMichelle Obama and Samantha Cameron in the Downing Street flat in 2011\n\nTony Blair and Cherie Blair also spent thousands on turning the space into a family home when they lived there.\n\nMr Johnson and Ms Symonds moved into No 11 in July 2019. Their son Wilfred was born in April 2020.\n\nThere have been unconfirmed reports that the couple are undertaking extensive refurbishment work on the flat and considering options for how any expenditure over the £30,000 annual limit would be covered.\n\nNo 10 said suggestions some of the work could be funded by Tory supporters via a charity set up for the purpose of preserving Downing Street's heritage were \"speculation\".\n\nIn the US, a scheme of this kind pays for restoration work in the White House.\n\nNo 10 said details of any work carried out on the property would be published in the normal way later this year.\n\n\"Matters concerning any work on Downing Street, including the residences, are covered in the Cabinet Office annual report and accounts,\" a spokeswoman said. \"That is where we set out the details of what has happened.\n\n\"Downing Street is a working building, as has been the case under successive administrations, refurbishment and maintenance are made periodically.\"\n\nBut opposition parties are questioning whether it is appropriate for \"significant\" sums of public money to spent on the flat when millions of people are facing financial hardship due to Covid.\n\nLabour MP Sarah Owen has written to the PM asking him for details of taxpayers' contribution and to consider whether involving private Conservative donors in funding the project could lead to conflicts of interest.\n\n\"The British public rightly expect probity, integrity and transparency when it comes to spending public money,\" she said.\n\nThe SNP said the move would be \"grossly inappropriate\", suggesting the PM - who is paid a salary of £150,000 a year - should fund the improvements out of his own pocket.\n\n\"It reeks of secrecy and, unless all the accounts are fully published, suspicion will linger about where the money is coming from and whether anything has been offered in return,\" said the party's Pete Wishart.\n\nIn 2011, the Cabinet Office was forced to reveal details of the scale of the work undertaken by the Camerons after a ruling by the then Information Commissioner Christopher Graham.\n\nIt revealed that much of the expenditure had gone on a new kitchen, while the flat had been almost completely re-wired, re-plumbed and re-decorated. The couple covered the cost of furniture, fittings and accessories themselves.\n\nTheir sleek, modern kitchen was much commented on after it served as a backdrop to a famous picture of Samantha Cameron entertaining First Lady Michelle Obama in Downing Street during the 2011 US state visit.\n\nThe 2011 accounts also showed more than £650,000 had been spent on external and internal renovation of the offices and reception rooms in No 10, including cabling, plumbing and energy efficiency improvements.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The PM queries those who say there's something \"dodgy or rum or weird or sleazy\" about securing more ventilators in a pandemic.\n\nBoris Johnson has said anyone who thinks there was something \"dodgy or rum\" in his dealings with Sir James Dyson is \"out of their mind\".\n\nThe PM was responding to claims by Labour that he was personally involved in \"sleaze\" after texts between the two were revealed by the BBC.\n\nDowning Street declined to comment on \"speculation\" Mr Johnson's former aide Dominic Cummings had leaked the texts.\n\nThe government has launched an internal inquiry into who was responsible.\n\nThe prime minister's spokesman said: \"We don't get into detail of processes in terms of these inquiries, but the Cabinet Office is taking that work forward.\"\n\nThe BBC said it did not discuss the sources of stories.\n\nMr Johnson was speaking on a visit to Derbyshire as allegations of cronyism abound at Westminster.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour leader claims \"sleaze is back\" after allegations over lobbying of the PM and a former PM.\n\nOn Tuesday the BBC published text messages between Mr Johnson and Sir James, in which the prime minister agreed to \"fix\" concerns the businessman had over his employees' tax bills if they moved to the UK to make ventilators at the start of the pandemic.\n\nAsked whether this proved Labour's allegation that friends of the Conservatives were given privileged access, the prime minister said it was \"completely the right thing to do\" to ask manufacturers to help bolster supplies of equipment needed to treat Covid patients.\n\n\"To think that there's anything remotely dodgy or rum or weird or sleazy about trying to secure more ventilators at the time of a national pandemic and doing everything in your power to do that, I think you're out of your mind,\" he added.\n\nBut Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, who was on a visit to Hartlepool, said it was \"increasingly obvious\" the prime minister was involved in \"sleaze\".\n\nAsked if media reports pointing to Mr Cummings as the source of leaks were part of an attempt to distract from lobbying allegations, Sir Keir said: \"Boris Johnson is desperate to try to keep this at arm's length but it's obvious that he can't. This is government by WhatsApp.\n\n\"They are all at it - whether it's access to the prime minister, whether it's the former prime minister accessing ministers and officials, whether it's the health secretary with shares in companies with the contracts with the NHS. The list just grows and grows...\n\n\"Sleaze is back and it's bigger than it was before.\"\n\nShadow Treasury minister Bridget Phillipson tweeted: \"Dominic Cummings is a distraction. Follow the money, not the soap opera.\"\n\nMr Cummings has not accepted invitations to respond to the reports and, so far, no evidence of his involvement in the leaks has been produced.\n\nLabour has called for an urgent investigation into the prime minister's conduct by the Liaison Committee of senior MPs.\n\nIt said the text messages showed Mr Johnson had offered a \"tax break\" to a \"chum\".\n\nThe head of the committee, Conservative MP Sir Bernard Jenkin, turned down the call for an inquiry, saying three other parliamentary committees were already looking at the issues.\n\nHe told Radio 4's Today programme ministers should not be \"locked away in ivory towers\" with people unable to contact them and should be able to carry out conversations about policy in private, as this would \"stifle proper conversation\".\n\n\"What's got to come out of this is obviously a system of managing conflicts of interest, which commands more public confidence, and is more rigorous, but also a balance,\" he added.\n\nThe SNP's Westminster leader, Ian Blackford, has written to the Cabinet Secretary, calling for officials to \"secure and publish\" all Mr Johnson's private correspondence on coronavirus contracts, and not just his texts with Sir James Dyson.\n\nHe said \"such a narrow and limited internal investigation totally and utterly fails to address the scale of the scandal\".", "Patients are dying without oxygen as India battles a record surge of Covid-19 cases\n\nMore than 600 pieces of medical equipment are being sent to India as the country faces a record surge of coronavirus cases, the UK government has said.\n\nThe assistance package includes 495 oxygen concentrators - which extract oxygen from the air to give to patients - as well as ventilators.\n\nIndia is seeing thousands of deaths a day amid oxygen shortages.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"We stand side by side with India.\"\n\nThe first shipment of equipment will leave the UK on Sunday and is due to arrive in the Indian capital, New Delhi, in the early hours of Tuesday morning.\n\nIn total, the UK will send nine airline containers of supplies this week, including 495 oxygen concentrators, 120 non-invasive ventilators and 20 manual ventilators.\n\nLocal media reports say oxygen concentrators are in high demand in India, as they can meet some patients' need for extra oxygen without adding to the strain on hospital oxygen supplies.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Dominic Raab This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFor the fourth day in a row, India has reported a record number of new infections, with almost 350,000 cases in the last 24-hour period and 2,767 deaths.\n\nMany hospitals in Delhi are refusing to accept new patients because they cannot guarantee oxygen supplies. Oxygen tanks are being transported across the country, sometimes with a police escort, and flown in from nearby countries to meet demand.\n\nMr Johnson said India is a \"friend and partner\" facing \"a deeply concerning time in the fight against Covid-19\".\n\n\"I'm determined to make sure that the UK does everything it can to support the international community in the global fight against the pandemic,\" he said.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said the UK was in discussions with the Indian government to provide further support in addition to this first delivery.\n\nThe EU has also pledged to pool resources to send supplies of oxygen and medicine to India.\n\nLabour has called on the government to offer UK expertise in genome sequencing to help track the impact of coronavirus variants in India, as well as offering oxygen supplies, surplus medicines and surplus vaccine doses.\n\nShadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy said: \"Defeating this virus anywhere means defeating it everywhere. We have seen how quickly Covid-19 variants that have been identified in one country are able to spread rapidly across the globe.\"", "A number of emergency contracts were awarded in the height of the pandemic to cover PPE and other items\n\nLabour is calling for ministers to publish all contacts and links they have with firms awarded government contracts during the Covid crisis.\n\nIn March 2020, emergency measures let the government speed up buying things like PPE and ventilators by directly awarding contracts rather than tenders.\n\nBut since then, ministers have faced accusations of offering a \"VIP fast-track\" to the contracts for friends.\n\nThe government said \"due diligence is carried out on every contract\".\n\nThe call comes as a lobbying row continues to surround Westminster, following revelations that former prime minister David Cameron texted ministers on behalf of a firm he worked for - Greensill Capital - during the crisis.\n\nLast week, the BBC also revealed that businessman Sir James Dyson directly texted Boris Johnson about tax issues during the pandemic, which the PM then said he would \"fix\".\n\nIn the months following coronavirus hitting the UK in 2020, the government awarded thousands of contracts to private companies, spending billions of pounds of public money in the process.\n\nThey covered everything from masks, gowns and gloves, to services such as researching public opinion about the government's Covid measures.\n\nBut rather than going through the usual competitive tendering process for such contracts - which can take months or even years - the government was allowed to go directly to a preferred supplier without any competition, speeding up the process.\n\nSince then, questions have arisen over the decisions made by government, with accusations from Labour of \"cronyism\" and investigations by the BBC and others showing links between some of the firms and Whitehall.\n\nA case is also going through the High Court - brought forward by the Good Law Project - arguing that several of these deals were handled as part of a so-called VIP lane, reserved for leads endorsed by government officials or politicians.\n\nA Downing Street spokesperson said: \"We have been dealing with an unprecedented global pandemic and our approach throughout has been to act quickly to save lives, and we make no apology for that.\"\n\nWhile the government had to award contracts at speed, \"due diligence is carried out on every contract\" and \"ministers have no role in awarding them\", the spokesman said.\n\nNumber 10 said it is committed to transparency in procurement and notices of contracts awarded are published online.\n\nLabour is now calling for all ministers to publish any communications they had with their business contacts or links who were awarded contracts over the pandemic under the emergency rules - as well as details of any firms who were part of the \"VIP fast track\".\n\nShadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Rachel Reeves, has written to her government counterpart, Michael Gove, saying there is \"a growing impression that there is one set of rules for ministers and their close friends, and another for the rest of the British public\".\n\nAs well as details on ministers and their contacts, she asked Mr Gove when the prime minister would share his own messages with Mr Dyson and other business leaders - which he pledged to do last week - and when a new independent advisor for ministerial standards would be appointed, following the resignation of Sir Alex Allan in November 2020.\n\nIn a statement, Ms Reeves added that there was an \"increasing spread of Tory sleaze\" creating \"increasingly serious questions for government\".\n• None Why have Covid contracts been challenged?\n• None What is lobbying? A brief guide", "The TV advert shows scenes from vaccination centres cross the UK and urges people to \"join the millions already vaccinated\"\n\nAbout half a million more people in England are being invited to book their Covid-19 jab from Monday, as the vaccine rollout opens to 44-year-olds.\n\nTwo-thirds of the previous age group - 45 to 49-year-olds - have received their first dose.\n\nThe NHS said it would set out when 40 to 43-year-olds would be able to book appointments \"in the coming days\", and as supply allows.\n\nIt comes as a TV advert is launched to encourage under-50s to get vaccinated.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the \"great news\" at being able to open up jabs to 44-year-olds came after \"a huge few days for vaccinations\".\n\nHe added: \"We'll keep working down the age range to make sure everybody can have the offer of a jab by the end of July - all adults.\"\n\nAs well as 44-year-olds, people who are due to turn 44 by 1 July are also eligible to make an appointment, according to the NHS Covid vaccination booking website.\n\nThe total number of vaccine doses given in the UK reached almost 46.3 million on Sunday, with a further 498,430 second doses and 142,215 first doses reported.\n\nMore than 33.7 million people have now received their first dose and almost 12.6 million are fully vaccinated.\n\nNorthern Ireland is opening its vaccination programme to people aged 35 to 39, while Wales has been asking over-40s to book appointments and Scotland has been inviting over-45s for vaccination.\n\nThe TV advert promoting the Covid-19 vaccine - featuring the slogan \"every vaccination gives us hope\" - is predominantly aimed at people aged under 50 who are being invited for their first dose, the Department of Health and Social Care said.\n\nShowing scenes from vaccination centres across the country, it also aims to encourage over-50s to ensure they receive their second jab for the best possible protection.\n\nIt will be accompanied by a poster campaign highlighting how the Covid-19 jab helps to reduce infections, hospital admissions and deaths.\n\nThe advert shows people queuing up, baring their arms and getting the jab - with some punching the air in delight\n\nThe 60-second advert will be shown for the first time during Emmerdale on ITV at 19:15 BST on Monday, and it features people arriving at vaccination centres and getting the jab across the UK - to the accompaniment of a cover version of Dinah Washington's What a Difference a Day Makes recorded by songwriter and artist Shells.\n\nThe advert urges people to \"join the millions already vaccinated\" and reminds them \"you need two doses for maximum protection\".\n\nMr Hancock said it was a \"poignant reminder of everything we've been through as a country and everything we have to look forward to\".\n\nOne shot captures the gratitude felt by many, with thank you cards sitting on top of a fridge holding the vaccine doses\n\nOne of the people featured in the advert is 32-year-old Thor Porter, a drummer and graphic designer from Salisbury, in Wiltshire, who said: \"I feel the vaccine rollout is key to regaining some form of normality. As a musician, it will hopefully enable venues to reopen and ensure a future in my career.\"\n\nThe campaign will also be reflected in special postmarks put on stamped mail by the Royal Mail, vaccine messaging on Google and YouTube, and free advertising on LinkedIn to get the vaccine message to businesses.\n\nHow has coronavirus affected you? Do you have any questions about the vaccine rollout? 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\nIt comes as there are signs that the groups which are most hesitant about getting the vaccine are becoming more likely to get the jab.\n\nAmong ethnic minority communities, take-up has tripled since February, outpacing the national average increase among all ethnicities. In Pakistani communities, it has quadrupled, and among people from Bangladeshi backgrounds it has risen five-fold.\n\nAbout one in eight (12%) people aged 16 to 29 say they are hesitant about getting the vaccine, although this has decreased from 17% in February.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Perseverance captures Ingenuity flying off to the right and then returning\n\nThe US space agency's Ingenuity Mars helicopter has now made its third successful flight on the Red Planet.\n\nOn Sunday, the little chopper rose to a height of 5m before speeding off laterally for 50m - half the length of a football field.\n\nIngenuity then came back to its take-off spot, for a total flight time of 80 seconds.\n\nSunday's sortie was the most ambitious yet, but engineers say they plan to push the technology harder still.\n\nThey want to find the chopper's limits, even if that means crashing it in the process.\n\nIngenuity tracks features on the ground to navigate by, but also sees its shadow\n\nThe previous two flights were conducted on Monday and Thursday. Monday's historic outing marked the first time powered, controlled flight by an aircraft had been conducted on another world.\n\nIngenuity was carried to Mars by Nasa's Perseverance rover, which touched down in Jezero Crater in mid-February.\n\nThe 1.8kg drone is regarded as a technology demonstration intended to prove the utility of aerial mobility in the planet's rarefied atmosphere.\n\nIn the future, helicopters could be used to scout the way ahead for rovers and astronauts, and to investigate otherwise impossible to reach locations, such as cliff faces.\n\nNasa officials have granted the Ingenuity engineering team two more flights before Perseverance is commanded to get on with its primary mission of searching for life in Jezero.\n\nFor the past week of testing, the one-tonne robot has been acting as the chopper's radio base-station and the photographer of record. Perseverance has been taking still images and making short movies, all from a distance of 65m from the drone's \"airfield\".\n\nIngenuity, too, has been taking photos, whilst airborne. These are black and white pictures that look straight down to track passing rocks to help with navigation. The drone also has a colour camera that looks horizontally.\n\nIngenuity's colour camera: You can just see the chopper's feet at the edges of the photo\n\nMuch of the imagery acquired so far has had to wait its turn to come back to Earth. The relay satellites at Mars are restricted in their bandwidth, and it is the engineering data that details flight performance which has been prioritised for immediate return.\n\nA few sample photos have come back but we may have to wait a few days for all the pictures, including the full-length movies shot by the spectating Perseverance, to make their way home.\n\nThe major difficulty in flying on the Red Planet is the very thin atmosphere, which has just 1% of the density here at Earth.\n\nThis gives the rotor blades on Ingenuity very little to bite into to produce lift. There's help from the lower gravity at Mars, but still - it takes a lot of work to get up off the ground.\n\nLook carefully at the ground and you can see wheel tracks made by the roving Perseverance\n\nThe Nasa chopper was therefore made extremely light and given the power to turn those blades super-fast - at over 2,500 revolutions per minute.\n\nControl also has to be autonomous. The distance to Mars is currently 295 million km, which means radio signals take 16-and-a-half minutes to traverse the intervening space. Flying by joystick is simply out of the question.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nPremier League, English Football League and Women's Super League clubs will join in a four-day boycott of social media platforms in an effort to combat abuse and discrimination.\n\nThe boycott will start on 30 April.\n\nThe Football Association, as well as league bodies and other organisations, including anti-discrimination charity Kick it Out, will also be involved.\n\n\"This boycott signifies our collective anger,\" said Kick it Out's chairman Sanjay Bhandari.\n\n\"Social media is now sadly a regular vessel for toxic abuse.\n\n\"By removing ourselves from the platforms, we are making a symbolic gesture to those with power. We need you to act. We need you to create change.\n\n\"We need social media companies to make their platforms a hostile environment for trolls rather than for the football family.\"\n• None Is football's racism battle being lost on social media?\n• None Is ending anonymity on social media the answer?\n• None Twitter and Facebook told to 'go further' by football authorities\n• None Duke of Cambridge calls for racist abuse of footballers to stop\n\nSheffield United's David McGoldrick, who was racially abused last year, welcomed the move, saying: \"It is about time. What has gone off on social media, it has happened to me.\n\n\"It has happened to many players. Something needs to happen, it is too easily to get racially abused on there.\"\n\nSpeaking to Sky Sports on Saturday night after scoring in his side's 1-0 win over Brighton, the striker added: \"The Super League got cut off in 48 hours, why is racism on the back foot? It is bigger in my eyes.\"\n\nBrighton forward Neal Maupay has also been the subject of online abuse and he told Sky Sports the boycott was a \"very good\" move.\n\n\"The players get a lot of abuse online and we need to fight it. It's a good way to do it. It's good that we are in this together,\" the Frenchman said.\n\nThe Football Supporters' Association, Professional Footballers' Association, League Managers' Association, Women in Football, Women's Championship and its clubs as well as refereeing body Professional Game Match Officials Limited (PGMOL) have also committed to the boycott of Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.\n\nThe move will come three weeks after Swansea City turned off their social media accounts for a week to make a stand against abuse following a number of their players being targeted.\n\nChampionship rivals Birmingham City and Scottish champions Rangers followed Swansea's lead in announcing a boycott of social media.\n\nFormer Arsenal and France striker Thierry Henry removed himself from all social media in March because of racism and bullying across platforms.\n\nIn an interview with BBC's Newsnight programme, the 43-year-old said \"enough was enough\" and that he had to make a stand against racism on social media.\n\nEarlier in April, Liverpool said racist abuse on social media \"cannot be allowed to continue\" after Trent Alexander-Arnold, Naby Keita and Sadio Mane were targeted in April.\n\nA joint statement from English football's governing bodies said the boycott is a way \"to emphasise that social media companies must do more to eradicate online hate\", while also \"highlighting the importance of educating people\".\n\n\"Boycott action from football in isolation will, of course, not eradicate the scourge of online discriminatory abuse, but it will demonstrate that the game is willing to take voluntary and proactive steps in this continued fight,\" the statement continued.\n\nThe FA's director of equality and diversity Edleen John said \"English football will not tolerate discrimination in any form\".\n\n\"We are calling on organisations and individuals across the game to join us in a temporary boycott of these social media platforms, to show solidarity and unite in the message,\" she said.\n\n\"Social media companies need to be held accountable if they continue to fall short of their moral and social responsibilities to address this endemic problem.\"\n\nThe UK government has previously threatened social media companies with \"large fines\" which could amount to \"billions of pounds\" if they fail to tackle abuse on their platforms.\n\nFacebook said in February that tougher measures would be taken to tackle the issue.\n\nLast week, Instagram - which is owned by Facebook - announced a tool to enable users to automatically filter out abusive messages from those they do not follow on the platform.\n• None Then test your knowledge of the Oscars\n• None No Passion, No Point is back: Eddie Hearn chats to the Rio Ferdinand about his next career move", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAn Indonesian navy submarine that sank off the coast of Bali on Wednesday has been found split into three pieces on the sea bed, officials say.\n\nAll the vessel's 53 crew have been confirmed dead.\n\nNavy officials said they had received signals from the sub's location more than 800m (2,600ft) deep early on Sunday.\n\nAn underwater rescue vehicle loaned by Singapore was sent down to get visual confirmation of the wreckage.\n\nThe KRI Nanggala disappeared after requesting permission to dive during a torpedo drill. The reason for its sinking is not yet clear.\n\nEscape suits are among items recovered from the sunken vessel\n\nMilitary chiefs revealed the latest images of the vessel at a news conference in Bali\n\nSunday's statement came a day after the Indonesian military confirmed that debris from the sub, including prayer mats, had been found in the area where it went missing.\n\nNavy Chief of Staff Yudo Margono said more items from the submarine had been recovered including an anchor and crew safety suits.\n\n\"The KRI Nanggala is divided into three parts, the hull of the ship, the stern of the ship, and the main parts are all separated, with the main part found cracked,\" he told reporters on Sunday.\n\nThe head of Indonesia's military, Hadi Tjahjanto, confirmed that there was no chance of finding any of the crew alive.\n\n\"With deep sadness I can say that all 53 personnel on board have died,\" he told reporters.\n\nExperts had said earlier that the depth at which the submarine was found was well beyond its survivable limit and it was only carrying enough oxygen for three days.\n\nThe families of missing crew members had held out hope that they could have survived\n\nPresident Joko Widodo described the crew as Indonesia's \"best patriots\", adding: \"All Indonesians convey their deep sadness over this incident, especially to the families of the submarine crew.\"\n\nThe KRI Nanggala's disappearance led to an international search operation with US, Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, and India providing help.\n\nThe German-built vessel was more than 40 years old but underwent a refit in 2012.", "Mass funerals have begun in Delhi as crematoriums run out of space\n\nDeaths have been steadily rising in India as critical care beds, medicines and oxygen fall short in an unrelenting wave of Covid infections.\n\nThe country has so far confirmed more than 186,000 deaths and 16 million cases - three million have been added just in the last two weeks. And it continues to see record single-day spikes, evidence of a curve that is far steeper than the first wave in mid-September last year.\n\nAnd the devastating effect is evident in the images pouring in from crematoriums across the country - of anguished families waiting for hours to perform last rites, mass cremations as cities run out of space to honour the dead and incessant plumes of smoke from funeral pyres.\n\nJournalists in various cities have challenged official figures, often spending days outside crematoriums to count the dead. Their estimates suggest that deaths in some cities are ten times higher than what is being reported.\n\nBBC Gujarat reported last week that a crematorium in Surat city had been running for so long that the heat had begun to melt part of its chimney. But officials are yet to revise figures anywhere.\n\nAn exhausted relative in PPE gear rests on a bench before performing the last rites for a Covid-19 victim in Mumbai city\n\nA relative at a crematorium in Delhi where a family member who died from coronavirus is being prepared for cremation\n\nA health worker stands next to the body of a man who died from Covid-19 before his cremation in Delhi\n\nBurning funeral pyres at a crematorium in Lucknow city, one of the worst-hit in India\n\nRelatives and municipal workers perform the last rites for Covid-19 victims at a cremation ground in Mumbai", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Inside Ibn Khatib hospital, where the deadly fire took place.\n\nAt least 82 people have been killed in a fire at a hospital treating coronavirus patients in the capital of Iraq, Baghdad.\n\nMore than 100 others were injured in the blaze, which erupted at the Ibn Khatib hospital on Saturday night.\n\nReports say an accident had caused an oxygen tank to explode, sparking the blaze.\n\nVideos on social media show firefighters scrambling to extinguish the flames as people flee the building.\n\nIraq's Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi on Sunday suspended the health minister and ordered an investigation into the tragedy.\n\nThe head of Iraq's Civil Defence, Gen Kadhim Bohan, said the fire had broken out in the hospital's intensive-care unit, on a floor \"designated for pulmonary resuscitation\".\n\nAbout \"30 patients were in the intensive care unit\", which was reserved for the most severe cases of Covid-19 in Baghdad, a hospital source told the AFP 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\nThe fire was under control by the early hours of Sunday morning, Iraq's Civil Defence said.\n\nIn a statement, the government's human rights commission said the incident was \"a crime against patients exhausted by Covid-19\".\n\nEmergency service officials said many patients died when they were taken off oxygen machines to be evacuated, while others were suffocated by smoke.\n\n\"Once the fire started somebody needed to put the auto central pipes off, which means basically cutting the oxygen from those who need it most,\" Halla Sarraf, the director of Iraqi Health Access, a non-governmental organisation, told the BBC.\n\nReports say an oxygen tank explosion was the cause of the blaze\n\nIraq's hospitals have been pushed to the limit during the coronavirus pandemic, adding to the strains wrought by years of war, neglect and corruption.\n\nCovid infections have been rising steeply since February in Iraq, and the total passed the one-million mark this week.\n\nThe health ministry has recorded 1,025,288 cases and 15,217 deaths since the pandemic began.\n\nThe country launched its vaccination campaign last month, and has received nearly 650,000 doses, most of which have come from Covax, a global programme for sharing jabs.", "Last updated on .From the section League Cup\n\nManchester City won the League Cup for a record-equalling fourth time in succession with a deserved victory over a disappointing Tottenham Hotspur side at Wembley.\n\nCity defender Aymeric Laporte, arguably fortunate to be on the pitch after escaping a yellow card in the first half before being cautioned after the break, rose above Spurs substitute Moussa Sissoko to head home Kevin de Bruyne's free-kick eight minutes from time.\n\nIt was appropriate reward for City creating a host of chances and dominating Spurs, who did not enjoy any sort of positive reaction from sacking manager Jose Mourinho on Monday and replacing him with caretaker Ryan Mason.\n\nThe final was played in front of 8,000 supporters, including 2,000 from each club - and it was a delight to hear noise inside Wembley's vast arena once more.\n• None Re-live the action as Man City beat Tottenham in Carabao Cup final\n\nCity's victory equalled Liverpool's achievement in the early 1980s of winning the competition four years in a row, as well as matching the Reds' overall tally of eight triumphs, and manager Pep Guardiola said his players are motivated by such milestones.\n\n\"That is what these players give for the future generations of this club. It is not winning [just] one title,\" Guardiola told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"This team in the last decade was the team in England - since Roberto Mancini won the Premier League, this team wins a lot of times in England.\n\n\"It's nice, four Carabao Cups in a row, it means consistency in the team to be there. We beat Arsenal and Manchester United on the way so we can say we deserved to win this competition.\n\n\"The way we played was fantastic and it's nice when you win a title. The most impressive thing is in the last 33 games we won 30.\"\n\nGuardiola's face was a picture of happiness at the end of a week that saw Manchester City heavily criticised as one of the Premier League clubs involved in the ill-fated and quickly abandoned European Super League.\n\nNo-one can begrudge City or Guardiola this moment of joy and piece of history, with Laporte's winner finally making the breakthrough that their performance - top class in so many areas apart from end product - merited.\n\nRiyad Mahrez was outstanding while Raheem Sterling was tireless - even if his finishing touch still eludes him.\n\nIt means City, who lost the chance of a historic quadruple when they were beaten by Chelsea in the FA Cup semi-final at Wembley eight days ago, secure their first trophy of the season three days before their Champions League semi-final first leg at Paris St-Germain.\n\n\"We went out to play at an incredible level, with incredible quality,\" added Guardiola.\n\n\"We cannot deny one eye is always on the Champions League but we take every game seriously, otherwise it is impossible to win four Carabao Cups in a row.\"\n\nCity are within touching distance of regaining the Premier League title so this cup success, the 30th major trophy of Guardiola's glittering managerial career, sets the perfect platform for further glory ahead.\n\nThe Spaniard's players may have feared they would pay for their missed chances but anything other than a City win would have been a real injustice, even if France defender Laporte was slightly lucky to have received only one yellow card before his match-winning intervention.\n\nIt has been an eventual few days for Spurs, with Mourinho surprisingly dismissed at the start of a week in which they were attempting to win their first major trophy since 2008.\n\nChairman Daniel Levy and the club's hierarchy simultaneously became a target for criticism over Tottenham's involvement in the European Super League.\n\nIndeed, one of the first chants from the 2,000 Spurs fans who were reunited inside Wembley was 'We want Levy out'.\n\nIn the context of this cup final, it was a gamble to dispense with Mourinho - who boasts a track record of success on these sort of occasions - and replace him with 29-year-old rookie coach Mason.\n\nIf it was designed to lift clouds around this Spurs squad and spark a reaction that might overcome City, it failed miserably. Mason's side - and it should be stressed he has barely had any time to exert serious influence - were insipid, lacklustre and could have no complaints about the result.\n\nHarry Kane, an injury doubt until late in the build-up after sustaining an ankle injury in the draw at Everton, declared himself fit but looked well off the pace and stayed down on a couple of occasions after challenges.\n\nThe England captain made minimal impact on the game but he was not alone in that respect for Spurs, whose wait for a trophy goes on after a poor display.\n\nSon Heung-min was in tears on the pitch after the final whistle and caretaker boss Mason said: \"It hurts. I've been sitting there as a player, I've played for this football club and lost a final, I know what it's like.\n\n\"I know that feeling. It's normal that they're hurting. It's normal, because it shows that they care. I think we saw that today, they gave absolutely everything, 100% commitment.\n\n\"City are a great side, an incredible team, but I think our group of players gave everything with what they have had to deal with in seven days. That is something to be proud of.\"\n\nCity and Pep make history again - the stats\n• None Manchester City secured their eighth League Cup title, the joint-most alongside Liverpool. They are the second team to win the competition in four consecutive campaigns (Liverpool, 1981-1984).\n• None Only Arsenal (six) have lost more League Cup finals than Tottenham Hotspur (five), with Spurs now losing each of their last three finals in the competition (2008-09 v Man Utd and 2014-15 v Chelsea).\n• None Manchester City have won 19 of their 25 League Cup matches under Pep Guardiola (D4 L2); with only Roy Evans (78.3%) posting a higher win percentage among managers in League Cup history than the Spaniard (76%).\n• None Tottenham only attempted two shots versus Man City, accumulating an expected goals total of 0.06, while in contrast Guardiola's side fired in 21 shots and posted an xG of 3.63.\n• None Man City boss Pep Guardiola became the first manager to win the League Cup in four consecutive seasons, while no manager has lifted the trophy more times than the Spaniard's four (level with Brian Clough, Alex Ferguson and Jose Mourinho).\n• None Aymeric Laporte became the third French player to score in a League Cup final, after Louis Saha for Manchester United in 2006 and Samir Nasri for Manchester City in 2014.\n• None City's Kevin de Bruyne provided his 17th assist of the season, more than any other Premier League player has registered in all competitions.\n• None Spurs' Ryan Mason became the youngest manager to take charge of a side in a League Cup final (29 years, 316 days), surpassing Gianluca Vialli with Chelsea in 1998 (33 years, 263 days).\n\nManchester City visit Paris St-Germain in the first leg of their Champions League semi-final on Wednesday, April 28 (20:00 BST) before visiting Crystal Palace in the Premier League on Saturday, 1 May (12:30 BST).\n\nTottenham host the Premier League's bottom side Sheffield United on Sunday, 2 May (19:15 BST).\n• None Offside, Manchester City. João Cancelo tries a through ball, but Phil Foden is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Phil Foden (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ilkay Gündogan.\n• None Attempt missed. Aymeric Laporte (Manchester City) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Phil Foden with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ilkay Gündogan.\n• None Attempt blocked. Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Goal! Manchester City 1, Tottenham Hotspur 0. Aymeric Laporte (Manchester City) header from very close range to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne with a cross following a set piece situation. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None The rocky story of Derry City is streaming now\n• None Stephen Lawrence's story and the lessons still being learned", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer: \"Every day there's more evidence of sleaze and it stinks\"\n\nBoris Johnson is being urged to explain how the refurbishment of his Downing Street flat was paid for, following allegations from his ex-chief advisor.\n\nDominic Cummings claimed the PM had once had \"possibly illegal\" plans to get Tory donors to fund the work.\n\nThe government said \"costs of wider refurbishment in this year have been met by the prime minister personally\".\n\nBut Labour said Mr Johnson needed to fully disclose where the money came from and whether it was a loan.\n\nParty leader Sir Keir Starmer said: \"It matters. It is about integrity, it is about taxpayers' money. Every day there is more evidence of this sleaze. Frankly, it stinks.\n\n\"Publish the details, have the full inquiry. If there is nothing to see here - whether it is the refurb of No 10, whether it is the dodgy contracts, whether it is the privileged access - if there is nothing to see, publish everything, have a full inquiry.\n\n\"Sunlight is the best disinfectant,\" Sir Keir said.\n\nIt comes amid a row over the lobbying of ministers, including the prime minister, after it was revealed he had exchanged text messages with businessman Sir James Dyson. Mr Cummings denied reports he leaked the messages.\n\nFormer attorney general Dominic Grieve said the \"constant wriggling\" over payment for the flat refurbishment was \"just one illustration of the chaos Mr Johnson seems to bring in his wake\", describing the prime minister as \"a vacuum of integrity\".\n\nThe former Conservative MP, who was expelled from the parliamentary party by Mr Johnson in 2019 after rebelling against him in a Brexit vote, also described his government as \"a cronyistic cabal\".\n\nOnce Mr Johnson's closest ally, Mr Cummings was forced out of his Downing Street role at the end of last year, following an internal power struggle.\n\nIn a blistering attack on his old boss on Friday, Mr Cummings questioned the prime minister's \"competence and integrity\".\n\nIn his first blog post since leaving his role, Mr Cummings:\n\nNo 10 insisted the PM had never interfered in a government leak inquiry.\n\nMr Cummings promised to answer questions about \"any\" issues when he appears before a Parliamentary inquiry into the government's pandemic response on 26 May.\n\nSir Alistair Graham, former chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, said if Mr Cummings could give evidence about the prime minister's alleged incompetence this could be \"very damaging\".\n\nIn his blog, Mr Cummings claimed the prime minister once planned to have donors \"secretly pay\" for renovation of his official Downing street flat.\n\nLike several of his recent predecessors, Mr Johnson and his fiancee Carrie Symonds are living in the flat above No 11 Downing Street, which is larger than the one above No 10.\n\nIn March, Downing Street dismissed as \"speculation\" suggestions that refurbishments carried out last year would be paid for by Tory donors through a charity set up for this purpose, amid reports that the costs had spiralled out of control.\n\nMr Cummings said Mr Johnson \"stopped speaking to me about the matter in 2020\", after he told the prime minister the renovation plans were \"unethical, foolish, possibly illegal and almost certainly broke the rules on proper disclosure of political donations if conducted in the way he intended\".\n\nHe added he would be \"happy to tell the cabinet secretary [Simon Case] or Electoral Commission\" what he knew about the matter but that his knowledge is \"limited\".\n\nThe Electoral Commission says it is working to establish whether any of the spending on the flat needs to be examined within its own remit on political donations, and therefore needs to be reported and subsequently published.\n\nWhen he was sacked by Boris Johnson last year Dominic Cummings left Downing Street ostentatiously carrying a cardboard box designed for office files.\n\nMr Cummings is a controversial figure. Many will not like him or put store by what he says. But the knowledge he bore with him is starting to come out as allegations.\n\nAnd he says he's prepared to give evidence under oath.\n\nWhen he gets his teeth into a cause, Mr Cummings is a tenacious campaigner, and he's skilful at weaving a narrative that can be damaging to his opponents. The prime minister is now one of them.\n\nWhat may have the biggest impact is the way Mr Cummings is drawing together the disparate strands of recent lobbying leaks and revelations, into one arc, questioning Mr Johnson's \"competence and integrity\".\n\nDowning Street says the prime minister has done nothing wrong. But can it close Pandora's box?\n\nIn response to Mr Cummings's claims, a No 10 spokesperson said: \"At all times, the government and ministers have acted in accordance with the appropriate codes of conduct and electoral law.\n\n\"Cabinet Office officials have been engaged and informed throughout and official advice has been followed.\n\n\"All reportable donations are transparently declared and published - either by the Electoral Commission or the House of Commons registrar, in line with the requirements set out in electoral law.\n\n\"Gifts and benefits received in a ministerial capacity are, and will continue to be, declared in transparency returns.\"\n\nResponding to a Parliamentary question, Cabinet Office minister Lord True said that during successive governments the prime minister has been given an allowance of £30,000 a year from the public funds to maintain and furnish the flat in Downing Street.\n\nHe said no work took place in 2019-20 due to the pandemic, but official figures on spending this year are not yet available.\n\nDowning Street contractors have carried out work on painting, sanding and floorboards, Lord True said, while \"any costs of wider refurbishment in this year have been met by the prime minister personally\".", "The former chief executive of the Post Office has quit her roles on the boards of Morrisons and Dunelm following the IT scandal which led to the wrongful convictions of former postmasters.\n\nMorrisons announced Paula Vennells would leave after serving as a non-executive director since 2016.\n\nShe is relinquishing her non-executive position at home furnishing retailer Dunelm with immediate effect.\n\nShe is also stopping her duties as an ordained Church of England minister.\n\nMs Vennells said: \"It is obvious that my involvement with the Post Office has become a distraction from the good work undertaken by the boards I serve.\n\n\"I have therefore stepped down with immediate effect from all of my board positions.\"\n\nMs Vennells was chief executive of the Post Office between 2012 and 2019.\n\nOn Friday, 39 former Post Office workers saw their criminal convictions overturned by the Court of Appeal.\n\nThe convictions had been based on the flawed software system Horizon, which showed shortfalls in the sub-postmasters' accounts where they did not exist. The IT system was installed in 1999 under former chief executive John Roberts.\n\nOther appeals are expected to follow in what is the most widespread miscarriage of justice in the UK's history.\n\nThe government has launched an inquiry into the prosecution of the former Post Office workers.\n\nMs Vennells said: \"I am truly sorry for the suffering caused to the 39 sub-postmasters as a result of their convictions which were overturned last week.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"How do you die knowing that you've done nothing wrong?\"\n\nMs Vennells said she now intended \"to focus fully on working with the ongoing government inquiry to ensure the affected sub-postmasters and wider public get the answers they deserve\".\n\nDunelm's chairman Andy Harrison said: \"We respect Paula's decision to step down from the board and I would like to thank her for the positive contribution she has made to the business since her appointment in September 2019.\"\n\nThe chairman of Morrisons, Andrew Higginson, said: \"Paula has been an insightful, effective and hardworking non-executive director, and, on behalf of the Board, I want to thank her for her significant contribution over the last five years.\"\n\nMore than 700 people were wrongly convicted of offences of theft, fraud and false accounting, in prosecutions between 2000 and 2014, and some of them were imprisoned.\n\nQuestions had been raised about the behaviour of Post Office directors during this time, and Ms Vennells, 62, faced calls to have her bonuses clawed back and be stripped of her CBE title, which had been given for \"services to the Post Office and to charity\".\n\nJo Hamilton, one of the 39 former Post Office workers whose convictions were quashed on Friday, said Ms Vennells' role at Morrisons and Dunelm was \"untenable and I don't think she could stay\".\n\nJo Hamilton saw her conviction quashed by the Court of Appeal last week\n\nShe added that she would now consider shopping at the retailers after boycotting both when Ms Vennells joined their boards. Even during the pandemic when many supermarket online delivery slots were booked up, Ms Hamilton said \"I'd rather starve to death\" than shop at Morrisons.\n\nIn a statement issued on Sunday evening, Ms Vennells, an associate Anglican minister in Bromham, Oakley and Stagsden, Bedfordshire, said she would be stepping back from her \"regular parochial duties\".\n\nMs Vennells said: \"It is obvious that my involvement with the Post Office has become a distraction from the good work undertaken in the Diocese of St Albans and in the parishes I serve.\n\n\"I have therefore stepped back with immediate effect from regular parish ministry.\"\n\nFor the sub-postmasters and postmistresses who faced prison, criminal convictions and financial ruin after being wrongly pursued by the Post Office, one of the hardest elements has been confronting a faceless institution.\n\nBut the name that has been repeated to me again and again by victims I've spoken to is that of Paula Vennells.\n\nAlthough the computer problems began before her tenure as chief executive, under her leadership, the glitches within the system became widely reported on.\n\nBut she insisted the system was \"robust\", defending the technology and her organisation's actions to a committee of MPs.\n\nAs chief executive, she chose to fight lengthy and expensive legal battles against sub-postmasters seeking redress.\n\nWhen more than 500 sub-postmasters won a civil court case against the Post Office in December 2020, the judge said that under her leadership the actions of the Post Office had been \"both cruel and incompetent\".\n\nShe received a CBE for \"services to the Post Office\" in 2019.\n\nSince Ms Vennells stepped down as boss, there has been a dramatic shift in tone from the Post Office. It did not contest the vast majority of individuals who managed to overturn their convictions in the Court of Appeal last week. It has issued an apology and is already mentioning compensation.\n\nThe Bishop of St Albans, the Right Reverend Dr Alan Smith, said that his father had been a sub-postmaster, adding: \" I express my distress at the miscarriage of justice that so many sub-postmasters have suffered.\"\n\nHe said: \"I am aware that there are still legal processes and inquiries to take place during which it is right that Ms Vennells stands back from public ministry.\"\n\nFollowing the legal decision on Friday, Ms Vennells said she was \"deeply saddened\" by the sub-postmasters' accounts. She said she would cooperate with the government inquiry \"as I did with last year's select committee inquiry\".\n\nTom Hedges (centre) was one 39 former postmasters celebrating as their convictions were quashed on Friday\n\nThe Horizon IT system, installed by the Post Office in branches across the UK, was flawed from the start.\n\nAt the Court of Appeal on Friday, Lord Justice Holroyde said the Post Office \"knew there were serious issues\" and had a \"clear duty to investigate\".\n\nBut the Post Office \"consistently asserted that Horizon was robust and reliable\" and \"effectively steamrolled over any sub-postmaster who sought to challenge its accuracy\".\n\nThose affected have long called for a judge-led, full, public inquiry, rather than the government's own inquiry which is set to report in the summer.\n\nThe Criminal Cases Review Commission, which investigates potential miscarriages of justice, is reviewing another 22 cases.\n\nThere were more than 700 prosecutions based on Horizon evidence. The commission and the Post Office are asking anyone else who believes their conviction to be unsafe to come forward.", "Dominic Cummings has launched a blistering attack on his old boss Boris Johnson, questioning his \"competence and integrity\".\n\nThe former top adviser denied leaking text messages sent between Mr Johnson and businessman Sir James Dyson.\n\nAnd he claimed Mr Johnson once had a \"possibly illegal\" plan for donors to pay for renovations of the Downing Street flat.\n\nNo 10 said ministers had always obeyed codes of conduct and electoral law.\n\nMr Cummings was forced out of his Downing Street role at the end of last year, following an internal power struggle.\n\nOn Friday, in his first blog post since leaving that role, he also denied leaking details of the second Covid lockdown in England.\n\nThis is an explosive intervention from a man Boris Johnson used to count on as one of his closest allies.\n\nAnd if you're tempted to roll your eyes and think it's just sour grapes from a jilted adviser, think again.\n\nDominic Cummings' blog is proof that he is willing to lift the lid on his time at the heart of Downing Street, regardless of how it reflects on the prime minister.\n\nBeyond his denial of leaking text messages, he has also given his version of events relating to two potential political weak spots for Boris Johnson.\n\nThey are the questions over the financing of the renovation of the Downing Street flat and the leaking of a plan to impose a lockdown.\n\nThe level of detail shows that Mr Cummings is willing to expose others while defending himself and lay bare the inner workings of No 10.\n\nSeveral newspapers ran front page stories suggesting Mr Cummings was the source of leaked messages between Mr Johnson and Sir James Dyson, first reported this week by the BBC.\n\nThe BBC - whose political editor Laura Kuenssberg first reported on the text messages on Tuesday - said it did not discuss the sources of stories.\n\nAsked whether he had blamed his former adviser for it, Mr Johnson said: \"I don't think people give a monkey's, to be frank, about who is briefing what to who.\"\n\nNo 10 has launched an inquiry into who leaked the text messages.\n\nThe text exchange between Mr Johnson and Sir James happened in March last year, after the government asked companies to help build thousands of ventilators needed to deal with very ill patients.\n\nIn it, the prime minister agreed to \"fix\" concerns the businessman had about tax bills for his Singapore-based staff if they moved to the UK to do this.\n\nWriting on his blog, Mr Cummings said: \"I was not directly or indirectly a/the source for the BBC/Kuenssberg story on the PM/Dyson texts.\"\n\nHe adds: \"I am happy to meet with the cabinet secretary and for him to search my phone for Dyson messages.\"\n\nMr Cummings continues that he is \"happy for No 10 to publish every email I received and sent July 2019-November 2020\".\n\nHe also calls for an \"urgent parliamentary inquiry into the government's conduct over the Covid crisis\", adding that he thinks Mr Johnson has fallen \"far below\" the standards of \"competence\" the \"country deserves\".\n\nMr Cummings promises to answer questions about \"any\" issues when he appears before a parliamentary inquiry into the government's pandemic response on 26 May.\n\nIn his blog, Mr Cummings also claimed the prime minister once planned to have donors \"secretly pay\" for renovation of his official Downing street flat.\n\nLike several of his recent predecessors, the PM is living in the flat above No 11 Downing Street, which is larger than the one above No 10.\n\nHe adds that Mr Johnson \"stopped speaking to me about the matter in 2020\", as he told him the renovation plans were \"unethical, foolish, possibly illegal and almost certainly broke the rules on proper disclosure of political donations if conducted in the way he intended\".\n\nMr Cummings says he would be \"happy to tell the cabinet secretary or Electoral Commission\" what he knew about the matter but that his knowledge is \"limited\".\n\nIn response to Mr Cummings's claims, a No 10 spokesperson said: \"At all times, the government and ministers have acted in accordance with the appropriate codes of conduct and electoral law.\n\n\"Cabinet Office officials have been engaged and informed throughout and official advice has been followed.\n\n\"All reportable donations are transparently declared and published - either by the Electoral Commission or the House of Commons registrar, in line with the requirements set out in electoral law.\n\n\"Gifts and benefits received in a ministerial capacity are, and will continue to be, declared in transparency returns.\"\n\nEarlier on Friday, the government said that \"costs of wider refurbishment in this year have been met by the Prime Minister personally.\"\n\nLabour's shadow Cabinet Office minister Rachel Reeves said the issue needed \"investigating in full\".\n\nDenying being the source of a leak last year ahead of the second Covid lockdown in November, Mr Cummings says an inquiry at the time found that neither he nor the then-Downing Street director of communications, Lee Cain, had been responsible.\n\nHe adds that the events around that inquiry \"contributed to [his] decision to stick to [his] plan to leave No 10 by 18 December\", which he says were \"communicated to the prime minister in July\".\n\nIn his blog, Mr Cummings also claimed Mr Johnson had considered stopping the inquiry.\n\nHe wrote that he recalled a meeting between Mr Johnson and the cabinet secretary at the time, after an inquiry had been launched, at which the cabinet secretary allegedly said \"all the evidence definitely leads to Henry Newman and others in that office\".\n\nAt the time, Mr Newman was a special adviser at the Cabinet Office. He took up a role in Downing Street earlier this year.\n\nMr Cummings claims that, in a conversation he had with the PM afterwards, Boris Johnson said: \"If Newman is confirmed as the leaker then I will have to fire him, and this will cause me very serious problems with Carrie [Symonds - the PM's fiancee] as they're best friends… [pause] perhaps we could get the cabinet secretary to stop the leak inquiry?\"\n\nIn response to Mr Cummings' claims, a Downing Street statement said: \"The prime minister has never interfered in a government leak inquiry.\"\n\nAnd a senior government official said: \"The allegations against Henry Newman are entirely false. He wouldn't be working in Downing Street if he was suspected of leaking information.\"\n\nEarlier, Downing Street declined to comment on \"speculation\" that Mr Cummings - who quit his government job last November after a row over his role as the PM's chief adviser - had leaked the texts.\n\nOn a visit to Derbyshire, Mr Johnson said anyone who thought there was something \"dodgy or rum\" in his dealings with Sir James Dyson was \"out of their mind\".", "Well, that's about it for this year - we had some very happy winners, a controversial ending and a good dose of much needed red-carpet glamour.\n\nCongratulations to all the winners. Hopefully we'll see you all next year post-Covid restrictions for even more glitz!\n\nThanks for sticking with us. Oh, and while you're here, do catch up on the rest of our Oscars coverage too:\n• 13 key red carpet looks from the Oscars\n• A very different Oscars - intimate, muted and (mostly) serious", "The road was closed both ways between Junctions 8 and 9\n\nConcerns about the security of a car stopped by police on the M20 saw the motorway closed and bomb disposal experts called in, a force has said.\n\nKent Police brought the car to a halt earlier using \"tactical contact\" near Junction 9, after it refused to stop.\n\nA spokesman said an Army team attended \"as a precautionary measure\", but the motorway had since been reopened after they declared the vehicle safe.\n\nA man from Wales has been arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving.\n\nDrivers were advised to use alternative routes\n\nThe force spokesman said officers first attempted to stop the car as it travelled towards the coast \"at excess speed\" near Junction 12 just before 11:30 BST.\n\nHowever, after refusing to stop, it left the motorway and returned to the London-bound carriageway, with police in pursuit.\n\nHe said officers followed it to Junction 9 \"where a police car made tactical contact with the vehicle, bringing it to a stop with no injuries reported\".\n\n\"The Army's Explosive Ordnance Disposal team attended the scene as a precautionary measure following concerns about the security of the subject vehicle, which has subsequently been declared safe and removed from the carriageway,\" he said.\n\nHe added that the force wanted to \"thank everyone for their patience and understanding whilst the motorway was closed\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Signs turning patients away have become commonplace\n\n\"Oxygen, oxygen, can you get me oxygen?\"\n\nI wake up this morning to an anguished phone call from a school teacher, whose 46-year-old husband has been battling Covid-19 in an oxygen-starved Delhi hospital.\n\nHere we go again, I tell myself. Just another day of life in a city where breathing has become a luxury for so many.\n\nWe work the phone, send SOS calls. Amid the sounds of beeping monitors, the woman tells us that her husband's oxygen saturation number has dipped to a precariously low 58. A bit later it rises to 62. You are supposed to consult your doctor if the number sinks to 92 or lower.\n\nShe tells us she is happy it has gone up. And her husband is still talking and aware.\n\n\"Patients remain talkative even when the number hits 40,\" she messages me.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Yogita Limaye reports from a hospital in Delhi, which is running low on beds and oxygen\n\nI pick up the newspaper. Twenty five critically ill patients have died in a well-known private hospital. The oxygen pressure had been dialled down in critical care and many patients were being given oxygen manually, the hospital said.\n\nThere's a photograph of two men and a woman sharing a cylinder on the front page. Three strangers - caught up in a tragedy brought upon by public laxity and government negligence - sharing a lifeline.\n\nThe 40-year-old son of one of the men, a report says, died outside the same hospital a few days ago, waiting for a bed. He had found a stretcher though, the report helpfully said.\n\nThat's what grieving Indians are grateful for now: if you can't provide beds or medicines or oxygen to save my loved one, at least give them a gurney to rest their corpses.\n\nAs the day progresses, I realise nothing has changed.\n\nPatients are dying because there's no oxygen. Medicines are still scarce and on the black market. There's hoarding and panic buying as if we are in a war.\n\nThe teacher calls again. The hospital doesn't even have a spare oxygen flow meter, so she has to get one.\n\nWe work the phones, send out Twitter appeals. Someone manages to pick up a device, which is used for regulating supply from the cylinder to the patient.\n\nDespite what the government says, things are going from bad to worse. Oxygen tankers are not making it in time to the city to save patients. There are no beds, few medicines.\n\nEven India's privileged have no privilege left: a magazine editor called me in the afternoon, looking for an oxygen cylinder for a sick patient, whom he knows.\n\nIn the apartment building where I live, residents are trying to buy some oxygen concentrators in case someone \"needs help with breathing\". Fifty seven residents are infected and isolated in their homes.\n\nDelhi and Mumbai have some of the best healthcare facilities in India, but have been overwhelmed\n\nPatients have been left to fend for themselves. For many it's a slow and gradual road to death. Covid-19 is a disease with too many ambushes.\n\n\"Even if I'm dying, until I actually die, I am still living,\" Paul Kalanithi, a neurosurgeon, wrote in his piercing memoir, When Breath Becomes Air.\n\nThere are only small mercies for the gasping victims of a deadly virus in India today.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Extra costs of refurbishing Boris Johnson's Downing Street flat will be met by the prime minister, Liz Truss says\n\nBoris Johnson covered the renovation costs for his Downing Street flat \"from his own pocket\", one of his ministers has said.\n\nTrade Secretary Liz Truss told the BBC the work is being \"fully declared\".\n\nBut she did not answer repeated questions on whether a Tory party donor initially provided the money to him.\n\nIt comes after the PM's former chief adviser, Dominic Cummings, claimed Mr Johnson had a \"possibly illegal\" plan for donors to pay the refurbishment.\n\nLabour said questions remained, as details over how the work was paid for had yet to be made public.\n\nThe government is supposed to publish the list of minister's interests twice a year, but the last one showing money donated to them was released in July 2020.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner said Mr Johnson should come in front of MPs on Monday to answer questions and publish the list \"as the public deserves [to see] it\".\n\nMr Johnson lives in the flat above 11 Downing Street with his fiancee Carrie Symonds - a move echoing a number of his predecessors as it is bigger than the accommodation above No 10.\n\nIn March, Downing Street dismissed as \"speculation\" suggestions that refurbishments on the flat last year would be paid for by Tory donors through a charity set up for this purpose, amid reports that the costs had spiralled out of control.\n\nBut on Friday, Mr Cummings launched a blistering attack on his former boss via his blog, claiming he advised the PM the renovation plans were \"unethical, foolish, possibly illegal and almost certainly broke the rules on proper disclosure of political donations if conducted in the way he intended\".\n\nA No 10 spokesperson said: \"At all times, the government and ministers have acted in accordance with the appropriate codes of conduct and electoral law.\"\n\nAnd Cabinet Office Minister Lord True told the House of Lords on Friday that \"any costs of wider refurbishment in this year have been met by the prime minister personally\".\n\nDonations and loans to political parties of more than £7,500 must be reported to the Electoral Commission, which said it was having \"discussions with the Conservative Party\", but had not yet launched an investigation.\n\nThe controversy also comes amid an ongoing row over lobbying in Westminster, after revelations former prime minister David Cameron had texted ministers about the financial firm he was working for and businessman Sir James Dyson had directly contacted Mr Johnson over tax issues when working on ventilators during the pandemic.\n\nThe reason this issue is so difficult for Boris Johnson is it comes down to something simple - money.\n\nHow a job was paid for is a far more straightforward issue for people to form an opinion about than other recent questions about government conduct.\n\nThat swirl of revelation and allegation has dealt with the more intangible currency of politics, access, influence and favours.\n\nThis is about cash. Tens of thousands potentially.\n\nThe cost of a home makeover, and the as-yet-unanswered question, did Mr Johnson get help?\n\nAnd if he did, what about the implications for how that benefit should be declared - whether for electoral or tax reasons.\n\nAlso talking to Marr, Ms Truss defended Mr Johnson, saying: \"My understanding is the costs have been covered by the prime minister and everything has been fully declared by the rules.\"\n\nBut asked five times whether the money was put up by a party donor first, she would not answer.\n\nInstead, she told the programme: \"What I know is the prime minister has personally met the costs of the flat refurbishment and that is what people in Britain want to know and that is what has happened.\"\n\nWhen asked why the list of minister's interests had yet to be published, Ms Truss replied: \"I'm sure it will be published in line with the rules.\"\n\nAnd questioned about rumours of leaks out of No 10 - also addressed by Mr Cummings in his blog - the minister urged Mr Johnson to \"carry on\" doing \"an excellent job\" rather than \"listening to these noises off\".\n\nShe added: \"I think this a complete load of Westminster tittle tattle that people simply don't care about.\"\n\nBut Ms Rayner said there was a \"real stench\" around the government and the \"serious allegations\" it faces.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour's Angela Rayner: \"Tell us about where you're getting this money from, Boris, to do up your flat\"\n\nMs Rayner told Marr: \"The issues that we have seen with ministers over the last couple of months has really undermined the institution of government and there are serious questions now the Conservatives need to answer.\n\n\"These are serious allegations and we think the prime minister should come to the House of Commons on Monday and should declare the ministers register of interests, which is eight months in delay.\n\n\"The problem is the government is hiding.\"\n\nThe SNP's Westminster leader, Ian Blackford, backed the call for the prime minister to answer questions in Parliament.\n\nHe said: \"The longer Boris Johnson stays in hiding and dodges accountability, the more overpowering the stench of sleaze surrounding him and his government becomes.\n\n\"Rather than hiding behind Tory ministers, Boris Johnson must now come before Parliament and answer these very serious questions for himself.\"", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nReal Madrid president Florentino Perez says the 12 clubs that agreed to join a new European Super League have \"binding contracts\" and \"cannot leave\".\n\nNine of the 12 teams, including all six Premier League clubs, withdrew from the proposed tournament on Tuesday after the plan sparked a furious backlash.\n\nReal Madrid, Barcelona and Juventus have not yet abandoned the project.\n\n\"I don't need to explain what a binding contract is, but effectively the clubs cannot leave,\" Perez told newspaper AS .\n\n\"Some of them, due to pressure, have said they're leaving. But this project, or one very similar, will move forward and I hope very soon.\"\n\nThe Real president added it was \"not true\" American investment bank JP Morgan - who had provided a 3.5bn euro (£2.8bn) grant to the founding members - had abandoned the ESL.\n\n\"They have taken some time for reflection, just like the 12 clubs. If we need to make changes we will but the Super League is the best project we've thought of,\" Perez said.\n\n\"What we have done is taken a few weeks to reflect in light of the fury of certain people who don't want to lose their privileges and have manipulated the project.\"\n\nPerez said on Thursday - in the aftermath of Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham's withdrawing - that the ESL was still on \"standby\".\n\nLa Liga club Atletico Madrid and Italian sides AC Milan and Inter Milan have also formally pulled out, while Juventus chairman Andrea Agnelli admitted the project could no longer proceed.\n\nThe 12-team Super League was announced on Sunday to widespread condemnation and has since prompted large protests outside grounds in England.\n• None Then test your knowledge of the Oscars\n• None No Passion, No Point is back: Eddie Hearn chats to the Rio Ferdinand about his next career move", "\"Rapid\" Covid testing kits are to be made available to everyone in Scotland - even if they do not have symptoms.\n\nThe Scottish government said the free lateral flow tests would be available from Monday.\n\nThey can be picked up without an appointment from many local walk-in or drive-through test sites from 15:30 each afternoon.\n\nThe scheme is designed to find cases that would otherwise go undetected, the Scottish government said.\n\nIt means that anyone without Covid-19 symptoms, who does not already have access to asymptomatic testing, can test themselves - including those who are planning to travel to a Scottish island.\n\nThe first test should be taken three days before travel to an island and the second on the day of departure, the Scottish government said.\n\nSince 16 April, people have been permitted to travel across Scotland as long as they do not stay overnight.\n\nThis includes the Scottish islands, though some islanders raised concerns this risked cases being imported from the mainland to communities that have seen low levels of infection throughout the pandemic.\n\nThe Scottish government said it wanted to encourage anyone travelling to an island to get a test beforehand.\n\nA further 177 cases were confirmed in Scotland on Saturday, with 1.1% of all tests positive.\n\nFour Covid deaths within 28 days of a positive test were also reported.\n\nThe tests can be used by people who want to travel to the Scottish islands\n\nEach test pack will contain seven lateral flow kits, which can provide results in about 30 minutes.\n\nIf the test comes back positive then people are told to self-isolate and order a PCR test to confirm the result.\n\nChief medical officer Dr Gregor Smith said: \"This expansion builds on our existing testing strategy, and will help our efforts to ease the country out of lockdown safely.\n\n\"Routine testing is already available for people with no symptoms in a wide-range of settings, including schools, high-risk workplaces, and communities where Covid-19 rates remain stubbornly high.\"\n\nDr Smith said rapid lateral flow testing was already helping to find cases that might otherwise be missed, as about one in three people with Covid-19 did not show symptoms.\n\n\"It may be tempting to think as vaccinations increase and cases drop, that testing will become less important,\" he added.\n\n\"In fact, this will only make it more important to spot and prevent new outbreaks as cases emerge. We know from our experience of last summer just how quickly one outbreak can lead to another.\"\n\nFree lateral flow kits are also available in England for anyone to test themselves for Covid-19, even if they do not have symptoms.\n\nIn Wales, similar kits can be ordered by those who are unable to work from home. They are also used for regular testing of NHS and social care staff, and in universities, schools, care homes and other workplaces.", "Thousands of human-made objects orbit earth and the majority of them no longer work. There’s a risk this space debris could collide with functioning satellites, which provide vital services like GPS and weather warnings.\n\nTo track and predict its behaviour, Prof Moriba Jah and his colleagues built AstriaGraph – a near real-time map of where each object is located in space. He explains that the system is monitoring around 200 ‘super-spreaders’ – large rocket bodies that have the potential to break into thousands of pieces.\n\nFor more on sustainability in space, listen to BBC CrowdScience: Can space exploration be environmentally friendly?", "The photos are believed to have been taken by Fred Petersen from Bute Street\n\nStanding on a stool, a little girl poses for a photo with no idea that decades later there would be a search to find out who she was.\n\nNow, around 100 years on, historians are looking for clues as they put names to faces of people from Cardiff's past.\n\nGlamorgan Archives want help to identify people in a series of photos, taken in Cardiff Docks.\n\nArchivist Rhian Diggins said the images were a significant piece of the city's diverse history.\n\nMs Diggins said: \"Quite often the images that survive in collections tend to be of the 'great and the good', the wealthy and powerful who would be photographed due to the positions they held in business or society.\n\n\"These photographs are interesting because they show the ordinary, everyday people of Cardiff at this time.\"\n\nThe photos were taken in Cardiff's docklands sometime between 1900 and 1920\n\nThe pictures, which were tweeted in a bid to solve the \"archive mystery\", show individuals and family groups from Cardiff's docklands but there is very little information about them.\n\nThe photos are not dated, but Ms Diggins said it was thought they were all taken in the city's docklands between 1900-1920.\n\nThe photos show families and people living in the community at the time\n\nMany are studio portraits which would have been taken in studios, most by photographer Fred Petersen, from Bute Street, in Butetown.\n\nRhian Diggins from the Glamorgan Archives said the pictures \"show the ordinary, everyday people of Cardiff at this time\"\n\nMs Diggins said while identifying all in the photos was \"a long shot\", it would be nice to put names to some of the faces in the photos.", "Union Station in Los Angeles will be one of the venues for this year's Oscars. The BBC's Tom Brook takes a tour to see if the train station is ready for the spotlight.", "Merseyside Police said the crash happened on the M62 westbound near junction 7\n\nA motorcyclist has died after a crash with a car on the M62 motorway.\n\nMerseyside Police said the 23-year-old man was riding a red Suzuki when he was involved in the collision with a black Audi between junctions 6 and 7 at about 00:20 BST on Sunday.\n\nHe was taken to hospital but pronounced dead a short time later.\n\nThe driver of the car, a 36-year-old man, was also taken to hospital where his condition is described as serious but stable.\n\nThe motorway has reopened between junctions 6 and 7 westbound after it was closed for investigations.\n\nPolice are appealing for anyone with information or dashcam footage to contact them.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An eight-year-old boy has been praised for his presence of mind after he made an 999 call to emergency services.\n\nCody alerted Hertfordshire Fire and Rescue, while his mum and dad rushed to a neighbour's house to put out a fire.\n\nThe neighbour wasn’t in the house at the time, and the fire service managed to put out the fire\n\nCody told BBC Breakfast he remembered what his mum told him to do in any emergency.", "Richer nations will soon be able to share jabs with poorer countries - Gates\n\nThe UK, the US and other developed countries will start to have excess vaccines in \"the next three or four months\" which they can then share with the developing world, according to Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates. Speaking earlier to Sky News's Sophy Ridge on Sunday programme, he said: \"Over the balance of the year, the US, the UK and others will be able to make sure that the vaccines are now going to the developing countries.\" He added: \"The other good news is that the actual death rate from this epidemic in the poorest countries has actually been quite low.\" He said that it was a \"good thing\" that rich countries had been able to vaccinate their elderly populations as they had generally been harder hit than developing countries. \"The fact that now we're vaccinating 30-year-olds in the UK and the US and we don't have all the 60-year-olds in Brazil and South Africa (vaccinated), that's not fair, but within three or four months the vaccine allocation will be getting to all the countries that have the very severe epidemic.\"", "The photos are believed to have been taken by Fred Petersen from Bute Street\n\nStanding on a stool, a little girl poses for a photo with no idea that decades later there would be a search to find out who she was.\n\nNow, around 100 years on, historians are looking for clues as they put names to faces of people from Cardiff's past.\n\nGlamorgan Archives want help to identify people in a series of photos, taken in Cardiff Docks.\n\nArchivist Rhian Diggins said the images were a significant piece of the city's diverse history.\n\nMs Diggins said: \"Quite often the images that survive in collections tend to be of the 'great and the good', the wealthy and powerful who would be photographed due to the positions they held in business or society.\n\n\"These photographs are interesting because they show the ordinary, everyday people of Cardiff at this time.\"\n\nThe photos were taken in Cardiff's docklands sometime between 1900 and 1920\n\nThe pictures, which were tweeted in a bid to solve the \"archive mystery\", show individuals and family groups from Cardiff's docklands but there is very little information about them.\n\nThe photos are not dated, but Ms Diggins said it was thought they were all taken in the city's docklands between 1900-1920.\n\nThe photos show families and people living in the community at the time\n\nMany are studio portraits which would have been taken in studios, most by photographer Fred Petersen, from Bute Street, in Butetown.\n\nRhian Diggins from the Glamorgan Archives said the pictures \"show the ordinary, everyday people of Cardiff at this time\"\n\nMs Diggins said while identifying all in the photos was \"a long shot\", it would be nice to put names to some of the faces in the photos.", "Christa Ludwig was awarded the French Legion of Honour in 2010\n\nThe celebrated German opera singer, Christa Ludwig, has died at the age of 93.\n\nThe mezzo-soprano, who was born in Berlin, died at her home near the Austrian capital, Vienna, on Saturday, her family confirmed.\n\nLudwig made her debut in Frankfurt aged 18 just after the end of World War Two. She retired in 1994.\n\nThe singer was widely praised for the rich quality, range and amplitude of her voice.\n\nLudwig grew up in Aachen, western Germany, with parents who were both musical. Her father was a tenor and also conducted at the local opera house. Her mother was a mezzo-soprano.\n\n\"Singing for me was as natural as learning to walk,\" Ludwig once said.\n\nShe performed with American soprano Shirley Verrett in Les Troyens at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 1973\n\nLudwig joined the Vienna State Opera in 1955 and performed at the famous Salzburg Festival under Austrian conductor Karl Boehm.\n\nHer most memorable roles included Dorabella in Mozart's Cosi fan tutte, Kundry in Wagner's Parsifal, Leonora in Beethoven's Fidelio and both Octavian and Marschallin in Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier.\n\nDuring her long career she also sang at London's Royal Opera House, New York's Metropolitan Opera, Milan's La Scala and other top international venues.\n\nLudwig, second right, in a scene from Mozart's Cosi fan tutte at the Salzburg Festival in 1963\n\nIn 2010 France awarded her the Legion of Honour.\n\n\"It was the very special combination of a unique voice and intelligence of interpretation that made her so special,\" the Vienna State Opera said.\n\nLa Scala opera house said the music world had \"lost a luminous and inimitable personality\".\n\nLudwig was married to the Austrian bass-baritone Walter Berry for 13 years. They divorced in 1970 and two years later she married French actor and director Paul-Emile Deiber, who died 2011.\n\nChrista Ludwig was born into a musical family in Berlin in 1928", "Mr Kim claimed the women did not provide proof that they were having their periods\n\nA former airline CEO who refused to allow female staff to take menstrual leave protected by employment law has been fined almost $1,800 (£1,300; 2m won) by a court in South Korea.\n\nKim Soo-cheon, the ex-head of Asiana Airlines, turned down 138 requests from 15 flight attendants in 2014 and 2015.\n\nMr Kim claimed the employees did not provide proof of menstruation.\n\nSince 1953, women in South Korea have been allowed to take one day off a month if they have painful periods.\n\nA lower court first found against Mr Kim in 2017. He had argued there were \"many suspicious cases\" when employees requested leave around holidays or days off, the South Korean news agency Yonhap reports.\n\nHowever, the court said that asking employees to prove they were having their period could \"infringe upon privacy and human rights\".\n\nThe ruling was upheld by a higher court.\n• None Viewpoint: 'Why every woman should be offered menstrual leave'", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. India coronavirus: \"A Covid tsunami we had never seen before\"\n\nFor the fourth day in a row, India has set an unwelcome world record for new coronavirus infections, with 349,691 more cases in the 24 hours to Sunday morning, and another 2,767 lives lost. The BBC's Vikas Pandey reports from the capital Delhi, where hospitals are overwhelmed and people are desperate.\n\nWhen Ashwin Mittal's grandmother's oxygen saturation level dropped a week ago, he started frantically looking for a hospital bed in Delhi. He called everybody he could, but every hospital refused.\n\nHer condition deteriorated further on Thursday and he took her to the emergency rooms of several hospitals, but every place was full. They accepted the fate that she was going to die without getting any treatment. But she was gasping for every breath and Ashwin just couldn't bear it after a while.\n\nHe took her in his car and went from one hospital to another for several hours until one in north Delhi agreed to take her in the emergency ward for \"a few hours\". He was to continue looking for a bed.\n\nAshwin, who has also tested positive for coronavirus, continued his search while battling a high fever and severe body aches. But he couldn't find a bed, and the hospital continued to keep his grandmother in the emergency ward on compassionate grounds.\n\nDoctors there said she needed an ICU and had a good chance of survival. A family friend told me that the hospital was planning to discharge her on Sunday as it was running out of oxygen.\n\n\"The family is back to where they started and has accepted the fate. They know that if she survives, it will be because of a miracle, not because of any treatment,\" the friend said.\n\nMiracles are what many families in Delhi are left to rely on. Most hospitals are full and many of them are refusing new admissions owing to the uncertainty over oxygen supply.\n\nOxygen-equipped ambulances are in short supply and it's becoming difficult for families to transport patients to hospitals even if they find a bed.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Yogita Limaye This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nI know a few cases where patients have died because they did not get high-flow oxygen support. Every morning starts with frantic calls from friends, family and colleagues asking for a bed, oxygen cylinders or medicines. The number of people I am able to help is reducing every day as the doctors and officials who could earlier help are no longer available to speak on the phone. Helplines are not working and the vendors who could earlier help have run out of supplies.\n\nI go to bed with a sense of defeat every night, but then pick myself up and start in the morning again as more and more people call for help. I can understand their helplessness as I lost a cousin a few days ago in a top hospital in the city. He waited for 18 hours to get a ventilator but the hospital didn't have any. His last message to us was \"please save me\". But we couldn't.\n\nThat's how Delhi is functioning at the moment. Friends are calling friends; social media is awash with desperate pleas for help.\n\nBut it's almost impossible to find a hospital bed here now. Oxygen cylinders and medicines are in short supply. On Saturday, Saroj Hospital and Batra Hospital told families to take their patients away as they were running out of oxygen.\n\nThe city has been been reporting more than 24,000 cases daily in the past few days. The hospitals are completely overrun, and healthcare workers are exhausted.\n\nSome people I know are taking dangerous journeys with their critically ill relatives to other cities which are 300-500km (180-300 miles) away. Sivesh Rana's brother was in a critical condition but he couldn't find a bed in Delhi and decided to take him in an ambulance to a city in the neighbouring state of Haryana.\n\nBut his condition worsened during the journey and the ambulance wasn't equipped to deal with a critical patient. He died a few hours after arriving at the hospital.\n\nDr A Fathahudeen, who is part of Kerala state's Covid task force, says the crisis is unprecedented and doctors can't do much if oxygen supply is not guaranteed.\n\n\"You need high-pressure liquid oxygen for the smooth functioning of ventilators and bi-pap machines. When the pressure drops, the machines fail to deliver adequate oxygen into the lungs, and the consequences can be fatal,\" he says.\n\nHe adds that oxygen is one of the major treatments to stabilise the patient, allowing doctors time to assess them and plan a future course of treatment.\n\nDr Fathahudeen says urgent measures are needed as patients are dying without getting the treatment they require.\n\n\"The Indian army is one of the finest in the world to build makeshift hospitals and ICU beds within a short span of time. They should be roped in,\" he adds.\n\nThe situation is not very different in other cities, including Pune, Nashik, Lucknow, Bhopal, Indore and Allahabad, as the second Covid wave devastates the country.\n\nIndia reported 349,000 cases on Friday - a record daily spike. It reported 2,767 deaths. But experts say the actual numbers are likely to be much higher.\n\nGetting tested has become very difficult in many cities as labs are overrun. As I earlier reported, many people are dying at home because they are not getting hospital beds or they are not being able to get tested for Covid. So, they don't find a place as a Covid patient in the database managed by different states.\n\nMeanwhile, frantic calls continue - each one more heartbreaking than the last.\n\nHow have you been affected by coronavirus in India? 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.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The increase in demand for semiconductors during the pandemic surprised many, Mr Robbins says\n\nThe boss of networking giant Cisco has said the shortage of computer chips is set to last for most of this year.\n\nMany firms have seen production delayed because of a lack of semiconductors, triggered by the Covid pandemic and exacerbated by other factors.\n\nCisco chief Chuck Robbins told the BBC: \"We think we've got another six months to get through the short term.\n\n\"The providers are building out more capacity. And that'll get better and better over the next 12 to 18 months.\"\n\nThat expansion of capacity will be crucial as advances in technology - including 5G, cloud computing, the internet of things and artificial intelligence - drive a big increase in demand.\n\nMr Robbins is the latest tech boss to weigh in on the debate - and with 85% of internet traffic using Cisco's systems, his opinion matters.\n\n\"Right now, it is a big problem,\" he says, \"because semiconductors go in virtually everything.\"\n\nThe seemingly insatiable demand is why major US manufacturer Intel announced a $20bn (£14.5bn) plan to significantly expand production, including two new plants in Arizona.\n\nAccording to Dan Ives, a tech analyst at investment firm Wedbush Securities, current \"demand is probably 25% higher than anyone would have expected\".\n\nEven though the shortage \"is going to be an issue for the next three to six months\", technology share prices are doing well because investors are focused on the growing long-term demand for their products.\n\nPresident Biden and his advisers held a virtual meeting to discuss the chip shortage with business leaders\n\nUS President Joe Biden also sees this as a long-term issue and used a White House summit with business leaders this month to urge them to make the country a world leader in computer chips. Amid the trade and technology war with China, the White House says it is \"a top and immediate priority\".\n\nThe US-based Semiconductor Industry Association says 75% of global manufacturing capacity is in East Asia. Taiwan's TSMC and South Korea's Samsung are the dominant players.\n\nEuropean politicians also want more chips made locally, a view partly driven by concerns over China's desire to achieve reunification with Taiwan. Meanwhile, China has seen a huge growth in domestic demand for chips to power new technology, but has only a small share of global manufacturing capacity.\n\nMr Robbins says: \"I think that it doesn't necessarily matter where they're made, as long as you have multiple sources.\"\n\nHowever, Intel chief executive Pat Gelsinger told the BBC it was not \"palatable\" to have so many chips made in Asia.\n\nData centres, such as this one full of Cisco equipment, are helping drive demand for semiconductors\n\nTSMC appears intent on holding on to its position as the world's biggest contract manufacturer and is spending $100bn to expand capacity over the next three years.\n\nThis week its founder, Morris Chang, called on the Taiwanese government to \"keep hold of it tightly\", arguing it is better positioned to make chips than the US or China, despite their big government subsidies.\n\nTSMC founder Morris Chang, seen here in November, wants Taiwan's government to protect its chip industry\n\nThe chip shortage was heightened by the coronavirus pandemic. At first, many companies cut their orders for chips, thinking demand would fall, which led suppliers to reduce capacity. However, demand for consumer electronics rose during the pandemic.\n\nThe problems have been worsened by a string of other factors, including a fire at a semiconductor factory and weather issues.\n\nThis, combined with a \"generational technological change has created an unprecedented situation for the industry\", according to Paul Triolo, who leads the geo-technology practice at consultancy Eurasia Group.\n\nHe thinks it doesn't matter where chips are made as long as there is a diversity of supply. However, the shortages are likely \"to persist for some time\" and longer-term solutions are needed to address the concentration of manufacturing of semiconductors, which is a \"problem that predates the shortage\".\n\nThat is why Mr Robbins says: \"What we don't want is to have consolidation where any of the risks that we may face could, frankly, result in the situation we're seeing today, whether it's weather-related disaster risks, whether it's single point of failure risk, whether its geopolitical risks, whatever those are. We just need more options, I think, for where semiconductors are built.\"\n\nWater trucks arrive at a TSMC factory in Taiwan to help address the water shortage which is causing production problems\n\nCisco recently completed the $4.5bn acquisition of Acacia Communications, which, among other things, designs computer chips. Mr Robbins ruled out Cisco using it as an opportunity to start making its own chips.\n\n\"We're not a semiconductor fab company, so it's not a core competency for us to do that. So we think that companies that play in this space are much better equipped, we're working very closely with them.\"\n\nThe huge cost of chip manufacturing facilities means they operate at near full capacity and so it will take time to meet the increased demand.\n\nThe size of that demand \"is not clear\", according to Mr Triolo. He says that, like other major technology vendors, \"Cisco's equipment relies heavily on reliable supply chains for a range of semiconductors.\"\n\nThe shortages, he says, have been \"exacerbated by companies over ordering components to build up inventory, afraid of being caught short again\".\n\nYou can watch Chuck Robbins' full interview on \"Talking Business with Aaron Heslehurst\" this weekend on BBC World News at Saturday 2330 GMT, Sunday 0530 and 1630 GMT, Monday 0630 GMT and 1030 GMT and Tuesday at 1230 GMT.", "Vanessa Bampton is one of thousands of mortgage prisoners\n\nMPs are challenging the government to live up to a promise to help homeowners trapped paying high interest rates because the Treasury sold their mortgages to unregulated firms.\n\nSince they cannot switch to a better deal, an estimated 250,000 homeowners are forced to pay standard variable interest rates.\n\nThese are well above what a competitive mortgage would charge.\n\nBut moves to ease their plight are being blocked, MPs say.\n\nThe House of Lords has passed an amendment to the Financial Services Act to cap rates for borrowers in that position, known as \"mortgage prisoners\".\n\nBut government whips are instructing Conservative MPs to vote against the amendment in the House of Commons on Monday.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak has promised to look at \"workable solutions\" for the homeowners. But the Treasury claims the SVR cap would be \"unfair\" on other borrowers.\n\nSince the financial crash, tougher affordability checks have made it hard to change lenders if your mortgage is large compared to your house price - or if you're close to retirement or have bad credit.\n\nBut most mortgage borrowers can still switch to a cheaper mortgage deal on lower interest rates with their existing lender.\n\nHowever, an estimated 250,000 borrowers - such as mother-of-two Vanessa Bampton - have seen their home loans sold by the Treasury to unregulated firms that do not offer new mortgage deals.\n\nAs a result, they are trapped by their mortgages, forced when their initial deal ends on to high standard variable interest rates - where their payments can be double or treble what they would pay in a competitive mortgage.\n\nVanessa and her husband purchased their Bournemouth home in 2006 with a mortgage with Northern Rock. At the time, it was a market-leading loan approved and regulated by the Financial Services Authority.\n\nHowever, in 2008, after Northern Rock had been nationalised, their interest rate jumped as they went on to the lender's standard variable rate.\n\nBut because they had borrowed a large sum compared to the price of their home, known as a high \"loan-to-value\", they could not switch lenders.\n\n\"Our mortgage went up overnight and literally almost doubled. Our disposable income was zilch,\" said Vanessa.\n\n\"And when we moved into this house, we had some work done to it. We had to put a boiler in the new kitchen and so we took out a small loan for that. So we couldn't cover all of our outgoings.\n\n\"I've suffered depression over it. I've had two or three jobs over the period since then and my husband was trying to study and it's been so, so difficult. I can't express how hard it's been for us as a family.\"\n\nIn 2009, Vanessa's mortgage was moved, with hundreds of thousands of others, to Northern Rock Asset Management (NRAM), which had been separated from the retail arm of Northern Rock, later sold to Virgin Money.\n\nThe same year, the Treasury, then under Labour Chancellor Alistair Darling, held a consultation on the mortgage market.\n\nIt warned that distressed mortgage lenders were selling books of mortgages to unregulated hedge funds and private equity firms \"attracted by the possibility of purchasing assets at a discount\", that were were unregulated and therefore not bound by the regulator's requirement to treat customers fairly.\n\n\"Non-regulated owners of regulated mortgage contracts may seek to maximise margins by raising interest rates and charges, potentially to levels that are unaffordable to borrowers,\" the Treasury consultation said.\n\n\"In some cases, the lack of regulation and the possibility of acting in this way to extract profit may be a contributing factor to firms' desire to purchase these mortgages.\n\n\"Such activity clearly has the potential to cause severe harm to borrowers,\" it added.\n\n\"The onward sale of regulated mortgage contracts may also be seen as unfair, as it leads to a reduction in protections for some consumers, both in absolute terms and relative to other borrowers who have purchased similar financial services.\"\n\nHowever, under the Coalition government of 2010-15, Chancellor George Osborne was keen to re-privatise assets nationalised in the 2008 crisis.\n\nIn 2014, the Treasury cast aside those concerns and sold a book of 270,000 Northern Rock mortgages in NRAM, amounting to £13.5bn of outstanding home loans, to US private equity firm Cerberus, a sprawling guns-to-finance conglomerate owned by Trump-supporting billionaire Steve Feinberg.\n\nIt was the biggest privatisation in UK history. The taxpayer received just £5.5bn in cash.\n\nBecause Cerberus did not offer new loans, borrowers such as Vanessa, who could not switch lenders, also could not access cheaper deals with their existing lender.\n\nAs a consequence, they had no choice but to pay standard variable interest rates costing substantially more than the market rate.\n\nBecause many mortgage prisoners have now been paying those elevated rates for more than a decade, the additional cost runs into tens of thousand of pounds.\n\nA mortgage prisoner with an average mortgage of £165,000 has overpaid in interest between £25,000 and £45,000 over the past decade, according to a report by the UK Mortgage Prisoners action group.\n\nIn a House of Commons debate on Monday, MPs will press the government to support the reform, which imposes a cap on standard variable rates charged by firms in \"closed books\" (meaning the firm that owns them does not offer new mortgage deals), such that their interest rates were no more than 2% above the Bank of England's base rate.\n\nAfter the last Budget, Chancellor Rishi Sunak promised to look for \"workable solutions\" to help mortgage prisoners.\n\nBut in spite of the chancellor's promise, the Treasury has been lobbying MPs hard not to support the Lords amendment.\n\nSeema Malhotra, chair of the all-party parliamentary group on mortgage prisoners, said: \"We need to do something to protect these consumers, we need to do something to bring back some sort of level playing field for people who are in this situation through no fault of their own they took out their mortgages in good faith with regulated fully regulated High Street lenders.\n\n\"It's through the government selling off these mortgages without adequate protection to these mortgage loan sharks that has led to this situation. A targeted intervention for these for this specific circumstance is what's needed and it's needed now.\"\n\nIn a statement to the BBC, the Treasury said: \"We know that being unable to switch your mortgage can be incredibly difficult. But an interest rate cap would have serious market implications and be unfair to other borrowers.\n\n\"Many borrowers could now find it easier to switch to an active lender or continue interest-only payments, thanks to recent rule changes by the Financial Conduct Authority.\n\n\"We're committed to finding practical and proportionate options to address this issue and will set out further steps shortly.\"\n\nMany of the trapped borrowers took out high loan-to-value mortgages before the 2008 financial crash - something the government is again encouraging in Budget measures introduced last week designed to support mortgages worth 95% of the value of the property they are used to purchase.", "The \"smiles, laughs, nerves, and sighs of relief\" of the vaccine programme were documented as part of the campaign to encourage uptake\n\nA new campaign is being launched to encourage younger people to get the Covid vaccine when their turn comes.\n\nThe Department of Health has released a series of photos documenting the NHS's largest-ever vaccination programme.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said 45.5 million doses had been administered so far, but \"the battle is not yet over\".\n\nMore than half the entire UK population - 33.5 million people - have now received a first dose, while more than 12 million people have had two doses.\n\nOn Monday lockdown restrictions will ease further in Wales and Scotland. Pubs and restaurants will be allowed to serve customers outdoors in Wales, while in Scotland all non-essential shops, pubs and restaurants can reopen, with up to six people from two households allowed to socialise indoors in a public place.\n\nThe UK recorded another 2,061 confirmed cases on Saturday and a further 32 deaths.\n\nThe latest campaign aims to encourage under-50s to take the vaccine, following research that suggests younger people are more likely to be hesitant.\n\nIn England those aged 45 or over are already being invited to book an appointment, while in Scotland this applies to those aged 50 or over.\n\nNorthern Ireland has now opened bookings for the 35 to 39 age group and one health board in Wales is offering the vaccine to those aged 30 to 39 - although most are still vaccinating people in their 40s and 50s.\n\nAlice Tooley says she hopes other young people will \"jump at\" the chance to get vaccinated\n\nAlthough 94% of all adults in the most recent survey by the Office for National Statistics felt positively about the vaccines, about one in eight 16 to 29-year-olds said they were hesitant, the highest such finding among all age groups.\n\nVaccine hesitancy is also higher among black people and people in more deprived areas, although the numbers saying they are hesitant has been falling in every group, the survey suggested.\n\nAmong the people caught on camera in the photo project was 25-year-old Alice Tooley, who was vaccinated early in the rollout because of her frontline work with vulnerable adults for a refugee charity.\n\nDozens of sites across the country have been used as vaccine centres, including Salisbury Cathedral\n\nAs younger people get invited to have their jab, she said: \"I hope they jump at it the way I did so, as a collective, we all play our part in getting back to a more normal way of life.\"\n\nDocumentary photographers and filmmakers set out across the UK in February and March to capture the immunisation programme in action, travelling to hospitals, mobile vaccination units, care homes and some of the more unusual vaccination sites such as Salisbury Cathedral and the Science Museum in London.\n\nPhotojournalist Jude Palmer said it had been a privilege to document the \"smiles, laughs, nerves, and sighs of relief as we get one step closer to a more normal way of life\".\n\nAmong the people they photographed was Dr Gavin Chestnutt, a GP at Ballycastle Medical Practice, who took his vaccine supplies on the ferry to Rathlin Island - Northern Ireland's most northerly point - to immunise the community there and ensure the elderly population did not have to travel in bad weather.\n\nVaccinators have travelled to the UK's remote corners, such as Rathlin Island off County Antrim, to deliver millions of doses\n\nDr Chestnutt, who is also a part-time farmer, was photographed vaccinating a 92-year-old man in his back garden, looking out over the coastline.\n\nThe 42-year-old said it had been an honour to witness people's \"physical relief\" as they were protected from Covid-19.\n\n\"Most overwhelming has been to see how grateful everyone has been for getting their vaccine and finally seeing some light at the end of the tunnel,\" he added.\n\nMeanwhile, 8,000 football supporters will be at Wembley later for the Carabao Cup final between Manchester City and Tottenham - the biggest attendance at an outdoor sports event since the first lockdown in March last year.\n\nThe game is part of the government's official test programme to work out the best way for big crowds to return to venues.\n\nIt comes as 22 anti-lockdown scientists and academics have written an open letter calling for face masks and social distancing to end in June.\n\nThe letter, published in full on the Daily Express website, says more weight should be given to the success of the vaccines and less to what it calls the \"theoretical\" risk of new variants or a new surge in infections.\n\nIt also urges the government to scrap plans for vaccine passports, along with mass community testing in favour of a more targeted approach.\n\nThe government has already announced it hopes to end all legal limits on social contact in England on 21 June at the earliest and the prime minister has said there is nothing in the data to suggest this will not be the case.\n\nBut some scientists have suggested people could still be asked to wear face coverings and socially distance for several years as other countries are yet to complete their vaccination programmes.\n\nBBC health correspondent Katharine Da Costa says many of the signatories to the letter had previously called for lockdowns to be abolished in favour of shielding the vulnerable, a strategy strongly criticised by the wider scientific community.", "Mr Aisha is finally on his way home\n\nMohammed Aisha joined his \"cursed\" ship, the MV Aman, on 5 May 2017.\n\nToday, after spending almost four years on board stranded off the Egyptian coast, he was freed and flown home to Syria. So how does he feel?\n\nHis text, from the aircraft on the tarmac at Cairo airport, was brief.\n\nAnd then came a voice message.\n\n\"How do I feel? Like I finally got out of prison. I'm finally going to be rejoined with my family. I'm going to see them again.\"\n\nIt marks the end of an ordeal which has taken its toll on Mohammed's physical and mental health. He was, after all, condemned to a life without power, sanitation or company.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mohammed Aisha had been living on an abandoned cargo ship for four years, part of that time completely on his own\n\nIt began in July 2017, when the MV Aman was detained at the Egyptian port of Adabiya. The cargo ship was held because it had expired safety equipment and classification certificates.\n\nIt should have been easy enough to resolve, but the ship's Lebanese contractors failed to pay for fuel and the MV Aman's owners in Bahrain were in financial difficulty.\n\nWith the ship's Egyptian captain ashore, a local court declared Mohammed, the ship's chief officer, the MV Aman's legal guardian.\n\nMohammed, who was born in the Syrian Mediterranean port of Tartus, says he wasn't told what the order meant and only found out months later, as the ship's other crew members started to leave.\n\nThe dust-covered bridge of the Aman, a 4,000-tonne container vessel\n\nFor four years, life - and death - passed Mohammed by. He watched as ships sailed past, in and out of the nearby Suez Canal.\n\nDuring the recent blockage caused by the giant container ship Ever Given, he counted dozens of ships waiting for the traffic jam to ease.\n\nHe has even seen his brother, a fellow seafarer, sail past more than once. The brothers spoke on the phone but were too far apart even to wave.\n\nIn August 2018, he learned that his mother, a teacher responsible for his excellent English, had died. That was Mohammed's low point.\n\n\"I seriously considered ending my life,\" he told me.\n\nBy August 2019, Mohammed was alone but for the occasional guard and trapped on a vessel with no diesel and, consequently, no power. He was legally obliged to stay aboard and was unpaid, demoralised and feeling increasingly unwell.\n\nHe said the ship was like a grave at night.\n\n\"You can't see anything. You can't hear anything,\" he said. \"It's like you're in a coffin.\"\n\nIn March 2020, a storm blew the Aman off its anchorage. The ship drifted five miles (8km), eventually running aground a few hundred metres from the shoreline.\n\nIt was terrifying at the time, but Mohammed thought it was an act of God. Now he was able to swim ashore every few days, buy food and recharge his phone.\n\nAstonishing as Mohammed's story is, his experience is not unique. In fact, seafarer abandonment is on the rise.\n\nMohammed had to swim ashore if he needed to get drinking water or buy food\n\nAccording to the International Labour Organization, there are more than 250 active cases around the world where crews are simply left to fend for themselves. It says 85 new cases were reported in 2020, which is twice as many as in the previous year.\n\nMeanwhile, at the Iranian port of Assaluyeh, 19 mostly Indian crew members of the bulk carrier Ula are on hunger strike after their vessel was abandoned by its owners in July 2019.\n\nA crew member recently told the shipping journal Lloyd's List that the situation on board was \"very critical\", with depression rife and seafarers' families running out of money.\n\n\"The first time I came across one of these cases, I was in total shock,\" said Andy Bowerman, Middle East and South Asia director for the Mission to Seafarers.\n\nFrom his base in Dubai, he has seen this happen time and again, usually for the same combination of reasons.\n\n\"We're currently working with a case here, where the company have a huge mortgage on the vessel, but their debts are way beyond that. So sometimes it is just easier to tell the crew to drop anchor and to almost literally walk away.\"\n\nThe Aman's owners, Tylos Shipping and Marine Services, told the BBC they had tried to help Mohammed but that their hands were tied.\n\n\"I can't force a judge to remove the legal guardianship,\" a representative told us. \"And I can't find a single person on this planet - and I've tried - to replace him.\"\n\nMohammed, they said, should never have signed the order in the first place.\n\nMohamed Arrachedi of the International Transport Workers Federation, who took up Mohammed's case in December, said this should be a moment for everyone in the shipping industry to reflect.\n\n\"The case of Mohammed has to serve to open a serious debate to prevent these abuses to seafarers on ships,\" he told me.\n\nThe debate, he said, had to involve ship owners, port and maritime authorities and flag states.\n\n\"This drama and suffering of Mohammed Aisha could have been avoided if the owners and the parties with responsibilities and obligations to the ship had assumed their responsibilities and arranged his repatriation earlier.\"\n\nFor his part, Mohammed said he felt trapped in a situation not of his making, cornered by Egyptian law and ignored by the ship's owners . He said months would go by without communication - leaving him feeling let down and isolated.\n\nIt's enough, you might imagine, to make him think twice about going back to sea.\n\nBut he is determined. He says he is good at his job and wants nothing more than to pick up where he left off.\n\nAfter he's caught up with his family, that is.", "Climate activist Greta Thunberg urged US lawmakers to end fossil fuel subsidies, or face catastrophic consequences in future decades.\n\n\"I don't believe for a second that you will actually do this,\" she told politicians on the House Oversight Committee's environmental subcommittee.", "This is precisely not the sort of picture that will be posted on the MI5 Instagram account, as it seeks to move away from the \"martini-drinking\" stereotypes\n\nBritish security service MI5 is joining Instagram in a bid to increase transparency and rid itself of \"martini-drinking stereotypes\".\n\nThe account, @mi5official, will host Q&As with serving intelligence officers and promote career opportunities.\n\nIn an intriguing first post, the service said the secret to successful spying was to \"consider all angles\".\n\nMI5 boss Ken McCallum said \"being more open\" was key to MI5's approach to the 2020s.\n\nUrging people to follow the service, Mr McCallum added: \"You can insert your own joke about whether we will be following you.\"\n\nReplying to its first Instagram update - which showed the secure \"pods\" used by MI5 staff to enter its London HQ - Home Secretary Priti Patel said: \"Thank you for your exceptional work in keeping our country safe.\"\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\nWriting in the Daily Telegraph, Mr McCallum admitted joining the platform was \"a routine step for most organisations, but more interesting when you're in the business of keeping secrets.\"\n\nBut he said the intelligence service was facing a dilemma: \"On the one hand, our ability to serve the public and keep the country safe depends critically on operating covertly.\"\n\nHowever, he said they must also reach out to new people who can help. \"It would be dangerous vanity to imagine MI5 can build all the capabilities it needs inside its own bubble,\" he wrote.\n\nMI5 plans to use the platform to debunk popular myths about its work and reveal never-before-seen material from the archives of its 112-year past.\n\nIt also promises to show what it's like to be an agent runner and surveillance officer, though Mr McCallum says their operations will not become \"an open book\".\n\n\"We must get past whatever martini-drinking stereotypes may be lingering by conveying a bit more of what today's MI5 is actually like, so that people don't rule themselves out based on perceived barriers such as socio-economic background, ethnicity, sexuality, gender, disability, or which part of the country they happen to have been born in,\" he said.\n\nMI5 is relatively late to the party when it comes to spies on social media.\n\nGCHQ launched its Instagram account in 2018, while the US intelligence agency the CIA has 3.2 million followers on Twitter.\n\nAnd the recently-appointed head of MI6 Richard Moore is a prolific tweeter.\n\nOutlining his strategy as MI5's new boss in October last year, Mr McCallum said: \"If I want one thing to characterise my tenure in this role, it's for MI5 to open up and reach out in new ways.\n\n\"Much of what we do needs to remain invisible, but what we are doesn't have to be. In fact, opening up is key to our future success.\"", "In the 2014 referendum 55% of people in Scotland voted \"no\" to independence\n\nIn the second of a two-part series looking at the Scottish election, we explore the strategies of the parties who want to stop another independence referendum.\n\nScotland goes to the polls in a couple of weeks' time - and the result could have a significant impact on the future of the union.\n\nThe SNP and Scottish Greens back another referendum in the next five years. Alex Salmond - who is leading the new Alba Party - wants even more urgency. I wrote about it earlier this week.\n\nBut unionist parties - those who favour Scotland staying part of the UK - are going into this election trying to stop them holding the balance of power, and arguing a debate on Scotland's constitutional future would be a distraction when the country is trying to recover from coronavirus.\n\nSo what's their plan to convince voters?\n\nIf you look at most election campaigns, the main question is normally a simple one. Who do you want to run the country?\n\nThings are slightly different in Scotland just now. The main opposition parties don't really argue that they are going to form the next Scottish government. Instead, they are asking voters to back them to stop the SNP winning a majority - and to stop another independence referendum.\n\nDouglas Ross wants to avoid another referendum by preventing the SNP from winning a majority\n\nThe Scottish Conservative pitch at this election relies heavily on their unionist credentials. In the last few years, opposition to independence has given the party a new lease of life in Scotland, leading them to leapfrog Scottish Labour into second place last time around.\n\nDouglas Ross, the party's new leader, told me for Radio 4's PM programme: \"If we can stop that SNP majority again we can stop another referendum and really get our parliament and Scottish politics focussed on recovery - and I think that's where the public want to see their politicians really focussing all their efforts.\"\n\nThere's a bit of an irony in that answer. While the Conservatives are opposed to a referendum - they are happy to talk about independence because it is one of their main selling points to the electorate.\n\nThere's also the fact that Boris Johnson has made clear that he will refuse to grant the Scottish Parliament the power to hold another referendum - even if there's a pro-independence majority.\n\nI asked Douglas Ross: doesn't the prime minister saying he'll block a referendum undermine the argument that you need to vote Conservative at Holyrood to stop one?\n\n\"The SNP have said they don't care what a Tory PM or a UK government says - they will go ahead regardless with a wildcat, illegal referendum,\" he said, referring to the SNP's suggestion it would pass a referendum bill and dare Westminster to challenge it in the courts.\n\nHe added: \"Nicola Sturgeon has confirmed she wants a referendum in the next couple of years. She has accepted that means campaigning to separate Scotland from the rest of the UK during our recovery phase from this pandemic - and I don't want to see that division and arguments breaking up families and workplaces and communities again\".\n\nScottish Labour's new leader Anas Sarwar does not want to go over \"old arguments\" on the constitution\n\nOpposition to independence has reinvigorated the Tories in Scotland - they have in the past urged people to lend them their votes to stop another referendum and in the past it seems to have worked.\n\nThe opposite is true for Labour, the party who once dominated Scotland.\n\nTheir apparent lack of clarity on the constitution is seen as one of the main reasons their support has fallen. I've written before about the party's Scotland problem.\n\nBut there is some optimism under new leader Anas Sarwar. There are even some whispers about the party maybe retaking second place as an alternative to both the SNP and Conservatives (those whispers are played down by Labour strategists - and dismissed as fanciful by many Tories too).\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\nMr Sarwar told me: \"The mistake that both Douglas Ross and Nicola Sturgeon make is they think they can only talk to the half of the country that agrees with them and not the other half. I'm not willing to do that.\"\n\nThe problem is - Labour has tried to move beyond the constitution before. It's position has, the argument goes, left it in a bit of a constitutional no man's land; nationalists disliked that it didn't support independence, unionists thought it was too soft.\n\nMr Sarwar added: \"People know my view. I don't support independence - I don't support a referendum. I think it would be wrong for us to come through this collective trauma of Covid and go back to those old arguments where we seek to divide people across the country. Instead I want to focus on rebuilding our NHS, restoring our economy, renewing our education system so that it works for everyone across the country.\"\n\nWhat's 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 government. Find out more here.\n\nWhat powers do they have? MSPs pass laws on aspects of life in Scotland such as health, education and transport - and have some powers over tax and welfare benefits.\n\nWho can vote? Anyone who lives in Scotland, is registered to vote and aged 16 or over on 6 May is eligible. You can register to vote online.\n\nI've been speaking to quite a few candidates in the last couple of weeks. On the unionist side - many would admit tactical voting is a big part of this election.\n\nIf the Conservatives are the biggest pro-union party in an area, some Labour voters are considering lending them their vote or vice versa. Many candidates would argue it has worked in the past.\n\nBut there are some unionist strategists who are nervous. They believe the SNP have a decent chance of forming a majority on their own. Even if they don't there is likely to be a pro-referendum majority when you factor in the Scottish Greens (and maybe Alex Salmond's Alba).\n\nSo being the biggest unionist party in the next parliament really matters. The leader of that party will play a big part in framing the debate over another referendum. If one does happen they'll be a key voice in framing the arguments which could decide the future of the union\n\nWillie Rennie, leader of the Scottish Lib Dems, says he wants to \"put the recovery first\"\n\nThere is another unionist voice in this debate too. The Scottish Liberal Democrats. In the early years of devolution, they were in power with Labour as a coalition. In the last Holyrood parliament, they were the fifth party.\n\nTheir leader, Willie Rennie, told me: \"What we want to do is put the recovery first. We want to tackle the issues that we're really strong on in terms of investing in mental health services, education, climate, jobs. Those are the top priorities for the Liberal Democrats. You won't get that with the Conservatives - because they want to spend the next five years arguing with the SNP about independence.\"\n\nHe added: \"We need partnership and we need to make sure we put that dark division of the last five years certainly - the poisonous atmosphere that's developed - behind us and work together in partnership.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nYou'll notice the pitch is quite similar among the three major unionist parties: vote for us so we can focus on recovery from the pandemic instead of independence.\n\nThe SNP say the opposite - independence is crucial to controlling that recovery\n\nIn two weeks' time we'll find out which of those visions Scottish voters prefer.", "Last updated on .From the section Man Utd\n\nManchester United boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer spoke to fans who entered the club's training ground at Carrington on Thursday to protest against the Glazer family's ownership.\n\nOver a dozen fans entered the complex but have now left.\n\nThey had banners saying 'Glazers Out' and '51% MUFC'.\n\nCo-chairman Joel Glazer would have been a vice-chairman of the European Super League before United withdrew on Tuesday after a furious backlash.\n\nOn Wednesday, he issued a letter of apology admitting the club made a mistake joining the proposed breakaway competition.\n\n\"At approximately 9am this morning a group gained access to the club training ground,\" said United in a statement.\n\n\"The manager and others spoke to them. Buildings were secure and the group has now left the site.\"\n\nSolskjaer was joined by coach Michael Carrick, technical director Darren Fletcher and midfielder Nemanja Matic in speaking to the fans, who were pictured at the security entrance, outside the main entrance and on a training pitch.\n\nUnited were one of six Premier League clubs to sign up to the European Super League, before they all withdrew within 48 hours of the competition being announced.\n\n\"We failed to show enough respect for its deep-rooted traditions,\" Glazer said in an open letter to fans.\n\nThere has been a long-standing campaign against the Glazer family since the Americans' controversial leveraged takeover of the club in 2005.\n• None The rocky story of Derry City is streaming now\n• None Catch up on all of RuPaul's Drag Race on iPlayer now!", "The tiny mouse deer is only 20cm (8ins) tall to its shoulder\n\nA tiny mouse deer, born during lockdown at Bristol Zoo, is only 20cm (8ins) tall to its shoulder, the height of a pencil.\n\nThe lesser Malayan mouse deer was born to first-time mother Brienne and father Jorah almost a month ago.\n\nIts sex is not yet known however it is only the second mouse deer to be born at the zoo in the last decade.\n\nMouse deer are native to South East Asia and when fully grown the infant will weigh about 3lb (1.5kg).\n\nSenior mammal keeper Paige Bwye said it would be a little while before the zoo was able to determine the gender of the fawn as they are so small and shy.\n\n\"It's doing really well though, and has recently started to discover new tastes, such as sweet potato,\" she said.\n\nKeeper Paige Bwye said that mouse deer Brienne \"is being a fantastic first-time mother\"\n\n\"Brienne is being a fantastic first-time mother and has been very attentive to her infant.\n\n\"They are absolutely fascinating to watch. They move around on their pencil-thin legs and munch on flowers and vegetables.\"\n\nIn 2020, a female mouse deer named Missandei was born at the zoo and moved on to Ouwehands Zoo in the Netherlands, as part of a breeding programme for the species.\n\nThe zoo has also recently welcomed another new arrival; a baby gorilla was born in December which has now been named Juni.\n\nBristol Zoo announced in November it would be leaving its Clifton site after 185 years and moving to a site just outside of 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.", "The Met Office is working with Microsoft to build a weather forecasting supercomputer in the UK.\n\nThey say it will provide more accurate weather forecasting and a better understanding of climate change.\n\nThe UK government said in February 2020 it would invest £1.2bn in the project.\n\nIt is expected to be one of the top 25 supercomputers in the world when it is up and running in the summer of 2022. Microsoft plans to update it over the next decade as computing improves.\n\n\"This partnership is an impressive public investment in the basic and applied sciences of weather and climate,\" said Morgan O'Neill, assistant professor at Stanford University, who is independent of the project.\n\n\"Such a major investment in a state-of-the-art weather and climate prediction system by the UK is great news globally, and I look forward to the scientific advances that will follow.\"\n\nThe Met Office said the technology would increase their understanding of the weather - and will allow people to better plan activities, prepare for inclement weather and get a better understanding of climate change.\n\nThe supercomputer will be able to:\n\nThe new supercomputer will be six times more capable than the current one\n\n\"Working together we will provide the highest quality weather and climate datasets and ever more accurate forecasts that enable decisions to allow people to stay safe and thrive,\" said Penny Endersby, chief executive of the Met Office.\n\nMicrosoft UK chief executive Clare Barclay said the supercomputer would help the UK remain at the forefront of climate science.\n\nThe exact location for the new computer was not revealed; however, the Met Office said it would be in the south of the UK. It will use Microsoft Azure's cloud computing services and integrate Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Cray supercomputers.\n\nIt will run on 100% renewable energy and will have more than 1.5 million processor cores and more than 60 petaflops - or 60 quadrillion (60,000,000,000,000,000) calculations per second.\n\nThat will, in theory, allow it to handle more data, more rapidly, and run it through simulations of the atmosphere more accurately.\n\nCody Godwin is a reporter based in San Francisco. For more news, follow her on Twitter at @MsCodyGodwin", "Family members of a person who died of Covid-19 react during a cremation\n\nIn early March, India's health minister Harsh Vardhan declared the country was \"in the endgame\" of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nMr Vardhan also lauded Prime Minister Narendra Modi's leadership as an \"example to the world in international co-operation\". From January onwards, India had begun shipping doses to foreign countries as part of its much-vaunted \"vaccine diplomacy\".\n\nMr Vardhan's unbridled optimism was based on a sharp drop in reported infections. Since a peak of more than 93,000 cases per day on average in mid-September, infections had steadily declined. By mid-February, India was counting an average of 11,000 cases a day. The seven-day rolling average of daily deaths from the disease had slid to below 100.\n\nThe euphoria at beating the virus had been building since late last year. Politicians, policy makers and parts of the media believed that India was truly out of the woods. In December, central bank officials announced that India was \"bending the Covid infection curve\". There was evidence, they said, in poetic terms, that the economy was \"breaking out amidst winter's lengthening shadows towards a place in sunlight\". Mr Modi was called a \"vaccine guru\".\n\nHospitals are overflowing with patients, often two to a bed\n\nAt the end of February, India's election authorities announced key elections in five states where 186 million people were eligible to vote for 824 seats. Beginning 27 March, the polls would stretch over a month, and in the case of the state of West Bengal, be held in eight phases. Campaigning had begun in full swing, with no safety protocols and social distancing. In mid-March, the cricket board allowed more than 130,000 fans, mostly unmasked, to watch two international cricket games between India and England at the Narendra Modi stadium in Gujarat.\n\nIn less than a month, things began to unravel. India was in the grips of a devastating second wave of the virus and cities were facing fresh lockdowns. By mid-April, the country was averaging more than 100,000 cases a day. On Sunday, India recorded more than 270,000 cases and over 1,600 deaths, both new single-day records. If the runway infection was not checked, India could be recording more than 2,300 deaths every day by first week of June, according to a report by The Lancet Covid-19 Commission.\n\nIndia is in now in the grips of a public health emergency. Social media feeds are full with videos of Covid funerals at crowded cemeteries, wailing relatives of the dead outside hospitals, long queues of ambulances carrying gasping patients, mortuaries overflowing with the dead, and patients, sometimes two to a bed, in corridors and lobbies of hospitals. There are frantic calls for help for beds, medicines, oxygen, essential drugs and tests. Drugs are being sold on the black market, and test results are taking days. \"They didn't tell me for three hours that my child is dead,\" a dazed mother says in one video, sitting outside an ICU. Wails of another person outside the intensive care punctuate the silences.\n\nIndia is facing a shortage of vaccines even as it ramps up its inoculation drive\n\nEven India's mammoth vaccination effort was now struggling. In the beginning, the rollout had been embroiled in a controversy over the efficacy over a home-grown candidate. Even as the country ramped up the drive and administered more than 100 million doses by last week, vaccine shortages were being reported. Serum Institute of India, the country's - and the world's - biggest vaccine maker said it would not be able to ramp up supplies before June because it didn't have enough money to expand capacity. India placed a temporary hold on all exports of the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine, because the doses were needed urgently at home, and allowed imports of foreign vaccines. Even oxygen was likely to be imported now to meet the surge in demand.\n\nMeanwhile, almost in a parallel universe, away from the death and despair, the world's richest cricket tournament was being played behind closed doors every evening, and tens of thousands of people were following their leaders to election rallies and attending the Hindu festival of Kumbh Mela. \"It is beyond surreal, what is happening,\" Shiv Visvanathan, a sociology professor, told me.\n\nExperts believe the government appears to have completely dropped the ball on the second wave of infections that was about to hit India.\n\nRelatives performing funerals of Covid victims in the city of Bhopal\n\nIn mid-February, Tabassum Barnagarwala, a journalist with the Indian Express newspaper, flagged a seven-fold rise in new cases in parts of Maharashtra and reported that samples from the infected had been sent for genome sequencing to look for imported variants.\n\nBy the end of the month, the BBC reported the surge and asked whether India was facing a new Covid wave. \"We really don't know what the cause of the surge is. What is worrying is that entire families are getting infected. This is a completely new trend,\" Dr Shyamsunder Nikam, civil surgeon of an affected district in Maharashtra, said at the time.\n\nExperts now say that crowing about India's exceptionalism in \"beating\" the epidemic - younger population, native immunity, a largely rural population - and declaring victory on the virus turned out to be cruelly premature. \"As is typical in India, official arrogance, hyper-nationalism, populism and an ample dose of bureaucratic incompetence have combined to create a crisis,\" said Mihir Sharma, a columnist for Bloomberg.\n\nIndia's second wave was fuelled by people letting their guard down, attending weddings and social gatherings, and by mixed messaging from the government, allowing political rallies and religious gatherings. With infections declining, fewer people were taking the jabs, slowing down the vaccination drive, which had aimed to inoculate 250 million people by the end of July. In mid-February, Bhramar Mukherjee, a biostatistician at the University of Michigan, tweeted that India needed to \"accelerate the vaccination drive while the case counts are low\". Nobody quite took notice.\n\nDevotees at the Kumbh Mela festival on 14 April, when India recorded more than 184,000 new infections\n\n\"There was a feeling of triumphalism,\" said K Srinath Reddy, the president of the Public Health Foundation of India. \"Some felt we had achieved herd immunity. Everyone wanted to get back to work. This narrative fell on many receptive ears, and the few voices of caution were not heeded to,\" he said.\n\nA second wave may have been inevitable, but India could have \"postponed or delayed it and lessened its impact,\" said Gautam Menon, a professor of physics and biology. Like many other countries, India should have begun careful genomic surveillance in January to detect variants, Mr Menon said. Some of these variants could be driving the surge. \"We learnt of new variants in February from reports from Maharashtra. This was initially denied by authorities,\" Mr Menon added. \"This was a significant turning point.\"\n\nWhat are the lessons of this public health crisis? For one, India should learn not to declare victory over the virus prematurely, and it should put a lid on triumphalism. People should also learn to adapt to short, local lockdowns in the event of the inevitable future spikes of infection. Most epidemiologists predict more waves, given that India is evidently still far away from reaching herd immunity and its vaccination rate remains slow.\n\n\"We cant freeze human life,\" Professor Reddy said. \"If we can't physically distance in the crowded cities, we can at least make sure everyone wears a proper mask. And wear it properly. That's not a big ask.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. India coronavirus: \"A Covid tsunami we had never seen before\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nNew ownership structures at clubs will be assessed as part of a fan-led review into English football.\n\nThe review, brought forward by the UK government due to controversies over the proposed European Super League, will consider ownership, finance and supporter involvement in the game.\n\nIt will also assess if an independent regulator may have beneficial impact.\n\nSports Minister Nigel Huddleston said the fan-led review \"must be a watershed moment in our national game\".\n\nTracey Crouch MP will chair the review and report its recommendations back to the government and Football Association.\n\nShe said it will \"take the necessary steps to retain the game's integrity, competitiveness and, most importantly, the bond that clubs have with its supporters and the local community\".\n\nRecent events - which saw six Premier League clubs sign up and later withdraw from a new European Super League - prompted fans to air frustrations over the power owners have in taking big decisions at clubs.\n\nThe review will consider ownership models including those used in Germany, where the 50+1 rule means clubs cannot play in the Bundesliga if one commercial investor owns more than a 49% stake.\n\nThe Bundesliga says the rule \"protects against reckless owners and safeguards the democratic customs of German clubs\".\n\n\"While foreign ownership has undoubtedly benefited the development of the game, the review will seek to test whether existing oversight is sufficient to protect the interests of the game,\" the UK government said.\n\nWhat else will be considered?\n\nIn addition, the review hopes to scrutinise the Owners' and Directors' Tests currently in place, assess the flow of money through the English football pyramid, and consider if club finances could be scrutinised on a more regular basis.\n\nIn the wake of news breaking on the decision by Liverpool, Manchester United, Chelsea, Manchester City, Tottenham and Arsenal to join a European Super League, former England defender Gary Neville said he felt the game needed an independent regulator.\n\nThe fan-led review will assess how this could work and what relationship it could have with bodies - such as the Football Association - in the game.\n\nTime will also be spent considering possible interventions that could protect club identity, such as historical features like club badges.\n\nAll six clubs intent on a breakaway reversed their decision on Tuesday but many in the game have been left frustrated by their actions.\n\nBrighton chief executive Paul Barber said there was anger among the 14 other Premier League clubs when they met this week and he expects \"more government intervention\" as a result of the controversy.\n\n\"First, we have asked the PL and FA to make sure they conduct a full investigation,\" Barber told BT Sport.\n\n\"The second step must be to ensure it can't happen again.\n\n\"Clearly the one thing we are very clear on is when we work in football, we work within the regulatory framework. We know there are rules we have to abide by and if these rules are breached there will be sanctions. In this situation, where the game has been damaged - this has been a PR catastrophe for the whole game - there have to be some consequences for that.\n\n\"The actions of the last 72 hours proves our framework has not been strong enough. There are so many people concerned by what could happen, we need more stringent control and clear sanctions for what would happen if anyone tried it again. The consequences could have been catastrophic.\"\n• None The rocky story of Derry City is streaming now\n• None Stephen Lawrence's story and the lessons still being learnt", "The study is the first to demonstrate that DNA damage caused by radiation is 'not passed on to future children'\n\nThere is no \"additional DNA damage\" in children born to parents who were exposed to radiation from the Chernobyl explosion before they were conceived.\n\nThis is according to the first study to screen the genes of children whose parents were enlisted to help in the clean-up after the nuclear accident.\n\nParticipants, all conceived after the disaster and born between 1987 and 2002, had their whole genomes screened.\n\nThe study found no mutations that were associated with a parent's exposure.\n\nThe findings are published in the journal Science.\n\nMany workers, known as liquidators, were enlisted to help in the massive clean-up operation after the 1986 nuclear accident\n\nProf Gerry Thomas, from Imperial College London, has spent decades studying the biology of cancer, particularly tumours that are linked to damage from radiation. She explained that this new study was the first to demonstrate that \"even when people were exposed to relatively high doses of radiation - when compared to background radiation - it had no effect on their future children\".\n\nThe new study was led by Prof Meredith Yeager, at the US National Cancer Institute (NCI), in Maryland. It focused on the children of workers who were enlisted to help clean up the highly-contaminated zone around the nuclear power plant, and the children of evacuees from the abandoned town of Pripyat, and other settlements within the 70km zone around it.\n\nOne of the lead researchers, Dr Stephen Chanock, also from the NCI, explained that the research team recruited whole families, so the scientists could compare the DNA of a mother, a father and a child.\n\n\"Here we're not looking at what happened to those children who were [in the womb] at the time of the accident; we're looking at something called de novo mutations.\"\n\nThese are new mutations in DNA - they occur randomly in an egg or sperm cell. Depending on where in the genetic blueprint of a baby a mutation arises, it could have no impact at all, or could be the cause of a genetic disease.\n\nPripyat was home to 50,000 people before the accident\n\n\"There are about 50-100 of these mutations every generation - and they're random,\" explained Dr Chanock. \"In some ways, they're the building blocks of evolution. This is how new changes are introduced into a population one birth at a time.\n\n\"We looked at the mothers' and the fathers' genomes and then at the child. And we spent an extra nine months looking for any signal - in the number of these mutations - that was associated with a parents' radiation exposure. We couldn't find anything.\"\n\nThis means, the scientists say, that the effect of radiation on a parent's body has no impact on the children they conceive in the future.\n\n\"There are a lot of people who were scared to have children after the atomic bombs [in Nagasaki and Hiroshima],\" Prof Thomas told BBC News. \"And people who were scared to have children after the accident at Fukushima, because they thought their child would be affected by radiation they were exposed to.\n\n\"It's so sad. And if we can show that there's no effect, hopefully we can alleviate that fear.\"\n\nSome elderly \"self-settlers\" still live within the abandoned exclusion zone\n\nProf Thomas was not involved in the genome study. She and her colleagues have carried out another piece of research on the cancers that were linked to Chernobyl. They studied thyroid cancer, because the nuclear accident is known to have caused about 5,000 cases of that specific cancer, the vast majority of which were treated and cured.\n\nThe authorities at the time of the accident failed to prevent contaminated milk from being sold in the region; many who were children at the time drank it, receiving large doses of radioactive iodine - one of the contaminants blasted out of the damaged reactor.\n\n\"Essentially, we found that there is no difference between thyroid cancers caused by Chernobyl radiation and any other thyroid cancers,\" Prof Thomas explained.\n\n\"So there's no 'demon tumour' that comes out of Chernobyl that we won't be able to treat - we can just treat in exactly the same way as we treat other cases.\"\n\nAn area of 4,000 sq km has been abandoned since the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Politicians need '\"forgiveness and compassion\" from public\n\nThe Archbishop of Canterbury has urged \"forgiveness and compassion\" for politicians, amid a row over lobbying.\n\nJustin Welby told the BBC's Political Thinking podcast that morality had more \"bite\" than it used to in politics.\n\nAnd he told host Nick Robinson \"no 19th Century politician\" would survive today's standards \"for one week\".\n\nIt comes amid controversy over contacts between senior political figures, including Boris Johnson and former PM David Cameron, and business.\n\nThe row has sparked a wider debate about standards in public life and the transparency rules followed by current and former politicians.\n\nDuring an interview to be broadcast on Friday, Archbishop Welby said it was important to hold politicians to moral standards.\n\nBut he added: \"If you're going to raise standards, you need to have a strong ethic of forgiveness and compassion and understanding,\n\n\"We have raised our standards and raised our standards and of course it's not right to help out your chums or lobby inappropriately or whatever it happens to be.\"\n\n\"But the standards now are at a level that no 19th Century politician would have survived for one week.\n\n\"So, it's not that morality has disappeared; it's that morality has got much more sting and bite than it ever used to.\"\n\nWarning against a \"golden age myth\" about the behaviour of politicians in the past, he added: \"Let's not pretend that politicians are worse; if anything they're better.\"\n\nElsewhere in the interview, he said the \"vast majority\" of politicians he speaks to privately are passionate about trying \"to make some good progress\".\n\n\"Politicians are human beings. If we want perfect politicians we won't have anyone sitting in the House of Commons,\" he added.\n\n\"We'll never have another prime minister. We can't have a royal family. There's nobody who can rule if we insist they're faultless and flawless.\n\n\"And when we do that, which we do too often, we lead to hypocrisy and all kinds of things.\"\n\nYou can download the full podcast on Friday 23 April. It will also be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 at 17.30BST on Saturday 24 April.\n• None What jobs can ex-ministers do and what are the rules?", "Mariners in France are being taught how to navigate a mini Suez Canal.\n\nThe replica waterway is part of the Port Revel Training Facility.", "Akayed Ullah detonated the bomb in New York City's busiest subway station\n\nA man who set off a pipe bomb during rush hour in a New York subway station has been sentenced to life in prison.\n\nAkayed Ullah, 31, detonated the bomb in Times Square station, which is the busiest in New York City, on 11 December 2017.\n\nHe later claimed he had only wanted to kill himself and was not acting on behalf of the Islamic State (IS) group.\n\nUS Circuit Judge Richard Sullivan described the attack as a \"truly barbaric and heinous crime\".\n\n\"They were just people on the way to work or school,\" Judge Sullivan said before sentencing Ullah to life plus 30 years on Thursday. \"To you, these people were expendable.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. From 2017: The moment the explosion hit the NYC subway station\n\nThere were no deaths in the bombing, but four people were injured. The explosion also forced the closure of the station as well as the busy Port Authority Bus Terminal.\n\nThe pipe bomb was made from materials obtained from a nearby construction site, where Ullah had been working as an electrician.\n\nBoth Times Square and the Port Authority Bus Terminal were closed after the attack\n\nDuring his trial, prosecutors said Ullah's \"lone wolf\" attack was inspired by IS propaganda, and that he was angry with then-President Donald Trump's foreign policy in the Middle East.\n\nHis sentencing hearing was originally scheduled for April 2019. However it was delayed by two years, partly due to the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nUllah was from Bangladesh but moved to the US in 2011. At the time of the attack he was living in Brooklyn with his mother, sister and two brothers, while his wife and young son lived in Bangladesh.", "Insp Ben Dawson said he could not get through to his equivalent at Greater Manchester Police\n\nA police commander who took control after the Manchester Arena attack has described his frustration at being unable to contact emergency services.\n\nBritish Transport Police (BTP) Insp Ben Dawson was based in a London control room on the night of the explosion.\n\nInsp Dawson said the control room could not contact other police and ambulance services and his team had to ring 999 and wait in a queue with the public.\n\nHe told an inquiry the first hour after the bombing was \"absolute chaos\".\n\nBTP officers were the first emergency responders at the scene after Salman Abedi detonated a device at the end of an Ariana Grande concert on 22 May 2017.\n\nTwenty-two people died and hundreds more were injured.\n\nThe BTP control room was first made aware of the incident 68 seconds after the explosion.\n\nGiving evidence to the public inquiry into the atrocity, Insp Dawson said one of his urgent priorities was to speak to his equivalent at Greater Manchester Police (GMP) but he was unable to get through to him.\n\n\"I didn't manage to speak to him at all throughout the whole incident,\" he said.\n\n\"I was certainly frustrated. It would have helped a lot.\"\n\nTwenty-two people died in the attack on 22 May 2017\n\nThe police commander also said his colleagues, who were based in a separate control room in Birmingham, had no direct line for GMP and the North West Ambulance Service (NWAS).\n\nIn the minutes after the attack, he said his colleagues had to wait in a call queue with the public.\n\nInsp Dawson told the inquiry there was now a direct phone line set up between BTP and GMP.\n\nThe hearing was told there was no CCTV link to the control room so Insp Dawson said his main source of information was BTP officers on the ground.\n\nThe inquiry has previously heard how the GMP Force Duty Officer was overwhelmed during the aftermath of the bombing.\n\nInsp Dawson said the co-ordination of emergency services \"was not cohesive, in terms of working together\".\n\n\"We weren't working together as well as we could have done,\" he said.\n\nHowever, the commander said he believed BTP had done its best to work with other responders and said he felt sufficiently trained for his role.\n\nThe inquiry chair, Sir John Saunders, asked Insp Dawson whether responding to an attack such as the arena bombing would always be chaos because it was \"such an appalling incident\".\n\n\"It's the art of turning chaos into an organised response,\" Insp Dawson replied.\n\n\"That's what we're paid for, that's what were trained for, but it is very, very difficult.\"\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 Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have released a new picture of Prince Louis to celebrate his third birthday and mark his first day at nursery school.\n\nThe photograph was taken at Kensington Palace by the duchess, shortly before Louis set off for Willcocks Nursery School for the first time on Wednesday.\n\nSmartly dressed in shorts, a shirt and a jumper, he sits on a red Frog bicycle with a rucksack on his back.\n\nPrince William and Catherine were said to be \"delighted\" to share the update.\n\nThe Willcocks Nursery School was also attended by Louis' sister Princess Charlotte - and charges up to £3,400 per term, depending on a child's age and which sessions they attend.\n\nThe nursery, which is situated in the shadow of the Royal Albert Hall, has received positive praise from Ofsted when it was inspected in January 2020 and is rated outstanding.\n\nHis older brother Prince George attended the £33-a-day Westacre Montessori School Nursery in Norfolk, close to the Cambridges' country home at Anmer Hall, Sandringham.\n\nPrince George on his first day at nursery in January 2016\n\nCharlotte, pictured on her first day at nursery, went to Willcocks like Louis\n\nLouis, who is fifth in line to the throne, is the latest member of the Royal Family to attend a private nursery school in a tradition that began with his father.\n\nPrince William went to the Minors Nursery School, minutes from Kensington Palace in Notting Hill Gate, west London, in 1985.\n\nHe was the first prospective heir to the throne to attend a private nursery, in a move reported at the time to have been influenced by his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, who worked at a nursery school before her marriage to the Prince of Wales.\n\nThe Queen was educated at home and relied on her nanny, Crawfie, to take her on educational trips - including a journey on the London tube.\n\nPrince Charles did not go to nursery, instead he was taught by a governess in a palace room containing a blackboard and a desk.\n\nPrince William \"couldn't wait\" to start nursery when he was dropped off by his parents in September 1985, BBC News reported at the time\n\nRoyal mourning in memory of the Duke of Edinburgh will end for the monarchy and its households on Friday.\n\nSince the death of the Queen's husband on 9 April, the Royal Family have only carried out official duties where appropriate and have dressed in black when in public.\n\nThe Queen - who marked her 95th birthday this week - has said the family continues to experience a period of \"great sadness\".", "The percentage of over-50s vaccinated has hit 95% in England, NHS data shows.\n\nThe take-up among those aged 45-49 is at 59% after they started being offered the jab earlier this month.\n\nBut uptake among care home staff - one of the first groups to be offered the jab - is still around 80% despite attempts to get more to come forward.\n\nIt comes as figures show that coronavirus was not the leading cause of death in England and Wales in March, for the first time since October.\n\nCovid had been the leading cause of death every month between November and February, according to Office for National Statistics data.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said he was \"delighted\" 95% of over-50s in England had been vaccinated.\n\nHe tweeted that the government was on track to offer the vaccine to all adults by the end of July and added that it was \"safe and effective\".\n\nMeanwhile, the last scheduled flight from India to the UK has landed ahead of new coronavirus curbs being placed on arrivals from the country.\n\nPublic Health England (PHE) confirmed on Thursday that a further 55 cases of the virus variant first identified in India were found in the UK in the week to 14 April.\n\nA further 18 people in the UK have died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid, bringing the total by that measure to 127,345.\n\nThere have also been a further 2,729 lab-confirmed cases of the virus in the UK.\n\nThe latest vaccination figures show more than 33 million people in the UK have received at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine with more than 10 million having received both doses.\n\nGovernment data shows that a further 117,909 first doses were given on Wednesday as well as 416,784 second shots.\n\nBut despite efforts to increase uptake among care home workers NHS England said 80.4% of eligible staff working at older adult care homes had received the jab by 18 April.\n\nWhile 72.3% of staff working in independent Care Quality Commission-registered younger adult care homes and domiciliary care providers have received their first dose.\n\nMinisters have launched a consultation on whether care home workers should be required to receive a Covid vaccine, with Mr Hancock saying it was \"something many care homes have called for\".\n\nOn Thursday, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) said there had been 168 cases up to 14 April of rare blood clots in the UK in people who had had the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine - resulting in 32 deaths.\n\nWith an estimated 21.2 million AstraZeneca jabs given across the UK by that date, the overall case incidence is 7.9 per million doses, the MHRA added.\n\nPeople aged under 30 are to be offered an alternative vaccine to AstraZeneca, but the medicines regulator said the benefits of the vaccine still outweigh the risks for the vast majority of people.\n\nThe latest vaccination figures were released after Margaret Keenan - the first person to be vaccinated in the UK - praised the \"incredible\" rollout of the jabs.\n\nThe 91-year-old was given the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in early December at at University Hospital in Coventry in December.\n\nIn an online chat with NHS chief executive Sir Simon Stevens, Mrs Keenan, originally from Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh, urged anyone who has not yet been vaccinated to come forward.\n\n\"There's nothing to it, you don't feel anything\" she said.\n\nMs Keenan praised staff who have helped with the rollout of the vaccines: \"They're incredible, I cannot find words to say. They're incredible with what they've done.\"", "Sir James Dyson texted the prime minister last March when he was involved in efforts to provide ventilators\n\nLabour has called for a \"thorough investigation\" into Boris Johnson's contacts with inventor Sir James Dyson.\n\nShadow Cabinet Office minister Rachel Reeves said the messages between the prime minister and Sir James opened up a \"new urgent corridor of inquiry\".\n\nThe texts - seen by the BBC - show Mr Johnson saying he could \"fix\" tax issues relating to Dyson staff who came to the UK to work on the pandemic.\n\nThe PM said he made \"no apology\" for trying to get ventilators for the NHS.\n\nLabour has said the text messages are part of a pattern of government \"sleaze\" and has called on the cross-party Liaison Committee of senior MPs to investigate \"as soon as possible\".\n\nMs Reeves claimed there was \"a growing feeling that if someone has access to a telephone number of someone like the prime minister or the chancellor, then they are able to gain special treatment\".\n\nLiaison Committee Chair Sir Bernard Jenkin said the MPs would consider Ms Reeves request adding that the prime minster was due to appear in front of the committee before the summer recess.\n\nIn March last year, the Department of Health feared the NHS in England would need as many as 20,000 additional ventilators to deal with Covid patients.\n\nIt asked companies, including Dyson, which is based in Singapore, to help.\n\nThe prime minister is understood to have called Sir James on 13 March and asked him to participate.\n\nDyson answered the call - although subsequently the company was not called upon to provide ventilators to the NHS.\n\nSir James contacted the Treasury for assurances there would be no extra tax to pay for employees who came to the UK to help.\n\nWhen he failed to get a response, he texted the prime minister directly.\n\nIn exchanges seen by the BBC, Mr Johnson messaged Sir James saying: \"[Chancellor] Rishi [Sunak] says it is fixed!! We need you here.\"\n\nWhen the businessman sought further reassurance for the tax status of the firm and \"senior individuals\", Mr Johnson replied: \"I am First Lord of the Treasury and you can take it that we are backing you to do what you need.\"\n\nTwo weeks later, Mr Sunak told a group of MPs that the tax status of people who came to the UK to provide specific help during the pandemic would not be affected.\n\nOn Wednesday, Mr Johnson said he made \"no apology for moving heaven and earth\" to persuade businesses to help bolster supplies of equipment and ventilators to treat coronavirus patients.\n\nHe said he had done the \"right thing\" and that \"any prime minister\" would have done the same in the circumstances.\n\nSNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford called on Mr Johnson to reveal \"how many more Covid contracts he personally fixed\" and publish all personal exchanges on these contracts.\n\nBut Mr Johnson said there was \"nothing to conceal about this\" and he would share details with MPs.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said Mr Johnson had abided by the ministerial code, governing conduct in office, and had \"informed officials in a timely manner\" after his contact with Sir James.\n\nHe added that he did not know when the prime minister would publish his exchanges with Sir James.\n\nSeparately, it is understood some in government have suggested the prime minister should be less willing to share his personal contact details - but officials have denied that he was told to change his mobile phone number.\n\nIt was also revealed recently that former Prime Minister David Cameron had contacted several ministers - including Chancellor Rishi Sunak, whom he texted - on behalf of the failed finance firm Greensill Capital.\n\nSeveral inquiries have been launched looking into the work of lobbyists, whose job it is to influence government policy.\n\nMr Cameron has denied that he broke any codes of conduct or any government rules on lobbying.\n• None What is lobbying? A brief guide\n• None What is Greensill lobbying row about?", "Former Bay City Rollers frontman Les McKeown has died aged 65, his family has told the BBC.\n\nThe Scottish pop singer fronted the Edinburgh band during their most successful period in the 1970s.\n\nThey had hits with tracks like I Only Wanna Be With You, Bye Bye Baby, Shang-a-Lang and Give a Little Love.\n\nHis family announced online on Thursday that he had died suddenly at his home 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 Les McKeown This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBay City Rollers became tartan-clad sensations in the UK and US in the 1970s. They were hugely successful, selling more than 120 million records.\n\n\"They were adorable. Five cute guys at once. That's the story of rock n roll,\" US journalist Danny Fields told the BBC.\n\n\"The invention of boy bands became an industry thanks to the Bay City Rollers.\"\n\nThe group got together in the early 70s and found their name by throwing a dart at a map - it landed on Bay City near Michigan, according to the Official Charts Company.\n\nTheir first single was Keep On Dancing in 1971, and they had two number one hits in 1975 with Bye Bye Baby and Give A Little Love, plus chart-topping albums with Rollin' in 1974 and 1975's Once Upon A Star.\n\nMcKeown said the band's first pair of tartan trousers were inspired by a picture on a birthday card and were made by his father, who was a tailor.\n\nThe vocalist, who left school aged 15 and joined a band called Threshold, went on to join the Bay City Rollers aged 18 in 1973.\n\nHe left in 1978, as the band decided to go in a more new-wave direction under the new name The Rollers, but he later rejoined for several comeback tours and live recordings.\n\n(Left to right) Stuart Wood, Alan Longmuir, Derek Longmuir, Les McKeown and Eric Faulkner of The Bay City Rollers at Heathrow Airport, London in 1975\n\nRecalling the 1975 tour 40 years later, McKeown said it was \"crazy\".\n\n\"We would go on and the police would make us stop because they just could not control the crowd,\" he said.\n\nWhen he was on a rare visit home to Edinburgh, McKeown - just 20 at the time - ran over and killed a 76-year-old woman.\n\nThe day after the accident McKeown rejoined the tour.\n\nHe said: \"I can remember just being in complete shock. I don't know how long it took me to come out of that shock.\n\n\"In retrospect I should have dealt with the issue in a much more comprehensive way.\"\n\nDespite some witnesses claiming McKeown was driving too fast, a court cleared him of the more serious charge and instead found him of guilty of reckless driving. He was fined £100 and banned from driving for a year.\n\nMcKeown claimed in numerous interviews that the guilt over the incident never left him, and was a big part of his alcoholism, as the Rollers' popularity waned dramatically in the late 1970s. He was also open in interviews about his trips to rehab.\n\nLes McKeown and the Bay City Rollers provided part of the soundtrack to a particular chapter in Scotland's modern history.\n\nAt the height of their success in the mid 1970s, the Bay City Rollers were the biggest pop sensation Scotland had ever seen.\n\nTheir brand of bubblegum pop won fans across the world and they were unashamedly Scottish.\n\nThis was a time when few Scottish musicians became international stars other than traditional favourites like Andy Stewart or the Alexander Brothers.\n\nThe pop music Scottish children and teenagers loved was often from England or America. Outside Scotland, the Rollers were what we would now call brand ambassadors for their country.\n\nIt can seem preposterous to draw parallels between bubblegum pop, national identity or politics but perhaps there are some.\n\nThe Rollers loved their tartan at a time when many younger Scots associated it with an older generation or the sentimental, \"kailyard\" image of the country.\n\nThe peak of their success in the mid 70s coincided with a time when there was intense debate over Scotland's political future - a debate, at times, emboldened by a new self-confidence. Many assumed devolution in the form of a Scottish Assembly in Edinburgh was inevitable.\n\nBut like so many teen sensations, their success did not last.\n\nThe decline of the Rollers came around the same time as Scotland's humiliation in the 1978 World Cup in Argentina. A year later the plan for a Scottish Assembly failed to win sufficient support in a referendum.\n\nMusic can be the soundtrack to history. The Bay City Rollers unintentionally provided part of the playlist.\n\nThe band had two UK number one albums and singles\n\nAfter he left the band, McKeown formed the pop group Egotrip, and released a solo album All Washed Up in 1979.\n\nHe toured more recently under the name Les McKeown's Bay City Rollers. They had been mid-way through a tour in Toronto as the coronavirus pandemic took hold, and had to return home quickly. The tour had been rebooked for November 2021.\n\nMcKeown told the Edinburgh Evening News last August that during lockdown he had \"never had so much time off\", and was usually always on the road for half of the year.\n\nCelebrities shared their shock at the news and their own memories of the frontman on social media.\n\nJudy Murray, mother of tennis champtions Andy and Jamie Murray, posted two pictures: one of her hugging Les McKeown at a concert, and one of her holding a tartan scarf. She captioned them with \"Bye bye baby\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 judy murray This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGuitarist Andy Scott from fellow seventies band The Sweet posted: \"Over the years I got to know Les quite well. We both lived in Central London in the 80s and I would see him sunbathing and Roller Skating in Hyde Park close to our Mayfair office. Les my friend only 65, far too young.\"\n\nEighties pop singer Kim Wilde wrote: \"I remember line dancing in the school assembly hall to Bay City Roller hits, Les was my schoolgirl crush.\"\n\nAnd Midge Ure acknowledged the Rollers' eventful career. He said; \"Dreadful news. A band thoroughly ripped off by everything bad about the music industry. The biggest band in the world for a time and nothing to show for it.\"\n\nSpeaking in 2015, Les McKeown said the police would stop early Bay City Rollers concerts because they could not control the crowd\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "All four UK countries are discussing a joint digital system of vaccine certification\n\nA digital system to allow people in Scotland to prove their Covid vaccination status is being worked on, public health officials have said.\n\nThe scheme would mean Scotland was \"ready to join\" an international vaccination passport programme.\n\nNational clinical director Prof Jason Leitch said paper \"proof\" - similar to that given to people in England - was \"not a satisfactory solution\".\n\nBut he said compiling the information was complex and \"we're not near yet\".\n\nProf Leitch confirmed that all four UK countries were discussing the joint digital system.\n\nThe medical professional outlined plans for the portal system during a Covid technical briefing.\n\nHe said the NHS was looking at \"data linkages\" between delivery of blue envelope appointment letters and vaccine uptake.\n\nIt would then provide a digital record of whether people;\n\nThe professor explained: \"We need to make that accessible. That information exists, it's just a question of the form it should take.\"\n\nIt comes as EU officials are considering whether countries with a strong jabs rollout could be exempt from its blanket ban on entry.\n\nIt has been suggested UK tourists with vaccine certification could be allowed entry as early as June.\n\nThe UK government had previously confirmed it was looking at how to allow people to more easily show their Covid status, as \"a temporary measure\".\n\nProf Jason Leitch said, for now, Scotland's position on passports and travel \"remains the same\" and no international travel for non-essential reasons is allowed before 17 May - and possibly for some time after that.\n\n\"The clinical advice is that travel remains a significant risk - you could argue our most significant risk with exporting and importing cases,\" he said.\n\n\"Scotland is developing, at a four-country level, conversations around a digital solution and what that might look like.\n\n\"So I think the end game here will be some kind of international Covid certification.\"\n\nScotland's first minister Nicola Sturgeon has previously said \"we shouldn't close our minds\" to the idea of vaccine certification.\n\nSpeaking at a Covid briefing on 6 April, Ms Sturgeon said: \"We all want to get back to normal, so anything that can play a part in getting us back to normal is something we should think about very carefully.\n\n\"But nor should we gloss over the practical and ethical issues.\"\n\nEuropean officials have announced plans for an EU-wide \"Green Digital Certificate\".\n\nThis would allow anyone vaccinated against Covid, or who has tested negative, or recently recovered from the virus, to travel within the region.\n\nOfficials hope the certificate will be in place before the summer tourist season.", "Chad Gordon was shot in the head at close range after answering his front door\n\nA \"gentle giant\" was shot dead on his doorstep in north London by mistake, a court has heard.\n\nChad Gordon, 27, from Haringey, answered the door last May to a pair of assassins intent on revenge during the first coronavirus lockdown, the Old Bailey was told.\n\nJurors heard the two gunmen were allegedly Mason Sani-Semedo, 19, from Tottenham, and Cameron Robinson, 20, from Dagenham.\n\nThey both deny a charge of murder.\n\nJurors were told the gunmen went to Mr Gordon's home in Wilshire Gardens by mistake. He lived there with his grandmother and aunt and had been diagnosed with autism.\n\nProsecutor Oliver Glasgow QC added: \"Whilst the actual identity of the intended target cannot be known with any certainty, one thing is clear and that is that the person the gunmen ultimately shot dead was not the person they meant to kill.\n\n\"No one who knew Chad Gordon can understand why he might have been targeted in such a violent and shocking way and most believe that a mistake must have been made by his killers.\"\n\nMr Glasgow suggested the defendants were all out to avenge the death of a friend, Jemal Ebrahim, who had been stabbed five days before.\n\nJemal Ebrahim, 23, was fatally stabbed on Russell Road on 13 May 2020\n\nMr Glasgow said the killers arrived on 18 May on a stolen moped.\n\nHe added: \"His family and friends, who were alerted to the sound of gunfire and the crash as he collapsed to the ground, were quickly beside him but there was nothing that could be done to save him.\"\n\nMr Gordon's aunt shouted at the killers as they ran back to the moped.\n\nWithout breaking stride, they pointed the gun at her and told her to shut up before escaping, the court heard.\n\nMr Sani-Samedo and Mr Robinson also both deny a charge of possessing a gun with intent.\n\nAnother three defendants are also on trial and deny their part in the murder.\n\nJavarn Carter-Fraser, 23, of Tottenham, gave them petrol to destroy incriminating evidence while Talye Olabisi, 24, and Clive Spencer, 24, of Tottenham, provided a change of clothes, Mr Glasgow told the court.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A Stormont department took part in a \"clandestine\" process with a firm bidding for deals to resurface NI's roads, a court has ruled.\n\nA judge said the Department for Infrastructure's conduct \"entailed an egregious breach of the principle of transparency\".\n\nHe added that the firm had been \"accorded special treatment\" by the department.\n\nThe proceedings centred on eight contracts awarded in 2015\n\nThe contracts, for work on roads across Northern Ireland, had a total estimated annual value of up to £52m.\n\nThe Court of Appeal dismissed an appeal by the Department for Infrastructure.\n\nIn a statement to the BBC, the Department for Infrastructure said: \"The department notes the judgment from the Court of Appeal and we are considering it with our legal advisors.\"\n\nSenior judges upheld findings that the tendering competition breached the principle of transparency and resulted in a manifest error.\n\nThe procurement exercise sought the most economically advantageous tender for each contract, based on a criteria where price was weighted at 70% and quality 30%.\n\nJohn McQuillan (Contracts) Ltd bid for seven contacts came out on top in six of them.\n\nHowever, the court heard the company duplicated personnel and plant for each competition - but could only provide site engineers for four contracts at most.\n\nA meeting involving civil servants from the Department for Regional Development (DRD) - one of the Department for Infrastructure's predecessors - was held in September 2015, but no minutes were provided.\n\nFollowing subsequent discussions with the department, the firm withdrew two of its six successful tenders.\n\nA decision was then taken to offer it contracts for the other four resurfacing projects.\n\nLord Justice McCloskey said that giving top ranking to an operator for more contracts than it had the resources to carry out \"defies common sense and commercial reality\".\n\nIn July 2020 a High Court judge held that the DRD had wrongly given a mark of excellence in tenders where there were not the necessary resources.\n\nHe also identified a lack of transparency, unequal treatment and breach of the principle of non-discrimination in the circumstances whereby that company was able to select contracts.\n\nRejecting the department's appeal against those findings, Lord Justice McCloskey concluded that the post-tender evaluation and scoring interaction with the operator ranked first for six contract bids, along with resulting award decisions, breached competition and EU legal rules.\n\n\"The department engaged in a secret, bilateral and unrecorded process with one of multiple bidders,\" he said\n\n\"In short, (the successful firm was) accorded special treatment in a clandestine and purely bilateral process and, in consequence, the level playing field was distorted for other bidders.\"\n\nCivil engineering company Northstone (NI) Ltd is suing over the handling of the tendering competition.\n\nNorthstone was ranked first in one of the eight contracts it tendered for, coming second or third in all the rest.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThousands of people around Russia have joined unauthorised rallies to protest against the detention of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny.\n\nThey are calling for Navalny, who has been on hunger strike for weeks, to receive proper medical care. More than 1,000 people were reportedly arrested.\n\nNavalny, 44, was jailed in February and is demanding medical attention for acute back pain and leg numbness.\n\nThe largest protest was in Moscow, but others took place in major cities.\n\nThese included St Petersburg, Vladivostok in the Far East, a number of cities in Siberia, and the central city of Vladimir where Navalny is being held.\n\nThe largest rally was in Moscow on Wednesday where thousands defied police warnings\n\nThe opposition had hoped Wednesday's protests would be the largest in years, but reports suggest they have been smaller than those that took place shortly before Navalny was jailed.\n\nMore than 14,000 people protested in 29 cities, police said. This included 6,000 people who gathered in Moscow.\n\nBut estimates from monitoring groups tend to far exceed official police figures. One such group, OVD-Info, said more than 1,000 people had been detained nationwide.\n\n\"This is one of the last gasps of a free Russia,\" one protester told Reuters news agency. \"We came out for Alexei.\"\n\n\"This is a fight for the future,\" another demonstrator, Andrei Zamyatin, told AFP.\n\nOthers were less hopeful about the impact the mass action could have. \"I don't think this protest can save Navalny,\" Alexander Butuzov told AFP.\n\n\"There would need to be at least 200,000 to 300,000 people in the streets,\" he said.\n\nPolice urged protesters to go home and detained people nationwide\n\nThe protesters defied stark warnings from the authorities and a heavy police presence in most major cities.\n\n\"Any aggressive actions by participants in unauthorised public meetings, especially attempts to provoke clashes with law enforcement officials, will be regarded as a threat to public safety and immediately suppressed,\" the interior ministry said earlier this week.\n\nIn Moscow, riot police urged people to leave the protest area and formed barricades to try and contain the demonstrators' route.\n\nThey earlier cordoned off the area around Manezh exhibition hall, where Mr Putin addressed both houses of parliament during his annual state of the nation speech.\n\nIt's hard to tell the size of a rally when crowds are banned from gathering in one place, and that's the point. In Moscow, protesters were constantly diverted by police, as roads were closed.\n\nFewer came out than in January when Alexei Navalny was arrested - but that's hardly surprising. The price of protesting is rising in Russia: you face a beating, losing your job - at worst, a prison sentence.\n\nMany of Navalny's supporters who did make it out on Wednesday said they were afraid, but they were passionate: in Moscow, they shouted for Navalny's freedom and they called Vladimir Putin a killer.\n\nFor once, the police stood back and let them march - no dragging screaming protesters into their vans.\n\nIn St Petersburg it was different: hundreds were arrested there, some stunned with electric shockers by police.\n\nTeam Navalny are claiming success. But their goal was to get him released, or at least get him a doctor, and the Kremlin is unlikely to be persuaded by Wednesday's crowds.\n\nOn Monday, Navalny was moved to a prison hospital where the authorities said his condition was \"satisfactory\".\n\nThe FSIN prison service added that he was being examined by a doctor daily and had agreed to take vitamins.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alexei Navalny: what you need to know\n\nBut Navalny's doctors warned he would \"die within the next few days\" if not given urgent medical attention for his back pain and leg numbness.\n\nHe started a hunger strike on 31 March in protest at not being able to see his own medical team. His doctors say recent blood test results indicate he could suffer kidney failure and go into cardiac arrest at any moment.\n\nWestern countries say Navalny was poisoned with a nerve agent last August and only narrowly survived. After his transfer to intensive care in Berlin, toxicologists concluded that the poison was Russian weapons-grade Novichok.\n\nThe West blamed the Russian state for the attack, and Navalny accused President Vladimir Putin directly. The Kremlin denied any involvement and disputed the conclusion about Novichok.\n\nNavalny was jailed in February for violating the terms of a 2014 suspended sentence for fraud. He says the case is politically motivated.\n\nThe European Court of Human Rights found violations of justice in the case against him.", "Renewable energy, like wind power, is gradually replacing coal in many EU countries\n\nThe EU has adopted ambitious new targets to curb climate change, with a pledge to make them legally binding.\n\nUnder a new law agreed between member states and the EU Parliament, the bloc will cut carbon emissions by at least 55% by 2030, compared with 1990 levels.\n\nThe EU parliament had pushed for a higher target of a 60% reduction.\n\n\"Our political commitment to becoming the first climate neutral continent by 2050 is now also a legal one,\" said EU Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen.\n\n\"The Climate Law sets the EU on a green path for a generation.\"\n\nThe deal comes ahead of a virtual summit of world leaders later this week, where the US is expected to announce its own climate targets for 2030.\n\nUS President Joe Biden, who will lead the meeting, rejoined the Paris climate agreement in his first day in office and has previously committed to reaching net zero emissions by 2050.\n\nThe UK, meanwhile, announced radical plans to cut carbon emissions by 78% by 2035 earlier this week, although environmentalists warn that the government has consistently failed to achieve previous targets set by its independent Climate Change Committee (CCC).\n\nThe EU Climate Law was agreed in the early hours of Wednesday after months of talks.\n\nIt sets a limit on the levels of CO2 removal that can count towards the 2030 target, to ensure that states actively lower emissions rather than removing them from the atmosphere through forests, for example.\n\nA 15-member independent council will also be established to advise the EU on climate measures and targets.\n\nThe EU Commission will announce a package of climate laws in June to support the plans.\n\nThe target to reduce emissions by 55% by 2030 was initially announced by EU leaders in December but there had been pressure from the EU Parliament and environmental groups for the law to go even further. Previous EU targets had called for a 40% cut.\n\nEU Commission Vice-President Frans Timmerman described the agreement as \"a landmark moment for the EU and a strong signal to the world\".\n\nHowever, Greens MEP Michael Bloss tweeted that the climate law was a \"big disappointment\", adding: \"We fought hard but achieved little\".\n\nIn September the EU Commission set out its blueprint for reaching the 55% target by 2030, and said at least 30% of the EU's €1.8tn (£1.64tn; $2.2tn) long-term budget would be spent on climate-related measures.\n\nThe targets are part of a global effort to tackle climate change by cutting atmospheric pollution, especially carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.\n\nThe Paris climate deal, signed in 2016, aims to keep global temperature rise well under 2C, and preferably within a maximum rise of 1.5C, to prevent the worst effects of climate change.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Charlotte Dalton (left) says getting her driving licence would be a \"lifeline\" for her family\n\nFor some learner drivers the wait for a test is over as they resume in parts of the UK - but many have spoken about the difficulties in securing a test date.\n\nTests have been suspended due to Covid restrictions since January, but restart in England and Wales on Thursday.\n\nMost centres are currently booked up until August, with a backlog of around 420,000 tests because of the pandemic.\n\nCharlotte Dalton, 24 - who has had a test cancelled during every lockdown - says test slots were \"like gold dust\".\n\nThe mother-of-two said she has spent the last few months \"logging on every day, every hour\" to try to secure one.\n\nThe Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) said it was doing \"all we can to provide as many tests as possible to help clear the backlog as quickly as we can\".\n\nCharlotte, from rural Buxton, decided to learn to drive in July 2019 after her boyfriend had a seizure behind the wheel and could no longer drive.\n\nHer test was originally scheduled for April last year - but the first lockdown meant it had to be rearranged multiple times, before she eventually had her first test in September.\n\n\"I was so stressed and anxious about the possibility of failing, I failed because I worked myself up so much about it,\" she said.\n\nAfter another cancellation in October - because the examiner had to self-isolate - her next two test dates were curtailed by England's second and third lockdowns.\n\n\"Whilst I respect why the decision was made to suspend tests, it's also infuriating - how many times do I have to have tests cancelled?\" she said.\n\nShe was then given an August date, but through persistence, she has gradually managed to secure earlier bookings, bringing it forward to 8 May.\n\n\"I'm relieved that it's so soon, but I'm panicking because if I fail again the next tests are September. It's a lot of pressure - I'd be absolutely devastated if I failed again.\"\n\nThose who fail their test in Britain face an average waiting time of 17 weeks to book a new slot. Before the pandemic, the average waiting time was seven weeks.\n\nCharlotte, who has an 11-week-old daughter, says she has spent thousands of pounds on lessons over the past two years and almost £2,000 in car insurance for her own car.\n\n\"As a family, me getting my driving licence means we can finally have the freedom and the independence we desire - so to some people it might seem small - but to us my driving licence is essential to the future of our family.\"\n\nAnother driver to be affected by the pandemic was Jasmin Dhaliwal, from London, who saw her January test cancelled and rescheduled for 21 April - which turned out to be the day before tests were able to resume.\n\nShe was then automatically allocated a date in August - eight-and-a-half months after her original date.\n\nShe says she was \"lucky\" in that she was able to find a cancellation date sooner, with the help of an app, but says her local area is booked up until September now.\n\nDriving tests will also restart in Northern Ireland on Friday, while in Scotland it will be 6 May at the earliest.\n\nThe DVSA said it was offering an additional 2,500 car tests per month by using weekends and bank holidays.\n\nIt said it was regularly adding new appointments to the booking system and recruiting extra driving examiners across the country to deliver more tests over the coming months.\n\nDVSA chief driving examiner Mark Winn urged learners to only take their driving test \"if they are completely ready to pass\".\n\n\"We know many learners have waited a long time to take their driving test, so when tests restart in England and Wales on 22 April, we want them to be ready and to pass first time.\"", "Ella was the first person in the UK to have air pollution listed as the cause of death\n\nA coroner has called for a change in the law after air pollution led to the death of a nine-year-old girl.\n\nElla Adoo-Kissi-Debrah, who lived near the South Circular Road in Lewisham, south-east London, died in 2013.\n\nAn inquest had found air pollution \"made a material contribution\" to her death.\n\nCoroner Phillip Barlow said there is \"no safe level of particulate matter\" in the air and called for national pollution limits to be reduced.\n\nElla was the first person in the UK to have air pollution listed as the cause of death on their death certificate, following the inquest ruling by Mr Barlow last December.\n\nIn a report to prevent future deaths, he said the government should reduce existing legally binding targets for particulate matter pollution to bring them in line with World Health Organisation (WHO) guidelines.\n\nElla lived 25m from the South Circular Road, one of the capital's busiest roads\n\nResponding to the report, Ella's mother Rosamund Adoo- Kissi-Debrah, called on the government to act on the coroner's recommendations, warning \"children are dying unnecessarily because the government is not doing enough to combat air pollution\".\n\nIn his report, Mr Barlow called for more information about air pollution and its impact to be made available to the public.\n\n\"As the parent of a child suffering from severe asthma, I should have been given this information but this did not happen,\" Ms Adoo-Kissi-Debrah said.\n\n\"Because of a lack of information I did not take the steps to reduce Ella's exposure to air pollution that might have saved her life. I will always live with this regret.\n\n\"But it is not too late for other children.\"\n\nProf Stephen Holgate, an expert who gave evidence at Ella's inquest, said the report had \"shone a brilliant white light on the importance\" of the issue of air pollution and called on the government to \"start to treat this with the seriousness that it deserves\".\n\nHe added: \"If this was happening to water and 40,000 deaths were being brought forward due to poisoning in water, we'd be outside Parliament shouting.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah: \"All children have the right to breathe clean air\".\n\nParticulate matter consists of tiny particles known as PM2.5. These have a diameter of less than 2.5 micrometres across - that is one-four-hundredth of a millimetre, or about 3% of the diameter of a human hair.\n\nThese particles are so small they can lodge in the lungs and even pass into the bloodstream. There is evidence they can damage blood vessels and organs.\n\nThe WHO guidelines suggest keeping an average concentration of PM2.5 under 10 micrograms per cubic metre of air (µg/m3), to prevent increased deaths.\n\nThe UK limit, based on European Union (EU) recommendations, is a yearly average of 25 µg/m3.\n\nAn inquest into Ella's death also found levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) near her home exceeded WHO and EU guidelines.\n\nThis report is looking at what the government can do to protect people.\n\nIt is not legally binding but the fact it is so clear in its recommendations will make it much harder for the government to ignore the issue of pollution.\n\nIt has been described by many experts to me as a \"public health emergency\".\n\nAs we emerge from lockdown and car use heads towards levels that were seen prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, toxic fumes are on the rise again\n\nAs Ella's mother Rosamund said to me, the coroner has made the issue \"simple.\" It's about the death of a nine-year-old girl.\n\nWhat will the government do to prevent this from happening again?\n\nThe Environment Bill, currently being debated in Parliament, calls for a new target on air pollution to be set before 2022.\n\nMs Adoo-Kissi-Debrah said: \"I invite the government to act now to reduce air pollution. Immediately. Not in eighteen months, not in five years - that's not fast enough.\n\n\"People are dying from air pollution each year. Action needs to be taken now or more people will simply continue to die.\"\n\nSarah Woolnough, chief executive of the British Lung Foundation, said limiting air pollution to WHO guidelines would be \"a game-changer, potentially preventing thousands more families facing the death of a loved one because of air pollution.\"\n\nElla was classified as disabled due to her respiratory problems\n\nShe said children, older people and the 6.5 million people in the UK living with respiratory disease are all at risk from toxic air.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"Our thoughts continue to be with Ella's family and friends.\n\n\"We will carefully consider the recommendations in the report and respond in due course.\n\n\"We are delivering a £3.8bn plan to clean up transport and tackle NO2 pollution and going further in protecting communities from air pollution, particularly PM2.5 which is especially harmful to human health.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Protestors gathered outside Parliament during the debate\n\nThe House of Commons has declared for the first time that genocide is taking place against Uyghurs and others in north-west China.\n\nMore than a million people are estimated to have been detained at camps in the region of Xinjiang.\n\nThe motion approved by MPs does not compel the UK to take action, but is a sign of growing discontent towards the Chinese government in Parliament.\n\nIn response, China said the UK should \"immediately right its wrong moves\".\n\nTory Sir Iain Duncan Smith heralded the vote as \"a historic moment\", bringing the UK Parliament in line with Holland, Canada and the United States.\n\nSir Iain was one of five UK parliamentarians sanctioned by China for spreading what it calls \"lies and disinformation\".\n\nSpeaking in the debate, Nus Ghani - another MP to be targeted by China - said genocide meant intent to \"destroy in whole or in part\" a national, ethnic, racial or religious group.\n\n\"All five criteria of genocide are evidenced as taking place in Xinjiang,\" she said.\n\nMs Ghani said detainees were subject to \"brutal torture methods, including beatings with metal prods, electric shocks and whips\".\n\nShe also said women in the Uyghur region were being fitted with birth control devices, adding: \"The Handmaid's Tale is a fairy tale compared to the reproductive rights of Uighur women.\"\n\n\"This abuse is evidenced by the Chinese government's own data - 2014, over 200,000 birth control devices were inserted in women in Xinjiang. By 2018, this had increased by 60%,\" she said.\n\nIn a statement, the Chinese embassy to the UK said: \"The unwarranted accusation by a handful of British MPs that there is 'genocide' in Xinjiang is the most preposterous lie of the century, an outrageous insult and affront to the Chinese people, and a gross breach of international law and the basic norms governing international relations.\n\nLabour's shadow Foreign Office minister Stephen Kinnock said the party supported the motion arguing that \"genocide can never be met with indifference or inaction\".\n\nThe government opposed the motion arguing that deeming an event to be a genocide was a matter for \"competent national and international courts after consideration of all the available evidence\".\n\nDespite government opposition, the motion passed because ministers did not vote against it.\n\nForeign Office Minister Nigel Adams insisted the UK was \"ramping up pressure\" on Beijing through the United Nations.\n\nEarlier this year, Canada, the European Union, the UK and the US imposed sanctions on Chinese officials in protest at rights abuses in the country.\n\nChina has denied allegations of abuse and argued that the camps are a tool to fight terrorism.", "Asha Karim survived a narrow escape from the 2020 California wildfires. She gave us her thoughts on Biden's new climate pledge.\n\nWhat are your thoughts on Biden's climate pledge?\n\nWhile of course I wish we'd done more earlier, I think it's never too late to act. Any reduction in harm to the planet is worthwhile. We got here by largely ignoring the problem, so to decide that it's now too late to do anything, that ignorance somehow freed us from responsibility strikes me as selfish and silly. Climate change is a series of positive feedback loops that will keep building upon one another, even more rapidly if we don't change course.\n\nWill politics get in the way?\n\nIt is politicised, in that there is lot of vested financial interest in maintaining the status quo. That financial power is very present in American politics, and we see it reflected in subsidies and lax regulation in many of the industries that heavily contribute to our emissions.\n\nCan the US reclaim climate leadership?\n\nI hope we can lead the way to a much higher standard than we see globally today. I think that committing to the level of action we see elsewhere is a step in the right direction, but far from enough. Being that it is a politicised problem, it may take a while to make change.\n\nWill Americans be on board with his plan? What do you hope the US government will do first?\n\nI think the American people are onboard with the plan. Climate change has become difficult to ignore. More intense storms, fire seasons, shifts in weather patterns impacting local wildlife - there is some effect of climate change that has touched every person's life in some way. I think most Americans would like to see the US take this problem seriously.\n\nAs for what we should do first, cutting subsidies for meat and dairy production and reducing our dependence on coal would be impactful places to start.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nManchester United co-chairman Joel Glazer says the club \"apologise unreservedly for the unrest\" caused by the proposed European Super League.\n\nThe rare public comment from the American came after Liverpool owner John W Henry apologised to supporters.\n\nUnited, Liverpool and four other Premier League sides withdrew from the ESL on Tuesday after a backlash.\n\n\"We failed to show enough respect for its deep-rooted traditions,\" Glazer said in an open letter to fans.\n\nThe 50-year-old admitted efforts \"in seeking to create a more stable foundation for the game\" did not honour the conventions of promotion and relegation within the wider football pyramid.\n\n\"For that we are sorry,\" he said. \"This is the world's greatest football club and we apologise unreservedly for the unrest caused during these past few days.\n\n\"Manchester United has a rich heritage and we recognise our responsibility to live up to its great traditions and values.\"\n\nBBC Sport's Simon Stone said: \"It is rare indeed for Glazer to speak about United. He has done one interview with MUTV at the time of the takeover in 2005 - and that is it.\"\n• None European Super League Q&A: Why it failed - and will clubs try again?\n\nGlazer said they will work to \"rebuild relationships\" across football \"with a view to working together on solutions to the long-term challenges facing the football pyramid\".\n\n\"We also realise that we need to better communicate with you, our fans, because you will always be at the heart of the club,\" he continued.\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge, who is president of the Football Association, said in a tweet that he is pleased that football supporters' opposition to the ESL had been \"heard and listened to\".\n\nEarlier on Wednesday, Henry took sole responsibility for the \"unnecessary negativity\", saying: \"In this endeavour I've let you down.\n\n\"The project put forward was never going to stand without the support of the fans.\n\n\"Over these 48 hours you were very clear that it would not stand. We heard you. I heard you.\"\n\nFerran Soriano, chief executive of Premier League leaders Manchester City - another of the English clubs involved in the proposal - apologised in an email to the club's supporters.\n\n\"We failed to remind ourselves of the unbreakable link between the passion of our fans and the right to have the opportunity to earn success. It is a truth that is fundamental to the DNA of Manchester City and the board deeply regrets taking a decision that lost sight of the historic values of the club,\" he said.\n\n\"We made a mistake and we sincerely apologise to our fans for the disappointment, frustration and anguish caused by the last 72 hours.\"\n\nIn other developments on Wednesday:\n• None Juventus chairman Andrea Agnelli admitted the project could not proceed after the Premier League clubs withdrew.\n• None AC Milan, Inter Milan and Atletico Madrid followed suit, taking the total withdrawals to nine.\n• None Rival managers, chairmen and officials called for tighter regulations and possible punishments for the six English clubs.\n\nBefore Liverpool's statement confirming the club's withdrawal, captain Jordan Henderson had said on social media his side's \"collective position\" was that they did not want the breakaway to go ahead.\n\n\"We don't like it and we don't want it to happen,\" read a message that was also posted by many fellow Liverpool players.\n• None All six Premier League teams withdraw from European Super League\n• None 'Big Six owners must beg for forgiveness after abysmal European Super League plan\n\nReds manager Jurgen Klopp and midfielder James Milner also voiced their opposition to the plans after their Premier League game at Leeds on Monday.\n\nIn a video released by Liverpool, Henry also apologised to Klopp, the players and chief executive Billy Hogan, promising to do all he could to win back the supporters' trust.\n\n\"They have absolutely no responsibility for this disruption,\" added Henry. \"They were the most disrupted, and unfairly so. This is what hurts most. They love your club and work to make you proud every single day.\"\n\n'It was nearly the worst idea I ever heard'\n\nManchester United Supporters' Trust chief executive Duncan Drasdo told BBC Sport: \"Driven from the Manchester United owners, it has tarnished the club. It has been damaged and there's been huge damage to the relationship with owners at a lot of these clubs and in some cases irreparable and they will need to do something to try to turn that around. \"\n\nIn a statement, Liverpool supporters group Spirit of Shankly said Henry's apology was a \"PR exercise\" that was \"too little, too late\". It added: \"We need a fundamental change in football governance. One that is fair for the whole football pyramid, not just the rapacious elite.\"\n\nFormer Liverpool winger John Barnes went as far as suggesting a salary cap needed to be introduced to ensure \"a level playing field\" for every team in the Premier League.\n\nThe Chelsea Supporters Trust (CST) say they have \"little or no confidence\" in the club's board after its involvement in the ESL and said the positions of chairman Bruce Buck and chief executive Guy Laurence were \"untenable\".\n\nIn their statement CST also say Buck defended the Super League to fans during a forum on Monday evening. The club withdrew its plans to join the Super League 24 hours later after witnessing the negative reaction from supporters and fears about the reputational damage it could do to the club.\n\nBut the CST statement said: \"We are disappointed that an apology has not been included in the statement. The legacy of our club was put at risk for what appears to have been solely for financial gain.\"\n\nSouthampton boss Ralph Hasenhuttl said: \"I think it was nearly the worst idea I ever heard. It underestimated the power of the fans and how much they love football and it is for everybody. We are all happy the first battle is won but I think it is not over yet. \"\n\nCrystal Palace chairman Steve Parish told BBC Breakfast the ESL plans were an \"attempted coup\" and added: \"What Uefa need to do is start looking after the game and stop pandering to these people and trying desperately to keep them inside the tent because they're going to be inside the tent now whatever happens.\"\n\nBrighton chief executive Paul Barber said the rules needed to be \"tightened significantly\" to make sure this never happened again.\n\nWhen asked whether the six English clubs should be punished with points deductions, he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that was \"certainly something the Premier League and Football Association need to look at\".\n\nWest Brom manager Sam Allardyce said the idea of a Super League had merely been put on hold and without \"better protection\" we would see similar proposals \"again and again\".\n• None Meet the man who stole millions from work to sustain his gambling habit\n• None 'Food is more than calories': Different strategies to help you achieve a healthy weight", "A man in his 40s died at the scene and a second was flown to hospital\n\nA man has died and another has been seriously hurt after a car was driven into them in a supermarket car park.\n\nPolice were called to Church Street in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, at about 14:15 BST following reports of a fight between a group of men.\n\nOne of the men got into his car and is reported to have driven at two people.\n\nA man in his 40s died at the scene and a second was flown to hospital. The owner of the car, a BMW 1 Series, has been arrested on suspicion of murder.\n\nHe is also being held on suspicion of attempted murder.\n\nA cordon was put in place behind Marks and Spencer and the car park was closed.\n\nA cordon is in place behind Marks and Spencer and the car park is closed\n\nPolice said the dead man's family had been informed and the man who was airlifted to hospital is expected to recover.\n\nDet Ch Insp Dave Springett said: \"We understand that a serious incident like this has caused a lot of concern in the local community and we would like to reassure residents that we are doing everything we can to establish what has happened.\n\n\"From our initial inquiries, it appears that an altercation has taken place, leading to a physical confrontation, which then resulted in one of the group getting into his car and driving at two of the other men.\n\n\"Tragically, this has resulted in the death of one man and left another seriously injured and our thoughts are with their family and friends at this extremely difficult time.\"\n\nAnyone who saw the incident or has any mobile phone or dashcam footage has been asked to contact police.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police said a specialist team was assessing the \"unidentified item\"\n\nA bomb disposal unit has destroyed an \"unidentified item\" found at a waste disposal centre in Edinburgh.\n\nThe item, which appeared to have to cylinders connected to a timer, was discovered by a worker at the site at about 09:20 on Thursday.\n\nRoads were closed around the Seafield recycling centre and a cordon was put in place after the alarm was raised.\n\nPolice Scotland said the item was found to pose \"no risk to the public\" and had been destroyed.\n\nThe recycling centre was closed and Seafield Road was also shut in both directions during the incident\n\nLothian Buses said bus services in the area had also been disrupted.\n\nA Police Scotland spokesperson said: \"A cordon was put in place while specialist teams attended to assess the item.\n\nThe item has been established to pose no risk to the public and has been destroyed. Enquiries remain ongoing.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMarcus Rashford might be a world-class athlete, but he can still see the value in a fish finger sandwich.\n\nThat's one of the cheap and simple recipe ideas in a project the footballer is launching to help families cook \"pocket friendly\" meals.\n\nWith chef Tom Kerridge, the England and Manchester United footballer and food poverty campaigner is going to share the basics of making meals.\n\nMr Rashford said he wanted to make sure no-one \"goes to bed hungry\".\n\nThe free recipes and online video lessons from this Full Time project will be available each week on Instagram and on recipe cards in supermarkets, schools and food banks.\n\nThey are aimed at families on a tight budget, but also who might have limited time and no expensive kitchen gadgets or little knowledge of cooking.\n\n\"This is like learning to ride a bike. This is right at the beginning with stabilisers, this is peeling carrots, peeling potatoes, dicing onions,\" said Mr Kerridge.\n\nThe celebrity chef, who runs a Michelin-starred restaurant, is ready to raise his game with a recipe for the \"ultimate fish finger sandwich\".\n\n\"It is one of the first things I learned to cook as a 14-year-old. My mum was at a second job and I would cook tea for my brother, who was 11 years old,\" said Mr Kerridge.\n\nThere will be a recipe for spaghetti bolognese - which Mr Rashford said was one of his favourite meals.\n\nTom Kerridge wants to give people the confidence to learn to cook\n\nThe other contender for top food experience, the footballer said, was his grandmother's cooking. \"It was the best Caribbean food ever - I've just never tasted it again. I've been to Caribbean shops, but it's just not the same.\"\n\nThere will be 52 budget recipes, with online tutorials, including chicken satay stir fry, chicken pie and broccoli and cauliflower cheese, with Mr Kerridge showing the Manchester United player how to cook.\n\nIt's about healthy eating, but in a non-preachy and unpretentious way.\n\n\"A lot of young people are afraid of mistakes,\" said Mr Rashford - who is volunteering his own lack of culinary skills to show it's fine to learn something completely from scratch.\n\nWhile the footballing world has been convulsed this week by accusations of greed, Mr Rashford is still pursuing his campaign against food poverty.\n\n\"Is it fair if people go hungry? No, it's not fair. Whether it's a child or an adult, it doesn't change the fact that it's unfair if somebody goes to sleep without eating a meal,\" he said, in a Zoom call.\n\nAn \"ultimate fish finger sandwich\" is promised from the weekly recipes\n\nIf people are sceptical about whether families are really going hungry, he says they should \"go and do some research and even meet people that are struggling\".\n\nMr Rashford has been on his own journey with his food campaigns, which he says has shown him the pressures on families.\n\n\"There was a mother and two boys - and the mother was ill with Covid,\" he said of a family he had come across in London.\n\n\"And so the 12-year-old was going around his community and washing windows and washing cars for a few pounds, until he had enough to go to the shops and get a meal to put in the microwave, so that his mother and little brother could eat.\"\n\nMr Rashford said as a child he liked to spend time with his mother when she was cooking, sitting on a stool in the kitchen.\n\n\"Anything I learned in the house it was from my mum… I'd always watch her cooking. I'd sit there and just have a nosy basically.\"\n\nOn a Zoom call, Marcus Rashford talked of spending time with his mum when she was cooking\n\nBut not being able to afford food was part of the hardship in his own family growing up.\n\n\"I remember sometimes at school I'd fall asleep. I just hadn't eaten food and I wasn't awake, so sometimes I'd literally just fall asleep. So I can see how it has an effect on the ability to learn and their ability to concentrate in class.\"\n\nFree school meals should be extended through the next summer holidays, he said - and he wanted to encourage the take-up of \"healthy start\" vouchers available to low-income families with young children.\n\nWhen he was young, Mr Rashford's own family used food banks and he was on free school meals - and he wanted to challenge any embarrassment.\n\n\"I wanted to get rid of that stigma, because it's the most silly thing I've ever heard,\" he said. \"If you're in need of something - the help is there is there to be used.\"", "Radical new climate change commitments will set the UK on course to cut carbon emissions by 78% by 2035, the UK government has announced.\n\nHitting the targets would require more electric cars, low-carbon heating, renewable electricity and, for many, cutting down on meat and dairy.\n\nFor the first time, climate law will be extended to cover international aviation and shipping.\n\nBut Labour said the government had to match \"rhetoric with reality\".\n\nIt urged Boris Johnson to treat \"the climate emergency as the emergency it is\" and show \"greater ambition\".\n\nThe prime minister's commitments, which are to become law, bring forward the current target for reducing carbon emissions by 15 years. This would be a world-leading position.\n\nHomes will need to be much better insulated, and people will be encouraged to drive less and walk and cycle more. Aviation is likely to become more expensive for frequent fliers.\n\nThe government has accepted the advice of its independent Climate Change Committee (CCC) to adopt the emissions cut, which is based on 1990 levels.\n\nThe International Energy Agency (IEA) has predicted a major surge in CO2 emissions from energy this year, as the world rebounds from the pandemic.\n\nThe UK's new commitments come as US President Joe Biden prepares to stage a climate summit from Washington DC.\n\nEnvironmentalists welcomed the government's move, but warned that ministers had consistently failed to achieve previous CCC-set targets.\n\nAnd they insisted that Chancellor Rishi Sunak must show clearly how the transition is to be funded.\n\nTom Burke, who chairs the environmental think tank E3G, explained what policy changes were needed to achieve the goal: \"The most important thing, I think, is for [the prime minister] to focus his policy around energy efficiency, around wind and solar, and around storage of electricity and the management of the grid,\" he said.\n\nHowever, he told the BBC's Today programme: \"At the moment, it's... a bit of a Boris blunderbuss and is a huge range of marginal things instead of a concentration of effort on those things that will deliver the most emissions reductions in the fastest time.\"\n\nLeo Murray of the climate charity Possible called the announcement \"fantastic\", but added: \"We're not on track to meet previous climate commitments and in many ways the government is still failing.\"\n\nMr Murray said ministers were \"facing both directions at the same time\", as they had scrapped the Green Homes Grant for insulating homes, had not stopped airport expansion and were \"still pushing a £27bn roads budget\".\n\nThe CCC report accepted by the government says low-carbon investment must scale up to £50bn a year in the UK. But it adds that in time fuel savings from more efficient equipment will cancel out investment costs.\n\nThe CCC believes around 1% of GDP - national wealth - would need to be spent on shifting away from fossil fuels over 30 years.\n\nIts chairman, Lord Deben, said previously: \"The implication of this path is clear: the utmost focus is required from government over the next 10 years.\n\n\"If policy is not scaled up across every sector, if business is not encouraged to invest, if the people of the UK are not engaged in this challenge - the UK will not deliver net zero by 2050. The 2020s must be the decisive decade of progress and action.\"\n\nEd Matthew, campaigns director of E3G, said: \"Setting an ambitious emission reduction target would boost the UK's diplomatic drive to persuade other countries to set out ambitious targets of their own.\"\n\nHe added: \"The UK now has the opportunity to spark a global green industrial revolution, but ultimately its credibility will rest on action.\"\n\nNet zero means cutting emissions as far as possible, then balancing out any remaining releases by, for example, tree planting.\n\nThe government has adopted the new 2035 deadline for a 78% emissions cut because scientists say this is needed to keep the rise in global temperatures close to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels.\n\nFor Labour, shadow business secretary Ed Miliband said: \"The character of this government on climate change is now clear: targets without delivery.\n\n\"So while any strengthening of our targets is the right thing to do, the government can't be trusted to match rhetoric with reality.\"\n\nHe added: \"We need a government that treats the climate emergency as the emergency it is. That means greater ambition than this government matched with much more decisive action.\"\n\nGreen Party MP Caroline Lucas commented: \"The most glaring problem [with the plan] is the government's failure to address what's driving the climate crisis: an outdated and exploitative economic system that treats our planet and natural world as peripheral to our lives and, worse, expendable.\n\n\"The Prime Minister needs to accompany stronger climate targets with an economic reset to put the health and well-being of people and planet above short-term profit and growth.\"", "Edinburgh Rope Access was employed to remove all three signs on the Jenners building over two days last week\n\nSports Direct billionaire Mike Ashley has been told by council officials to reinstate the signs on the historic Jenners building in Edinburgh.\n\nMr Ashley, the current tenant, has three months from when an enforcement notice comes into effect on 14 May.\n\nA spokesman for Danish billionaire Anders Holch Povlsen, who owns the building, said the signs were removed without his authorisation last week.\n\nMike Ashley's spokeswoman has been asked for comment.\n\nAnders Krogh Vogdrup - the director of AAA United, that owns the listed Jenners building - told BBC Scotland that although it was technically liable, the removal of the signs had nothing to do with AAA United.\n\nHe said: \"We are very relieved that the signs will be reinstated.\"\n\nThere were three Jenners signs on each side of the Princes Street/South St David Street corner building until they were removed.\n\nBBC Scotland understands one sign might be as old as the building with the other two almost 20 years old.\n\nNicky Erskine, owner of Edinburgh Rope Access, said his team was asked to take down the gold-coloured lettering and worked for two days to remove it last week.\n\nHe said it was now being stored on the sixth floor of the department store.\n\nNeil Gardiner, City of Edinburgh Council's planning convener, said: \"We can confirm that a listed building enforcement notice has been sent to the owner and the tenant of the building.\n\n\"It requires the lettering to be reinstated in its original positions on the Jenners building.\"\n\nThe three Jenners signs are being stored on the sixth floor of the Jenners building in Edinburgh\n\nThe Jenners building has occupied a prime location on Princes Street for 183 years.\n\nIt was bought by Mr Povlsen - who is one of Scotland's biggest landowners - in 2017, reportedly for £53m.\n\nThe store is currently operated by the Mike Ashley's Frasers Group, which owns the commercial rights to the Jenners trading name.\n\nIt said it would be quitting the site in May after the two sides were unable to come to an agreement.\n\nDespite that, the building owners said they would keep it as a department store as well as turning unused parts of the six-storey building into a hotel.\n\nThe building owner is currently in advanced talks with a new tenant to move into the department store.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Many countries in Africa are getting AstraZeneca vaccines through the Covax scheme Image caption: Many countries in Africa are getting AstraZeneca vaccines through the Covax scheme\n\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) and the Africa Centres for Disease Control (Africa CDC) are urging African countries not to destroy Covid-19 vaccines that have expired.\n\nThe WHO is asking countries on the continent to hold on to expired stock and wait for further guidance.\n\nThe call comes after Malawi and South Sudan said they would discard more than 70,000 doses of the AstraZeneca jab that were out of date.\n\nThe Africa CDC says it has spoken to the manufacturer and has been reassured the vaccines are still safe.\n\nMany vaccines can be used up to 36 months after manufacture but, because Covid-19 jabs are so new, there is not enough data to prove their effectiveness over longer periods.\n\nWhatever the guidance, the final decision rests with national drug regulators.\n\nHowever, the issue will further increase the challenges around persuading people on the continent to get vaccinated.\n\nThe rollout of Covid-19 vaccines in Africa has been slow, partly because of supply issues and scepticism about the jab.\n\nOut of 55 African countries, 41 have benefited from the delivery of vaccines via the global-sharing scheme Covax. Seven are yet to receive their first batch.", "The Castle Bromwich site, near Birmingham, is one of two factories to shut temporarily.\n\nJaguar Land Rover (JLR) is shutting its two main car factories temporarily due to a shortage of computer chips.\n\nThe difficulties at Britain's biggest carmaker echo similar problems at other manufacturers, including Ford, who have been hit by a global shortage of chips.\n\nJLR said there would be a \"limited period\" of closure at its Halewood and Castle Bromwich sites from Monday.\n\nA mixture of strong demand and Covid shutdowns at chipmakers has also hit phone, TV and video games companies.\n\nTata-owned JLR said in a statement: \"We have adjusted production schedules for certain vehicles which means that our Castle Bromwich and Halewood manufacturing plants will be operating a limited period of non-production from Monday 26th April.\n\n\"We are working closely with affected suppliers to resolve the issues and minimise the impact on customer orders wherever possible.\" Production at a third factory, at Solihull, will continue.\n\nThe Castle Bromwich factory makes the Jaguar XE, XF and F-Type models, and employs about 1,900 people. Halewood makes the Range Rover, Evoque and the Land Rover Discovery Sport, and has about 4,000 workers.\n\nThe Covid-19 pandemic has driven up demand for semiconductor chips for use in electronics such as computers, as people worked from home, and suppliers are struggling to adjust.\n\nThere has also been a fire at a Japanese company, part of Renesas Electronics, one of the world's biggest makers of semiconductors for the car industry.\n\nAlso on Thursday, France's Renault warned that the chip shortage was worsening. On Wednesday, carmaker Stellantis, which owns the UK Vauxhall brand, said it would replace digital speedometers with more old-fashioned analogue ones in one of its Peugeot models, as the fallout continues.\n\nDaimler, General Motors and Volkswagen have all suspended production lines at various times in recent weeks.\n\nModern cars contain complex electronics and are heavily reliant on semiconductors, which are used in systems ranging from engine management to parking cameras.\n\nToday's cars are computers on wheels, festooned with electronics such as engine management systems, driver aids, cameras and entertainment gadgets.\n\nAll of these need semiconductors, and right now the entire industry is struggling to get enough of them. It's fighting the consumer electronics sector for the supplies that are available.\n\nWhat has made the auto industry particularly vulnerable is its reliance on just-in-time delivery, where parts are brought in when needed, rather than being stockpiled.\n\nNormally this is seen as the efficient way to do things - but the semiconductor shortage has shown just what can happen when normally well-oiled supply chains seize up.\n\nFurther disruption over the coming weeks and months is inevitable, because it takes time to ramp up chip production. The question now is what carmakers can do to ensure they aren't caught out by a similar supply squeeze in future.", "\"The risk... is that we lose control of the standards that shape our technology,\" Mr Fleming said\n\nThe West is faced with a \"moment of reckoning\" when it comes to technology and security, the head of intelligence agency GCHQ has told the BBC.\n\nJeremy Fleming said there was a risk that key technologies on which we rely will no longer be shaped by the West.\n\n\"We have to keep evolving our approach if we're going to keep up,\" he said of the growing challenge from China.\n\nSo-called smart cities, which will collect large amounts of data, are just one example, he added.\n\n\"The risk is that the technology is implemented in a way in which we can't assure its security,\" he warned.\n\nThe UK is a \"big beast\" when it comes to technology but \"we can't take that for granted\", the GCHQ director warned, saying this was a moment when we had to decide if we were going to continue to evolve and compete with our adversaries.\n\nMr Fleming was speaking ahead of giving this year's Vincent Briscoe Annual Security Lecture at Imperial College, and in the wake of the Integrated Review, which placed science and technology at the centre of future security and defence policy.\n\nThe challenge from China is uppermost in the minds of intelligence chiefs across Western countries, particularly when it comes to technology.\n\n\"The risk, as I see it today, is that we lose control of the standards that shape our technology environment,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"The things that make sure that our liberal Western democratic views are baked into our technology.\"\n\nMr Fleming said there were lessons to be learnt from the debate over the role of Chinese company Huawei in building a new 5G telecoms system. It was initially given a role in the UK, before being excluded following US sanctions.\n\nBut there were concerns that there were few other companies actually able to supply the latest technology.\n\n\"The conversation about 5G was really lost a decade ago, when Western nations decided that they weren't going to invest in the underpinning infrastructures... and the result was we just didn't have the choices,\" he said.\n\nThe imperative was to make sure in the future the UK took the kind of long-range decisions need to ensure it has choice - so there would not be the same concerns over dependency, he said.\n\nThat need to look forward prompted a focus on smart cities.\n\nThese involve a vast number of sensors and cameras built into a city's infrastructure - controlling everything from traffic to utilities such as water and power.\n\nBut it also means vast amounts of data will be collected about people's movement and activity.\n\nDone in the right way, the GCHQ chief argues this presents a \"fantastic opportunity\" to increase efficiency and improve services.\n\nBut he warned it also carries risks around privacy and anonymity.\n\n\"If we don't control the technology, if we don't understand the security required to implement those effectively, then we'll end up with an environment or technology ecosystem where the data is not only used to navigate, but it could be used to track us\".\n\nChina is a leading supplier of smart city technology, with councils in the UK already purchasing cameras from its companies.\n\nMr Fleming said it was vital to ensure all the technologies were not from one place and to understand how data was being processed.\n\nThere were only a relatively small number of areas where the UK would need to completely control a technology, he said, and more broadly working with allies would be essential to shape international standards and to defend itself in cyberspace.\n\nAt home, the UK has to invest in skills and innovation.\n\nThe UK should not be \"fatalistic\", he said, and had a \"very strong track record\" of meeting technology challenges.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManchester City boss Pep Guardiola said the failed European Super League (ESL) was a \"closed chapter\" after his side beat Aston Villa to move closer to becoming Premier League champions.\n\nCity were one of 12 clubs to sign up to the breakaway ESL on Sunday, but withdrew on Tuesday after widespread criticism of the proposals, which would have seen no promotion or relegation and a split in English football.\n\n\"As a club we accept and learn and focus on the reason why we're here,\" said Guardiola, whose side need eight points from five matches to become English champions for the third time in four seasons.\n\n\"It's a chapter which is over, a closed chapter. They [the owners] don't need to apologise [to me], I know them, I know how they are.\"\n\nCity's win leaves them 11 points clear of Manchester United with Guardiola saying his side were \"so close\" to the title.\n\nHowever, they had a scare when centre-half John Stones was sent off just before the break for a knee-high challenge on Jacob Ramsey.\n\nBut Villa wasted the man advantage when Matty Cash was dismissed 11 minutes into the second half following two bookings in the space of three minutes.\n\nThe hosts had earlier gone ahead after only 20 seconds as John McGinn guided a shot past Ederson following Ollie Watkins' low cross.\n\nThe impressive Phil Foden finished off a fine City team move to equalise before Rodri headed what proved to be the winner following Bernardo Silva's cross.\n\nCity led 2-1 when they went down to 10 men, but Villa could not capitalise on the extra player and then offered little threat when it was 10-a-side.\n• None Relive Aston Villa v Manchester City as it happened, plus reaction and analysis\n\nA bad day for Stones, but his red does not cost City\n\nStones has been in fine form this season, making more Premier League appearances than he managed in 2019-20, with his performances earning an England recall after 16 months out of the national side.\n\nHowever, with Three Lions boss Gareth Southgate in the stands, it was an evening to forget for the 26-year-old.\n\nHe was caught out in the first few seconds of the match when he failed to collect a long ball from England team-mate Tyrone Mings, enabling Watkins to set up McGinn for the joint quickest Premier League goal of the season.\n\nStones was then shown a straight red card for a reckless challenge on Ramsey near the halfway line and in front of the two dugouts.\n\nAfter a check by the video assistant referee Jarred Gillett, on-field referee Peter Banks watched the incident on a pitchside monitor and showed the red card to Stones, although Guardiola was unhappy with the decision and remonstrated with the officials.\n\nStones will be suspended for Sunday's Carabao Cup final against Tottenham at Wembley as City, who are also in the Champions League semi-finals, aim to pick up the first of a potential three trophies this season.\n\nWith a man advantage, Villa's Douglas Luiz curled a 25-yard effort straight at Ederson but the match swung back in City's favour following two Cash challenges on Foden, the second of which was a sliding challenge that wiped out the England midfielder close to the touchline.\n\nFrom then on City were able to dominate possession and now only need three more league wins to become English champions for the seventh time in their history.\n\nThe build-up to the match at Villa Park had been dominated by talk of the European Super League.\n\nCity were one of six English teams - along with Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester United and Tottenham - to join three sides from Spain and three from Italy in the proposed new closed competition.\n\nHowever, Sunday's announcement, brought widespread criticism and anger from fans, managers, other clubs and politicians, with Guardiola himself saying football \"is not a sport if success is guaranteed or if it doesn't matter when you lose\".\n\nCity were one of the first to announce their withdrawal from the ESL on Tuesday evening and there was no repeat of the protests that had seen angry fans demonstrating before Liverpool's match at Leeds on Monday, Chelsea's home game versus Brighton on Tuesday and Tottenham's encounter with Southampton earlier on Wednesday.\n\nThis was a game that again highlighted the exciting and thrilling nature of the Premier League and City's play after going a goal behind was a joy to watch.\n\nTheir equaliser started with goalkeeper Ederson knocking a fine 50-yard ball to the left wing where Olexandr Zinchenko played it to the superb Foden. The 20-year-old drilled a low pass to Riyad Mahrez and the Algerian released the overlapping Silva on the right flank and his pull-back was steered into the net by Foden.\n\nThe second goal was another well-worked one as Rodri powerfully headed in from another Silva assist.\n\nNot only have City scored the most goals in the Premier League, they also have the best defensive record and successfully managed to stifle Villa in the second half to take a big step towards another title.\n\nAfter the match, City boss Pep Guardiola said of Foden: \"This guy is growing. His influence in our games is massive. He's becoming a serious player.\n\n\"Phil right now is becoming such an important player. His influence in the final third is so important.\"\n\n'They schooled us' - what they said\n\nAston Villa boss Dean Smith, speaking to BBC Match of the Day: \"We made a great start. It was something we had spoken about. We have one of the best players in the league who can run in behind the oppositions defence in the shape of Ollie Watkins.\n\n\"We defended reasonably well. It was probably the manner of the goals we conceded that was most disappointing. Cashy will learn from that. The second [booking] was stupid and reckless.\n\n\"Some of Manchester City's play play was outstanding. They schooled us at times.\n\n\"I've been involved in professional football for 34 years and I haven't seen football come together like it has this week. That shows you how outraged people were at the [ESL] plans.\"\n\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola speaking to BBC Match of the Day: \"Not the start I dreamt of but we reacted very well, we played so good with and without the ball. Ten against 11, we reacted well, we played so good.\"\n\nOn John Stones' red card: \"He's late but the intention to kick him is not there, he wouldn't go there with intention, he's not aggressive with the feet, he's just late. It's tough, playing a lot of minutes, good learning for him. Even with 10 men we played good, when we had the ball we played good.\"\n\nOn distraction of Super League: \"After that game it doesn't look like it did distract us, we were focused, of course everyone was concerned, but the players were focused on this game. We are so close. Cup final and Champions League and then Crystal Palace.\"\n\nAnother away win for Manchester City - the stats\n• None Manchester City have won each of their last 10 Premier League away games, becoming the first team to win 10 in a row on the road in the competition on more than one occasion (won 11 in a row between May-December 2017).\n• None Aston Villa boss Dean Smith has lost all five games against Man City during his managerial career - the most games he has managed against a single opponent losing 100% of those matches.\n• None Villa have lost nine of their last 11 Premier League games against the league leaders, with those defeats coming by an aggregate score of 24-6.\n• None City won a Premier League game having conceded the first goal for the first time since December 2019 versus Leicester (3-1), ending a run of 10 games without a win when conceding first (drew three, lost seven).\n• None City's Bernardo Silva has provided more Premier League assists in 2021 than any other player so far in this period (six - twice as many as the Portuguese assisted throughout 2020 in the top-flight (three).\n• None City's John Stones was been sent off for the first time in his Premier League career, in what was his 182nd appearance in the competition. It was only the sixth foul he had conceded in the league in 20 games this season.\n• None No player has scored more goals in all competitions before turning 21 for Pep Guardiola than Manchester City's Phil Foden (29 - level with Bojan).\n• None Villa's John McGinn's goal after 20 seconds was the second quickest goal Manchester City have conceded in Premier League history, after Alan Shearer's for Newcastle United after 10 seconds in January 2003.\n\nCity play Tottenham at Wembley in the Carabao Cup final on Sunday (16:30 BST), before Villa take on West Brom in a Premier League match later that day (19:00).\n• None Attempt missed. Bernardo Silva (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Riyad Mahrez.\n• None Attempt missed. Ilkay Gündogan (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high from a direct free kick.\n• None Attempt blocked. Riyad Mahrez (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ilkay Gündogan. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Meet the man who stole millions from work to sustain his gambling habit\n• None 'Food is more than calories': Different strategies to help you achieve a healthy weight", "Charities said countries \"ravaged\" by disease, war and poverty were among those losing aid\n\nCuts to humanitarian aid by the UK are a \"tragic blow for many of the world's most marginalised people\", 200 charities said in a joint statement.\n\nOrganisations including Save the Children and Oxfam said humanitarian assistance was being reduced by more than £500m.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said the changes reflected a \"strategic shift\" in UK aid spending.\n\nHe also said the £18m aid budget given to China will be reduced to £900,000.\n\nFollowing the economic shock of the coronavirus crisis, the chancellor cut the foreign aid budget from 0.7% to 0.5% of total national income - a reduction of around £4bn.\n\nThe Foreign Office controls 80% of aid spending - £8bn - and the priorities were set out by Mr Raab in a written statement.\n\nMore than £1bn will be spent on Covid and global health, £500m towards tackling climate change and £400m on getting girls into education.\n\nMr Raab said it was a \"challenging financial climate\" due to Covid-19, but said the government had sought \"maximum strategic coherence, impact and value for taxpayers' money\".\n\nBut aid charities said even the priority areas were receiving less than before, and £500m less was being spent on humanitarian aid.\n\nThe 200 charities, which also include Christian Aid and Care International, said: \"Today's announcement is a tragic blow for many of the world's most marginalised people the UK once supported, and for the UK's reputation as a trusted development partner.\n\n\"The government has not even spared countries ravaged by humanitarian crisis, disease, war and poverty.\"\n\nKevin Watkins, chief executive of Save the Children, accused the government of \"making cuts with no consideration for the human harm they will cause\" after reducing aid in Yemen, \"the world's biggest humanitarian crisis\".\n\nThe government announced it was cutting foreign aid last November but it has still to say precisely where the axe will fall. Charities are waiting anxiously to see which programmes will lose funding, and which will survive.\n\nBut we are getting some indications from government now about its priorities: climate change, Covid and global health, girls' education, supporting open societies, trade and economic development and so on.\n\nThe numbers announced by the Foreign Office allow charities to calculate how much less will be spent on each area than before. That will help them plan. What these numbers will not do is diminish the controversy.\n\nMinisters argue the decision to cut aid has been made, it is time to decide how best to make it happen.\n\nBut aid charities and many MPs - including a goodly number of Conservatives - still oppose the cuts and are working to stop them. Plans for a legal challenge are being considered.\n\nCritics say the government can't ignore a legally binding target to spend 0.7 per cent of national income on aid.\n\nThe FCDO reckons it can make the cuts without holding a vote to change the law. Campaigners might want a judge to decide who is right.\n\nFor now, the government is pressing ahead with cuts it says are needed to keep the Treasury in funds for other priorities.\n\nOf the £8bn, the Foreign Office will give more than £3bn to multilateral organisations, such as the World Bank.\n\nHalf of all UK bilateral aid will be spent in Africa, a third in the Indo-Pacific and South Asia.\n\nThe remaining humanitarian aid budget, focused on countries most at risk of famine such as Yemen, Syria, Somalia and South Sudan, is £906m.\n\nMr Raab also announced he would cut Foreign Office aid to China by 95%, to £900,000.\n\nBut other parts of government, such as the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, give more aid to China and have yet to say if they will cut their payments too.", "Percy Seivewright Stoby moved to the UK from Guyana and served in the British Army during World War One.\n\nDavid Matthews, author of Voices of a Windrush Generation, tells the story of his great-uncle Percy and other black officers who faced discrimination and an \"unofficial colour bar\" while serving their country.\n\n\"People from the Caribbean and throughout the commonwealth that have served in the British Military deserve the utmost respect and as much appreciation as soldiers born in this country,\" Mr Matthews said.", "Jack Croucher passed in Torquay with no minor faults\n\nIt's one of the most nerve-wracking experiences out there - taking your driving test.\n\nThey've been suspended since January because of lockdown, but started again in England and Wales on Thursday.\n\nJack Croucher, 22, managed to get hold of a test at \"really short notice\" - so only had three days to prepare.\n\nHe passed his test with no minor faults but in part credits his dad, who is a professional driving instructor, for free tuition during lockdown.\n\n\"I had no official lessons - I'd just drive around with my dad, I haven't paid for a lesson,\" he says.\n\n\"Driving up [to the test centre] I was really nervous but once I got into the flow of it, it went really easy and I enjoyed it.\"\n\nTom Davis, 17, was the first person to pass at his test centre in Carmarthen in Wales on Thursday morning.\n\n\"I originally booked it in December - I was ready then but obviously we went into lockdown and I couldn't do it,\" he says.\n\nThe carpenter apprentice has had to rely on his mum, who's a teacher, to get him to work every day for the last few months.\n\n\"Getting to work was an absolute nightmare, I work half an hour away so it's quite the drive,\" he says.\n\nThere was added pressure on Tom to pass - demand for tests is so high he could have had to wait until the summer to retake it.\n\n\"This week I actually thrashed it with my driving instructor, we were out every day, three to four hours a day - I just wanted to pass to be honest,\" he says.\n\nTom bought his car before the last lockdown started and says he can't wait to finally drive it.\n\n\"I'll probably drive to work tomorrow morning, then I'll go see my grandmother - she lives quite far away so that will be nice.\"\n\nCourtney Osborn can't wait to take her son out in the car\n\n22-year-old Courtney Osborn is also going to use her new-found freedom to go visit her gran - after passing her test on Thursday morning.\n\n\"I started [learning to drive] in December 2019 and already had had two tests cancelled because of lockdown,\" she says.\n\nTo get back up to speed in time for the test, Courtney took part in an intensive course when lessons resumed earlier this month.\n\nCourtney, who isn't working at the moment, lives in a village in Norfolk and says it's been frustrating not being able to drive anywhere.\n\n\"It's been really hard being stuck and now I can take my son out.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Britain's jobs growth is being led by cities and towns in the North and Midlands, according to a report.\n\nHiring has gathered pace since lockdown started to ease, but the growth is unevenly spread, joint research by the Centre of Cities think-tank and jobs site Indeed found.\n\nBarnsley and Mansfield have seen the biggest rises in job vacancies, while Aberdeen and Belfast had the lowest.\n\nThe study analysed vacancies in 63 cities and large towns.\n\nIt found that in some parts of the country job postings now exceed their pre-pandemic level. Nine cities or towns now have more job vacancies than before the pandemic, led by Barnsley (+21%), Mansfield (20%) and Stoke (17%).\n\nOther places where postings have recovered least are led by Aberdeen (-53%), Belfast (-39%) and Crawley (-39%). Towns and cities in south east England figured heavily among places at the bottom of the recovery list.\n\nLondon is among the areas showing the slowest recovery, with job postings in the capital still 26% below their pre-pandemic level.\n\nElena Magrini, senior analyst at the Centre for Cities, said: \"Places reliant on tourism, aviation and office workers have been particularly hard hit and still have high shares of people who are unemployed or on furlough.\"\n\nCrawley, for example, is home to Gatwick Airport, which has been hard hit by job cuts due to the coronavirus collapse in air travel.\n\nMs Magrini added that despite the patchy recovery, there are reasons for optimism. \"Once we have reopened the economy, policy makers need to focus on building back better - growing the economy by creating better paid, higher skilled jobs for people right across the country,\" she said.\n\nThe improving picture in the North and Midlands was partly driven by the mix of available jobs.\n\nRecoveries have been strongest in areas with a greater pre-pandemic share of postings in occupations related to the production and distribution of goods, such as manufacturing, driving and stocking, as well as essential services like healthcare, social care and education.\n\nOn the other hand, places with a higher share of pre-pandemic job opportunities in food and beverage services and hospitality and tourism are lagging behind.\n\nPawel Adrjan, head of EMEA research at Indeed, said: \"Cities and towns in the North and Midlands have been buoyed by rising manufacturing, distribution, healthcare and education jobs. But at the same time areas reliant on hospitality, tourism and higher paying jobs that can be performed from home have seen only sluggish growth.\n\n\"We've seen how quickly the jobs market reacts to policy and public health announcements and policy makers will hope the eventual unwinding of Covid-19 restrictions will help level up the jobs recovery.\"", "The 25-minute pursuit ended when Hercules lost control and crashed into a ditch\n\nA man who never held a driving licence fled from police he wrongly believed were after him in a 110mph car chase.\n\nTracy Hercules, 22, sped away when he saw a patrol car approach with its blue lights and siren on.\n\nThe officers, who had been heading to an unrelated call, gave chase, pursuing Hercules for 25 minutes until he crashed into a ditch.\n\nHercules, who admitted dangerous driving, was jailed for eight months at Lincoln Crown Court.\n\nEdna Leonard, prosecuting, told the court the defendant had pulled out in front of the police car near Spalding, Lincolnshire, on 8 March.\n\nHe then drove at speeds of up to 110mph (177km/h) in a 60mph limit area in a bid to get away, the court was told.\n\n\"He twice went through red traffic lights and caused other drivers to take evasive action to avoid a collision,\" Ms Leonard said.\n\n\"At one point he smashed into a traffic bollard while turning right and damaged his vehicle.\n\n\"Smoke was coming from the tyres, but Hercules continued driving at high speed through Baston [village] at 60mph in a 30-limit area, causing fear to two pedestrians,\" she told the court.\n\nPolice later deployed a stinger, but the defendant drove through it, again travelling at speed before losing control and ending up in a ditch, the prosecutor added.\n\nRecorder Charles Falk, passing sentence, told him: \"This was seriously bad driving.\n\n\"You put your life in danger, the lives of police officers in danger and the lives of members of the public in danger.\"\n\nHercules, of Wellington Way, Market Deeping, admitted charges of dangerous driving, having no licence or insurance and possession of cannabis.\n\nHe was also issued with a 22-month driving ban.\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Senators have grilled Apple and Google in Washington over \"anti-competitive\" behaviour related to their app stores.\n\nRepresentatives from Tile, Spotify and Match also gave evidence, accusing the two tech firms of charging exorbitant fees and copying their ideas.\n\nBoth Apple and Google's app stores charge fees of up to 30% for in-app purchases.\n\nThe two companies said the fees were justified to provide security for users.\n\nThe Senate Judiciary Committee's antitrust panel focussed on claims that Apple's App Store and Google's Google Play are anti-competitive.\n\nSenator Amy Klobuchar said that Apple's App Store was a \"literal monopoly\".\n\nShe said both stores \"exclude or suppress apps that compete with their own products\" and \"charge excessive fees that affect competition in the app store economy\".\n\nGoogle Play and the App Store are where the vast majority of apps worldwide are downloaded.\n\nDevelopers claim that because of a lack of competition Apple and Google can charge extortionate rates.\n\nThere were also claims that Apple used its App Store to unfairly compete with rivals.\n\nThe hearing came a day after Apple launched its new product: AirTags. These can be attached to items like car keys to help users find them.\n\nThe product looks very similar to something already on the market - Tile.\n\nTile's General Counsel Kirsten Daru said \"We welcome competition but it has to be fair competition and Apple's idea of competing is patently unfair.\"\n\nShe also accused Apple of preventing Tile from using the technology behind Apple's Find My function, giving AirTags an unfair advantage.\n\nApple said the product was different. \"We didn't copy Tile's product... It's extremely different to anything else on the market,\" said Apple's Chief Compliance Officer, Kyle Andeer.\n\nSpotify also accused Apple of using its App Store to charge unfair rates - something Spotify's Head of Global Affairs, Horacio Gutierrez, described as an \"Apple Tax\".\n\nHe also said that Apple directly competed with Spotify with Apple Music, and the in-app charges had made Spotify less competitive.\n\n\"They are undercutting us on price,\" he said.\n\nHe also criticised Apple for having rules that meant they were unable to tell customers that the service was cheaper if it was bought away from the App Store.\n\nApple said that Spotify had \"been incredibly aggressive when it comes to dealing with artists and creators, and driving a hard bargain\".\n\nMr Andeer said that \"less than 1% of Spotify users pay a commission to Apple\".\n\nMatch, which owns Tinder, also criticised Apple and Google for the charges it had to pay.\n\n\"It is iron-fisted monopoly control,\" said Match General Counsel Jared Sine.\n\n\"When an industry player has the power to dictate how apps operate, how much they will be forced to pay, and in many cases, if they will even survive, it is a monopoly.\"\n\nBoth Apple and Google rejected the idea that their app stores were monopolies - and said the charges were fair.\n\nOn 3 May, Apple and Epic Games, maker of the popular game Fortnite, will begin a court case in their dispute over the App Store charges.\n\nJames Clayton is the BBC's North America technology reporter based in San Francisco. Follow him on Twitter @jamesclayton5.", "David Cameron resigned as prime minister in 2016, following the Brexit referendum\n\nThe Treasury has published 40 pages of messages relating to its contact with David Cameron and Greensill Capital.\n\nThe former PM is embroiled in a row over attempts to lobby top officials on behalf of the financial firm.\n\nIt had already come to light that Mr Cameron contacted the chancellor and two other ministers about Greensill.\n\nBut the emails also revealed former Cabinet Secretary Sir Mark Sedwill \"connected\" Lex Greensill with the Treasury in March 2020.\n\nOther emails and texts - released as a result of a Freedom of Information request - showed contact between senior civil servants in the department and the former PM and financier.\n\nThey also showed the rejection letters for Greensill's appeal for access to government-backed loans during the pandemic.\n\nEarlier, the Bank of England said Mr Cameron had contacted it multiple times last year as the finance firm sought access to a Covid loan scheme.\n\nThe Treasury's top civil servant, Sir Tom Scholar, also told MPs Mr Cameron had called and texted him on his official phone.\n\nBut he added that Greensill's proposals were ultimately rejected.\n\nThree MP-led inquiries and a lawyer-led government review are looking at Mr Cameron's work for the company, which collapsed in March.\n\nThe former Conservative leader, who began working for Greensill as an adviser two years after leaving Downing Street, has insisted he broke no lobbying rules but accepted he should have contacted ministers using more formal channels.\n\nBut Labour's shadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds said the correspondence showed the firm \"was carrying the begging bowl from the Bank of England to the Treasury and back\".\n\n\"We need to understand why Greensill Capital was given so much time and access to the Treasury, and why so much public money was put at risk.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, the Bank of England released details of contacts between Mr Cameron and its officials, in response to Freedom of Information requests.\n\nThey show the ex-PM contacted Bank officials before and after the firm applied to join a government scheme to support lending to businesses.\n\nAlongside the Treasury, the Bank had been running the Covid Corporate Financing Facility (CCFF), set up in the early stages of the pandemic.\n\nGreensill had wanted the terms of the CCFF changed so it could take part - a request the Treasury went on to reject, after concluding the firm's proposals were not suitable.\n\nThe published correspondence from the Bank of England includes email exchanges with Sir Jon Cunliffe, the Bank's deputy governor.\n\nIn one email from early April, Mr Cameron told Sir Jon that Greensill had \"failed to get anywhere\" with its proposals, despite \"numerous conversations\" with the Treasury.\n\nIn another email to him later in the month, the ex-PM said Greensill's inability to access the scheme had proved \"incredibly frustrating\".\n\nRecords show a phone call later took place between Sir Jon and Lex Greensill, the firm's Australian founder, to discuss the firm's ideas further.\n\nThey show Sir Jon telling Mr Greensill his firm fell outside the \"boundaries of the scheme\" - and changing these would be a decision for the Treasury.\n\nThe Bank of England was involved in the government's CCFF loans scheme\n\nEarlier on Wednesday, Sir Tom - the Treasury's permanent secretary - said Greensill Capital had \"persistently\" approached his department about being involved.\n\nGiving evidence to MPs on the the Public Accounts Committee, he added: \"We listened to what they said. We analysed it, we tested it and in the end, despite them submitting a series of successive proposals, we decided to reject them all.\"\n\nSir Tom, who previously worked for the former PM as a Europe adviser, told them Mr Cameron had rung him directly in April 2020, although the call did not include \"substantive discussion\" of Greensill's proposals.\n\n\"It was simply a call to draw it to my attention,\" he said, adding that Mr Cameron had his work phone number \"because I used to work with him\".\n\nAsked if he would have taken a call from a lobbyist if they hadn't been a former prime minister, Sir Tom said: \"I've also from time-to-time had calls from other senior people, maybe private sector people who I've previously worked with in another capacity.\"\n\nHe added: \"I think it's natural when somebody that you know asks to speak to you... it's quite natural to take that.\"\n\nThe second most senior official at the Treasury, Charles Roxburgh, told the committee he had met Mr Cameron and Mr Greensill at nine meetings spread out over four months from March to June 2020.\n\nMr Roxburgh told the committee civil servants would not have consulted on their proposals \"if we didn't think there was some potential - turns out there wasn't\".", "Tackling climate change is about \"growth and jobs\" not \"expensive bunny hugging\", Boris Johnson has said.\n\nSpeaking at a virtual summit, the prime minister told world leaders \"we can build back better from this pandemic by building back greener.\"\n\nAt the same event, US President Joe Biden pledged to cut carbon emissions by 50-52% below 2005 levels by 2030.\n\nMr Johnson praised Mr Biden for \"returning the US to the front rank of the fight against climate change\".\n\nOne of Mr Biden's first acts as president was to rejoin the Paris climate agreement, months after his predecessor Donald Trump had taken the US out.\n\nForty other leaders attended the summit including China's President Xi Jinping who reiterated a promise to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060.\n\nIt is hoped that all countries will commit to further carbon emission cuts at the COP26 conference due to be held in Glasgow this November.\n\nEarlier this week, the UK government announced its own plans to cut carbon emissions by 78% compared to 1990 levels by 2035.\n\nLabour welcomed the new commitment - which brings the current target forward by 15 years - but said the government \"can't be trusted to match rhetoric with reality\".\n\nThe party's shadow environment secretary Ed Miliband urged ministers to match promises with \"much more decisive action\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Joe Biden urged nations to help \"overcome the existential crisis of our time\"\n\nIn his speech to the Leaders Summit on Climate, Mr Johnson said UK's carbon emissions were lower than at any point since the 19th century.\n\nHe also praised the wind power sector in the country, describing the UK as \"the Saudi Arabia of wind\".\n\nThe prime minister called on other countries to \"make this decade the moment of decisive change in the fight against climate change\" by setting their own tough targets on carbon emissions.\n\nHe also emphasised the connection between wildlife and climate, saying: \"If we're going to tackle climate change we have to deal with the disaster of habitat loss and species loss across our planet.\"\n\nAnd he sought to play up the economic benefits of fighting climate change arguing: \"It's vital for all of us to show that this is not all about some expensive, politically correct, green act of bunny hugging.\n\n\"What I'm driving at is this is about growth and jobs.\"\n\nThe prime minister's contribution to today's virtual climate jamboree included familiar lines from him: the UK being the \"Saudi Arabia of wind\" power and him being a man keen on having your cake and eating it: \"cake, have, eat\" as he put it.\n\nHe didn't dwell on what many say would be the colossal costs and changes society will have to take on to get to net zero emissions.\n\nThere is a bigger picture here too: the prime minister casting himself as a globally central figure in all this, ahead of the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow in November.\n\nMr Johnson welcomed the return of the United States \"to the front rank of the fight against climate change,\" with President Biden replacing Donald Trump.\n\nMr Biden will be an enthusiastic participant in Glasgow later this year, whereas it would have been far from certain a re-elected President Trump would have even turned up.\n\nClimate change, the ultimate international issue, has turned diplomacy green: for the prime minister, it is central to his vision for \"Global Britain.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I was sacked by text' - former veterans minister Johnny Mercer MP\n\nA former veterans minister has hit out at the government as \"the most distrustful, awful environment I've ever worked in\".\n\nTory MP Johnny Mercer told Times Radio \"almost nobody tells the truth,\" and election pledges had not been delivered.\n\nIt follows his departure over legal protections for British troops who fought during the conflict in Northern Ireland known as the Troubles.\n\nNo 10 has pledged action on the issue.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Newsnight in an interview that will air later on Wednesday, Mr Mercer said Boris Johnson had failed to deliver on promises to protect ex-soldiers who served in Northern Ireland from prosecution.\n\nHe told the programme he had been \"sacked by text\" after offering to resign at the end of Wednesday, but refusing to go earlier.\n\nOn Tuesday, a No 10 spokesperson said the PM had \"accepted\" Mr Mercer's resignation.\n\nLeo Docherty, who replaced Mr Mercer on Wednesday, promised legislation to offer \"protection\" to ex-soldiers who served during the Troubles.\n\nThey have been excluded from a bill making its way through Parliament which aims to prevent unfounded prosecutions over conflicts overseas.\n\nThe Overseas Operations Bill, which MPs debated on Wednesday, will only cover conflicts abroad such as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.\n\nMr Mercer told BBC Newsnight legislation for troops who fought in Northern Ireland had been promised repeatedly but \"has never appeared\".\n\n\"The government's been promising for a long time this bill. If I thought there was any prospect of that bill coming, I clearly would have stayed,\" he added.\n\nThe Plymouth Moor View MP said he had asked officials before his departure whether a \"single word had been committed to paper\" and had been told \"no\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Troubles: What led to Northern Ireland's conflict?\n\nSpeaking to Times Radio, he said \"nothing has been done\" over the issue of Northern Ireland veterans, despite previous Conservative commitments.\n\n\"Politics is a question of integrity, this whole trust thing,\" he added.\n\n\"This is the most distrustful, awful environment I've ever worked in, in government. Almost nobody tells the truth is what I've worked out over the last 36 hours.\n\n\"I don't think anyone really can get on their high horse about trust and ethics and all the rest of it in politics, because as far as I'm concerned, most of it is a bit of a cesspit\".\n\nOn Wednesday, the PM's official spokesman said details new legislation for Northern Ireland would be announced \"in the coming weeks\".\n\n\"There is more to be done on the issue of the Northern Ireland legacy and we are committed to making progress on this as quickly as possible,\" he added.\n\n\"We are engaging with Northern Ireland parties and the community in Northern Ireland, including victims' groups as well as the Irish government, on the way forward.\"\n• None Troubles prosecutions limit 'should apply to all'", "Ezekiel Hermon has lived in Saxelby House in the city for 25 years\n\nThe last resident in a Birmingham tower block says he feels \"isolated and vulnerable\" after waiting over two years for new council accommodation.\n\nEzekiel Hermon has lived in Saxelby House for 25 years. All other residents have been moved as part of demolition plans and he is being taken to court.\n\nHe lives in a two-bedroom flat and said he had not been offered suitable properties.\n\nThe city council said it sympathised and would continue to support him.\n\nThe tower block is being cleared to make way for more affordable homes in Birmingham, the local authority said.\n\nResidents started to be rehoused in April 2019 through a property bidding system, with tenants being offered two options as alternative accommodation.\n\nThe rehousing of residents began in April 2019, the council said\n\nTo date, the council said Mr Hermon had been given four alternatives, consisting of one- and two-bedroom properties, which have all been refused.\n\nBut Mr Hermon, 46, said he had only been offered one-bedroom retirement flats in high-rise tower blocks, which he said he could not face after becoming \"mentally imprisoned\" in his own home.\n\n\"I am 46 - when this started I was 44... I'm not retired?,\" he said.\n\n\"Why would I come out of a tower block to go back into a tower block? I've just got [been offered] one bedrooms.\"\n\nMr Hermon lives on the 12th floor of Saxelby House and says it is a strange living there with no neighbours\n\nMr Hermon said he was taking medication as a result of his situation, and was fearful of noises he heard at night.\n\n\"When you come back at the night, I just have to take a deep breath and shut everything out and go into my flat... seeing all the doors that once had your neighbours in... and you see them all gone... no-one will know exactly how it is to be up there,\" he said.\n\nThe council said his case had been looked at by the government ombudsman who supported the council in trying to find him alternative accommodation.\n\nRegular safety checks are made at the block and as no new accommodation has been found, the authority said it had \"reluctantly had to take his case to court\".\n\nThe tower blocks are to be cleared to make way for new homes\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.", "Tyne Cot is the largest cemetery for Commonwealth forces in the world, for any war\n\nThe act of Remembrance takes place every day of the year for the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.\n\nIt works to maintain more than one million headstones and memorials in 154 countries around the world to mark those who died in World War One and World War Two.\n\nTyne Cot cemetery near the town of Ypres in Belgium is where almost 12,000 soldiers who fought in World War One are buried.\n\nThese two soldiers died on the same day of the Battle of the Somme. One was a celebrated footballer and VC winner\n\n\"We are probably the world's largest gardener,\" Peter Francis from the Commission says, with staff mowing the equivalent of 1,000 football pitches every week.\n\nThe headstones are the same size surrounded by uniform lawns and flowers.\n\nThe Commission says everyone who died is treated equally, adding it \"doesn't matter whether you were killed in battle and awarded a Victoria Cross or whether you died from influenza\".\n\nA significant part of the Commission's work is making sure the inscriptions on headstones and memorial panels remain legible\n\nThe Commission employs 13,000 staff around the world - many of them locals. Four generations of the Jaradah family have been tending the Gaza cemetery that dates from WW1.\n\n\"I'm a son of the cemetery,\" Ibrahim, the youngest member of the family, says. \"I've grown up with these men.\"\n\nMeanwhile it's a husband and wife team, Shadrack Paull and Lusia Axalte, that look after the cemetery at Morogoro in Tanzania.\n\nThere is something familiar but different about each site, the Commission says, with design often dictated by the climate\n\nBen More Assynt in north-west Scotland is the most remote war grave in the UK. In April 1941 an RAF Anson bomber crashed on the mountain killing all six crew on board.\n\nThe grave was originally marked with a cairn, a man-made stack of stones, which deteriorated over time. In 2012 they flew in a new granite marker by RAF helicopter to replace the original stones.\n\nBen More Assynt is one of 13,000 locations in the UK with a war grave\n\nContinuing conflict can make the job of maintaining war graves more difficult.\n\nHowever, the Commission has recently managed to restore hundreds of graves at Habbaniya war cemetery, west of Baghdad in Iraq.\n\nThere are 54,000 war dead remembered in Iraq alone.\n\nWar-torn Yemen is another challenging location. The CWGC was recently informed of vandalism at the Maala cemetery in the south of the country.\n\nIt says it has already made replacement grave markers, but is waiting for safe access to the site to carry out repairs.\n\nCurrently it is not considered safe for Commission staff to undertake the necessary repair work\n\nEncroachment is another problem. In Nairobi farmers have been using the Kariokor cemetery to dry cow hides for sale.\n\nThe CWGC says it is working with local authorities to find a long-term solution.\n\nThough each cemetery has familiar themes with gardens and flowers, no two sites are exactly the same.\n\nPortland stone is often used for the headstones at the large cemeteries in Belgium and France while in Scotland granite is often used.\n\nIn Turkey the graves are marked with plinths rather than headstones because of the harsher climate.\n\nMore than 1,200 Commonwealth soldiers are buried at Lone Pine Cemetery in Gallipoli\n\n\"Remembrance is still a living, breathing process,\" says the CWGC.\n\nIt recently completed a memorial in Abuja, Nigeria, commemorating more than 2,000 Nigerian nationals who lost their lives serving with Commonwealth forces.\n\nAll pictures copyright of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.", "An artist's impression of the dinosaur whose remains scientists discovered in Chile\n\nScientists have identified a new species of dinosaur from parts of a skeleton found in northern Chile.\n\nThe creature's remains were unearthed in the Atacama desert - the world's driest - near the city of Copiapó.\n\nExperts say the plant-eating titanosaur had a small head and long neck, and an unusually flat back.\n\nStudies suggest the creature lived in what would then have been a lush landscape of flowering plants, ferns and palm trees.\n\nA team led by Chilean geologist Carlos Arévalo unearthed the remains in the 1990s and carried out research in the 2000s. The findings, published in the journal Cretaceous Research, were made public on Monday.\n\nThe remains, according to the team, included parts of a humerus, a femur and the ischium, and vertebral elements of the neck and back. They represent a small sub-adult individual, with an estimated length of 6.3m (20ft).\n\nThe creature was a sauropod, or a long-necked, long-tailed, plant-eating dinosaur. It was found in beds dating from the Late Cretaceous, the last epoch before dinosaurs were wiped out 66 million years ago.\n\nThe creature has been named Arackar licanantay, which means Atacama bones in the indigenous Kunza language.\n\nThe remains will eventually be exhibited in Chile's Museum of Natural History. The head of the museum's palaeontology area, David Rubilar, said: \"This represents a relevant milestone for the Chilean palaeontological heritage.\"\n\nThis is the third dinosaur named from Chile and the third titanosaur from the western side of the Andes in South America, the team said. In 2014, one of biggest dinosaurs ever discovered was unearthed in Argentina, also a titanosaur whose estimated length was more than 37m.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Pallab Ghosh reported on the 'biggest dinosaur ever' discovered in 2014\n• None 'One who causes fear' dinosaur found in Argentina", "More details about a controversial \"VIP\" fast-track route for PPE firms with connections to government have emerged in the High Court.\n\nOne official complained the procurement team was \"drowning\" in high priority requests without the correct certification or due diligence.\n\nCampaigners are challenging the government over directly awarding contracts during the pandemic.\n\nThe government said it worked tirelessly on PPE to protect NHS staff.\n\nDuring the Covid crisis, the government directly awarded contracts worth billions of pounds to companies offering to supply personal protective equipment, which would usually be opened to competing bids.\n\nCampaign groups The Good Law Project and EveryDoctor have joined together to challenge the government in the courts over the decisions it made in signing several of these deals, which were handled as part of a so-called VIP lane, reserved for leads endorsed by Whitehall officials or politicians.\n\nDuring an urgent hearing before the High Court, the campaigners' lawyers presented an email from an official working in the PPE sourcing team, which reveal concerns about this \"high priority\" route.\n\n\"We are currently drowning in VIP requests and 'high priority' contacts that despite all of our work and best efforts do not either hold the correct certification or do not pass due diligence,\" the unnamed official wrote.\n\nThe email says that an offer that jumped \"to the front of the queue\" had a \"knock on effect to the remaining offers of help\".\n\nThe BBC has been investigating problems with PPE purchased for NHS staff since last summer.\n\nOne of the deals being challenged concerns 50 million FFP2 face masks supplied by the firm Ayanda Capital, which now cannot be used in the NHS because of concerns over their fit.\n\nThe court heard the company was routed through the VIP lane because its representative, Andrew Mills, who had been chasing senior officials for a decision, was an advisor to the government's Board of Trade.\n\nAyanda Capital told the BBC the firm was not aware of the high priority lane and the allegations of \"cronyism\" around Mr Mills were \"unsustainable\".\n\nThe BBC has been told that his position played no part in the award of the contract.\n\nThe Good Law Project and EveryDoctor are also challenging the government over its decision to award contracts to a small Sussex-based pest control firm, Pestfix.\n\nIn February, the BBC revealed that 17 million high grade FFP3 face masks the company had supplied would not be used as intended because they failed testing.\n\nLawyers for the campaigners argued that information about the company's links with government was being kept from them because important details in emails had been blacked out by officials.\n\nThe government's spending watchdog has previously reported that the firm was put on the VIP lane by mistake. But emails disclosed in court show the company was \"known\" to a senior official in the Department of Health and Social Care via a relative.\n\nPestfix has previously told the BBC it is proud of its role sourcing PPE to meet the shortages in the NHS during the pandemic.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"All PPE procurement went through the same eight-step assurance process and, in conjunction with those checks, due diligence is carried out on every contract and ministers have no involvement in deciding who is awarded them.\"\n\nUpdate 4 May 2021: Tim Horlick, chief executive of Ayanda Capital, insisted the masks were \"not unusable or unsafe\" and had met all required standards.", "India has joined the UK's travel red list - effectively banning travel - as a deadly second wave of infections sweeps the country.\n\nBritish and Irish nationals can travel to the UK from India, but they must now isolate in a government-approved hotel.\n\nIndia has seen soaring infection rates, a rapidly rising death toll and the discovery of a new virus variant.\n\nThe spike has overwhelmed hospitals, creating a critical shortage of oxygen, intensive care beds and ventilators.\n\nOn Friday, India recorded 332,730 coronavirus cases, the highest one-day tally anywhere in the world for the second day in a row. Daily deaths from Covid-19 rose by a record 2,263 in the previous 24 hours.\n\nAt least two hospitals in the Indian capital Delhi are running out of oxygen, and at least 13 patients have died after a fire broke out in the intensive care unit of a hospital set up to treat Covid patients near Mumbai.\n\nThe rising number of cases has resulted in a deepening healthcare crisis that has gripped several states, and India's top court has asked the central government for a national plan by Friday on bolstering supply, oxygen, medicine, treatment and vaccines.\n\nNayan Gangyan is facing a 10-day hotel quarantine when he flies back to London from northern India on Saturday. He travelled to Chandigarh a few weeks ago, when his parents both contracted coronavirus.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast he was left feeling \"helpless\" in the UK when his father's oxygen levels dropped, there were no beds available in hospital and his mother started to panic.\n\n\"It was at that point that I decided 'my family needs help and I need to go back come what may',\" he says.\n\nHe says the situation in India is \"really bad\", with the government healthcare system \"completely overrun\". But they eventually managed to get his father admitted to a hospital where he had previously undergone a liver transplant, and he is doing \"much better now\".\n\nNow Nayan is preparing to return home to London. \"The flight as of now, it's running. I really hope that it does take off,\" he says.\n\n\"I've already booked my quarantine hotel so I'll be going straight there. I'll be landing [then] straight to the hotel and 10 days in the room.\"\n\nHis wife Vani, who has been watching from a distance from their London home, says it has been difficult \"not to be able to control or influence\" events.\n\nOn India's red list status, she says: \"We got just over three days' notice so very little time for us to actually affect the outcome or do anything.\n\n\"We're just in the position where we have to be okay. After Nayan's ordeal in India he has to go through another ordeal.\"\n\nTina Patel and her husband arrived back in the UK on Thursday from Pune, Maharashtra, after travelling to India in March to visit her father-in-law, who was ill due to old age and later died.\n\nShe told the BBC people in the city were \"desperate\" - trying to find hospital beds or a slot in the crematoriums. \"We left a city with ambulances wailing away day and night,\" she said.\n\n\"I left broken-hearted as there was nothing we could do but catch the BA flight last night and all we could do was to be thankful that we finally got home.\"\n\nFriday's travel rule change means direct flights from India are still permitted, but UK and Irish nationals, as well as those with residency rights, must isolate in government-approved hotels - at their own cost - for 10 days.\n\nTravel to the UK is banned for all others who have been in red-list countries in the past 10 days.\n\nThere are 40 countries on the government's red list across the Middle East, Africa, Asia and South America. Countries can be added to the list with just a few hours' notice.\n\nThere are specific rules for people arriving in each UK nation, including England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales.\n\nPublic Health England (PHE) confirmed on Thursday that a further 55 cases of the virus variant first identified in India - known as B.1.617 - were found in the UK in the latest week to 14 April.\n\nPHE experts are currently unsure whether any of the mutations mean the variant can be transmitted more easily, is more deadly or can evade the effectiveness of vaccines or natural immunity.\n\nThe final scheduled commercial flight ahead of the rule change - Vistara flight VTI017 - landed at London's Heathrow Airport at 18:48 on Thursday, according to FlightRadar24.\n\nFour airlines asked for a total of eight extra flights to arrive at the west London airport before the 04:00 deadline but were refused permission by airport authorities.\n\nHeathrow bosses are believed to have declined the requests to ensure pressures at the border, reported in recent weeks, were not exacerbated.\n\nLater scheduled arrivals from Delhi and Mumbai to Heathrow, and Delhi to Gatwick Airport, were cancelled on Thursday, airport data showed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Travellers returning from India: \"Oh my goodness, feeling so relieved\"\n\nSome of those who arrived before the red list change told the BBC they \"couldn't afford to stay away\" and \"had to get back to work\".\n\n\"Eventually, yesterday, a friend in the UK managed to book me a ticket from Mumbai to Manchester,\" Biju Mathew, a social services manager from Walsall, said.\n\nDemand for flights from India to the UK quickly became overwhelming after the government's red list announcement, according to Suresh Kumar, chairman of specialist travel agents Indra Travel.\n\n\"A lot of people were hoping that the [UK] government would have made arrangements for people trying to get back,\" he said. \"They were disappointed.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Scenes outside a hospital in Delhi, where people are dying without getting the treatment they need\n\nSpeaking on Tuesday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson - who cancelled an official visit to India due to take place next Monday - said the addition to the red list was a \"purely precautionary\" step over a new coronavirus variant.\n\nHe said: \"What we're seeing in India is a result of a variant under investigation, it hasn't yet been deemed a variant of concern - I think that was why there has been the delay.\"\n\nThe B.1.617 variant was first noted internationally in October and first identified in the UK on 22 February.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues in this story? Please share 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.", "The NI Executive will \"keep looking\" to see if Covid restrictions can be eased faster, First Minister Arlene Foster has said.\n\nBut she added the effect of restrictions due to be eased will need to be monitored.\n\nFrom Friday, close contact services such as hairdressers are to reopen and driving tests will resume.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said the issue will be kept under review.\n\nMrs Foster and Ms O'Neill were speaking together at the Mid Ulster Sports Arena in Cookstown on Thursday.\n\nCompetitive outdoor sport organised by a club or individuals can also resume without spectators and with no more than 100 people participating from Friday.\n\n\"Most people in Northern Ireland have been very careful,\" Mrs Foster said.\n\n\"They recognise what has been happening throughout this pandemic and I think they know that we have to take things in stages, but they do need hope. And of course we'll keep looking to see if we can move faster.\"\n\nBut she added transmission rates across Northern Ireland had to be monitored.\n\nMs O'Neill said there needs to be a \"cautious, steady as you go\" approach.\n\n\"I think there are better days ahead but we just need people to be careful and cautious,\" she said.\n\n\"We've always said we'll keep things under review and as soon as we can lift things we will and that remains the case.\n\nA day before some sectors re-open and the weather is reflecting the public's mood.\n\nBut while we are upbeat, even excited, health officials are appealing for caution.\n\nAs Arlene Foster advised this day last week - \"step out but step out carefully\".\n\nCoronavirus is still out there and wants to meddle. The vaccine doesn't mean normality - just yet.\n\nIn fact two patients who have been vaccinated are in ICU with symptoms. One has had one jab, the other their second dose.\n\nI understand that at least one of them has underlying health conditions and clinicians believe the vaccine has prevented their condition from deteriorating.\n\nAnd it's worth noting, that that is just two patients out of the nearly 900,000 people who have had one dose of the vaccine and the more than 300,000 who have had both - so it is working.\n\nAs shutters are pulled up in communities, inside hospitals and heads are down preparing for a possible fourth wave in the autumn.\n\nLaboratories are at the ready, braced for screening a continuing increase in Covid cases - alarm bells will ring if the Indian or potentially other variants are detected.\n\nBut on top of that hospitals are also preparing for a resurgence of flu.\n\nDoctors reckon we are in for a \"bad flu season.\" A double whammy where flu and Covid patients could be sitting side by side.\n\nCan we prevent flu and Covid-19 from taking hold? Probably not, but continuing to socially distance, wear masks and wash hands and getting vaccinated can determine just how severe outcomes might be.\n\nThe current Reproduction (R) number in Northern Ireland, which measures how quickly the virus is spreading, is estimated to be between 0.7 and 1.05, down from 0.95-1.4 the previous week.\n\nBut the average daily number of new cases being confirmed has risen slightly.\n\nThe seven-day rolling average of new positive cases is 41 per 100,000 people, up from 38 the previous week.\n\nThe report says the \"modest increase\" is particularly in the 0-11 age group, and appears to be stabilising.\n\nIt adds that it may be partly due to the return of school and the rollout of testing for close contacts.\n\nTaoiseach Micheál Martin told NI business leaders he was in regular contact with Stormont's first and deputy ministers about the pace of reopening\n\nEarlier, Taoiseach Micheál Martin said the easing of lockdown restrictions in NI and the Republic of Ireland will not be perfectly aligned.\n\nThe Irish government is not due to announce relaxations until next month.\n\nMr Martin told NI business leaders he was in regular contact with Stormont's first and deputy ministers about the pace of reopening.\n\n\"We keep each other informed,\" he said.\n\n\"But I don't see perfect alignment or anything in the next number of weeks. There will be some gaps.\"\n\nHe said this was primarily down to the differences in the speed of vaccination programmes in the two jurisdictions.\n\n\"We are moving at pace now, and hopefully both north and south can look forward to reopening in a cautious and phased way with restrictions, so long as numbers remain as they are now,\" he added.\n\nOutdoor visitor attractions in Northern Ireland will also be able to open their doors on Friday for the first time since lockdown was imposed after Christmas.\n\nStormont ministers agreed to the reopening dates earlier this month.\n\nOutdoor hospitality businesses and non-essential retail can open on 30 April.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Prison Service announced on Thursday that in-person visits will re-commence from 4 May. In-person visits have been suspended since just after Christmas.\n\n\"We will of course remain vigilant to the risk of the virus and this decision will be kept under review,\" said Northern Ireland Prison Service director general Ronnie Armour.\n\n\"However, I know this decision will be welcome news to the people in our care and their families.\"\n\nRobin Swann said was still concerned that his department was not getting full data from Passenger Locator Forms completed in the Republic of Ireland\n\nMeanwhile, Health Minister Robin Swann said there were still difficulties in getting information about flight passengers who are crossing the border into Northern Ireland.\n\nHe said he was still concerned that his department was not getting full data from Passenger Locator Forms completed in the Republic of Ireland.\n\n\"Progress has been made, but there is still difficulties in regards to data sharing processes is what I think the minister of foreign affairs referred to recently in a joint meeting with the secretary of state,\" the minister told the health committee.\n\n\"One of our protections actually is the small number of indirect or direct international flights that we're currently having to manage, so that is keeping us in a pretty secure place in regards to that.\"\n\nMrs Foster expressed frustration at the delay, and also revealed that Mr Swann only found out that the so-called Indian variant of the virus was in the Republic of Ireland from media reports.", "Sir James faced criticism in 2019 after announcing that he would relocate his firm's global head office\n\nHigh-profile businessman Sir James Dyson has moved his residency back to the UK from Singapore.\n\nHe now lives primarily in the UK according to filings for his companies, which include his family office.\n\nSir James had faced criticism after he announced that he would relocate his firm's global head office to Singapore in 2019.\n\nThis week he was also involved in a controversy over texting Prime Minister Boris Johnson about tax issues.\n\nA Dyson spokesman declined to comment on Sir James' residence and tax status but did say: \"The structure of the group and the business rationale underpinning it are unaltered.\"\n\n\"Singapore is, and remains, the global headquarters of Dyson, our leadership team is based here and it is the centre of our sales, engineering and manufacturing operations,\" he said.\n\nA prominent supporter of Brexit with an estimated fortune of more than $20bn, Sir James was criticised after the announcement in 2019 that Dyson was moving its headquarters to Singapore from Malmesbury in Wiltshire.\n\nAt the time, the company said just two senior executives would be relocated and no jobs would be lost in the UK as a result of the move.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Starmer: Is it right to change tax rules for Dyson?\n\nSir James has this week been at the centre of a political row in Britain after it was revealed that he texted Boris Johnson in March last year to get assurance that his staff would not face a change in their tax situation if they came to the UK to help make ventilators in response to Covid-19.\n\nThe texts - seen by the BBC - show Mr Johnson saying he could \"fix\" tax issues relating to Dyson staff who came to the UK to work on the pandemic.\n\nBut the prime minister's official spokesman said Mr Johnson had abided by the ministerial code, governing conduct in office, and had \"informed officials in a timely manner\" after his contact with Sir James.\n\nLabour has called for a \"thorough investigation\" into Mr Johnson's contacts with Sir James.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir James Dyson says leaving the EU has given the UK \"freedom of spirit\"\n\nWhen Sir James announced Dyson would move its global headquarters, he was accused of hypocrisy, after arguing in the run-up to the Brexit referendum that the UK would gain more from leaving the EU than it would lose.\n\nHowever, in a recent interview with the BBC, he said: \"We're a British company - I've put a lot into this country.\n\n\"I can't make things here and bring over all the components from the Far East here, assemble them here and then send them back to the Far East. That just doesn't work.\"\n\nEarlier this month, Dyson announced plans to create 200 new jobs at its research facilities in Malmesbury and Hullavington, Wiltshire.\n\nThe plans are part of a £2.75bn global investment plan into emerging technologies and products.\n\nSir James said the end of the UK's transition period with the EU had enabled Dyson to hire the engineering talent it was lacking in the UK.\n\nFreedom of movement between the UK and EU has ended and the government has introduced a points-based immigration system which it says \"treats all applicants equally, regardless of where they come from\".\n\nHowever, some argue that UK companies who want to hire from outside the EU are in no better position than before Brexit, while attempts to hire EU workers now face significant costs and administration that did not exist before.\n\nThe text messages between Sir James Dyson and the PM show his concern about the Statutory Residence Test for his company's ability to help make ventilators.\n\nThis test is designed to ensure that those working abroad and not paying UK income tax, really do work abroad and have few ties to the UK.\n\nThey are quite complex, but broadly speaking if total or consecutive days are spent in the UK above some threshold, or if they are spent working, than the worker no longer qualifies for non residence. In the case of a Singapore-resident Briton that would mean earnings incurring a tax rate of up to 45% in the UK rather than up to 22% there.\n\nSir James is lobbying the PM, that if, as requested by Mr Johnson in mid-March, help is needed making ventilators, then this barrier to spending more time in the UK needs to be set aside. The Dyson owner clearly felt it was a material barrier to his ability to help.\n\nIn the end, the project did not proceed. JCB did make housings for Dyson's prototypes. But it proved too challenging for a new design to get rigorous medical safety approvals. The project to supply the UK was paused on 24 April. Manufacturers turned to mass manufacture of an existing design.\n\nBut the government did change the law, with Section 190 of the Finance Bill disregarding working days between March and June 2020 from residence calculations, for those working on treatment, prevention and medical products to deal with the pandemic.\n\nIt is unclear how many workers benefitted from this provision, at Dyson or elsewhere. Indeed, it might not become clear, even to tax authorities, until that financial year's returns are filed next January.", "E.On will pay more than £650,000 in compensation after the energy giant took payments from customers earlier than agreed, leaving some people facing financial difficulties over Christmas.\n\nEnergy regulator Ofgem said the firm took money from 1.6 million customers on 24 December instead of in January.\n\nConsequently, customers may have experienced \"difficulty making payments in the run up to Christmas\".\n\nOfgem said E.On reported the problem on the day it occurred.\n\nIt added that the company had continued to engage with Ofgem in January and February this year.\n\nE.On has paid more than £55,000 to customers who said they had \"suffered additional bank charges, out of pocket expenses or other detriment, as a result of the direct debits being taken early\".\n\nThe company has also agreed to pay £627,312 to Ofgem's energy redress fund which, as well as being available for customers who have been affected by this issue, also supports \"energy consumers in vulnerable situations\".\n\nThe payments were taken early after E.On had made changes to \"friendly credit hours for pre-payment customers between Christmas and New Year\".\n\nThe regulator said: \"Ofgem considers that E.On failed to conduct the appropriate checks to ensure that this would not lead to any unintended consequences for customers.\"\n\nThe BBC reported on Christmas Eve that customers faced being overdrawn with their banks over the festive period because of the early payment.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Vicki Stafford This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMany also experienced problems getting through to E.On for an explanation.\n\nAnna Rossington, Ofgem's director of retail, said: \"Ofgem expects suppliers to adhere to the terms of contracts they have with customers, in particular the agreed direct debit payment dates.\n\n\"This failure is a reminder to suppliers that when making changes to their systems, they need to undertake appropriate checks to avoid any unintended consequences for customers.\"\n\nThe energy company said it would continue to make redress and goodwill payments to customers who make legitimate claims in relation to this issue.\n\nMs Rossington said: \"Customers who have been negatively affected and haven't already spoken to E.On about it, should contact E.On if they wish to make a claim for any bank charges or other detriment caused by the early direct debit payments.\"", "The Moxie unit is about the size of a toaster\n\nAn instrument on Nasa's Perseverance rover on Mars has made oxygen from the planet's carbon dioxide atmosphere.\n\nIt's the second successful technology demonstration on the mission, which flew a mini-helicopter on Monday.\n\nThe oxygen generation was performed by a toaster-sized unit in the rover called Moxie - the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment.\n\nIt made 5 grams of the gas - equivalent to what an astronaut at Mars would need to breathe for roughly 10 minutes.\n\nNasa's thinking is that future human missions would take scaled-up versions of Moxie with them to the Red Planet rather than try to carry from Earth all the oxygen needed to sustain them.\n\nOxygen (O₂) is also an integral part of the chemistry that propels a rocket. Thrust is achieved by burning a fuel in the presence of an oxidiser, which could be simple oxygen.\n\nThe Perseverance rover landed on Mars in mid-February\n\nMars' atmosphere is dominated by carbon dioxide (CO₂) at a concentration of 96%. Oxygen is only 0.13%, compared with 21% in Earth's atmosphere.\n\nMoxie is able to strip oxygen atoms from CO₂ molecules, which are made up of one carbon atom and two oxygen atoms. The waste product is carbon monoxide, which is vented to the Martian atmosphere.\n\nThe Nasa team behind Moxie is running the unit in different modes to discover how well it works.\n\nThe expectation is that it can produce up to 10 grams of O₂ per hour.\n\n“Moxie isn’t just the first instrument to produce oxygen on another world, it’s the first technology of its kind that will help future missions 'live off the land', using elements of another world’s environment, also known as in-situ resource utilisation,” said Trudy Kortes, director of technology demonstrations within Nasa’s Space Technology Mission Directorate.\n\n\"It’s taking regolith, the substance you find on the ground, and putting it through a processing plant, making it into a large structure, or taking carbon dioxide – the bulk of the atmosphere – and converting it into oxygen. This process allows us to convert these abundant materials into useable things: propellant, breathable air, or, combined with hydrogen, water.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch Ingenuity climb to 3m, hover and then set down\n\nNasa will attempt to fly its Ingenuity helicopter again on Thursday.\n\nThe mini-chopper made history this week by performing the first powered, controlled flight by an aircraft on another world.\n\nFor its second sortie, the drone will raise itself to 5m above the ground, move sideways by 2m, swivel and take some pictures, before reversing back to the take-off spot to land.", "Heathrow Airport has refused to allow extra flights from India before the country is added to the UK travel red list on Friday.\n\nIt turned down the requests from airlines because of concerns about queues at passport control.\n\nThe airport told the BBC that it did not want to exacerbate existing pressures at the border by allowing more passengers to fly in.\n\nFrom 0400 on Friday many arrivals from India will be refused entry.\n\nBritish and Irish passport holders, and people with UK residence rights, will be allowed in, but must quarantine in hotels for 10 days.\n\nLast week, a director at the airport said the situation at the border - which is operated by the Home Office - had become \"untenable\" because of delays in processing arriving passengers.\n\nFour carriers requested to operate an additional eight flights from India as travellers seek to fly before the enforced quarantine comes into effect. Currently, 30 flights a week are operating between the UK and India.\n\nThe Civil Aviation Authority confirmed that it also received applications for charter flight permits from India to the UK - but these had been declined or withdrawn as they did not meet the qualifying criteria.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"We are in a global health pandemic - people should not be travelling unless absolutely necessary.\n\n\"Every essential check helps avoid the risk of importing dangerous variants of coronavirus which could put our vaccine rollout at risk.\"\n\nSince then, online travel agent Skyscanner said searches for flights returning to the UK from India had increased by more than 250%.\n\nWhen the new rules come into effect, anyone arriving in England or Scotland from India will need to stay in a government-sanctioned quarantine hotel for 10 days and follow a strict coronavirus testing regime at their own expense.\n\nThere are currently no direct international flights from India into Wales or Northern Ireland.\n\nIn England, a stay in one of the quarantine hotel costs £1,750 per passenger travelling alone. That includes transport, tests, food and accommodation.\n\nEvery additional adult, or child over 12, must pay £650, while children aged five to 12 pay £325.\n\nA briefing document drawn up by officials at Public Health England shows that between 25 March and 7 April, 3,345 arrivals from India were registered in UK border travel data. Of those 161 - or 4.8% - tested positive for Covid-19 after a PCR test.\n\nEarlier this week, Prime Minister Boris Johnson cancelled a planned trip to India, which had been due to take place on 26 April.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nThe European Super League is on \"standby\" despite nine of the 12 founding teams withdrawing, says Real Madrid president Florentino Perez.\n\nAfter a furious backlash against the proposed tournament that was announced on Sunday, all six Premier League clubs involved withdrew on Tuesday.\n\nSpanish club Atletico Madrid and Italian sides AC Milan and Inter Milan have also formally pulled out.\n\n\"We're going to continue working,\" said Perez. \"The project is on standby.\"\n\nOn Thursday night Manchester City midfielder Ilkay Gundogan raised concerns over plans to change the Champions League by adding more matches, saying it was just the \"lesser of two evils\" compared to the ESL.\n\nReal Madrid, Barcelona and Juventus have not withdrawn from the ESL, although Juventus chairman Andrea Agnelli said the project could not now proceed.\n\nBarcelona president Joan Laporta echoed Perez's comments, saying a new competition is required to ensure the financial health of the game.\n\n\"We will speak more about it when the time comes but for now we understand there is a need for it, even though our members will have the final say,\" Laporta told Catalan network TV3.\n\n\"Big clubs contribute a lot of resources and it's absolutely necessary that we have our say on the distribution of money [in European football].\"\n\nLaporta was named Barca president for a second time in March, taking the helm of a club in heavy debt.\n\nJavier Tebas, president of Spain's La Liga, said: \"If it [the Super League] was good for football, as Perez has said, they wouldn't have done it behind our backs.\"\n\nOn whether their would be sanctions from La Liga for the Spanish clubs, he added: \"We are not talking about sanctions.\n\n\"Everyone wants to cut people's heads off. We have to have a procedure and we have to see how it looks in the end. These clubs have been sanctioned by their own fans.\"\n\nSpeaking on the El Larguero show on Spanish radio station Cadena Ser, Super League chairman Perez claimed the project was not yet dead as all 12 clubs \"have not left yet\".\n\n\"You cannot get out of the contract like this - they are binding contracts,\" he added.\n\nWhen asked what the penalty was for leaving the project, Perez did not answer.\n• None Why the ESL failed - and will clubs try again?\n\nPerez reiterated his view that the ESL was created \"to save football\", having also previously said the move had been made because young people were \"no longer interested in football\" because of \"a lot of poor quality games\".\n\nHe added he was \"sad and disappointed\" by the reaction to the project, which the clubs have been working on \"for around three years\".\n\nHe accused Uefa president Aleksander Ceferin and various countries' footballing authorities of \"aggression\" and \"threats\" towards the ESL.\n\n\"Maybe we didn't explain it well, but they also didn't give us an opportunity to explain it,\" said the 74-year-old.\n\n\"I've been in football for 20 years and I've never seen threats like this. It was like we killed someone. It was like we killed football. But we were trying to work out how to save football.\"\n\nA revamped 36-team Champions League, starting in 2024, was agreed on Monday, although the ESL teams had said in its announcement of Sunday it did not think Uefa's reforms went far enough.\n\n\"The Champions League format is old and only interesting from the quarter-finals onwards,\" said Perez.\n\n\"This format clearly doesn't work, so we thought that we could have a format where the most important teams in Europe play against each other from the very beginning of the season.\n\n\"We worked out the numbers and felt we could make much more money, more money for all the other teams too.\"\n\nLaporta said talks with domestic leagues and Uefa remain necessary, and suggested the ESL would not be a closed off competition.\n\n\"It must be an attractive competition based on sporting merits,\" he said.\n\n\"We also will defend national leagues and we're open to having an open dialogue with Uefa.\n\n\"We always want to improve football and have the necessary revenues to ensure football remains a spectacle. If the big clubs don't continue to have large revenues then football will suffer.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Perez claimed one of English football's 'big six' - Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham - were reluctant about the ESL from the start.\n\n\"There was someone in the English group that didn't have much interest, I won't say who,\" he said.\n\n\"That began to infect others, who are also people of an age, and who are perhaps afraid because they did not understand anything of what was happening.\n\n\"We all signed a binding agreement, but I think one was never very convinced.\"\n\nPerez has got a vision and apparently the rest of the world is not seeing it and that's dangerous when someone feels like that.\n\nHe kept saying, in his second appearance in a disastrous PR campaign, that he's there to save football.\n\nHe's talking about big losses - in the case of Real Madrid, they've gone from expecting to earn 900m euros (£779m) to 600m euros (£519m) in only one season, and that stops them doing a lot of their projects, like maybe signing Kylian Mbappe from Paris St-Germain.\n\nIn Spain, we are a completely different type of fan. We don't act against things we think are unfair. In England, it is more like a lifestyle. They are taking something off you and you go out to try to get it back.\n\nPerez has been untouchable for many years. But this vision did not really have strong foundations so the media are having a bit of a laugh here.\n\nWe are all very surprised Joan Laporta and Barcelona have not come out and pushed away from this idea. But, they are so desperate for money that they think whoever comes up with the right idea, they will just join in.\n\nWe are a little bit disappointed by the leaders of the two biggest clubs in Spain.\n\nSenior executives from the Premier League clubs who were part of the ESL are being asked to stand down from various league working groups - or face being voted out by the 14 other clubs, reports BBC sports editor Dan Roan.\n\nIn a move that suggests the 'big six' influence is set to be curtailed, the Premier League is in the process of writing to; outgoing Manchester United executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward and Liverpool chair Tom Werner, who sit on the league's broadcast advisory group; Chelsea chairman Bruce Buck, who is on the audit and remuneration committee; and Arsenal chief executive Vinai Venkatesham and Manchester City's chief executive Ferran Soriano, who are on the league's club strategic advisory group.\n• None The rocky story of Derry City is streaming now\n• None Catch up on all of RuPaul's Drag Race on iPlayer now!", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA man has been arrested after a police search for a \"suspicious package\" at Wrexham Maelor Hospital.\n\nNorth Wales Police said a 33-year-old man from Wrexham had been arrested following a \"hoax call\", but did not comment on the charges.\n\nEyewitnesses said dozens of officers arrived at the hospital site and some staff and patients were asked to leave some areas at 13:15 BST on Thursday.\n\nBetsi Cadwaldr heath board said access is no longer restricted.\n\nDet Insp Andrew Gibson said: \"The 33-year-old is local to the area. It's not possible to provide further details at present - but there are no wider public safety concerns.\"\n\nCh Insp Mark Williams said: 'I would like to thank staff, patients and the public for their co-operation and patience following what appears to have been a hoax call to Wrexham Maelor Hospital.\n\n\"Our priority throughout this afternoon's incident was to ensure people were kept safe.\"\n\nBoth ends of the road leading to the hospital were blocked by police and people were urged not to attend planned appointments.\n\nThe health board later tweeted that police had completed their search following reports of a suspicious package and apologised for the inconvenience caused.\n\nThe hospital, which has an A&E department, had a heavy police presence\n\nEarlier, one nurse, who did not want to be named, said people were told to leave a building and were later asked to move further back in the car park.\n\nBBC reporter Sarah Easedale, who was at the scene, said one woman, who was supposed to be having a C-section at 14:00, had been admitted inside on a stretcher.\n\nTonya Hinds, 26, from Caia Park, Wrexham, said she had been in the hospital with her family since 13:30, and had been unable to leave for several hours.\n\nBoth marked and unmarked police cars were outside the hospital\n\nShe said it was \"stressful and worrying with two kids under five\".\n\nShe was kept with her daughters and partner in the main outpatients department as police at the time were not letting anyone in or out.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by North Wales Police #KeepWalesSafe 🌈 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEyewitness Stuart Lloyd, 44, said: \"I arrived just after 13:30 at the Maelor just to find that police cars were blocking the entrance with flashing lights - unmarked cars and marked cars.\"\n\nThe 800-bed district general hospital was opened by Wales' only British Prime Minister David Lloyd George in 1934.\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.", "Asda is to axe up to 1,200 jobs at its in-store bakeries as customers shun the traditional loaf in favour of speciality breads, bagels and pancakes.\n\nThe chain currently employs bakers who make bread in store from scratch.\n\nBut now it has said it plans to move to a central bakery and deliver pre-baked breads to its supermarkets.\n\n\"The current in-store bakery model has restricted our ability to respond to changing customer demands,\" said Derek Lawlor, Asda's head of merchandising.\n\nAs a result, he said, the supermarket chain had not been able to offer shoppers \"speciality products and freshly baked goods they want to buy throughout the day\".\n\nAsda said the change would mean it was able to bake fresh products several times a day, rather than once a day in store.\n\nIt will begin a formal consultation with its bakers and bakery managers.\n\n\"If the proposals are enacted, the priority will be to move as many colleagues as possible into alternative roles within Asda, with redundancy the last option,\" the supermarket chain said in a statement.\n\nThe move by Asda follows a similar decision by Tesco last year.\n\nUp to 1,800 were faced with the prospect of redundancy when Tesco said it would do less baking in store, citing a similar shift away from traditional loaves and bread.\n\nUntil last year, Asda was owned by US supermarket giant Walmart, but in December, it was sold to billionaire brothers Mohsin and Zuber Issa, who bought it for £6.8bn.\n\nHowever, the decision to scrap in-store bread ovens was taken independently of the Issa brothers, who are not allowed to exercise influence over the chain until the deal has been examined by the Competition and Markets Authority.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Daunte Wright's aunt, Naisha Wright: \"He was loved, he was ours\"\n\nThe resignations of a police chief and of an officer who shot dead a black motorist in Minnesota have failed to end unrest over Sunday's killing.\n\nChief Tim Gannon and Officer Kim Potter have quit the Brooklyn Center force.\n\nMrs Potter said she shot Daunte Wright accidentally, having mistakenly drawn her gun instead of her Taser, a stance backed by Mr Gannon.\n\nDespite the resignations fresh clashes between police and protesters erupted for a third night.\n\nMr Wright's mother has been speaking about her last phone call to her son. In tears, she told reporters she could never have imagined he would be killed.\n\nThe death happened in a suburb of Minneapolis, a city already on edge amid the trial of a white ex-police officer accused of murdering African American George Floyd.\n\nOn Tuesday night bottles and other projectiles were thrown at the Brooklyn Center police headquarters and officers responded by firing tear gas, stun grenades and rubber bullets.\n\nMore than 60 people were arrested, Minnesota State Patrol Colonel Matt Langer told reporters.\n\nTear gas was fired at protesters for a third night in Brooklyn Center\n\nAnother demonstration broke out in Portland, Oregon, on Tuesday night, with about 100 protesters marching on the Portland Police Association Building.\n\nFlames were seen coming out of the side of the police building about an hour later. The Portland Police Bureau declared the gathering a riot.\n\nPortland was the centre of mass demonstrations last year, in the wake of the killing of George Floyd.\n\nSpeaking to reporters earlier, Brooklyn Center Mayor Mike Elliott said he had appointed 19-year veteran Tony Gruenig to take over for Tim Gannon.\n\nOn Monday, Mr Gannon had said the shooting of Mr Wright appeared to be an \"accidental discharge\" after Mrs Potter mistook her service pistol for a stun gun.\n\nDaunte Wright was shot after being stopped by police for a traffic violation\n\n\"I appreciate the officer stepping down,\" the mayor said, adding that he hoped her leaving would \"bring some calm to the community\".\n\nHe said the city had intended to fire Mrs Potter. \"We want to send a message to the community that we are taking this situation seriously,\" he added.\n\nMeanwhile, prosecutors are expected to decide whether to charge Mrs Potter on Wednesday, the Associated Press news agency reported.\n\n\"We have to make sure that justice is served... Daunte Wright deserves that. His family deserves that,\" Mr Elliott said.\n\nThe Wright family have spoken of their ordeal on the night Daunte was killed, holding a news conference near the courthouse where police officer Derek Chauvin is standing trial for George Floyd's murder.\n\nIn an emotional speech, his mother Katie described what she said was the worst day of her life.\n\nKatie Wright was overcome with emotion as she spoke about her son's last moments\n\nShe said her son called her after he was pulled over, and that she offered to give insurance details to police over the phone.\n\nShe said she heard police order him to get out of the vehicle. There was a scuffling sound and an officer told him to hang up the phone.\n\nWhen she was eventually able to call back, his girlfriend answered and told her he had been shot.\n\n\"She pointed the phone toward the driver's seat and my son was laying there, unresponsive,\" she said in tears.\n\n\"That was the last time that I've seen my son.\"\n\nThe family were joined by relatives of George Floyd and by Ben Crump, a lawyer who is representing both families.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police release footage of arrest and shooting of Daunte Wright.\n\n\"Every pistol, every Taser has a safety on it,\" she said.\n\n\"I watched that video like everybody else watched that video. That woman held that gun in front of her a long damn time.\"\n\nUpon hearing the news that the police officer who shot Daunte Wright had resigned, along with the police chief, Amber Young, a food services co-ordinator at a Salvation Army in Minneapolis, said she had two reactions.\n\nShe was glad but felt the announcements should have come sooner.\n\nStanding outside the Brooklyn Center police department, she described how upset she had been with the actions of the police.\n\n\"She should have been fired,\" said Ms Young, referring to the police officer. \"Her resignation should not have come before [that].\"\n\nWhen it comes to the police chief, she said simply: \"I'm glad he's gone. He showed no concern for the community.\"\n\nMr Wright was pulled over for an expired tag on his car licence plate. Family members and advocates say he was racially profiled.\n\nPolice released body camera footage on Monday showing Mr Wright fleeing from officers after they told him he was being arrested for an outstanding warrant.\n\nAs Mr Wright re-enters his car, Officer Potter is heard shouting \"Taser\" several times before firing a shot.\n\nIn a one-sentence resignation letter to city officials. Mrs Potter wrote that she \"loved every minute of being a police officer... but I believe it is in the best interest of the community, the department, and my fellow officers if I resign immediately\".", "Judge Gregory Perrins said PC Charlie Harrison's policing career \"is now over\"\n\nA Met officer jailed for breaking the leg of a black father in front of his teenage sons did so in a \"clear case of racial profiling\", a judge has said.\n\nCarl Abrahams left a cemetery in east London with his children on 31 December 2018 after laying flowers.\n\nOn their walk home, he was targeted by PC Charlie Harrison.\n\nJudge Gregory Perrins said he was in no doubt that \"had Mr Abrahams and his sons been white\", Harrison would simply have driven by.\n\nHarrison was jailed for two years and three months on Monday at Southwark Crown Court after being convicted of GBH.\n\nThe court heard shortly after lunchtime on New Year's Eve, Harrison was driving an unmarked police car in Forest Gate as part of the Violent Crime Task Force.\n\nHe approached Mr Abrahams, who had taken his sons to the cemetery to visit their mother's grave, and performed a \"leg sweep\" to knock him to the ground.\n\nIn his sentencing remarks, Judge Perrins said: \"They had done absolutely nothing wrong, nor had they behaved in any way that could be deemed suspicious.\n\n\"They were simply a family returning from a cemetery where they had gone to visit the grave of their partner and mother.\n\n\"Having heard the evidence at trial, I strongly suspect that the reason that you stopped Mr Abrahams and his sons was because they were black.\"\n\nThe judge continued: \"During the course of the trial, your counsel unsuccessfully sought to put before the jury the contents of your daily briefing document which showed that you were looking for a variety of black men, each of whom were wanted for violent offences and knife crime.\n\n\"This was in my judgement a clear case of racial profiling.\"\n\nThe case at Southwark Crown Court lasted for four days\n\nMr Abrahams spent the evening in hospital and an X-ray revealed a fracture at the top of his shin bone.\n\nHis leg was placed in a cast and he had to walk with crutches for three months.\n\n\"He was unable to return to work and had to work from home,\" the judge said.\n\n\"Mr Abrahams describes how he has given up football and running as a result of the injury to his knee.\n\n\"He also describes how even now, three years later, his sons are fearful of the police and believe that they remain at risk of being targeted because of the colour of their skin.\"\n\nMr Abrahams complained to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) in January 2019 and it was decided that the Met should investigate.\n\nHarrison was charged and suspended from duty in August of that year and will now face disciplinary proceedings.\n\nCdr Paul Betts said: \"His actions were found to have fallen well below the standard we expect of our police officers, with a man left badly injured.\n\n\"This type of behaviour has no place in our police service and undermines the confidence of the communities we are here to protect.\"\n\nThe Met said the judge's comments had been \"noted\".\n\n\"The complaint investigation also reviewed whether the officer's actions were racially discriminatory and this will be considered as part of the discipline process that follows,\" a spokesman added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Viewers watched him eat, game, and even sleep in a bed that looked like a red sports car.\n\nAfter streaming on Twitch non-stop for 31 consecutive days, Ludwig Ahgren has broken the website's record for having the most paying subscribers.\n\nAt the time of writing, he had 282,847 and the number is still climbing.\n\nThe previous record was set in 2018, when Tyler \"Ninja\" Blevins amassed 269,154 subscribers.\n\nNinja tweeted his congratulations to 25-year-old Ludwig, saying \"records are meant to be broken\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ninja This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nVideo games website Kotaku described the accomplishment as a \"heck of a record\". The third-highest number of subscriptions peaked at 114,387 - a long way behind Ludwig and Ninja's records.\n\nTwitch offers three tiers of paid subscriptions - and a portion goes to the content creators themselves. It is not yet clear how much money Ludwig has made.\n\nThe achievement will have helped raise both his profile and that of the Amazon-owned video-streaming platform.\n\nAt the start of the \"subathon\" (short for subscription marathon) every new subscription added 10 seconds to Ludwig's stream.\n\nHe initially thought he would stream for 24 to 48 hours, according to the New York Times, but as the count grew, so did the duration of his livestream.\n\nOne month later and possibly with no end in sight, he stopped streaming on Tuesday evening.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 ludwig This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a tweet, Ludwig put into perspective just how long a month can be by highlighting some of the big news stories that had happened during his stint.\n\nLudwig or his moderators would play videos or movies if he was showering or using the bathroom.\n\nOn his final day of streaming, he donated $5 (£3.60) from every new subscription to charity. It is not yet known how much he had raised.\n\nAccording to USA Today, Ludwig joked he would be \"swimming in\" cash, and had said: \"Let's try to donate as much money as possible today.\"\n\nLudwig spent the month sleeping in a race car bed and celebrated the end of his stream by smashing it\n\nBut the subscription record is not the only thing Ludwig broke.\n\nHe and his friends took turns destroying the plastic sports car bed frame in the final hours of the livestream.\n\nThey used a baseball bat and sledgehammer before eventually tossing the pieces over the edge of his porch.\n\nCody Godwin is a reporter based in San Francisco. For more news, follow her on Twitter at @MsCodyGodwin", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Fair Isle is the UK's most remote inhabited island\n\nIt may be one of the UK's most remote communities but tiny Fair Isle - with a population of just 48 people - can now claim to be one of the safest.\n\nThe Scottish island - located between Orkney and Shetland - is famed for its knitwear and migratory birds.\n\nIt only got a reliable 24-hour-a-day electricity supply in 2018.\n\nThis week, vials of AstraZeneca vaccine were flown in on a small plane, meaning every adult on the island was able to have their second dose.\n\nIt was a practical solution to a tricky problem.\n\nThe logistics of vaccinating the furthest-flung communities along the edges of Scotland were challenging, to say the least.\n\nFair Isle is three miles long and one-and-a-half miles wide\n\nThe first vaccine, from Pfizer, required storage temperatures so low that the tiny planes and boats serving these islands were out of the question.\n\nFor a fragile community, many of whom are older, bringing people out individually to the mainland clinic did not make sense either.\n\nHowever, the AstraZeneca vaccine can be transported in a cool box.\n\nSo that is exactly what NHS Shetland has done, sending the vials in on the tiny planes that run lifeline services to its smaller isles.\n\nThe island is three miles long and one-and-a-half miles wide.\n\nWhen the plane touched down on the rubble airstrip near Fair Isle's 600ft cliffs the sun was shining - the first glimpse of spring after relentless weeks of sleet, snow and gales.\n\nThe rather unassuming white box was loaded carefully into the nurse's car, and taken down to the small surgery, where nurses Kirstin Robson and Margaret Cooper got ready to vaccinate Fair Isle.\n\nVaccine supplies were flown in this week\n\nJohn Best, the oldest islander, joked with the nurse as he rolled up his sleeve.\n\nHe said the island feels like \"one of the safest places in the country\" - not only fully vaccinated, but cut off from the threat of infection, with almost no visitors allowed in.\n\n\"It's a funny thing\", he said, \"because this was a very welcoming island. And it will be again.\n\n\"But it's an element we haven't had for about a year now.\"\n\nIn normal times, Fair Isle defies the clichés associated with it - \"wild\", \"isolated\" - and is in fact an intensely sociable place, famous for music, dancing, and a warm welcome.\n\nThe islanders are keen to return to those days.\n\nDavid Parnaby has lived here for 10 years, and his two young children make up half the school roll.\n\nWind is rarely in short supply in exposed Fair Isle, which can come in handy\n\nHe readily admits there is \"no better place\" to spend lockdown than Fair Isle, with its stunning scenery and nature - but adds that with no pubs or cafes, social life here is heavily dependent on the kind of household visits that have been banned.\n\nThere is real hope, though, that this second vaccine dose will allow a loosening of restrictions.\n\n\"We've been really impressed at the way the NHS has handled it, getting everybody done,\" he said.\n\n\"It just gives the whole isle a wee bit more confidence as we start, hopefully, to get back towards normal life here on Fair Isle.\"\n\nFair Isle knitwear, shown in this photo from the 1970s, is famed around the world\n\nOther remote islands have been vaccinated in this way - some in the Hebrides, along with Shetland's Foula and Skerries.\n\n\"Fair Isle was one of those areas in the UK where there were no confirmed cases, so we thought it was important to maintain that as a statistic,\" explained interim director of community health and social care, Brian Chittick.\n\n\"We're lucky\", Thomas Fisher said, as he waited his turn outside the surgery.\n\nHe had a bad reaction to the first dose, but is not complaining.\n\nHis partner Marie Bruhat agreed, but wanted to stress how vulnerable Fair Isle has been during the pandemic.\n\nThe vaccinations took the nurses just a morning\n\n\"If someone had it, it would spread so quickly,\" she said. \"So knowing that everyone will be covered - to a degree - is going to give more peace of mind.\"\n\nVaccinating all of Fair Isle took just a morning. As nurse Kirstin packed up, she reflected on what surely counts as a good day in the life of an island nurse.\n\n\"It's been great - after 10 days without a boat we've now got a full shop, the sun is out, the lambs are coming,\" she grinned.\n\nBetter times ahead, then? \"Absolutely. Definitely\".\n• None BBC - Travel - Why people are obsessed with Fair Isle", "Arlene Foster says Dr Christian Jessen's tweet was \"meant to destabilise me\"\n\nDemocratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Arlene Foster is suing TV presenter Dr Christian Jessen for defamation, saying he made an \"attack\" on her marriage.\n\nOn 23 December 2019, Dr Jessen tweeted an allegation that Mrs Foster had been having an extra-marital affair.\n\nThe post remained online until Dr Jessen deleted it on 7 January 2020.\n\nOn Wednesday Mrs Foster told the High Court in Belfast it had been a \"very humiliating\" time for her. Judgement has been reserved in the case.\n\nMrs Foster is a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for Fermanagh and South Tyrone and the first minister of Northern Ireland.\n\nDr Jessen is best known for presenting Channel Four programme Embarrassing Bodies.\n\nThere was no representation on behalf of Dr Jessen in court on Wednesday and the court was told 13 separate approaches by letter and email to Dr Jessen had gone \"unanswered\".\n\nGiving evidence to the court, Mrs Foster said she had initially been made aware of the tweet by her director of communications, who handles her social media accounts.\n\nThe first minister described it as \"an attack on me personally and my marriage, meant to destabilise me at a very critical time\".\n\nAt that time Mrs Foster was heavily involved in talks to restore power-sharing in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe court was told Dr Jessen's tweet was published at about the same time that anonymous Twitter users were claiming that Mrs Foster had been having an affair with one of her security guards.\n\nShe said having to explain to her husband what had happened was \"very upsetting\".\n\n\"It was very humiliating to see that the relationship that's most important to me had been trashed if you like and put out there in the public domain in that fashion,\" she told the court.\n\n\"One of the things that gives me stability is my home relationship - it was almost as if this cut to the very core of my life.\"\n\nThe court heard Dr Jessen had more than 300,000 followers on Twitter in December 2019 and that the tweet had been retweeted more than 500 times.\n\nMrs Foster said \"there wasn't much sleep on the night of the 23rd\" of December when the tweet was posted and that she had to have conversations with her children, husband and mother about what was happening.\n\nShe said her family had attended church together on Christmas Day and that she later found out that a journalist had contacted her church minister to ask how her family \"had appeared\" that day.\n\nThe court was also told Dr Jessen's tweet had referred to Mrs Foster as \"the sanctity of marriage preaching woman\", adding: \"It always comes back to bite them on the arse in the end.\"\n\nIt was in relation to the DUP's opposition to same-sex marriage.\n\nAsked if she believed in the sanctity of marriage, Mrs Foster said she did but rejected accusations that she was homophobic.\n\nThe judge said there was a \"big difference between holding strong religious views on the sanctity of marriage and having an irrational hatred of homosexuals\", and said the DUP leader would have been aware of that.\n\nMrs Foster replied: \"I do get distressed when people call me a homophobe because that's something I am not.\n\n\"I have many friends who are homosexual, they know my views and in any event same-sex marriage is now the law in Northern Ireland and has to be upheld.\n\n\"I have never in my own utterances said anything in relation with people who are homosexual and that's why I do get upset when people call me a homophobe.\"\n\nShe told the court she did not know Dr Jessen and that even when he had removed the tweet there was \"no acknowledgment of wrong-doing\".\n\nMrs Foster's barrister David Ringland QC said a solicitor for the DUP leader had contacted Dr Jessen on Twitter instructing him to remove the post on 24 December but he had refused to do so.\n\nMr Ringland said the tweet was not removed until 7 January, when Dr Jessen responded to follow-up requests in a \"pithy email\".\n\nThe court was told Dr Jessen had said he did not agree with the suggestion his claim gave rise to defamation and that he had removed it without admission of liability.\n\nMr Ringland said there was \"no correction, retraction or apology\" and that Dr Jessen had taken a \"head-in-the-sand approach\".\n\nThe judge reserved judgement but said he would seek to deal with the case as a \"matter of urgency\".", "What more is Labour calling for?\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has called for a wider inquiry into lobbying and the contact between the government and former prime minister David Cameron about the finance firm Greensill Capital. Boris Johnson has asked Nigel Boardman, a government lawyer, to conduct a review by the end of June, looking into the development and use of so-called supply chain finance schemes (the things Greensill was involved with) in government, and especially the role of Greensill Capital and its founder. The government says that Mr Boardman will have access to all the information he needs. But the investigation has no power of sanction and no legal force. Labour is calling instead for a committee of government and opposition MPs to be set up, which will take a broader look at the lobbying of ministers and will have the power to summon and question witnesses in public. You can read more about the affair here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Buckingham Palace said the plans \"very much\" reflected the duke's wishes\n\nMilitary rehearsals have taken place for the Duke of Edinburgh's funeral.\n\nPrince Philip, who died on Friday aged 99, will be remembered in a service at St George's Chapel in the grounds of Windsor Castle on Saturday.\n\nThe televised event will be carried out in line with Covid restrictions but there will be a military presence with personnel from the Royal Navy, Royal Marines, Army and RAF.\n\nBuckingham Palace said the plans \"very much\" reflected the duke's wishes.\n\nMembers of the public have been asked to stay away from the castle, with the ceremony to take place behind its walls, and an online book of condolence has been opened.\n\nOn Tuesday, the Queen carried out her first official duties since the death of her husband.\n\nIt came as Buckingham Palace released previously unseen photographs of the Duke of Edinburgh, including one taken by the Duchess of Cambridge, of the duke and the Queen sitting with seven of their great-grandchildren.\n\nA new undated image shows the Queen and the duke with seven of their great grandchildren\n\nMeanwhile, the Princess Royal reminisced about sailing in her younger years as she made her first in-person appearance at an official event since her father's death.\n\nAnne appeared in good spirits as she met members of the Royal Yacht Squadron (RYS) on the Isle of Wight on Wednesday - a club Prince Philip was once admiral of.\n\nIn an Instagram message, Princess Eugenie paid tribute to her \"dearest Grandpa\", pledging to look after \"Granny\", the Queen, for him.\n\nThe Duke of Edinburgh's Award has also announced it is launching a new fund in memory of Prince Philip, which will give one million more young people the chance to take part in the programme he founded over the next five years.\n\nPrince Philip is reported to have requested minimal fuss but his ceremonial royal funeral will have personal touches.\n\nHis coffin, which is lying at rest in the private chapel at Windsor Castle, will be carried the short distance to the separate St George's Chapel using a modified Land Rover that the duke helped to design.\n\nIt will be draped with his personal flag, which reflects his Greek heritage and his British titles, and his naval cap and sword will be laid on top of it.\n\nThe armed forces were important to the duke, who served in the Royal Navy, and they will play a part in his funeral, with military top brass present.\n\nServicemen and women have been carrying out rehearsals at the Army Training Centre Pirbright in Woking, Surrey.\n\nA member of the Household Cavalry, The Life Guards preparing her uniform\n\nMembers of the Household Cavalry, The Blues and Royals\n\nA member of the Coldstream Guards preparing his uniform\n\nAmong those rehearsing was Sergeant Bugler Jamie Ritchie, I/C Corps of Drums, Royal Marines, who will lead four buglers in playing the Last Post at the funeral, a role he said was an \"honour and a privilege\".\n\n\"We feel the pressure, but we're channelling that and we're using that and we're going to deliver an outstanding performance,\" he said, adding that as a former naval officer the duke was \"relatable\" to the Royal Marines.\n\nSergeant Bugler Jamie Ritchie said it is an \"honour and a privilege\" to play the Last Post at the Duke of Edinburgh's funeral\n\nMilitary rehearsals for the ceremonial procession have been held in Pirbright all week, with a full dress rehearsal expected to take place at Windsor Castle on Thursday.\n\nThe majority of the personnel gathered on Wednesday were in their Barrack dress as they practised parading, while bands rehearsed music including the national anthem, Jerusalem and I Vow To Thee, My Country.\n\nCaptain Gemma Darrington, operations officer for 27th Regiment, The Royal Logistic Corps, said \"everything is made more difficult by Covid\" but said organisers were doing everything to make sure \"our people are as safe as possible\", adding that personnel have been subject to Covid tests and social distancing is enforced.\n\nShe added personnel \"know we're playing a part in history here and we do feel very privileged to be in that role\".\n\nThere are two families who'll be taking part in the Duke of Edinburgh's funeral. His own and his much larger military family.\n\nSome 730 members of the Armed Forces will be on parade at Windsor Castle on Saturday - including four military bands.\n\nThey've just completed their first full rehearsal on a parade ground in Pirbright, Surrey. Not all wearing their full ceremonial uniforms, but they've spent the past few days getting ready - with boots, buttons, instruments and swords polished.\n\nThey come from all branches of the Armed Forces the duke had close connections to.\n\nSome have their own personal stories too. From a Royal Marines bugler who'll be wearing the medal he was awarded by the duke, to a soldier who received his first promotion from him when the duke visited troops in Iraq.\n\nMany taking part never met him, but they're all united in honouring a man who embodied their values of service, discipline and loyalty. They see the duke as one of of their own.\n\nBuckingham Palace says the funeral will be a celebration of his life. But the tunes being practised by the military bands - from Elgar to the hymn Jerusalem - signal that it'll also be a sombre occasion.\n\nThroughout his long life Prince Philip took part in many military parades like this. Mostly as a representative or in support of the Queen. On Saturday it's his life and service that'll be the focus of attention for what will be his final parade.\n\nThe route from the state entrance of Windsor Castle to St George's Chapel will be lined with personnel from the Royal Navy, Royal Marines, The Highlanders, 4th Battalion Royal Regiment of Scotland and the Royal Air Force.\n\nGuns will be fired by The King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery from the East Lawn throughout the procession.\n\nThe bands of the Grenadier Guards and Rifles Regiment, members of the Household Cavalry and a Royal Navy \"piping party\" will also be present, while pallbearers from the Royal Marines and other regiments and corps associated with the duke will carry his coffin.\n\nThe palace has announced that a national minute's silence will mark the start of the duke's funeral at 15:00 BST.\n\nSome sporting fixtures have been rearranged as a mark of respect.\n\nCoronavirus restrictions in England mean only 30 people, socially distanced, are allowed to attend funerals, although pallbearers and clergy are not included in the number of attendees.\n\nDetails of the invited guests or family members are yet to be announced.\n\nThe Duke of Sussex will attend but his wife Meghan, who is pregnant, will not make the trip from the US, on medical advice.\n\nThe duke's long-standing close aide, his private secretary Brigadier Archie Miller Bakewell, will be one of the few, and possibly only, non-royals invited to attend the historic occasion.\n\nITV News will cover the funeral in a special programme, presented by Tom Bradby and Julie Etchingham and called Prince Philip - A Royal Funeral, between 13:15 and 16:30 on Saturday.\n\nThe BBC is planning to announce details of its coverage on Thursday.", "Traditional burials are banned in parts of China\n\nA Chinese man with Down's syndrome was kidnapped and killed in a bungled plot to grant another man's wish for burial rather than cremation.\n\nBefore he died of cancer in 2017 a man from south-east China told his family he wanted a traditional burial, but in some regions these are banned.\n\nHis family hired someone to find a substitute body that could be cremated in place of their relative's.\n\nBut unknown to them, the man they hired committed murder to provide the body.\n\nIn September 2020 the man hired by the family - identified only by his surname Huang - was given a suspended death sentence over the murder.\n\nWhile the murder happened in 2017, the case only gained prominence last week after an article about the incident came to wider attention online in China.\n\nCourt documents show Huang had in 2017 been offered money by the family to provide them with another body as they wanted their deceased family member to have a traditional burial.\n\nThe family live in Shanwei city in Guangdong province, where the government requires all dead bodies to be cremated.\n\nBut while the family assumed he would look for another dead body, Huang killed someone in order to fulfil the deal.\n\nSpotting a man with Down's syndrome picking litter from the street, Huang persuaded him to get into a car and gave the victim alcohol until he passed out.\n\nHe then put the victim's body into a coffin and days later it was passed on to the family in exchange for money.\n\nThe family paid 107,000 yuan (£11,900; $16,300), of which 90,000 yuan went to the accused while the rest went to a middleman who has since died.\n\nThe family then proceeded to have that coffin cremated, pretending it contained the body of their own relative.\n\nThe relative's actual body was then buried in secret in a traditional way.\n\nCremated remains are usually kept in columbarium walls\n\nAfter the victim's disappearance in 2017, he was reported as a missing person.\n\nIt took police more than two years to uncover the crime and track down the accused.\n\nIn September 2020, Huang was given a suspended death sentence, which he appealed against.\n\nThis was eventually dismissed by the Guangdong Higher People's Court in December 2020 and a suspended death sentence was upheld. This means that if he does not reoffend after two years, the sentence will be commuted to life in prison.\n\nThe family who hired Huang were found guilty of \"insulting a corpse\", but were not handed a prison sentence. It is unclear if they had to instead pay a fine.\n\nLast week a news outlet published a feature with the victim's family, giving the story a national platform.\n\nA traditional burial is favoured in China, with people investing heavily in funerals and coffins, believing that doing so is a way of showing filial piety towards their ancestors.\n\nBut China has increasingly been campaigning for people to refrain from burying their dead and in some regions there is an outright ban on burials.\n\nThis is intended to save land and discourage extravagant burial ceremonies.\n\nA regulation dating back to 1997 stipulates that \"densely populated regions with relatively little land and convenient transport should practise cremation\".\n\n\"Those regions which cannot meet such requirements are allowed to conduct burials,\" the regulation says.\n\nBody swapping is not unheard of in China, and mostly occurs in rural areas where more people put stress on following traditional burial ways.", "Researchers in Sichuan Province, southwest China have captured some infrared footage of a rare fight between two rival wild pandas. They say its likely the fight was over a courtship.", "The cost of coronavirus testing for holidaymakers has been cut amid growing pressure from the travel industry.\n\nRandox, one of the biggest suppliers of PCR tests under the UK's \"testing for travel\" scheme, has reduced the price from £100 to £60.\n\nBut travel organisation Abta warned that the cost was still a \"significant restriction\".\n\nOther industry figures including the boss of Easyjet have said the requirement could price out travellers.\n\nForeign holidays are currently banned, and returning travellers have to quarantine on arrival. The earliest possible date for foreign travel from England has previously been given as 17 May, but it has not been confirmed.\n\nThe first ministers of Scotland and Wales have argued that it is too early for foreign holidays.\n\nFor England, destination countries will be in one of three categories (green, amber or red) and each one will require passengers to take a pre-departure Covid test as well as a PCR test on return to the UK.\n\nConsumer group Which? has estimated that each PCR test - which is just one of the tests needed - could cost about £120 per person.\n\nMark Tanzer, chief executive of the Association of British Travel Agents (ABTA), said that although one of the leading suppliers had cut costs, \"£60 is still a lot of money\" - particularly for families of four or five.\n\nHe added that a \"better solution is to not have a PCR test\", speaking in front of the Transport Select Committee.\n\nMPs also questioned why PCR tests are typically up to 80% cheaper overseas.\n\nMr Tanzer said: \"I can't see anything in the UK that is different about PCR that means it is more expensive there than elsewhere\".\n\nCriticism has come from other parts of the industry looking to salvage a key period of summer trade.\n\nJohan Lundgren, the chief executive of Easyjet, said on Wednesday: \"Easyjet was founded to make travel accessible for all and so we continue to engage with government to ensure that the cost of the required testing is driven down\".\n\nMr Lundgren added that may \"risk turning back the clock and make travel too costly for some\".\n\nThe airline also said that many European countries were planning to resume flying \"at scale\" in May.\n\nBookings for summer travel, dependent on restrictions easing, will help boost the airline's finances which have been squeezed during the pandemic.\n\nPassenger numbers for the six months to 31 March fell by 89% to 4.1 million. This led to total group revenue for the same period dropping by 90% to £235m, while it expects a pre-tax loss of £690-730m.\n\nEasyjet said that has enough flexibility to \"significantly ramp capacity up or down quickly\", according to demand for flights.\n\n\"Customers are booking closer to departure and visibility remains limited\", it said. But overall between April and the end of June, it expects to fly up to 20% of 2019 capacity levels.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps recently told the BBC that for the first time he was not \"advising against booking foreign holidays\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Grant Shapps: \"The tests are coming out too expensive, we are trying to drive that down.\"\n\n\"Yes, you'll want to check what the situation is in two or three weeks' time when that list [of countries] - the green, amber, red, is produced - you'll want to know that you've got good holiday insurance and flexible flights and the rest of it.\n\n\"But for the first time I think there is light at the end of the tunnel and we'll be able to restart international travel, including cruises by the way, in a safe and secure way, knowing about the vaccinations, everything we know about the disease this year, and of course that abundance of caution - having the tests in place.\"\n\nThe government has said it would work with airlines, travel firms and the test providers to see whether prices of tests can be reduced.\n\nThat could involve cheaper tests, or the government providing the pre-departure tests.\n• None UK holidays: What are the rules?", "Mary Agyeiwaa Agyapong died five days after her baby was delivered at Luton and Dunstable Hospital, where she worked as a nurse\n\nThe family of a pregnant nurse who died with Covid-19 have yet to receive any money from a fundraising campaign that names them as beneficiaries.\n\nMary Agyapong, 28, died after giving birth in April 2020 at Luton and Dunstable Hospital, where she worked.\n\nA GoFundMe page set up by family friend Rhoda Asiedu has raised more than £186,000 and she said the money had been placed into a trust.\n\nMs Agyapong's widower said he found it \"surprising\" he had not been involved.\n\nAt an inquest last month coroner Emma Whitting found it was \"unclear\" how mother-of-two Ms Agyapong contracted Covid-19 before her death.\n\nBut at the hearing's conclusion Ms Whitting urged Prime Minister Boris Johnson to begin a public inquiry into the pandemic.\n\nErnest Boateng said his wife was \"very worried\" for her health while she worked in the pandemic\n\nOn 15 April 2020 an online GoFundMe page was created by Ms Asiedu, who lives in Birmingham, to support \"Mary's husband, and the couple's children... during this heavy and trying time\".\n\nA statement released by Ms Asiedu said it had been placed on trust for the education of Ms Agyapong's children and that 80% would be released when they turned 21.\n\nSpeaking on behalf of the trust, she said the remaining 20% would be provided to Ms Agyapong's widower Ernest Boateng for \"maintenance and upkeep\" of the children, however he had \"failed to co-operate with the trustees to arrange a schedule of maintenance\".\n\nThe BBC has not received a response to its request to see the trust documents.\n\nMr Boateng, who is studying law, said he had been \"struggling a bit\" financially.\n\n\"I just try to keep my head above the water,\" he said.\n\n\"I find it very surprising that we have not been asked or involved with this GoFundMe money - it's beyond my understanding.\"\n\nMs Agyapong had collapsed at her home in Luton before she was taken to hospital\n\nWendy Addai, part of the fundraising team, told the BBC: \"We wanted the money to be used in a way which ensured the children's well-being in their adult life as well as their childhood after seeing the huge sum that was raised, which we are very thankful for.\n\n\"None of us anticipated for us to raise this much as the original goal was £2,000.\n\n\"So we went to seek advice from a lawyer, who was finalising agreements with Ernest's lawyers.\n\n\"In regards to GoFundMe themselves they requested updates and proof with what was being done with the money but that was as far as their involvement went. Our intentions were and will always remain good and for the interest of Mary's babies.\"\n\nMs Agyapong had worked at Luton and Dunstable Hospital for five years\n\nGoFundMe said it was always clear the money would be placed in a trust, adding: \"Our records show the wording of the page has not been changed since it launched on 15 April 2020.\"\n\nBut the BBC found an archived snapshot of the webpage on 16 April with no reference to a trust at all.\n\nWhen contacted by the BBC, fundraiser Ms Asiedu directed media requests to her legal team.\n\nClarification on 26 April 2021: Updates story to make it clear that Ms Asiedu released a statement on behalf of the trust.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion please email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "The UK is to \"drawdown\" the number of troops in Afghanistan from next month, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has said.\n\nConfirming the planned departure of forces, Mr Wallace also warned any attacks on existing troops would be \"met with a forceful response\".\n\nThe UK military has been in Afghanistan since 2001, with more than 450 British troops dying during the conflict with the Taliban and fighters from al-Qaeda.\n\nThe US has said it will withdraw all forces by 11 September.\n\nAnd Nato confirmed allies would begin withdrawing troops from 1 May.\n\nThe last UK combat troops left in 2014, but about 750 remain as part of the Nato mission to train Afghan forces.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Wallace said: \"The people of Afghanistan deserve a peaceful and stable future.\n\n\"As we drawdown, the security of our people currently serving in Afghanistan remains our priority and we have been clear that attacks on Allied troops will be met with a forceful response.\n\n\"The British public and our Armed Forces community, both serving and veterans, will have lasting memories of our time in Afghanistan.\n\n\"Most importantly we must remember those who paid the ultimate sacrifice, who will never be forgotten.\"\n\nUS President Joe Biden has announced that American troops will leave Afghanistan by 11 September, saying it was \"time to end America's longest war\".\n\nThat would coincide with the 20th anniversary of the terror attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in the US in 2001.\n\nMr Biden said while the US \"will not stay involved in Afghanistan militarily\", its \"diplomatic and humanitarian work\" would continue.\n\n\"We cannot continue the cycle of extending or expanding our military presence in Afghanistan hoping to create the ideal conditions for our withdrawal, expecting a different result,\" he said.\n\nUS Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, speaking to Nato allies in Brussels, said: \"I am here to work closely with our allies, with the (Nato) secretary general, on the principle that we have established from the start: In together, adapt together and out together.\"\n\nHe added that they would work closely in the coming months \"on a safe, deliberate and co-ordinated withdrawal of our forces from Afghanistan\".\n\nThe new deadline is four months later than the Trump administration previously agreed in a deal with the Taliban.\n\nOur defence correspondent Jonathan Beale says the UK, like most Nato allies, relies on the US's infrastructure, logistics and support in Afghanistan.\n\nThe US has some 2,500 troops in the country as part of a 9,600-strong Nato mission.\n\nAt the height of the war, Nato had more than 130,000 troops from 50 nations in Afghanistan. The UK had 9,500 personnel and 137 bases in Helmand province alone.\n\nUS troops training the Afghan security forces in Helmand\n\nThe speaker of the Afghan parliament, Mir Rahman Rahmani, has warned the withdrawal of foreign forces in the current circumstances will lead to civil war.\n\nIn February 2020, the US and the Taliban agreed a deal that would see the US and Nato allies withdraw all troops within 14 months if the Taliban upheld its promises, including not allowing al-Qaeda or other militants to operate in areas it controlled and proceeding with national peace talks.\n\nAlthough the group stopped attacks on international forces as part of the agreement, it has continued to fight the Afghan government.\n\nLast month, the Taliban threatened to resume hostilities against foreign troops still in the country on 1 May.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nLiverpool's Champions League campaign ended in disappointment as Real Madrid set up a semi-final meeting with Chelsea by keeping Jurgen Klopp's side at bay in a goalless draw at Anfield.\n\nReal arrived at Anfield protecting a 3-1 lead from the first leg and while they eventually went through in relative comfort Liverpool will curse themselves for missing several glorious first-half chances.\n\nMohamed Salah shot straight at Real keeper Thibaut Courtois, who also saved well from James Milner, in the opening moments and shot over when he should have hit the target while Georginio Wijnaldum was also guilty of squandering an opportunity to at least apply pressure to Zinedine Zidane's side.\n\nReal's best chance saw Benzema drive in a shot that was deflected on to the post, while Courtois was in action again to block Roberto Firmino's angled shot after the break.\n\nLiverpool ran out of steam and ideas as the second half wore on, and Real defended with defiance and resilience to seal the win and set up a meeting with another Premier League side in Thomas Tuchel's Chelsea.\n• None Best action and reaction from Liverpool v Real Madrid in the Champions League\n\nLiverpool were always fighting the odds as they trailed from the first leg but Klopp knew an early goal would have revived memories of previous Anfield comebacks in Europe - albeit they were in front of full houses rather than a deserted stadium.\n\nAnd Liverpool have only themselves to blame because they certainly created those chances in the first half, the surprise being it was the normally reliable Salah who was guilty of two bad misses that could have rattled Real's nerves.\n\nAround 400 home fans gathered outside in an attempt to fashion some of the old atmosphere but sadly the only impact they made was to create more negative headlines with a disgraceful attack on the Real Madrid team coach that left the bus damaged. The Spanish giants received an apology from their opponents and Merseyside Police announced an investigation to find those responsible.\n\nLiverpool gave it everything for the 90 minutes but it was the lack of cutting edge that has characterised so many of their Anfield displays this season that removed any hopes they had of turning this tie around and proved their undoing.\n\nAs time went on, Real grew more confident and comfortable, and the introduction of the likes of Diogo Jota and Thiago Alcantara, who was disappointing, could not shift the tie the hosts' way.\n\nKlopp and his players must now lift themselves to chase a place in the Premier League's top four to ensure they return to this competition next season.\n\nThe latest incarnation of Real Madrid under Zinedine Zidane is hardly a vintage version. Indeed for large portions of this Champions League quarter-final second leg they were careless and scrappy.\n\nHowever, they got the job done over two legs by showing their quality and threat at home then discipline and organisation at Anfield.\n\nAnd this is the warning Chelsea must heed in the last four.\n\nReal do not resemble their great predecessors but they still managed to overcome Liverpool - an injury-hit Liverpool it must be said - despite missing the twin defensive rocks Sergio Ramos and Raphael Varane, who they will hope to have back against Chelsea.\n\nAnd as Liverpool became increasingly desperate, so Real's street-wisdom came to the fore to ensure a low-key and comfortable last 20 minutes with barely any serious alarms.\n\nChelsea will be well aware of the class of their former keeper Courtois, who excelled here, the enduring quality of Luka Modric and the battle-hardened, relentless striking ability of veteran Karim Benzema.\n\nThomas Tuchel has no reason to fear Real but they will command his full respect and Zidane's trademark has been finding a way to win the Champions League.\n\nReal Madrid dominant in Europe - the best of the stats\n• None Liverpool are winless in their past five games against Real Madrid in the Champions League (D1 L4).\n• None Real Madrid have qualified for the semi-finals of the European Cup/Champions League for the 30th time, at least 10 more than any other team.\n• None This was Liverpool's ninth two-legged knockout tie in the Champions League under Jurgen Klopp, and only the second time they have failed to win either game in the tie (also versus Atletico Madrid in the last 16 in 2019-20).\n• None Real Madrid have progressed from 11 of their 12 two-legged knockout ties in the Champions League under Zinedine Zidane, with their only elimination coming against Manchester City in last season's last 16.\n• None Liverpool have only won one of their past 11 games against Spanish opponents in the Champions League (D3 L7).\n• None This was Real Madrid's first goalless draw in a Champions League game since April 2016, when they drew 0-0 against Manchester City in the semi-final first leg.\n• None Liverpool attempted 13 shots from inside the box against Real Madrid - their most in a Champions League game at Anfield without scoring since March 2006 v Benfica (20).\n\n'We rode the storm' - what they said\n\nLiverpool boss Jurgen Klopp talking to BT Sport: \"You always need the key moments. We didn't lose the tie tonight, we lost in Madrid. It was uncomfortable for Madrid. We were good, aggressive, had chances. We didn't score and then the experience of Real Madrid played the tie down. That is ourselves this year with the finishing.\n\n\"We know how often Mo Salah finishes these things with closed eyes. Not here. Tonight it was absolutely OK, but we are out.\n\n\"We love this competition and for other reasons it is very important we are back in it. We can now concentrate on the Premier League and we will. We have to work our socks off.\"\n\nReal Madrid boss Zinedine Zidane: \"We were up against it and we knew we had to suffer tonight, but in the end we got what we wanted, which was to go through. I think we handled the game well, we rode the storm and can be proud of our display.\n\n\"We knew they'd start fast and they were really good in the opening 15 minutes, but that's normal. In the quarter-finals of the Champions League you have to dig in and we did that and got through.\"\n• None Attempt saved. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Thiago.\n• None Attempt missed. Karim Benzema (Real Madrid) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Eder Militão with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Nathaniel Phillips (Liverpool) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Andrew Robertson with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Marco Asensio (Real Madrid) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Federico Valverde.\n• None Attempt blocked. Diogo Jota (Liverpool) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is blocked. Assisted by Andrew Robertson.\n• None Attempt blocked. Roberto Firmino (Liverpool) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Andrew Robertson with a headed pass. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Take some time for your wellbeing today\n• None Hear from one of Scotland's top culinary cooks", "The announcement means the US will miss a May deadline for a pull-out agreed with the Taliban last year\n\nUS President Joe Biden is set to announce that American troops will leave Afghanistan by 11 September, officials have told US media.\n\nThe US would miss a May deadline for a pull-out agreed with the Taliban by the Trump administration last year.\n\nThe new deadline would coincide with the 20th anniversary of the terror attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in the US in 2001.\n\nMr Biden had previously said the 1 May deadline would be tough to meet.\n\nUS and Nato officials have said the Taliban, a hardline Islamist movement, have so far failed to live up to commitments to reduce violence.\n\nThe president is due to make the announcement himself on Wednesday.\n\nThe UK is now expected to withdraw 750 British soldiers stationed in Afghanistan by September, with Nato likely to pull its forces out collectively.\n\nGerman Defence Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer told ARD public television early on Wednesday: \"We always said: we'll go in together, we'll leave together. I am for an orderly withdrawal, and that is why I assume that we (Nato) will agree to that today.\"\n\nThe Taliban have been warned that if they attack US troops during the pull-out phase, they \"will be met with a forceful response\", a senior US official told reporters.\n\nMr Biden had decided a hasty withdrawal that would put US forces at risk was not a viable option, the official added.\n\nAt the same time, a review of US choices determined that now was the time to close the book on the 20-year conflict in Afghanistan to focus on more acute threats.\n\nThe Afghan government has not yet responded officially, but the speaker of the Afghan parliament, Mir Rahman Rahmani, warned that the withdrawal of foreign forces in the current circumstances would lead to civil war.\n\nMany here will see this decision as a boost to the Taliban, despite it being a breach of the 1 May deadline the insurgents have insisted is adhered to. It seems unlikely they would now resume attacks on American forces given the short extension period; nevertheless, the Taliban reaction so far has been hostile.\n\nSome in the Afghan government had hoped the new Biden administration would adopt a more \"conditions-based\" approach to the peace process. Instead, that has been explicitly ruled out.\n\nThe slow pace of talks between Afghan and Taliban negotiators so far suggests it will be difficult to reach a power-sharing arrangement before US troops are withdrawn. Perhaps the Taliban's desire for international legitimacy will lead them to compromise.\n\nBut many fear the Taliban will be tempted to wait out the withdrawal, and then push for outright victory or at least dominance. The Afghan government has until now remained reliant on US air strikes to help hold the insurgents back.\n\nThe Taliban said on Tuesday that it will now not attend a summit on Afghanistan's future, due to be held in Turkey later this month, until all foreign forces leave the country.\n\n\"Until all foreign forces completely withdraw from our homeland, [we] will not participate in any conference that shall make decisions about Afghanistan,\" Mohammad Naeem, spokesman for the Taliban office in Qatar, tweeted.\n\nUS Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin are expected to brief Nato allies on the decision in the Belgian capital, Brussels, on Wednesday.\n\nThe United States has spent trillions of dollars and lost more than 2,000 service members since 2001 in what has been its longest war.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Is peace with the Taliban possible? (2019 report)\n\nThe deal signed in February last year said the US and its Nato allies would withdraw all troops in 14 months if the Taliban upheld its promises, including not allowing al-Qaeda or other militants to operate in areas it controlled and proceeding with national peace talks.\n\nAs a condition of starting negotiations with the Afghan government, the Taliban also demanded the release of thousands of their men in a prisoner swap.\n\nDirect talks then began in Doha in September 2020, but a breakthrough has still not been reached.\n\nAlthough the group stopped attacks on international forces as part of the historic agreement, it has continued to fight the Afghan government.\n\nLast month, the Taliban threatened to resume hostilities against foreign troops still in the country on 1 May.\n\nThere are fears that if foreign military forces withdraw before a lasting agreement is reached, the Taliban might seize power.\n\nThe US has some 2,500 troops in the country as part of a 9,600-strong Nato mission.\n\nOctober 2001: US-led bombing of Afghanistan begins following the 11 September attacks on the United States\n\nFebruary 2009: Nato countries pledge to increase military and other commitments in Afghanistan after US announces dispatch of 17,000 extra troops\n\nDecember 2009: US President Barack Obama decides to boost US troop numbers in Afghanistan by 30,000, bringing total to 100,000. He says US will begin withdrawing its forces by 2011\n\nOctober 2014: The US and UK end their combat operations in Afghanistan\n\nMarch 2015: President Obama announces his country will delay its troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, following a request from President Ashraf Ghani\n\nOctober 2015: President Obama announces that 9,800 US troops will remain in Afghanistan until the end of 2016, backtracking on an earlier pledge to pull all but 1,000 troops from the country\n\nJuly 2016: President Obama says 8,400 US troops will remain in Afghanistan into 2017 in light of the \"precarious security situation\". Nato also agrees to maintain troop numbers and reiterates a funding pledge for local security forces until 2020\n\nAugust 2017: US President Donald Trump says he's sending more troops to fight a resurgent Taliban\n\nSeptember 2019: Protracted peace talks between the Taliban and the US break down\n\nFebruary 2020: After months of on-off talks, the US signs a troop withdrawal agreement in Doha with the Taliban", "Ann Fawsitt said she had a small sherry and her husband Denis had a drop of whisky to celebrate the win\n\nAn 80-year-old man has bagged more than £100,000 in the EuroMillions after forgetting his glasses and being unable to pick his regular numbers.\n\nDenis Fawsitt would normally use family birthdays for his weekly ticket, but as he could not see, went for a lucky dip instead.\n\nMr Fawsitt said it \"turned out to be one of my best decisions ever\".\n\nHe and his wife Ann, 75, are planning to make over their Derbyshire home and garden with the £116,124 winnings.\n\nThe pair play the EuroMillions every week and buy their tickets from the Co-operative store in Station Road, Hatton.\n\nMr Fawsitt said: \"I realised I had forgotten my glasses and tried to pick my numbers, but I just couldn't.\n\n\"I went to pay for my papers and asked the lady behind the counter for a lucky dip.\"\n\nThe retired couple matched the five main numbers and one Lucky Star number on 16 March.\n\nMrs Fawsitt said the couple also plans to give a lot of the money to family\n\nMr Fawsitt added: \"After what happened in the newsagent, I had this funny feeling we were going to win. I said to my wife Ann that evening that I felt we were going to win big.\"\n\nThe following morning the now-bespectacled prize winner could not believe what he was seeing and returned to the newsagents.\n\nThey checked his ticket and told him to call Camelot, which his daughter Sally did on their behalf.\n\nMrs Fawsitt said there was no dancing or champagne popping, \"especially with Denis's bad back\"\n\nMr Fawsitt said they \"went into shock\" when they heard the news, with Mrs Fawsitt stressing there was no dancing or champagne popping, \"especially with Denis's bad back\".\n\n\"Denis had a drop of whisky and I had a small sherry,\" she said.\n\n\"We then put the lucky winning ticket in the living room cabinet for safekeeping before the people from the National Lottery were able to validate the ticket.\n\n\"When the win was confirmed, we did have a glass or two of fizz, and when this horrible Covid has gone away and it's safe, we'll have a big family party to celebrate.\"\n\nMr Fawsitt, a retired builder and coal miner, said his vision was to use the winnings for a full garden makeover, as a back injury suffered a few years ago had limited his ability to tend it himself.\n\nHe said the spec-tacular payout would also allow them to buy a new TV.\n\nMeanwhile Mrs Fawsitt, who previously worked at KP Snacks in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, said she was eyeing up a new electric cooker and foam mattress.\n\nHowever the pair, who have two daughters, two grandsons and a granddaughter, said most of the winnings would go to their family.\n\n\"We can treat ourselves to a few nice things but, most importantly, give a lot to the family,\" she said.\n\n\"We've had our time, it's theirs now… this money will help them more than us.\"\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.", "Saskia Jones and Jack Merritt were killed during a conference on rehabilitating offenders\n\nA charity office manager has described being repeatedly stabbed during the terror attack at Fishmongers' Hall.\n\nIsobel Rowbotham told the inquest jury that she pleaded with convicted terrorist Usman Khan as he approached her on 29 November, 2019.\n\nShe had just seen Jack Merritt moments after he had been fatally wounded by Khan in the toilets.\n\n\"He was shouting that he'd been stabbed,\" she told the inquest at London's Guildhall.\n\n\"He was holding his stomach. Obviously he'd been injured. There was a lot of blood.\"\n\nMs Rowbotham described Khan as moving towards her \"quite fast\" and \"purposively\".\n\nShe said: \"I was obviously saying 'no Usman, please.' It was quite obvious he wasn't going to stop.\"\n\nCharity office manager Isobel Rowbotham pleaded with Usman Khan not to attack her as he approached with two knives\n\nMs Rowbotham said she hunched down to try to protect herself but was stabbed multiple times.\n\n\"It felt more like punches, I guess,\" she continued. \"His final stabs were in my neck.\n\n\"It felt like he thought they were the final stabs, as if they were intended to finish me.\"\n\nThe court heard she lay on the floor and \"decided to play dead in case he came back again...I tried to slow down my breathing.\"\n\nUsman Khan (left) sat at the same table as Saskia Jones (right)\n\nMs Rowbotham said she wanted to call the police on her mobile but \"there was too much blood to press the screen.\"\n\nSaskia Jones, 23, and 25-year-old Mr Merritt both died after being stabbed by Khan at the prisoner rehabilitation conference being held in Fishmongers' Hall.\n\nThe inquest also heard that Mr Merritt had rebooked a rail ticket for his killer after Khan's train to London was cancelled.\n\nSimon Larmour, a Learning Together research associate, said he received a panicked phone call from Khan on the day of the attack saying his train from Stafford had been cancelled.\n\nJurors heard that one of Khan's knives had a crudely etched Arabic symbol for Allah on it\n\nThe court previously heard that during the journey, Khan strapped a fake suicide bomb to his waist whilst in the train toilet.\n\nKhan was met at Euston station by Mr Larmour and John Crilly - who would later help with attempts to subdue Khan on London Bridge.\n\n\"I saw Usman coming towards Issy (Isobel Rowbotham) and me with two knives,\" Mr Lamour said.\n\n\"He was yelling but I didn't really understand what he was saying.\"\n\nJurors were told that Mr Merritt had had some professional dealings with Khan before the Learning Together event\n\nMr Larmour said he leapt over the table and ran to the reception area where he gave first aid to Mr Merritt.\n\n\"I couldn't see all the places he had been stabbed. I was stunned at that point. I tried to find the nearest material I could to put pressure on the wounds.\n\n\"He passed out quite quickly. He was moaning a little bit. His eyes were glazed over. He was pale.\"\n\nThe inquest also heard from retired judge John Samuels, who saw Ms Jones lying at the foot of a staircase with a \"chalk-white\" face.\n\nHe was attending the conference, having previously run a training course for prisoner rehabilitation organisation Learning Together in 2018\n\nHe told the inquest how he was on the balcony of the building's grand entrance hall as the attack unfolded.\n\n''I heard shouts and screams coming from downstairs and I could not understand what was happening,\" he said.\n\n\"The first sounds were male shouts, the shouts were angry and confused.\"\n\nMr Samuels described how he then saw Ms Jones lying on the floor.\n\n\"I noted particularly her face was chalk-white, she appeared unconscious to me or perhaps even dead,\" he said.\n\nMr Samuels then saw one of the organisers of the event, Dr Amy Ludlow, shouting ''police, ambulance, now'' into her mobile phone.\n\nHaving been told to evacuate, Mr Samuels said he then heard an ''authoritative voice'' outside saying that there was a bomb and he should find shelter.\n\nUsman Khan was jailed in 2012 over a plot to blow up the London Stock Exchange\n\nMr Samuels said he now assumed the voice had been that of a police officer.\n\nThe inquest is scheduled to last nine weeks and is expected to be followed by a separate jury inquest into the death of Khan.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Students will be returning five months after they left for the Christmas holidays\n\nStudents on all university courses in England will return \"no earlier than 17 May\", the government has announced.\n\nAbout a million students, taking courses taught online since Christmas, will be able to go back to university campuses.\n\nSince the start of the year, only students on hands-on courses have been allowed in-person teaching.\n\nBut the wait of another month to fully open was described as \"hugely disappointing\" by Universities UK.\n\nUniversities Minister Michelle Donelan, in a written statement, said the timing was a \"cautious approach to the easing of restrictions\" and \"the movement of students across the country poses a risk for the transmission of the virus\".\n\nUniversity leaders had been lobbying for all students to go back in April - saying it was unfair to keep restrictions on campuses when shops were open.\n\nStudents would be \"bitterly disappointed\" at the slow return to university, said Vanessa Wilson, leader of the University Alliance, describing it as \"nonsensical\".\n\nThe mid-May start is likely to raise further questions about refunds on tuition fees and rent, for a reduced term before the summer break.\n\nGraham Galbraith, vice chancellor of the University of Portsmouth, said delaying for another month until after 17 May was \"unfathomable\".\n\n\"That this date is after many universities will have finished their teaching year shows a government with a cavalier disregard for details. This isn't good enough,\" he said.\n\nStudents on practical courses have already been able to return\n\n\"Students can now buy a book on British history in Waterstones and discuss it with a tattoo artist,\" - but they cannot go into a university and discuss it with their lecturer, said Prof Galbraith.\n\nAbout half of students have been on courses only being taught online - but from next month all students will return to a mix of face-to-face and online classes.\n\nHillary Gyebi-Ababio, the National Union of Students' vice president, said: \"We are pleased that the government has finally remembered that students exist.\"\n\nBut she warned that students would need support after so much disruption - including paying rent on accommodation they were not allowed to use.\n\nThe UCU lecturers' union, which opposed an earlier return, said it would be more \"honest\" to accept that many courses would stay online until the autumn.\n\n\"Restarting in-person activities in mid-May, with only weeks of the academic year left, makes absolutely no sense as most lectures and seminars will already have finished,\" said UCU leader, Jo Grady.\n\nStudents will be offered Covid testing on campus when they return - with an initial three tests under supervision, after which students will be asked to take tests at home.\n\nThere will also be an additional £15m for student hardship support this year, announced the universities minister.\n\nThe 17 May timing aligns the return of students with the next phase of ending the lockdown - when pubs will open indoors and cinemas and theatres can open.\n\nUnlike the mass return of England's school children in March, universities in England have had a patchwork return - prompting criticisms that students were \"forgotten\" in the plans for leaving lockdown.\n\nStudents on courses which required hands-on training, such as medicine and some sciences, had some face-to-face teaching last term.\n\nBut students on courses such as the arts, humanities, business and law had been waiting for a return date - which will now be about five months after they left for the Christmas holidays.\n\nThere are some other universities which have already decided to stay online for all this academic year.\n\nEven without in-person teaching, many students seem to have gone back to their university accommodation - with a survey from the Higher Education Policy Institute suggesting about two thirds of students had been in their term-time addresses.\n\nLabour's shadow universities minister, Matt Western, said: \"Just a week before thousands were hoping to return to campus, they have been let down with yet another late announcement and no explanation of the reasons for this delay.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSurge testing will take place in two more London boroughs after cases of the Covid-19 South African variant were found in both areas.\n\nResidents in \"targeted areas\" within the SE16 postcode in Southwark and N3 postcode in Barnet are being urged to get tested.\n\nIt comes after 44 confirmed and 30 probable cases were identified in Wandsworth and Lambeth.\n\nAll identified cases are isolating or have completed their isolation.\n\nTesting has begun in the Rotherhithe ward of Southwark and Covid-19 tests are being delivered to properties in the immediate area.\n\nResidents can also collect and drop off a Home Testing kit from Canada Water Library Theatre between 09:00 and 17:00 BST every day.\n\nA temporary testing site is being opened at Deal Porter Square, next to the library.\n\nTesting will begin at Finchley Central Underground Station car park on Thursday after one confirmed case was identified in N3.\n\nDr Tamara Djuretic, Barnet's Director of Public Health, said: \"There is no evidence at present that they have passed the infection further.\"\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average:\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection are required to view this interactive. How many cases and deaths in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nCase totals for some local authorities in England fell on Friday due to a change in the way the government reports the results of lateral flow tests.\n\nOn Wednesday, the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said: \"Additional testing will be taking place in a targeted areas within SE16 in Southwark after a confirmed case of the Covid-19 variant first discovered in South Africa was found.\"\n\nHe said it was \"vital\" that those being asked to take a test in the area do so.\n\n\"This testing is essential to help monitor and suppress the spread of the virus, so I urge everyone contacted in this area and all those living and working in Wandsworth and in Lambeth to book their tests as soon as possible,\" the mayor added.\n\nPeople aged 11 and over in the four boroughs are being urged to take a PCR test even if they have no symptoms\n\nMeanwhile, some people have taken to Twitter to complain about long queues at test sites in Lambeth on Wednesday.\n\nIsobel Knight said: \"I waited in line for over an hour this morning for the Lambeth surge testing.... If I didn't have Covid before, I probably do now.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Isobel Knight This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBeth Eyre said: \"I queued for two hours this morning and still no test as had to leave the queue to go to work.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Beth This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Lambeth Council spokesperson said it has increased capacity to ensure queues are manageable.\n\n\"We have eight testing sites available for Lambeth residents with more mobile testing units being added, as well as sites open in neighbouring Wandsworth they can use,\" the spokesperson said.\n\n\"These will remain open for a fortnight. Tests are also available by post.\"\n\nFrom Thursday 15 April, additional testing sites will be available in Wandsworth, including Putney Leisure Centre and 23 pharmacies.\n\nPeople have complained of long queues at surge testing sites in Lambeth and Wandsworth\n\nSurge testing was previously carried out in three postcode areas of Lambeth in February after a case of the South African variant was discovered.\n\nIn March, intensive testing was put in place in three areas of Wandsworth borough following a small number of cases.", "The gang primarily targeted Asda in their crime spree\n\nSix men who stole more than £160,000 worth of items from supermarkets, by setting off alarms to distract security guards, have been jailed.\n\nThe gang, based in Oldham, Greater Manchester, mainly targeted Asda stores for high-value items including perfume, alcohol, cosmetics and thousands of nappies.\n\nThey committed 81 separate offences across the UK to avoid being caught, Cheshire Police said.\n\nThe men were each jailed for 42 months.\n\nNicolae Ilie, 37, Alin Mihai, 28, Florin Costea, 52, Stefan Florin, 31, Marius Meirosu, 25, and Gabriel Mocanu, 36, who were originally from Romania, all pleaded guilty to conspiracy to steal at Chester Crown Court.\n\nThey set off security alarms as a distraction technique that enabled them to escape with the stolen items unseen, police said.\n\nLeft to right clockwise: Stefan Florin, Nicolae Ilie, Marius Meirosu, Gabriel Mocanu, Florin Costea and Alin Mihai\n\nThey would then sell on the items, such as printer cartridges, razor blades and alcohol.\n\nBetween April and September 2019 they targeted stores across Scotland, Wales and England.\n\nCheshire Police began investigating after Asda reported a £1,000 theft at its Barons Quay store in Northwich.\n\nDetectives examined CCTV footage, number plate recognition and credit card data which led them to a house in Oldham.\n\nThousands of nappies and more than 50 razors, perfume and alcohol were found.\n\nDet Con Paul Matchett said it was clear the men \"travelled to the UK with the sole intention of committing crime\".\n\nHe said they \"set up their base in Oldham\" and believed they could \"evade justice by spreading their crimes across the country in a bid to keep a low profile.\"\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. Justine Jianikos says her daughters \"did not deserve to have their mother taken away from them\"\n\nA mother said she has been \"robbed of her life\" after her cancer was not spotted and was now terminal.\n\nJustine Jianikos, 30, from Pontypool, Torfaen, has an aggressive form of breast cancer which spread to her spine and lungs.\n\nShe is writing cards for her three young daughters for milestones she will miss - birthdays, weddings and passing their driving tests.\n\nAneurin Bevan University Health Board said it was investigating.\n\n\"Even though I am not going to be here for them, they need to have something to know I was always thinking of them,\" she said of Josie, nine, Halle, six and Ruby, five.\n\nMs Jianikos said she was now facing the \"very daunting, horrible prospect\" of not seeing her children grow up.\n\n\"I might not have deserved this but they certainly didn't deserve it,\" she added.\n\n\"They certainly didn't deserve to have their mother taken away from them for mistakes, delays, and something if it was caught a lot sooner could have been treated a lot differently.\"\n\nMs Jianikos said she first noticed a lump near her armpit last May and said she was initially told it was a fibroademona - a fatty tissue lump that commonly occurs in the breast.\n\nIt grew to about 5cm in diameter and by September had become painful so she returned to her GP.\n\n\"This time it took three months for me to be seen in the breast clinic,\" she said.\n\nMs Jianikos was diagnosed with breast cancer four days before Christmas\n\n\"After receiving a copy of my medical notes, we noticed it was stated twice - in bold, 'urgent, suspected cancer' - and it still took three months.\"\n\nIn December she was offered a biopsy - something she was told was not routinely offered to women under 30 - and was diagnosed with breast cancer four days before Christmas.\n\nHad these tests been carried out months earlier it could have \"saved\" her life, she said.\n\n\"If only a biopsy was taken it would have shown that there was cancer there, and my life could have been saved, you know,\" she added.\n\n\"And so that's why I'd say to anybody, after the experience I've gone through, 'don't always take the first word a doctor tells you, fight for your life - fight for your life' because I have to fight for what's left in my life. And I shouldn't have to.\"\n\nWhen the biopsy results came back Ms Jianikos learnt it was a particularly aggressive form of the disease called triple negative breast cancer and was stage three. It is now stage four and has spread to her spine and lungs.\n\nShe said her oncologist believed if her cancer had been found earlier, the outlook would have been different.\n\nMs Jianikos said: \"I believe I went into that appointment in May, a young, fit healthy girl, whereas I believe if it was six months prior to that I would have had a triple check like you should have which consists of a biopsy, a mammogram and an ultrasound to make sure it's not something sinister.\"\n\n\"I didn't have that. In my head I believe it's because I was young and because of the pandemic.\n\n\"I am now looking at a very different life. For the rest of my life, I am going to be fighting to hold on to my life. That is a very daunting prospect.\"\n\nJustine Jianikos having her hair cut by daughter Halle\n\n\"I've told myself that as long as I can wake up and make my girls breakfast, as long as I can take them to school, as long as I can be a normal mum to them, that's all they need to know,\" Ms Jianikos said.\n\nShe has started her fifth round of chemotherapy and then has one more to go.\n\n\"People look forward to that day, they've come to the end, they get to ring the bell, it's a good day for a lot of people.\n\n\"For me, that is going to be the scariest day of my life because I know after then, there are no drugs in my body trying to fight off this cancer until my next treatment plan is drawn up.\"\n\nJustine Jianikos has been writing cards for her three daughters for milestones she will miss, like birthdays and weddings\n\nHer family is trying to raise £100,000 for private drug treatment only licensed in the United States which could help prolong her life.\n\n\"I can't save myself but if I can save anyone else, by raising awareness of triple negative breast cancer or cancer in general,\" she added.\n\n\"If there's anything you are not sure about, go and get it checked out and trust your instinct - you know your own body.\"\n\nAn Aneurin Bevan health board spokesman said: \"We are very sorry that Mrs Jianikos is not happy with the care that she has received.\n\n\"We are currently investigating her concerns and will keep her fully informed with the progress of the investigation.\"\n\nRichard Pugh, head of partnerships for Macmillan Cancer Support in Wales, said the \"sad reality\" was that Ms Jianikos's \"heart-breaking\" story was not unique.\n\nHe estimated there were thousands of people across Wales receiving late cancer treatment because of the pandemic and urged the Welsh government to \"get to grips with the backlog\".\n\nMr Pugh urged anyone with possible symptoms to contact their GP.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "US envoy on climate John Kerry is visiting countries around the world ahead of the summit\n\nUS envoy John Kerry is heading to Shanghai to woo China in advance of a climate summit President Joe Biden is hosting next week.\n\nAfter a major diplomatic row at the UN, both sides hope to co-operate over plans to drastically cut emissions.\n\nThe US wants China to cease building coal-fired power stations and to stop financing coal ventures abroad.\n\nChina wants the US to give more cash to developing countries to obtain clean technology and adapt to climate change.\n\nIt also wants Washington to announce deep cuts in emissions.\n\nSpeaking to CNN, Mr Kerry said China's co-operation was \"absolutely critical\" to battle the climate crisis.\n\n\"Yes, we have big disagreements with China on some key issues, absolutely. But climate has to stand alone.\"\n\nHe is hoping to salvage the superpower relationship to allow progress at President Biden’s virtual summit on 22 and 23 April.\n\nScientists warn that without an agreement between the world’s great polluters there’s little chance of averting dangerous climate change.\n\nBernice Lee, a China expert at the UK think tank Chatham House, said: “This is good news. At least they’re talking in the run-up to the summit. There will be big issues for both sides to resolve. But they must be resolved.\"\n\nNeither party has formally declared its climate masterplan to the UN, and each is struggling to coax more concessions from the other.\n\nCoal-fired power stations are still a major part of China's energy production\n\nThe US was absent from climate negotiations during President Donald Trump’s term of office and it is now being urged to cut emissions to between 57%-63% below 2005 levels this decade.\n\nPresident Biden is expected to declare the formal US offer before, or at, next week’s summit.\n\nChina, meanwhile, has pledged to peak its emissions by 2030, and achieve carbon neutrality by 2060 (that means cutting out all carbon emissions from fossil fuels but still allowing farm emissions of methane – another planet-heating gas).\n\nIt will be pressed to explain the policies that will achieve those targets.\n\nByford Tsang from the think tank E3G told BBC News: “The US has been pushing Japan and South Korea to end overseas coal finance. It will also be pressing the Chinese to stop constructing coal plants in their Belt and Road initiative.\n\n\"It will also want action on China’s domestic coal use. China is operating half the world’s coal capacity – and it’s still been expanding despite the pandemic.”\n\nThe Belt and Road initiative is a sweeping Chinese infrastructure project aimed at expanding global trade links.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What China's One Belt, One Road really means\n\nThe US will also hope to persuade President Xi to attend next week’s virtual summit. Forty world leaders have been invited, including Russia’s Vladimir Putin.\n\nThe summit is a key milestone ahead of the UN climate Conference, known as COP26, in Glasgow this November.\n\nClimate scientists warn that global heating needs to be kept well below 2C above pre-industrial levels, with an aim for an increasingly ambitious 1.5C goal, to avoid the worst of climate breakdown.", "Tenby Surgery staff visited Caldey Island by boat to vaccinate the Cistercian monks\n\nFrom sports halls to surgeries and orangeries to old toy shops, people are being vaccinated in all buildings.\n\nYou can add a monastery to that list as the monks who live on an island just off the Welsh coast had their second Covid-19 jab on Wednesday.\n\nStaff from Tenby Surgery sailed over to Caldey Island, less than a mile (1.6 km) off the Pembrokeshire coast, to give the Cistercian monks a full dose.\n\nHealth chiefs said it was one of \"the more unique vaccination clinics\".\n\nThe Cistercian monks, who took up residence on the island in 1929 to lead a life of prayer and quiet living, had their first vaccination during a visit in February.\n\nBut their local surgery staff paid another visit to the island on Wednesday with a dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.\n\nPrior to the Covid pandemic, day guests were allowed to visit the island in the summer season\n\nJabs were also given to other eligible residents of Caldey Island, which is one of the UK's holy islands with a long monastic heritage.\n\n\"This is definitely one of our more unique vaccination clinics to reach our communities and we are pleased to be returning,\" said Jill Paterson of Hywel Dda University health board.", "Heathrow has said that long queues caused by extensive Covid checks at the airport are becoming \"untenable\".\n\nChris Garton, chief solutions officer at Heathrow, told MPs on the transport committee that some travellers faced waits of up to six hours.\n\nOn more than one occasion police had had to intervene because queuing was \"not something passengers want to do\", he added.\n\nThe Home Office said people shouldn't travel \"unless absolutely necessary\".\n\nA spokesperson said: \"Border Force has ensured it has the right level of resources to check that passengers are compliant with our border health measures, but queues and wait times will currently be longer as we undertake these vital checks to keep us all safe.\"\n\nForeign travel is only permitted for certain reasons at the moment.\n\nMr Garton said that all passengers, regardless of nationality, had to be thoroughly vetted before they left or entered the UK to ensure they complied with coronavirus legislation.\n\nHowever, he said that the queues would become a \"much bigger\" problem if rules on foreign travel are relaxed on 17 May, as the government is planning.\n\nCurrently, he said about 10-15,000 people arrive at the airport each day, and \"certainly more than half are having delays in excess of 2-3 hours each day\".\n\nHe said the current system is a \"tremendous burden on officers at the border\" and that the Home Office had not provided enough officers.\n\n\"We would like to see more resources at the border,\" he told the MPs.\n\nHe said maintaining social distancing was hard as the airport was never built to \"have so many people held up\" in queues.\n\nPeople in England can start thinking about booking foreign holidays again this summer, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said last week.\n\nBut he said the cost of the Covid tests required needed to be driven down, amid criticism from the travel industry.\n\nMr Shapps gave more detail on the traffic light system which will see countries graded on their risk.\n\nPassengers will have to take the tests before leaving and on returning - even from low-risk \"green\" countries.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir James Dyson says leaving the EU has given the UK \"freedom of spirit\"\n\nBrexit has given the UK back its independence and boosted innovation, inventor Sir James Dyson has said.\n\n\"We've got our freedom, we can make trade agreements with other countries outside Europe [and] we can employ people from all around the world,\" Sir James told the BBC.\n\nThe latest statistics for February show UK exports to the EU remain below the same level last year.\n\nHe also defended moving Dyson's global headquarters to Singapore in 2019.\n\nAt the time, the pro-Brexit entrepreneur was accused of \"hypocrisy\", after claiming the UK would gain more from leaving the EU than it would lose.\n\n\"We're a British company - I've put a lot into this country,\" he said.\n\n\"I can't make things here and bring over all the components from the Far East here, assemble them here and then send them back to the Far East. That just doesn't work.\"\n\nThe interview came as Dyson announced plans to create 200 new jobs at its research facilities in Malmesbury and Hullavington, Wiltshire.\n\nThe plans are part of a £2.75bn global investment plan into emerging technologies and products, announced in November.\n\nSir James said the end of the UK's transition period with the EU had enabled Dyson to hire the engineering talent it was lacking in the UK.\n\nFreedom of movement between the UK and EU has ended and the government has introduced a points-based immigration system which it says \"treats all applicants equally, regardless of where they come from\".\n\nBut experts say UK companies who want to hire from outside the EU are in no better position than before Brexit while attempts to hire EU workers now face significant costs and administration that did not exist before.\n\n\"We have 60 different nationalities on this site. I employ them from all over the world,\" Mr Dyson said.\n\nIt is certainly true that Brexit, and specifically leaving the Customs Union, gives Britain freedom to do new trade deals without having to work through the EU's external trade policy.\n\nSo far, that freedom has been devoted to maintaining the level of access to certain overseas markets that British business already had by virtue of EU trade agreements.\n\nOthers are now possible and for some the US would be the big prize. But it won't be easy - food standards for example are a contentious issue - and most economic analysis suggests the benefits will be very modest.\n\nOn hiring foreign nationals, Sir James could have employed non-EU people before. There were hoops to go through and even with the new immigration system there still are. The terms of Brexit make it more difficult for EU nationals than it was while the UK was a member.\n\nSir James said the reason he had to move Dyson out to Asia was because Dyson's British suppliers \"didn't want to expand with us\".\n\nWhen asked whether he could be making more innovation happen in the UK, he said: \"I've invested about £2bn on this site [in Wiltshire].\n\n\"I'm taking on more people, I employ 4,000 people here, I pay a large amount of tax here.\"\n\nHe said that the invention of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine showed that the UK had \"an independence of spirit\" that was now able to shine through.\n\nAstraZeneca is a UK-Swedish company. Development of the vaccine begun during the Brexit transition period when the UK was still bound by EU regulation.\n\n\"We had to develop our own... a world record-beating vaccine produced in record time, and that's because we produced it.\"\n\nSir James said that Asia was the fastest growing market in the world and that it was \"very important\" for Dyson to have a presence there.\n\n\"It would be arrogant to think that we could design and develop products for Asia and Britain,\" he said.\n\n\"We can develop technology, but understanding what Asians want and what works in the market - we have to be there, we have to be immersed in it.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe government has defeated Labour plans for a parliamentary inquiry into lobbying, amid a row over contacts with finance firm Greensill Capital.\n\nSir Keir Starmer had wanted a \"full\" probe, including public hearings by a cross-party panel of MPs.\n\nBoris Johnson has insisted the lawyer he appointed this week to carry out a review of the affair will lead a \"proper\" inquiry.\n\nAnd he said the Tories had been \"consistently tough on lobbying\".\n\nEarlier, Sir Keir said the Greensill affair demonstrated \"sleaze and cronyism\" at the \"heart\" of the Conservative Party.\n\nA row about lobbying has centred on attempts by Greensill Capital, a specialist bank which collapsed in March, to influence government ministers and top civil servants.\n\nOn Wednesday, the Commons Treasury select committee said it planned to launch an inquiry into the \"lessons\" from the firm's demise.\n\nThe government has appointed lawyer Nigel Boardman to look into the matter and report back by the end of June.\n\nLabour said a cross-party Commons committee should investigate instead, with a wider remit to recommend changes to lobbying rules.\n\nBut speaking earlier at Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said Labour's proposals would involve MPs \"marking their own homework\".\n\nHe ordered Tory MPs to vote against the plan, which was defeated by 357 votes to 262.\n\nSleaze - amid stiff competition, it's perhaps the dirtiest word in politics.\n\nIt's used as shorthand for behaviour that's immoral, inappropriate, corrupt or just plain wrong.\n\nAnd Labour's choice to attach it to the current government's actions is no accident.\n\nSir Keir Starmer is seeking to evoke the scandals of the past which have led to the downfall of Conservative ministers.\n\nIn the latter years of John Major's government in the 1990s accusations of sleaze were so commonplace it was arguably a factor in them losing power.\n\nBut while Boris Johnson and his ministers will be keen to avoid accusations of improper behaviour in office, there are dangers for the opposition here too.\n\nLabour governments have seen their fair share of scandal in the past and it's a brave politician of any colour who claims to be beyond reproach.\n\nCalls to examine lobbying and the relationship between civil servants, politicians and and private firms have intensified in the past week.\n\nThese have followed revelations about former Prime Minister David Cameron's efforts to influence ministers on behalf of Greensill, where he started working as an adviser in August 2018, two years after he left Downing Street.\n\nThese involved texting Chancellor Rishi Sunak and contacting other ministers about a government-backed Covid loan scheme on behalf of the company.\n\nAlong with the company's founder Lex Greensill, Mr Cameron also met Health Secretary Matt Hancock for a \"private drink\" in 2019 to discuss a new payment scheme for NHS staff.\n\nSpeaking earlier, Sir Keir suggested there was a \"revolving door\" between the government and the private sector.\n\nHe told MPs: \"I know the prime minister is launching an inquiry. That inquiry isn't even looking at the lobbying rules.\n\n\"I'm not sure it's looking at very much at all, because every day there's further evidence of the sleaze that's now at the heart of this Conservative government.\"\n\nBut the prime minster said Mr Boardman would be leading a \"proper independent review,\" and Labour's committee idea would \"not do a blind bit of good\".\n\nMr Cameron has insisted he did not break any codes of conduct or rules on lobbying, although he has acknowledged that he should have communicated with the government \"through only the most formal of channels\".\n\nConservative MP William Wragg, who chairs a Commons committee currently looking into business appointments, said the Greensill affair was a \"tasteless, slap-dash and unbecoming episode for any former prime minister\".\n\nBut, speaking ahead of Wednesday's vote, he suggested Mr Cameron's involvement was a \"red herring\" compared with the wider issues - such as why companies were interested in employing \"de-skilled\" former ministers at all.\n\nMr Greensill, who worked as an unpaid government adviser during Mr Cameron's early years in Downing Street, has not commented on the row.\n\nMr Cameron has said the idea of him working at Greensill Capital \"was never raised, or considered by me, until well after I left office\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBollards and rubber kerbs installed to help social distancing on a town's high street are to be scrapped after they were described as a \"death trap\".\n\nPeople falling over bollards and kerbs in a north Wales town have been caught on CCTV with one woman apparently seen falling in front of a moving car.\n\nSome residents of Llangollen signed a petition to remove the measures and Denbighshire council will replace them.\n\nNew 3ft planters and white lines to extend the pavement will be put in.\n\nTown councillor Stuart Davies, who organised the petition, said at least four falls had been caught on camera on Llangollen's main shopping street with another woman seen falling in front of a moving car, which just stopped in time.\n\nWhile another man said he tripped over a bollard outside a chip shop on Castle Street, landing heavily on his knee while on a day out with his wife.\n\nKeith Wilson, 52, said the bollard bases were \"hardly visible and an absolute death trap\".\n\nHe added the fall left his knee \"swollen and bruised\" and he could \"hardly walk\".\n\nThe bollards in Llangollen's main shopping street will be replaced with planters next week\n\nThe owner of one of the shops on Castle Street said the bollards needed to be taken down immediately as \"so far people have been lucky and there have been no deaths of people being hit by traffic.\"\n\nSian Glynne-Jones, owner of Courtyard Books, said there had been many falls caused by the temporary street furniture, including a man who she said broke his nose and an elderly woman who needed to be taken to hospital.\n\nOn one occasion she said a man was stopped falling into a chip shop window by a bicycle which was \"completely ruined\" as a result.\n\n\"We cannot wait for them to be replaced in several weeks' time,\" said Ms Glynne-Jones.\n\nShe said there was danger on both sides - with people either falling into the busy road or into the old shop widows, which she said could result in someone getting \"seriously hurt\".\n\n\"So far people have been lucky and there have been no deaths of people being hit by traffic but any one of these elderly people could die as a result of these falls from complications,\" said Ms Glynne-Jones.\n\nShe added she was particularly worried about elderly people especially as streets could get busier now Covid lockdown restrictions had eased, adding more delivery vans could be also parked on the street.\n\n\"It makes me so angry that they are not taking it seriously enough,\" she said.\n\nSian Glynne-Jones said that \"So far people have been lucky and there have been no deaths\"\n\nTown councillor Mr Davies has said CCTV footage has \"surfaced showing how bad these falls are.\"\n\n\"The cases of people tripping and falling, causing in some cases severe injuries, is now well documented,\" he said.\n\nThe temporary measures were installed in Llangollen - similar to other schemes in towns across the country - in the spring of 2020 in a bid to help social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nDenbighshire council has confirmed that the \"rubber kerbs and accompanying bollards\" will be removed \"following concerns raised by the public\".\n\n\"These will be replaced with planters which are approximately 3ft high,\" said a council spokesperson.\n\n\"The planters will help to maintain sufficient pavement width for social distancing purposes.\n\n\"White lines have also been recently painted between the road and area of widened pavement.\"\n\nThe work to replace the bollards and kerbs with planters is due to start next week.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The commercial vessel was operated by Seacor Power\n\nRescuers are searching for the missing crew members of a large commercial vessel after it capsized off the US state of Louisiana.\n\nThe US Coast Guard confirmed one person was found dead and six others had been rescued. Twelve people are missing.\n\nA spokesman said the search team was \"giving it all we got\" but described conditions as \"challenging\".\n\nThe lift boat capsized about eight miles (12km) from Port Fourchon on Tuesday afternoon.\n\nThe 129ft (39m) vessel was identified as belonging to marine transport firm Seacor Marine.\n\nA lift boat is a self-propelled vessel with an open deck, often using legs and jacks, and is deployed to support drilling or exploration.\n\nSeacor spokesman Armond Batiste told the New York Times that the ship was the Seacor Power.\n\nThe Coast Guard said boats and aircraft were covering a wide area looking for survivors.\n\nEarlier, spokesman Will Watson said the vessel overturned amid strong winds and heavy seas that were \"challenging under any circumstances\".\n\nBut he said he was hopeful that survivors could still be found.\n\n\"We're giving it all we have,\" Capt Watson said. \"You can't do this work if you're not optimistic.\"\n\nThe Coast Guard said it had received an emergency radio notification at 16:30 (21:30 GMT) that there was a distressed commercial vessel about eight miles from the coast.\n\nIt said an \"urgent marine information broadcast\" had been issued which \"multiple good Samaritan boat crews responded to\".\n\nCoast Guard and other ships have so far rescued six people\n\nTwo Coast Guard ships rescued one person each, while civilian boat crews pulled four additional people out of the water.\n\nAnother person was found dead as rescue operations continue amid choppy waters.\n\nThere are now four Coast Guard vessels, four civilian boats, and an Ocean Sentry search and rescue aeroplane searching the water for the rest of the crew.\n\nThe New York Times quoted a Coast Guard official as saying it was possible some of them might still be trapped inside the vessel.\n\nThe National Weather Service's New Orleans area head, Benjamin Schott, told NBC News that a \"wake low\" weather phenomenon on Tuesday afternoon caused winds of 70-80mph, which would have made the seas very rough.\n\nWhile incidents are decreasing year-on-year, there are still dangers associated with commercial shipping.\n\nAccording to the AGCS Safety and Shipping Review 2020, a total of 951 ships have been lost in the past 10 years - 15 of them in 2019.\n\nOne-third of ship losses in 2019 happened in South China, Indochina, the Philippines and Indonesia, the report added - describing this area as \"the global hotspot\".", "The Nicola Faith fishing boat went missing on 27 January\n\nThe wreck of a north Wales boat missing for more than two months was found just 177m away from its last known position, a marine search expert has said.\n\nThe Nicola Faith failed to return to Conwy on 27 January, and the bodies of her three crew were later found at sea.\n\nThe Marine Accident Investigation Branch confirmed the ship's identity on Tuesday after it was spotted last week.\n\nDavid Mearns said there was \"no reason\" why the boat should not have been found sooner given its location.\n\nThe bodies of crew members Alan Minard, 20, Ross Ballantine, 39, and skipper Carl McGrath, 34, were all found in March.\n\nMr Mearns was leading a private search for the boat, although it was ultimately found by the MAIB, in shallow waters less than two miles off the coast of Colwyn Bay, he said.\n\nThe bodies of Alan Minard, Ross Ballantine and Carl McGrath were discovered last month\n\nMr Mearns told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast: \"The wreck was located only 177 metres away from the last known position of the vessel.\n\n\"So it was where the signal was lost, it was where everyone should have known where the wreck was from the beginning.\n\n\"So, in the final conclusion, yes, there is no reason why it shouldn't have been found sooner.\"\n\nHe said the the search had been done in a number of stages.\n\n\"The MAIB actually found the wreck last week, and so I went out and did a high-resolution sonar of the wreck, which provided the best images that we have so far of the wreck.\n\n\"These are images both of the hull, and also of things that are floating above it,\" he said.\n\n\"This allowed us to compare things like the dimensions of the ship, and pick out key features which are distinctive to the Nicola Faith - the tall mast and the platform on the stern - that helped identify it as the Nicola Faith.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by David Mearns OAM This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe added the MAIB and North Wales Police divers had visually confirmed it as the wreck.\n\n\"The hull appears intact, we can see the whole starboard side, and from the sonar images, the wreck appears intact, and all the key features are there,\" Mr Mearns said.\n\n\"At one time, people were concerned that it may have capsized, so the radar mast would have been damaged, but those are intact.\n\n\"I can see no obvious damage, as it looks OK - which just raises more questions - about why it sank, in not very shallow water, and not so far off the coast.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, Andrew Moll, chief executive of the MAIB, said: \"A large amount of evidence has already been collected and analysed, and a close look at the results of today's dive survey should increase our understanding of the accident.\"", "A teenager has told how he was groomed by criminals to sell heroin and crack cocaine after being recruited through a post on Snapchat.\n\nTwo years ago, aged 14 and wanting to run away from home, he responded to a message offering cash-in-hand work and accommodation, on the social media app.\n\nWithin 80 minutes, a gang collected him and drove him elsewhere to sell drugs.\n\nKent Police said they were cracking down on gangs but added parents also had an important role to play.\n\nThe teenager, who said he spotted the post on another person's Snapchat story, said: \"It was from a simple text to be honest with you... Within an hour and 20 minutes of me texting them, they was [sic] already here.\"\n\nThe boy, who has asked to remain anonymous, said he was made to hide drugs inside his body.\n\n\"Basically if you get pulled over by the police, cos [sic] they can't strip-search me or anything, obviously where I'm underage, obviously that's why they got me to hide it.\"\n\nHe said he sold consignments of drugs to addicts, each batch worth £480, and dealt with five consignments a day.\n\nLennox Rodgers, from the charity Refocus, helped the family to get out of the situation\n\nAfter a week, his mother found him and rescued him with help from gang intervention charity Refocus.\n\n\"When I knew what he was doing, I thought I'm going to get that call that he's dead, because the amount of nights I searched the streets looking for him, and couldn't find him,\" she said.\n\nLennox Rodgers, from Refocus and also a former gang member, said he knew what to say and what to do and \"was able to show them how to get out\".\n\nCounty lines gangs use dedicated phone lines to send mass texts to customers and organise networks of couriers, often children and vulnerable adults, to move drugs from cities to smaller towns.\n\nPhone lines are branded with a gang's name, allowing customers to place orders. Dealers remain anonymous to avoid getting caught.\n\nThe boy's mother said: \"We still live the trauma, all of us as a family. I've had extra locks put on the doors. You're living a nightmare, even now.\n\n\"Even though my son's safe, I still worry if he goes out....These people are getting away with so much. It's out of control.\"\n\nSnapchat's guidelines state the app must not be used for illegal activities, and inappropriate content can easily be flagged.\n\nDevelopers said they continually sought guidance from experts, while providing in-app support for users.\n\nDet Supt Shaun White, from Kent Police, said the force took a zero-tolerance approach to county lines and drug dealing, working in partnership with the Metropolitan Police and British Transport Police.\n\nHe said in the past year, the force had arrested over 300 people, leading to more than 350 charges, and had conducted 176 search warrants, resulting in seizures of drugs, cash and weapons.\n\n\"We know that county lines teams use social media to groom young people, but as a response to that we work with our safeguarding teams and our partners in our local authority,\" he said.\n\n\"What I would say to parents is - look at your children's phones, look who they're mixing with. When they go to school, who are their new friends they're interacting with?\n\n\"Children have more than one social media account and parents have to get back to old-fashioned parenting and actually challenging their children on where they're going, who they're mixing with, and actually asking children for their passwords.\"\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.", "Tesco has announced a rise in sales but a sharp fall in full-year profits after spending nearly £900m to carry on trading through the Covid pandemic.\n\nThe UK's largest supermarket said \"exceptionally strong\" revenue grew by 7% to £53.4bn.\n\nHowever, pre-tax profits dropped by nearly 20% following a number of Covid-related costs including giving full pay to staff off work ill or shielding.\n\nIt also incurred £535m after forgoing business rates relief.\n\nThe government announced the business rates holiday last March to help support retail, leisure and hospitality companies through the pandemic.\n\nHowever, supermarkets are classed as essential retailers and have been allowed to stay open during lockdown. Tesco said it would repay the rate relief following criticism over its decision to pay millions of pounds worth of dividends to shareholders.\n\nRichard Hyman, a partner at the retail consultancy TPC, said that trading through Covid had cost Tesco a lot of money: \"In order to [trade through the pandemic] they've had to spend a lot of money looking after the health of both their customers and their staff and that's been very very costly,\" he said.\n\nTesco said its strong sales growth was boosted by a 77% rise in online sales. Like-for-like sales, which strips out revenue from shops opened or closed during the year, rose by 6.3% for the group.\n\nThe supermarket said that while some of the additional sales volumes would fall away as Covid restrictions eased, it expected a strong recovery in profitability as most of the costs incurred in the pandemic would not be repeated.\n\nIt said because of a \"greater than usual level of uncertainty around sales volumes, mix and channel shift\" it was difficult to predict operating profit for its retail business. However, Tesco said it expected it to recover to a similar level in the previous financial year.\n\nThe company also announced a £175m loss at Tesco Bank compared with a £193m profit in the previous 12 months.\n\nIt said there had been a \"material decline\" in customer spending because of Covid, leading to \" lower levels of new business activity in loans and credit cards, lower credit card balances, and a reduction in ATM and travel money transactions\".\n\nIt added: \"Higher levels of unemployment and lower GDP forecasts resulted in an increase in the provision for potential bad debts.\"\n\nTesco said that while it expected the bank to return to profit in the next financial year, the pace and scale of recovery \"is highly dependent on the economic outlook, which remains uncertain\".\n\nTesco's share price fell by 2.65% to 225.96p in early trading.", "Over-50s who have had a dose of the Pfizer or AstraZeneca vaccine can take part in a study on mixing jabs\n\nA major UK trial looking at whether Covid vaccines can be mixed with different types of jabs used for first and second doses is being expanded.\n\nCombining vaccines might give broader, longer-lasting immunity against the virus and new variants of it, and offer more flexibility to vaccine rollout.\n\nAdults over 50 who have had a first dose of Pfizer or AstraZeneca can apply to take part in the Com-Cov study.\n\nTheir second dose could be the same again, or a shot of Moderna or Novavax.\n\nChief investigator on the trial Prof Matthew Snape, from the Oxford Vaccine Group, said he hoped to recruit 1,050 volunteers who had already received one dose on the NHS in the past eight to 12 weeks.\n\nMore than 800 people are already taking part in the research and have received two doses of either Pfizer, AstraZeneca or a mix.\n\nResults of this first stage are expected next month and the expanded trial should have some reportable findings by June or July - although the study will run for a year.\n\nHealth experts generally agree that the mixing and matching of the vaccines should be safe. The trial will check for any side-effects or unwanted reactions.\n\nParticipants will have blood taken to check how well the vaccines trigger an immune response - in the form of antibodies and T cells - to combat Covid.\n\nMeanwhile, a scientist advising the government has said a lot of experts are \"very concerned\" after a cluster of cases of the South African coronavirus variant were found in London.\n\nSurge testing is available in Lambeth and Wandsworth after 44 confirmed cases and 30 more probable cases in those areas, according to the Department of Health.\n\nNHS Test and Trace is also providing additional testing in a targeted area within SE16 in Southwark, where a case linked to the other cluster has been identified.\n\nProf Peter Openshaw, a member of the Covid-19 clinical information network, told the BBC's Newsnight: \"I think we're all just hoping that the staged reduction in lockdown is going to be OK.\n\n\"If we get rapid spread of the South African or other more resistant variants, it may well be that we are going to have to put the reductions of lockdown into reverse.\"\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Prof Snape said the option to mix vaccines would \"massively increase the flexibility and resilience of the immunisation programme and it will mean we can roll these vaccines out more quickly, not just in the UK but internationally\".\n\nHe said the \"starting point\" was to see if a combination of vaccines were \"as good in terms of their immune responses\", but that there were also \"some hints\" that a combination might give a better immune response overall.\n\nEarlier, Prof Snape said: \"What I'm hoping is that we won't rule out any combinations. That's how we need to look at it: Are there any combinations we shouldn't be giving, because they don't generate a good immune response?\"\n\nSo far more than 32 million people in the UK have received the first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, while 7.8 million people had both doses.\n\nOutside of the trial, people should still receive the same type of Covid-19 vaccine for their first and second doses, although they can be given different brands if the same vaccine is not available.\n\nThe Moderna vaccine is already approved for use in the UK and works in a similar way to the Pfizer/BioNTech one, using a small amount of genetic code from coronavirus to teach the body how to fight off infection.\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is slightly different and uses a harmless, modified virus to carry instructions on how to beat Covid.\n\nThe Novavax jab has not been approved yet in the UK, but is expected to be soon, since trials show it is safe and effective.\n\nIt uses proteins from coronavirus that can train the immune system without causing infection.\n\nThe UK is not the only country considering using mixed dosing.\n\nHead of China's Center for Disease Control and Prevention, George Gao, recently said China should consider it to boost vaccine effectiveness.\n\nRussia's Sputnik V vaccine involves using two slightly different doses to give immunity.\n\nProf Jeremy Brown, a member of the UK's Joint Committee of Vaccination and Immunisation, which advises on vaccines, said in coming years people will eventually \"have to\" have a mix of Covid-19 jabs.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"It's practically going to have to be that way because, once you've completed a course of, say, the Moderna or Pfizer or the AstraZeneca, with two doses - in the future, it's going to be quite difficult to guarantee you get the same type of vaccine again.\"\n\nThe trial of mixed vaccines is funded by the vaccine taskforce and supported by the National Institute for Health Research. It is being run from nine different sites across England:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Video caption: 'I saw them more than my own family' 'I saw them more than my own family'\n\nA year on from the peak in coronavirus deaths among care home residents in England and Wales, there are increasing calls for a public inquiry.\n\nMany in the sector believe the government ignored their plight until the death toll made that impossible to do.\n\nTwelve months ago, nursing associate Damian Mann was desperately trying to save the lives of people he spends more time with than his relatives, every day.\n\nHe works at Wren Hall Nursing home in Nottinghamshire, where 13 residents died with Covid-19 between the end of March and mid-April 2020.\n\n\"Some of the people have lived here for five, six years. I see them more than my own family,\" he says.\n\n\"And then they're not here any more.\"\n\nDamian was working on a hastily set-up isolation unit. He was one of just a few staff who didn't contract the virus, so saw resident after resident pass away.\n\n\"We would always make sure someone was with them,\" he says.", "A former Nando's worker has become the latest winner of BBC One's amateur cookery series MasterChef.\n\nTom Rhodes was crowned champion after cooking a five-course lunch for lockdown heroes and serving up a dish at renowned restaurant Le Gavroche.\n\nThe 31-year-old from Newcastle saw off competition from fellow finalists Mike Tomkins and Alexina Anatole.\n\nThe final had been postponed following the death of the Duke of Edinburgh on Friday.\n\nThe BBC replaced scheduled programming with news coverage about Prince Philip, with EastEnders among the other programmes affected and BBC Four taken off air completely.\n\nHowever, the scale of content devoted to the 99-year-old duke's death reportedly sparked a large number of complaints.\n\nThe rescheduled show saw the final trio fight to impress hosts Gregg Wallace and John Torode with three signature dishes.\n\nMike Tomkins, Alexina Anatole and Tom Rhodes were the BBC MasterChef finalists 2021\n\nBut it was Rhodes' Japanese-infused starter, main and dessert which proved victorious, making him the long-running programme's 17th winner.\n\nComplimented for \"a style bordering on minimalism\" by Wallace, Rhodes served a trio of oysters for the starter, including a beer-battered oyster with a Japanese sour plum mayonnaise.\n\nFor Torode, it was Rhodes' main of reverse-seared ribeye steak topped with beetroot pickled in a Japanese seaweed and a wasabi leaf that was \"modern\" and \"really very clever indeed\".\n\nHis dessert of a lemon tart topped with black olive meringue also received universal praise from the hosts.\n\n\"What he's absolutely brilliant at is European-style of cookery, with Japanese flavourings,\" Wallace said.\n\nSpeaking after filming ended, Rhodes said he would one day \"love to write a cookbook and have a cookery school\".\n\n\"During the competition, I have realised my love for developing recipes and cooking for other people outside of my friends and family, so would love to do more of this after the show,\" he said.\n\nTom Rhodes' trio of oysters were hailed for their minimalist presentation\n\nFirst broadcast in 1990, MasterChef is one of the BBC's longest-running reality series and has inspired the popular spin-off MasterChef: The Professionals.\n\nThe latest series was produced under coronavirus restrictions, with many of the series' traditional assignments adjusted to allow for social distancing.\n\nWhile viewers found out who won last night, Rhodes has had to keep his victory a secret since the end of last year, when filming concluded.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast on Thursday that the only other people who knew the result were his parents who were sworn to secrecy.\n\n\"You've seen the clip last night where I rang my mum on screen,\" he said. \"They've found it more difficult to keep secret than I have\".\n\nRhodes said taking the trophy was \"a dream come true\" and confirmed his further ambitions to become a food writer and maybe even open his own restaurant one day.\n\nHe said he was able to practise his winning dish two or three times before the final, but has not cooked it again at home since.\n\n\"I'm waiting until I can cook it for somebody and I've got a lot of requests for that so far,\" he grinned.\n\nWhen possible though, he plans to celebrate with \"a really good pizza\" and \"maybe a bottle of red\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "People aged 11 and over are being urged to take a PCR test even if they have no symptoms\n\nThe outbreak of the Covid-19 variant in south London appears to have been triggered by an individual who travelled from Africa in February, according to documents seen by the BBC.\n\nSurge testing has begun in Wandsworth and Lambeth after 44 confirmed and 30 probable cases were identified.\n\nThe country involved was not on the red list for mandatory hotel quarantine at that time, but it is now.\n\nThe government said \"strong measures\" were in place to find new cases.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman added that the cluster of cases of the South African variant was being taken \"very seriously\" and the \"testing processes that we have in place have been working well\".\n\nThe link has not been proved beyond doubt, but is the working assumption of contact tracers.\n\nAn executive summary of the outbreak published on 12 April at 15:00 BST and marked \"Official Sensitive\" said the individual did self-isolate and requested a home test after showing symptoms.\n\nIt is thought the virus was spread from that individual to members of their household and then to a care home in Lambeth.\n\nA large queue of people lined up waiting to be tested in Brockwell Park, Lambeth\n\nTwenty-three cases of the South African variant were detected in the care home - 13 staff and 10 residents.\n\nSix of the 10 residents infected had received one dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine two or more weeks before their positive test date.\n\nOne of the 13 infected staff had a single Pfizer vaccine dose two or more weeks before their positive test.\n\nThe timing may raise questions about the vaccination of care home workers at a time when the government is considering making the jab mandatory for that group.\n\nOther clusters related to the first outbreak were detected at two primary schools in Wandsworth.\n\nMore than half of the pupils, teachers and their families who could have taken up extra surge testing made available since the cases came to light have now done so.\n\nA total of 544 confirmed and probable cases of the variant have been found in the country overall\n\nAn examination of wastewater in a small area of nearby Southwark also identified the presence of the South African variant, though that has not yet been linked to the outbreak in Lambeth and Wandsworth.\n\nTargeted surge testing is expected to be put in place in Southwark as a result.\n\nThe documents, from the National Covid-19 Response Centre run by the Department of Health, describe the ongoing risk to public health of the outbreak in south London as moderate.\n\nNHS officials previously described the number of cases identified as \"significant\".\n\nPeople aged 11 and over who live, work or travel through the affected areas have been urged to take a Covid-19 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test, as well as using twice-weekly rapid testing.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said the two boroughs were carrying out the \"largest surge-testing operation to date\", with additional testing sites being opened.\n\nAccording to government figures, a total of 544 confirmed and probable cases of the variant have been found in the country overall.\n\nThose living in the affected areas should \"still enjoy the easing of lockdown\", according to the director of public health for Lambeth Council.\n\nWhen asked on the Today programme whether people in the boroughs should stay at home rather than visit shops or pub gardens, Ruth Hutt replied: \"No, we want everybody to follow the advice that still stands around 'hands, face, space'.\n\nShannon Katiyo, Wandsworth's director of public health, said it was \"crucial that residents take an asymptomatic PCR test so that we can identify all cases\".\n\n\"If you test positive by any method, you must isolate in order to prevent passing on the virus,\" she said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Bill Crothers says he was \"transparent\" about the role he took on with Greensill Capital\n\nA top civil servant joined financial firm Greensill Capital as an adviser while still working for the government, a lobbying watchdog has revealed.\n\nBill Crothers's part-time position had been \"agreed\" to by the Cabinet Office, the Office of the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments added.\n\nIts chairman Lord Pickles complained of a \"lack of transparency\" over the situation.\n\nBut Mr Crothers said he had been taken on by Greensill in a \"transparent\" way.\n\nThe disclosure about Mr Crothers - who had been the government's chief procurement officer prior to being taken on by Greensill - is the latest of several stories involving the now-collapsed financial firm.\n\nIt employed former prime minister David Cameron as an adviser from 2018.\n\nThe Financial Times and the Sunday Times revealed that Mr Cameron had contacted several ministers, including Chancellor Rishi Sunak, to push for greater involvement in government loans schemes for the company.\n\nBoris Johnson has set up an inquiry into lobbying - attempts to persuade governments to change policy - including Greensill's role.\n\nGovernment sources said this would also now look at the situation surrounding Mr Crothers.\n\nLord Pickles is asking for Whitehall \"guidance\" on possible \"conflicts of interest\"\n\nMr Crothers, who had already left his job as chief procurement officer but remained a Civil Service employee, joined Greensill as an adviser to its board in September 2015.\n\nThe letter from Conservative peer Lord Pickles to leading civil servant Alex Chisholm says: \"This was agreed by the Cabinet Office under its internal conflicts-of-interest policy.\"\n\nLord Pickles asks for \"guidance on the conflicts-of-interest process\" undertaken.\n\nThe letter adds: \"The lack of transparency around this part-time employment with Greensill may have left the misleading impression that Mr Crothers had wilfully ignored the obligation to seek advice.\"\n\nMr Crothers left the Civil Service in November 2015, two months after taking up his role at Greensill. He became a director of the firm in late 2016.\n\nA letter from Mr Crothers to Lord Pickles, a former Conservative Party chairman, written earlier this week, has also been published.\n\nIn it, he says: \"I am concerned that there may be a view that I did not follow proper process regarding my role with Greensill Capital.\n\n\"I assure you that I completely respect the required process and your office, took steps to comply, and believe that I did so.\"\n\nHe adds: \"I was transparent about the move to Greensill Capital, and it was well known at the time.\"\n\nThe shadow Cabinet Office minister Rachel Reeves said: \"This is an extraordinary and shocking revelation.\n\n\"The Conservatives have weakened the rules so much they may as well rip them up and start again.\"\n\nThe government inquiry in to lobbying is expected to report by the end of June, but Labour says it does not go far enough.\n\nIt will use an opposition day debate on Wednesday to force a vote on whether to establish a new Commons select committee to investigate the issue.\n\nUnlike regular opposition day votes which are symbolic, this one would be binding if it passes because Parliament would be deciding if it should do something.\n\nA Cabinet Office spokesperson said there would be a response to Mr Pickles's letter \"in due course\".\n\nThey added that the \"review into Greensill Capital and supply-chain finance\" would be \"wide-ranging\".\n\nMr Cameron has said he did not break any codes of conduct or rules on lobbying and that he welcomes the investigation launched by Mr Johnson.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nChelsea survived a spectacular late overhead kick from Mehdi Taremi to overcome Porto and confirm a place in the Champions League semi-finals for the first time in seven years.\n\nThomas Tuchel's side went into this 'home' last-eight second leg - with both games being played in Seville during the current Covid-19 pandemic - protecting a two-goal lead they only briefly threatened to surrender in the dying seconds following Taremi's brilliant finish.\n\nChelsea, who will now face either Liverpool or Real Madrid in the semi-final, played within themselves but it was enough to keep a disappointing Porto at bay, the Portuguese side rarely testing keeper Edouard Mendy with their surprisingly cautious approach, which they only cast aside when it was too late.\n\nMendy's poor clearance almost offered Jesus Corona a first-half chance but he could not take advantage, while Christian Pulisic and Mason Mount had opportunities after the break.\n\nTaremi's goal was out of character with the rest of Porto's performance and came too late to alter the inevitable course of this quarter-final.\n• None Best action and reaction from Chelsea v Porto in the Champions League\n\nChelsea manager Tuchel suggested he might have preferred to keep N'Golo Kante on the bench after a recent hamstring problem, until an injury to fellow midfielder Mateo Kovacic forced his hand.\n\nAnd he was rewarded with yet another masterclass from the France international, who showed supreme positional sense, tireless work-rate and that uncanny ability to spot any rare danger before prompting attacks of his own.\n\nKante has been an outstanding figure since Tuchel succeeded Frank Lampard and it is no surprise the German has come to count on him so readily, this understated but world-class performer completing the full 90 minutes despite doubts over his match fitness.\n\nChelsea adopted an understandably conservative approach, taking no chances and refusing to offer Porto any route back into this tie. Porto were largely lacklustre and rarely showed any of the sparkle that saw them shock Italian giants Juventus in the previous round.\n\nThey may not have offered any serious threat of their own, although Mount was denied by superb defending from Porto defender Wilson Manafa.\n\nIn reality, however, there was no need whatsoever for Chelsea to take unnecessary risks that may have allowed Porto back in. This was about game management and, despite that last-ditch scare, for Chelsea it was a job very well done.\n\nChelsea's hopes of claiming the crown for a second time will certainly be rising after this mature performance, even in eventual defeat, to add to the impressive elimination of the powerful La Liga leaders Atletico Madrid in the last 16.\n\nTuchel has Chelsea organised, fiercely disciplined and increasing in confidence - a mood that will only grow as they prepare to face either Liverpool or Real Madrid. Yes, this was a loss but the overall tie will be regarded as a highly satisfactory outcome.\n\nThe Champions League can often be about timing the run of form and there is no doubt Chelsea have built up impressive momentum under Tuchel aside from the 5-2 thrashing at home to relegation-threatened West Bromwich Albion at Stamford Bridge recently.\n\nChelsea will show the requisite respect to whoever they face in the semi-final but they will not fear either Liverpool or Real Madrid, depending on who prevails at Anfield on Wednesday.\n\nTuchel has bolstered their defence and while this was a performance built on those solid foundations and with Kante and Jorginho as the anchors, Chelsea have already shown they have attacking weapons when required.\n\nChelsea will not shout about their Champions League aspirations - but there is no reason why they should not fancy their chances, even though the record will show this 'home' second leg as a defeat.\n\nOnly three shots on target\n• None Chelsea have reached the Champions League semi-finals for the eighth time, more than any other English side in the competition's history.\n• None Porto have exited in the Champions League knockout stages on 14 occasions, with 50% of those eliminations coming at the hands of English sides. Porto have been knocked out by an English team on each of the last three occasions they've reached the knockout rounds (Liverpool in 2017-18 and 2018-19).\n• None There were just three shots on target in this match (1 for Chelsea, 2 for Porto), with two of these coming in added time (Christian Pulisic for Chelsea and Mehdi Taremi's late winner).\n• None This was just Porto's second 'away' victory in the Champions League knockout stages (D6 L13), after their win at Deportivo in the 2003-04 semi-final.\n• None This was Porto's first ever 'away' win against an English side in European competition, with the Portuguese side having failed to win any of their first 21 such games (D3 L18).\n• None Mehdi Taremi's 93rd-minute strike was the latest Chelsea have conceded in a Champions League game (excluding extra-time) since April 2005 against Bayern Munich, when Mehmet Scholl scored in the 95th minute.\n• None Jorginho made eight tackles in this match, the most by a Chelsea player in a Champions League game since N'Golo Kanté against Barcelona in March 2018 (also 8).\n• None Goal! Chelsea 0, FC Porto 1. Mehdi Taremi (FC Porto) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Nanu with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Christian Pulisic (Chelsea) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Hakim Ziyech with a through ball.\n• None Offside, Chelsea. Jorginho tries a through ball, but Hakim Ziyech is caught offside.\n• None Luis Díaz (FC Porto) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Take some time for your wellbeing today\n• None Hear from one of Scotland's top culinary cooks", "Government departments have been ordered to find out by the end of the week whether senior officials have rule-breaking second jobs.\n\nCabinet Secretary Simon Case has asked colleagues to declare paid roles or outside interests that \"might conflict\" with Civil Service rules.\n\nThe move comes after it emerged a top official joined a financial firm while still working for the government.\n\nBill Crothers says his recruitment by Greensill Capital was \"transparent\".\n\nLetters to an appointments watchdog published on Tuesday revealed his part-time role as an adviser at the firm had been signed off by the Cabinet Office.\n\nBut Prime Minister Boris Johnson told MPs on Wednesday it was \"not clear\" that \"boundaries have been properly understood\".\n\nLabour has described Mr Crothers' dual employment, which happened in 2015, as \"extraordinary and shocking\".\n\nMr Crothers had been the government's chief procurement officer prior to being taken on by Greensill, which has since collapsed.\n\nRevelations about the firm's attempts to influence government have led to Mr Johnson launching a lawyer-led review into its access to ministers and civil servants.\n\nLabour argues a special House of Commons committee should investigate instead - but the government rejects this, and voted down the plan on Wednesday.\n\nIn a letter to senior officials, seen by the BBC, Mr Case - the UK's top civil servant - said there were issues of \"acute concern\" over recruitment.\n\nHe said the need to give civil servants the chance to gain experience life outside Whitehall has been \"recognised for many decades by successive governments\".\n\n\"But this must only be done in a way which can maintain the integrity and impartiality of the Civil Service,\" he wrote.\n\nHe added: \"In particular, there needs to be transparency and full and proper management of any outside interests.\"\n\nMr Case ordered colleagues to declare by the end of the week if they \"come across\" instances of senior civil servants with second jobs or outside interests \"which might conflict with their obligations under the [Civil Service] Code\".\n\nThis sets outs the rules on \"honesty\", \"integrity\", \"objectivity\" and \"impartiality\".\n\nSimon Case became head of the civil service in September 2020\n\nMr Crothers joined Greensill as an adviser to its board in September 2015, while he remained a Civil Service employee.\n\nLetters to the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (Acoba) watchdog published on Tuesday show the move was approved by the Cabinet Office under its internal conflicts of interest policy.\n\nMr Crothers later went on to join the company as a director in late 2016, after leaving government in November 2015.\n\nIn a letter to Acoba's chairman, Lord Pickles, Mr Crothers wrote: \"I am concerned that there may be a view that I did not follow proper process regarding my role with Greensill Capital.\n\n\"I assure you that I completely respect the required process and your office, took steps to comply, and believe that I did so.\"\n\nHe adds: \"I was transparent about the move to Greensill Capital, and it was well known at the time.\"\n\nBut in a letter to the current head of the Cabinet Office, Lord Pickles said there had been a \"lack of transparency\" about the process - and called for more details.\n\nConcerns about Greensill's access to government were sparked by revelations last month that former Prime Minister David Cameron had lobbied on behalf of the company after leaving office.\n\nHis efforts involved texting Chancellor Rishi Sunak and contacting other ministers about a government-backed Covid loan scheme on behalf of the firm.\n\nAlong with the company's founder, Lex Greensill, Mr Cameron also met Health Secretary Matt Hancock for a \"private drink\" in 2019 to discuss a new payment scheme for NHS staff.\n\nThe former prime minister began working as an adviser to the company in August 2018, two years after leaving Downing Street in July 2016.\n\nMr Cameron has said he did not break any codes of conduct or rules on lobbying, and welcomes the government's review.\n\nOn Wednesday, the Commons Treasury select committee said it planned to launch an inquiry into the \"lessons\" from Greensill Capital's demise.\n\nOther parliamentary committees are reportedly considering bids to invite the former prime minister to give evidence.\n\nA spokesman for Mr Cameron said he would \"respond positively\" to such requests \"when the terms of reference of each inquiry are clear\".", "Twenty-one-year-old Mary Ibiyemi from Glasgow lost her job in a takeaway last year because her employer \"just couldn't keep me on anymore\" in the pandemic.\n\nShe then spent fruitless months looking for jobs, a time when her self-esteem \"just went down\".\n\nShe thinks it's hard for any young person finding work at the moment, but particularly if you are black.\n\n\"My surname isn't one a lot of people can pronounce, and I feel employers are more likely to skip over it,\" she said,\n\n\"I feel if you're from the black or Asian communities, if you have a hard-sounding name then they are less likely to take the time to get to know the person, the pronunciation and try to work with you as a person.\"\n\nOver the past year, the UK jobless rate for young black people rose by more than a third to 35%, according to the Resolution Foundation think tank.\n\nThat compared with a rate of 24% for young people of Asian descent and a rate of 13% for young white people, both up three percentage points.\n\nThe foundation said Covid had widened existing gaps between ethnic groups.\n\nLester Holloway, anti-racism policy officer at the Trade Union Congress (TUC), said all young people needed opportunities but black and minority ethnic (BME) young workers faced \"additional obstacles because of their race\".\n\n\"That's an example of racial injustice,\" he said. \"Ministers must stop delaying and challenge the structural racism and inequality that holds back BME people from such an early age.\"\n\nThe employment gap between young ethnic workers and white workers has been with us a long time, but this data, gathered during the pandemic, shows it's getting worse.\n\nThis research also makes clear that the problem is not just due to a lack of access to education among ethnic people. More than one-in-three young black graduates were unemployed in the second half of 2020 - an unemployment rate almost three times that of young white graduates.\n\nThe Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities' recent report on race concluded there was no evidence of institutional racism in the UK, but the findings have been fiercely contested.\n\nThey also come after the unequal health outcomes of Covid sufferers from BME backgrounds have been laid bare.\n\nMary finally found a part time role, but many others won't be so lucky. According to the Resolution Foundation, young people in general have borne the brunt of job losses in lockdown, because they disproportionately worked in sectors hit by the crisis, such as hospitality and leisure.\n\nAt the height of the pandemic last year, between the second and third quarters of 2020, the unemployment rate among 18 to 24-year-olds rose from 11.5% to 13.6%, the foundation said.\n\nThis was the largest quarter-on-quarter rise among this age group since 1992.\n\n\"The rise in youth unemployment is not just about those losing their jobs, but also about young people not finding work in the first place,\" the foundation added.\n\n\"Those who left education just before or during the crisis - the so-called class of 2020 - have faced particular difficulties, with unemployment rising fastest among those who recently left education.\n\n\"Having a degree has not protected recent graduates from this effect.\"\n\nThe Resolution Foundation wants the Kickstart scheme to protect young people from the impact of long-term unemployment\n\nBut here too, there is a big disparity between ethnic groups. By the end of last year, unemployment among young black graduates had risen to 34%, up from 22% before the pandemic.\n\nThat was a rate almost three times that of young white graduates during the same period (13%). The unemployment rate for young Asian graduates during this period was 24%.\n\nThe Foundation called for the government's £2bn Kickstart youth jobs scheme to be expanded and extended to protect young people from the impact of long-term unemployment.\n\nIt also urged special efforts to ensure that young people from hard-hit ethnic backgrounds had access to the scheme, alongside access to quality education and training options, and, where needed, financial support for full-time study.\n\nKathleen Henehan, a senior research and policy analyst at the Resolution Foundation, said: \"The furlough scheme has done a fantastic job of minimising job losses amidst unprecedented shutdowns of our economy.\n\n\"But young people have still experienced a sharp rise in unemployment during the Covid-19 crisis - with recent education-leavers and young black people being hardest hit.\n\n\"This pandemic has created a highly generationally unequal unemployment surge and widened pre-existing gaps between different ethnic groups.\n\n\"Young people have sacrificed their livelihoods in order to save the lives of others from Covid-19, and putting their careers back on track must be a priority for government in the months and years ahead.\"\n\nAre you affected by the issues raised in this story? Please share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. 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.", "YouTuber Jake Paul has denied sexually assaulting TikTok star Justine Paradise, after she accused him online.\n\nParadise shared a 20-minute video last week in which she alleged that Paul forced her to perform oral sex on him and touched her without her consent, at his home in Los Angeles in 2019.\n\n\"He didn't ask for consent or anything,\" said Paradise. \"That's not okay. On no level at all is that okay.\"\n\nIn a statement posted on Twitter, Paul said the allegations were \"100% false\".\n\nParadise said she had waited for two years to speak out because she had signed a non-disclosure agreement, something which was allegedly required of all guests who entered Paul's home.\n\nThe pair met several times in June and July 2019, when Paradise would visit Paul's home - known as his Team 10 house - in California. Paradise says she was introduced to Paul via a mutual friend.\n\nPaul, who is preparing for a boxing match versus UFC fighter Ben Askren on Saturday, said the allegations were designed to distract attention from the fight.\n\n\"Sexual assault accusations aren't something that I, or anyone should ever take lightly, but to be crystal clear, this claim made against me is 100% false,\" he wrote in a statement shared on Twitter.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Not only have I never had any sexual relationship with this individual, but this claim is solely a manufactured accusation and a blatant attempt for attention during a highly visible fight week.\"\n\nHe went on to note he was in a relationship at the time of the alleged incident and added he's a \"momma's boy\".\n\n\"I respect women and mothers more than anything,\" Paul added: \"I most certainly have never laid a finger on a girl without their consent.\"\n\nThe online star, who has more than 20m YouTube subscribers, intendeds to sue Paradise for defamation for the \"irreparable damages\" to his reputation.\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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Gardenswartz said in an additional statement provided to the BBC: \"Our client is aware of the recent allegation against him.\n\n\"While others have already begun to debunk the claim alleged against him, our client categorically denies the allegation and has every intention of aggressively disproving it and pursuing legal action against those responsible for the defamation of his character.\"\n\nHe added: \"Our client believes that any false allegations diminish the credibility of those who have truly been victims of misconduct.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The Queen during a visit to the Royal Australian Air Force Memorial on 31 March\n\nThe Queen has conducted her first in-person royal duty since her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, died on Friday.\n\nThe monarch hosted a ceremony in which the Earl Peel formally stood down as Lord Chamberlain, whose office organises royal ceremonies.\n\nDuring a private event held at Windsor Castle, the Queen accepted her former royal aide's wand and office insignia.\n\nThe Royal Family is observing two weeks of mourning. The duke's funeral will take place at Windsor on Saturday.\n\nA royal official said members of the family would continue \"to undertake engagements appropriate to the circumstances\".\n\nThe Princess Royal undertook an engagement on Wednesday - visiting the Royal Yacht Squadron in Cowes, on the Isle of Wight\n\nThe Earl Peel announced he would retire as Lord Chamberlain last year, with his replacement Andrew Parker, a former MI5 chief, beginning in the role just over a week before Prince Philip died.\n\nTuesday's official engagement was recorded in the Court Circular - a daily list of the events attended by the Queen and her family.\n\nIt said: \"The Earl Peel had an audience of The Queen today, delivered up his Wand and Insignia of Office as Lord Chamberlain and the Badge of Chancellor of the Royal Victorian Order and took leave upon relinquishing his appointment as Lord Chamberlain, when Her Majesty invested him with the Royal Victorian Chain.\"\n\nThe Earl Peel had overseen arrangements for the duke's funeral - known as Operation Forth Bridge.\n\nThe Lord Chamberlain's Office, led by the Queen's Comptroller Lieutenant Colonel Michael Vernon, is tasked with the practical side of the day.\n\nBut in overall charge is Baron Parker who took up his new role on 1 April, following the Earl Peel's retirement after more than 14 years in the post.\n\nAs Lord Chamberlain, the Earl Peel - seen here in 2010 - oversaw the planning of dozens of royal ceremonies\n\nDespite losing her beloved husband of 73 years on Friday and being a week away from her 95th birthday, the Queen is carrying on with the job.\n\nShe never really stopped. On the day it was announced that Prince Philip had died, she had to go through the revised funeral plans which she then approved. They were made public the following day.\n\nOne imagines that, had she wanted to, yesterday's audience to mark the retirement of the former Lord Chamberlain could have been postponed until the period of royal mourning was ended. But that is not her way.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC, the former Prime Minister Sir John Major said he hoped the Queen would be given time and privacy.\n\n\"I know she is the monarch, I know she has responsibilities, but she has earned the right to have a period of privacy in which to grieve with her family,\" he commented.\n\nFew would disagree but the Queen has a work ethic and commitment to duty and service which she has always placed above all other considerations.\n\nThe ceremony at Windsor Castle came after the Queen held a phone call with Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Saturday, according to the Court Circular.\n\nOn Sunday, the Duke of York said the Queen had told her family that Prince Philip's death at the age of 99 \"left a huge void\" in her life.\n\nHe added: \"The Queen, as you would expect, is an incredibly stoic person.\n\n\"She described it as having left a huge void in her life but we, the family, the ones that are close, are rallying round to make sure that we're there to support her.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe funeral, on Saturday at 15:00 BST, will be a much more low-key event due to the pandemic, but Buckingham Palace says the plans reflect Prince Philip's wishes.\n\nHis coffin will be carried in a modified Land Rover, which the duke helped to design, as part of a procession from the State Entrance of Windsor Castle to St George's Chapel.\n\nMembers of the Royal Family will walk behind the coffin, although the Queen will travel separately. Meanwhile, guns will be fired in salute and a bell will toll.\n\nInside the chapel, the Royal Family will wear face masks and keep to social distancing rules. Only 30 people will be able to attend, in line with coronavirus regulations.\n\nThe Duke of Sussex has returned to the UK from his home in the US to attend the funeral, although the Duchess of Sussex will not make the trip on medical advice.\n• None Prince Philip: What time is the funeral?", "The Ever Given has been anchored in the Great Bitter Lake since it was refloated\n\nEgypt will impound the giant container ship that blocked the Suez Canal last month until its Japanese owner pays $900m (£652m) in compensation.\n\nOne of the Ever Given's insurers, UK Club, said the Suez Canal Authority had rejected its offer to settle the claim.\n\nIt described the claim, which includes $300m for a salvage bonus and $300m for loss of reputation, as \"extraordinarily large\" and \"largely unsupported\".\n\nThe Ever Given is anchored in the Great Bitter Lake, the canal's midway point.\n\nThe 400m-long (1,312ft), 220,000-tonne ship became wedged diagonally across the waterway on 23 March after running aground amid high winds and a sandstorm that affected visibility.\n\nIt was freed six days later, after a salvage operation involving a flotilla of powerful tug boats and dredging vessels that shifted an estimated 30,000 cubic metres (1.1m cubic ft) of mud and sand.\n\nMore than 400 vessels had to wait to pass 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\nThe chairman of the Suez Canal Authority (SCA), Osama Rabie, said on Tuesday that the Ever Given had been \"seized due to its failure to pay $900m\" in compensation, Egyptian state media reported.\n\nThe figure was based on the \"the losses incurred by the grounded vessel as well as the flotation and maintenance costs\", he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. (29 March 2021) The stranded container ship is seen finally on the move and no longer blocking the canal\n\nUK Club - which insured the ship's owner Shoei Kisen Kaisha for third-party liabilities, including damage caused to infrastructure or claims for obstruction - said in a statement that it had been negotiating in good faith with the SCA \"despite the magnitude of the claim\".\n\n\"On [Monday], a carefully considered and generous offer was made to the SCA to settle their claim,\" it added. \"We are disappointed by the SCA's subsequent decision to arrest the vessel.\"\n\n\"We are also disappointed at comments by the SCA that the ship will be held in Egypt until compensation is paid, and that her crew will be unable to leave the vessel during this time.\"\n\nThis satellite photograph shows how the Ever Given was wedged across the canal\n\nUK Club said the SCA had not provided a detailed justification for its claim, noting that the grounding resulted in no pollution and no reported injuries.\n\nIt also said the claim did not include the fees of the specialist salvage company brought in to help refloat the Ever Given, which the owner and another insurer expected to pay separately.\n\nA spokeswoman for Shoei Kisen Kaisha confirmed to Agence France-Presse that the Ever Given's fate was \"in the legal arena\".\n\nThe Ever Given's technical managers, Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement, also expressed disappointment with the decision on Wednesday in a statement confirming that inspections by the American Bureau of Shipping, the vessel's classification society, had been concluded.\n\n\"The vessel has been declared suitable for onward passage to Port Said where she will be assessed again before departing for Rotterdam,\" it said.\n\nThe Ever Given's 25 Indian crew members had been co-operating fully with the Egyptian authorities and their investigation into the grounding, including granting access to the vessel's voyage data recorder and other materials and data, the statement added.\n\n\"The crew on board remain in good health and good spirits, fulfilling their duties to the highest of standards. BSM is in regular contact with the crew and has offered support to the seafarers' families.\"", "Gerald Corrigan and his partner Marie Bailey were \"virtually cleaned out\" after giving about £200,000 to Richard Wyn Lewis, court hears\n\nA retired lecturer who was shot dead with a crossbow had been \"virtually cleaned out\" after giving £200,000 to a conman, a court has heard.\n\nRichard Wyn Lewis, 50, took the money from Gerald Corrigan and his partner Marie Bailey and claimed to spend it on property development and horses, a trial at Mold Crown Court has heard.\n\nMr Corrigan, 74, was murdered outside his remote home near Holyhead on Anglesey, in April 2019.\n\n\"Wyn Lewis is a conman, he is a fraudster, and during the period spanned by this indictment he conned a number of different people out of various sums of money, sometimes many thousands,\" said Peter Roach QC, prosecuting.\n\nThe prosecutor told the court that Mr Lewis had told Mr Corrigan and Ms Bailey he would help them with the apparent development and sale of their home - called Gof Du - and they would be able to sell the 35-acre plot for more than £2m.\n\n\"I say apparent development and apparent sale because there was no such development and there was no such sale, it was all a figment thought up by Wyn Lewis,\" Mr Roach told the jury.\n\n\"Throughout, people lost their money and Wyn Lewis dishonestly kept it.\"\n\nThe court heard Mr Lewis, of Llanfair-yn-Neubwll near Holyhead, had told Mr Corrigan he had a potential buyer, John Halsall, and a retired planning officer, referred to as David, would help him to get planning permission.\n\nMr Lewis told Mr Corrigan and Ms Bailey he would help them with the development and sale of their home\n\nBut following his death, police found several numbers Mr Corrigan had noted for \"David\" could be traced back to Mr Lewis.\n\nMr Roach told the court that Mr Corrigan was convinced the house sale was near completion before his death but no planning applications had been submitted and Mr Halsall did not exist.\n\n\"The whole thing was a sham,\" Mr Roach said.\n\nWhen interviewed by police, Ms Bailey estimated the couple had given about £200,000 in cash to Mr Lewis between 2015 and 2019, and were \"virtually cleaned out of available cash\".\n\nTwo days before his murder, the court heard Mr Corrigan had given £200 to Mr Lewis and told him: \"There is no more money.\"\n\nMr Roach also told the jury Mr Lewis had also taken money from the couple for \"non-existent\" horses and stabling fees.\n\nThe court also heard Ms Bailey, 66, paid Mr Lewis to take her car for repair, but instead he sold it for £5,000 and told her it was damaged and should be scrapped.\n\nThe jury was also told that in 2018, Ms Bailey transferred £50,000 to Mr Lewis' partner, Siwan Maclean, for the purchase of the former Llanddona school on Anglesey, which Mr Lewis had told her she could sell for a profit to a building firm.\n\nBut, Mr Roach said the building was never put up for general sale.\n\nThe jury was told Mr Corrigan's murder was nothing to do with this trial, but the fraud allegations came to light when Ms Bailey was interviewed by police after the shooting.\n\nMr Lewis' partner Ms Maclean, 51, also of Llanfair-yn-Neubwll, denies entering into a money laundering agreement. Mr Lewis denies eight counts of fraud and the trial continues.", "The Queen with Andrew Parker during a visit to MI5 last February\n\nThe Queen has formally appointed the former head of MI5 as Lord Chamberlain ahead of the Duke of Edinburgh's funeral.\n\nThe monarch held an audience with Andrew Parker at Windsor Castle and passed on a wand and office insignia.\n\nLord Parker took over from the Earl Peel as Lord Chamberlain on 1 April.\n\nThe Lord Chamberlain's office is responsible for royal events and ceremonies, including Prince Philip's funeral at Windsor on Saturday.\n\nIt followed the Queen's first royal duty since the duke's death, when she accepted the wand and insignia from the Earl Peel, who has retired, during an audience at Windsor on Tuesday.\n\nMeanwhile, members of the Royal Family released previously unpublished photographs of the duke, and the Princess Royal held her first in-person engagement since her father's death.\n\nA royal official has said members of the family would continue \"to undertake engagements appropriate to the circumstances\" during an official period of mourning.\n\nConfirmation of the Queen's audience with Lord Parker came in the Court Circular, the official record of royal engagements.\n\nIt reported: \"The Lord Parker of Minsmere had an audience of The Queen today, kissed hands upon his appointment as Lord Chamberlain and received from Her Majesty the Wand and Insignia of Office and the Badge of Chancellor of the Royal Victorian Order, when The Queen invested him with the Insignia of a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order.\"\n\nThe Lord Chamberlain's office, led by the Queen's Comptroller Lieutenant Colonel Michael Vernon, is tasked with the practical side of Prince Philip's funeral.\n\nBut in overall charge is Lord Parker, who succeeds the Earl Peel after his retirement following more than 14 years in post.\n\nThe ceremonies at Windsor Castle came after the Queen held a phone call with Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Saturday.\n\nOn Sunday, the Duke of York said the Queen had told her family that Prince Philip's death at the age of 99 \"left a huge void\" in her life.\n\nHe added: \"The Queen, as you would expect, is an incredibly stoic person.\n\n\"She described it as having left a huge void in her life but we, the family, the ones that are close, are rallying round to make sure that we're there to support her.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe funeral, on Saturday at 15:00 BST, will be a much more low-key event due to the pandemic, but Buckingham Palace says the plans reflect Prince Philip's wishes.\n\nHis coffin will be carried in a modified Land Rover, which the duke helped to design, as part of a procession from the State Entrance of Windsor Castle to St George's Chapel.\n\nMembers of the Royal Family will walk behind the coffin, although the Queen will travel separately. Meanwhile, guns will be fired in salute and a bell will toll.\n\nInside the chapel, the Royal Family will wear face masks and keep to social distancing rules. Only 30 people will be able to attend, in line with coronavirus regulations.\n\nThe Duke of Sussex has returned to the UK from his home in the US to attend the funeral, although the Duchess of Sussex will not make the trip on medical advice.", "A review of the state of Britain's native woods and trees has found only 7% are in a good condition.\n\nWhile woodland cover is slowly increasing, the wildlife within it is decreasing, says the Woodland Trust.\n\nIf threats to woodland aren't tackled, the UK's ability to tackle climate and nature crises will be \"severely damaged\", the charity warns.\n\nThe Woodland Trust is among a number of groups calling for legally binding targets for the recovery of nature.\n\n\"The warning signs in this report are loud and clear,\" says Abi Bunker, director of conservation and external affairs at the Woodland Trust.\n\n\"If we don't tackle the threats facing our woods and trees, we will severely damage the UK's ability to address the climate and nature crises.\"\n\nTrees removed to build the A21 in Sussex\n\nWoodland now covers 13% of UK land, up from 12% in 1998.\n\nAbout half is made up of native tree species, such as oak, beech and ash, including centuries-old ancient woodlands. The remaining half comprises non-native trees such as conifers grown commercially for timber.\n\nDespite the small increase in the amount of woodland cover over the past few decades, the trend for wildlife is one of steep decline, said the Woodland Trust.\n\n\"Wildlife is going down - woodland birds, woodland butterflies, woodland plants are all going in the wrong direction for woodlands as a whole,\" Chris Reid, lead author of the report, told BBC News.\n\n\"This is down to factors such as pollution, invasive species, deer browsing and fragmentation - woods chopped up into small parcels. All of these need to be tackled.\"\n\nThe report, State of the UK's Woods and Trees 2021, found that ancient woodlands lock up proportionally more carbon than other types of tree cover.\n\nEstimates suggest that ancient and long-established woodlands hold 36% of all woodland carbon (77 million tonnes).\n\n\"They're really important in terms of their ability to tackle climate change whilst providing that real specialist and irreplaceable habitat for declining wildlife,\" says Hazel Jackson of the Woodland Trust.\n\nAncient woodlands continue to be lost and damaged by house building, new road and railways, the report says.\n\nIt calls for a better balance to be restored by removing non-native trees and invasive plants such as rhododendrons.\n\nThe report says as well as protecting existing woodlands, we need to quadruple current tree planting efforts and increase the proportion of native tree species.\n\nLocation and quality are the key to success, it argues, including connecting existing native woods and creating new ones near urban populations and in areas at high risk of flooding.\n\nThe Committee on Climate Change, the government's independent adviser on tackling climate change, has called for the planting of more trees and woodlands if the UK is to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.\n\nIt recommends increasing UK woodland cover from its current level of 13% of total land cover to at least 17%, and possibly to 19% by 2050.\n• None Will millions more trees really stop climate change?", "A Cookstown teenager has teamed up with the Afghan Women’s Orchestra to star in a music video aimed at peace-building and supporting women's rights.\n\nCara Monaghan will perform on the song Gham Be Haya with Afghanistan’s first women's orchestra - also known as Ensemble Zohra - as part of a partnership with local charity Beyond Skin, funded by the Community Relations Council.\n\nSince recording the song, the Ministry of Education in Afghanistan has banned girls older than 12 from singing in public arenas.\n\nThe campaign #IAmMySong has been launched to reverse this decision.\n\nCara, who's 16, has had a heart condition since birth.\n\nShe underwent life-saving surgeries as a child and said the condition led her to discover her passion for music.", "Sir Keir Starmer said claims about lobbying show a \"return of Tory sleaze\" as he called for MPs to clean up \"sleaze and cronyism\".\n\nBut Boris Johnson said the government had brought in \"tougher laws on lobbying\" that were opposed by Labour.\n\nThe pair could not resist making reference to the police TV drama Line of Duty as Sir Keir called on Ted Hastings and AC-12 to help, and the prime minister said his government was rooting out \"bent coppers\".", "Brandon Lewis said the decision not to prosecute anyone over the Bobby Storey funeral had a \"very substantial impact\"\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) and Policing Board need to reconnect with communities and build and restore trust, NI Secretary Brandon Lewis has said.\n\nHe said the decision not to charge anyone over the Bobby Storey funeral had a \"very substantial impact\".\n\nMr Lewis was addressing Parliament in the wake of recent rioting.\n\nAlmost 90 police officers have been injured, although recent nights have been quiet.\n\nSome violence has also been linked to police operations targeting the South East Antrim UDA, a paramilitary group involved in organised crime.\n\nMr Lewis told the House of Commons on Tuesday that 88 police officers had been injured in the violence, with 18 arrests made and 15 people charged.\n\nChurch leaders have said the causes of the recent violence were complex and deep-rooted\n\nHe said that in the wake of the Bobby Storey funeral decision, there was a \"very important role for the PSNI and Policing Board to be working with communities to restore and build that trust\".\n\nHe said the decision that was made has had \"a very substantial impact\".\n\nMr Lewis added that there was work that the PSNI and Policing Board \"need to do to reconnect with communities, to show communities that they are there, the PSNI is there for the safety and protection of everybody across the entire community of Northern Ireland\".\n\nAmid calls for the convening of a British-Irish summit to discuss the violence, Mr Lewis said he would look at the \"appropriate time\" for another meeting of the British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference (BIIGC), but he added policing was a devolved matter and did not fall under the remit of the BIIGC.\n\nViolence erupted in many parts of Northern Ireland over the past week\n\nThe lack of trouble in recent nights has been linked to the death of the Duke of Edinburgh, although there were disturbances in Belfast and Coleraine on Friday night, hours after his death was announced.\n\nSaturday also marked the 23rd anniversary of the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, which signalled an end to years of sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe rioting has largely seen youths throwing bricks, fireworks and petrol bombs at lines of police officers and vehicles.\n\nMr Lewis travelled to Belfast last week for a series of political and civic society meetings in the wake of the violence, and was in Northern Ireland again on Monday.\n\nIt comes as church leaders penned an open letter appealing for politicians to provide a unified response to the recent \"heartbreaking\" scenes of violence, saying its causes are complex and deep-rooted.\n\nTheir plea is addressed to Northern Ireland ministers, the British and Irish governments and the European Union.\n\nOn Monday, the Church Leaders' Group (Ireland), which wrote the open letter, met PSNI Chief Constable Simon Byrne - who has faced calls from unionist political leaders to resign - to express concern for injured officers.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Churches in Ireland This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 Churches in Ireland\n\nThey have called for the \"entire\" Northern Ireland Executive to approach the EU and UK government to deal with the fallout of Brexit and the Irish Sea border, and for politicians to express their support for the PSNI.\n\nThe letter stated the intensity of the violence directed at police had been \"horrific\".\n\nIt said the PSNI had a political legitimacy across the community which is enjoyed by few other institutions.\n\n\"It is vital that we address concerns in a way that strengthens our democratic processes rather than undermining them,\" they added.\n\nThe letter was signed by the Reverend John McDowell and Archbishop Eamon Martin, the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland and the Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland respectively, as well as the Reverend Dr David Bruce, moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, the Reverend Dr Tom McKnight, president of the Methodist Church in Ireland, and the Reverend Dr Ivan Patterson, president of the Irish Council of Churches.\n\n\"As Christian Church leaders from across the island of Ireland, we appeal to our political leaders to come together in a unified response to the heartbreaking scenes witnessed on our streets last week and renew their commitment to peace, reconciliation and the protection of the most vulnerable,\" the letter states.\n\nFormer SDLP leader, Baroness Ritchie, raised the recent violence in the House of Lords on Tuesday\n\nIn the House of Commons on Tuesday, Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) MP Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said the violence was not justified.\n\nHe said the issue was trust, and that taking the peace process forward has to be built on trust.\n\n\"That trust was broken in relation to the findings of the Bobby Storey funeral and it has undermined people's trust and confidence in policing and justice in Northern Ireland and there is a two-tier policing system in the eyes of some and that needs to be addressed,\" he said.\n\nParty colleague Ian Paisley said the Bobby Storey funeral decision was the \"straw that broke the camel's back\", but the Northern Ireland Protocol lies at the heart of the issue.\n\nHe said \"all the condemnation in the world will not make that violence go away until actions are taken\".\n\nDemocratic Unionist Party (DUP) MP Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said the violence was not justified\n\nAlliance MP Stephen Farry expressed his \"full support for the PSNI, including the chief constable\".\n\nHe said an EU-UK veterinary agreement would \"take the heat\" out of the controversy around the NI Protocol.\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood said that while policing was devolved, peace was not, and he pressed the secretary of state to hold a meeting of the BIIGC.\n\nThe situation was also earlier raised in the House of Lords by former SDLP leader Baroness Ritchie, who also asked about a British-Irish meeting.\n\nConservative frontbencher Viscount Younger of Leckie said a range of options was being considered, including the BIIGC.\n\n\"Nothing is off the table,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile, Sinn Féin's national chairman and MLA Declan Kearney has accused the DUP of reckless behaviour and \"political vandalism\" against the Good Friday Agreement.\n\n\"The Good Friday Agreement is under renewed assault from those who have always rejected power sharing and the DUP is directly responsible,\" he said.\n\nMr Kearney added that \"bellicose rhetoric\" from the DUP, including the call for Mr Byrne's resignation, was a \"wrecker's charter\".", "The homes of Frank and Christine Lampard, Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha and Tamara Ecclestone and her husband were broken into in December 2019\n\nAn Italian man has been convicted over his role in one of the biggest domestic burglaries in English legal history.\n\nWatches and jewellery belonging to Frank Lampard, Tamara Ecclestone and the late Leicester City chairman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha were among the items taken during a series of burglaries in December 2019.\n\nAlessandro Donati, 43, from Milan, pleaded guilty at Isleworth Crown Court to conspiracy to burgle.\n\nHe will be sentenced at a later date.\n\nDonati was arrested in Italy under a European Arrest Warrant in October and extradited to the UK the following month.\n\nWith the assistance of an Italian interpreter, he admitted to conspiring to burgle dwellings between 30 November 2019 and 18 December 2019.\n\nThe home of the former Chelsea manager and England international Mr Lampard was the first to be raided on 1 December.\n\nTamara Ecclestone's Kensington mansion was raided on 13 December 2019 as she flew out for a Christmas family holiday\n\nA diamond watch, cufflinks and a clock worth an estimated £60,000 were taken.\n\nThen on 10 December, a Knightsbridge property belonging to the Srivaddhanaprabha family was targeted.\n\nIt was duty free billionaire Leicester City owner Mr Srivaddhanaprabha's home before his death in a helicopter crash outside the King Power Stadium in October 2018.\n\nThis time, 400,000 euros in cash was taken, as well as expensive watches.\n\nThe final burglary, on the palatial home near Kensington Palace that socialite Ms Ecclestone shares with her husband Jay Rutland, saw about £25m worth of valuables stolen.\n\nMs Ecclestone, the daughter of ex-Formula 1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone, was on a Christmas family holiday in Lapland with Mr Rutland, their daughter and their dog at the time.\n\nJudge Martin Edmunds QC remanded Donati in custody ahead of a sentencing date yet to be fixed.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "What former politicians, officials and advisers do with their lives after high office can be troublesome enough.\n\nDavid Cameron's entanglement with the now failed bank, Greensill Capital, is a particularly acute example of a problem governments have grappled with for years, swearing all the while that they want to crack down on appalling behaviour, but never quite creating sets of rules or structures that would stamp it out.\n\nThe revelations about the former prime minister have pushed Boris Johnson to order a review of what happened even if, as we discussed on Monday night, it is likely to have been set up in part to spare the blushes of his current colleagues too.\n\nWhat emerged on Tuesday, however, seems more curious still. A very senior civil servant (now departed) who had been in charge of huge amounts of Whitehall business, had actually gone to work for Greensill while he was still on the government payroll.\n\nBill Crothers was the government's chief procurement officer until 2015\n\nYes, one of the impartial officials who was involved in decisions about government spending was, for a couple of months, working for a bank that wanted government business at the same time.\n\nWhat might surprise you even more is that the official in question, Bill Crothers, was given permission to do so.\n\nHis boss, John Manzoni, who had, like him, spent decades in the private sector before going into government, had the responsibility of signing it off.\n\nAnd, as Mr Crothers explicitly points out in a letter, his part-time move to Greensill had the backing of the Cabinet Office leadership at the time, and, as explained, was seen as part of his move back to the private sector.\n\nThe problem with making a transition or journey back to the private sector is that, for good reason, there is meant to be a strict separation between the two. There is meant to be practical and philosophical distance between what is business and what is politics.\n\nYou can read more about Bill Crothers's part in all this here. It is worth noting that the ethics watchdog, by publishing these letters, is perhaps learning to bite.\n\nIts boss, the former cabinet minister Lord Pickles, may be worth a listen when he appears in front of MPs on Thursday.\n\nPolitically, this story does not start and end with Greensill or David Cameron. Labour is trying to build a broad attack on the Tories for indulging in cronyism, whether it is the former PM's lobbying, or pandemic PPE contracts, or however the prime minister's expensive wallpaper was actually paid for.\n\nIts push for a vote on an inquiry into Greensill on Wednesday is part of a long-term game.", "Sir Richard Sutton and his family's wealth was valued at £301m in the 2020 Sunday Times Rich List\n\nA man arrested on suspicion of murder, after one of the UK's richest men was found stabbed to death, has been released from hospital.\n\nSir Richard Sutton, 83, died at his mansion near Gillingham, Dorset, on Wednesday night.\n\nA woman, in her 60s and believed to be his partner, was also stabbed and remains in a critical condition.\n\nPolice arrested a 34-year-old man in London who was taken to hospital with injuries.\n\nHe was arrested after being stopped in a vehicle in Hammersmith.\n\nHe was taken to hospital for treatment to injuries that were not believed to be life-threatening and was subsequently taken into police custody on his release from hospital.\n\nDorset Police said on Friday evening the arrested man, from Gillingham and who was known to the couple, had been released from hospital and was helping detectives with their inquiries.\n\nDet Insp Simon Huxter, of Dorset Police's Major Crime Investigation Team (MCIT), said: \"Our thoughts remain with the family of the man who sadly died and the injured woman, who will continue to be updated with developments.\n\n\"A detailed and thorough investigation continues in an effort to establish the full circumstances of this utterly tragic event.\"\n\nSir Richard owned the freehold of the Sheraton Grand London Park Lane\n\nSir Richard and his family's wealth was valued at £301m in the 2020 Sunday Times Rich List.\n\nHe was number 435 in last year's Sunday Times Rich List and owned several top hotels and had a large property and farming portfolio.\n\nHe owned the freehold of the Sheraton Grand London Park Lane and the Athenaeum Hotel in Mayfair.\n\nA statement from the businessman's company, Sir Richard Sutton Limited, said staff were \"deeply saddened and devastated by the sudden death\".\n\nA police cordon is still in place at the country estate in Gillingham\n\nNorth Dorset Conservative MP Simon Hoare, who was a friend of Sir Richard, described the death as \"deeply awful\".\n\nDorset Police said it received a report at 19:30 on Wednesday raising concerns about the welfare of the occupants of an address in Higher Langham.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n• None One of UK's richest men stabbed to death\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Through his many years of service the Duke of Edinburgh attended thousands of official events with the Queen. Mostly they would work smoothly beside each other. But on one occasion, a swarm of bees derailed the normal efficient-running of events.\n\nPhotographer Chris Young, working for the Press Association at the time, was there to witness the moment and capture it on camera.\n\nYoung was the only photographer at the event, a review of the Grenadier Guards' elite Queen's Company regiment at Windsor Castle in 2003. He had moved away from the spot he had been allocated, to a better vantage point, and waited with guests until the Queen emerged. As colonel of the regiment, the duke was standing in full uniform, as he prepared to accompany Her Majesty.\n\nIt was at this point Young became aware of a swarm of bees.\n\n\"I got lucky,\" says Young, recalling the event 18 years later. \"I recognised that it was a human moment. She was giggling like a little girl and he was laughing too.\"\n\n\"I thought the reaction from both of them was pretty unique.\n\n\"Some of the guests were unsure as to whether they should move, but eventually everyone had to beat a retreat.\"\n\nA royal beekeeper was swiftly summoned to sort things out.\n\nWhile Young was delighted to catch the royal couple off-guard, he was keenly aware of the responsibility as well. As a so-called pool photographer, whose pictures would be syndicated, Young was the only journalist present with a camera.\n\n\"It can be nerve wracking... if you mess it up no one gets a picture of the event.\"\n\nYoung filed the photographs to the picture desk where he worked and was about to board a train back to London when his editor called to say there had been a lot of interest. Could he send any other images he had taken?\n\nSo Young retreated to a nearby cafe to transmit more pictures of the moment the royal couple were surprised by a swarm of bees.\n\nThe main picture made the front pages of a number of newspapers the following day. It was a rare, candid exchange of glances between the couple in public.", "Election campaigning will resume this week after a pause following the death of the Duke of Edinburgh.\n\nElections to the Scottish and Welsh parliaments and for councillors, mayors and police and crime commissioners in England are being held on 6 May.\n\nCampaigning will resume after tributes are paid to Prince Philip on Monday in the House of Commons, Holyrood and the Senedd.\n\nIt will pause again on Saturday, the day of the duke's funeral.\n\nConservative Party co-chair Amanda Milling said: \"The respectful pause to campaigning will end on Tuesday morning.\"\n\nLabour said it will allow leafleting following tributes in Parliament on Monday with a \"full return to campaigning\" on Tuesday.\n\nThe party said campaigning would be suspended again on 17 April - the day of the duke's funeral - \"to allow members to join a day of reflection\".\n\n\"These arrangements have been agreed with the UK government,\" it added.\n\nParliament will return a day early from recess on Monday so that MPs can honour Prince Philip, with the House of Commons sitting at 14:30 BST for tributes.\n\nPeers - who were due to return to the House of Lords on Monday - will also start their proceedings with a humble address of condolence to the Queen.\n\nThe Scottish Parliament, the Northern Ireland Assembly and the Welsh Senedd will also be recalled on Monday for tributes.\n\nPoliticians across the UK have paid tribute to Prince Philip, with Prime Minister Boris Johnson praising his \"extraordinary life\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the UK had \"lost an extraordinary public servant\", while Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon sent her condolences to the Royal Family.", "A series of volcanic eruptions has blanketed parts of the Caribbean island of St Vincent in ash and smoke.\n\nLocals reported \"extremely heavy ash fall and sulphur smells\" and thousands of people were forced from their homes.\n\nLa Soufrière, which had been dormant for decades, started showing volcanic activity in December, but that increased this week.\n\nThe first sign that an eruption was imminent came on Thursday evening, when a lava dome became visible on La Soufrière.\n\nJust before 09:00 on Friday (13:00 GMT), seismologists from the University of the West Indies confirmed that an \"explosive eruption\" was under way.\n\nEvacuees were taken to cruise ships and safer parts of the island.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ash fell like snow on Saint Vincent following the eruptions\n\nThe Caribbean island of St Vincent has been blanketed in a layer of ash, bringing major disruption after a volcano erupted on Friday.\n\nWhite-coloured dust has covered buildings and roads around the island, including in its capital Kingstown.\n\nThe La Soufrière volcano was still rumbling and emitting ash thousands of metres into the air on Saturday. The prime minister has called for calm.\n\nThe volcano was dormant for decades but started to become active in December.\n\nThousands of people have been forced out of their homes and the water supply to most of the island has been cut off.\n\nAbout 3,000 people spent Friday night in emergency shelters, Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves said, and some 16,000 were evacuated from ash-covered or vulnerable areas.\n\nMr Gonsalves said it was unclear how much more ash the volcano would release. Some scientists have warned that eruptions could continue for days or even 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 CDEMA This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPeople across the island, which has a population of around 110,000, woke on Saturday to find their homes covered in the white-coloured volcanic dust.\n\nOne witness in the town of Rabaka told Reuters news agency the ground was covered with about 12 inches (30cm) of ash and rock fragments.\n\nIt prompted warnings from officials to stay indoors, while emergency groups advised caution for those suffering with respiratory problems.\n\n\"Be careful all. We are covered in ash and strong sulphur scents pervade the air. We ask that you take the necessary precautions to remain safe and healthy,\" the island's main emergency management group said.\n\nSome evacuation procedures were hindered by the heavy ash fall, which hindered visibility.\n\nThe ash has travelled far beyond St Vincent and on Saturday, more than 100 miles to the east, officials in Barbados urged people to stay indoors.\n\n\"Unless you have reason to be outside, stay in your house. This is to protect yourselves and your family,\" Chief Medical Officer Kenneth George said.\n\nOther Caribbean countries, including Antigua and Guyana, have offered to send emergency supplies to St Vincent. They also said they would open their borders to those fleeing the fallout from the eruption.\n\nStreets of the capital Kingstown were covered in ash on Saturday morning\n\nThe volcano had been dormant since 1979, but in late 2020 it started spewing steam and smoke and making rumbling noises.\n\nThe first sign that an eruption was imminent came on Thursday evening, when a lava dome became visible on La Soufrière.\n\nJust before 09:00 on Friday (13:00 GMT), seismologists from the University of the West Indies confirmed that an \"explosive eruption\" was under way.\n\nEvacuees were taken to cruise ships and safer parts of the island.\n\nA second explosion was recorded, causing a large vertical column of ash\n\nJournalist Robertson Henry told Reuters of the moment of the eruption.\n\n\"It was bright, but then the light began to deteriorate. And it wasn't at a slow pace, it was rapidly deteriorating,\" he said.\n\n\"You began to feel something hitting your skin - ash. People looked up and there is this huge plume of ash hanging in the sky, silent, deadly, dreadful, ominous.\"\n\nLater on Friday another explosion was recorded, the UWI Seismic Research Centre said.\n\nLocal media have also reported increased activity from Mount Pelee on the island of Martinique, north of St Vincent.\n\nMost of the Lesser Antilles islands are part of a long volcanic arc in the Eastern Caribbean.", "Police have come under attack in north Belfast\n\nPolice have appealed for calm after more attacks on officers during another night of disorder in Northern Ireland.\n\nThere was trouble in neighbouring loyalist and nationalist areas of north Belfast on Friday night.\n\nA burning car was rammed against a police Land Rover and missiles have been thrown in the loyalist Tiger's Bay area, with bins also set alight.\n\nPetrol bombs, bottles and masonry have been thrown at police in the nationalist New Lodge area.\n\nMore police officers have been injured in the 12th consecutive night of violence in Northern Ireland.\n\nOn Thursday night, police deployed a water cannon for the first time in six years after coming under attack again in Belfast.\n\nNineteen officers were injured during disorder on Thursday night, bringing the number of officers hurt in a week of violence across Northern Ireland to 74.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kevin Sharkey This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPolice Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) Ch Supt Muir Clark said: \"We would appeal for calm in the area and ask anyone who has any influence in communities please, use that influence to ensure young people do not get caught up in criminality and that they are kept safe and away from harm tonight.\"\n\nHe urged people to avoid the Tiger's Bay area.\n\nSDLP Councillor Paul McCusker tweeted on Friday night that \"enough is enough\".\n\n\"Those involved need to go home and leave the residents to live in peace,\" he said.\n\n\"They don't deserve this and anyone not from the area should also go home.\n\n\"For once, think of the residents.\"\n\nMeanwhile in the Ballysally estate in Coleraine, County Londonderry, a road blockage was set up and set on fire on Friday night.\n\nEarlier in the day, some signs were erected in Belfast calling for loyalist protests, planned for Friday night, to be called off as a mark of respect to the Duke of Edinburgh, who died at the age of 99.", "As news of Prince Philip's death spread, people made their way to Buckingham Palace to pay tribute and reflect on the duke's life - and the Queen's loss.\n\nSome teenagers on hired bikes pull up next to a police officer asking for directions to Oxford Circus.\n\nBefore cycling off, one calls out: \"Is there any way you can say 'hello' to the Queen for us?\"\n\nNo matter young or old, there doesn't seem to be a soul outside the palace on the day of Prince Philip's death who doesn't feel deep sympathy and sorrow for the Queen.\n\n\"I don't think you have to be a rampant royalist to just feel really sad for the Queen,\" says 56-year-old Louise Simester, from Bedfordshire.\n\nShe took her teenage daughters on a diversion from a trip to the Covid memorial wall to Buckingham Palace, via an unsuccessful hunt to buy flowers, to round off what's been a day of reflection for her family.\n\nDaisy, her 17-year-old daughter, who says she's \"no royalist\", has been surprised by just how shocked she was by the news.\n\n\"All my friends were quite shocked,\" she says. \"I've never experienced a royal death.\"\n\nThe Simester family visited the palace to pay their respects\n\nFor mum Louise, being outside the palace brought memories of Princess Diana's death in 1997 flooding back.\n\n\"I brought flowers for Diana. I remember it like it was yesterday. I remember people sobbing - I was crying myself,\" she recalls, clutching her hand to her chest.\n\nAs we talk, a steady flow of families, friends, children, even a woman on roller blades, line up in the spring sunshine to lay white roses, yellow tulips and unopened lilies beside the gleaming black and gold palace fence.\n\nFor every bouquet laid, the moment is captured by a vast bank of photographers, camera crews and bystanders with their own mobile phones straining against a thick cordon erected by police officers.\n\nAttached to the flowers are messages of gratitude for the duke's decades of service: \"You'll be missed by an entire nation. You were one of a kind,\" says one. Another acknowledges the sacrifices the duke made. \"Farewell Prince Philip - I have a huge amount of respect for a man that can swallow his pride to dedicate his life to supporting the Queen.\"\n\nThe Royal Family did ask people to consider making a charity donation instead of leaving flowers and the government has urged people not to gather at the palace in breach of coronavirus regulations. However, that message had not reached everyone on Friday afternoon.\n\nRhea Varma, from Pimlico, pulls up on her bike to lay a bouquet alongside a note saying \"Rest in Peace Duke, love the Varma family\".\n\n\"It's just super sad,\" she says. To her, the duke represented \"the kind of stability that's so old-fashioned, it's difficult to comprehend.\n\n\"He was a rock who brought integrity,\" she adds.\n\nKalenza Jennings, 43, from Belsize Park, has brought white roses and carnations on behalf of her family after her husband texted her with the news.\n\nShe's here with her best friend, who's also from Thailand. Prince Philip is their hero, they say. \"He's a good man and a faithful man,\" says Kalenza, a personal shopper at Heathrow. \"We love the Queen, and we want to say we're sorry she's lost the man she loves.\"\n\nPeter Chan, a student from Hong Kong, was exercising around Buckingham Palace when he heard the news.\n\n\"I really feel Prince Philip was a nice man and he saved the country,\" he says, after laying a bunch of white flowers bearing a note in his mother tongue together with an English translation: \"To commemorate Prince Philip's life on behalf of Hong Kong people in the UK.\"\n\nPeter Chan wanted to commemorate the duke's life for himself and on behalf of Hong Kong, where he's from\n\nHe reflects the last few months will have been especially hard for the Queen, with Prince Philip going into hospital and living through the pandemic.\n\nWith a hand on his heart, the 26-year-old says from behind his face mask: \"I'm very sympathetic to the Queen. It's really hard to say how I feel, it's really from the heart.\"\n\nAdam Wharton-Ward, 36, was similarly affected and felt moved to \"rally round\" for the Queen's sake.\n\n\"He's been with her for 73 years. If it wasn't for him, who knows if she would have got through it,\" he says, moments after propping a bunch of lilies by the palace gates.\n\nThe duke's appeal, he says, is he was \"almost normal... with his gaffes\". \"Now that normality has gone.\"\n\nDoes he think the duke's death might signal change for the Royal Family's place in British life? \"I think it could be almost the other way. They don't need change,\" says Adam.\n\nRhea Varma thinks otherwise: \"I think it might be the beginning of big change in our country. Without him, the Queen might not reign much longer.\"\n\nBut an older woman, who's rushing past after paying her respects, says the duke's death is \"the beginning of the changing of the guard\" - but a change she's not happy to see any time soon.\n\nAnd, as the Sun begins to duck behind the cloud and crowds make their way to the Tube stations, they'll be more moments to reflect.\n\nWhere adverts for shoes and banks stood only yesterday in London Underground stations, there are now poster-sized portraits of a younger duke in military uniform beside the dates 1921-2021.", "Princess Elizabeth married her third cousin, the Duke of Edinburgh, in November 1947. It was, said Winston Churchill, a flash of colour in the grey post-war Britain.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"My family and I miss my father enormously,\" said Prince Charles at his Highgrove home\n\nThe Prince of Wales has paid tribute to his \"dear papa\", the Duke of Edinburgh, saying that he and the Royal Family miss him \"enormously\".\n\nHe said the duke, who died at Windsor Castle on Friday, aged 99, had given the \"most remarkable, devoted service\" to the Queen, the Royal Family, the country, and the Commonwealth.\n\nPrince Charles said his father was a \"much loved and appreciated figure\".\n\nHis comments came after details of Prince Philip's funeral were announced.\n\nSpeaking from his Highgrove home in Gloucestershire, Prince Charles said over the last 70 years his father had \"given the most remarkable, devoted service to the Queen, to my family and to the country, but also to the whole of the Commonwealth\".\n\nThe prince said the Royal Family were \"deeply touched\" by the number of people in the UK, around the world and the Commonwealth, who he said shared \"our loss and our sorrow\".\n\nHe added his \"dear papa\" was a \"very special person who... above all else would have been amazed by the reaction and the touching things that have been said about him\".\n\nThe prince said he and his family were \"deeply grateful\" for this, adding: \"It will sustain us in this particular loss and at this particularly sad time.\"\n\nBuckingham Palace has announced that a national minute's silence will mark the start of the duke's funeral next Saturday at 15:00 BST at St George's Chapel, in Windsor.\n\nThe arrangements, which \"very much\" reflect Prince Philip's wishes, have been adapted in light of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe Duke of Sussex will fly in from his home in the US to join other members of the Royal Family at the ceremony.\n\nBut his wife the Duchess of Sussex, who is pregnant with their second child, has been advised by her doctor not to travel, the spokesman added.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson will not attend the ceremony to allow for the attendance of \"as many family members as possible\" during coronavirus restrictions, No 10 said.\n\nEarlier, royal gun salutes across the UK and at sea marked the duke's death.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"A loss to us all\" read one of the tributes to Prince Philip\n\nThere will be eight days of national mourning - to end on 17 April - ahead of the televised funeral, which will be a ceremonial event rather than a large state affair usually associated with the death of a monarch.\n\nPrince Philip will also not lie in state - where members of the public would have been able to view his coffin.\n\nHis coffin will instead lay at rest in the private chapel at Windsor Castle and will be draped with the duke's personal standard with a wreath of flowers on top.\n\nThe Royal Family will observe two weeks of mourning, although royal engagements will continue where appropriate.\n\nUnion flags will remain at half mast and the Royal Standard will be at full mast.\n\nThe funeral will take place at St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle\n\nA spokesman for the Palace said: \"Whilst this is a time of sadness and mourning the coming days will be an opportunity to celebrate a remarkable life.\"\n\nOnly 30 people - expected to be the duke's children, grandchildren and other close family - will attend the ceremony as guests.\n\nOn the day of the funeral, Prince Philip's coffin will be transported from Windsor Castle to St George's Chapel in a specially modified Land Rover he helped to design.\n\nMembers of the Royal Family including the Prince of Wales will walk behind the coffin, and the Queen will travel separately to the chapel.\n\nGuests will socially distance and wear face coverings in line with coronavirus restrictions.\n\nJockeys, owners and trainers marked a two-minute silence in tribute to the duke at Aintree Racecourse, Liverpool on Saturday\n\nMilitary guns will fire during the procession, which will take eight minutes, and the curfew bell will toll.\n\nEight pallbearers will carry the coffin, draped with duke's standard, with a wreath and the duke's naval cap and sword on top, up the west steps into the chapel. It will be greeted by the Dean of Windsor and the Archbishop of Canterbury.\n\nThese 10 people are not included in the number of attendees allowed.\n\nA guest list will be released on Thursday.\n\nAfter the service, the duke will be interred in the Royal Vault of the chapel.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Earl and Countess of Wessex spent about an hour at Windsor Castle on Saturday morning.\n\nMembers of the Royal Family have visited the Queen at Windsor Castle following the duke's death on Friday.\n\nThe Countess of Wessex said \"the Queen has been amazing\" as she left the castle with the Earl of Wessex on Saturday.\n\nThe Duke of York also visited on Saturday, while the Prince of Wales travelled there on Friday afternoon.\n\nThe Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev Justin Welby, paid tribute to Prince Philip's \"righteous impatience\" and \"gift of moral imagination\" in an online memorial service from the crypt at Lambeth Palace on Saturday evening.\n\nMr Welby will lead a live service at Canterbury Cathedral in memory of the duke on Sunday at 10:30.\n\nMembers of the public have been asked not to attend any of the funeral events, in line with public health advice, and the Royal Family has asked people not to leave flowers and tributes at royal residences.\n\nOn the Royal Family website, members of the public are asked to consider making a donation to a charity instead of leaving floral tributes in memory of the duke. An online book of condolence is also available for the public to post their personal tributes.\n\nAll UK government buildings have been told to fly official flags at half-mast in tribute to the duke until 08:00 on the day after the duke's funeral.\n\nUnder earlier arrangements for the days after the duke's death, codenamed Forth Bridge, thousands of people would have been expected to gather in London and Windsor, with some even camping out to get a vantage point to watch the military procession.\n\nBut since the pandemic began, organisers have been working on contingency plans which would avoid attracting mass gatherings in the event that the duke died.\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge has withdrawn from giving a speech at the Bafta Awards ceremony on Sunday night, Kensington Palace said. His grandfather was Bafta's first president.\n\nMeanwhile, the Football League has announced that matches scheduled to begin at the same time as Prince Philip's funeral will be rearranged \"as a mark of respect\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAnnouncing the duke's death on Friday, Buckingham Palace said: \"It is with deep sorrow that Her Majesty the Queen announces the death of her beloved husband.\n\n\"The Royal Family join with people around the world in mourning his loss.\"\n\nIn tribute to the duke, saluting batteries fired 41 rounds on Saturday in cities including London, Edinburgh and Cardiff, and at Hillsborough Castle in County Down. Guns were also fired in Gibraltar.\n\nRoyal Navy ships at sea, including HMS Diamond and HMS Montrose, also fired the salute in honour of the duke, who served as a naval officer during World War Two and held the office of Lord High Admiral.\n\nA two-minute silence was held ahead of the Grand National at Aintree Racecourse in memory of the duke, who was an honorary member of the Jockey Club.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gun salutes have been fired across the UK, in Gibraltar and at sea, in tribute to Prince Philip", "David Cameron sent texts to Conservative ministers about access to loans for a firm he advised\n\nDavid Cameron now believes it might have been better to approach the Treasury formally over access to loans for a firm he worked for, a friend has said.\n\nA row over lobbying erupted after it came to light the former Conservative PM had sent texts to Chancellor Rishi Sunak and two other ministers appealing for help for Greensill Capital.\n\nAs reported in the Financial Times, a friend of Mr Cameron said he now thinks a formal letter would have been better.\n\nMr Cameron has yet to respond himself.\n\nOn Thursday, the chancellor published two of his text replies to Mr Cameron, saying the request he had made would \"require a change\" to the system in place - but that he had \"pushed the team to explore an alternative\".\n\nA source close to Mr Sunak said the former prime minister had messaged the chancellor \"multiple times\" on his personal phone, and that he had chosen to publish the messages \"in order to reassure beyond doubt that there was no wrongdoing and that he acted with integrity and propriety\".\n\nMr Cameron's texts have not been published.\n\nBut Labour's shadow chancellor, Anneliese Dodds, said the messages \"raise very serious questions about whether the chancellor may have broken the ministerial code\" as they suggested the firm \"got accelerated treatment and access to officials\".\n\nThe party has called for a \"full, transparent and thorough investigation\", while the SNP has demanded Mr Sunak make a statement to Parliament.\n\nAfter leaving office, Mr Cameron got a job as an adviser to Greensill Capital.\n\nThe company - which has now gone bust - was run by financier Lex Greensill, who worked as unpaid adviser to Mr Cameron during his time in No 10.\n\nWhen working for Greensill in 2020, Mr Cameron texted Conservative ministers within the Treasury to appeal for access to emergency government-backed loans amidst the height of the pandemic.\n\nBut the requests were eventually rejected by Treasury officials.\n\nMr Cameron was investigated by a watchdog over whether he broke rules by not registering as a lobbyist for his work at Greensill - but he was cleared in March.\n\nBut critics have continued to question his access to ministers - and Labour has raised questions about the access Mr Greensill had when he worked as a government adviser.\n\nHowever, the friend of Mr Cameron said he and Mr Greensill met twice at most when Mr Cameron was PM.\n\nIn the latest development in the row, a friend of Mr Cameron's said he now believed it may have been better to formally approach the chancellor through a letter, rather than sending text messages to his personal phone.\n\nThe friend said Mr Cameron approached Mr Sunak at a time of national crisis - when the Treasury was actively seeking ideas.\n\nAnd they said that no rules had been broken by the former prime minister.\n\nMr Greensill, the Australian founder of Greensill Capital, has yet to comment on the row.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"A heck of a guy\": US President Joe Biden, NZ PM Jacinda Ardern and other world leaders pay tribute to Prince Philip\n\nMonarchs, heads of state and prime ministers across the world have sent heartfelt tributes following the death of Prince Philip at the age of 99.\n\nEurope's royal households and Commonwealth leaders alike praised the Duke of Edinburgh's public service.\n\nJoe Biden described the duke as a \"heck of a guy\", and all living former US presidents also sent tributes.\n\nMeanwhile, commemorative church services and remembrance ceremonies are taking place on Sunday.\n\nAustralia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison attended a service at Sydney's St Andrews Cathedral which included prayers for the Royal Family and a naval hymn in honour of Prince Philip..\n\nHe earlier described the duke as \"a man who was steadfast, who could be relied upon, who always [stood] by his Queen\".\n\nSpecial church services - such as this one in Sydney - are taking place around the world on Sunday\n\n\"On Prince Philip's many visits to Australia, we have come to know him as a man of compassion and service, personal warmth, intellectual curiosity and generous spirit,\" Reverend Kanishka de Silva Raffel said at the service.\n\nIn neighbouring New Zealand, a ceremony took place on Sunday in the country's capital, Wellington, featuring a 41-gun salute.\n\nBarack Obama said Philip was a \"remarkable man... who helped provide steady leadership and guiding wisdom\"\n\nOn Saturday, Pope Francis paid tribute to the duke's \"devotion to his marriage and family\".\n\nThe leader of the Roman Catholic Church also noted the prince's \"commitment to the education and advancement of future generations\".\n\nThe spiritual leader of Tibet, the Dalai Lama, wrote to the Queen and Prince Charles, saying Prince Philip would be remembered for having lived a meaningful life.\n\nPresident Xi Jinping of China also sent his condolences.\n\nThe duke, whose death was announced by Buckingham Palace on Friday, accompanied the Queen during hundreds of overseas visits.\n\nPrince Philip had blood ties with a number of former or current European royal households, and many of their members sent condolences.\n\nThe telegram from King Felipe and Queen Letizia of Spain was particularly poignant, sending \"all our love and affection\" to Aunt Lilibet (the affectionate name used by the duke for his wife) and Dear Uncle Philip.\n\n\"We shall never forget the moments that we shared with him,\" they told the Queen.\n\nPrince Philip rides in a carriage with Spain's Queen Letizia in London in 2017\n\nSweden's King Carl Gustaf said the duke had been \"a great friend of our family for many years, a relation we have deeply valued\".\n\nSwedish royal family spokeswoman Margareta Thorgren told the BBC the king and the duke had sailed together in England, adding: \"That was the start of a great friendship between them.\"\n\nThe Dutch royal family said they remembered Prince Philip with great respect, adding: \"His lively personality made an indelible impression.\"\n\nBelgium's King Philippe said he and Queen Mathilde would \"always cherish the memories of our warm encounters\".\n\nTributes came in too from the Commonwealth - 54 nations, most with roots in the British Empire and home to 2.4 billion people.\n\nAustralian flags were flown at half-mast on the Sydney Harbour Bridge in tribute to the duke\n\nFlags were lowered to half-mast at Australia's Parliament House in Canberra, where a 41-gun salute took place on Saturday, and at the Sydney Harbour Bridge, where in 1954 Prince Philip arrived alongside the newly crowned Queen Elizabeth on the first visit by a reigning monarch to the country.\n\nNew Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern noted that thousands of young people had \"completed life-changing challenges\" through the duke's Hillary Award.\n\nA 41-gun salute is fired to commemorate the death of Prince Philip at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia\n\nCanada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the duke had \"contributed so much to the social fabric of our country - and the world\".\n\nPakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan said Philip had been a \"wise leader\" and his \"role in promoting Pakistan-UK relations will always be remembered\".\n\nAnd Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was another to praise a lifetime of dedication to \"many community service initiatives\".\n\nKenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta said the duke had been a \"towering symbol of family values and the unity of the British people as well as the entire global community\".\n\nOther warm condolences from Africa included Zimbabwe - which has had a rocky relationship with the UK and is no longer in the Commonwealth - and the president of Tanzania, which only recently lost its leader John Pombe Magufuli amid Covid-19 rumours.\n\nOther tributes came from nations deeply linked to the duke and his family.\n\nMalta's Prime Minister Robert Abela wrote: \"Truly saddened by the loss of Prince Philip, who made Malta his home and returned here so often. Our people will always treasure his memory.\"\n\nPhilip and Elizabeth spent two idyllic years on Malta, where he was stationed in the Navy, before King George VI died in 1952.\n\nIsrael's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the duke had been \"the consummate public servant\" and would be much missed.\n\nThe duke's mother, Princess Alice of Battenberg, who died in 1969, is buried at the Church of Mary Magdalene in Jerusalem.\n\nThe Duke of Edinburgh with his mother Princess Alice Of Battenberg\n\nThe Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, sent his \"sincere condolences and sympathies\" to the Queen, the Royal Family and the British people.\n\nIn a personal tribute, Barack Obama, one of the 18 US presidents in the duke's lifetime, said Philip had immediately put him and Michelle at ease, and that he was \"kind and warm, with a sharp wit and unfailing good humour\".\n\nDonald Trump said Prince Philip had \"defined British dignity and grace. He personified the quiet reserve, stern fortitude and unbending integrity of the United Kingdom...\"\n\nIn a telegram to the Queen, Russian President Vladimir Putin said the duke had \"rightfully enjoyed respect\" both at home and internationally.\n\nAnd Chancellor Angela Merkel said the duke's \"friendship with Germany, his straightforward nature and his sense of duty\" would be remembered.\n\nFrance's Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian called the duke a man of \"great style\", saying: \"France joins in the sorrow of its friends across the Channel and salutes the life of a man who was a witness to a century of trials and hopes for our continent.\"\n\nItalian President Sergio Mattarella said he would \"cherish\" the memories of Prince Philip's \"deep admiration for Italy's artistic and cultural heritage\". He said the duke had accompanied the\" evolution of his country with an open and innovative spirit\".\n\nIrish President Michael D Higgins praised Prince Philip's ability to bring \"an air of informality to otherwise formal occasions\".\n\n\"His distinctive presence and unique sense of humour put participants at ease and always engaged those who encountered him,\" he said.\n\nEuropean Commission President Ursula von der Leyen expressed her sympathy to the royal family and \"the people of the United Kingdom on this very sad day\".", "The Irish Defence Forces are overseeing the process\n\nThe United States of America, Canada, France, Belgium and Italy are among 16 countries to be added to the Republic of Ireland's mandatory hotel quarantine list.\n\nThe Irish government has now identified 59 \"high risk\" countries.\n\nFrom next week, travellers from these places must spend 12 nights and pay at least €1,875 (£1,614) to stay at one of 24 hotels across the Republic.\n\nThe measure will come into effect from 04:00 local time on 15 April.\n\nMandatory hotel quarantine for some international travellers has been in place there since 26 March.\n\nAt a meeting on Friday night, Irish government ministers discussed concerns over Covid-19 variants.\n\n\"These variants pose a significant risk to our fight against this disease and our vaccination programme,\" said Irish Health Minister Stephen Donnelly.\n\nMr Donnelly also announced he intends to revoke the designation in place for Albania, Israel and St Lucia.\n\nThe Irish government has a portal for mandatory hotel quarantine bookings. Pre-booking is necessary.\n\nThe Tifco Hotel Group is responsible for transporting passengers from their arrival point to the quarantine hotels, and security.\n\nThe Irish Defence Forces oversee the process and escort the buses to the hotels.\n\nThe cost of a 12-night stay is €1,875 (£1,614) for one person, €625 (£535) for another adult (or child aged over 12) sharing the room, €360 (£308) for a child aged 4 to 12, with no charge for infants.\n\nFailure to comply could result in a fine of up to €2,000 (£1,700) or a month in prison.\n\nThe new rules affect any passenger who was in one of the designated \"high-risk\" countries in the past 14 days, including those getting a connecting flight.\n\nIt also affects people who do not have a negative PCR test taken in the 72 hours prior to their arrival.\n\nThe \"high-risk\" list is subject to change at any time, and currently mainly comprises countries in South America and Africa, although Austria is also on the list.\n\nOther countries include: Angola, Argentina, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Burundi, Cape Verde, Chile, Colombia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Lesotho, Malawi, Eswatini, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Rwanda, Suriname, Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania, United Arab Emirates, Uruguay, Venezuela, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.\n\nCountries added to the list on Friday are: Bangladesh, Belgium, France, Italy, Kenya, Luxembourg, Pakistan, Turkey, the USA, Canada, Armenia, Bermuda, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Curaçao, Maldives, Ukraine.", "Berwick Museum and Art Gallery paid £162,500 for Beach Scene by LS Lowry\n\nA painting by \"matchstick figures\" artist LS Lowry is to take up permanent residence in the Northumberland town that inspired it.\n\nBerwick Museum and Art Gallery paid £162,500 for Beach Scene, painted circa 1960, which depicts sand dunes in Spittal near Berwick.\n\nThe Lancashire artist, known for his industrial scenes, regularly visited the North East for more than 40 years.\n\nThe museum said it was \"thrilled\" with the painting.\n\nA picture of the artist taken on a trip to Tweedmouth, but the year is unknown\n\nDuring his holidays in the area from the 1930s to the summer before he died in 1976, the artist created more than 30 sketches, drawings and paintings of Berwick.\n\nRowan Brown, chief executive of Museums Northumberland, said: \"Lowry is probably best known for his industrial landscapes of the North West, but many people don't know he also produced many paintings of the North East coast, and in particular Berwick-upon-Tweed.\n\n\"Despite there being up to 30 drawings and paintings of Berwick by Lowry, none have ever been on permanent display in the town.\n\n\"We're thrilled that local people and visitors will now have to opportunity to enjoy the work of one of England's most iconic artists in the coastal town that inspired him throughout his long career.\"\n\nNineteen works by Lowry were auctioned last July during Christie's first standalone sale of the artist.\n\nMuseums Northumberland was able to buy the painting thanks to funding from Art Fund, Arts Council England, The Friends of Berwick and District Museum and Archives, and the Guild of Freemen of the town of Berwick.\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.", "Gun salutes have been fired across the UK, in Gibraltar and at sea in memory of the Duke of Edinburgh.\n\nHe died at Windsor Castle on Friday at the age of 99.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Duke of Edinburgh was an 18-month-old exile when he had his first brush with the Royal Navy.\n\nIn 1922, he was carried on board a British warship in a makeshift cot fashioned from an orange crate, after the Greek military government had banished his family.\n\nSo it might have seemed as if he was destined for a life at sea.\n\nAfter all, the duke's maternal grandfather, Prince Louis of Battenberg, had been admiral of the fleet and first sea lord - although he had to resign in 1914, amid a wave of anti-German feeling.\n\nBut years after that perilous evacuation, as he left his Scottish boarding school, Gordonstoun, with Britain on the brink of war with Germany, Philip expressed a wish to join the RAF.\n\nPhilip served with distinction during World War Two\n\nIt was the intervention of his uncle Louis \"Dickie\" Mountbatten, then captain of HMS Kelly, that persuaded him to follow his family's long naval tradition.\n\nAnd although the role of a fighter pilot was a more natural fit for his temperament, Prince Philip told the BBC in 2002, his chances of surviving the War would have been greatly reduced.\n\nHe took the usual path of an aspiring naval officer, entering Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, as a cadet and being commissioned as a midshipman, in January 1940.\n\nPhilip excelled at Dartmouth, winning the King's Dirk, for the best all-round cadet of the term, and a prize for the best cadet in college.\n\nAnd when King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, together with their daughters, Elizabeth and Margaret, paid an official visit to the college, in July 1939, Philip was given the task of escorting the young princesses.\n\nTheir governess, Marion Crawford, later recollected he had \"showed off a great deal\".\n\nBut he evidently made quite an impression on the 13-year-old Elizabeth.\n\nCadets in rowing boats escorted the royal yacht, the Victoria and Albert, when it sailed from Dartmouth. But Philip continued rowing in its wake long after the others had dropped out, turning round only when ordered to by the increasingly exasperated King, who referred to him as \"a bloody fool\".\n\nGreece remained neutral at the outbreak of war.\n\nAnd Philip, as a potential heir to its throne and technically still a foreigner, was initially kept away from battle zones.\n\nBut in January 1940, Cdr Mountbatten pulled some strings and got his nephew posted to the battleship HMS Ramillies, escorting Australian troop convoys in the Indian Ocean.\n\nLord Mountbatten was instrumental in persuading his nephew to join the navy\n\nThen, after short spells on HMS Kent and HMS Shropshire, Philip transferred to the battleship HMS Valiant.\n\nWith Greece having entered the War on the Allied side, it was decided he could now serve in the Mediterranean theatre.\n\nHe was in the Battle of Crete and mentioned in dispatches for his skill controlling the Valiant's searchlights during the Battle of Cape Matapan, which played a major role in the destruction of the Italian fleet.\n\nPhilip's industriousness was not in question.\n\nAs he returned to England, on RMS Empress of Russia, the troopship found itself without stokers.\n\nSo Philip himself went down to the boiler room and shovelled coal for so long his blistered hands could not hold a fork.\n\nPromotion followed, and a posting to the destroyer HMS Wallace, on hazardous convoy duty in the North Sea.\n\nAt 21, Philip was again promoted, to second-in-command of the Wallace, making him one of the youngest first lieutenants in the Royal Navy.\n\nAnd in 1943, he returned as part of the support for the Allied invasion of Sicily.\n\nBut German dive bombers damaged the Wallace in a night-time attack.\n\nAnd the crew feared the enemy would return in greater numbers and finish them off.\n\nSo Philip proposed launching a makeshift raft, equipped with smoke floats, which in the darkness fooled the German bomb aimers into thinking this was the damaged destroyer.\n\n\"Philip saved our lives that night,\" one of the Wallace's crew, Harry Hargreaves, told the Observer in 2003.\n\n\"He was always very courageous and resourceful, and thought very quickly.\"\n\nAfter the War, Philip was reunited with air crews he had helped rescue on HMS Whelp\n\nIn 1945, Philip was transferred to the destroyer HMS Whelp, supporting air raids on Japanese shore installations.\n\nHe was involved in the rescue of British air crew shot down by Japanese fighters and was in Tokyo Bay to witness the surrender of the Japanese forces.\n\nThe duke showed his new wife around HMS Chequers in 1949\n\nIn 1947, the War finally over, Philip married Princess Elizabeth.\n\nWhen he landed a role on HMS Chequers, a destroyer based in Malta, there came happy carefree times for both of them.\n\nAnd in 1950, after being promoted to lieutenant commander, the duke finally took command of his own ship, the frigate HMS Magpie.\n\nBut within a year, his naval career was over.\n\nHe found himself having to support Princess Elizabeth when she took on more royal duties as the King's health declined.\n\n\"At that time, I had not thought that was going to be the end of a sort of naval career,\" he later said.\n\n\"And that sort of crept upon me. And it became more and more obvious that I could not go back to it.\n\n\"But it's no good regretting things. It simply didn't happen.\n\n\"And I've been doing other things instead.\"\n\nBut for some, there was little doubt Philip had had the potential to rise to the very top of the Royal Navy.\n\nThe late Terry Lewin, who served alongside Philip when both were junior officers, went on to become first sea lord.\n\nAnd it was once suggested to him had the duke remained in the navy, they might have been competing for the top job.\n\n\"I don't think the competition would have been very strong,\" Lord Lewin later told the BBC.\n\n\"He would have walked it.\"\n\nYet as an officer, Philip never achieved the level of affection Lord Mountbatten managed.\n\nHe was notoriously not one to suffer fools gladly.\n\nAnd one junior sailor on HMS Magpie said he never wanted to serve under him again.\n\nBut Philip is also remembered as an immensely capable officer who drove himself as hard as his men and remained cool in moments of crisis.\n\nAnd although the duke's royal duties became his first priority, he maintained his interest in the Royal Navy - and used his position to support the preservation of Britain's maritime heritage.\n\nIn 2011, the Queen appointed him lord high admiral, a post that has existed since the 14th Century.\n\nPhilip's love of the sea remained after he left the Royal Navy\n\nAnd the duke maintained his love of ships and the sea, which remained a constant source of fascination to him.\n\n\"The environment is completely different to anything you'll find on land,\" he once said.\n\n\"You're at sea and exposed to the elements in a way you never are ashore.\n\n\"At sea you're in a cockleshell in this enormous expanse of the ocean.\n\n\"So that tends to cut you down in size a bit.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Buckingham Palace has lowered its flag to half-mast as a mark of respect to Prince Philip.\n\nA sign was also displayed on the palace gates announcing the Duke of Edinburgh's death.", "Buckingham Palace has asked the public to refrain from leaving floral tributes to the Duke of Edinburgh at royal residences.\n\nDozens of bouquets were laid outside Buckingham Palace after Prince Philip's death was announced at midday.\n\nRoyal household staff placed a framed notice announcing the duke's death on the front gates of the Palace.\n\nBut it was removed after an hour to avoid gatherings amid ongoing Covid pandemic restrictions.\n\nThe Royal Family asked members of the public to consider making a donation to charity instead of leaving floral tributes in memory of Prince Philip.\n\nThe government has urged people not to gather at Buckingham Palace or Windsor Castle in breach of coronavirus regulations.\n\nThe Palace launched an online book of condolence on its official website where it encouraged people to leave messages, a selection of which will be passed to members of the Royal Family.\n\nMore than 100 floral tributes - ranging from bunches of daffodils to fuller bouquets, many with notes attached - and two union jacks were placed at the gates by mourners.\n\nStewards attempted to form an orderly queuing system but encouraged people not to form a large crowd.\n\nMounted police reminded those gathered to adhere to social-distancing guidelines and remain two-metres apart from other groups.\n\nMany of those gathered outside the Palace on Friday afternoon brought flowers\n\nRhea Varma, from nearby Pimlico, pulled up on her bike to lay flowers and a note saying \"Rest in Peace Duke\".\n\nShe told BBC News the duke was \"the kind of stability that's so old-fashioned it's difficult to comprehend. He was a rock who brought integrity\".\n\nAdam Wharton-Ward, 36, left a bunch of lilies by the Palace gates. Visiting London from his home in France, he said he was so moved by the news he wanted to \"rally round\" for the Queen's sake.\n\n\"It's so sad. He's been with her for 73 years. If it wasn't for him who knows if she would have got through it,\" he said.\n\nThe official notice of the death of the Duke of Edinburgh was placed outside Buckingham Palace for an hour\n\nMembers of the public gathered to read the Palace's official notice and pay tribute to Prince Philip\n\nThe official notice read: \"It is with deep sorrow that Her Majesty The Queen announces the death of her beloved husband.\"\n\nIt confirmed Prince Philip \"passed away peacefully this morning at Windsor Castle\".\n\n\"Further announcements will be made in due course,\" it added. \"The Royal Family join with people around the world in mourning his loss.\"\n\nA similar announcement was also displayed outside the Palace of Holyroodhouse, the official residence of Queen Elizabeth II in Scotland, in Edinburgh.\n\nThe Palace's flag was flown at half-mast.\n\nTraditionally, Royal Family announcements are made by displaying a framed notice at Buckingham Palace.\n\nIn recent years, birth announcements have been made in this way, with these notices mounted on a golden easel.\n\nBut the coronavirus pandemic has prompted changes to many of the traditions across the Royal households.\n\nThe Changing of the Guard ceremonies at Buckingham Palace, St James' Palace and Windsor Castle - seen by millions each year before the pandemic - were postponed in March 2020 to avoid mass gatherings.\n\nOne card attached to flowers at the Palace carried tributes from colleagues at a nearby Marks & Spencer store", "Tributes to the Duke of Edinburgh have continued following his death at the age of 99 at Windsor Castle.\n\nThe Prince of Wales has paid tribute to his \"dear papa\", the Duke of Edinburgh, saying that he and the Royal Family miss him \"enormously\".\n\nSpeaking from his Highgrove home in Gloucestershire, Prince Charles said over the last 70 years his father had \"given the most remarkable, devoted service to the Queen, to my family and to the country, but also to the whole of the Commonwealth\".\n\nPrince Edward and Prince Andrew have visited the Queen at Windsor Castle.\n\nGun salutes have been fired across the UK, in Gibraltar, and at sea in memory of the Duke of Edinburgh.\n\nThe Honourable Artillery Company fired the gun salute from the bank of the River Thames near the Tower of London.\n\nThe gun salute by The King's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery took place at the Parade Ground, Woolwich Barracks, in south-east London.\n\nMembers of the 104th Regiment Royal Artillery fired from the grounds of Cardiff Castle.\n\nMembers of the 105th Regiment Royal Artillery fired a 41-round gun salute at Edinburgh Castle.\n\nSoldiers from 206 Battery, 105 Royal Artillery took part in a salute at Hillsborough Castle in County Down.\n\nCrew members on HMS Montrose fired her Salting Gun while docked in Duqm, Oman.\n\nThe Royal Gibraltar Regiment fired from the British overseas territory's naval base.\n\nJockeys and trainers observed two minutes of silence to honour the memory of Prince Philip before the start of racing on Grand National Day at Aintree.\n\nThere were periods of silence before all Premier League and English Football League matches, with players and officials wearing black armbands.\n\nMembers of the public continued to leave floral tributes and cards at Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle.\n\nPeople were allowed to approach the Buckingham Palace gates one-by-one to lay their flowers in an effort to reduce the size of the crowd amid coronavirus restrictions.\n\nPeople have been asked not to gather at the royal residences because of the pandemic. The Royal Family has opened a book of condolence online.\n\nA tribute to Duke of Edinburgh was also displayed alongside the nave at Westminster Abbey in central London.\n\nEarlier in the day, the flag over the Sydney Harbour Bridge was flown at half-mast, as was the flag over Australia's Parliament House in Canberra.\n\nAustralian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said memories of Prince Philip would be of his candour and of a unique, forceful and authentic personality.\n\nAll pictures are subject to copyright.", "Matt Smith (L) and Tobias Menzies (R) both played Prince Philip in The Crown\n\nThat, according to actor Matt Smith, was apparently the Duke of Edinburgh's terse response when asked whether he had ever watched The Crown.\n\nSmith relayed the anecdote during a 2017 interview with the Guardian, as he reflected on his time playing the duke in the hugely successful Netflix drama.\n\nThe series portrays the inner life of Britain's modern-day Royal Family, from the abdication of Edward VIII in 1936 to the break-up of Prince Charles's marriage to Diana, Princess of Wales, in the early 1990s. The drama is set to continue in a new season in 2022.\n\nClaire Foy and Matt Smith as the royal couple in their early years\n\nIt has been showered with praise for its lavish sets, immense budget, compelling script and accomplished cast, and the awards have followed. More controversial though has been its relationship with the truth.\n\nThe royals are notoriously guarded about their private lives.\n\nEven the duke's supposed stinging rebuke when asked whether he had watched the series is a matter of debate.\n\n\"Whether it's true or not, I don't know, but I just think he's a bit of a cool cat,\" said Smith, after relating the second-hand anecdote.\n\n\"And that's what I love about him: he's done what he wants, when he wants, how he wants, with whom he wants. He hasn't asked permission. And his wife's the Queen.\"\n\nThe former Doctor Who star played the dashing, young Philip Mountbatten, who wooed Princess Elizabeth and became her royal consort.\n\nYet there were, in reality, limits to how much the duke really did what he wanted. Smith's portrayal of Philip takes in many of the compromises the prince was forced to make - giving up his title as Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, resigning his career in the navy and, ultimately, swearing allegiance to the Queen.\n\nWhen Elizabeth was crowned in 1953, Philip is depicted in the show asking her if he can be excused from kneeling to pay homage to her during the ceremony.\n\nPrince Philip (Matt Smith) knelt before the Queen (Claire Foy) during her 1953 coronation\n\nSo what did his role teach Smith about the man himself?\n\n\"In this day and age, with all the conversations we're having about being a man and maleness, and what it is to be empowered and respected as a woman - I just found that thrilling,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs.\n\n\"And also, I kind of sided with him, which is controversial. I felt, 'Yeah, I wouldn't really want to kneel to my wife'.\"\n\nHis enthusiasm for the character continued into season two when Smith said he saw the duke as a \"roguish, brilliant man\", adding: \"I just found a lot to celebrate in Philip.\"\n\nThe actor, who was Emmy-nominated in 2018 for playing the role, told Variety that year: \"I sort of loved Philip, and there was a lot that I could identify with: the competitiveness, the sporting nature, the battle, the defiance and the maleness.\n\n\"One of the interesting challenges for me was that I felt there was a sort of a misconception and a preconception about him, which reduced him a bit.\n\n\"And actually all the research I did found him to be brilliantly funny, very clever, very popular. In the royal house he's the most popular of all of them. If you've talked to any of the staff, Philip's the one they all love really. I think more than a lot of them, he's a bit more of a man of the people.\"\n\nSmith was no less complimentary when reacting to news of the duke's death. \"Prince Philip was the man. And he knew it. 99 and out, but what an innings. And what style,\" he said. \"Thank you for your service old chap - it won't be the same without you.\"\n\nSmith portrayed just a few of Prince Philip's 22,219 royal engagements\n\nThe role of Philip was passed to Tobias Menzies in season three, when the middle-aged duke played opposite Olivia Colman. Speaking in the immediate aftermath of the duke's death on Friday, Menzies was the essence of modesty.\n\n\"If I know anything about the Duke of Edinburgh I'm fairly sure he wouldn't want some actor who has portrayed him on television giving their opinion on his life,\" he said, going on to quote the character of Orlando in Shakespeare's As You Like It.\n\n\"O good old man! how well in thee appears\n\n\"The constant service of the antique world...\"\n\nTobias Menzies and Olivia Colman play an older version of the royal couple\n\nBut some time before that, Menzies, who bleached his eyebrows for the role of the duke, was asked by the LA Times if he knew whether Prince Philip had watched his portrayal.\n\n\"'The crown doesn't comment.' I think that's the motto,\" he replied.\n\nHe played the prince in seasons three and four, covering 1964 to 1990, and said that by this stage in his life, he \"has acclimatised\" and \"seems to be chafing at the bit less... and seems to have found his feet\".\n\nThe Outlander actor told the New York Times that for Philip, season three was \"a continuation of themes in the first seasons: being second to his wife, sacrificing his own life and career to some extent\".\n\nMenzies told the LA Times it was a challenge playing the duke.\n\n\"They're quite guarded, both him and the Queen. Having watched a lot of footage of Philip and having read about him a lot, I find him quite a hard man to pin down. That makes him interesting to play.\"\n\nThe actor, who was nominated for a Golden Globe last year for his role in the show, told Screen Daily playing the royal was \"primarily a technical challenge... But it's a subtle thing to pitch - you don't want it to be pastiche or caricature\".\n\nEmma Corrin and Tobias Menzies playing Lady Diana Spencer and the duke during a stag hunt at Balmoral\n\nSeason four's storylines featuring Prince Philip include a depiction of the early relationship between Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer.\n\nThe show suggests Prince Philip and Diana shared an affinity with each other.\n\nSpeaking to Vanity Fair, Menzies said: \"Someone in production managed to get hold of copies of some letters between him and Diana.\n\n\"I was really struck by the kind of balanced, calm, quite tender kind of atmosphere to those letters. He clearly, behind the scenes, worked quite hard to mend that relationship. And if those letters are anything to go by, he does seem to have been a keen supporter of hers.\"\n\nJonathan Pryce will play the Duke of Edinburgh in the 1990s and early 2000s\n\nThe final actor to play Prince Philip in the series will be Oscar, Bafta and Golden Globe-nominated Jonathan Pryce, who starred in The Two Popes with Sir Anthony Hopkins in 2019.\n\nHe said playing the duke was a \"daunting prospect\" but added doing it with the Crown's creator Peter Morgan, along with Imelda Staunton playing the Queen, and Lesley Manville as Princess Margaret, would be \"a joy\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's announcement of the death of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh\n\nPolitical leaders, members of the public and well-wishers around the world have paid tribute to Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth II's husband, after his death at the age of 99.\n\nA statement issued by Buckingham Palace just after midday spoke of the Queen's \"deep sorrow\" following his death at Windsor Castle on Friday morning.\n\nHe was the longest-serving royal consort in British history.\n\nPrince Charles said his father's life was an \"astonishing achievement\".\n\nReflecting on Prince Philip's life for a BBC programme, Prince Charles said: \"His energy was astonishing in supporting my mama [the Queen] - and doing it for such a long time, and, in some extraordinary way, being able to go on doing it for so long.\n\n\"What he has done has amounted to an astonishing achievement, I think.\"\n\nPrincess Anne said the duke \"treated everyone as an individual, and gave them the respect he felt they were due as individuals\".\n\nAnnouncing the duke's death, the Palace said: \"It is with deep sorrow that Her Majesty The Queen announces the death of her beloved husband.\n\n\"The Royal Family join with people around the world in mourning his loss.\"\n\nIt is understood that the Prince of Wales travelled to Windsor Castle to visit his mother on Friday afternoon.\n\nSpeaking at Downing Street, prime minister Boris Johnson added that the duke had \"earned the affection of generations here in the United Kingdom, across the Commonwealth, and around the world\".\n\nMeanwhile, Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, said he \"consistently put the interests of others ahead of his own and, in so doing, provided an outstanding example of Christian service\".\n\nIn tribute to the duke, Westminster Abbey tolled its tenor bell once every 60 seconds for 99 times from 18:00 BST - to honour each year of his life.\n\nEarlier, the flag at Buckingham Palace was lowered to half-mast and a notice was posted on the gates to mark the duke's death.\n\nPeople placed floral tributes outside the central London landmark, while hundreds visited Windsor Castle to pay their respects.\n\nHowever, the government urged the public not to gather or leave tributes at royal residences amid the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nBunches of flowers were laid at the gates of Buckingham Palace\n\nThere were similar scenes outside Windsor Castle\n\nThe Royal Family has asked people to consider making a donation to a charity instead of leaving flowers in memory of the duke, and an online book of condolence has been launched on the official royal website for those who wish to send messages.\n\nA message on the website of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's non-profit organisation Archewell paid tribute to the \"loving memory\" of the Duke of Edinburgh, saying: \"Thank you for your service... you will be greatly missed.\"\n\nFrom midday on Saturday, a 41-gun salute will take place for Prince Philip in cities including London, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast, as well as in Gibraltar and at sea from Royal Navy warships, the Ministry of Defence said. They will be broadcast online and on television for the public to watch from home.\n\nAll UK government buildings have been told to fly official flags at half-mast in tribute to the duke until 08:00 BST on the day after the duke's funeral.\n\nPrince Philip's funeral will take place at St George's Chapel, Windsor - but the arrangements have been amended in light of the coronavirus pandemic, the College of Arms said in a statement.\n\nThe duke will not have a state funeral and there will be no lying-in-state, in line with his wishes, it added.\n\nThe college said the duke will, however, lie at rest in Windsor Castle before a royal ceremonial funeral, which means his death will be marked in the same way as the Queen Mother.\n\nThe public are \"regretfully\" requested not to attend due to the pandemic, and it is understood the Queen is considering modified funeral and ceremonial arrangements.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPoliticians across the UK were united in mourning following the announcement of the duke's death.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the UK had \"lost an extraordinary public servant\", while Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said his \"long contribution to public life in Scotland will leave a profound mark on its people\".\n\nWales' First Minister Mark Drakeford said the duke \"served the crown with selfless devotion and generosity of spirit\", and Northern Ireland's First Minister Arlene Foster said he was \"widely respected for his active and dedicated service to the country\".\n\nParliament will honour the duke on Monday, with the House of Commons sitting at 14:30 BST for tributes following his death.\n\nParties have also suspended their campaigning for elections on 6 May, which will see voters head to the polls for council and mayoral positions in England, the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Parliament.\n\nMeanwhile, Commonwealth leaders led international reaction to the duke's death.\n\nAustralian Prime Minister Scott Morrison tweeted that the duke \"embodied a generation that we will never see again\", while Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau described Philip as a \"man of great purpose and conviction\".\n\nAnd Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi recalled the duke for his \"distinguished career in the military\" and work \"at the forefront of many community service initiatives\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"A loss to us all\" read one of the tributes to Prince Philip\n\nUS President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden joined other world leaders in sending their \"deepest condolences\" to the Queen, the Royal Family and the people of the UK.\n\nIn a statement, they said the duke \"gladly dedicated himself to the people of the UK, the Commonwealth, and to his family\".\n\n\"His legacy will live on, not only through his family, but in all the charitable endeavours he shaped,\" it said.\n\nThe Duke of Edinburgh and the Queen celebrated their Diamond Wedding Anniversary on 20 November 2007\n\nPrince Philip and the Queen had four children, eight grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.\n\nTheir first son, the Prince of Wales, Prince Charles, was born in 1948, followed by his sister, the Princess Royal, Princess Anne, in 1950, the Duke of York, Prince Andrew, in 1960 and the Earl of Wessex, Prince Edward, in 1964.\n\nPrince Philip was born on the Greek island of Corfu on 10 June 1921.\n\nHis father was Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark, a younger son of King George I of the Hellenes.\n\nHis mother, Princess Alice, was a daughter of Prince Louis of Battenberg and a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria.", "Former Big Brother star Nikki Grahame has died at the age of 38.\n\nThe TV personality was admitted to a private hospital last month with an eating disorder.\n\nIn a statement to the BBC, Grahame's manager confirmed \"with immeasurable sadness\" that Grahame died on Friday morning.\n\n\"Please respect the privacy of Nikki's friends and family at this tragic and difficult time,\" he added.\n\nFormer Big Brother presenter Davina McCall led the tributes, tweeting: \"I am so desperately sad to hear about Nikki Grahame. My thoughts are with her friends and family xx she really was the funniest, most bubbly sweetest girl.\"\n\nIf you are affected by the issues in this story, help and support is available via the BBC Action Line and the charity Beat Eating Disorders.\n\nGrahame, originally from Northwood in north-west London, took part in the seventh series of Big Brother in 2006.\n\nShe became known for her tantrums, particularly in the Diary Room.\n\nGrahame would often complain to Big Brother about the conditions in the house or fellow contestants, famously shouting \"It's so cold,\" and, on another occasion, asking \"Who is she?\" after a new housemate joined the show.\n\nShe was hugely popular with viewers, and was voted back into the house four weeks after she was first evicted. She subsequently finished in fifth place.\n\nSpeaking to The Guardian last year, Grahame said: \"I hold fond memories of Big Brother, even though there were times where it looked like I was having a meltdown.\n\n\"Those meltdowns really were me, though. What you see has always been what you get - I can't be any other way.\"\n\nAfter her appearance on Big Brother, she won a National Television Award for most popular TV contender.\n\nFormer contestants Craig Phillips, Brian Dowling and Nikki Grahame took part in Ultimate Big Brother, hosted by Davina McCall, in 2010\n\nGrahame returned to the house in 2010 to take part in Ultimate Big Brother, the final series of the show to be broadcast on Channel 4.\n\nThe show saw several popular Big Brother contestants from over the years return to take part in one final series, before it moved to Channel 5. Grahame finished in second place.\n\nBy this time, she had developed her career as a popular TV personality, and starred in her own reality TV series called Princess Nikki.\n\nShe also guest-starred on programmes such as the Friday Night Project and as a contestant on celebrity editions of shows such as Pointless and The Weakest Link.\n\nPrior to finding fame on Big Brother, Grahame was an aspiring actress. She appeared as an extra in the BBC's EastEnders and played a footballer's wife in Sky One's Dream Team.\n\nGrahame also appeared as a contestant on ITV's Blind Date and competed in the 2004 Miss Hertfordshire pageant.\n\nGrahame launched her own reality series Princess Nikki following her appearance on Big Brother\n\nShe continued her relationship with Big Brother, returning for 2015's \"Time Warp\" twist on Channel 5, and made a cameo in the final series of Big Brother in 2018.\n\nShe also appeared as a \"wildcard\" housemate in the 2016 series of Big Brother Canada.\n\nGrahame's experience of anorexia was well documented, and she released a book about her eating disorder in 2009.\n\nLast month, a fundraising page was set up, asking fans to donate towards her recovery. It eventually raised more than £65,000.\n\nThe page said the 38-year-old was in \"a very bad way\" and needed treatment in a rehabilitation centre. Several Big Brother figures including former winner Rylan Clark-Neal retweeted the appeal for donations.\n\nOn Saturday, the page was updated to announce the news of Grahame's death.\n\n\"It breaks our hearts to know that someone who is so precious was taken from us at such a young age,\" it said. \"Nikki not only touched the lives of millions of people, but also her friends and family who will miss her immensely.\"\n\nGrahame was named most popular TV contender at the National Television Awards in 2006\n\nPaying tribute to Grahame on Twitter, Clark-Neal wrote: \"Thinking of [Grahame's mother] Susan and Nikki's close friends and family. A Big Brother Icon.\"\n\nTV presenter Paddy McGuinness added: \"Definitely one of the stars from the glory years of reality TV. I met her a long time ago and she was a lovely girl. RIP young lady.\"\n\nChannel 4 tweeted: We are desperately saddened by the tragic news about Nikki Grahame and our thoughts and deepest sympathies are with Nikki's family and friends.\"\n\nBig Brother Canada added:\"Our hearts break for the loss of Nikki Grahame. Nikki will forever be a beloved part of the Big Brother family. Rest in peace.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Big Brother UK This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Barack and Michelle Obama said they would \"miss him dearly\"\n\nEvery living former US president has paid their respects to the UK's Prince Philip, who died on Friday at the age of 99.\n\nThe current President Joe Biden also issued a statement in which he praised the Duke of Edinburgh's \"lifetime of service to the United Kingdom\".\n\nSome 18 presidents were elected in the duke's lifetime. Queen Elizabeth II has met 12 US presidents during her reign, often with her husband by her side.\n\nSpeaking from the White House, Mr Biden described the prince as \"a heck of a guy\".\n\n\"His lifetime of service to the United Kingdom and the whole commonwealth was visible to everybody for a long, long time,\" he said.\n\n\"I think he's going to be missed, particularly in the United Kingdom. Ninety-nine years old, he never slowed down at all. Which I admire the devil out of.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"He was a heck of a guy\": US President Joe Biden pays tribute to Prince Philip\n\nMr Biden is reportedly due to meet the Queen at Buckingham Palace in June.\n\nOn Friday, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said it was not yet determined whether the president would attend the duke's funeral.\n\nHe and his wife, First Lady Jill Biden, also released a joint statement praising Prince Philip's \"decades of devoted public service\".\n\nHis legacy \"is evident in the worthy causes he lifted up as patron, in environmental efforts he championed, in the members of the Armed Forces that he supported, in the young people he inspired, and so much more,\" the pair wrote.\n\nDonald Trump, who last visited the Royal Family in 2019, described Prince Philip as \"a man who embodied the noble soul and proud spirit of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth\".\n\nHe described Prince Philip's death as an \"irreplaceable loss for Great Britain, and for all who hold dear our civilisation\".\n\n\"Prince Philip defined British dignity and grace,\" he said. \"He personified the quiet reserve, stern fortitude, and unbending integrity of the United Kingdom.\"\n\nHe added: \"Over the past few years, Melania and I were honoured to have the opportunity to visit the United Kingdom.\n\n\"We saw first hand how the monarchy epitomises and carries on the virtues of the British people - and no-one did so more than Prince Philip.\"\n\nBarack Obama and his wife Michelle said Prince Philip and the Queen had \"already been on the world stage for more than half a century\" at the time of the group's first meeting.\n\n\"As two Americans unaccustomed to palaces and pomp, we didn't know what to expect. We shouldn't have worried,\" they said.\n\n\"The Queen and Prince Philip immediately put us at ease with their grace and generosity, turning a ceremonial occasion into something far more natural, even comfortable. Prince Philip in particular was kind and warm, with a sharp wit and unfailing good humour. It was our first introduction to the man behind the title, and in the years since, our admiration for him has only grown.\"\n\nDuring a visit in 2016, the then 94-year-old Prince Philip drove the Obamas to lunch at Windsor Castle.\n\nThe Obamas said they would \"miss him dearly\".\n\n\"Throughout his long and remarkable life, he devoted himself to worthy causes and to others. He represented the United Kingdom with dignity and brought boundless strength and support to the sovereign,\" he said.\n\nHe added that he and his wife Laura were \"fortunate to have enjoyed the charm and wit of his company, and we know how much he will be missed\".\n\nBill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said they joined people \"from all around the world in giving thanks for his remarkable life of service\".\n\nThey met Prince Philip and the Queen several times over the years, a statement by the couple said.\n\n\"We enjoyed every opportunity we had to visit with him through the years and will always be deeply grateful for the kindness he showed us.\"\n\nThe oldest living US president, Jimmy Carter, dined with Prince Philip and the Queen in 1977.\n\nA tweet issued from the 96-year-old's presidential library account read: \"We are sorry to hear that Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, has passed away.\"", "The UK has reported the largest number of second coronavirus vaccine doses given in a single day, according to the latest government data.\n\nA total of 450,136 second doses were received on Friday - with 106,878 first doses also administered.\n\nThe previous record was set on Thursday when 449,269 second doses were reported - in addition to 96,242 first doses.\n\nThere were 2,589 new infections in the past 24 hours, and another 40 deaths within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nThe latest figures show that of the 39,001,554 vaccinations administered in the UK so far, 32,010,244 were first doses - a rise of 106,878 on Friday.\n\nMeanwhile, 6,991,310 were second doses, a rise of 450,136.\n\nAfter the latest figures, the UK's death toll stands at 127,080 and the total number of infections is 4,368,045.\n\nIt comes after scientists tracking the epidemic say there is increasingly strong evidence to show that the UK's vaccination programme is breaking the link between coronavirus cases and deaths.\n\nA study, commissioned by the government and run by Imperial College London, found that infections had fallen by roughly two-thirds since February, before beginning to level off.\n\nThis is probably due to people beginning to mix more - but deaths have not followed the same pattern.\n\nHowever this was not the case before January, when the vaccine rollout began.\n\nMeanwhile, Office for National Statistics (ONS) data suggests that coronavirus cases in the UK are down to less than a sixth of the January peak.\n\nInfections were \"likely level\" in England and Northern Ireland in the week up to 3 April, but decreasing in Scotland and Wales, the ONS said.\n\nOn Wednesday, it was announced that people under the age of 30 in the UK will be offered an alternative Covid vaccine to the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab due to evidence linking it to rare blood clots.\n\nThe recommendation followed a review by the UK's medicines watchdog the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) found that by the end of March 79 people had suffered rare blood clots after vaccination - 19 of whom had died.", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nRachael Blackmore made sporting history by becoming the first female jockey to win the Grand National with victory on Minella Times at Aintree.\n\nThe Irish rider scored a thrilling triumph aboard the 11-1 chance, trained by Henry de Bromhead who also saddled runner-up Balko Des Flos.\n\n\"I don't feel male or female right now. I don't even feel human,\" 31-year-old Blackmore told ITV.\n\nAny Second Now was third, with Burrows Saint fourth.\n• None 'Modest trailblazer' Blackmore says National triumph was 'beyond belief'\n• None Where they finished in Grand National\n\nThe 173rd running of the world's most famous steeplechase provided a story for the ages as Blackmore won in the colours of owner JP McManus.\n\nBlackmore had already achieved a landmark success at last month's Cheltenham Festival when becoming the first woman to be the meeting's leading jockey.\n\nShe demonstrated perfect poise and timing to guide Minella Times expertly round the 30 fences over more than four and a quarter miles for victory by six and a half lengths.\n\nThe closest a female jockey had previously come to winning the race was Katie Walsh on Seabass in 2012 when she finished third.\n\n\"I cannot believe it,\" Blackmore said. \"He was a sensational spin. It is unbelievable.\"\n\nThere were no spectators at the Merseyside track because of Covid-19 protocols, but the historic moment was not lost on the jockeys, trainers and owners in attendance who cheered the pair back into the winner's enclosure.\n\nThe 1-2 for De Bromhead sealed his own remarkable story, having won the Champion Hurdle, Champion Chase and Gold Cup at Cheltenham.\n\nOne of the 40 runners, The Long Mile, was euthanised after suffering an injury while running on the flat between fences. It was the second equine fatality from a total of 316 runners in eight editions of the race since safety changes were introduced in 2013.\n\nJockey Bryony Frost was taken to hospital after being unseated from her mount Yala Enki.\n\nAmateur jockey Sam Waley-Cohen, who has won six times in other races over the National fences, led the way with an enterprising ride on outsider Jett.\n\nThe favourite, Cloth Cap, followed on the inside and travelled well for a long way before fading as McManus runners Any Second Now and Minella Times entered the picture.\n\nMark Walsh did well to stay on Any Second Now after nearly being brought down on the first circuit and the challenges of Burrows Saint and Discorama waned as Balko Des Flos and Minella Times pushed ahead.\n\nAs Blackmore and Minella Times safely jumped the last, it became clear a piece of racing folklore was being created and the pair passed the winning line clear of their rivals.\n\nForty-four years after Charlotte Brew was the first woman to ride in the race on 200-1 outsider Barony Fort, who refused at the 27th fence, Blackmore had bettered Walsh's third-placed finish with an historic victory.\n\n\"It is huge. It's the first woman to win the National. It's history, but I suppose this has been coming over time,\" said Walsh.\n\n\"There's been more women riding in the National over the last couple of years.\"\n\nIn the late 1970s and 1980s, female riders in this race were a bit of a novelty and a lot of people were actively against female participation in this race.\n\nIt has been a long time but we can finally put that to bed. Rachael Blackmore is a flagbearer for the sport and I'm absolutely delighted to be one of the few to have witnessed it - a very special Grand National moment.\n\nIt was less than a month ago that Blackmore was setting new benchmarks at Cheltenham.\n\nShe claimed six victories in all, including the Champion Hurdle on Honeysuckle, and was a narrow runner-up in the Gold Cup with A Plus Tard.\n\nRacing followers were already aware of her talents - composed, determined, tactically astute and strong in a finish.\n\nThe daughter of a dairy farmer and a school teacher from Killenaule, County Tipperary, she is a modest trailblazer.\n\nStarting out riding ponies as a child, Blackmore went on to gain a degree in equine science and combined her studies with competing as an amateur jockey.\n\nShe was just the second woman to hold a professional licence in Irish jump racing when switching from the amateur ranks in March 2015.\n\nHard graft has mixed with innate talent, and she was runner-up to Paul Townend in the Irish jockeys' championship last year.\n\nTeaming up with De Bromhead, who is based in Knockeen, County Waterford, has given her plenty of major rides and ultimately this biggest win of all.", "This video has been removed for rights reasons.\n\nThe four children of Prince Philip reflect on the life of their father.\n\nIn a programme filmed for the BBC, Princess Anne and Princes Charles, Andrew and Edward spoke about how they will remember the duke, who has died aged 99.\n\nThe Prince of Wales said that his father would \"probably want to be remembered as an individual in his own right\".", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nThree women seek a place in sporting folklore on Saturday as they bid to become the first female jockey to win the Grand National.\n\nRachael Blackmore and Bryony Frost have made history this season, and are joined by Tabitha Worsley in the race.\n\nTop Cheltenham Festival rider Blackmore is on Minella Times, Worsley rides Sub Lieutenant with Frost aboard Yala Enki.\n\nCloth Cap is favourite at Aintree where a two-minute silence will be held to mark the Duke of Edinburgh's death.\n\nFlags at the track will be flown at half mast, with jockeys wearing black armbands.\n\nThe meeting was cancelled last year and takes place without spectators this time because of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n• None Who could be the Aintree headline makers?\n\nRacehorse owners are allowed to attend and leading owner JP McManus has seven contenders, including Minella Times, Any Second Now and Kimberlite Candy.\n\nTom Scudamore rides Cloth Cap for octogenarian owner Trevor Hemmings, who will be following from home in the Isle of Man hoping for a record fourth win in his green, yellow and white colours.\n\nIt is more than 70 years since the film National Velvet, in which Elizabeth Taylor played the female jockey who was first past the post in the Grand National, only to be disqualified on a technicality.\n\nWomen compete against men in horse racing, and opportunities for a female winner in real life have risen in recent years, with Katie Walsh achieving the best finish of third on Seabass in 2012.\n\nBlackmore said her mount, for Cheltenham Gold Cup-winning trainer Henry de Bromhead, had jumped well when trying National-style fences in training.\n\n\"Look, it's the Grand National and anything can happen, but I wouldn't swap him anyway,\" said the 31-year-old Irish rider.\n\nShe is looking to follow up her landmark Cheltenham success last month when six victories meant she was the first woman to be top jockey.\n\nFrost was the first woman to win the King George VI Chase when she guided Frodon to victory for Somerset trainer Paul Nicholls at Kempton in December.\n\n\"Bryony's got a chance. Rachel Blackmore's got a very good chance. She's been riding at the top of her game,\" 11-time champion trainer Nicholls told BBC Radio 5 live.\n\n\"It'd be really good for the sport if one of the girls did win the National. They're more than capable of winning it.\"\n\nHow far is the race? It is just over four and a quarter miles. It is a handicap, in which each runner is allocated a different weight according to a rating of their ability. There are 30 fences including Becher's Brook, the Chair and the Canal Turn.\n\nHow long does it last? The winner usually completes the course in about nine minutes.\n\nWhy isn't Tiger Roll running? The 2018 and 2019 winner was withdrawn from the race in March, with owners Michael and Eddie O'Leary saying they were unhappy with the weight the horse had been given. The 11-year-old was fourth in Thursday's Betway Bowl at Aintree.\n\nWhat does the winner get? The total prize fund is £750,000 with the winning team collecting £375,000.\n\nHow many Grand Nationals have there been? This is the 173rd running of the race, which was last held in 2019.\n\nWhat about safety? Significant changes were introduced before the 2013 race which saw the core of fences softened, the distance reduced and new procedures for loose horses. There was one equine fatality in the race last year - the first from a total of 276 runners in the past seven editions.\n\nPatrick Mullins will ride leading contender Burrows Saint for his trainer father Willie Mullins after stable jockey Paul Townend suffered a foot injury.\n\nThe Mullins duo combined to triumph with Livelovelaugh in the Topham Chase over the National fences on Friday.\n\n\"When I was a kid I had a book about the history of the National fences, and I never thought I'd get a chance to win one,\" said Patrick.\n\nHe is one of four amateur jockeys in the race - with Jamie Codd on Milan Native, Derek O'Connor riding OK Corral and Sam Waley-Cohen aboard Jett.\n\nThey are bidding to become the first amateur to win since Marcus Armytage on Mr Frisk in 1990 and are permitted to ride after the latest easing of lockdown restrictions, having been barred from competing at last month's Cheltenham Festival.\n\nThe Merseyside track would normally welcome 70,000 spectators for the world's most famous jumps race.\n\nInstead, there will only be jockeys, trainers, owners, staff and a limited number of media.\n\nStrict Covid-19 protocols are in place, and Irish-trained runners have been stabled at Haydock Racecourse.\n\nPolice have stepped up patrols around the meeting, with residents close to the Merseyside track warned not to gather in groups larger than six in their gardens during the races.\n\nGrand National jockeys traditionally visit patients at Alder Hey Children's Hospital on the eve of the race.\n\nThis time current riders Daryl Jacob and Richie McLernon were joined on a special Zoom call alongside National winners Mick Fitzgerald and Ruby Walsh to answer questions about their careers and provide some pointers for the big race.\n\nSaturday will be a poignant day for two families whose names are inextricably linked with the big race and have lost loved ones in the last year.\n\nOwen Paterson, the North Shropshire MP whose wife Rose was chairman of Aintree Racecourse, is launching a charity in her memory to raise funds for suicide prevention projects.\n\nFriends and relatives of Liam Treadwell will be running, walking, cycling or riding the equivalent distance of the National in his honour and to raise money for brain injury charity Headway.\n\nTreadwell won the National on 100-1 shot Mon Mome in 2009 but spoke of being depressed after suffering concussion in a fall. A verdict of misadventure was recorded at an inquest into his death.\n\n\"Liam's passing left us all absolutely devastated. Life will never be the same without Liam but we all want to continue to make him proud,\" said his brother Nathan.", "The ancient city was found near some of Egypt's best-known monuments\n\nThe discovery of a 3,000-year-old city that was lost to the sands of Egypt has been hailed as one of the most important archaeological finds since Tutankhamun's tomb.\n\nFamed Egyptologist Zahi Hawass announced the discovery of the \"lost golden city\" near Luxor on Thursday.\n\nHe said the find was the largest ancient city, known as Aten, ever uncovered in Egypt.\n\nIt was unearthed within weeks of the excavation starting in September 2020.\n\nThe city dates to the reign of Amenhotep III, one of Egypt's most powerful pharaohs, who ruled from 1391 to 1353 BC.\n\nThe city continued to be used by pharaohs Ay and Tutankhamun, whose nearly intact tomb was discovered in the Valley of the Kings by British archaeologist Howard Carter in 1922.\n\n\"The discovery of this lost city is the second most important archaeological discovery since the tomb of Tutankhamun,\" Betsy Brian, professor of Egyptology at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, US, said.\n\nShe said the city would \"give us a rare glimpse into the life of the ancient Egyptians\" at the time when the empire was at its wealthiest.\n\nPrecious artefacts were found on the site, near the Valley of the Kings\n\nThe city is believed to have been founded by Amenhotep III, one of ancient Egypt's most powerful rulers\n\nThe dig revealed a large number of valuable archaeological finds, such as jewellery, coloured pottery, scarab beetle amulets and mud bricks bearing seals of Amenhotep III.\n\nThe team began excavations on the west bank of Luxor near the Valley of the Kings, some 500 km (300 miles) south of the capital Cairo.\n\n\"Within weeks, to the team's great surprise, formations of mud bricks began to appear in all directions,\" Dr Hawass said in his statement.\n\n\"What they unearthed was the site of a large city in a good condition of preservation, with almost complete walls, and with rooms filled with tools of daily life.\"\n\nDr Hawass, pictured here looking at the sarcophagus of Tutankhamun, is a former antiquities minister\n\nNow, seven months after the dig started, several areas or neighbourhoods have been uncovered, including a bakery, an administrative district and a residential area.\n\n\"Many foreign missions searched for this city and never found it,\" said Dr Hawass, a former antiquities minister.\n\nHe said further archaeological work was under way at the site and his team \"expects to uncover untouched tombs filled with treasures\".\n\nThe archaeologists found a large number of decorative and ritual items, including scarabs and amulets\n\nEgypt is seeking to promote its ancient heritage to revive its tourism sector, which has been flagging after years of political turbulence and disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nLast week, Egypt carried the remains of their country's ancient rulers through Cairo in a historic procession.\n\nThe lavish spectacle saw 22 mummies - 18 kings and four queens - transported from the neo-classical Egyptian Museum to the new National Museum of Egyptian Civilisation about 5 km away.\n\nAmenhotep III and his wife Queen Tiye were among the mummies transferred to the new resting place.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch as 18 kings and four queens were carefully moved to a new museum in Cairo in a dazzling parade", "In public, Prince Philip always took second place\n\nHe outlived nearly everyone who knew him and might explain him.\n\nAnd so we have been left with a two-dimensional portrait of the duke; salt-tongued and short-tempered, a man who told off-colour jokes and made politically incorrect remarks, an eccentric great-uncle who'd been around forever and towards whom most people felt affection - but who rather too often embarrassed himself and others in company.\n\nWith his death will come reassessment. Because Prince Philip was an extraordinary man who lived an extraordinary life; a life intimately connected with the sweeping changes of our turbulent 20th Century, a life of fascinating contrast and contradiction, of service and some degree of solitude. A complex, clever, eternally restless man.\n\nHis mother and father met at the funeral of Queen Victoria in 1901. At a time when all but four of Europe's nations were monarchies, his relatives were scattered through European royalty. Some royal houses were swept away by World War One; but the world into which Philip was born was still one where monarchies were the norm. His grandfather was the King of Greece; his great-aunt Ella was murdered along with the Russian tsar, by the Bolsheviks, at Ekaterinberg; his mother was a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria.\n\nHis four older sisters would all marry Germans. While Philip fought for Britain in the Royal Navy, three of his sisters actively supported the Nazi cause; none would be invited to his wedding.\n\nWhen peace came, and with it eventual economic recovery, Philip would throw himself into the construction of a better Britain, urging the country to adopt scientific methods, embracing the ideas of industrial design, planning, education and training. A decade before Harold Wilson talked of the \"white heat of the technological revolution\", Philip was urging modernity on the nation in speeches and interviews. And as the country and the world became richer and consumed ever more, Philip warned of the impact on the environment, well before it was even vaguely fashionable.\n\nEighteen months after his birth, his family was in exile\n\nHis childhood quickly taught him the values of self-reliance\n\nHe was forged by the turmoil of his first decade and then moulded by his schooling. His early years were spent wandering, as his place of birth ejected him, his family disintegrated and he moved from country to country, none of them ever his own. When he was just a year old, he and his family were scooped up by a British destroyer from his home on the Greek island of Corfu after his father had been condemned to death. They were deposited in Italy. One of Philip's first international journeys was spent crawling around on the floor of the train from an Italian port city, \"the grubby child on the desolate train pulling out of the Brindisi night,\" as his sister Sophia later described it.\n\nIn Paris, he lived in a house borrowed from a relative; but it was not destined to become a home. In just one year, while he was at boarding school in Britain, the mental health of his mother, Princess Alice, deteriorated and she went into an asylum; his father, Prince Andrew, went off to Monte Carlo to live with his mistress; and his four sisters married and went to live in Germany. In the space of 10 years he had gone from a prince of Greece to a wandering, homeless, and virtually penniless boy with no-one to care for him.\n\n\"I don't think anybody thinks I had a father,\" he once said. Andrew would die during the war. Philip went to Monte Carlo to pick up his father's possessions after the Germans had been driven from France; there was almost nothing left, just a couple of clothes brushes and some cuff-links.\n\nBy the time he went to Gordonstoun, a private school on the north coast of Scotland, Philip was tough, independent and able to fend for himself; he'd had to be. Gordonstoun would channel those traits into the school's distinct philosophy of community service, teamwork, responsibility and respect for the individual. And it sparked one of the great passions of Philip's life - his love of the sea.\n\nPhilip adored the school as much as his son Charles would despise it. Not just because the stress it put on physical as well as mental excellence - he was a great sportsman. But because of its ethos, laid down by its founder Kurt Hahn, an exile from Nazi Germany.\n\nPrince Philip became one of the youngest first lieutenants in the Royal Navy\n\nBut he had to give up his career to support the Queen\n\nThe Duke of Edinburgh's children would not bear his name, Mountbatten\n\nThat ethos became a significant, perhaps the significant, part of the way that Philip believed life should be lived. It shines through the speeches he gave later in his life. \"The essence of freedom,\" he would say in Ghana in 1958, \"is discipline and self-control.\" The comforts of the post-war era, he told the British Schools Exploring Society a year earlier, may be important \"but it is much more important that the human spirit should not be stifled by easy living\". And two years before that, he spoke to the boys of Ipswich School of the moral as well as material imperatives of life, with the \"importance of the individual\" as the \"guiding principle of our society\".\n\nAnd at Gordonstoun was born one of the great contradictions of Philip's fascinating life. The importance of the individual was what in Kurt Hahn's eyes differentiated Britain and liberal democracies from the kind of totalitarian dictatorship that he had fled. Philip put that centrality of the individual, and individual agency - the ability we have as humans to make our own moral and ethical decisions - at the heart of his philosophy.\n\nAnd yet he was throughout his life, first in the navy and then in the many decades of life in the Palace, tightly bound by rules of tradition, of precedent, of command and hierarchy. He had little, if anything, in the way of agency. Did he say one thing and do another, as members of the Royal Family are often accused of? Or was his first choice - to serve - by necessity his last?\n\nThe navy ran deep in the Duke of Edinburgh's family. He is pictured sitting at the wheel of the nuclear-powered submarine HMS Churchill\n\nPrince Philip gave between 60 and 80 speeches every year, decade after decade, on topics that reflected his vast range of interests\n\nAt Dartmouth Naval College in 1939, the two great passions of his life would collide. He had learned to sail at Gordonstoun; he would learn to lead at Dartmouth. And his driving desire to achieve, and to win, would shine through. Despite entering the college far later than most other cadets, he would graduate top of his class in 1940. In further training at Portsmouth, he gained the top grade in four out of five sections of the exam. He became one of the youngest first lieutenants in the Royal Navy.\n\nThe navy ran deep in his family. His maternal grandfather had been the First Sea Lord, the commander of the Royal Navy; his uncle, \"Dickie\" Mountbatten, had command of a destroyer while Philip was in training. In war, he showed not only bravery but guile. It was his natural milieu. \"Prince Philip\", wrote Gordonstoun headmaster Kurt Hahn admiringly, \"will make his mark in any profession where he will have to prove himself in a trial of strength\".\n\nOthers had their reservations about the brilliant and ambitious young officer. In peace, once he had his own command, he drove his men hard, much too hard for some. \"If he had a fault, it was a tendency to intolerance,\" wrote one biographer. That kind of comment would recur. Contemporaries were more blunt. \"One of his crew,\" writes another biographer, \"said he would rather die than serve under him again.\"\n\nIn Dartmouth in 1939, as war became ever more certain, the navy was his destiny. He had fallen in love with the sea itself. \"It is an extraordinary master or mistress,\" he would say later, \"it has such extraordinary moods.\" But a rival to the sea would come.\n\nWhen King George VI toured the Naval College, accompanied by Philip's uncle, he brought with him his daughter, Princess Elizabeth. Philip was asked to look after her. He showed off to her, vaulting the nets of the tennis court in the grounds of the college. He was confident, outgoing, strikingly handsome, of royal blood if without a throne. She was beautiful, a little sheltered, a little serious, and very smitten by Philip.\n\nPrince Philip with his uncle, Earl Mountbatten, at the Royal Marines Barracks in 1965\n\nThe Queen, with one of the Royal corgis, chats with polo-playing Prince Philip at Windsor Great Park\n\nTheir engagement was announced in July 1947\n\nDid he know then that this was a collision of two great passions? That he could not have the sea and the beautiful young woman? For a time after their wedding in 1948, he did have both. As young newlyweds in Malta, he had what he so prized - command of a ship - and they had two idyllic years together. But the illness and then early death of King George VI brought it all to an end.\n\nHe knew what it meant, the moment he was told. Up in a lodge in Kenya, touring Africa, with Princess Elizabeth in place of the King, Philip was told first of the monarch's death. He looked, said his equerry Mike Parker, \"as if a tonne of bricks had fallen on him\". For some time he sat, slumped in a chair, a newspaper covering his head and chest. His princess had become the Queen. His world had changed irrevocably.\n\nFor someone who almost never displayed anything close to self-pity, and rarely spoke of his own emotions, he was by his own standards candid about the loss of his naval calling. \"There's never been 'if only',\" he said once, \"except perhaps that I regret not having been able to continue a career in the navy\". Those who knew the man and his passions are blunter. The former First Sea Lord, Admiral Lord West, says Philip did his duty; but of the end of his time in the navy he says, \"I know it was a huge loss to him. I know it.\"\n\nThat moment, when princess became Queen, revealed another great contradiction of Philip's life. He was born and brought up in a world almost entirely run by men. He was a rugged, physical man who was brought up and then worked in an entirely male environment. He celebrated masculinity, telling Mike Parker on the birth of his first son Charles, \"It takes a man to have a boy.\" But literally overnight, and for 65 years to follow, it became his life to support his wife, the Queen.\n\nHe would walk behind her. He would give up his job for her. He would apologise if he came into a room after her. At her coronation he knelt before her, his hands enclosed by hers, and swore to be her \"liege man of life and limb\". His children would not bear his name, Mountbatten. \"I'm nothing but a bloody amoeba,\" he exclaimed at that. But there was nothing to be done. She was the Queen. He was her husband.\n\nPrince Philip talked of the upending of circumstance little. \"Within the house,\" he said of the time before the Queen's accession, \"I suppose I naturally filled the principal position. People used to come and ask me what to do. In 1952 the whole thing changed very, very considerably.\"\n\nPrince Philip had hundreds of patronages and projects with a focus on youth, science, the outdoors and sport\n\nThe transition to life in the Palace was brutal. \"Philip,\" said his equerry, \"was constantly being squashed, snubbed, ticked off, rapped over the knuckles... I felt Philip did not have any friends or helpers.\" Philip may not have helped himself; one biographer writes that in the early years Palace staff felt he was \"difficult to deal with... prickly... arrogant... defensive\". He was looked upon with suspicion by some in the court, as something of an adventurer, as perhaps a fortune hunter. He had German blood, and this was just after the herculean effort of defeating Nazi Germany.\n\nIn response, Philip began what would become a lifetime of near-ceaseless activity; abroad he was at the side of the Queen on the long tours they undertook, sometimes breaking off to pursue interests particular to him - sporting, industrial or research. She nearly always travelled with him as her companion; but he also travelled alone. It was he, not she, that made the farewells to colonial possessions in the 1950s and 1960s.\n\nAt home there were patronages and projects, hundreds upon hundreds of them, with a focus on youth, science, the outdoors and sport. He played cricket, squash, polo; he swam, sailed, rowed and rode horses and carriage drove. He learnt to fly, and developed his own photographs.\n\nWithin the Palace he was a moderniser, striding the corridors, rootling around the cellars, trying to find out what everyone did. He took over the management of the estate at Sandringham and over the years significantly redeveloped it.\n\n\"He believes he has a creative mission,\" wrote an early biographer, \"to present the monarchy as a dynamic, involved and responsive institution that will address itself to some of the problems of contemporary British society.\"\n\nHe was young and very good looking; he smiled and joked and was at ease in front of the cameras. When he visited a boys' club in London in the late 1950s, a photo shows him with a broad smile on his face, looking crisp in a double-breasted pinstripe suit, his hair slicked back with brilliantine, surrounded by the upturned faces of boys and their mothers all shoving and trying to get close to him. There is more than a whiff of Beatlemania to the moment.\n\nIn his study on the first floor of Buckingham Palace, overlooking the gardens and Green Park, surrounded by thousands of books, with a model of his first command HMS Magpie to one side, he would research and write and type out his speeches. (In 1986 he would buy, always the moderniser, what he called a \"splendid gadget\" that he called \"a miniature word processor\".) He gave between 60 and 80 speeches every year, decade after decade, on topics that reflected his vast range of interests.\n\nOut of the speeches comes a picture of the man. For someone who sat through so much of it, he was clearly impatient with ceremony. \"A lot of time and energy,\" he told students and staff at the Chesterfield College of Technology, \"has been spent on arranging for you to listen to me to take a long time to declare open a building which everyone knows is open already.\"\n\nReflecting his dizzying range of interests, there was sometimes a touch of the gentleman-farmer to his thoughts - well-organised arguments that don't really go anywhere, a lot of anecdotal evidence (\"it seems to me...\") garnered from his extensive travels.\n\nDespite modernising instincts, he was a conservative, somewhat suspicious of the machinations of the big city. He spoke of \"urban dwellers\" and of the \"average citizen\" dumping rubbish from their car. He preferred practical solutions to highfalutin theory - \"The enterprise is doomed,\" he told the Commonwealth Conference on Industrial Relations, \"if it is allowed to enter the rarefied atmosphere of theory.\"\n\nHe was an environmentalist before anyone really knew what that was. He warned of the \"greedy and senseless exploitation of nature.\" And in 1982 he brought up a topic that now grips us, but back then was almost never spoken of, \"a hotly-debated issue directly attributable to the development of industry... the build-up of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere,\" which he referred to as the \"greenhouse effect\".\n\nHis relationship with his eldest son improved in later years\n\nAnd he constantly did himself down, shrugging as to why anyone should want to hear him speak: \"I have very little experience of self-government,\" he told one audience, \"I am one of the most governed people you could meet....\" His example of irrational behaviour? - \"making and listening to speeches on important occasions\". Or speaking before the Brussels Expo in 1958 - \"I feel I can claim to be an expert at going round exhibitions.\" He knew most speeches were a dull formality that had to be got through - and he was happy to let his audience have a laugh at his expense.\n\nIt is another contradiction in a life of them; that someone who cared so much about how we live our lives, about how to pursue a good and moral life, about how government and society might try to channel our instincts, should end up being popularly portrayed as a saloon-bar bore, his retirement from public life in 2017 accompanied by lists of his \"gaffes\", off-colour comments and salty jokes.\n\nThat he could be rude, startlingly so at times, there is no doubt. Part of it was impatience, that dynamo whirring away, the desire to get things done double-quick. Part of it may have been deafness, inherited from his almost wholly deaf mother. But part of it was just plain bad manners, a disregard for what others felt and a thoughtlessness that came from position and temperament.\n\nThere was for a long time a fair amount of barking and shouting at those who failed to please him, and not a lot of thanking those that did.\n\nLooking back down the decades, two great contrasts stand out. The first, that between a life led in the public eye, and a really quite private man. The boy shuttling between guardians and schools and countries quickly learnt to seal off his private side from public view. Inside the Palace it became his world view. Most of his biographers' personal queries were met with a shrug, as if to say \"I don't know why you are bothering\". He once said of his son Charles: \"He is a romantic, I am a pragmatist. And because I don't see things as a romantic would, I'm [perceived as] unfeeling.\" There can be little doubt that he was stung by the accusation. But his inner thoughts were not for public consumption.\n\nAnd the second great, related, contrast is that between the near unceasing whirl of his public life, and a degree of solitude in his private. Of course there was family, though all his sisters pre-deceased him. But few, if any, great friendships are recorded, a corollary of his private nature and the pattern of his many decades. \"Life,\" wrote one biographer, \"hasn't enabled him to build up friendships. He is going round the world at such a lick.\" And royalty is its own curious cage, repelling outsiders. \"What the royal family offers you is friendliness,\" said the late James Callaghan, prime minister in the 1970s, \"not friendship.\"\n\nMajor General Charles Stickland of the Royal Marines, of which for 64 years Philip was Captain General, tells of when the duke flew into an exercise in Norway. He was supposed to say a quick hello to the enlisted men and then have lunch with the commanding officer. Instead he \"asked two of the corporals to spoon food into his mess tin, sat on a Bergan [rucksack], told stories and chatted away with my troops when he was supposed to be having a posh lunch and then got back on the helicopter, having inspired a group of young men as to why it was great to be a Royal Marine\".\n\nIt was vintage Philip; no ceremony, hierarchy pushed to one side, the big group over the more intimate gathering.\n\nBecause of his desire for privacy, because of his position, and because nearly all who knew him best have gone, our understanding of him will always be incomplete. But that's also because of what kind of person he was, because of the contradictions and contrasts that emerged over the decades. \"A mercurial man like His Royal Highness,\" said the artist and architect Sir Hugh Casson, \"needs a loose fit portrait.\"\n\nHe was asked once what his life had been about (the sort of question that normally received an incredulous snort). Had it been about supporting the Queen? \"Absolutely, absolutely,\" he replied. He didn't see himself as a leader, though lead he could. And his own achievements he consistently played down. Accepting the Freedom of the City of London in 1948, he spoke for himself and for what he called other \"followers\", with trademark modesty. \"Our only distinction,\" he said, \"was that we did what we were told to do, to the very best of our ability, and kept on doing it.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The officers broke the speed limit in a high performance vehicle they seized\n\nTwo police officers have been sacked after filming themselves breaking the speed limit at 89mph in a seized high-performance vehicle.\n\nDevon and Cornwall Police officers PC Shaun Pearce and PC Daniel Pike shared the video with colleagues on WhatsApp.\n\nThey were taking part in a road safety campaign, which included preventing speeding, at the time.\n\nA disciplinary hearing on Thursday found the officers had committed gross misconduct and should be dismissed.\n\nThey are now banned from working for the police in England and Wales.\n\nPC Pearce and PC Pike were on road safety duty as part of the 'Fatal Five' campaign - which includes targeting speeding drivers - when the incident happened on 16 January 2019 , the hearing heard.\n\nThe officers had seized the vehicle, and while waiting for a recovery vehicle to arrive, drove it without the owner's permission reaching speeds up to 89 mph over 3.1 miles.\n\nThe vehicle was returned minutes later to the same position.\n\nThe footage was then shared with colleagues in a WhatsApp group, along with an explanation that the vehicle had to be moved rather than await recovery.\n\nAfter a three-day hearing, the panel concluded the officers had breached expected standards of professional behaviour and they should be dismissed without notice.\n\nHead of Professional Standards Det Supt Paul Kessell said: \"The behaviour displayed by these officers falls well below what the force and the public expect of a police officer.\n\n\"Through their actions, they have undermined the public's trust and confidence in the police force and taken advantage of the responsibility placed on them in their roles.\n\n\"We will not tolerate such behaviours and therefore dismissal was the right and proper outcome.\"\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.", "Prince Philip at Sandringham for the Christmas service in 2017\n\nIt was a cold morning on the Sunday between Christmas and New Year, and Cat Kidd was among the well-wishers at Sandringham in Norfolk, waiting for the Royal Family to arrive at church.\n\nCat, now 34 and living in Cambridge, is from the area, and would often visit Sandringham with her family to see the royals' traditional Christmas church visit.\n\nOn this morning, five or six years ago, Prince Philip spotted Cat in the crowd. To her surprise, he said something. So what was his festive greeting?\n\n\"He shouted out: 'You look like you've had a heavy Christmas!'\" says Cat.\n\n\"And I think he followed it up with: 'You're looking very pale.' I'm quite a pale person anyway, but obviously he picked up that I was extra pale.\"\n\nThe well-wishers are asked not to take pictures, so there is no record of the exchange. But it remains a fond memory.\n\n\"I guess technically he was insulting me - but it was still a bit of an honour to have him speak to you,\" she says.\n\n\"It's a nice story to have - I've told it a few times over the years. But it's a nice badge of honour to have been insulted by the duke.\"\n\nAnd the final question - was the duke correct? Was she feeling a little worse for wear?\n\n\"Well it was Christmas...\" Cat replies.\n\nIn 1997, Trevor Adams was a journalism student in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He was due to interview a businessman for an assignment, but at the last minute, it fell through.\n\nHe needed something to fill the gap. \"Or,\" says Trevor, \"I was looking at an F - for fail.\"\n\nThen a friend, who worked in a downtown hotel, mentioned that Prince Philip was in Halifax for a World Wildlife Fund event. Trevor grabbed his camera operator, rushed to the Prince George Hotel, and crossed his fingers.\n\nSomehow - he's not sure how - he was able to breeze past the police and into the same room as the prince. He tapped the duke on the arm - \"Which I now understand to be a major faux pas,\" he says - and made his pitch.\n\n\"I explained to him - probably very quickly - that I was a journalism student and desperately needed an interview today, or I was going to get an F. I said if he helped me out, I would be the envy of my classmates.\"\n\nThe duke chuckled, says Trevor, and \"immediately\" agreed to rescue his assignment. Prince Philip spoke for a few minutes on camera about the WWF, with one question about football, before the duke shook Trevor's hand and ended with a joke.\n\nSadly, Trevor cannot remember the joke. \"I wish I'd written it down,\" he says. Nonetheless, Trevor's scoop earned him an A.\n\n\"My classmates wondered how on earth I had managed to get the interview,\" he says. \"And really, it amounted to walking into a room I wasn't supposed to be in.\"\n\nThe scoop certainly didn't do Trevor's career any harm - 24 years after meeting the duke in a downtown hotel, he is now the editor of Halifax Magazine.\n\nAccording to a 2018 YouGov poll, 22% of the British public had seen or met Prince Philip - that's around 14 million people. Only the Queen, whom 31% had seen or met, was more visible.\n\nDarren Johnson is one of that 22% - he met Prince Philip in February 2008, when the duke accompanied the Queen at the opening of the London Fire Brigade headquarters.\n\nDarren was there as a \"backbench\" member of the London Fire Authority - the body that ran the brigade. So was the small talk formal and buttoned-up? Not quite...\n\n\"We lined up to be introduced to the royal guests,\" says Darren. \"Ken Livingstone (then London mayor) introduced me as the Green member of the fire authority.\n\n\"Immediately, Prince Philip said: 'So did you choose to be on this body - or did someone make you do it?'\n\n\"I said there were two Greens on the London Assembly and one of us had to do it!\"\n\nDarren, who was on the London Assembly for 16 years, says he is \"not a fanatical royalist, or anything like that\".\n\n\"But I did like his spirit of irreverence, definitely,\" says Darren, now 54. \"I do think one of his qualities was he was able to cut through a lot of that formality.\"\n\nIndeed, as the countless tributes have proven, there are many words to describe the Duke of Edinburgh. But - as Cat, Trevor, and Darren know - formal was not one of them.\n\nHave you met Prince Philip? Do you have a story from that time? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Boris Johnson should withdraw a report into racism and instead implement recommendations of past inquiries, campaigners have said.\n\nGroups including Black Lives Matter UK say the government-commissioned report had \"provoked national indignation\".\n\nAnd, they say in a letter to the PM, it \"whitewashes the daily challenges faced by black and minoritised communities\".\n\nMr Johnson has said he does not agree with everything in the report but he wants to implement its recommendations.\n\nDowning Street set up the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities in June last year, following anti-racism protests triggered by the killing of George Floyd in the US.\n\nThe commission was tasked with looking into racial inequality in the UK.\n\nTheir report - published last month - concluded that the country \"no longer\" has a system rigged against people from ethnic minorities.\n\nIt also said family structure and social class had a bigger impact than race on how people's lives turned out.\n\nThe report acknowledged that overt racism exists, particularly online, but said the UK \"should be regarded as a model for other white-majority countries\" for its success in removing race-based disparities in society.\n\nDr Tony Sewell who chaired the commission told the BBC they found \"anecdotal evidence\" of racism but no proof of \"institutional racism\" in the country.\n\nIn the letter, organisations including campaigning group Charity So White, Liberty, the National Education Union and The Runnymede Trust called on Mr Johnson to \"repudiate the commission's findings immediately and withdraw its report\".\n\nThey said: \"From the moment that membership of the ostensibly independent commission was announced, it was clear it would publish a tailored report conforming to a government narrative around racism and class - a narrative that whitewashes over the daily challenges faced by Black and minoritised communities in this country.\"\n\nThe letter also said the report was \"lacking in intellectual rigour\" and notes that some of those cited in the report have since claimed they were misrepresented.\n\nIt urged Mr Johnson to establish a task force to implement the recommendations made by previous investigations into race including inquiries into the murder of Stephen Lawrence and the Windrush scandal.\n\nThe Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities has said its work has been misrepresented and it had \"never said that racism does not exist in society or in institutions\".\n\n\"We say the contrary: racism is real and we must do more to tackle it,\" the commission said in a statement last week.\n\n\"Robust debate we welcome. But to depict us as racism deniers, slavery apologists or worse is unacceptable.\"\n\nA review of the Windrush scandal, published in March 2020, said the Home Office should appoint a Migrants Commissioner, develop a programme of cultural change for the department, and establish a race advisory board.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel has promised to implement the recommendations in full.\n\nIn 2017 a report by Labour MP David Lammy looked into evidence of bias in the justice system in England and Wales.\n\nThat review recommended allowing low-level offenders to \"defer\" prosecution and opt for a rehabilitation programme before entering a plea; gathering more data on the ethnicity and religion of offenders; and introducing targets for a more representative workforce within the justice system.\n\nIn 2020, the prime minister said that 16 of the recommendations had been met, but Mr Lammy disputed this, arguing that just six had actually been implemented.\n\nThe McGregor-Smith Review of race in the workplace, also published in 2017, said firms with more than 50 workers should publish a breakdown of their workforce by race and by how much they are paid.\n\nThe government said it agreed with many of the review's recommendations but said it hoped \"reasonable employers\" would implement the changes, rather than waiting for the government to introduce legislation.\n\nActor Riz Ahmed is among those to have signed the letter condemning the report\n\nBoris Johnson said the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities report was a \"very interesting piece of work\" but he was \"not going to say the government is going to agree with absolutely everything in it\".\n\nHe said there are \"very serious issues that our society faces to do with racism that we need to address\" and added that the government would be looking at the ideas the commission put forward.\n\nThe letter calling on the PM to withdraw the report, which gained more than 20,000 signatures in 48 hours, has also received support from writer Afua Hirsch and actor Riz Ahmed.", "Fourteen police officers have been injured during another night of \"disgraceful\" rioting in Belfast.\n\nThe worst violence on Friday night happened in the loyalist Tiger's Bay area and petrol bombs were also thrown in the nearby nationalist New Lodge.\n\nIt was the 12th night of disorder in recent days, during which time a total of 88 police officers have been hurt.\n\nTaoiseach (Irish PM) Micheál Martin has warned against a \"spiral back\" to violence in Northern Ireland.\n\nA car was set alight and rammed against a police vehicle during the disorder\n\nOn Saturday, the 23rd anniversary of the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, he urged political leaders to \"step forward and play our part and ensure that this cannot happen\".\n\nThe taoiseach said the \"most visible success\" of the peace deal had been that a \"whole generation of young people have grown up not knowing or experiencing the violence that accompanied the Troubles\".\n\nMr Martin added: \"We owe it to the agreement generation... not to spiral back to that dark place of sectarian murders and political discord.\"\n\nThree 14-year-old boys were arrested during the disorder on Friday and have been released pending further inquiries.\n\nThere was also three hours of \"senseless\" trouble in Coleraine, County Londonderry, which police said had left people in a residential area \"petrified in their homes\".\n\nThe death of the Duke of Edinburgh and the anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement provided a backdrop to the latest rioting in Northern Ireland.\n\nEven though many loyalist protests arranged for Friday evening were cancelled as a mark of respect for Prince Philip, dozens of loyalist and nationalist youths engaged in violence.\n\nThe loyalist Tiger's Bay and the nationalist New Lodge communities live side by side.\n\nDuring the violence the police created a buffer zone to keep the mobs apart - when they couldn't attack each other they attacked the police.\n\nOn Saturday morning, the 23th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, the streets of north Belfast were scarred by the violence of the night before.\n\nThere was sustained rioting against the police in Tiger's Bay in north Belfast for several hours on Friday.\n\nPolice were attacked with petrol bombs, stones and other missiles and two officers were seen being helped back to their vehicles after being injured.\n\nA burning car was rammed against a police Land Rover and bins were also set alight.\n\nOfficers were attacked in New Lodge early in the evening but there was a lengthy lull before the attacks on police lines intensified at about 23:00 BST.\n\n\"This was reckless and dangerous criminal behaviour,\" said Ch Insp Darren Fox who added that 14 officers had been injured.\n\nPolice in north Belfast were attacked with petrol bombs, stones and other missiles\n\nMost of the injuries were minor although one officer was knocked unconscious and required hospital treatment.\n\nEvidence was being gathered and \"those identified will face the full rigour of the law\", said Ch Insp Fox.\n\nThe previous evening police in Belfast deployed water cannon for the first time in six years after coming under attack.\n\nRioters attempted to set fire to a car belonging to a press photographer after throwing a large rock through its passenger-side window.\n\nAndrew Johnson's car was damaged during the violence\n\nAndrew Johnston, 22, who was asked to cover the violence for a Turkish news agency, said he would not be deterred from his work.\n\nHe parked his car on Limestone Road, which crosses North Queen Street where much of the rioting took place.\n\n\"At the time police Land Rovers had blocked off the bottom of Tiger's Bay so I presumed rioters wouldn't get past that point,\" he said.\n\nWhen he returned to the street at about midnight police in riot gear were surrounding a car.\n\n\"I instantly got a bad feeling - I knew the way the police swooped around a car that it was most likely mine.\n\nPolice have been called in from other parts of Northern Ireland to deal with disorder in Belfast in recent nights\n\n\"When I saw it pushed out onto the road, I couldn't believe it - the inside of it was a mess and the door was badly damaged.\"\n\nThe photographer said he expects the repairs to his car to cost about £1,000.\n\n\"I'm always willing to listen to people from all walks of life so I would like others to show some respect to photographers as well,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm not out to capture anyone - I'm purely out to document the situation.\"\n\nIn Coleraine about 40 people, many of them masked teenagers, build a road block and set it on fire.\n\nPetrol bombs were thrown at police and some of their vehicles were damaged but no officers were hurt.\n\nPolice in Coleraine were attacked when they responded to reports that a road block had been built\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland appealed to \"parents, guardians and community leaders to use their influence\" to prevent a repeat of \"such ugly scenes\".\n\nCaoimhe Archibald, a Sinn Féin assembly member (MLA) for the East Londonderry constituency, said: \"There is no place for this destructive and senseless behaviour.\"\n\nSDLP MLA Cara Hunter said the \"reckless violence\" did not \"reflect the warm and welcoming people of Coleraine\".\n\nIndependent unionist MLA and former Stormont justice minister Claire Sugden said the violence in Coleraine had been \"nothing more than anti-social behaviour and attention seeking - which is sad in itself\".", "Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, won widespread respect for his steadfast and constant support of the Queen.\n\nIt was a desperately difficult role for anyone, let alone a man who had been used to naval command and who held strong views on a wide range of subjects.\n\nYet it was that very strength of character that enabled him to discharge his responsibilities so effectively, and provide such wholehearted support to his wife in her role as Queen.\n\nAs male consort to a female sovereign, Prince Philip had no constitutional position. But no-one was closer to the monarchy, or of greater importance to the monarch, than he was.\n\nPrince Philip of Greece was born on 10 June 1921 on the island of Corfu. His birth certificate shows the date as 28 May 1921, as Greece had not then adopted the Gregorian calendar.\n\nHis father was Prince Andrew of Greece, a younger son of King George I of the Hellenes. His mother, Princess Alice of Battenberg, was the eldest child of Prince Louis of Battenberg and sister of Earl Mountbatten of Burma.\n\nAfter a coup d'etat in 1922, his father was banished from Greece by a revolutionary court.\n\nA British warship sent by his second cousin, King George V, took the family to Italy. Baby Philip spent much of the voyage in a crib made from an orange box.\n\nHis mother, Princess Alice, was a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria\n\nHe was the youngest child, the only boy in a family of sisters - and his early childhood was spent in a loving atmosphere.\n\nThe prince began his education in France but, at the age of seven, came to live with his Mountbatten relatives in England, where he attended a prep school in Surrey.\n\nBy this time his mother had been diagnosed with schizophrenia and been placed in an asylum. The young prince would have little contact with her.\n\nIn 1933, he was sent to Schule Schloss Salem in southern Germany, which was run by educational pioneer Kurt Hahn. But within months, Hahn, who was Jewish, was forced to flee Nazi persecution.\n\nHahn moved to Scotland where he founded Gordonstoun school, to which the prince transferred after only two terms in Germany.\n\nGordonstoun's Spartan regime, with its emphasis on self-reliance, was the ideal environment for a teenage boy who, separated from his parents, felt very much on his own.\n\nWith war looming, Prince Philip decided on a military career. He wanted to join the Royal Air Force but his mother's family had a seafaring tradition and he became a cadet at the Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth.\n\nWhile there he was delegated to escort the two young princesses, Elizabeth and Margaret, while King George VI and Queen Elizabeth toured the college.\n\nAccording to witnesses, Prince Philip showed off a great deal. But the meeting made a deep impression on the 13-year-old Princess Elizabeth.\n\nPhilip quickly proved himself an outstanding prospect, passing out at the top of his class in January 1940 and seeing military action for the first time in the Indian Ocean.\n\nPhilip (seated) thrived at Gordonstoun where he enjoyed amateur dramatics\n\nHe transferred to the battleship HMS Valiant in the Mediterranean Fleet, where he was mentioned in dispatches for his part in the Battle of Cape Matapan in 1941.\n\nAs the officer in charge of the ship's searchlights, he played a crucial role in this decisive night action.\n\n\"I found another ship and it lit up the middle part of it, whereupon it practically disappeared instantly under a salvo of 15in shells at point-blank range,\" he told BBC Radio 4 in 2014.\n\nBy October 1942, he was one of the youngest first lieutenants in the Royal Navy, serving on board the destroyer HMS Wallace.\n\nThroughout this period, he and the young Princess Elizabeth had been exchanging letters, and he was invited to stay with the Royal Family on a number of occasions.\n\nIt was after one of these visits, over Christmas 1943, that Elizabeth placed a photograph of Philip, in naval uniform, on her dressing table.\n\nTheir relationship developed in peacetime, although there was opposition to it from some courtiers - one of whom described Prince Philip as \"rough and ill-mannered\".\n\nBut the young princess was very much in love and, in the summer of 1946, her suitor asked the King for his daughter's hand in marriage.\n\nHowever, before an engagement could be announced, the prince needed a new nationality and a family name. He renounced his Greek title, became a British citizen and took his mother's anglicised name, Mountbatten.\n\nThe day before the marriage ceremony, King George VI bestowed the title of His Royal Highness on Philip and on the morning of the wedding day he was created Duke of Edinburgh, Earl of Merioneth and Baron Greenwich.\n\nThe wedding took place in Westminster Abbey on 20 November 1947. It was, as Winston Churchill put it, a \"flash of colour\" in a grey post-war Britain.\n\nThe duke returned to his naval career and was posted to Malta where, for a while at least, the couple could live the life of any other service family.\n\nTheir son, Prince Charles, was born at Buckingham Palace in 1948, and a daughter, Princess Anne, arrived in 1950. They were later joined by Prince Andrew (1960) and Prince Edward (1964).\n\nOn 2 September 1950, he achieved the ambition of every naval officer when he was appointed to his own command, the sloop HMS Magpie.\n\nBut his naval career was about to be curtailed. The worsening health of George VI meant his daughter had to take on more royal duties and needed her husband by her side.\n\nHis wedding to Princess Elizabeth was described as \"a flash of colour in a grey post-war Britain\"\n\nPhilip took leave from the Royal Navy in July 1951. He never returned in an active role.\n\nThe duke was not a man to carry regrets, but he did say in later life that he was sorry he had been unable to continue his career in the navy.\n\nContemporaries have said that he could, on his own merit, have risen to become first sea lord.\n\nIn 1952, the royal couple set off on a tour of the Commonwealth originally planned to be undertaken by the King and Queen.\n\nIt was while they were staying at a game lodge in Kenya in February that word came through the King had died. He had suffered a coronary thrombosis - a fatal heart blood clot.\n\nIt fell to the prince to break the news to his wife that she was now Queen.\n\nA friend later described Prince Philip as looking as if \"half the world\" had dropped on him.\n\nPhilip was the first to pay homage to the Queen at her coronation\n\nDeprived of his naval career, he had to create a new role for himself, and Elizabeth's accession to the throne raised the whole question of what that was to be.\n\nAs the coronation approached, a Royal Warrant proclaimed that Prince Philip would have precedence after the Queen on all occasions, yet he was never to have any constitutional position.\n\nThe duke was full of ideas about how best to modernise and streamline the monarchy but became increasingly disillusioned by the entrenched opposition from a number of the palace old guard.\n\nHe channelled some of his energies into an active social life. He and a group of male friends met every week in rooms above a restaurant in Soho, central London.\n\nThere were long, convivial lunches and visits to nightclubs and he was often photographed with glamorous companions.\n\nOne area in which the duke was given free rein to exercise his authority was in the family, although he lost the battle over the name his children would carry.\n\nHe had to adapt to life as a royal consort\n\nThe Queen's decision that the family would carry the name of Windsor, rather than his own family name of Mountbatten, was a bitter blow.\n\n\"I am the only man in the country not allowed to give his name to his children,\" he complained to friends. \"I'm nothing but a bloody amoeba.\"\n\nAs a parent, Prince Philip could appear brusque and insensitive.\n\nAccording to Prince Charles's biographer, Jonathan Dimbleby, Charles was reduced to tears in his youth by public reprimands from his father and the relationship between father and eldest son was never easy.\n\nPhilip insisted that Prince Charles go to his old school, Gordonstoun, in the well-intentioned belief that its regime would help counter his son's somewhat retiring nature.\n\nIn the event the young prince hated the school, where he suffered homesickness and was often the target of bullies.\n\nThe duke's attitudes reflected the difficult nature of his own, sometimes lonely, childhood.\n\nHe was forced from an early age to develop self-reliance and found it difficult to understand that not everyone shared his strength of character.\n\nHis insistence that Prince Charles attend Gordonstoun caused a rift between father and son\n\nOne of Prince Philip's main concerns was for the welfare of young people, and in 1956 that interest sparked the launch of his phenomenally successful Duke of Edinburgh's Award.\n\nOver the years it enabled some six million 15-to-25-year-olds - many with disabilities - the world over to challenge themselves physically, mentally and emotionally in a range of outdoor activities designed to promote teamwork, resourcefulness and a respect for nature.\n\n\"If you can get young people to succeed in any area of activity,\" he told the BBC, \"that sensation of success will spread over into a lot of others.\"\n\nThroughout his life the duke continued to devote much time to the scheme, attending various functions and involving himself in its day-to-day running.\n\nHe was also a passionate advocate for wildlife and the environment, although his decision to shoot a tiger while on a trip to India in 1961 caused a furore.\n\nThe publication of a photograph, in which the tiger was displayed as a trophy, only made matters worse.\n\nHowever, he threw his considerable influence and energy behind the World Wildlife Fund, later to become the World Wide Fund for Nature, and seemed a natural choice as its first president.\n\nThe Duke of Edinburgh threw himself into his conservation efforts with typical energy and enthusiasm\n\n\"I think it's marvellous we have such a fantastic variety of life on this planet, all interdependent,\" he told a BBC interviewer.\n\n\"I think also that if we humans have the power of life or death - or extinction or survival - we ought to exercise it with some sort of moral sense. Why make something extinct if you don't have to?\"\n\nHe upset some conservationists when he defended grouse shooting.\n\n\"If you have a game species, you want it to survive because you want to have some next year - exactly like a farmer. You want to crop it, you don't want to exterminate it.\"\n\nBut he was widely praised for his commitment to preserving the world's forests and campaigning against overfishing in the oceans.\n\nPrince Philip also took a keen interest in industry, visiting factories and becoming patron of the Industrial Society, now known as the Work Foundation.\n\nIt was to a group of industrialists in 1961 that the duke displayed characteristic bluntness when he told them: \"Gentlemen, it's time we pulled our fingers out.\"\n\nHe took a keen interest in British industry\n\nThis tendency to be forthright was interpreted by some as boorishness and sometimes got him into trouble. He certainly gained a reputation for misjudging situations, particularly when he was abroad.\n\nHe made one of his most controversial comments while accompanying the Queen on a state visit to China in 1986. He made what he thought was a private remark about \"slitty eyes\".\n\nThe tabloids went into a frenzy, although it seemed to cause little concern in China.\n\nOn a visit to Australia in 2002, he asked an Aboriginal businessman whether \"you still throw spears at each other\".\n\nWhile he was heavily criticised in some quarters for such remarks, others saw them as reflecting someone who was his own man and who had refused to become bound by political correctness.\n\nIndeed, many saw his so-called \"gaffes\" as nothing more than an attempt to lighten the atmosphere and put people at their ease.\n\nThroughout his life, Prince Philip maintained an enthusiasm for sport. He sailed, played cricket and polo, excelled at carriage driving and was president of the International Equestrian Federation for many years.\n\nHe had a particular passion for polo\n\nThe tensions with his eldest son resurfaced with the publication of Jonathan Dimbleby's biography of Prince Charles.\n\nThe Duke of Edinburgh, it was said, had pushed Charles into his marriage to Lady Diana Spencer.\n\nYet the duke was more solicitous than many critics would allow during the difficult years when his children's marriages were disintegrating.\n\nHe took the lead in attempting to understand the problems, prompted perhaps by his own memories of the difficulties of marrying into the Royal Family.\n\nPrince Philip was greatly saddened by the ending of the marriages of three of his four children - Princess Anne and Prince Andrew, as well as Prince Charles.\n\nBut he always refused to talk about personal matters, telling a newspaper in 1994 that he had not done so before and was not going to start then.\n\nAdvancing years barely slowed the pace of his life. He continued to travel extensively, both for the World Wide Fund for Nature and with the Queen on state visits abroad.\n\nCarriage driving was one of the duke's many sporting interests\n\nAnd he made a personal pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 1994 to visit the tomb of his mother. Her wish to be buried there had been fulfilled.\n\nThere was another poignant moment for him during the 50th anniversary of VJ Day in 1995.\n\nPrince Philip had been on a British destroyer in Tokyo Bay when the Japanese surrendered and, on the anniversary, he joined other veterans of the Far East campaign in marching past the Queen on The Mall.\n\nHe also expressed sympathy for those former prisoners of the Japanese who had found it hard, or indeed impossible, to forgive what had been done to them.\n\nHis brusqueness mellowed a little in later years, prompted by the public's sometimes hostile attitude to the Royal Family after the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.\n\nHe was a source of great support to Diana, Princess of Wales\n\nIn 2007, letters between the duke and the princess were published in an attempt to refute claims that he had been hostile to his daughter-in-law.\n\nDubbed the Dearest Pa letters, they showed he had been a source of great support to Diana, a fact underlined by the warm tones in which she wrote to him.\n\nMohamed Al Fayed, the father of Diana's last companion, Dodi, even suggested at the inquest into her death that she had been murdered on Prince Philip's orders - an allegation the coroner strongly rejected.\n\nPrince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, was a strong-willed and independent man who found himself at the centre of British society.\n\nHe was a natural leader whose role forced him always to take second place; a man with a combative temperament that frequently sat uneasily with the sensitivities of his position.\n\n\"I've just done what I think was my best,\" he once told the BBC. \"I can't suddenly change my whole way of doing things, I can't change my interests or the way I react to things. That's just my style.\"\n\nThe Queen referred to him as her 'strength and stay'\n\nThe duke retired from public life in August 2017 after decades supporting the Queen and attending events for his own charities and organisations.\n\nBuckingham Palace calculated he had completed 22,219 solo engagements since 1952, and Theresa May, the then prime minister, thanked him for a \"remarkable life of public service\".\n\nPhilip celebrated his 70th wedding anniversary later that year.\n\nA hip replacement operation did not stop him driving his carriages around the grounds of Windsor Castle, and he survived a serious car accident while driving near Sandringham in January 2019.\n\nTwo women in the other car were injured, and the duke voluntarily surrendered his driver's licence.\n\nDuring the coronavirus pandemic, Philip and the Queen moved to Windsor Castle, and were given a vaccine in January 2021.\n\nPhilip was successful in using his position to make a huge contribution to British life and played his part in helping the monarchy come to terms with changing social attitudes over the years.\n\nBut his greatest achievement was undoubtedly the constancy and strength of his support for the Queen in the long years of her reign.\n\nHe believed his job was, as he told his biographer, \"to ensure the Queen can reign\".\n\nAt a speech given at a celebration to mark the couple's golden wedding anniversary, the Queen paid tribute to her husband, the longest-serving royal consort in British history.\n\n\"He is someone who doesn't take easily to compliments, but he has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years. And I, and his whole family, and this and many other countries, owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim or we shall ever know.\"", "US rapper and actor DMX has died at the age of 50, five days after suffering a heart attack.\n\nThe performer, whose real name was Earl Simmons, had been placed on life support and died with his family by his side.\n\nIn a statement, his family said he was \"a warrior who fought till the very end\".\n\n\"Earl's music inspired countless fans across the world and his iconic legacy will live on forever,\" they said.\n\nDMX, aka Dark Man X, was a leading hip-hop performer who collaborated with such artists as JAY-Z, Ja Rule and LL Cool J.\n\nHe took his moniker from the name of a drum machine used in rap tracks.\n\nThe chart-topping artist's songs included Party Up (Up in Here) and X Gon' Give It To Ya.\n\nHe also acted on screen, appearing in such films as Cradle 2 the Grave, Romeo Must Die and Exit Wounds.\n\nThe rapper was remembered as a man who \"loved his family with all of his heart\"\n\nBorn in Mount Vernon, New York in 1970, DMX publicly battled substance abuse for years and spent several periods in rehab.\n\nA father of 15, he served jail sentences on charges including animal cruelty, reckless driving, drug possession and weapons possession.\n\nAccording to his family, DMX died on Friday at White Plains Hospital in White Plains, New York.\n\n\"He loved his family with all of his heart and we cherish the times we spent with him,\" their statement continued.\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\"We appreciate all of the love and support during this incredibly difficult time.\n\n\"Please respect our privacy as we grieve the loss of our brother, father, uncle and the man the world knew as DMX.\"\n\nHis manager Steve Rifkind also paid his respects, writing on Instagram: \"The team is going to finish what we started and your legacy will never go away.\n\nTributes were paid throughout Friday, with a host of stars expressing their admiration for the musician and offering sympathies to his family.\n\n\"His gift meant so much to so many,\" tweeted actress Halle Berry.\n\nRappers Ice Cube, Soulja Boy and Chance the Rapper also tweeted their condolences.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOther musicians, including Burna Boy, Chance the Rapper and Charlie Puth, also shared tributes to the artist, along with basketball stars LeBron James and Shaquille O'Neal.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 LeBron James This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCongressman Jamaal Bowman, who represents the rapper's home town in New York, tweeted that he was \"sending love, strength, and healing to DMX's family\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Dyfed-Powys Police urged people not to take part in \"tombstoning\" following the rescue\n\nA 23-year-old man has been pulled unconscious from the sea after jumping off a cliff into the water, police say.\n\nDyfed-Powys Police urged people not to take part in \"tombstoning\" following the rescue in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, on Saturday evening.\n\nIt said it was called to the beach opposite St Catherine's Island at about 18:15 BST.\n\nThe man was not breathing but was given CPR and regained consciousness, it said.\n\nInsp Gavin Howells said: \"This incident highlights the serious danger posed by tombstoning or cliff jumping, and the potentially life-threatening consequences.\n\n\"We urge people not to take part in this sort of activity anywhere along our coastline, and not to put themselves or the emergency services at risk for a thrill.\"\n\nHe thanked the RNLI for their swift response, adding their actions \"most likely saved this man's life\".\n\nTenby RNLI said its inshore lifeboat was launched and when its volunteer crew arrived the man had been pulled from the water and was on the rocks.\n\nThe coastguard said it also attended and the man was taken to Morriston Hospital in Swansea by road ambulance.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAbout 300 people have taken part in a protest in Cardiff, calling for gyms to be able to reopen sooner.\n\nThe reopening date has already been changed from 10 May to 3 May, but protesters want them to open on Monday.\n\nThey said Wales faced a \"wave\" of problems with mental health and obesity as a result of gyms and leisure centres being shut.\n\nThe Welsh government has said throughout the pandemic that it follows scientific advice on easing lockdown.\n\nA drop in Covid cases prompted the changes, the Welsh government said.\n\nOpposition parties welcomed the reopening of gyms being brought forward to 3 May, but the Welsh Conservatives and Plaid Cymru called for gyms to be reopened even sooner.\n\nThe Welsh Liberal Democrats said it was important that people kept sticking to the rules.\n\nAbout 300 people attended a protest in Cardiff on Saturday calling for gyms to reopen on 12 April\n\nStephen Cull, who owns Mean Muscle Gym, said: \"We've had enough now. The goal is to try and overturn the government's decision and get gyms deemed an essential business.\n\n\"A lot of people are struggling mentally, a lot of people have gained weight unnecessarily.\"\n\nJess Baker added: \"There's a lot of things opening up now that we see aren't as important as gyms.\n\n\"They're monitored, they're ventilated, everything's clean... I don't see a reason that we can't be open now.\"\n\nGym owners had criticised the Welsh government's decision to delay the reopening of gyms during the latest lockdown roadmap announcement.\n\nCampaigners have said excess weight was one of the few preventable risk factors for Covid-19, and want people to be able to visit leisure centres and gyms from 12 April, when non-essential retail and beauty salons can open.\n\nThe protesters say excess weight is one of the few preventable risk factors for Covid-19\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Adam Price said: \"Plaid Cymru has been pressing the case for gyms to reopen as quickly and as safely as is possible because they are crucial for people's mental health and well-being. This new date, whilst welcome, is still not early enough.\"\n\nAndrew RT Davies, the Senedd leader of the Welsh Conservatives, said: \"Pressure from the public and Welsh Conservatives have forced Labour ministers to act, but there is still more they can do in accelerating the roadmap with the safe resumption of activities such as outdoor hospitality and gyms.\"\n\nJane Dodds, leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats, said: \"Gyms and fitness centres play an important part in both the physical and mental health of so many people across Wales. Everyone who has abided by the rules has played a part in bringing this announcement forward.\"\n\nCampaigners argue that gyms are essential to stay healthy\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Twelve months later, the prince had appeared to be in good health when he accompanied the Queen on the royal barge, the Spirit of Chartwell, which formed part of the rain-drenched Diamond Jubilee river pageant on 3 June 2012. He and the Queen stood for most of the 80-minute journey, as they were accompanied by 1,000 boats travelling seven miles down the River Thames to Tower Bridge. However, the duke was admitted to hospital with a bladder infection before the Diamond Jubilee concert on 4 June.", "Buckingham Palace announced the death of Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth II's husband, at Windsor Castle on Friday.\n\nThe duke, aged 99, was the longest-serving consort in British history.\n\nHe had returned to Windsor Castle on 16 March after spending a month in hospital.\n\nHere are pictures from the day of the announcement.\n\nIn a statement shortly after midday, the palace said: \"His Royal Highness passed away peacefully this morning at Windsor Castle.\"\n\nA notice was posted on the gates of Buckingham Palace following the announcement.\n\nThe flag at Buckingham Palace was lowered to half-mast.\n\nPeople placed flowers outside the palace with messages of condolence.\n\nThe government urged the public not to gather or leave tributes at royal residences amid the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe Royal Family has asked people to consider making a donation to a charity instead of leaving flowers in memory of the duke.\n\nAn online book of condolence has been launched on the official Royal Family website for those who wish to send messages.\n\nIn further tribute to the duke, Westminster Abbey rang its tenor bell once every 60 seconds, 99 times, from 18:00 BST on Friday evening.\n\nFlowers were also placed outside Windsor Castle, where the duke spent his last weeks after being discharged from hospital.\n\nIn Edinburgh, the flag at the Palace of Holyroodhouse was lowered to half-mast, as flowers began to be placed outside.\n\nA notice announcing the death of Prince Philip was attached to the gates.\n\nRacegoers and riders observed a two-minute silence for Prince Philip at Aintree Racecourse in Liverpool.\n\nPlayers and staff at Lord's Cricket Ground in London also held a two-minute silence, with flags lowered to half-mast.\n\nIn London, a tribute was displayed on the screen at Piccadilly Circus.\n\nThe palace said further announcements would be made \"in due course\".\n\nAll pictures are subject to copyright.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PM Boris Johnson: \"We remember the duke... above all for his steadfast support for Her Majesty the Queen\"\n\nPoliticians across the UK were united in mourning after the announcement of the Duke of Edinburgh's death, aged 99.\n\nBoris Johnson led the tributes from the steps of Downing Street, praising Prince Philip's \"extraordinary life\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the UK had \"lost an extraordinary public servant\", while Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon sent her condolences to the Royal Family.\n\nParties have suspended their election campaigning as a mark of respect.\n\nElections are due to take place for the Scottish and Welsh parliaments, English councils, city mayors and police and crime commissioners on Thursday, 6 May.\n\nEarlier, cabinet ministers met to pay tribute to the duke, who had known 16 prime ministers during his time by the Queen's side.\n\nA statement released after the virtual meeting said they had \"shared recollections of meeting Prince Philip and praised his work, including as an environmentalist and for the Duke of Edinburgh's Award\".\n\nParliament will return a day early from recess on Monday so MPs can share their condolences in the Commons - led by the prime minister and Sir Keir.\n\nPeers - who were due to return to the House of Lords on Monday - will also start their proceedings with a humble address of condolence to the Queen.\n\nThe Scottish Parliament, the Northern Ireland Assembly and the Welsh Senedd will also be recalled on Monday for tributes.\n\nThe Speaker of the House of Commons, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, told the BBC Prince Philip was a \"magnificent man\" and an \"institution\".\n\nIn a statement, he added: \"Today we must pause to honour him and to offer our sincerest thanks for the prince's devout faithfulness to our country - and all the nations shall miss him greatly.\"\n\nThe death of Prince Philip, who was married to the Queen for more than 70 years, was announced by Buckingham Palace on Friday.\n\nThe statement said he had \"passed away peacefully this morning at Windsor Castle\".\n\nThe government has issued guidance for all official flags on all UK government buildings, including the union jack, to be flown at half-mast in tribute to the duke until 08:00 BST on the day following his funeral.\n\nGiving a speech outside No 10, Mr Johnson said the duke had \"earned the affection of generations here in the United Kingdom, across the Commonwealth and around the world\".\n\nThe prime minister praised Prince Philip's service and \"bravery\" in World War Two, as well as his contributions after - from being a \"champion of the natural world\" through to having \"shaped and inspired the lives of countless young people\" through the Duke of Edinburgh award.\n\n\"We remember the duke for all of this and above all for his steadfast support for Her Majesty the Queen,\" he added.\n\n\"We offer our condolences to her and to all her family and we give thanks, as a nation and a kingdom, for the extraordinary life and work of Prince Philip.\"\n\nThe union jack flying over the Houses of Parliament was lowered to half-mast on Friday as a mark of respect\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the Duke of Edinburgh had \"dedicated his life to our country\", but he would be \"remembered most of all for his extraordinary commitment and devotion to the Queen\".\n\nIn a statement, Sir Keir said it had been \"a partnership that inspired millions in Britain and beyond\".\n\nHe added: \"Their marriage has been a symbol of strength, stability and hope, even as the world around them changed - most recently during the pandemic.\n\n\"My thoughts are with the Queen, the Royal Family and the British people as our nation comes together to mourn and remember the life of Prince Philip.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer: \"The UK has lost an extraordinary public servant in Prince Philip\"\n\nOther political leaders also paid their respects to the duke - including the SNP's Nicola Sturgeon, who said she was \"saddened by the news\".\n\nShe added: \"I send my personal and deepest condolences - and those of [the Scottish government] and the people of Scotland - to Her Majesty the Queen and her family.\"\n\nNorthern Ireland's First Minister Arlene Foster offered her \"deepest sympathies\" to the Royal Family, while Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill extended her \"sincere condolences\".\n\nWelsh First Minister Mark Drakeford said Prince Philip had \"served the crown with selfless devotion and will be sorely missed by the people of Wales and the many organisations he supported\".\n\nThe leader of the Liberal Democrats, Sir Ed Davey, said the duke was \"a much-loved husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather\", adding: \"We will always be grateful for his amazing service.\"\n\nFormer leaders also expressed their sadness at the death of the Duke of Edinburgh.\n\nTheresa May, who stood down as prime minister in 2019, said her \"thoughts and prayers\" were with the Queen and her family.\n\nShe told the BBC that Prince Philip had \"a dry sense of humour\" and was \"a man of so many different interests\", adding: \"I will remember him... as somebody who put those talents to the committed and selfless service of the Queen and her country.\"\n\nHer predecessor and fellow Conservative, David Cameron, called it \"desperately sad news\", adding: \"It was an honour and a privilege as prime minister to see up close what a powerful advocate the duke was for the causes he believed in.\"\n\nPrince Philip met many prime ministers in his time - pictured here with David Cameron and Theresa May in 2014\n\nFormer Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown said he was \"personally fortunate to benefit from the duke's wisdom on many occasions\", adding that his \"commitment to the United Kingdom and to the Commonwealth will never be forgotten\".\n\nAnd his predecessor in No 10, former Labour PM Tony Blair, said Prince Philip was \"a man of foresight, determination and courage\" who was \"often way ahead of his time\", on issues such as the environment and \"reconciliation between religious faiths\".\n\nFormer Conservative PM Sir John Major also released a statement, saying: \"Modest to the core, and hating any kind of fuss or bother, [Prince Philip] epitomised the British spirit and remained true to himself right up to the very end.\"", "Protests have been going on in Bago, as in other cities, for more than two months\n\nMore than 80 people have been killed by Myanmar security forces in a crackdown on a protest in the city of Bago, activists say.\n\nThe military is reported to have taken away the bodies of those killed, and the true number of deaths may never be accurately established.\n\nWitnesses told local media that soldiers had used heavy weapons and had shot at anything that moved.\n\nMore than 600 people have been killed since the 1 February military coup.\n\nThe military has resorted to increasing levels of violence to maintain its grip on power.\n\nThe latest killings in Bago, near the main city of Yangon, are reported to have happened on Friday but took a whole day to emerge as many residents were forced to flee to nearby villages.\n\nMonitoring group the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) said the actual number of deaths was likely to be much higher.\n\nThe Myanmar Now news outlet quoted protest organiser Ye Htut as saying: \"It is like genocide. They are shooting at every shadow.\"\n\nMass protests have been taking place across Myanmar, also known as Burma, since the military seized control of the South East Asian country and declared a year-long state of emergency.\n\nThe armed forces claim there had been widespread fraud during a general election late last year which had returned elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy (NLD) party to power. The election commission has dismissed this.\n\nOn Friday ousted MPs and Myanmar's UN ambassador called on UN Security Council members to take action against the military, including extending sanctions and imposing an arms embargo and no-fly zone.\n\nThe UN meeting was also warned that Myanmar was \"on the brink of state failure\".\n\nInternational Crisis Group senior adviser Richard Horsey said the military's actions were creating a situation where the country could become ungovernable.", "Nikolai Glushkov was granted political asylum in the UK in 2010\n\nA Russian exile was strangled in his own home by a third party, a coroner has ruled.\n\nBusinessman Nikolai Glushkov, who was critical of Russian President Vladimir Putin, was found dead in New Malden in south-west London in March 2018.\n\nWest London Coroner's Court heard there was evidence to suggest his death was made to look like a suicide and there had been \"third-party involvement\".\n\nMr Glushkov fled Russia after being accused of fraud during his time as deputy director of the Aeroflot airline, and was granted political asylum in the UK in 2010.\n\nIn 2017, during a trial in absentia, he was sentenced to eight years by a Russian court after being convicted of stealing £87m from the airline.\n\nMr Glushkov, 68, had been due to attend the Commercial Court in London to defend himself on 12 March, the day his body was discovered by his daughter, Natalia.\n\nHis death came a week after the Novichok poisoning in Salisbury of the Russian former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia.\n\nParamedic Dominic Biel told the inquest the scene of Mr Glushkov's death was \"suspicious\" and recalled how his partner Denis Trushin said: \"Don't touch anything until the police come here - someone's killed him.\"\n\nA pathology report summarised to the court said the injuries \"could be consistent with a neck-hold, applied from behind, and the assailant being behind the victim\".\n\nIt added: \"There is a lack of injuries to suggest prolonged grappling or restraint with the third party, and a lack of injuries of a defensive nature to the upper limbs.\"\n\nRecording his verdict, the coroner said: \"From all the documentation, all the evidence gathered, Nikolai Glushkov died from an unlawful killing.\"\n\nDetectives are renewing an appeal for witnesses who were in the New Malden area on 11 and 12 March 2018\n\nThe inquest coincided with a renewed appeal by the Met Police's counter-terrorism unit for more information about the death.\n\nCommander Richard Smith said over 1,800 witnesses had been contacted and more than 420 statements taken.\n\nNo arrests have been made and a motive is yet to be established, the Met said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage captured on the night before Mr Glushkov's body was found\n\nMr Glushkov was a close friend of oligarch Boris Berezovsky, a vocal critic of Mr Putin, who was found hanged at his Berkshire home in 2013.\n\nAn inquest into Mr Berezovsky's death recorded an open verdict.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Coronavirus cases are down to less than a sixth of the January peak, according to data from the Office for National Statistics.\n\nThe ONS said infections were \"likely level\" in England and Northern Ireland in the week up to 3 April, but decreasing in Scotland and Wales.\n\nOverall just under 0.3% of the population - one in 350 people - tested positive.\n\nThe R number for England is now estimated to be between 0.8-1.\n\nOn Friday, the UK reported the largest number of second vaccine doses in a single day at 449,269 - with 96,242 first doses also administered.\n\nThere were a further 3,150 confirmed cases in the past 24 hours, and another 60 deaths within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nThe government's scientific advisers, Sage, said they were not producing a UK-wide estimate of R because of the \"increasingly localised approaches\" meant UK-level estimates \"may not accurately reflect the current picture of the epidemic\".\n\nThe ONS suggests that in England, about one person in 340 tested positive in the week to 3 April.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, it was one in 300, in Scotland one in 410 and in Wales one in 800.\n\nAcross the UK as a whole, the study suggests that levels are similar to those seen in late September last year.\n\nThe REACT study, which also swabs people selected at random, suggested earlier this week that infections were levelling off, but suggested that the vaccination program is breaking the link between Covid-19 cases and deaths.\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average:\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection are required to view this interactive. How many cases and deaths in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock met former PM David Cameron and financier Lex Greensill for a \"private drink\" in 2019 to discuss a new payment scheme for the NHS, it has been revealed.\n\nIt is the latest in a series of Sunday Times disclosures about Mr Cameron's lobbying work since leaving office.\n\nMr Greensill advised Mr Cameron's government, and the ex-PM went on to be employed by Greensill Capital.\n\nAn ally of Mr Hancock said he had \"acted in entirely the correct way\".\n\nThey told the BBC that Mr Hancock had \"updated officials on the business that was discussed, as is appropriate\".\n\nGreensill Capital's scheme, which allowed staff to be paid early for hours they had already worked, went on to be used by some NHS trusts.\n\nThe development is the latest to be published by the Sunday Times detailing Mr Cameron's work for Greensill Capital after he left politics.\n\nMr Hancock is the fourth minister to have been lobbied by Mr Cameron on behalf of the company, which recently collapsed costing 440 jobs.\n\nMr Greensill worked as an unpaid adviser to Mr Cameron when he was prime minister.\n\nThe financier developed a policy designed to help small businesses get their bills paid faster, as part of a scheme that also benefited his own financial company, Greensill Capital.\n\nMr Cameron began working for Greensill Capital after leaving office, and tried unsuccessfully to lobby the government to increase the firm's access to government-backed loans during the first phase of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMr Cameron pressed Treasury officials - and sent text messages to Chancellor Rishi Sunak's personal phone - to access emergency funding for Greensill Capital.\n\nThe former Tory leader - who was PM between 2010 and 2016 - is reported to have told friends he was set to earn as much as £60m from share options in Greensill Capital, although this has since been disputed.\n\nIn the end, Mr Cameron's pleas to the Treasury for Covid emergency loans for Greensill Capital fell on deaf ears.\n\nThe \"private drink\" between Mr Hancock, Mr Cameron and Mr Greensill took place in October 2019.\n\nIn August 2019, Mr Greensill wrote to Mr Hancock to set out a proposal to allow the NHS access to an app Greensill Capital had devised, called Earnd, to pay doctors and nurses either daily or weekly in advance and free-of-charge to workers.\n\nHaving received the letter, the health secretary commissioned advice from civil servants to explore the idea.\n\nThe advice was that the \"principle\" of the idea was \"good,\" but sources insisted he wanted other suppliers to be able to offer the same work and it would be up to local NHS managers to decide whether to sign up to it.\n\nSome NHS trusts went on to use Greensill Capital's Earnd app during the pandemic.\n\nThis is the latest illustration of the web of connections between a former prime minister, a businessman and government ministers.\n\nRemember, Lex Greensill worked in Downing Street when David Cameron was PM.\n\nAnd then their relationship reversed when Mr Cameron left office: he went to work for Mr Greensill.\n\nIndividuals, businesses, charities and trade unions seek to influence the government all the time.\n\nBut how many people get to have a private drink with the health secretary?\n\nNeither Mr Cameron nor Mr Greensill have spoken publicly since headlines about the two of them started to appear several weeks ago now.\n\nIn the last few days, those close to them have begun to talk.\n\nWill Mr Cameron eventually feel compelled to face a camera and address the many questions he now faces?\n\nA source close to Mr Greensill said the scheme was offered free to both the NHS and its employees, while a source close to Mr Cameron said: \"David Cameron was an enthusiastic champion of Greensill's pay product, Earnd, and met with various people to discuss its rollout across the NHS.\"\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesman said: \"The wellbeing of NHS staff is the top priority of the department and health secretary.\n\n\"Our approach was and is that local NHS employers are best placed to decide how different pay flexibilities fit with their overall pay and reward offer for their staff.\"\n\nLabour's Bridget Phillipson said \"every day brings fresh revelations about the culture of cronyism\" in government and called for a \"full and thorough investigation into what happened\".\n\nThere has been no comment from Mr Cameron or from Mr Greensill.", "In a marriage that lasted more than seven decades, Prince Philip was the Queen's support in public at significant national moments - and in private the person who knew her best.\n\nAs one private secretary once put it: \"Prince Philip is the only man in the world who treats the Queen simply as another human being. He's the only man who can.\"\n\nIt was a marriage based on love. They chose one another.\n\nAlthough it wasn't the first time their paths had crossed, the photographs from their meeting at Dartmouth Naval College in 1939 reveal the beginning of their life together.\n\nHe was the dashing 18-year-old cadet who caught 13-year-old Princess Elizabeth's eye, larking about playing croquet and tennis.\n\nWhat started as a teenage crush developed over the years into friendship with letters exchanged and occasional visits during the war years. While he was away serving with the Royal Navy, the young princess kept a picture of him in her room.\n\nPrincess Elizabeth (third from left) was photographed with her parents at the chapel at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth in July 1939 along with naval cadet Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark (standing second from right)\n\nHis childhood had been nomadic - born a prince of Greece but then exiled, he found himself bounced around Europe, the royal equivalent of sofa-surfing.\n\nHe had to be fiercely independent, a self-starter and emotionally strong. She had grown up largely behind palace walls, sheltered from the real world. Her character was reserved, shy and thoughtful. They complemented each other.\n\nTheir grandson Prince William would later sum up their connection, saying: \"He makes her laugh because some of the things he says and does and the way he looks at life is obviously slightly different than her, so together they're a great couple.\"\n\nAlthough he had made his intentions known a year earlier, it wasn't until 1947, after Elizabeth's 21st birthday, that the public announcement of their engagement was made.\n\nPrince Philip helped to design the platinum and diamond engagement ring using stones from a tiara belonging to his mother, Princess Alice of Greece.\n\nShortly before their wedding, Prince Philip wrote to the Queen Mother saying he had \"fallen in love completely and unreservedly\".\n\nThe royal couple at Buckingham Palace after their wedding\n\nThe couple were married in front of 2,000 guests in Westminster Abbey. Just two years after the end of World War Two and with the country still reeling from the conflict, their wedding was a rare moment of celebration, Winston Churchill calling it \"a flash of colour on the hard road we travel\".\n\nThe following year, their eldest son Charles was born, and then their daughter Anne. Prince Philip was progressing rapidly through the ranks of the navy and the young family spent time living in Malta while he served on HMS Chequers.\n\nThey were able to live a relatively normal life and film footage from the time shows a young couple, relaxed in each other's company, enjoying life in a warm climate away from palaces and duty.\n\nAll that was to change on 6 February 1952, with the premature death of King George VI. Queen Elizabeth was just 25 years old and Prince Philip aged 30. They always knew the princess was destined to become Queen but had expected a few more years to live their own lives.\n\nFor the duke, her accession meant giving up any ambitions he might have had within the Royal Navy. For a man used to commanding ships, to suddenly be relegated to a supporting role cannot have been easy.\n\nAnd let's not forget this was the 1950s when it was extremely rare for a husband to be outranked by his wife. For the Queen, also a young mother, the role she was born to fulfil had to come first.\n\nIf their relationship suffered due to the shifting of their positions, it did so behind closed doors.\n\nPrince Philip took some time to define his role as his wife's consort - often battling courtiers in the process.\n\nIn 1956, he spent four months travelling around distant Commonwealth nations which led some to question his commitment to his wife. But once the pair had settled into a rhythm, the pattern was set for the decades to come.\n\nWith President John F Kennedy and his wife Jackie at Buckingham Palace\n\nThe duke enabled the Queen to perform her role as head of state while he took on the role of head of the family. To the outside world she was the boss - in private the roles were reversed. Prince Philip was in charge of the barbecue while she did the washing up - as seen in the 1960s documentary about the Royal Family.\n\nHe would accompany her at big national moments - state visits, the state opening of Parliament, Remembrance events, anniversaries and thanksgiving services. Watch the footage - you will often a see a little glance between them, a small smile. Private moments in the most public of forums.\n\nThe duke would often be the one at engagements chatting animatedly to crowds or guests, paving the way or breaking the ice for the Queen's arrival. It was a double act which worked.\n\nBut the relationship also worked because they spent time apart. As the duke himself once said: \"It's the secret of a happy marriage to have different interests.\"\n\nThe annual Trooping the Colour parade in 2009\n\nThe Queen famously loves dogs and horses and spends a considerable amount of her free time keeping up with her race trainers and breeders. Prince Philip was a prolific sportsman throughout his life, took a keen interest in the running of the family estates and, in his later years, could often be seen carriage riding around Windsor Great Park or Sandringham.\n\nIn 2012, Prince Harry said: \"Regardless of whether my grandfather seems to be doing his own thing, sort of wandering off like a fish down the river - the fact that he's there, personally, I don't think she could do it without him.\"\n\nFinally deciding he had \"done his bit\" after years of service, Prince Philip retired from public life in 2017. It meant we became used to seeing the Queen either on her own, or supported by another member of the family when carrying out her official duties. Up until March 2020, the duke could most usually be found in Wood Farm on the Sandringham estate in Norfolk.\n\nHe was a man who famously did not like a fuss, and after years of having to get dressed up, make small talk and shake hands, there's little doubt he enjoyed the time simply reading, writing and painting. The downside being that the Queen's role necessitated she stay largely in London and Windsor. No doubt they were in touch regularly, but physically, they were separated.\n\nHowever, when the Covid-19 pandemic hit, it was decided the two of them should shield together at Windsor Castle looked after by a small, dedicated staff which became known as HMS Bubble.\n\nFrom March 2020, in the final months of their marriage, because of the pandemic they spent more time together than they otherwise might have done. Within the confines of the castle, they would have had endless hours to reflect on the extraordinary things they had seen and experienced together.\n\nFor more than 70 years they have been the one constant in each other's lives and the Queen will feel Prince Philip's loss deeply and profoundly.\n\nNever showy or openly demonstrative - theirs will be remembered as an enduring royal love story.\n• None An extraordinary man who led an extraordinary life", "The movie Ma Rainey's Black Bottom has won two prizes on the first night of the Bafta Film Awards, which are being split over two days for the first time.\n\nMany of the technical prizes were handed out on Saturday, with the main awards still to be presented on Sunday.\n\nRiz Ahmed, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Vanessa Kirby and Daniel Kaluuya are among the stars up for acting awards.\n\nBoth halves of the ceremony are being presented from the Royal Albert Hall, but winners are appearing virtually.\n\nMa Rainey's Black Bottom stars Viola Davis and the late Chadwick Boseman as members of a 1920s blues band.\n\nMany of the young stars of Rocks, which won best casting, had not acted before\n\nOther winners included Rocks, a low-budget British film starring a group of teenage girls, many of whom had not acted before; Christopher Nolan's time-bending thriller Tenet; and Mank, in which Gary Oldman plays Citizen Kane screenwriter Herman J Mankiewicz.\n\nThe winners from the first night were:\n\nNoel Clarke - the Kidulthood, Bulletproof and Doctor Who actor - was also presented with the outstanding British contribution to cinema award.\n\nHe dedicated it to \"my young black boys and girls out there that never believed it could happen to them\".\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge had been due to appear in a pre-recorded segment, but pulled out following the death of his grandfather, the Duke of Edinburgh. Host Clara Amfo paid tribute to Prince Philip, who was Bafta's first president from 1959-66.\n\nOn Sunday, prizes including best film, director, screenplay and animated feature will be handed out, as well as the acting awards.\n\nThis year's shortlists include a diverse line-up of talent, following an outcry last year when voters only nominated white actors.\n\nThis time, 16 of the 24 acting contenders come from minority ethnic backgrounds.\n\nTwo films lead the overall field with seven nominations each - Rocks and Nomadland, which stars Frances McDormand as a US woman living a nomadic life in a van after the financial crash.\n\nWhile the nominees will all appear remotely on Sunday, stars including Hugh Grant, Tom Hiddleston, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, and Phoebe Dynevor will be at the London venue to announce the winners.\n\nThey will be joined by fellow award presenters Chiwetel Ejiofor, Cynthia Erivo, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Richard E Grant, Felicity Jones, Asim Chaudhry, James McAvoy, David Oyelowo, Pedro Pascal and Jonathan Pryce.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Mauritanian star Tahar Rahim is nominated for best actor\n\nRose Byrne, Andra Day, Anna Kendrick and Renee Zellweger will announce some winners from Los Angeles.\n\nSunday's ceremony will be hosted by Edith Bowman and Dermot O'Leary, and will be broadcast on BBC One from 19.00-21.00 BST.\n\nDermot O'Leary and Edith Bowman will host Sunday's leg of the ceremony\n\nFollowing the lack of diversity last year, a seven-month review led Bafta to introduce more than 120 changes to its voting, membership and campaigning processes.\n\nThey included 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\nThis year's Baftas were delayed by two months because of the pandemic, and come two weeks before the awards season reaches its climax with the Oscars.\n\nUnlike the Baftas, the Oscars organisers want nominees to appear in person, and will have a London venue for the first time for UK-based contenders.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Friends Nathan (left) and James were often in trouble with police before they signed up to do their bronze award\n\nWhat does the Duke of Edinburgh's Award mean to you? For many it will conjure memories of hauling a badly-packed rucksack across rainy British countryside in the hope of adding some sparkle to their CV. Yet for some of the millions of young people who have taken on the self-improvement challenge, it has brought truly life-changing opportunities.\n\nWithout the award, James says he'd \"probably be in jail\". At the age of 15, James and his friend Nathan, then 16, had had more run-ins with the police than they care to remember. As bored mates growing up in Darlington, north-east England, they felt they had \"nothing else to do\" but to cause mischief.\n\nIllegally riding motorbikes for a bit of fun in their early teenage years turned into a succession of petty crimes - theft, anti-social behaviour, criminal damage. James describes his behaviour as \"causing mayhem\". Nathan adds: \"Wherever I was, I was causing trouble.\"\n\nAfter being caught for separate offences, in 2018 the friends were both ordered to do hours of community service, or \"reparations\". The stint the pair enjoyed the most was being taught how to fix bikes by youth offending officer Dave Kirton, for a community project.\n\nDave, who is also a Duke of Edinburgh leader, arranged with those on the reparations panel to strike a deal with the boys: if they did their Duke of Edinburgh Bronze Award, they'd get five hours taken off their community service orders.\n\n\"It was a little bit of a reward, a carrot incentive,\" Dave says. \"Both the lads were a bit reluctant at first, but they agreed and two or three weeks in they realised the opportunity they had - and they got stuck right into it.\"\n\nIt takes about six months for most participants to complete the four sections of the bronze award: volunteering, a physical challenge, developing a skill and taking part in an expedition, which usually consists of two days of walking and a night of camping. The silver and gold awards are more challenging and take longer to complete.\n\nPrince Philip, pictured at a gold award presentation in 2017, believed the awards showed young people \"what can be achieved through determination and persistence\"\n\nJames says the commitment needed for his bronze award - the first of three achievement levels - forced a change in his behaviour: \"It just stopped me being naughty.\" Nathan says learning expedition skills such as navigation made him realise how quick he was at picking up new things.\n\n\"There's potential that you don't know you've got until you actually try it,\" he says.\n\nNathan's realisation is exactly the kind of boost Prince Philip wanted to give young people when he first established the Duke of Edinburgh's Award for Boys in 1956. The idea, as expressed by the duke himself, was simple: \"If you can get a young person to succeed in any one activity, then that feeling of success will spread over into many others.\"\n\nThe roots of this idea lay in the self-reliance that helped Philip through his sometimes troubled childhood, and the experience of his time at school. Gordonstoun, the school both Prince Philip and Prince Charles attended, had a tough physical regime with an emphasis on self-development - as depicted in the Netflix series The Crown.\n\nGordonstoun schoolboys on an obstacle course in 1956 - the same year the Duke of Edinburgh set up his award programme\n\nIn the beginning the duke's award was confined to boys, with 7,000 signing up in the first year. Girls were allowed to take part from 1958, but to begin with their programme had more emphasis on domestic skills and community service.\n\nThe programme was made the same for girls and boys in 1980 - a move towards equality that helped one girl to overcome part of her traumatic childhood.\n\nLauren (not her real name), was abused by her parents as a child. She says they used to dangle her from a balcony - an abusive pastime that left her terrified of heights.\n\nDuring Lauren's bronze award expedition in 2018, when she was 14, she was given the opportunity to take part in a high ropes course as an extra activity. \"I had a friend there that I'd met, and they were egging me on,\" she says. \"I finally did it and I felt so relieved.\"\n\nThat day on the high ropes, Lauren's fear of heights disappeared. \"I can do anything now,\" she says.\n\nLauren says the friends she made through the scheme have helped her gain the social skills needed to pursue a future career in social work. She says her aim is to help others who have had difficult childhoods.\n\nThose who complete the gold award get to experience a high of a different kind - being invited to a presentation ceremony at a royal residence. Several are held each year, either at St James's Palace or in Buckingham Palace gardens, in London, at the Palace of Holyroodhouse, in Edinburgh, or at Hillsborough Castle, in County Down.\n\nPrince Philip attended more than 500 of gold award presentations himself - and other Royal Family members stood in if he was absent. He remained a patron of the organisation until his death.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A look at the history of the programme as Prince Philip attends the 500th Gold Award presentation\n\nMohammed Leily says he was \"thrilled\" to meet \"the man himself\" at one of Philip's final presentation events before he retired from royal duties in 2017.\n\n\"He went around and had a chat with each group,\" says Mohammed, who is still in touch with the friends he made through the programme. \"I remember he told us to make sure we are as active as we could possibly be, and to make sure we made use of our youth now while we have the energy.\"\n\nMohammed arrived to the UK from Syria as a refugee in 2013, aged 17, and decided to sign up for the bronze award as a way of meeting new people and improving his English. He revelled in the opportunity to volunteer for the Red Cross and help other refugees and asylum seekers settle into new homes.\n\nHe credits his gold award with helping him to get a place to study medicine at the University of Southampton - and says he still can't believe he got to meet Prince Philip. \"When I left Syria I would never have imagined I'd do that, or see him.\"\n\nOne of the best things for Mohammed Leily was volunteering for the Red Cross, where he helped other refugees\n\nAs of early 2021, more than 3.1 million Duke of Edinburgh's Awards had been achieved by people like Mohammed, Lauren, James and Nathan. The international arm of the scheme means more than a million people more are currently taking part in programmes in more than 130 countries.\n\nBut if the numbers have grown dramatically, the ideas remain simple. \"One of the perpetual problems about human life is that young people of every generation have to discover for themselves what life is all about,\" the duke said in 2010.\n\n\"These experiences teach more general lessons and serve as a practical demonstration of what can be achieved through determination and persistence.\"\n\nBack in Darlington, those lessons have certainly been learned by James and Nathan. Neither has reoffended since completing their bronze award. \"It makes you happy knowing you're pal's all right and doing well for himself,\" says Nathan. \"And it makes us happy knowing that we've both changed together.\"\n\nDid you take part in the Duke of Edinburgh's Award scheme? Did you meet Prince Philip? 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• None The man who taught Prince Philip to think\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Duke of Edinburgh visited India on a number of occasions, and had a close friendship with the royal family in Jaipur in the state of Rajasthan.\n\nThe Maharaja of Jaipur, His Highness, Sawai Padmanabh Singh, says he is saddened by the passing of the Duke of Edinburgh.\n\n\"This is truly the end of an era,\" he says.\n\nMaharaja Sawai Man Singh II pictured with the Duke of Edinburgh Image caption: Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II pictured with the Duke of Edinburgh\n\n\"The Royal House of Jaipur has been close to the Royal Family of Britain for generations. One of my ancestors, the late Maharaja Sawai Madho Singh II of Jaipur, was among the few princes from India invited to attend the coronation of King Edward VII in 1902,\" he writes.\n\nThe Queen and Prince Philip continued the friendship through the generations and were close to Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II and his third wife Maharani Gayatri Devi - a glamorous royal couple, described as India's answer to John and Jackie Kennedy - visiting them all on their trips to India.\n\n“When Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip made a State visit to India in 1961, they asked to include Jaipur on their itinerary because of their personal equation.”\n\nSo warm was the friendship, Maharani Gayatri Devi sent the duke a box of alfonso mangoes for his birthday every year, those close to the family have said.\n\nThe close ties between the two families extended to the polo ground too: “HRH Prince Philip was a talented polo player, who has played on the Rambagh Polo Ground of Jaipur, just as our family has in England each summer.\"\n\nThe Maharani presented Prince Philip with the trophy when his polo team Windsor Park won the Victoria Cup in 1960 Image caption: The Maharani presented Prince Philip with the trophy when his polo team Windsor Park won the Victoria Cup in 1960", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nTributes were paid across the sporting weekend to Prince Philip, who died on Friday aged 99.\n\nAintree held a two-minute silence before Saturday's Grand National, with jockeys wearing black armbands and flags flown at half-mast.\n\nThere were periods of silence before all Premier League and English Football League matches, and players and officials wore black armbands.\n\nEngland's game against Italy in the Women's Six Nations also saw tributes.\n\nThe English flag was flown at half-mast for Saturday's match at the Stadio Plebiscito in Padua and a two-minute silence was observed.\n\nEngland captain Sarah Hunter said there was \"a lot of emotion\" in the game.\n\n\"The anthem was about more today in respect of the Duke of Edinburgh,\" she said. \"We wanted to go and do the shirt proud for that.\n\n\"We were representing England. It was more than just representing rugby. We were representing a country that is in mourning.\"\n\nThe day's later Women's Six Nations game between Wales and Ireland in Cardiff also held a two-minute silence before kick-off.\n\nFlags were at half-mast at Cardiff Arms Park, where the game was played, and at the neighbouring national Principality Stadium, while the Wales players wore black armbands.\n\nAll clubs in Scotland's four professional divisions observed a minute's silence at the weekend.\n\nA moment of silence was observed before all Cymru Premier and Welsh Premier Women's League matches.\n\nTributes were also paid at rugby league's Challenge Cup matches, while British Rowing athletes wore black ribbons at the European Championships.\n\nBuckingham Palace said the Duke of Edinburgh had \"passed away peacefully\" at Windsor Castle on Friday morning.\n\nTributes were paid to him at a number of football fixtures on Friday, including Fulham's Premier League match against Wolves, England women's friendly in France, Wales women's friendly against Canada, as well as at the Aintree race meeting and during county cricket fixtures.\n\nSporting stars and governing bodies also paid their respects.\n\nPrince Philip was an honorary member of the Jockey Club and a former president of the Marylebone Cricket Club.\n\nHe was Football Association president from 1955-57, and accompanied the Queen to Wembley when England won the World Cup in 1966.\n\nHe also served as president of the Sport and Recreation Alliance for 58 years until 2009, during which time the organisation was known as the Central Council of Physical Recreation.", "\"His energy was astonishing,\" Prince Charles said of his father in his support of the Queen\n\nThe Duke of Edinburgh's children have shared their reflections on their father's life, his \"astonishing achievement\" and his legacy.\n\nThe Prince of Wales told the BBC \"his energy was astonishing in supporting my mama, and doing it for such a long time\".\n\n\"He's always been there as that rock in the Queen's life,\" said the Earl of Wessex.\n\nThe Princess Royal praised the \"double act\" he created with the monarch.\n\nAnd the Duke of York fondly recalled Prince Philip as a father spending time with his family.\n\n\"Like any other family at the time, your parents went out to work during the day but in the evening - just the same as any other family - we would get together, we would sit on the sofa as a group and he would read to us,\" Prince Andrew said.\n\nThe royals were speaking in interviews to mark the Duke of Edinburgh's death as part of a BBC special programme billed as a tribute \"from those who knew him best\".\n\nPrince Charles told the programme: \"I think he'll probably want to be remembered as an individual in his own right.\"\n\nPrincess Anne reflected on the \"incredible challenge\" of moving from a career in the Royal Navy to royal consort\n\nReflecting on his father's difficult upbringing after his family was exiled, he said: \"It can't have been easy and life was uncertain and everyone had to rely on other people to help - and presumably he had to fall back on himself.\"\n\nThis uncertain upbringing left him with the \"extraordinary ability\" to be positive and move on from adversity, said Princess Anne.\n\nPrince Charles spoke of the \"huge value\" his father found in his education at Gordonstoun under its founder Kurt Hahn, an unconventional figure who emphasised self-reliance and risking - and who partly inspired the creation of the Duke of Edinburgh's award.\n\nMoving from a career in the Royal Navy to become royal consort was \"an incredible challenge\", Princess Anne said. \"In the Royal Navy he was in charge of ships, he was making all the decisions. In his next life, he was making very few.\"\n\nBut Prince Andrew, who served in the navy during the Falklands War, said he had never had any discussions with his father about whether he would have stayed on in the service. \"He saw his role as supporting the Queen,\" the prince said.\n\nPrincess Anne spoke of how his appreciation of how he could help the Queen \"always seemed to be present\" and was vital because she succeeded to the throne so young.\n\n\"They needed to be a double act for a lot of that time to allow her to take on that role,\" she said.\n\nPrince Edward recalled a \"lovely moment\" when his mother was able to pay tribute to his father at the 50th anniversary of the Duke of Edinburgh's Award, by giving the organisation a Royal Charter.\n\n\"It probably meant more to my mother anyway. My father is far too modest to be remotely interested in all that sort of thing, he would brush it off,\" the prince said.\n\nHe said the award was a result of Prince Philip's belief \"that if you could tap into what a young person's passion was, that would drive them forward in terms of their life and their success\".\n\nPrince Edward said he was \"a great source of support and encouragement and guidance all the way through\" while Princess Anne added: \"I think I will best remember him as always being there and a person you could bounce off ideas, but if you were having problems you could always go to him.\"\n\nPrince Philip's legendary \"directness\" was inherited from his mother, Prince Charles explained with an anecdote.\n\nThe duke took on his role with \"extraordinary tact and diplomacy\", said Prince Edward\n\nHis mother, Princess Alice of Battenberg, was buried in Jerusalem, where she is also honoured at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial as \"Righteous Among the Nations\" for protecting Jews at her house in Athens during World War Two.\n\n\"My father said, but hang on, how are we ever going to visit your grave?\" the Prince of Wales recalled. \"She said, don't be so silly, there's a very good bus service from Athens.\"\n\nThe Duke of Edinburgh \"did not suffer fools gladly\", Prince Charles said, which \"made one choose your words carefully\".\n\nPrince Edward said had taken on a challenging role \"with the most extraordinary flair, and the most extraordinary tact and diplomacy - he's never, ever tried to overshadow the Queen in any way, shape or form.\n\n\"He's always been there as that rock in the Queen's life. Certainly within his family that was exactly the same.\"\n\n\"His energy was astonishing, in supporting my mama, and doing it for such a long time,\" said Prince Charles. \"What he's done has amounted to an astonishing achievement, I think.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nStuart Dallas scored an injury-time winner as 10-man Leeds United beat runaway leaders Manchester City at Etihad Stadium.\n\nDallas gave the visitors a surprise lead three minutes before the break with a low shot that went in off the inside of a post.\n\nHowever, the dismissal of skipper Liam Cooper for a tackle on Gabriel Jesus before the opening period was over appeared to have given the visitors an impossible task.\n\nCity predictably dominated the second period but were made to wait until the 76th minute for their equaliser, when Ferran Torres drove home his first Premier League goal since December.\n\nInstead of City completing a triumphant comeback, however, it was Leeds who came up with the winner as Dallas ran on to Ezgjan Alioski's through ball before sending a shot past Ederson from the edge of the area.\n\nIt completed Leeds' best win since their return to the top flight - and means Manchester United can cut City's lead at the top to eight points if they win their games in hand against Tottenham and Burnley. City must take 11 points from their remaining six games to guarantee a third league title in four seasons.\n• None He's led Leeds' 'transformation' - but will 'enigma' Bielsa still be there next season?\n• None Reaction from Etihad Stadium, plus the rest of Saturday's Premier League action\n\nIt is a measure of how long Leeds have been outside the top flight that this was only their second league game at Etihad Stadium.\n\nBut, as on so many occasions this season, Marcelo Bielsa's men made a positive impression, even though they were unable to control possession as they did when these sides drew 1-1 at Elland Road earlier in October.\n\nHelder Costa and Tyler Roberts were a threat down the flanks though, so it was not entirely out of the blue when Leeds took the lead.\n\nJoao Cancelo was unusually hesitant having been deployed at right-back and Costa took advantage, providing the pass for Patrick Bamford, who set Dallas up for his precise finish.\n\nIt was a shame for Leeds that their captain spoiled all the good work almost immediately with a two-footed lunge.\n\nCooper was still pleading his innocence as he slowly made his way off the pitch, even though referee Andre Marriner had gone to the monitor before changing his initial yellow card to a red for a tackle that left Jesus needing treatment.\n\nWinning the game at that point seemed a distant prospect for Leeds, even against a City team with seven changes from the one that beat Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League on Tuesday.\n\nRaheem Sterling had already wasted a couple of decent chances for the hosts and, after the break, the contest was more like a game of attack and defence as City piled forward, frequently having all 10 outfield players within 30 yards of the visitors' goal.\n\nOleksandr Zinchenko brought a full-length save out of Illan Meslier, Bernardo Silva had a goalbound shot deflected wide and substitute Ilkay Gundogan fired a good chance over before Torres struck.\n\nCity did have a warning of what Leeds were capable of when Raphinha broke clear, only to be denied by Ederson's perfectly executed slide tackle.\n\nHowever, Leeds had one more attack left in them - and Dallas provided the perfect finish to give his side a third successive Premier League win for the first time since 2002-03, when Terry Venables was in charge.\n\n'We didn't stop them from running' - what they said\n\nManchester City boss Pep Guardiola told BBC Match of the Day: \"We did not create enough for the forwards. It is part of the game.\n\n\"In the last 10 minutes they had other chances, they are fast and can do it. When they defend in the way they were doing you have to stop them running and we did not do that.\n\n\"We are going to rest and prepare two days for the game in Dortmund and decide on how we are going to play.\"\n\nLeeds United boss Marcelo Bielsa told BBC Match of the Day: \"The value of the victory increases because it was achieved in a game where we were dominated and demanded character, effort and personality.\n\n\"I think we have to link the victory to the spirit of the players. The spirit of all the players added together creates a uniform effort. It's very difficult to win games like today. I think we deserved it but the fair thing would have been for City to win it because they had the dominance and the chances.\n\n\"I value a lot the English refereeing and with the added factor of VAR all the decisions are justified.\"\n\nMore goals outside the box than anyone else - the stats\n• None Manchester City suffered their first home defeat against a promoted side in 42 Premier League games, since losing 2-0 against Reading in February 2007.\n• None Leeds have become just the fourth promoted side to win away against the Premier League leaders in the competition's history, after Ipswich at Norwich in December 1992, Derby at Manchester United in April 1997 and Hull City at Arsenal in September 2008.\n• None Stuart Dallas became the first player to score a 90th-minute winner for Leeds in a Premier League game since Ian Harte vs Derby County in December 1999.\n• None Leeds have scored more goals from outside the box than any other Premier League side this season (12).\n• None Liam Cooper became the first Leeds player to be sent off in a Premier League match since Mark Viduka against Bolton in May 2004.\n\nManchester City are next in action in the second leg of their Champions League quarter-final against Borussia Dortmund on Wednesday, 14 April (20:00 BST). Leeds host Liverpool at Elland Road in the Premier League on Monday, 19 April (20:00).\n• None Substitution, Leeds United. Jamie Shackleton replaces Raphinha because of an injury.\n• None Fernandinho (Manchester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Goal! Manchester City 1, Leeds United 2. Stuart Dallas (Leeds United) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Ezgjan Alioski with a through ball.\n• None Attempt saved. Fernandinho (Manchester City) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Ilkay Gündogan with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by João Cancelo.\n• None Attempt missed. Bernardo Silva (Manchester City) left footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses the top left corner. Assisted by Ferran Torres.\n• None Bernardo Silva (Manchester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Despite warnings not to attend due to Covid restrictions, mourners have continued to travel to Buckingham Palace to pay their respects to the Duke of Edinburgh.\n\nTo avoid the crowds during the daytime, Alex and his two children came to lay flowers in the middle of the night,\n\nThey spoke to the BBC outside the gates at just after 01:00 BST on Saturday, despite the cold weather.", "Dr Ian Gibson with Norwich South Labour MP Clive Lewis during the 2019 election\n\nTributes have been paid to former MP Dr Ian Gibson, who died aged 82 on Friday.\n\nDr Gibson represented the Norwich North constituency for Labour from 1997 to 2009.\n\nFormer colleague and ex-cabinet minister Charles Clarke said he would be \"much missed\".\n\nCurrent Labour MP for Norwich South, Clive Lewis, said: \"He was admired for his humour, cutting wit, but also his steadfast political conviction as a socialist.\"\n\nMr Lewis said he left behind \"a legacy of someone always prepared to speak up for our city and those without a voice\".\n\nMike Stonard, president of Norwich Labour Party, said his friend was a \"tenacious, committed campaigner and consistent advocate for his constituents\".\n\nDr Ian Gibson was MP for Norwich North from 1997 to 2009\n\nDr Gibson's career as an MP came to an end in 2009 following controversy over his expenses.\n\nMr Clarke, who served as Norwich South MP from 1997 until 2010, said Mr Gibson \"brought to politics a real understanding of science and its contribution to our civilisation.\"\n\nDr Gibson was dean of biology at the University of East Anglia before his first election in 1997.\n\nHe used his scientific knowledge to good effect with contributions to debates on medical and biological matters, such as on Gulf War Syndrome, which he urged the government to recognise.\n\nHis expertise was rewarded with a place on the Commons' Science and Technology Select Committee, and in 2001 MPs defied the whips' choice to elect him as its chairman.\n\nDr Gibson was forced to leave the Labour Party after the expenses scandal.\n\nHe was said to have claimed for a flat which one of his daughters lived in rent-free with her partner.\n\nThe Labour Party panel investigating the claims was described as a \"kangaroo court\" by the then Norwich party chairman.\n\nRetiring from politics, Dr Gibson, who was originally from Dumfries, continued to live in Norwich.\n\nA passionate campaigner for causes he believed in, he was also well known for his love of football and Norwich City.\n\nHe had flirted with professional football while at university in Edinburgh and after his move to Norfolk, he played for Wymondham Town and later served as as the non-league club's president.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Bryan James Gunn This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 later life he became a member of the Norwich theatre group, The Common Lot.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by The Common Lot This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post 2 by The Common Lot\n\nTributes to Dr Gibson have come from across the political spectrum.\n\nOn Twitter, Brian Watkins, Liberal Democrat county councillor for Eaton, said: \"I join with so many others in mourning the death of Dr Ian Gibson. He was a true champion of Norwich, a forceful and passionate campaigner, and he will be greatly missed by so many of us.\"\n\nCompared with many of his contemporaries, Dr Ian Gibson was not an MP for very long, but in the 12 years that he represented Norwich North he stood out as a strong-willed politician who cared passionately for his constituency.\n\nWhether fighting for under-privileged people, arguing for more science funding, or campaigning against university tuition fees, he always came across as someone who knew his stuff and genuinely cared. He argued succinctly and with humour. When he spoke in Parliament, MPs would listen, and ministers would take his calls.\n\nHis stance on issues like tuition fees often put him at odds with the then Labour government, much to the frustration of his friend, neighbour and cabinet minister Charles Clarke who would often plead with him, in vain, to toe the party line.\n\nIt was one reason why he had little support from the party leadership when he became embroiled in the expenses scandal.\n\nBut even after his resignation, he continued to support local causes and environmental issues. He briefly flirted with the Greens.\n\nHe became disillusioned with Labour under Jeremy Corbyn saying he lacked \"leadership and style\".\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\nAn \"explosive\" volcanic eruption has blanketed the Caribbean island of St Vincent in ash and smoke and forced thousands of people out of their homes.\n\nLa Soufrière, which has been dormant for decades, first started showing volcanic activity in December, but that increased this week.\n\nOn Thursday, Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves urged more than 16,000 residents in \"red zones\" to evacuate.\n\nThe volcano has since spewed dark ash plumes 6 km (3.7 miles) into the air.\n\nAsh fall has been recorded as far from the volcano as Argyle International Airport some 20 km away, St Vincent's National Emergency Management Organisation (Nemo) said.\n\nThe volcano had been dormant since 1979, but in December it started spewing steam and smoke, and making rumbling noises.\n\nThousands of people have been evacuated from the surrounding area\n\nThe first sign that an eruption was imminent came on Thursday evening, when a lava dome became visible on La Soufrière.\n\nThat same night, Mr Gonsalves ordered an urgent evacuation of the surrounding area.\n\nThen just before 09:00 on Friday (13:00 GMT), seismologists from the University of the West Indies confirmed that an \"explosive eruption\" was under way.\n\nEvacuees were taken to cruise ships and safer parts of the island.\n\nOne resident, Zen Punnett, told AFP news agency that he saw \"a huge ball of smoke\", and that there was panic when people were first ordered to evacuate.\n\n\"I can feel and hear rumbling here in the green safe zone... keeping calm as much as possible and praying,\" he added.\n\nA second explosion was recorded, causing a large vertical column of ash\n\nLavern King, a volunteer at shelters on the island, told Reuters news agency: \"People are still being evacuated from the red zone, it started yesterday evening and into last night. The place in general is in a frenzy.\"\n\nInhabitants of the red zone constitute more than 10% of the country's population.\n\nLater on Friday another explosion was recorded, the UWI Seismic Research Centre tweeted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by UWISeismic Research This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 evacuation procedures were hindered by the heavy ash fall, which had made visibility \"extremely poor\", Nemo said.\n\n\"Now that the La Soufrière volcano has begun erupting explosively, ash falls will soon overwhelm us,\" the organisation wrote on Facebook, adding: \"Be sure to get rid of or clean up the ash, soon after it falls. If rain falls, the ash could harden and pose a danger to you.\"\n\nMost of the Lesser Antilles islands are part of a long volcanic arc in the Eastern Caribbean.\n\nThe last eruption, in 1979, caused more than $100m (£73m) of damage on the island.\n\nThe worst eruption on record, in 1902, killed more than 1,000 people.\n\nLocal media have also reported increased activity from Mount Pelee on the island of Martinique, north of St Vincent.", "The Ever Given has been anchored in the Great Bitter Lake, the canal's midway point, since being refloated on Monday\n\nThe last ships stranded by the giant container vessel that was stuck in the Suez Canal have now passed through the waterway, the canal authorities say.\n\nMore than 400 vessels were left waiting at either end of the canal when the 400m-long Ever Given became wedged across it on 23 March.\n\nBut Egypt's Suez Canal Authority says the shipping traffic jam is now over.\n\nOfficials have opened an investigation into the incident and expect to made their findings public early next week.\n\nThe results could have major legal repercussions, as various parties seek to recoup the costs of the repairs to the ship and the canal, as well as the salvage operation.\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\nThe 220,000-tonne Ever Given was finally freed last Monday after a major salvage operation involving a flotilla of powerful tug boats and dredging vessels that shifted an estimated 30,000 cubic metres (1.1m cubic ft) of mud and sand.\n\nThe operation allowed hundreds of ships, carrying millions of tons of cargo, to start moving through the waterway.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. (29 March 2021) The stranded container ship is seen finally on the move and no longer blocking the canal\n\nA total of 85 ships, carrying cargo weighing 4.2 million tons, passed through the canal in both directions on Saturday, the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) said in a statement.\n\nThese were expected to include the last 61 ships out of the 422 that were queuing when the Ever Given container vessel was dislodged.\n\nThe canal authorities are under pressure to upgrade the waterway's technical infrastructure to avoid further disruption in the future.\n\nThey have said they will demand at least $1bn (£720m) in compensation for the losses resulting from the blockage.\n\nIn an interview with the privately-owned Sada el-Balad TV on Wednesday, SCA chairman Osama Rabie said that the Ever Given vessel would not leave the Great Bitter Lake, where it is currently being held, until the compensation was paid by the vessel's owner.\n\nMr Rabie also said that about 800 people had helped to free the ship, adding that they would be rewarded for their \"great efforts\".\n\nThe vessel's technical managers, Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement, said on Monday that its initial investigations suggested it had veered off course due to strong wind. They also ruled out any mechanical or engine failure as a cause.\n\nHowever, Mr Rabie believes the impact of the wind was not the main reason for the incident, and that \"technical or human errors\" may have been to blame.\n\n\"The Suez Canal has never been closed because of bad weather,\" he earlier told reporters.\n\nHe also denied size was a factor, saying larger ships had used the waterway.", "The leak was discovered at the reservoir at Piney Point\n\nEmergency crews in Florida have been working to prevent a \"catastrophic\" flood after a leak was found in a large reservoir of toxic wastewater.\n\nMore than 300 homes near Tampa Bay have been evacuated, and a highway near the Piney Point reservoir has been closed.\n\nOn Sunday, he said the water was \"primarily saltwater\" from a dredging project mixed with \"legacy process water and storm water runoff\".\n\nHe added that the water was not radioactive, as had been feared, and that the priority was to prevent a \"real catastrophic flood situation\".\n\nOfficials said the 77-acre (31-hectare) reservoir holds millions of gallons of water containing phosphorus and nitrogen from an old phosphate plant.\n\nThe pond where the leak was found is in a stack of phosphogypsum, a radioactive waste product from the manufacture of fertiliser.\n\nAttempts to repair the leak late on Friday, by plugging the hole with rocks and other materials, were unsuccessful.\n\nDeclaring a state of emergency allowed funds to be released to send more pumps and cranes to the area.\n\nOn Sunday, Mr DeSantis said emergency workers - assisted by the Florida National Guard - were pumping water out of the pond at a rate of 33 million gallons a day and discharging it into the nearby Tampa Bay.\n\nOther workers have been charting the path to control the flow of the water and more pumps are being deployed to the region.\n\nManatee County Administrator Scott Hopes told a press conference on Saturday that there were concerns the water could flood the area, which is mostly agricultural.\n\n\"We are talking about the potential of about 600 million gallons (2.3 billion litres) within a matter of seconds and minutes, leaving that retention pool and going around the surrounding area,\" he said.\n\nBy Sunday, however, he was more optimistic - telling reporters that the situation should be in a \"much better position\" by Tuesday.\n\nBut he also warned that \"we are not out of the critical area yet\".\n\nNational conservation group the Center for Biological Diversity also released a statement calling for the US Environmental Protection Agency to intervene.\n\n\"Federal officials need to clean up this mess the fertiliser industry has dumped on Florida communities and immediately halt further phosphogypsum production,\" Jaclyn Lopez, the organisation's Florida director, said.", "The woman was found in a block of flats in Ravine Grove\n\nA 39-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a woman who was stabbed to death in a flat.\n\nThe Met Police said she was found seriously injured by emergency service workers at about 02:15 BST in Ravine Grove in Greenwich, south-east London.\n\nParamedics treated her for stab wounds at the scene but she died an hour later.\n\nOfficers are working to establish her identity and a post-mortem examination has not yet been held.\n\nThe arrested man remains in custody at a police station in south London.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "US rapper and actor DMX is in serious condition in hospital following a heart attack, says his lawyer Murray Richman.\n\nMr Richman told US media he didn't know whether the heart attack was brought on by a drug overdose, as reported by TMZ.\n\nDMX has publicly battled substance abuse for years, and spent several periods in rehab.\n\nHe is seen as a hip-hop icon, and has collaborated with artists including JAY-Z, Ja Rule, Eve and LL Cool J as well as appearing in films.\n\nThe 50-year-old, whose real name is Earl Simmons, was taken to hospital in White Plains, New York late on Friday evening, Mr Richman said, where he is surrounded by his family.\n\n\"He was on life support,\" the lawyer said. \"He's been taken off of life support. He is breathing on his own but there is a little brain activity.\"\n\nThe father-of-15 has served jail sentences in the past on charges including animal cruelty, reckless driving, drug possession and weapons possession.\n\nIn 2018 he made headlines by playing one of his own songs to a judge in court when he was facing charges of tax fraud. After listening to the song, the judge said DMX was a \"good man\" and gave him one year in prison.\n\nIn 2016 he stopped breathing and had to be resuscitated in a hotel car park in New York state.\n\nDMX has a career spanning more than 20 years, and as well as music, he has appeared in films including Cradle 2 the Grave and Romeo Must Die, both starring Jet Li.\n\n\"Earl is a sweet guy,\" Mr Richman said. \"Earl was a person who could tell such a story. He was a person with such depth. It's a heartbreaker.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Several hundred people marched in London chanting \"kill the Bill\"\n\nFormer Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn urged marchers to \"stand up for the right to protest\" as protests against the Police and Crime Bill were held around the UK.\n\nKill the Bill demonstrations took place in London, Birmingham, Liverpool, and Bristol among other places.\n\nMr Corbyn said the bill would prevent protest without police approval.\n\nPolice said 26 people were arrested after a minority refused to leave after the London protest.\n\nSpeaking in Parliament Square in central London, Mr Corbyn invoked figures such as the suffragettes and Nelson Mandela as he urged the crowd to oppose the bill.\n\n\"Stand up for the right to protest, stand up for the right to have your voice heard,\" he said.\n\nHe said the protests against the bill were sparked after police dispersed the crowd at the \"perfectly correct and proper vigil\" for Sarah Everard, who was killed as she walked home in south London.\n\n\"I want a society where it is safe to walk the streets, where you can speak out, you can demonstrate and you don't have to seek the permission from the police or the home secretary to do so,\" he said.\n\nMore than 1,000 people gathered peacefully in Bristol\n\nSeveral women addressed the crowd and shared personal experiences of abuse and being drugged.\n\nProtesters carried anti-sexism placards and chanted \"women scared everywhere, police and Government do not care\" as they marched past Downing Street.\n\nThe protests were prompted by the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, which propose to give police in England and Wales more power to impose conditions on non-violent protests, including those which are deemed too noisy or a nuisance.\n\nAnyone refusing to follow police directions about a protest could be fined up to £2,500.\n\nIn London, police scuffled with protestors at the demonstration\n\nMinisters and police have defended the proposals, saying they were needed to tackle demonstrations such the ones by Extinction Rebellion in 2019, where mass occupations of roads and bridges in London and elsewhere stretched police resources to the limit.\n\nMost of the crowd of several hundred people in London dispersed peacefully after the rally, but police said they made arrests after a \"small minority\" refused to leave.\n\nIn Bristol, more than 1,000 people gathered for a peaceful protest, after demonstrations on 23 March and 26 March ended in clashes with police.\n\nEarlier Kill the Bill protests had taken place under lockdown, but the latest demonstrations are the first since coronavirus rules on outdoor gatherings were eased on Monday in the latest stage of the government's roadmap out of lockdown.\n\nUnder the current rules, people can meet outdoors in groups of six or two households. But there is an extra provision to allow outdoor protests with more than six people - as long as organisers carry out a risk assessment and take all reasonable steps to limit the spread of the virus.\n\nAt the Bristol protest, about 100 demonstrators began marching again later in the evening, Avon and Somerset Police said. They forced police to briefly close part of the M32 motorway by sitting in the road.\n\nHundreds of people also marched through Newcastle city centre, and other places that saw protests of varying scales included Birmingham, Liverpool, Newcastle, Bournemouth, Brighton, Weymouth and Luton.", "Nitrous oxide canisters and balloons were left scattered on the steps of the Senedd in Cardiff Bay on Friday night\n\nThousands of laughing gas canisters that litter Cardiff may be saved from landfill in a new recycling scheme.\n\nThe canisters of nitrous oxide, also known as nos, were among rubbish in Cardiff Bay after crowds gathered by the Senedd despite Covid restrictions.\n\nCardiff Rivers Group (CRG) now aims to recycle the metal tubes, after collecting \"a couple of thousand\".\n\nNoS is the second most commonly used recreational drug in the UK after cannabis for those aged 16-24.\n\nIt is illegal to sell it for recreational use like this, but it is legitimately used in catering, for the likes of whipped cream, and for medicinal use.\n\nCRG chairman Dave King said of the canisters, \"we are finding them all the time\", and in recent weeks volunteers had collected thousands.\n\nUp to now though, the metal canisters have either been incinerated or sent to the landfill, and volunteers have been trying to find a way of recycling them for months.\n\nNow the litter pickers are hoping to collect as many of the canisters as they can, which can block drains, and recycle them at a scrap metal company.\n\nMr King said volunteers had collected hundreds of the canisters in the last three-to-four weeks, from parks and streets across the city.\n\n\"We did a litter pick in Butetown just after the last lockdown and picked up over 700 in one session,\" he said, adding a couple of hundreds more had been found in Hamadryad Park recently.\n\n\"We've seen how many have been left in the Bay in recent nights...we are finding them on an industrial scale.\"\n\nMr King said the group had already collected around 60kgs (132lbs) of the cannisters, and would keep them in a shipping container until they had about 300kgs (661lbs).\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nitrous oxide is sold in metal canisters often discarded in the street\n\nThey would then take them to European Metal Recycling to get them recycled, and use the cash to help fund their clean-ups and donate to other charities in the city.\n\n\"It won't take long,\" he said, adding the group were hoping to set up drop off points in the city for people to recycle cannisters they found.\n\n\"We have wanted to recycle the canisters for a long time simply because they are made from steel and are readily recyclable,\" he added.\n\n\"The stumbling block has been the worry that some may still have the gas in them when they go for crushing at the scrap yards.\"\n\nJemma Bere, from Keep Wales Tidy, said the number of the canisters being collected in the city was \"staggering\".\n\n\"Sadly, anecdotal evidence suggests it is a similar picture across many parts of Wales,\" she said.\n\n\"Like all litter types, discarded canisters and balloons aren't just unsightly, they pose a real threat to wildlife and the wider environment.\"", "Everyone in England is to be given access to two rapid coronavirus tests a week from Friday, under an extension of the government's testing programme.\n\nThe lateral flow kits, which can provide results in around 30 minutes, will be available for free at testing sites, pharmacies and through the post.\n\nThe health secretary said it would help squash any outbreaks as lockdown eases.\n\nBut critics of the programme say it risks becoming a \"scandalous\" waste of money.\n\nIt comes as Boris Johnson is due to meet the cabinet to sign off the next stage of lockdown easing in England, which will see non-essential shops reopen and pubs and restaurants start serving outdoors from 12 April.\n\nLater, the prime minister will hold a Downing Street briefing, where he is expected to confirm countries will be graded under a traffic light system when international leisure travel resumes.\n\nHe is also set to outline plans for coronavirus passports - recording whether people had been vaccinated, recently tested negative or had natural immunity - as a means of enabling mass-audience events to take place in the future.\n\nHowever, dozens of MPs oppose the use of Covid passports and Mr Johnson faces the prospect of a rebellion among a number of senior Conservatives if he proceeds with them.\n\nLateral flow tests are already available for school children and their families to take at home as well as for those who have to leave home for work.\n\nThe prime minister hailed the plan to offer everyone testing from 9 April, saying: \"As we continue to make good progress on our vaccine programme and with our road map cautiously easing restrictions under way, regular rapid testing is even more important to make sure those efforts are not wasted.\"\n\nHealth minister Edward Argar told BBC Breakfast he expected the lateral flow tests to be used by those returning to work in the coming weeks as the \"economy starts opening up again\".\n\nHe said fewer than one in every 1,000 lateral flow tests gave a false positive result and refused to set an \"arbitrary\" date for when testing would end.\n\nMr Argar said the tests would be paid for as part of NHS Test and Trace's funding of £37bn over two years, with 80% of that expected to be used for testing.\n\nThe rapid tests are aimed at those without any Covid symptoms and can be taken at home.\n\nThe government introduced lateral flow testing for secondary school children and staff earlier this year, under plans to reopen classes in England by March.\n\nIn February, the scheme was extended to the families of all school and college-age children in England.\n\nKits were also offered to those who cannot work from home in the pandemic, so they can be tested twice a week.\n\nFrom 9 April, kits will be available through:\n\nAnyone who tests positive using a lateral flow test will be expected to self-isolate along with their household. They can then order a second PCR Covid test, typically used for symptomatic cases, which will be sent off to a laboratory for analysis.\n\nIf the confirmatory test comes back negative, their quarantine period is considered over immediately and they can resume normal life.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Laura Foster explains how lateral flow tests work and how to do one\n\nThe schools testing programme, combined with the wider use of workplace testing, has led to a jump in the number of lateral flow tests carried out in England.\n\nThere were about 250,000 rapid tests a day taken in mid-February - climbing to more than a million a day by the end of March.\n\nDr Susan Hopkins, Covid-19 strategic response director at Public Health England, said rapid testing might find cases that would not otherwise be discovered, helping to break chains of transmission and suppress the spread of variants or mutations of coronavirus.\n\nThe Department of Health said parents may wish to consider testing children under the age of 11 but the current Public Health England advice was that there was a \"limited public health benefit from testing primary school age children with lateral flow devices\".\n\nSecondary school children in England have been using lateral flow tests since all classes restarted in March\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said: \"Around one in three people who have Covid-19 show no symptoms, and as we reopen society and resume parts of life we have missed, regular rapid testing is going to be fundamental in helping us quickly spot positive cases and squash any outbreaks.\"\n\nShadow health secretary, Jonathan Ashworth, said any expansion of the testing scheme must be backed by financial support so people could self-isolate, adding: \"Lack of adequate sick pay and support remains a dangerous hole in our defences against this horrific virus.\"\n\nThe latest data shows that, of the 4.2 million lateral flow tests taken in schools and colleges in the week from 18 to 24 March, 4,502 returned a positive result.\n\nCritics of the programme say that when rates are at low levels, it makes it hard to distinguish between actual infections and so-called \"false positives\" - an error where the test registers a positive result incorrectly.\n\n\"Mass testing is a scandalous waste of money,\" said Allyson Pollock, professor of public health at Newcastle University.\n\n\"When the prevalence rate of coronavirus falls as low as it is at the moment then an increasing proportion of cases are likely to be false positives meaning that cases and contacts will self isolate unnecessarily.\"\n\nProf Pollock said it is likely that mass testing \"is going to do more harm than good\" and there had been no evaluation of mass testing programmes by the government.\n\nThe government requires secondary school children to take a second PCR or lab test if their first rapid lateral flow test comes back positive in school.\n\nParents and scientists had warned some pupils were self-isolating unnecessarily after just returning to the classroom.\n\nThe government said that for every 1,000 lateral flow tests carried out, there was less than one false positive result, and the rapid tests were particularly useful at detecting high levels of virus.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, a spokesperson for the department of health said rapid testing was recently extended to private sector firms with more than 50 staff, and \"consideration may be provided to other sectors\".\n\nThe Scottish government said it was expanding rapid testing in hospitals, care homes, schools and in the community to spot asymptomatic cases in high prevalence areas, while also \"considering the implications\" of the announcement in England.\n\nThe Welsh government said 22% of the population already had access to regular rapid testing and this would continue to grow with the expansion of workplace and community testing programmes.", "Wally the walrus was being protected by lifeguards on the RNLI slipway in Tenby\n\nThousands of miles from home Wally is more used to a quieter life, away from humans, in the Arctic.\n\nBut, after straying unusually far south into Tenby, Pembrokeshire, the walrus has become a bit of a tourist attraction for visitors over Easter.\n\nNow authorities are asking them to leave Wally in peace, after reports of jet skiers, surfers and paddle boarders \"disturbing\" him by getting too close.\n\nConservation groups have urged people to \"enjoy him from a distance\".\n\nThey have been keeping a close eye on the mammal, who has been nicknamed Wally ever since he was first spotted on the Welsh cliffs.\n\nThe walrus is believed to have arrived from the Arctic on an ice floe, and was initially seen off County Kerry earlier this month, before he ended up on the Welsh coast.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Pembrokeshire Coast / Arfordir Penfro This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt was first seen in Wales on rocks near Broad Haven South beach before heading to Tenby, and had spent a few days on the RNLI slipway, with lifeboat crews keeping people away from it.\n\nIn a statement, authorities warned the public to leave Wally alone, as the sunshine draws crowds to the area.\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 statement, issued by the RSPCA, Tenby's Harbour Master, Welsh Marine Life Rescue, Tenby Lifeboat Service, British Divers Marine Life Rescue, Natural Resources Wales, and CSIP Marine Environmental Monitoring, warns that people have been getting \"too close\".\n\nThe walrus is protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act, 1981, and anyone caught disturbing the animal may be committing a criminal offence.\n\nOne photographer captured Wally on a trip to the area on 30 March\n\n\"We understand it's exciting and unusual to have the walrus take up a temporary residence in Tenby, and that over the bank holiday weekend many people may wish to visit the area in the hope of catching a glimpse of him,\" the statement said. \"However, it's in his best interests to be left alone as much as possible, so we're asking people to remember he is a wild animal and avoid the temptation to get near to him and disturb him.\n\n\"We're really concerned to hear reports that some people have tried to get close to him by using jet skis or paddle and surf boards - this really isn't in his best interest and we urge people to act responsibly this weekend and if they find themselves in the area, to enjoy him from a distance.\"", "The incident happened on Saturday at about 13:15 BST\n\nA casualty has suffered \"life changing injuries\" after \"tombstoning\" from cliffs near a beach in Swansea.\n\nThe male was rescued near Langland Bay by lifeboat volunteers and coastguard specialists on Saturday at 13:15 BST.\n\nIn a tweet, Mumbles Coastguard Cliff Rescue Team said he \"nearly paid the ultimate price but ended up with life changing injuries\". It added: \"Please don't rock jump.\"\n\nThe casualty was airlifted to Cardiff's University Hospital of Wales.\n\nTombstoning is the act of jumping into water from a high platform\n\nThe incident happened at an area known for \"tombstoning\", Mumbles Lifeboat Station said in a Facebook post.\n\n\"We really are so grateful to the person with the cliff casualty who immediately called for help,\" said RNLI deputy coxswain James Bolter.\n\n\"This was a very serious incident. We hope all turns out well for the casualty.\"\n\nThe coastguard service said the rescue involved its Mumbles, Oxwich and Rhossili teams, a rescue helicopter, air ambulance, Mumbles lifeboat in shore and all weather lifeboat, the Welsh Ambulance Service and South Wales Police.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Archbishop of Canterbury: \"We have received overwhelmingly, so let us give generously''\n\nThe Archbishop of Canterbury has urged people to choose a \"better future for all\" as we emerge from the pandemic.\n\nJustin Welby encouraged people to ensure acts of love, charity, and international aid are maintained.\n\nThe Easter service at Canterbury Cathedral took place with no congregation due to coronavirus rules.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer have paid tribute to the work of the Church through the pandemic.\n\nThe Easter service is featuring across BBC TV, radio, and digital platforms for the first time.\n\nThe Most Reverend Welby said: \"The last year is yet another cruel period of history taking from us those who we loved, ending lives cruelly and tragically... we have certain hope and a changed future, we will be reunited with those who we loved.\"\n\nHe went on: \"In this country, in this world, we have a choice over the next few years. We can go on as before Covid, where the most powerful and the richest gain and so many fall behind. We have seen where that left us.\n\n\"Or we can go with the flooding life and purpose of the resurrection of Jesus, which changes all things, and choose a better future for all.\"\n\nHe also said that \"the overwhelming generosity of God to us should inspire the same by us, in everything from private acts of love and charity to international aid generously maintained\".\n\n\"We have received overwhelmingly, so let us give generously,\" he said.\n\nFor some churches, Sunday is the first time they have opened in months.\n\nSocial distancing measures and other limits have been in place during the pandemic.\n\nCommunal worship was banned in Scotland during the latest lockdown and although it was permitted in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, many chose to shut their doors.\n\nMr Johnson said the past year had been \"very tough\", but that Easter \"brings with it new hope\".\n\n\"And, this year more than ever, it brings the promise of brighter days ahead for us all,\" he added.\n\nThe PM said Christians had showed \"what loving thy neighbour as thyself really looks like in 21st Century Britain\".\n\n\"Having done all that during the darkest days of the pandemic, churches across the UK are now helping us light the path out of it by opening their doors as vaccination centres. It's really very moving to see it,\" he added.\n\nSir Keir also honoured the Christian community for its support during the past 12 months.\n\nThe Labour leader said it had \"always been there for the marginalised and for those that need support and help, but over the last year that has shone through so strong and so visible for everybody to see\".\n\n\"I know Easter is a special time for Christians. It's a time for hope and renewal. And, as we come out of this pandemic, I think those values will be so important to us as a nation.\"\n\nAs part of events on Sunday, Prince Charles read Gerard Manley Hopkins' poem, God's Grandeur, in a special Easter message.\n\nThe Archbishop of Westminster, the Most Reverend Vincent Nichols, has described the \"corrosion and destruction\" of the pandemic but also said that the resurrection of Christ offered \"a new way of looking on all life\" during his Easter Sunday service.\n\nMeanwhile, Pope Francis has led his Easter mass in front of a small congregation of around 200 people while thousands of others around the world attended virtually.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police said thousands of people gathered at The Meadows on Saturday\n\nThree people have been charged after violence erupted at a mass gathering at The Meadows in Edinburgh.\n\nPolice Scotland said \"thousands\" of people gathered at the park to enjoy the sunny weather on Saturday.\n\nThe force condemned \"blatant anti-social behaviour\" after social media footage emerged of young men fighting and throwing debris.\n\nOfficers were called to a series of incidents over the course of the day and told \"hundreds\" to move on.\n\nCh Insp Sarah Taylor said: \"We are aware of the extent of the disorder seen in The Meadows this weekend and we absolutely condemn this.\n\n\"Officers were called to a number of incidents and responded quickly and professionally in the face of some blatant anti-social behaviour.\n\n\"We've been working with the council and are committed to tackling these issues together, both in the immediate future and long-term. There will be zero tolerance.\"\n\nScottish Police Federation chairman David Hamilton said one officer at the park was hospitalised with a facial injury - and that public hostility toward the restrictions was \"foreseeable\" and had been \"growing for some time\".\n\nHe added: \"Countless other unvaccinated officers were put at risk, for simply doing their jobs to keep others safe.\"\n\nLarge groups gathered in the sunshine on The Meadows earlier on Saturday afternoon\n\nCh Insp Taylor said there would be a police presence in the area over Easter and the coming weekends \"as a minimum\".\n\nThree people were charged in connection with anti-social behaviour and a serious assault.\n\nOfficers are working to trace others involved in various incidents and have appealed for witnesses.\n\nIn particular, they are looking to speak to anyone who saw a 22-year-old man being attacked at about 19:30 in the Middle Meadow Walk or a 17-year-old man being seriously injured in the park around 18:40.\n\nDiane Gray, who lives in the area, said the Meadows has been very busy on sunny days with \"hordes of young people congregating\".\n\nMs Gray said there had been problems with litter, including human waste, broken glass and \"drug paraphernalia\".\n\nShe said: \"I am older, restricted mobility, and I keep well away on days when it's busy because it doesn't feel safe.\"\n\nA clean-up operation by both council employees and volunteers was praised on social media.\n\nOfficers are urging people to stay local and to follow government rules on outdoor meetings.\n\nCh Insp Taylor added: \"I would like to thank those who are sticking to the rules and doing the right thing to avoid the spread of the virus as we move through the easing of restrictions.\n\n\"Our approach throughout the pandemic has been to engage with the public, explain the legislation and encourage compliance, but we will not hesitate to use our enforcement powers as a last resort.\"", "The traditional showdown between Oxford and Cambridge universities has been moved from the River Thames in London to Ely in Cambridgeshire for the first time since World War Two, because of the coronavirus pandemic and safety concerns over Hammersmith Bridge.\n\nThe 166th Boat Race will take place on the River Great Ouse on Sunday 4 April.", "Three famous classical musicians, the Gundechas, have been accused of sexual harassment\n\nHer discomfort and nervousness is palpable, even across the Zoom screen. Monica's name has been changed to protect her identity because she fears reprisal. But she is keen to share her story.\n\nShe alleges that she was raped by the late Ramakant Gundecha, a famous classical Indian musician, while she was a student at his school, Dhrupad Sansthan, in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.\n\nGundecha died in November 2019 but he and his brothers, Umakant and Akhilesh, have since been accused of sexual harassment and assault by female students of the music school. Over the course of a three-month investigation, the BBC has heard multiple allegations against all three Gundecha brothers. Umakant and Akhilesh deny the allegations.\n\nRamakant was and Umakant still is a famous exponent of Dhrupad, one of the oldest genres of Hindustani music, while Akhilesh is a percussionist. In 2012, Ramakant and Umakant received the Padma Shri, India's fourth-highest civilian award for their contribution to music.\n\nDhrupad Sansthan, the prestigious school they founded and taught at, has attracted hundreds of students, foreign and Indian, from across the globe. It claims to have accreditation from Unesco's Intangible Cultural Heritage Committee. But the Unesco told the BBC that it had no links to the school and said it will be sending a 'cease and desist' notice demanding the withdrawal of such claims.\n\nDhrupad Sansthan has drawn students from across the world\n\nThe allegations against the brothers have sent shockwaves through the classical music world, where they enjoy fame and status. The allegations have also shone a spotlight on an ancient tradition, the guru-shishya parampara - an informal contract by which the student is usually expected to completely surrender to the will of the teacher.\n\nAllegations against the the three brothers range from sharing flirtatious and sexually suggestive messages to exposing themselves during class to molestation and, in the case of Ramakant, even rape.\n\nMonica said she was in her first week at the school when she began receiving inappropriate WhatsApp messages from Ramakant. She alleged that one evening he drove her to a dark car park and molested her in the backseat of his car.\n\n\"He started kissing me. I pushed him away but he kept trying,\" she said. \"He touched my body and tried to unclothe me. At that time, I realised I was not moving. I was like a stone. At one point he realised that I was not responding. So he asked me, should I drop you back at the school? But I couldn't even reply.\"\n\nMonica said she wanted to erase the memory of the incident. She didn't leave the school immediately because she loved the music and was keen to pursue it further. She had left her job and invested all her money to study at the school.\n\nBut then three months later, she alleged, Ramakant raped her. \"[He] entered the room, pulled my pants off and forcefully had sex with me. And when he had finished he just left. I went to the door and bolted it. And for three days, I didn't eat,\" she said.\n\nSarah, another student at the school, whose name has also been changed, told the BBC that she was molested by Akhilesh Gundecha.\n\n\"I got sick when I was there and was hospitalised,\" she said. \"Akhilesh came to take me back to the school. He sat next to me in the car and started touching my hands. I pulled them away. It felt very strange.\"\n\nIn total, five women told the BBC they had witnessed abuse and harassment on the Dhrupad Sansthan campus. Some said that when they rebuffed sexual advances from Ramakant Gundecha, he lost interest in teaching them. They also alleged that if a student complained, she was often publicly humiliated in class.\n\nRachel Fairbanks, a primary school teacher who now lives in Seattle, said the abuse began on her first day at the school in March 2017. She alleged that she was cornered by a campus driver who'd come to drop off her luggage in her room.\n\n\"I thought he was going to hurt me. So I asked Ramakant to step in,\" she said.\n\nBut instead of helping, she alleged, he began molesting her. She accused him of attempting to kiss her and repeatedly texting her, professing his love. On one occasion, she alleged, he drove her outside the campus to an abandoned field late at night, pulled her pants down and touched her vagina.\n\n\"I pushed him off. He drove me back to a small town, which is right outside of the school,\" she said. \"And then I had to walk back in the dark through the town and through the fields, back to the school. I left the school soon after that happened. I couldn't even sit in Ramakant's presence anymore.\"\n\nThe Gundechas are famous exponents of the Dhrupad style\n\nRachel, who didn't want to remain anonymous, said she had found the strength to speak up now, several years later, only after similar allegations came to light in a Facebook post shared by a group called 'Dhrupad Family Europe' in September 2020.\n\nThrough their lawyers, both Akhilesh and Umakant Gundecha denied all of these allegations, stating that \"vested interests\" from outside the student community were trying to \"further their agenda of causing damage to the art and reputation of the Gundecha Brothers and Dhrupad Sansthan\".\n\nBut the charges are also being investigated by an internal complaints committee over the last four months. Indian law mandates every institution to set up a panel to address complaints of sexual harassment or assault.\n\nStudents say the committee at Dhrupad Sansthan was formed only after they put pressure on the school. Former students, who are part of a support group for the survivors, have also alleged that they have received threats on multiple occasions for speaking out in support. Survivors are bound by law not to disclose the results of the investigation.\n\nAlthough this is the first time #MeToo movement has touched the world of Hindustani classical music, many say this reckoning was overdue.\n\nMany classical musicians say the teaching methods make women more vulnerable to abuse\n\nWhile many classical musicians say retaining the rigours of the teacher-student relationship is fundamental to learning the ancient form, several others told the BBC that there was still a need to recognise that it's an easy vehicle for exploitation.\n\n\"The guru (teacher) expects complete submission, complete subservience from the student,\" said Neela Bhagwat, a 79-year-old vocalist. \"If it's a male student the surrender is less. If it's a female student, the surrender is more. I think this makes female students very vulnerable,\" she said.\n\nBhagwat said she often composed her own lyrics because of the inherent misogyny in traditional compositions.\n\nTM Krishna, a famous classical musician of the Carnatic form, has gone to the extent of suggesting that the guru-shishya tradition be demolished entirely.\n\n\"Like most relationships, the guru-shishya relationship is grounded in a power imbalance, but here, crucially, the inequality is celebrated,\" he wrote in the Indian Express newspaper recently after allegations against the Gundechas emerged.\n\n\"No doubt there will be claims that I seek to destroy something ancient. But a storied past must never be a defence against criticism.\"\n\nBoth Krishna and Bhagwat argue that there's a need to humanise the guru, and treat him like an expert in his field, rather than a god who can do no wrong.\n\n\"In the wake of the recent accusations, has anyone even thought of contacting the institutions - and there must be hundreds of them in the country - to do an audit on whether they have a valid internal compliance committee already in place?\" said Shubha Mudgal, a popular vocalist whose repertoire includes classical and Indie-pop music.\n\nMudgal is among the few musicians to speak out in support of the survivors\n\nBhagwat, Krishna and Mudgal are rare exceptions in a fraternity that has largely remained silent. And many also wonder how much of an impact the allegations will have on the careers of the two remaining Gundecha brothers.\n\nAkhilesh Gundecha, for instance, was invited to perform at the prestigious Tansen Samaroh 2020 festival, before being dropped following a social media backlash.\n\nThe students who spoke to the BBC said a lack of faith in the Indian judiciary's ability to deliver justice was a key reason why they were not pursuing a legal course. Their future course of action is unclear, particularly because most have now left India.\n\nMost of the women said they wanted some closure from the investigating committee's findings, along with a public apology from the Gundechas. But that has not happened yet.\n\nRachel said she saw no point in the investigation if its findings couldn't be made public. She said what continued to hurt is that her experience also spelled the end of her relationship with Dhrupad.\n\n\"I have my tanpura [an Indian musical instrument] in the living room right now and it's going to be sold,\" she said. \"I unfortunately can't sing without having flashbacks.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Police were attacked with petrol bombs and fireworks at the Cloughfern roundabout in the O'Neill Road area\n\nPolice were attacked with petrol bombs and fireworks in Newtownabbey on a second night of trouble in Northern Ireland.\n\nOfficers were targeted at the Cloughfern roundabout in the O'Neill Road area.\n\nA crowd of 30 to 40 people blocked the roundabout with two burning cars at about 20:00 BST.\n\nIt followed Friday's night of violence in which 27 police officers were injured in Belfast and Londonderry.\n\nIn Newtownabbey, on the outskirts of Belfast, police closed off surrounding roads before approaching the roundabout. It was then they came under attack.\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) appealed for calm and asked anyone with any influence in the community to try to ensure young people do not get caught up in criminality.\n\nThe situation appeared to have been brought under control by 22:15 BST.\n\nAlliance assembly member John Blair said the violence had to be \"utterly condemned\" and there was a \"need for calm and for parents to check where their children are\".\n\nSinn Féin assembly member Gerry Kelly said the the disturbances in loyalist areas were \"an out-working of the DUP's rhetoric and undermining of the PSNI and criminal justice system\".\n\n\"By their words and actions they have sent a very dangerous message to young people in loyalist areas,\" he said.\n\nDUP leader Arlene Foster condemned violence that took place in south Belfast on Friday night.\n\nA crowd of 30 to 40 people blocked a roundabout with two burning cars at about 20:00 BST\n\nThe situation was brought under control by 22:15 BST", "Burnt-out cars and debris remained at the roundabout on Sunday morning\n\nPolice have been attacked in Newtownabbey, on the outskirts of Belfast, for the second night in a row.\n\nBricks and bottles were thrown at police and a bin was set alight on Sunday night.\n\nIt happened again at the Cloughfern roundabout in the O'Neill Road area. Police asked motorists to avoid the area.\n\nPetrol bombs were also thrown at police on the North Road in Carrickfergus, County Antrim, on Sunday night.\n\nEarlier a 47-year-old man was charged with riot and throwing a petrol bomb following trouble in Newtownabbey on Saturday night.\n\nHe is due to appear at Belfast Magistrates Court on 26 April.\n\nThirty petrol bombs were thrown at police and three vehicles were hijacked and set alight during rioting in Newtownabbey on Saturday night.\n\nPolice said a crowd of 20 to 30 people gathered at the Cloughfern roundabout from about 19:30 BST to 22:30 BST on Saturday.\n\nThe crowd consisted of young people and older men, some of whom were wearing masks, according to police.\n\nThe trouble was described as an \"orchestrated attack on police\" by Ch Supt Beck.\n\n\"No one, no matter what line of work they are in, deserves to be subjected to any kind of violence,\" he said.\n\nIt followed riots on Friday night in which 27 police officers were injured in Belfast and Londonderry.\n\nThere were five nights of violence in a row in the Tullyally area of Derry.\n\nWhen the police arrived to stop the violence on Saturday night, a member of the crowd shouted: \"It's party time.\"\n\nClearly they were spoiling for a fight.\n\nThis was not a loyalist protest that went wrong. It looked like a planned confrontation.\n\nBy burning three vehicles at a busy roundabout, the crowd knew the police would arrive soon. They did.\n\nWhat happened next was ugly, but the police operation was firm and controlled.\n\nWithin an hour, order had been restored.\n\nCh Supt Beck called on those involved in the attacks to \"stop immediately\".\n\n\"Their actions are causing nothing but harm and distress to the very communities they are representing,\" he said.\n\n\"No one wants to be dragged back to the dark days when rioting was a common occurrence on the streets of Northern Ireland.\"\n\nOne man had his clothing set alight while he was confronting police. A petrol bomb was thrown from the crowd behind him and landed in front of him.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe fell to the ground and was caught up in the flames.\n\nHe ran to get help and members of the crowd helped to dampen the flames.\n\nPolice worked with \"very closely\" with local councillors in an effort to defuse the situation, according to Ch Supt Beck.\n\n\"We will continue to work with our partner agencies, community and elected representatives and the people of Newtownabbey to ensure we can all live in a peaceful society,\" he added.\n\nPolice appealed for anyone with information on the violence to contact them.", "Traffic Wales had warned people they faced delays due to the animal on the carriageway\n\nPeople travelling to enjoy the sunshine on Easter Sunday could be forgiven for the long face when their progress on the A55 in Gwynedd came to a halt.\n\nA horse standing in the carriageway when its owner's vehicle broke down forced police to shut the A55, between Llandygai and Tal-y-Bont.\n\nAn image, posted on Twitter by Traffic Wales, shows the horse standing in the middle of the carriageway.\n\nA rolling road block, put in place at about 15:30 BST, has since been lifted.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Getting a horse on to a bus was \"quite a novel experience\"\n\nIt is not the first time a horse has caused a stir for drivers in Wales.\n\nLast year, a horse found wandering around on the A48 in Cardiff hitched a ride to safety on a bus, to get a helping hand back to its stable.", "Starmer 'in awe' of Christian community during pandemic\n\nSir Keir Starmer has joined the UK prime minister in paying tribute to the way churches have provided support throughout the pandemic. The Labour leader said he was \"in awe\" of the Christian community for its work in the past year. He said it has \"always been there for the marginalised and for those that need support and help, but over the last year that has shone through so strong and so visible for everybody to see\". He added: \"I know Easter is a special time for Christians. It's a time for hope and renewal. And, as we come out of this pandemic, I think those values will be so important to us as a nation.\" For the first time, the Archbishop of Canterbury's Easter sermon has featured across BBC TV, radio, and digital platforms. The service, by the Most Reverend Justin Welby, took place at Canterbury Cathedral, but there is no congregation due to coronavirus restrictions. For some churches, Sunday will be the first time they have opened in months.", "People in Dorstone said they could still hear music late on Sunday morning\n\nVillagers have reported seeing more than 100 cars at the site of an \"illegal rave\".\n\nPeople in Dorstone, Herefordshire, and surrounding areas said on social media they heard cars and music from the site at Vaga Hill overnight and on Sunday.\n\nWest Mercia Police said it was dealing with reports of an illegal rave in the village and had set up road blocks.\n\nSupt Ed Williams said officers were aware of a \"large gathering\" and were engaging with those in the area.\n\n\"We understand that the community are becoming increasingly concerned with the number of people at the site and we would like to reassure them that we are taking this very seriously and are dealing with this incident as a priority,\" he added.\n\nOfficers set up road blocks in the area\n\nOne local resident said cars were being turned away at police road blocks but were still coming along a back road, while people were also being dropped off from taxis.\n\n\"The last taxi I saw delivered somebody about 03:30 to 04:00 BST - it delivered a group of about five or six guys right in front of our house,\" she said.\n\nPolice said they were dealing with a large gathering\n\nOne Dorstone resident said on social media she saw a \"cavalcade of cars speeding through the village\" between 01:30 and 02:30.\n\nOthers said the event was still going strong on Sunday morning, with one writing: \"We can hear every beat of the music here\".\n\nIt's coming up to lunchtime and the party is ongoing at the top of Vagar Hill, with more than 150 people still here.\n\nWe are in the middle of nowhere on the edge of the English-Welsh border.\n\nThey've got a sound system and a generator. West Mercia Police are on site.\n\nThere is litter strewn everywhere but a lot of partygoers are doing their best to try and clear up some of the rubbish.\n\nMany have come in camper vans or with tents. They have brought food and some have lit fires.\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.", "Lucille Downer was a great grandmother who had spent her working years as a cook in a care home\n\nTwo dogs which carried out a \"horrific\" attack on an 85-year-old woman have been humanely destroyed, police said.\n\nLucille Downer, a great-grandma, died after being attacked by the dogs which got into her garden in Rowley Regis through a hole in the fence on Friday.\n\nPolice said following specialist advice it was established the dogs \"could never be re-homed due to the violent act and should be humanely destroyed\".\n\n\"Further analysis\" is taking place to determine what breed they were.\n\nSupt Phil Asquith, from West Midlands Police, told a news conference on Saturday the dogs were \"large\" but would not speculate on whether or not they were banned under the Dangerous Dogs Act, adding DNA samples had been taken from them.\n\nThe force said the ownership of the dogs had been \"voluntarily transferred to police\".\n\nA 43-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of being the person in charge of a dog dangerously out of control after the attack in Boundary Avenue on Friday afternoon. He has been bailed while inquiries continue.\n\nMrs Downer's family said she was a mother, grandmother and great-grandmother.\n\n\"Lucille was born in Jamaica and emigrated to the UK in her early 20s. Since arriving in the UK, Rowley Regis has always been her home and her family will miss her dearly.\"\n\nShe had spent her working years as a cook at a care home in West Bromwich, they said in a statement issued through police.\n\nSupt Asquith said neighbours and family who live nearby responded \"very quickly\" after the dogs escaped from a neighbouring property.\n\nHowever, Mrs Downer had suffered multiple injuries in the \"sustained\" attack and despite the efforts of medics, died at the scene, he said.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Six fire crews tackled the fire at Rushup Edge, near Castleton, with the help of Peak District rangers and mountain rescue teams\n\nPeople have been warned not to light barbecues in the Peak District after two moorland fires.\n\nCrews were first called to Rushup Edge, in Derbyshire, at 13:34 BST on Saturday when fire spread across three hectares (seven acres) of farmland.\n\nWitnesses said it was caused by people cooking near a footpath, Derbyshire Fire and Rescue Service said.\n\nOn Sunday afternoon, firefighters were called to another blaze in Upper Padley.\n\nThe fire service said although smoke \"may be visible from a distance\" the blaze off Sheffield Road was \"currently under control\".\n\nThe blazes follow another moorland fire at Birchen Edge, Baslow, on Tuesday.\n\nLast year, officials called for shops in the national park to stop selling BBQs after a series of fires.\n\nThis disposable BBQ was found at the scene of the moorland fire\n\nOn Saturday, six fire crews worked with Peak District rangers and mountain rescue teams to prevent the spread of the fire at Rushup Edge, and protect the moorland and nearby pregnant ewes.\n\nOn Twitter, the fire service said: \"If you're heading out to the Peak District, leave the BBQ at home.\"\n\nPosting a picture of a disposable BBQ found at the scene, near Castleton, it added: \"Come on people this is your countryside - let's protect it!\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nPep Guardiola says he will \"never forget this season\" as runaway leaders Manchester City closed in on the Premier League title with victory at third-placed Leicester.\n\nSecond-half goals by Benjamin Mendy and Gabriel Jesus left City requiring 11 points from seven matches to seal a third league crown in four seasons.\n\n\"I love the Premier League more than any other competition. We are close, very close,\" added Guardiola after his team moved 17 points clear at the top.\n\n\"The champions are Liverpool, they have the crown - but we are close to taking it.\"\n\nGuardiola said City's efforts were \"incredible\" given most matches this season have been played without spectators because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"In lockdown without spectators - every game we were there,\" he added. \"I will never forget this season.\"\n\nIn their first match since announcing club-record scorer Sergio Aguero is to leave at the end of the season, Guardiola's free-scoring side were frustrated before Benjamin Mendy broke the deadlock.\n\nFernandinho had a goal disallowed, Kevin de Bruyne's free-kick hit the bar and Riyad Mahrez was denied against his former club by Kasper Schmeichel's save.\n\nHowever, France defender Mendy produced a lovely curling finish after stepping inside a challenge from Marc Albrighton before Gabriel Jesus sealed the points for the visitors from close range.\n\nLeicester thought they had taken the lead on the stroke of half-time through Jamie Vardy but his celebrations were cut short by an offside flag.\n• None Reaction as Man City close in on title plus Premier League latest\n• None How Man City are battling history to land the quadruple\n\nThis was the perfect start to a huge month for Guardiola and his players as they attempt to close in on a historic quadruple.\n\nHaving started April with a controlled, disciplined and impressive win against a team that had taken 16 points off the supposed big six this season, they could end it with the Carabao Cup, and a place in both the FA Cup final and the semi-finals of the Champions League.\n\nIt is no longer a question of if they win the Premier League for the third time in four seasons, but when.\n\nRaheem Sterling, Ilkay Gundogan, Phil Foden and Bernardo Silva started on the bench at the King Power Stadium yet the visitors never looked back once Mendy took advantage of a weak challenge by Albrighton to curl his side ahead.\n\nThe second goal was a joy to watch.\n\nFollowing De Bruyne's defence-splitting pass, Sterling and Jesus played a one-two before the latter poked the ball over the line for his side's 105th goal in 47 matches in all competitions this season.\n\nGuardiola's side have kept more clean sheets (28) and conceded fewer goals (26) in all competitions than any other side in Europe's top five leagues in 2020-21.\n\nThey now turn their attention back to the Champions League, a competition they have yet to win, and the visit of Borussia Dortmund to the Etihad on Tuesday.\n\nOn this evidence, it has hard to see City losing again this season.\n\nTop four hopes still in Leicester's hands\n\nLeicester were unable to recycle the counterattacking masterplan that earned Brendan Rodgers' side a thrilling 5-2 win at the Etihad last September.\n\nThey managed just two attempts on target against the best team in the country but ultimately came up short in their first match after the international break.\n\nChelsea's surprise home defeat by struggling West Brom earlier on Saturday means Leicester's hopes of playing in the Champions League for the second time in six seasons remain very much in their own hands.\n\nThey have responded well to setbacks in the past.\n\nAfter going out of the Europa League in February, the Foxes took seven points from four games and beat Manchester United to reach the FA Cup semi-finals for the first time since 1982.\n\nLeicester continue to flourish under Rodgers but will want to learn the lessons from this defeat and quickly move on, with West Brom, Crystal Palace and Newcastle among the clubs still to visit the King Power before the end of the season.\n\n'We got disorganised' - what they said\n\nLeicester boss Brendan Rodgers: \"For the first hour, we were solid and defensively strong but not as efficient with the ball. We're disappointed with the goals, we got disorganised.\n\n\"We lost to the better team. The players kept going and we had some good chances but we can have no complaints.\n\n\"They are a fantastic team, you see the likes of Raheem [Sterling] coming into the game and he's a world-class player.\n\n\"There's no shame, we won a great game up at their place, we lost today. We'll look at it and we'll have a good week next week.\"\n\nManchester City boss Pep Guardiola: \"We had the goal disallowed, we hit the crossbar, it was quite a similar game to Everton.\n\n\"We had to be patient, don't concede and don't give them chances. We are not going to win in five or 10 minutes, it was important to have patience.\"\n• None Manchester City have won each of their past 15 away games in all competitions and are unbeaten in 18 on the road (W16 D2), last losing an away fixture in November 2020 against Tottenham (2-0 in the Premier League).\n• None Leicester failed to muster a single shot in the first half for the first time in a Premier League game since December 2019 against Liverpool.\n• None Jamie Vardy made his 300th league appearance for Leicester since his debut in August 2012, with the striker scoring 135 goals in those games, 93 more than any other Foxes player in that time.\n• None Benjamin Mendy netted just his second Premier League goal for Manchester City, with those two coming in his past six appearances in the competition, after failing to find the back of the net in his first 39.\n• None Gabriel Jesus has scored in five of his six Premier League appearances against Leicester (5 goals) - only scoring more against Everton (7) in the top flight.\n\nWhile Leicester have a full week to prepare for next Sunday's match at fellow top-four hopefuls West Ham (14:05 BST), Manchester City now turn their thoughts to Europe and a Champions League quarter-final first-leg home tie with Borussia Dortmund on Tuesday (20:00).\n• None Offside, Leicester City. Kasper Schmeichel tries a through ball, but Wesley Fofana is caught offside.\n• None Rodrigo (Manchester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Daniel Amartey (Leicester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. James Maddison (Leicester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Ricardo Pereira. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None A new series of eager entrepreneurs hoping to strike the deal of a lifetime\n• None Epic films for you to choose from this Easter weekend", "News had broken about a huge container ship, the Ever Given, that had become wedged across the Suez Canal, bringing one of world's major shipping routes to a halt.\n\nBut as she checked her phone, online rumours were saying she was to blame.\n\n\"I was shocked,\" says Ms Elselehdar, Egypt's first female ship's captain.\n\nAt the time of the Suez blockage, she was working as a first mate, in command of the Aida IV, hundreds of miles away in Alexandria.\n\nThe vessel, owned by Egypt's maritime safety authority, runs supply missions to a lighthouse in the Red Sea. It's also used to train cadets from the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport (AASTMT), a regional university run by the Arab League.\n\nRumours about Ms Elselehdar's role on the Ever Given were largely spurred by screenshots of a fake news headline - supposedly published by Arab News - which said she was involved in the Suez incident.\n\nThe doctored image appears to be from a genuine Arab News story, released on 22 March, which profiles her success as Egypt's first female ship captain. The picture has been shared dozens of times on Twitter and Facebook.\n\nSeveral Twitter accounts under her name have also spread false claims that she was in involved with the Ever Given.\n\nMs Elselehdar, 29, told the BBC she has no idea who first spread the story or why they did it.\n\n\"I felt that I might be targeted maybe because I'm a successful female in this field or because I'm Egyptian, but I'm not sure,\" she said.\n\nIt's not the first time she's faced challenges in an industry historically dominated by men. At present, women only account for 2% of the world's seafarers, according to the International Maritime Organisation.\n\nMarwa Elselehdar says she feels encouraged by some of the response she's had to the false rumours\n\nMs Elselehdar says she's always loved the sea, and was inspired to join the merchant navy after her brother enrolled at the AASTMT.\n\nThough the academy only accepted men at the time, she applied anyway and was granted permission to join after a legal review by Egypt's then-President Hosni Mubarak.\n\nDuring her studies, she says she faced sexism at every turn.\n\n\"Onboard, they were all older men with different mentalities, so it was difficult not to be able to find like-minded people to communicate with,\" she says. \"It was challenging to go through this alone and be able to overcome it without affecting my mental health.\"\n\n\"People in our society still don't accept the idea of girls working in the sea away from their families for a long time,\" she adds. \"But when you do what you love, it is not necessary for you to seek the approval of everyone.\"\n\nAfter graduating, Ms Elselehdar rose to the rank of first mate, and captained the Aida IV when it became the first vessel to navigate the newly-expanded Suez Canal in 2015. At the time, she was the youngest and first female Egyptian captain to cross the waterway.\n\nIn 2017 she was also honoured by President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi during Egypt's Women's Day celebrations.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. (29 March 2021) The stranded container ship is seen finally on the move and no longer blocking the canal\n\nWhen rumours emerged about her role in the Suez blockage, she feared for the impact it would have on her work.\n\n\"This fake article was in English so it spread in other countries,\" says Ms Elselehdar. \"I tried so hard to negate what was in the article because it was affecting my reputation and all the efforts I exerted to be where I am now.\"\n\nBut she says she feels encouraged by some of the response.\n\n\"The comments on the article were very negative and harsh but there were so many other supportive comments from ordinary people and people I work with,\" she says. \"I decided to focus on all the support and love I'm getting, and my anger turned to gratefulness.\"\n\n\"Also, it is worth mentioning that I became even more famous than before,\" she adds.\n\nNext month Ms Elselehdar will be taking her final exam to attain a full rank of captain, and hopes she can continue to be a role model for women in the industry.\n\n\"My message to females who want to be in the maritime field is fight for what you love and not let any negativity to affect you,\" she says.", "Police are searching the whole of Epping Forest\n\nSpecialist police divers are involved in the search for a student who has been missing for almost two weeks.\n\nRichard Okorogheye has not been seen by his family since 22 March, when he left their home in the Ladbroke Grove area of west London.\n\nThe 19-year-old, who has sickle cell disease, took a taxi to Loughton, Essex. He was last seen in CCTV footage recorded near Epping Forest.\n\nOfficers and police dogs have been searching the forest for four days.\n\nHowever, nothing of relevance to the investigation has been found, Met Police said.\n\nThe 19-year-old left home without his medication\n\nMr Okorogheye was seen boarding the number 23 bus, southbound, in Ladbroke Grove, Kensington, at about 20:45 GMT on 22 March.\n\nHe did not take his medication or any money when he left home.\n\nCCTV footage showed the Oxford Brookes student walking alone on Smarts Lane towards Epping Forest at 00:39 GMT on 23 March, having caught a taxi from west London to Loughton.\n\nHe was dressed all in black with a white Adidas logo across his lower back, and had a black satchel bag.\n\nPolice directly appealed to the missing student to get in touch and \"let us know you are safe\" on Saturday.\n\nCCTV images show Mr Okorogheye at about 00:30 BST on 23 March walking alone on Smarts Lane, Loughton, towards Epping Forest\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lucille Downer was a great grandmother who had spent her working years as a cook in a care home\n\nAn 85-year-old woman died when two large dogs got into her garden through a hole in a fence and attacked her, police said.\n\nThe victim, who has been named as Lucille Downer, suffered a \"sustained\" attack and was found with serious injuries in Rowley Regis on Friday.\n\nShe was a mother, grandmother and great-grandmother and her \"family will miss her dearly\", relatives said.\n\nSupt Phil Asquith said her death was \"tragic and horrific\".\n\nA 43-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of being the person in charge of a dog dangerously out of control.\n\nHe has been bailed while inquiries continue and the dogs are being tested to establish their breed, West Midlands Police said.\n\nMrs Downer's family, who released their statement through the force, said she was born in Jamaica and emigrated to the UK in her early 20s.\n\n\"Since arriving in the UK, Rowley Regis has always been her home and her family will miss her dearly,\" they said.\n\nShe had spent her working years as a cook at a care home in West Bromwich.\n\nFlowers have been put near the scene\n\nFlowers have been placed in her driveway in Boundary Avenue, with one displaying the message \"RIP Nan\".\n\nSupt Asquith, of West Midlands Police, told a press conference earlier that neighbours and family who live nearby responded \"very quickly\" after the dogs escaped from a neighbouring property.\n\n\"The dogs will have unfortunately carried out a fairly sustained attack so there were multiple injuries, mainly caused as a result of the delay in getting into the garden,\" he said.\n\nHe said officers were called to the scene at about 15:20 BST by neighbours who said she was \"under attack from dogs from a neighbouring property\".\n\n\"Our officers attended, by which point the dogs had returned through a hole in the fence to the adjacent property and then, unfortunately, despite the best efforts of medical professionals, that lady died at the scene,\" he said.\n\nPolice have been at the scene since Friday's attack\n\nThe dogs were tranquilised and transported to secure kennels where they were being tested to determine their breed.\n\nSupt Asquith described the dogs as \"large\" but would not speculate on whether or not they were banned under the Dangerous Dogs Act, adding DNA samples had been taken from them.\n\n\"Fortunately, these types of incidents are rare,\" he said.\n\n\"This presented no wider threat to the public. It was a hole in adjacent premises so they weren't running in the streets.\"\n\nSupt Phil Asquith said specialist officers were supporting the victim's family\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n• None Woman in her 80s killed by two escaped dogs\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Crowds will be back at May's FA Cup final - if they can prove their Covid status\n\nAny \"Covid passport\" scheme to prove people in England are safe to attend mass-audience events would be \"time-limited\", the government said.\n\nA \"Covid status certification\" scheme is being developed to enable concerts and sporting matches to take place.\n\nIt would record whether people had been vaccinated, recently tested negative or had natural immunity, having already had a bout of coronavirus.\n\nThe government is also trialling other ways of holding mass events safely.\n\nSports Minister Nigel Huddleston said the trials would be a \"learning experience\" and no decisions had been made about processes or vaccine certification.\n\nImproved ventilation and testing before and after events are among the other approaches being tested for mass gatherings and indoor events, including sports matches and nightclubs.\n\nMr Huddleston said the PM would receive a report on all the trial events at the end of May.\n\nThe pilot events - which include the FA Cup final, the World Snooker Championship, cinema screenings and nightclub events - will take place up until mid-May.\n\nThe NHS is said to be working on a system to allow people to demonstrate their Covid vaccination status through an app or paper certificate.\n\nFor people who have not yet been vaccinated, it could record any recent negative tests, or whether they have tested positive in the last six months and are likely to have natural immunity.\n\nThe FA Cup final will require certification but some of the venues stressed they would not be involved in trialling the so-called Covid passports proposed by the government.\n\nPaul Blair, co-owner of the Hot Water Comedy Club in Liverpool which is due to host the very first event, said his club faced the \"worst negative press we've ever had\" when it was wrongly reported certification would be used at his event.\n\nHe told the BBC that one person sent a message saying they hoped the owners would \"catch Covid and die\", while several messages seemingly organised by a conspiracy theorist group accused the club of practising \"medical apartheid\".\n\nInstead of using Covid passports, his event will involve testing audience members before and after the show as part of a scientific experiment to ensure that it will be safe to reopen without social distancing after 21 June.\n\n\"The sole reason we are doing this is to help prove it's safe for live venues to open,\" he said, adding that it would apply to people regardless of their vaccine status.\n\nAnother series of events to be piloted in Liverpool will be three open-air cinema nights put on by Luna Cinema, with around 1,000 people expected each time.\n\nGeorge Wood, the cinema's founder, told the BBC they would aim to run the screenings \"in a way that will be allowing people not to think about social distancing\".\n\n\"For just those few hours when they come to the event, it'll be back to pre-Covid restriction levels, where people will be able to sit next to each other and enjoy a film on a big screen,\" he said.\n\nHe added that detail on how testing will work at the events will come out in the next few days.\n\nMore than 31.5 million people have received a first dose of a Covid vaccine and nearly 5.4m have received both jabs, but most people vaccinated so far are over 50.\n\nThe government said it was also working with clinical and ethical experts on exemptions for people for whom vaccination is not advised and repeat testing would be difficult.\n\nBusinesses in England which can reopen in the coming weeks, including pubs, restaurants and non-essential retail will not have to use the system for now.\n\nHowever, sources say requiring a certificate to access hospitality further down the line - perhaps to reduce the need for social distancing - has not been ruled out.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said the government was doing everything it could to ensure people could return to events and travel \"as safely as possible\".\n\nCabinet Office Minister Michael Gove, who is leading a review into the use of Covid passports, has called certification for international travel an \"inevitability\".\n\nIt could also be a \"valuable aid\" in reopening parts of the domestic economy faster, he wrote in the Sunday Telegraph.\n\nHowever, critics, including more than 40 Tory MPs and privacy campaigners, have suggested a Covid passport scheme could be \"discriminatory and counterproductive\".\n\nFormer Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who now sits as an independent, and senior Tory Iain Duncan Smith are among a broad coalition of MPs who have pledged their opposition.\n\nWhile the proposed plans cover England only, the government is discussing the scheme with Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe plans come as the UK reported another 2,297 cases and 10 deaths - although Wales and Northern Ireland did not report data for that 24-hour period.\n\nOn Monday, the prime minister is expected to outline plans for easing restrictions on international travel, involving a \"traffic light\" system for rating the virus risk of international destinations.\n\nInternational travel will not be allowed until 17 May at the earliest.\n\nBut the government said the traffic-light system would \"help ensure the UK's vaccine progress isn't jeopardised and provide clear guidance\" when travel resumes.\n\nPeople coming back from countries in the green category will not have to self-isolate on their return, although pre-departure and post-arrival tests will still be required.\n\nFor countries assigned red and amber, restrictions would remain as they are now, with arrivals required to enter quarantine or self-isolation.\n\nThe list of countries included in each category will only be announced nearer the launch date, and the government continues to advise people not to book summer holidays abroad.\n\nIndustry body Airlines UK, which has been calling for a similar system, said travel could take place \"proportionately and in a risk-based way\" without \"opening up the border to every country out there\".\n\nChief executive Tim Alderslade said: \"There are tens of thousands of jobs dependent upon aviation and restarting travel, and the sector cannot survive another lost summer with little or no revenue.\"\n\nAlso expected on Monday are details of a review into social distancing, which is examining when distancing requirements and the guidance to \"work from home if possible\" could be lifted.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nThe Carabao Cup final between Tottenham and Manchester City will have 8,000 fans in attendance after it was confirmed as a pilot event to test the return of big crowds.\n\nA proportion of tickets will be made available to both clubs for the game at Wembley Stadium on 25 April.\n\nThe rest will be given to local residents in Brent and NHS staff.\n\nRick Parry, chair of the English Football League (EFL), said it was an \"important milestone\".\n\nOn 18 April, the FA Cup semi-final between Leicester City and Southampton will have 4,000 fans while the final on 15 May will welcome 21,000 spectators.\n\nThose games may also trial a Covid passport scheme, where passes would show if a person had been vaccinated, had a recent negative test, or natural immunity.\n\nThe matches are three of nine events across sports and the arts - which also includes the snooker World Championship - which will be used to provide \"key scientific data and research\" into how events can safely re-open to fans in line with the roadmap out of lockdown.\n\nResearchers at the events will \"gather evidence associated with different settings and approaches to managing and mitigating transmission risk\".\n\nCulture secretary Oliver Dowden said: \"Our sports stars and great performers need us to find ways to get bums back on seats safely.\n\n\"This science-led pilot programme will be the springboard in getting the buzz back of live performance. We've supported the sports and arts with unprecedented sums, but it's now time to make that Great British Summer of live events a reality.\"\n\nIt had already been confirmed that the FA Cup final and semi-final would be test events but Sunday's announcement confirmed the number of fans to be permitted and the potential use of Covid passports.\n\nThe Carabao Cup final was rescheduled from February with the objective of having \"as many supporters in attendance as possible\".\n\nMark Bullingham, the FA's chief executive, said: \"We are delighted to be hosting three test events at Wembley and are confident we can offer a safe environment.\n\n\"This is an important first step towards getting fans back, with the end goal of full stadia - hopefully by the end of the men's Euros [in July]. We would like to thank all authorities for their support throughout this process.\"\n\nFootball in England has been played behind closed doors since the start of the coronavirus pandemic in March 2020, with the exception of a number of test events before the second lockdown later in the year.\n\nTottenham Hotspur Supporters' Trust said it was unhappy there was no consultation with fans before the decision to allow fans at the Carabao Cup final was made, and about the lack of details around the announcement.\n\n\"This not only displays a complete disregard for the fans, it risks undermining the confidence needed in how the event is being conducted,\" it said in a statement.\n• None How are different faiths celebrated in modern Britain?\n• None Test your knowledge of how different countries celebrate the holiday", "Avon and Somerset Police said seven people were arrested after failing to disperse from about 00:00\n\nSeven people were arrested for failing to disperse after Bristol's fifth Kill the Bill protest in less than a fortnight.\n\nAbout 1,500 people took part in a demonstration from College Green to the city centre on Saturday afternoon.\n\nLater, about 100 people blocked an entrance to the M32 at about 21:30 BST, before returning to the city centre.\n\nAvon and Somerset Police implemented a dispersal order at about 00:00 after \"minor disorder between protesters\".\n\nSupt Mark Runacres said \"an increasing number of protesters\" in Bristol had worked with police liaison officers to ensure the main events on Saturday remained peaceful.\n\nHe said the \"relatively small group\" of people who marched to the M32 had caused \"significant disruption\".\n\nPolice said it was safer to let the protest \"run its course\" in Bristol city centre\n\nSupt Runacres said dispersing protesters on the motorway would have \"presented an unacceptable risk\" and \"the safest thing to do was to allow the protest to run its course\" in the city centre.\n\nHe added: \"At around midnight there were several altercations between the small number of people who remained in the city centre.\n\n\"We never tolerate violence and so we made the decision to move people on.\n\n\"It's disappointing that once again there were those who refused to listen to our requests to leave, and that we had to make arrests.\"\n\nThousands of protesters also turned out at Kill the Bill protests in London, Birmingham, Liverpool, Newcastle, Weymouth and Bournemouth, amongst other places.\n\nIn London, police arrested 107 people for offences including breach of the peace, violent disorder, assault on police and breaches of Covid legislation.\n\nOne woman was arrested on suspicion of possession of an offensive weapon after a knife was found.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said the vast majority of people socially distanced and left the rally peacefully.\n\nThe Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill would give police in England and Wales more powers to impose conditions on non-violent protests, including those which are deemed too noisy or a nuisance.\n\nAnyone refusing to follow police directions about a protest could be fined up to £2,500.\n\nAbout 100 people briefly blocked the M32 at about 21:30 and then returned to Bristol city centre\n\nFormer Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn addressed crowds in London's Parliament Square and said the Police and Crime Bill was a \"very dangerous, slippery slope\".\n\nThe force said 10 officers had been injured in the capital, although \"none of these are believed to be serious\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "People were arrested for violent disorder, assault on police and breach of Covid legislation\n\nMore than 100 people were arrested at a Kill the Bill protest in central London on Saturday, the Met Police have said.\n\nThe 107 arrests were for offences including breach of the peace, violent disorder, assault on police and breaches of Covid legislation.\n\nOne woman was arrested on suspicion of possession of an offensive weapon after a knife was found.\n\nThe Met said the vast majority of people socially distanced and left the rally peacefully.\n\nCommander Ade Adelekan, who led the policing operation for the protest, said most people worked with and listened to police officers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Several hundred people marched in London chanting \"Kill the Bill\"\n\n\"However, as the afternoon wore on it became clear that a small number of people were intent on remaining to cause disruption to law-abiding Londoners,\" he said.\n\n\"Despite repeated instructions from officers to leave, they did not and, amid increasing levels of disorder, arrests were made.\n\n\"We should not allow the behaviour of a few individuals who attend these events with the purpose of committing criminal acts to taint the good behaviour of the majority who attended yesterday.\"\n\nThe protests were prompted by the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, which proposes to give police in England and Wales more power to impose conditions on non-violent protests, including those which are deemed too noisy or a nuisance.\n\nThe protest in London was attended by several hundred people\n\nMinisters and police have defended the proposals, saying they were needed to tackle demonstrations such the ones by Extinction Rebellion in 2019, where mass occupations of roads and bridges in London and elsewhere stretched police resources to the limit.\n\nFormer Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who had earlier addressed crowds in London's Parliament Square, said the bill was a \"very dangerous, slippery slope\".\n\nSeven people were arrested at a Kill the Bill protest in Bristol, which was attended by about 1,500 people.\n\nProtests were also held in Birmingham, Liverpool, Newcastle, Weymouth and Bournemouth, amongst other places.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "French tycoon and and former Adidas owner Bernard Tapie and his wife have been attacked in a violent burglary at their estate near Paris.\n\nThe couple were tied up with electrical cords, physically assaulted and robbed of their jewellery.\n\nBernard Tapie, 78, who was briefly a government minister, is a flamboyant and controversial figure.\n\nHe has been at the centre of legal battles concerning corruption and fraud for decades, and spent time in jail.\n\nThe investigation has now been taken over by prosecutors in the capital Paris.\n\nMr Tapie and his wife, Dominique, 70, were sleeping when four men slipped passed security guards and broke into their home around 00:30 on Sunday (22:30 GMT Saturday).\n\nThe intruders pulled Mrs Tapie by the hair \"because they wanted to know where the treasure was\", the mayor of Combs-La-Ville, Guy Geoffroy, told AFP.\n\n\"But of course there was no treasure, and the fact that they didn't find it made the violence only worse.\"\n\nMr Tapie was hit over the head with a club while sitting in a chair.\n\nManaging to free herself, Dominique Tapie ran to a neighbour's home and called the police. She suffered facial injuries after being hit several times, and was taken to hospital.\n\n\"She is doing well,\" Mr Tapie's grandson Rodolphe Tapie said.\n\nMr Tapie refused to go to hospital.\n\n\"He is shattered, very tired,\" Rodolphe Tapie said.\n\nThe thieves reportedly stole two watches, including a Rolex, earrings, bracelets and a ring.\n\nThe couple's son posted a photo of his father's injuries 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 Stéphane Tapie This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBernard Tapie has a long list of accomplishments over a number of decades:\n\nBut he has also had a string of legal problems, declared bankruptcy in the 1990s and spent five months in jail after a series of cases concerning corruption, tax fraud and misuse of corporate assets.\n\nBernard and Dominique Tapie at the unveiling of a new theatre in Paris in 2007\n\nFlaunting his wealth by buying the football club, Olympique de Marseille won the French championship while he was their owner, but he was accused of match-fixing and the club was stripped of its league championship title and later relegated to a lower division.\n\nHis most high-profile case has lasted more than two decades, and involves a controversial settlement of €400m ($470m) awarded to him in 2008 after he sold his stake in Adidas.\n\nMr Tapie had sued French state bank Crédit Lyonnais, accusing it of undervaluing the sports goods company during the sale.\n\nA panel concluded he had been the victim of fraud, and awarded him the massive damages.\n\nOlympique de Marseille won the French Championship five times while Tapie was president, and took home the UEFA Champions League in 1993\n\nThe scandal also implicated then-Finance Minister Christine Lagarde. She was found guilty of negligence, because she approved the compensation money.\n\nMs Lagarde denied any wrongdoing, and was not fined or imprisoned. She now runs the European Central Bank.\n\nMr Tapie was ordered to repay the money in 2015, after a court found he had in fact not been defrauded by Crédit Lyonnais - a decision he continues to fight.\n\nBernard Tapie is currently suffering stomach cancer and cancer of the oesophagus, and the trial concerning his appeal was postponed last year until May 2021 because of his health.", "Hairdressers and barbers like Tony Mann's in Giffnock can now reopen by appointment only\n\nHairdressers, homeware shops and garden centres are reopening in Scotland as Covid restrictions on the economy have eased.\n\nNon-essential click-and-collect services are also allowed to resume.\n\nThey are the latest lockdown measures to be relaxed after the Scottish government lifted its \"stay at home\" rule on Friday.\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney urged people to remember the virus is still circulating and to continue following the rules.\n\nHe said: \"The virus is down but it's not yet out, and the last thing we need is to see it making a comeback and undoing all the progress from the massive effort and sacrifices we have all had to make.\"\n\nHairdressers and barbers with shopfronts can reopen by appointment only - but not mobile services.\n\nWhile some limited click-and-collect services have been operational since January - including clothing, footwear and books - non-essential click-and-collect can now resume.\n\nHowever, they will have to operate by staggered appointments.\n\nPeople still have to abide by the \"stay local\" rule, meaning they cannot travel outside their local authority boundaries, unless for essential reasons.\n\nGarden centres are among the businesses that can reopen\n\nMr Swinney added: \"While it's great news that garden centres and hairdressers are allowed to reopen, everyone needs to bear in mind that it doesn't mean the virus has gone away.\n\n\"My message is simple - enjoy the latest relaxing of the rules but remember to look out for each other, too.\"\n\nStylist Fallon Carberry said her salon in Glasgow had already been swamped with bookings.\n\nShe told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"When we got the first announcement, we opened our books and we had over 1,000 bookings in 24 hours. We weren't expecting that.\n\n\"It's crazy busy but the staff are all well rested. We are going to be open seven days until eight at night. There are long days ahead but we're ready.\"\n\nMarc McCune, who owns two hair salons in Glasgow, said his staff were as much a priority as customers as restrictions are lifted.\n\nHe said: \"The government has provided financial support and furlough has allowed us to keep all our team employed.\n\n\"It's been a strange year for our team who have only worked for five months in the last year. So we are concerned more about their mental wellbeing.\"\n\nDavid Lonsdale, director of the Scottish Retail Consortium, welcomed the reopenings and urged shoppers to respect the rules in place.\n\nHe said: \"The decision to expand the list of essential retailers and unwind some of the elevated lockdown restrictions are positive steps. Its good news for shoppers and for the economy.\n\n\"Retailers are working hard to prepare for reopening. Shoppers can play their part by adhering to the rules on face-coverings, social distancing, queuing, and by being respectful of shop staff.\"\n\nOutdoor contact sports for 12 to 17-year-olds can also start again and college students are able to return to in-person teaching for practical subjects.\n\nIt is expected that all school pupils will return full-time after the Easter holidays. Those in secondary schools are currently operating under a blended learning system.\n\nMeanwhile Police Scotland have criticised campers who breached lockdown rules by pitching up in the Mennock Pass on Dumfries and Galloway.\n\nThe campers were ordered by police to move on\n\nThe force tweeted: \"Whilst out on patrol yesterday in the Mennock Pass our officers found a large number of people who had travelled from out with our region to #DumfriesandGalloway.\n\n\"Approximately 50 people who had intended camping for the weekend were reminded of the current guidelines prior to them leaving the area.\n\n\"Our officers will continue to visit local beauty spots to encourage people to #StaySafe.\n\n\"Please follow the The Scottish government guidelines as we ease out of lockdown.\"\n\nIt comes after Scotland recorded 343 coronavirus cases and no new deaths of Covid patients on Sunday.\n\nFigures published by the Scottish government indicated the daily test positivity rate was 2.7%, up from 2.1% on Saturday.\n\nIn total, 2,553,837 people had received a first dose of the Covid-19 vaccination and 451,057 had received their second dose.", "Last updated on .From the section Rowing\n\nCambridge continued their recent dominance of the Boat Race, winning both the men's and women's contests in thrilling style.\n\nThe women's team triumphed first on Sunday, earning their fourth straight win, by less than a length.\n\nAnd the Cambridge's men followed suit, with victory in the 166th staging of the race by less than a length as well.\n\nThe race had been moved from the Thames to Ely in Cambridgeshire because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe narrower Great Ouse river produced moments of drama with Sarah Winckless, the first female umpire in the history of the men's race, repeatedly warning Cambridge cox Charlie Marcus to change his crew's line to avoid a clash of oars.\n\nCambridge had hit the front early on and held their advantage throughout for their third straight win and a fourth in five stagings.\n\n\"I had to be as far over as I could. I never fouled them, so that's what I had to do,\" Marcus said on BBC One. \"About three strokes before the finish was when I thought we had this won.\"\n\n\"You dream of this moment,\" Cambridge rower Theo Weinberger said. \"I don't know what to say, it's two years' worth of training and hard work, it just means so much and I don't think there's anything you can quite compare it to.\"\n\n'The closest boat race the females have had'\n\nIn the 75th women's race, Oxford were also repeatedly warned by umpire Judith Packer for encroaching on their rivals' line in a tight race.\n\nBut Cambridge held their nerve, having taken a slender lead after halfway.\n\nDylan Whitaker, the winning cox, was full of praise for his opposite number Costi Levy.\n\n\"Massive, massive props to Costi because she steered like an absolute champ. That was close but we knew what our plan was, we kept it calm and loose and it worked,\" he said on BBC One.\n\nSarah Tisdall, one of the Cambridge rowers, added: \"Awesome race, massive congrats to Oxford. That's the closest boat race the females have had. Awesome day for women's sport and really proud of this team. It's been awesome.\"\n• None How are different faiths celebrated in modern Britain?\n• None Test your knowledge of how different countries celebrate the holiday", "Last updated on .From the section Scottish Cup\n\nRangers set up an Old Firm derby with Celtic in the fourth round of the Scottish Cup after they easily dispatched Cove Rangers at Ibrox.\n\nThe two Glasgow rivals will go head-to-head at Ibrox on 17 or 18 April.\n\nKemar Roofe's double was sandwiched by Jermain Defoe and Nathan Patterson goals as the hosts opened a 4-0 half-time lead after a tight first quarter.\n\nDespite more dominance in the second half, Rangers were unable to add to their already handsome advantage.\n\nThere was further bad news for Paul Hartley's League 1 side, with midfielder Jamie Masson stretchered off.\n\nWithin the opening 10 minutes, Rangers passed up three glorious chances to take an early lead.\n\nScott Wright - making his first start - had a shot deflected wide; Roofe connected with a cross and side-footed past the same post; and Defoe couldn't connect properly with a driven ball from Wright.\n\nRoofe went close again when he cracked a shot off a post which landed into the arms of the goalkeeper.\n\nBut Cove's resistance was broken when Defoe was given too much space outside the box to pick his spot, and he rifled the ball past Stuart McKenzie.\n\nRangers had their second when Cove's defence inexplicably were caught in possession, and Roofe finished after Scott Arfield's shot was parried.\n\nAnd there was no way back for the visitors when Roofe rocketed Wright's pass into the net from close range before Patterson stole the ball from Ross Graham to knock in a fourth before half-time.\n\nPlay stopped for several minutes to attend to the stricken Masson after the Cove midfielder attempted a challenge inside his own box, with the 27-year-old eventually having to be replaced.\n\nRangers continued to be on top but without threatening the goalkeeper as they took their foot off the gas a little with their place in the next round secured.\n\nRangers manager Steven Gerrard: \"We'd have liked a few more goals, but the boys tried their best. In the main, a very professional job and into the next round we go.\n\n\"We want to try and stay unbeaten and there's still a lot to play for. The cup is a priority for us now. It's the responsibility that comes with representing this club. The league was fantastic, but we want that to be the start and a catalyst for more.\"\n\nCove Rangers manager Paul Hartley: \"These are probably the best players they will ever play against. You hope to come here and try to put on a decent performance and just do the basics well.\n\n\"We did not follow the runners and close the ball down, but we did it better in the second half. After the first half, I am probably happy to come away with a 4-0 defeat.\"\n• None Filip Helander (Rangers) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt blocked. Cedric Itten (Rangers) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Greg Stewart (Rangers) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Scott Arfield (Rangers) left footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.\n• None Glen Kamara (Rangers) wins a free kick on the right wing. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "More than one in three teachers told a survey they had been verbally abused\n\nTeachers face \"derogatory sexualised\" language as well as violence and threats from pupils in the classroom, a union conference has heard.\n\nThe NASUWT conference condemned schools and colleges that claim \"unacceptable\" student behaviour is \"part of the job\".\n\nA survey of over 4,700 union members found 38% had been verbally abused, and 10% threatened with violence.\n\n\"We need to reclaim our classrooms, but we cannot do it alone,\" said NASUWT executive member Wendy Exton.\n\nTeachers are often left with no access to appropriate support and many school and college leaders do not receive adequate training, a motion passed at the conference said.\n\nThe website Everyone's Invited has now gathered more than 13,400 testimonies of pupils' experiences.\n\nMs Exton said criminal issues such as drugs, violence, knives and country lines \"spill over\" into the classroom, and go unreported \"as schools are afraid of the repercussions\".\n\nShe said too many excuses were made for poor behaviour, \"from living on a council estate to trauma and even lack of tobacco\".\n\n\"Today's behaviour directed to us as teachers include not only vile language, but derogatory sexualised terms, threats to ourselves and our families, and indeed, violence itself,\" Ms Exton said.\n\n\"In classrooms, many staff are struggling alone with extreme behaviours.\"\n\nThe survey of 4,700 NASUWT members found that in addition to verbal abuse and threats, 6% of teachers had been subjected to physical violence by pupils in the last year.\n\nThe motion at the conference applauded teachers who have balloted for industrial action in order to refuse to teach violent pupils.\n\nRosemary Carabine, another member of the union's executive, questioned why teachers should have to use workplace grievance procedures or industrial action to feel safe at work from \"daily\" threats and aggression, in some cases.\n\nDr Patrick Roach, NASUWT general secretary, said the union was \"unequivocal\" that teachers should not have to endure any form of abuse in the classroom or online.\n\n\"The union is continuing to take steps, up to and including industrial action and refusal to teach ballots, where members report to us that serious pupil indiscipline or abuse is going unchallenged by their school,\" he said.\n\nA spokesperson for the Department for Education said: \"In no circumstances should teachers be subjected to abuse simply for doing their jobs.\"\n\nThe department said it had \"ambitious plans\" to improve behaviour in schools, including making behaviour management a core part of early teacher training, and improving guidance for schools.\n\nIt is also funding £10m \"behaviour hubs\", where schools with \"exemplary behaviour cultures\" share practices with others that want to improve, the spokesperson said.\n\nMeanwhile, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson told the NASUWT conference that investing in the next generation of teachers was \"crucial\" to the pandemic recovery plans.\n\nIn the pre-recorded speech, he said more needs to be done to improve teacher training as the quality of teaching was the \"single most important factor\" in education.", "The woman was found with stab wounds in Crookham Hill, Thatcham\n\nA man has been charged with murdering a woman who was found stabbed in a road.\n\nPolice said the victim, aged in her 40s, died from her wounds in Thatcham, Berkshire, shortly after officers were called at 23:45 BST on Thursday.\n\nFour roads around the scene in Crookham Hill were closed.\n\nChristopher Minards, 35, of Station Road in Thatcham, who is also charged with possessing a blade in public, is due to appear before Reading magistrates on Monday.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nFour-time champion jump jockey Richard Johnson has announced his retirement with immediate effect.\n\nThe 43-year-old was in tears as he revealed his shock decision after riding Brother Tedd into third place at Newton Abbot on Saturday.\n\n\"After nearly 30 years in the saddle, the time has come for me to retire,\" he said.\n\nJohnson enjoyed more than 3,800 victories in his career - only AP McCoy has ridden more winners in jump racing.\n\nIn a message to followers of the sport, he said: \"Thank you for every cheer, every shout of encouragement, it's given me enormous strength over the years. I am so very grateful to you all.\"\n\nJohnson finished runner-up 16 times to McCoy in the jockeys' championship, but the pair enjoyed a strong friendship and rivalry.\n\n\"Sometimes those who challenge us the most teach us the best,\" said 20-time champion McCoy on Twitter.\n\n\"You did both to me for over 20 years. I will be forever grateful to you, thanks buddy. When you go home tonight look in the mirror you'll see what a champion looks like. Enjoy your retirement.\"\n\nJohnson, who was in tears when McCoy retired in 2015, went on to be champion jockey himself four years running.\n• None All the entries for Saturday's Grand National\n\nHe won the Cheltenham Gold Cup for a second time in 2018 on Native River, 18 years after scoring with Looks Like Trouble.\n\nOther major triumphs included the Queen Mother Champion Chase with Flagship Uberalles in 2002 and the Champion Hurdle on Rooster Booster a year later.\n\nHis brilliant last-gasp success in the 1999 Stayers' Hurdle on Anzum was the first of his 23 winners at the Cheltenham Festival, and he was an awarded an OBE for services to racing in 2019.\n\nTrainer Philip Hobbs, who saddled many of Johnson's winners, said: \"He's been an amazing role model.\n\n\"You could not get anybody better for future jockeys to see what they need to do, how to conduct yourself and everything that is needed to be a good jockey.\"\n\nFellow trainer Henry Daly said: \"I can honestly say we never had a crossed word - which is astonishing because I'm a grumpy git.\"\n\nThe Herefordshire-born rider, known affectionately as 'Dicky', had more than 20,000 rides over 27 years.\n\nHis final one came on Brother Tedd - the horse he rode to victory in McCoy's farewell race at Sandown six years ago.\n\nTom Scudamore: \"Simply the finest bloke and friend you could wish to have. When I grow up I want to be like Richard Johnson.\"\n\nAidan Coleman: \"Richard Johnson has been my hero from when he spoke to me on my first ever ride, can't find the words to describe what he means to me from both a personal and professional point of view.\"\n\nHarry Skelton: \"Words wouldn't be able to describe how good a person Richard Johnson is. He is the ultimate role model to any human in general life not just a jockey.\"\n\nJonjo O'Neill junior: \"So determined, yet so humble and gracious. People like him just aren't made every day. Strong as an ox, the ultimate champion. Just an unbelievable man.\"\n• None A new series of eager entrepreneurs hoping to strike the deal of a lifetime\n• None Epic films for you to choose from this Easter weekend", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAt least 113 people have died after flash floods and landslides hit Indonesia and East Timor on Sunday.\n\nTorrential rain sparked widespread destruction in the South East Asian neighbours, with water from overflowing dams submerging thousands of homes.\n\nThe affected area stretches from Flores island in eastern Indonesia to East Timor.\n\nIn Indonesia alone, 86 people have died with dozens still missing. Officials warn the toll could still rise.\n\n\"The mud and the extreme weather have become a serious challenge and the debris piling up has hampered the search and rescue team,\" Indonesian Disaster Mitigation Agency spokesman Raditya Djati told reporters.\n\n\"We suspect many people are buried but it's not clear how many are missing,\" his colleague Alfons Hada Bethan, head of the East Flores disaster agency, said.\n\n\"The evacuees are spread out. There are hundreds in each sub district but many others are staying at home. They need medicine, food, blankets.\"\n\nAt least 27 people have also died in East Timor, also known as Timor Leste, news agencies quoted officials in the island nation as saying.\n\nMany of the victims are believed to be from the country's capital Dili.\n\nIndonesian President Joko Widodo has offered his condolences and urged people to follow the advice from officials during extreme weather periods.\n\n\"I have ordered for disaster relief efforts to be conducted quickly and well, for example for health service assistance, availability of logistics and basic needs for the displaced and the reparation of infrastructure,\" he said.\n\nOne woman's body was recovered from the seashore on the island of Lembata after being swept down a mountainside.\n\n\"There was a rumbling sound and the floods swept away homes, everything,\" her son, Juna Witak, told the AFP news agency.\n\nTorrents of mud washed over homes, bridges and roads in East Flores\n\nMud and debris has made it difficult to reach survivors\n\nLandslides and flash floods are not uncommon across the Indonesian archipelago during the rainy season.\n\nIn January this year, 40 people died when flash floods hit the town of Sumedang on Java.\n\nAnd last September, at least 11 people were killed in landslides on Borneo, while a few months earlier dozens died in Sulawesi.\n\nThe country's disaster agency has estimated that nearly half of the country's population - some 125 million people - live in parts of the country at risk of landslides.\n\nFlooding is common on the Indonesian archipelago during the rainy season", "Ciaran Leigh Morris was two weeks old when he died\n\nThe parents of a two-week old baby who died when a car hit his pram have paid tribute to their son.\n\nCiaran Leigh Morris was with family members on High Street, Brownhills, West Midlands, on Sunday afternoon when the car mounted the pavement.\n\nOn Monday, his parents said: \"Mommy's and Daddy's hearts will always ache, we love you more than anything.\"\n\nA 34-year-old man is being questioned on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving.\n\nWest Midlands Police said a BMW was involved in a crash with another car on High Street, at about 16:00 BST, before hitting the pram.\n\nThe driver left the scene, but a man was arrested in Bloxwich a short while later.\n\nCiaran's parents, who issued a tribute through the force, added: \"We didn't get to keep you for long but we are happy we had the chance to meet you, look after you and call you our son. Fly high angel.\"\n\nA relative suffered a shoulder injury, but no-one else was hurt.\n\nSgt Mark Crozier, from the force's serious collision investigation unit, said: \"We've all been left numb by the sad death of Ciaran. He was just two-weeks-old and his life has been tragically taken away.\n\n\"To see the loss of someone so young is difficult for us as officers, but we know the pain is even greater for Ciaran's family.\n\n\"We'll be doing all we can to support them while also trying to establish what happened.\"\n\nFlowers, toys and tributes have been placed at the scene\n\nSgt Crozier said he understood the baby's death would cause shock in the community.\n\nFlowers, toys and tributes have been left at the scene, where damage to a brick wall can be seen.\n\nPeople have been laying tributes at the scene\n\nA passenger from the BMW and the occupants of the other vehicle are helping with the investigation.\n\nPolice said they were keen to hear from anyone who was in the area who may have dashcam footage.\n\nThe baby was taken to hospital but could not be saved, said police\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "There remained a police presence outside the Senedd on Saturday\n\nCardiff Bay landmarks have been fenced off and police have stepped up patrols in parts of Wales in a bid to stop crowds breaking Covid rules.\n\nSpecial powers remain in place allowing officers to move people away in the bay area after hundreds gathered on the Senedd steps in recent days.\n\nThe area around the Welsh Parliament has also been cordoned off.\n\nAcross Wales police stepped up patrols after large groups were seen drinking on beaches and at beauty spots.\n\nSupt Marc Attwell, of South Wales Police, said people needed to take \"personal responsibility\" to prevent a third wave following the scenes in Cardiff Bay on Friday night.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMeanwhile, Cardiff council has urged people to remember \"the pandemic is not over\" after crowds gathered in various areas over the Easter weekend leaving piles of rubbish behind.\n\nCurrent Covid rules state six people from two different households can meet outdoors in Wales, but mass gatherings remain illegal.\n\nBut, in recent days communities and authorities across Wales have faced major clean-up operations, after groups gathered to enjoy the sunshine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Clean-up supervisor Tony Tobenas branded the mess left behind as \"disgusting\"\n\nIn Cardiff Bay barriers have been placed around the Senedd after hundreds of people congregated on Thursday and Friday, leading to arrests.\n\nA dispersal order remains in place in the area around the Welsh Parliament, meaning police can remove people from the vicinity, after gatherings saw police injured and the area left covered with litter.\n\nSecurity fencing has also been placed around a memorial to merchant seamen, after people were reportedly seen urinating on it.\n\nThe Merchant Seaman's Memorial in Cardiff Bay was surrounded by smashed beer bottles on Friday\n\nCardiff council placed security fences around the Senedd and the memorial on Saturday\n\nThe council said large groups of people \"intent on breaking Covid-19 restrictions\" had left substantial amounts of litter in the area on Friday, and bins it had put in place had not been used.\n\n\"Breaking these rules significantly increases the chances of Covid-19 cases rising in the city,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nIn the Bodlondeb area of Conwy, police have been given powers to move people on until Sunday night, after reports of \"groups of youths gathering and causing anti-social behaviour\".\n\nPolice have been given extra powers to disperse groups in Cardiff Bay\n\nMeanwhile in Swansea volunteers spent hours cleaning beaches of bottles, litter and smashed glass, while the council put out warnings after \"high\" levels of rubbish were left at beauty spots.\n\nAt Aberavon, in Neath Port Talbot, police spent Saturday evening patrolling the sand dunes after groups drank on the beach and started bonfires.\n\nMeanwhile in north Wales, firefighters issued warnings after a grass fire in Dolgellau on Saturday, urging people not to set deliberate fires or burn waste.", "Emma Caldwell's body was found in May 2005\n\nA woman has come forward claiming she was attacked twice by a man later identified as a prime suspect in the murder of Emma Caldwell.\n\nShe claims one of the attacks happened in the same remote woods where Ms Caldwell's body was found in 2005.\n\nThe woman, who worked as a street prostitute, told police the man who attacked her was Iain Packer.\n\nShe also named him in a \"Beware Book\" used by street workers to warn others against violent and abusive clients.\n\nEmma Caldwell had been a sex worker in Glasgow's red-light district when she disappeared on 4 April 2005.\n\nThe 27-year-old's body was found five weeks later, 40 miles away in woods near Roberton in South Lanarkshire.\n\nShe was naked and had been strangled.\n\nFour Turkish men were arrested and charged with her murder, however the case later collapsed and they were all released.\n\nSixteen years later no-one has been convicted of Emma's murder.\n\nA BBC investigation has now discovered at least four sex workers told police they were also taken to the same remote woodland by a client in the months before Emma was killed.\n\nTwo of the women said they were forced to strip and were left terrified by him. All identified the same man as being their alleged attacker.\n\nThe man they all picked out from police photobooks is 48-year-old Iain Packer.\n\nMr Packer was questioned six times by police during the investigation into Emma's murder and admitted to police that he had taken her and at least five other women to the remote woods for sex.\n\nIn 2019 he featured in a BBC Disclosure programme, during which he insisted to journalist Sam Poling that he had never been violent towards any women and denied having killed Emma Caldwell.\n\nDays after the interview, he was arrested and later convicted for attacking his former partner by choking her.\n\nOne woman, who spoke to the BBC for a new podcast series investigating the murder said that she identified her attacker to police in 2005 and also named the man in a logbook kept by a drop-in support service for women involved in street prostitution.\n\nA BBC investigation has discovered at least four sex workers told police they were taken to the same remote woodland\n\nThe logbook, known as the 'Beware Book', was a collection of warnings from prostitutes to other women about dangerous clients.\n\nThe woman, who asked not to be identified, has told the BBC that she was taken down to the Roberton woods by a client - whom she later identified as Packer - where he was sexually violent with her.\n\nShe said she named him in the logbook in the months before Ms Caldwell went missing and again to police in the weeks after her body was found.\n\nShe said he also picked her up from Glasgow's red-light district and took her to Pollok Park in the south of the city where he raped and beat her.\n\nFor the past four years, I have investigated the murder of Emma Caldwell.\n\nI have examined closely the police's botched inquiry into who killed her, and I have exposed a man whom I grew to believe was a prime suspect.\n\nWhen I began working on a podcast into Emma's case, I wanted to try to speak with as many women as possible who had lived and worked in the same world she did.\n\nEmma had turned to prostitution to fund her drugs habit and lived in a women's hostel in Glasgow. She had few friends but I managed to track down a number of those whom she was close with.\n\nI never expected to hear what I did. There wasn't a single woman I spoke to who hadn't been raped while selling sex on the streets of Glasgow. There wasn't a single woman who hadn't been beaten, attacked and humiliated.\n\nThe stories they told me spoke of a world in which the women lived with only a hopeful expectation of survival, not a guaranteed one.\n\nOne woman would pull out a strand of her hair whenever she got into a client's car. She would lean back and discreetly rub it into the carpet behind the passenger seat.\n\nShe hoped it would give police a forensic trail of her last movements. She knew it wouldn't save her life but it would maybe help find those who took it.\n\nAnother woman would ensure she kept the used condoms after sex with every client. She would secretly drop them where they had had sex, knowing both their DNA was on it.\n\nThat they had to live like this, I found difficult. But worse was hearing how the women were treated by those whose job it was to protect them - the police.\n\nThe women spoke of reporting rapes and attacks to the police and said they were rarely believed. They said they felt silenced, as though their voices were worthless.\n\nYet some of these women had vital information about Emma's case.\n\nSeveral spoke of a violent client who had taken them to the same woods where Emma's body had been found.\n\nOne woman described repeatedly being taken down a motorway by a client she was scared of. Four women picked the same man out of a photobook, stating he had been violent to them.\n\nI investigated all of this, and the evidence I found pointed to one man as a prime suspect - Iain Packer.\n\nHe was the man all these women had either named or identified from police photobooks.\n\nEverything I learned suggested he was a sexually violent man who had raped women. I even discovered evidence which alleged he had raped Emma in the months before she went missing.\n\nPacker himself admitted to police that he had taken several women - including Emma - down to the woods where her body was found.\n\nDespite the women repeatedly telling police about their violent experiences with Packer, the police arrested and charged four Turkish men. The case against them collapsed within months.\n\nIt is 16 years today since Emma went missing and no-one has been convicted for her murder.\n\nThe women I have spoken to say they feel angry and betrayed. They want to know why their experiences and their testimonies were ignored.\n\nAnd it's a question I'd like answered too.\n\nConcerns over the conduct of the Emma Caldwell murder inquiry were such that in 2015, Scotland's public prosecutor, the Lord Advocate, ordered Police Scotland to re-investigate not only who killed Emma Caldwell, but also what went wrong in the original investigation.\n\nIn a statement to the BBC, Police Scotland said the case remained open and a team of detectives continued to examine the circumstances of Ms Caldwell's death.\n\nA report was sent by Police Scotland to the Crown Office in June 2018 and, following further guidance received from the Crown Office, Police Scotland said the investigation continues.\n\nThe Crown Office said it could not comment on a live investigation.", "Amazon initially denied that workers had to urinate in bottles at times, but evidence of the practice later emerged\n\nAmazon has apologised to a US politician for falsely denying that drivers are, at times, forced to urinate in plastic bottles.\n\nMark Pocan, a Democrat from Wisconsin, referenced Amazon making \"workers urinate in water bottles\" in a tweet.\n\nThe official Amazon Twitter account then replied: \"If that were true, nobody would work for us.\"\n\nThe company has now apologised after evidence emerged of drivers having to urinate in bottles.\n\n\"We owe an apology to Representative Pocan,\" Amazon said in a statement.\n\n\"The tweet was incorrect. It did not contemplate our large driver population and instead wrongly focused only on our fulfilment centres.\"\n\nIt added that its fulfilment centres all have dozens of toilets that employees can use \"at any time\".\n\nProtesters in LA voiced their support for Amazon workers in Alabama\n\nMr Pocan had criticised Amazon for opposing efforts by workers to unionise a major facility in Alabama.\n\n\"Paying workers $15/hr doesn't make you a 'progressive workplace' when you union-bust & make workers urinate in water bottles,\" he wrote last week.\n\nShortly afterwards, Amazon's official account responded: \"You don't really believe the peeing in bottles thing, do you? If that were true, nobody would work for us.\"\n\nSeveral news outlets then quoted numerous Amazon employees who confirmed that they had been left with little option but to urinate in plastic bottles while working. They also described relentless working practices, both in its fulfilment centres and as delivery drivers.\n\nThe Intercept also said it had obtained internal documents suggesting that Amazon executives were aware of this happening.\n\nAmazon's retraction added: \"We know that drivers can and do have trouble finding restrooms because of traffic or sometimes rural routes, and this has been especially the case during Covid when many public restrooms have been closed.\"\n\nIt said the problem was \"a long-standing, industry-wide issue\" and said that they \"would like to solve it\".\n\nMr Pocan rejected the apology on Saturday, tweeting: \"Sigh. This is not about me, this is about your workers - who you don't treat with enough respect or dignity. Start by acknowledging the inadequate working conditions you've created for ALL your workers, then fix that for everyone and finally, let them unionise without interference.\"\n\nAmazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama, voted in a historic poll last week to decide whether they want to be represented by the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union. The effort has been strongly opposed by Amazon.\n\nThe results are not expected until next week. If they vote yes, it will become Amazon's first US union.\n\nAmazon has successfully fought off union efforts elsewhere in the US. However, most of its European facilities are unionised.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jordan's former Crown Prince Hamzah bin Hussein says his internet and phone lines have been cut\n\nThe former crown prince of Jordan, Prince Hamzah bin Hussein, says he has been placed under house arrest as part of a crackdown on critics. The military earlier denied that Prince Hamzah was under house arrest, but said he had been ordered to stop actions that could be used to target the country's \"security and stability\". In a video passed to the BBC by his lawyer on Saturday, the prince accuses the country's leaders of corruption, harassment and incompetence. Here is what he said, in full:\n\nI'm making this recording today to try to explain what's happened over the last few hours with me.\n\nI had a visit from the chief of the general staff of the Jordanian armed forces this morning, in which he informed me that I was not allowed to go out, to communicate with people or to meet with them, because in the meetings that I had been present in or on social media relating to visits that I have made, there has been criticism of the government, or the king.\n\nI asked him if I was the one criticising, he said no. He said but this was a warning from him, from the chief of police and from the chief of the security services the Mukhabarat, that I should not leave my house, that I could only visit family, that I could not tweet, and that I could not communicate with people.\n\nSince then a number of the people I know, or my friends, have been arrested, my security has been removed, and the internet and phone lines have been cut. This is my last form of communication, satellite internet, that I have - and I've been informed by the company that they are instructed to cut it, so it may be the last time I am able to communicate.\n\nAs I said to the chief of staff when he came, I am not the person responsible for the breakdown in governance, for the corruption, and for the incompetence that has been prevalent in our governing structure for the last 15 to 20 years, and has been getting worse by the year.\n\nI am not responsible for the lack of faith that people have in their institutions. They are responsible.\n\nUnfortunately, this country has gone from one that was at the forefront of the region in terms of education and healthcare, in terms of human dignity and freedoms, to one in which even to criticise a small aspect of a policy leads to arrest and abuse by the security services.\n\nPrince Hamzah, pictured in 2004, is the former crown prince of Jordan\n\nIt has reached the point where no one is able to speak or express an opinion on anything without being bullied, arrested, harassed and threatened.\n\nThis is a very sad and unfortunate turn for a country that as I said used to be in the forefront of the region. And the lives and futures of our children and their children are at stake if this continues. Their well-being has been put second by a ruling system has decided that its personal interests, that its financial interests, that its corruption is more important than the lives and dignity and futures of the more than 10 million people that live here.\n\nI am making this recording to make it clear that I am not part of any conspiracy or nefarious organisation or foreign-backed group, as is always the claim here for anyone who speaks out.\n\nI have spoken with people and tried to remain connected to people in the hope that they realise that there are members of this family who still love this country, who care for them and who will put them above all else, and so that I was able to remain aware and in touch with them and aware of their plight and their needs.\n\nApparently that is a crime worthy of isolation, threats, and now being cut off. I am in my home alone with my wife, our young children, and I wanted to make this recording so that it is clear to the world that what you see and hear in terms of the official line is not a reflection of the realities on the ground.\n\nUnfortunately this country has become stymied in corruption, in nepotism and in misrule, and the result has been the destruction or the loss of hope that is apparent in pretty much every Jordanian. The loss of hope in our future, the loss of dignity, and a life under constant threat because we simply want to speak the truth, or we are trying to express our concerns or our hopes for the future.\n\nI pray that all Jordanians will remember that I have always to tried to serve them to the best of my ability with what limited resources I have had, that I always will, and that God willing the situation will improve if we are able to come together and make our voice heard.", "The FA Cup semi final and final at Wembley Stadium in London will form part of the pilots\n\nThe government is to trial a series of measures in England, including Covid passports, to allow the safe return of sports matches, events and nightclubs.\n\nPasses would show if a person had been vaccinated, had a recent negative test, or natural immunity.\n\nTrial events in the coming months will also explore how ventilation and testing before and after could help crowds return.\n\nAny use of passes would be \"time-limited\", the sports minister has said.\n\nThe pilots, which will include the FA Cup final, will last until mid-May, and some of the listed events will not be trialling vaccination certification, including those taking place in Liverpool.\n\nSports Minister Nigel Huddleston described the trials as a \"learning experience\", saying no decisions had yet been made on processes or vaccination certificates.\n\nHe said the earlier pilots \"almost certainly won't involve any element of certification\", and that the government would also be looking at mitigations such as one-way systems and hygiene measures.\n\nMr Huddleston said the PM would receive a report on the trials at the end of May, and suggested further events could be added later in the year.\n\nThe plans come as the UK reported another 2,297 cases and 10 deaths within 28 days of a positive test - although Wales and Northern Ireland were not reporting data.\n\nMore than 31.5 million people have received a first dose of the vaccine, and nearly 5.4m have received both jabs, according to the latest government figures. All adults are due to be offered vaccination by the end of July, the government has said.\n\nMeanwhile, Downing Street has confirmed countries will be in a risk-based \"traffic light\" system when foreign holidays resume.\n\nThe pilots will include the FA Cup semi final and final in London's Wembley Stadium, the World Snooker Championship in Sheffield, a mass participation run at Hatfield House in Hertfordshire, and several events in Liverpool including an evening at a nightclub, a business conference and a cinema screening in the city.\n\nThe FA Cup final will be using certification.\n\nThe first pilot event will be a comedy night in Liverpool on 16 April where audience members will be tested for Covid before and after the show.\n\nThe University of Liverpool's Prof Iain Buchan, who will be helping run the city's trials, told BBC Breakfast taking part would involve giving consent when booking a ticket, receiving text messages about Covid safety, minimising your contacts before the event, and getting tested as close to the event as possible.\n\nProf Buchan added that people would be told not to attend if they developed any symptoms and the events would be held in well-ventilated places.\n\nAfter the event, people would be asked to minimise their contacts and get another test five days later, for the purposes of research, he said.\n\nDates have been set for pilots that might determine how we get back into big events - although it was a slightly confused picture earlier in terms of exactly which venues would be trialling what.\n\nThe details, it seems, are still being ironed out. Notable by its absence from the plans, for now, is any mention of pubs.\n\nThe freedom to head to your local for a pint had become something of a focal point over fears of a \"checkpoint society\".\n\nNot long ago, Boris Johnson suggested it could be up to individual landlords on whether they wanted to ask for proof of someone's Covid status.\n\nRegardless of whether that idea's quietly on the backburner or gone for good, there's still doubt in the Tory ranks.\n\nOne MP tells me they still have plenty of reservations, although they could possibly get their head around temporary plans for larger events only. Another says they remain firmly against any kind of domestic certification.\n\nThe government, however, has given itself a bit of time to chew everything over - whether that means the results of the pilots or the political mood.\n\nNews of the trials, particularly Liverpool's nightclub pilot, was welcomed by industry body the Night Time Industries Association.\n\nBut NTIA chief executive Michael Kill called for further trials across a wider scope of businesses in the sector, expressing concern \"that this will only give an acute view of the challenges faced within such unique environments where one size does not fit all\".\n\nThe NHS is said to be working on a system to allow people to demonstrate their status through an app or paper certificate.\n\nThe government said it was also working with clinical and ethical experts on exemptions for people for whom vaccination is not advised and repeat testing would be difficult.\n\nNo 10 said it did not want the scheme, which it is describing as \"Covid-status certification\", to be used on public transport or in essential shops.\n\nBusinesses in England which can reopen in the coming weeks, including pubs, restaurants and non-essential retail will not have to use the system for now.\n\nHowever, sources say requiring a certificate to access hospitality further down the line - perhaps to reduce the need for social distancing - has not been ruled out.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said the government was doing everything it could to ensure people could return to events and travel \"as safely as possible\".\n\nCabinet Office Minister Michael Gove, who is leading the review into the use of Covid passports, has called certification for international travel an \"inevitability\".\n\nWriting in the Sunday Telegraph, he also said it could also be a \"valuable aid\" in reopening parts of the domestic economy faster.\n\nHowever, critics, including more than 40 Tory MPs and privacy campaigners, have suggested a Covid passport scheme could be \"discriminatory and counterproductive\".\n\nFormer Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who now sits as an independent, and senior Tory Iain Duncan Smith are among a broad coalition of MPs who have pledged their opposition.\n\nTheir concerns have been echoed by leading scientists, including infectious diseases expert Dr Mike Tildesley, who said he was \"very much against the idea of domestic travel passports at the moment\" when many people have not been offered the vaccine and uptake was inconsistent among communities.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast he recognised the need for security so that mass events could resume but said we need \"a fair system that isn't discriminating against certain members of society\".\n\nProf Melinda Mills, director of the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science at the University of Oxford, also appeared on the programme, and said there were \"still a lot of open questions\" about the scheme.\n\nThey included practical questions and ethical ones, she said, such as: \"Do I have to pay for the testing if I haven't been vaccinated or had that opportunity?\"\n\nThe sociologist acknowledged the scheme could work as an incentive for people to get vaccinated, but added that it could also inspire forgery if paper documents are used.\n\nWhile the proposed plans cover England only, the government is discussing the scheme with Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nUnder the government's plan to ease England's lockdown, legal limits on social contact could be lifted by 21 June, if strict conditions are met.\n\nThe government said its risk-based traffic-light system for international travel would \"help ensure the UK's vaccine progress isn't jeopardised and provide clear guidance for travellers\".\n\nInternational leisure travel will not be allowed until 17 May at the earliest.\n\nAfter this point, travellers from countries in the green category will not have to isolate, although pre-departure and post-arrival tests will still be needed.\n\nFor countries assigned red and amber, restrictions would remain as they are now, with arrivals required to enter quarantine or self-isolation.\n\nThe list of countries included in each category will be drawn up closer to the time, and the government continues to advise people not to book summer holidays abroad.\n\nFurther detail on international travel will be provided on Monday, along with information about a review into social distancing - which is examining how and when distancing requirements and the working from home guidance could be lifted, and whether Covid certification could facilitate changes to the rules.", "The US will share up to 60 million doses of its AstraZeneca vaccine with other countries as they become available, the White House has said.\n\nThe doses will be able to be exported in the coming months after a federal safety review.\n\nThe US has a stockpile of the vaccine even though its regulators have not yet authorised it for public use.\n\nCritics have accused the government of hoarding the vaccine, while other countries are in desperate need.\n\nLast month President Joe Biden pledged to share about four million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine with Mexico and Canada - both of which have approved the jab.\n\nThe crisis in India has also piled pressure on the Biden administration to share US health resources.\n\nOn Monday, the White House said it expected that about 10 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine could be released when the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) finishes its review in the coming weeks.\n\nIt said that another 50 million doses were in various stages of production.\n\nAt a news briefing, White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said FDA officials would carry out quality checks on doses before they were exported.\n\n\"Our team will share more details about our planning and who will be receiving offers from here, but we're in the planning process at this point in time,\" she added.\n\nThe US has already announced that it will provide raw materials for Indian vaccine manufacturers as the country battles a devastating surge in cases.\n\nIn a \"warm and positive\" phone call with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday, President Biden promised more emergency assistance \"including oxygen-related supplies, vaccine materials and therapeutics\", a White House statement said.\n\nWashington is also looking at supplying oxygen, Covid tests, personal protective equipment (PPE) and the antiviral drug remdesivir to India's health service.\n\nThe FDA has so far authorised three vaccines against Covid- 19 - Pfizer BioNTech, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson (Janssen). Experts say it looks likely that these will provide all the country's needs and the AstraZeneca jab may not be needed.\n\nAccording to the latest figures, more than 53% of adults have so far received at least one dose of vaccine.\n\nThe US handling of the coronavirus pandemic has had plenty of shortcomings, but vaccine production isn't one of them. The Biden administration has an abundance of jabs, and now it is sharing some of that bounty with other countries.\n\nThe decision to ship as many as 60 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine - which have yet to be approved for use in the US - comes at a critical moment, with US neighbours Canada and Mexico continuing to struggle and India facing a devastating surge in cases.\n\nIt gives the Biden administration the opportunity to engage in \"vaccine diplomacy\" - using the shipments to pressure other nations to follow suit and engender goodwill that might help advance other US foreign policy priorities.\n\nAt the very least it inoculates Joe Biden from criticism that the US has turned its back on the world as it sat on millions of doses that weren't needed - or wanted - when they could be saving lives.\n\nThe domestic risk for the president seems minimal, as long as the US supply holds up. It signals the administration's growing confidence that the domestic challenge ahead isn't one of having enough jabs, but convincing all Americans to receive vaccinations that are already available.\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", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson denies making 'bodies pile up' claim during third lockdown conversation\n\nBoris Johnson said he would rather see \"bodies pile high\" than take the country into a third lockdown, sources familiar with the conversations have told the BBC.\n\nThe remarks were said to have been made last autumn, just as England went into a second lockdown.\n\nThe PM has strongly denied saying the phrase, describing the reports as \"total rubbish\".\n\nThe government is also facing questions over possible donations made to re-decorate the prime minister's flat, and an investigation into leaked information about England's second lockdown.\n\nEngland entered its third lockdown on 6 January.\n\nMr Johnson's comments - first reported in the Daily Mail - came at the end of October when the government announced there would be a second lockdown in England following a sharp rise in coronavirus cases.\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg says, at the time, the prime minister was reported to have had big concerns about the implications of another lockdown on the economy and non-Covid related health issues.\n\n\"This does take us back to that moment and back to the very serious claims made by some people who were involved in the decision making - including some ministers - that the hesitancy around the second lockdown did cost lives,\" she said.\n\nAsked about the comments earlier on Monday, Mr Johnson denied having made them adding that the public wanted the government \"to make sure that the lockdowns work, and they have\".\n\nThe PM's spokesman said the reported comments were false adding: \"This is untrue and the PM has denied it… I'm not aware of anyone else making that statement.\"\n\nMr Johnson was also defended by Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove who told MPs he was in the room during conversations about the lockdown but \"never heard language of that kind\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said he was \"astonished\" by the reports adding: \"Everybody would be deeply concerned, not least all those families who have lost someone in the pandemic.\"\n\nThe prime minister was also strongly criticised by other opposition MPs in the House of Commons.\n\nMs Reeves - Labour's shadow Cabinet Office minister - said the prime minister was a man who \"would rather the bodies pile high than act on scientific advice - but they are not bodies; they are people, they are loved ones and they are deeply missed.\"\n\nShe called for an urgent public inquiry into the government's handling of the pandemic adding: \"This is all about conduct, character and decency - frankly, our country deserves an awful lot better than this.\"\n\nThe SNP's Alison Thewliss said the comments were \"not befitting the office of prime minister\" describing his words as \"despicable, cruel and callous\".\n\nMatt Fowler, co-founder of the group Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice, which is calling an inquiry into the pandemic, said the comments had caused outrage among members.\n\nHe said: \"These callous comments will have caused untold hurt to hundreds of thousands of us across the whole of the country.\n\n\"This demonstrates exactly why an urgent inquiry is so vital, to understand the decisions, rationale and consideration in protecting our loved ones that the government chose.\"\n\nThis comes amid a bitter row between Downing Street and the prime minister's former senior adviser Dominic Cummings.\n\nLast week, Mr Cummings published a blog in which he:\n\nEarlier, Mr Case gave evidence at an MPs' committee and said the inquiry into the second lockdown leak is ongoing; however, he added that \"given the time that has now passed, I think it's probable the team will not successfully identify the source or sources\".\n\nA Cabinet Office source told the BBC that no-one had yet been exonerated in the investigation.\n\nAsked if he would launch an inquiry into the leak of the prime minister's lockdown comments, Mr Case said he would have to discuss that with Mr Johnson.\n\nBoris Johnson and his fiancee Carrie Symonds moved into No 11 Downing Street in July 2019\n\nThe prime minister is also facing questions about the funding of his Downing Street flat refurbishment.\n\nOver the weekend, ministers had said the prime minister \"personally paid the bill\" for the flat but did not answer questions on whether a Tory party donor initially provided the money to him.\n\nMr Johnson has said he would make any necessary declarations about donations \"in due course\" and Mr Case - who is the UK's top civil servant - said he would review how the refurbishment was paid for.\n\nSpeaking in Wrexham, Mr Johnson said the public were more interested in what the government was doing to move the country \"cautiously but irreversibly through the steps of the road map to unlock and to get our country going\".\n\nHe said the disease was \"under control\" and that deaths and hospitalisations were low but added \"that doesn't mean that we've got it totally licked\".\n\n\"We've got to be realistic about that; unfortunately, there probably will be another wave of the disease.\"", "Two former executives at the private security company Serco have been cleared of concealing £12m in profits from electronically tagging criminals.\n\nNicholas Woods and Simon Marshall were charged with defrauding the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) between 2011 and 2013.\n\nA judge ordered the acquittals because of problems with the disclosure of documents to defence lawyers.\n\nSubsidiary firm Serco Geografix was fined £19.2m in 2019 for hiding profits.\n\nMr Woods, 51, of Ickford, Buckinghamshire, is the former finance director of Serco Home Affairs while Mr Marshall, 59, of Ascot, Berkshire, is a former operations director of field services within Serco.\n\nTheir trial at London's Southwark Crown Court began in March, after the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) launched an investigation in 2013 into Serco's government contracts.\n\nMrs Justice Tipples ordered the pair's acquittal on a joint fraud charge and also cleared Mr Marshall of two further counts of fraud.\n\nShe said the SFO took the view that issues identified had \"undermined the process of disclosure in this case to the extent that the trial cannot safely and fairly proceed\".\n\nIn a statement, Mr Marshall said: \"Over the last eight years I have made clear that I acted properly and honestly in all my work at Serco.\n\n\"The allegations against me were entirely without substance, as is now clear.\"\n\nMr Woods' solicitor, Andrew Katzen, said the SFO's decision to drop the case was a \"vindication\" of his client.\n\nHe added: \"The fact that it has done this after an eight-year-long criminal investigation and three weeks into a trial should be a matter of profound concern to everyone concerned with justice.\"\n\nIn 2019, Serco Geografix was fined £19.2m in relation to the MoJ contracts as part of a Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA).\n\nMr Katzen said: \"In this case - just as in other similar recent failed fraud prosecutions - the SFO signed a DPA with Serco in which the company, in return for avoiding corporate prosecution, admitted wrongdoing and co-operated with the investigation.\n\n\"It is hard to avoid the conclusion that, once again, the narrative created by the DPA drove this investigation, and did so in defiance of the facts.\"\n\nMr Marshall added: \"I note that Nick Woods and I were the tenth and eleventh people to be charged by the SFO following a DPA. As of this morning, we became the tenth and eleventh to be acquitted in such circumstances.\n\n\"It is clear to me that I was prosecuted, not as a result of a fair assessment of the evidence, but because I was collateral damage in the deal that was done by Serco with the SFO.\"\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.", "Google Argentina's domain name was bought by a web designer while the site was out of action for two hours in the country last Wednesday.\n\nNicolas Kurona, aged 30, said he managed to buy Google.com.ar through a normal, legal process.\n\n\"I never imagined that it was going to allow me to buy it,\" he told the BBC.\n\nGoogle Argentina told the BBC: \"For a short term, the domain was acquired by someone else.\" It added it had regained control of the domain very quickly.\n\nThe story started when Nicolas was at his desk on the outskirts of Buenos Aires on Wednesday night, designing a website for a client.\n\nHe started getting messages on WhatsApp that Google was down.\n\n\"I entered www.google.com.ar into my browser and it didn't work,\" he said. \"I thought something strange was happening.\"\n\nHe decided to go on to the Network Information Center Argentina (NIC) - the organisation responsible for operating the .ar country code domains. He searched for Google - and up popped Argentina's Google domain available for purchase.\n\nDespite thinking it would not work, he \"followed the steps and then I received an email with the purchase invoice\", he said.\n\nNicolas shared the NIC invoice with the BBC. Google Argentina's domain name was acquired for 270 pesos (£2.08/$2.90).\n\nDumbfounded, he tapped www.google.com.ar into his search bar and pressed enter. \"My personal data appeared,\" he said.\n\n\"I was frozen looking at the screen. I could not believe what had just happened.\"\n\nAt 21.52 local time on Wednesday, Nicolas bought Google Argentina's domain name. All of those millions of Google searches, and people coming to www.google.com.ar, were now in theory, coming to him.\n\n\"I want to make it clear that I never had any bad intentions, I just tried to buy it and the NIC allowed me to,\" he said.\n\nNicolas's night had, in just a few minutes, turned into a major news story.\n\n\"When the purchase process was completed and my data appeared, I knew that something was going to happen... I was really anxious,\" he said.\n\nNicolas tweeted what had happened - to try to clarify how events had gone down, he 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 Nicolas David Kuroña This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSo what on earth happened?\n\nWell, one theory is that Google had simply forgotten to renew its domain name. However, Google says its licence for the domain hadn't expired - and was not due to expire until July 2021.\n\nOpen Data Córdoba group (which is dedicated to tracking expired Argentine domains, and tracking registered ones) backs this up. It's still unclear why Google's domain name was released.\n\nNicolas says he has no idea what happened, but it feels \"slightly strange\" to have so much media attention. He has been hailed as a hero in some corners of Twitter, and his tweet clarifying what happened has racked up 80,000 likes.\n\nNicolas says he's just relieved that he didn't get into trouble.\n\nHe says the NIC took the domain name away from him shortly after he purchased it, but his 270 pesos have not been returned.\n\nHe says Google didn't get in touch, and that he wasn't paid. Google has yet to clear up how they got the domain name back.\n\nThe company is investigating what went down on Wednesday. But for some reason, for a few minutes at least, Google lost control of Google Argentina this week - to a 30-year-old web designer, it seems.\n\nJames Clayton is the BBC's North America technology reporter based in San Francisco. Follow him on Twitter @jamesclayton5.", "Boris Johnson lives in Downing Street with his fiancee Carrie Symonds\n\nThe UK's top civil servant says Boris Johnson has asked him to review how the refurbishment of his Downing Street flat was paid for.\n\nCabinet Secretary Simon Case was responding to MPs' questions about how the work was funded.\n\nThe row escalated after Mr Johnson's ex-adviser Dominic Cummings claimed the PM once planned to have donors \"secretly pay\" for the revamp.\n\nThe PM has said any relevant donations will be declared \"in due course\".\n\nLabour has called on the Electoral Commission, which regulates political donations in the UK, to launch a formal investigation.\n\nThe watchdog has said it is talking to the Conservative Party about whether the spending on the flat falls within its remit.\n\nAppearing before a Commons committee on Monday, Mr Case said a review into the refurbishment would look at \"how this has been done\".\n\nAsked repeatedly whether he was aware if private donations covered any of the costs, he said he had \"not been involved directly in this\".\n\n\"I do not have all of the facts and details at my disposal,\" he said, adding that his review would probably take \"a matter of weeks\".\n\nAnother day, another denial. Another 24 hours when rather than making their arguments, the government is embroiled in arguments about the past.\n\nWhether it's the prime minister's alleged frustrations about lockdown, attacks from his former adviser Dominic Cummings, or the mystery over his expensive flat renovation, as one senior Tory put it, it matters, because it all relates to Boris Johnson's judgement.\n\nMany Conservatives have been confident however that the prime minister's reputation, his enjoyment for pushing convention, is something that many voters are even attracted to.\n\nBut there's a risk that confidence could turn to complacency.\n\nThere is a belief in the Labour Party that the unhappy mess is starting to be noticed by voters.\n\nAnd no one knows when, or what might next emerge.\n\nOne cabinet minister told me \"there's nothing we can do to control it.\"\n\nThe claims about the flat are contained in a blog posted by Mr Cummings on Friday, his first since leaving his role in No 10.\n\nIn the blog, Mr Cummings also denied he was behind the leaking of details of November's second coronavirus lockdown in England.\n\nMr Case told MPs that an internal inquiry into that leak was ongoing, but it was \"probable\" officials working on it would fail to identify any sources.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Johnson has denied reports he said he would rather \"let the bodies pile high in their thousands\" than order a third lockdown.\n\nThe Daily Mail reported the prime minister made the remarks during heated conversations within government in the autumn over lockdown restrictions.\n\nSources familiar with the conversation have told the BBC Mr Johnson suggested he would rather see \"bodies pile high\" during the discussions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Simon Case was asked whether private donations funded work at the flat\n\nLike several of his recent predecessors, the PM is living in the flat above No 11 Downing Street, which is larger than the one above No 10.\n\nSpeaking earlier, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said the prime minister had paid for the revamp \"from his own money\" .\n\nHe said this came \"on top of\" public money from the annual £30,000 taxpayer grant available to all prime ministers for the upkeep of their accommodation.\n\nIn a written statement on Friday, the government said no money from this grant was spent in the 2019/20 financial year. Figures for this year are expected to be published in the summer.\n\n\"At all times the prime minister has complied with the rules. He's paid for it out of his own money, \" he said.\n\nMichelle Obama visited Samantha Cameron in the 11 Downing St flat back in 2011\n\nSpeaking to reporters on Monday, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer urged a \"full and transparent investigation\" into the allegations about the Downing Street flat, arguing they risked undermining trust in government.\n\n\"It's all very well the prime minister saying now 'I paid for it', the critical question was: what was the original arrangement - and why is it so complicated?\"\n\n\"If there's a straightforward answer, well give it. And if there isn't, then there are very serious questions to be asked,\" he added.\n\nA No 10 spokesperson said: \"At all times, the government and ministers have acted in accordance with the appropriate codes of conduct and electoral law.\"\n\nDonations and loans to political parties of more than £7,500 must be reported to the Electoral Commission.\n\nThe Conservative Party has previously said that all \"reportable donations\" are \"correctly declared to the Electoral Commission, published by them and comply fully with the law\".\n\nThe party said \"gifts and benefits received in a ministerial capacity\" are declared in government transparency returns.\n\nMr Case was also asked by MPs about the case of businessman Lex Greensill who was a part-time unpaid government adviser in David Cameron's government.\n\nThe civil servant boss said that situation was not \"acceptable\" and that it \"looks like there were conflicts\". He added that he didn't think there was anything of that equivalent happening in the civil service now.\n\nThe prime minister has already appointed the lawyer Nigel Boardman to hold a review into all the issues surrounding Greensill Capital.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. There was 'chaos' on the roads around Snowdon last year\n\nPeople will now have to pre-book to park to walk up Wales' highest mountains to stop queues at the summit.\n\nHundreds of people were fined for dangerous parking as hikers flocked back to Snowdon when lockdown restrictions were eased last year.\n\nPlans to help prevent future chaos include making visitors book 24 hours ahead to park near the mountain.\n\nAngela Jones, of the national park authority, said it \"encourages people to plan ahead\".\n\nThe pre-bookable system is in place this year in Pen y Pass, the starting point for some of the most popular paths up Snowdon.\n\nThe system will be in place for the entire summer following a successful pilot at the end of last summer.\n\nAngela Jones said she hoped the scheme would make people think before travelling to the beauty spot\n\nMs Jones, of Snowdonia National Park Authority (SNPA), said people would have to download an app or book online before driving to the mountain.\n\n\"You have to book at least a day before you intend to travel, so you can't book within the 24 hours before you want to come here.\n\n\"We want people to think what they're going to do here in Snowdonia before they come, where they're going to park, where they'll stay and what they're going to see,\" she said.\n\nMs Jones said while parking under the new system would cost \"a little more\", it would be less than last year's pilot.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. More than 500 cars were parked along the roads in Snowdonia\n\nShe said the extra cost would go towards funding the Sherpa buses and contribute towards paying security staff to patrol the carpark overnight.\n\nRubbish has been left on Snowdon, including this found outside the cafe at the summit\n\nWith increased visitors after lockdown travel restrictions were eased, new digital messaging boards have also been put up at beauty spots reminding people key information.\n\nIt comes after people were urged to respect the countryside after after \"widespread\" reports of visitors leaving litter and using beauty spots as toilets.\n\nCatrin Glyn, from Yr Wyddfa Partnership, said while the digital touchscreens were currently disabled due to Covid, people could still see messages on them.\n\n\"For example, there's a page explaining that Hafod Eryri - the building and cafe on Snowdon's summit - is closed and that it's better for people to use toilet facilities before they go up,\" she said.\n\n\"There's also an up-to-date bus timetable so that people can see exactly when the buses leave for Pen y Pass or Llanberis,\" she said.\n\nMs Glyn said volunteers were picking litter on all the paths and an information van would be heading to beauty spots to give visitors advice.\n\nIf a success the scheme could be extended to other areas such as Cwm Idwal in the Ogwen Valley.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The penultimate episode of Line of Duty was the show's most-watched instalment to date, with an average of 11 million viewers tuning in on Sunday night.\n\nThe record ratings came as BBC One unveiled a trailer for next weekend's series finale, that suggested it may be the police drama's last ever episode.\n\n\"Every investigation has led to this,\" the promo declared.\n\nA lingering H in the caption hinted that the mysterious criminal mastermind known as 'H' would be unveiled at last.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nLine of Duty returned to TV screens in March with 9.6m viewers watching the series' first episode - up on the 9.07m who tuned into the previous series' finale.\n\nSunday's episode saw Kelly Macdonald's character, Joanne Davidson, subjected to a mammoth grilling that led to secrets about her background being revealed.\n\nIt commanded 56.2% of the UK's TV audience, according to overnight figures.\n\nIt was the highest overnight audience for a drama since Doctor Who's Christmas Day special in 2008, which was watched by 11.7 million viewers.\n\nMacdonald was tight-lipped about the series finale when she appeared on BBC Breakfast on Monday, giving a terse \"no comment\" to presenter Dan Walker's demands for plot information.\n\nYet she did reveal that filming one dramatic scene had descended into laughter when one of the cast mispronounced \"racist thugs\" and said \"racist slugs\" instead.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Azaylia Diamond Cain was eight weeks old when she was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia\n\nFormer footballer Ashley Cain has announced his eight-month-old daughter Azaylia has died.\n\nShe was diagnosed with an aggressive form of leukaemia at eight weeks old.\n\nHer parents, ex-Coventry City player turned reality star Ashley Cain and partner Safiyya Vorajee, had raised more than £1.5m earlier this year to fund specialist treatment in Singapore.\n\nBut the 30-year-old told his Instagram followers last month that Azaylia had become too ill for the treatment.\n\nIn posts announcing her death, Ashley and Safiyya shared pictures of them cuddling their daughter.\n\nEx on the Beach star Ashley wrote: \"Rest in Paradise Princess. I will always hold you in my heart until I can hold you again in heaven.\"\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 mrashleycain 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\nAzaylia's mum said her baby was \"my angel, my heartbeat, my soul.\"\n\nShe added: \"RIP my precious baby, you will always be with me like a handprint on my heart.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post 2 by miss_safiyya_ This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn November, the couple - from Nuneaton in Warwickshire - had urged people to register as stem cell donors after being told their daughter needed a transplant.\n\nIt led to 41,000 people registering within 48 hours.\n\nBut doctors had told them they wouldn't be able to cure Azaylia, whose leukaemia got worse despite a successful bone marrow transplant.\n\nLove Island's Molly-Mae Hague is one of many who've posted tributes online, writing: \"Heaven has gained the sweetest angel, My heart is broken\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Molly-Mae This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLateysha Grace, who's also an MTV reality star, posted: \"So sorry. I honestly can't believe how strong you and your partner have been throughout this\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Lateysha Grace 🏴 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLove Island's Malin Andersson, who recently spoke about the death of her baby and a miscarriage, also sent her love to the couple.\n\nTOWIE's Mario Falcone wrote on Instagram: \"Heartbroken for you mate! Rip little Princess\"\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. 'A person cannot even die peacefully in Delhi'\n\nAs hospitals in Delhi and many other cities run out of beds, people have been forced to find ways to get treatment for sick patients at home. Many have turned to the black market, where prices of essential medicines, oxygen cylinders and concentrators have skyrocketed and questionable drugs are now proliferating.\n\nOn Monday, India recorded a new global high for daily coronavirus cases for a fifth straight day at 352, 991.\n\nAnshu Priya could not get a hospital bed in Delhi or its suburb of Noida for her father-in-law and as his condition continued to deteriorate. She spent most of Sunday looking for an oxygen cylinder but her search was futile.\n\nSo she finally turned to the black market. She paid a hefty amount - 50,000 rupees ($670; £480) - to procure a cylinder that normally costs 6,000 rupees. With her mother-in-law also struggling to breathe, Anshu knew she may not be able to find or afford another cylinder on the black market.\n\nThis is a familiar story not just in Delhi but also in Noida, Lucknow, Allahabad, Indore and so many other cities where families are desperately cobbling together makeshift arrangements at home.\n\nBut most of India's population cannot afford to do this. There are already several reports of people dying at the doorsteps of hospitals because they couldn't afford to buy essential drugs and oxygen on the black market.\n\nThe BBC called several oxygen cylinder suppliers and most of them asked for at least 10 times more than the normal price.\n\nThe situation is particularly dire in Delhi where there are no ICU beds left. Families of those who can afford it are hiring nurses and consulting doctors remotely to keep their loved ones breathing.\n\nBut the struggles are huge from getting blood tests done to getting a CT scan or x-ray.\n\nLabs are overrun and it's taking up to three days for test results to come back. This is making it harder for treating doctors to assess the progression of the disease. CT scans are also used by doctors to asses the condition of the patient but it's taking days to get an appointment.\n\nDoctors say that these delays are putting many patients at risk. RT-PCR tests are also taking days. I know several sick patients who found a bed but couldn't get admitted as they didn't have a positive Covid report.\n\nAnuj Tiwari hired a nurse to assist in the treatment of his brother at home after he was refused admission in many hospitals.\n\nSome said they didn't have any free beds and others said they were not taking new patients due to continuing uncertainty over the supply of oxygen. A number of patients have died in Delhi due to a lack of oxygen supply. The city's hospitals are desperate and some have been issuing daily warnings, saying they are left with just a few hours of oxygen. Then the government swings into action and tankers are sent, which is often enough to run the hospital for a day.\n\nA doctor in Delhi said that was how hospitals were working and \"there are real fears now that a big tragedy may happen\".\n\nGiven the scenario at hospitals, Mr Tiwari paid a hefty amount to procure a concentrator - which can extract oxygen from the air - keep his brother breathing. The doctor also asked him to arrange the anti-viral drug remdesivir, which has been given emergency-use approval in India and is being prescribed widely by doctors. The benefits of the drug - which was originally developed to treat Ebola - are still being debated across the world.\n\nMr Tiwari couldn't find the drug in any medicine shop and eventually turned to the black market. His brother's condition continues to be critical and the treating doctor says he may soon need a hospital where remdesvir could be administered.\n\nIndians are waiting for hours to cremate the deceased as cases surge\n\n\"There are no beds. What will I do? I can't even take him anywhere else as I have already spent so much money and don't have much left,\" he said.\n\nHe added that \"the desperate battle to save Covid patients has shifted from hospitals to home\", and even that is proving to be a daunting task as \"we don't have easy access to oxygen\".\n\nRemdesivir is in such short supply that families of the patients who are being treated at home are rushing to procure it. They want to have the drug in case the patient is required to go to hospital and may need the drug.\n\nThe BBC spoke to several dealers on the black market who said the supply was tight and that was why they were charging such high prices. The government has allowed seven firms to manufacture remdesvir in India and they have been told to ramp up production.\n\nBut several promises of adequate supply from the government have failed to show any result on the ground. Epidemiologist Dr Lalit Kant says the decision to ramp up production was taken too late and the government should have been prepared for the second wave.\n\n\"But somehow the drug is available in the black market, so there is some leakage in the supply system which the regulators haven't been able to plug,\" he says.\n\n\"We learnt nothing from the first wave.\"\n\nAnother drug that is in huge demand is tocilizumab. It is normally used to treat arthritis but studies have shown that it can reduce the chances of a very sick patient needing to go on a ventilator.\n\nDoctors are prescribing the drug mostly to patients who are severely sick. But it has disappeared from the market. Cipla, the Indian company that imports and sells the drug, has been struggling to meet the rising demand.\n\nIt usually costs around 32,480 rupees for a vial of 400mg. But Kamal Kumar paid 250,000 rupees to buy one dose for his father. He said the price was \"mind boggling\" but he had no other option but to pay.\n\nPublic health expert Anant Bhan says the government should have procured the drug in huge quantities as not many can afford to buy it in the black market.\n\n\"This shows that there was no planning. The government failed to anticipate the wave and plan for it,\" he says.\n\n\"People have been left to their own fate.\"\n\nFake remdesivir has also appeared in the black market. When the BBC questioned a dealer that the drug he was offering seemed fake as the firm manufacturing it wasn't on the list of the companies licensed to produce it in India, he replied that it was \"100% original\".\n\nThe packaging was also full of spelling errors. But he shrugged and asked me to get it tested in any laboratory. The firm also has no presence on the internet.\n\nBut such is the desperation that people are willing to buy even questionable drugs. And some have been cheated as well. People are constantly sharing phone numbers of suppliers who can provide anything from oxygen to medicines. But not all of these numbers are verified.\n\nAn IT worker, who did not want to be named, said that he desperately needed to buy an oxygen cylinder and remdesivir, and he got a lead from Twitter. When he contacted the person, he was told to deposit 10,000 rupees as advance payment.\n\n\"The moment I sent the money, the person blocked my number,\" he said.\n\nDesperation is driving people to trust anything in the hour of need and that seems to be fuelling the black market. Several state governments have promised to crack down on black marketing of remdesivir and some arrests have also been made. But the black market seems unfazed.\n\nMr Tiwari says people like him don't have any choice but to pay more.\n\n\"It seems you can't get treated in hospitals, and now you can't save your loved ones even at home.\"\n\nHow have you been affected by coronavirus in India? 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.", "Acting winners Yuh-Jung Youn, Daniel Kaluuya and Frances McDormand backstage after the Oscars\n\nHollywood's biggest night has taken place, honouring the movie industry's finest from the past 12 months. Here is the full list of the winners of the 93rd Academy Awards.\n\nSteven Yeun (right) will be recognised by Walking Dead fans as Glenn Rhee\n\nSoul is about a school music teacher who dreams of being a jazz performer\n\nCeleste's music is influenced by the likes of Aretha Franklin, Neneh Cherry and Billie Holiday\n\nNews of the World stars Tom Hanks and Helena Zengel\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Labour is calling for a senior minister to face MPs' questions over allegations the PM considered asking Conservative donors to help fund his Downing Street flat refurbishment.\n\nThe party will request the government be summoned to the Commons to address claims by ex-adviser Dominic Cummings.\n\nLabour says Boris Johnson needs to disclose where the money came from.\n\nThe government said \"costs of wider refurbishment in this year have been met by the prime minister personally\".\n\nIt comes amid a row over the lobbying of ministers, including the prime minister, after it was revealed he had exchanged text messages with businessman Sir James Dyson. Mr Cummings denied reports he leaked the messages.\n\nOnce Mr Johnson's closest ally, Mr Cummings was forced out of his Downing Street role at the end of last year, following an internal power struggle.\n\nIn a blistering attack on his old boss on Friday, Mr Cummings questioned the prime minister's \"competence and integrity\".\n\nIn his first blog post since leaving his role at the end of 2020, Mr Cummings:\n\nNo 10 insisted the PM had never interfered in a government leak inquiry.\n\nOn Monday, Labour will ask the Commons speaker to grant an urgent question, a device which allows MPs to question a senior minister at short notice.\n\nMr Cummings promised to answer questions about \"any\" issues when he appears before a Parliamentary inquiry into the government's pandemic response on 26 May.\n\nTory MP Greg Clark, chairman of the Commons Science and Technology Committee, told the BBC the usual procedure would be to publish any documents Mr Cummings provides on lessons learned from the handling of Covid.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer: \"Every day there's more evidence of sleaze and it stinks\"\n\nLike several of his recent predecessors, Mr Johnson and his fiancee Carrie Symonds are living in the flat above No 11 Downing Street, which is larger than the one above No 10.\n\nIn March, Downing Street dismissed as \"speculation\" suggestions that refurbishments carried out last year would be paid for by Tory donors through a charity set up for this purpose, amid reports that the costs had spiralled out of control.\n\nThe Electoral Commission says it is working to establish whether any of the spending on the flat needs to be examined within its own remit on political donations, and therefore needs to be reported and subsequently published.\n\nOn Saturday, Labour also said Mr Johnson needed to reveal whether any of the money was a loan.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said: \"If there is nothing to see here - whether it is the refurb of No 10, whether it is the dodgy contracts, whether it is the privileged access - if there is nothing to see, publish everything, have a full inquiry.\"\n\nIn response to Mr Cummings's claims, a No 10 spokesperson said: \"At all times, the government and ministers have acted in accordance with the appropriate codes of conduct and electoral law.\n\n\"Cabinet Office officials have been engaged and informed throughout and official advice has been followed.\n\n\"All reportable donations are transparently declared and published - either by the Electoral Commission or the House of Commons registrar, in line with the requirements set out in electoral law.\n\n\"Gifts and benefits received in a ministerial capacity are, and will continue to be, declared in transparency returns.\"\n\nResponding to a Parliamentary question, Cabinet Office minister Lord True said that during successive governments the prime minister has been given an allowance of £30,000 a year from the public funds to maintain and furnish the flat in Downing Street.\n\nHe said no work took place in 2019-20 due to the pandemic, but official figures on spending this year are not yet available.\n\nDowning Street contractors have carried out work on painting, sanding and floorboards, Lord True said, while \"any costs of wider refurbishment in this year have been met by the prime minister personally\".", "The three people died after the crash on East Prescot Road\n\nThree people have died after a car hit a roundabout in Liverpool in the early hours.\n\nTwo men, one aged in his 20s and the other in his 30s, and a woman, in her 20s, were taken to hospital but later died.\n\nMerseyside Police said they were called to the crash in East Prescot Road, near the Greyhound pub, just after midnight.\n\nA police spokesman said their families had been informed and officers have appealed for information.\n\nA road closure is in place between the junction of Eaton Road and East Prescot Road to Blackmoor Drive. The roundabout is closed in all directions.\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\nNicola Sturgeon says she wants to keep trade flowing across an England-Scotland border if an independent Scotland re-joined the European Union.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr programme, the SNP leader accepted there would have to be a border if an independent Scotland was in the EU.\n\nBut she said Scotland would try to negotiate arrangements to \"keep trade flowing freely\".\n\nOpponents say a hard border with England would be \"dreadful for trade\".\n\nThe SNP want to hold a referendum on Scottish independence if they win a majority in the Scottish Parliament elections on 6 May.\n\nSIGN UP FOR SCOTLAND ALERTS: Get extra updates on BBC election coverage\n\nMs Sturgeon was questioned on the practical details of an independent Scotland re-joining the EU.\n\n\"Of course we want to keep trade flowing across the England-Scotland border, that would be in the interests of Scotland as well and we would work to make sure that happened,\" she said.\n\n\"We will keep trade flowing freely, we will comply with all of the requirements of EU membership.\"\n\nEU regulations set out that 30% of poultry, eggs, milk and fish, as well as 100% of live animals, need to be inspected when entering the single market.\n\nAsked how she would police such a border, Ms Sturgeon said: \"I am not denying what the EU regulations say. I am not denying because of the absurdity of Brexit that all sorts of issues are raised for Scotland completely against our democratic will.\n\n\"We would work as a country to make sure that for our businesses, there is no difficulties in terms of their day to day experiences in trading.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon was pressed further on whether she had modelled the impact of Scottish independence on people's incomes.\n\nShe responded: \"If I was do to all of that modelling now we'd have to redo it when we were asking people to make that choice. I believe it's right to only ask people to make a choice of that magnitude on the basis of quality up to date information.\"\n\nThe Scottish Liberal Democrats treasury spokeswoman Christine Jardine said it was time the SNP \"came clean on whether they are planning tax rises or spending cuts\".\n\n\"This week has not only exposed the SNP as desperately confused over the economics of independence but revealed that they are contemplating a hard border with England,\" she added.\n\n\"This would not only be dreadful for trade but throw up barriers between friends and families.\"\n\nWillie Rennie was on the campaign trail at a dry ski slope\n\nOn the election campaign trail, the Liberal Democrats have been highlighting mental health support for police officers.\n\nParty leader Willie Rennie said the emergency services in Scotland were suffering a mental health crisis because they were working under a government that was \"distracted\".\n\nWhat's 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 government. Find out more here.\n\nWhat powers do they have? MSPs pass laws on aspects of life in Scotland such as health, education and transport - and have some powers over tax and welfare benefits.\n\nScottish Labour it was \"reckless beyond imagining\" for the SNP to call for a referendum during the recovery from the pandemic, while economists warned Scotland was headed for a jobs crisis.\n\nCommenting on Ms Sturgeon's Andrew Marr interview, the party's Scotland spokesman Ian Murray said: \"Hearing the casual way with which Nicola Sturgeon dismisses those independent experts that she is so fond of quoting when they agree with her and her failure to answer any of the tough questions on separation - from effects on income to the border - is playing fast and loose with people's futures.\n\n\"Scotland deserves better than this. Scottish Labour is opposed to independence and a second referendum.\"\n\nOn the campaign trail in Fife, party leader Anas Sarwar said only Labour could hold the SNP to account and ensure that the next parliament was focused on the \"national recovery\".\n\nAnas Sarwar was on the campaign trail in Dunfermline\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said Ms Sturgeon's plans for a \"post-referendum border\" with England would be a \"hammer-blow\" for Scottish businesses.\n\n\"By Nicola Sturgeon's own admission, the SNP are clueless about the economic impact of independence. They've done no analysis on how many jobs it would put at risk or how much damage would be done to Scotland's economy,\" he said.\n\n\"She floundered and didn't have a single convincing answer to dispel the overwhelming evidence that separating Scotland from the rest of the UK would be devastating for jobs and businesses.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the party has been campaigning on the need to protect Scottish jobs and the economy by reopening safely at a slightly faster pace.\n\nLorna Slater, the Scottish Greens co-leader, has been litter-picking in a canal in Edinburgh\n\nThe Scottish Greens have been focusing on \"pointless plastics\" in their campaign, with the party pledging to phase out single use \"non-essential\" plastics by 2025 in a move towards a \"circular economy\".\n\nSpeaking ahead of a litter pick on a canal in Edinburgh, Scottish Greens co-leader Lorna Slater said: \"Plastic pollution is choking our planet, and we need to act.\n\n\"The Scottish Greens will deliver a dramatic reduction in the use of single use plastics where suitable alternatives are available.\"\n• None Scottish election 2021: Who should I vote for?", "Ajay and Atul Gupta have been sanctioned, along with their brother Rajesh, accused of corruption in South Africa\n\nThe UK has imposed sanctions on 22 individuals, 14 of them Russians, involved in notorious corruption cases under a new anti-corruption regime.\n\nIndividuals across South Africa, South Sudan and Latin America were also targeted with the asset freezes and travel bans.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab told MPs the UK had an important role to play in combating corruption.\n\nHe also described the country as a \"honey pot\" for \"corrupt actors\".\n\nThe new regime means individuals \"involved in some of the world's most serious cases of corruption\" will no longer be able to channel their money through UK banks or enter the country, a statement from the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office said.\n\nSanctions were imposed on people from six countries, including:\n\nThis is the first time the UK has imposed sanctions for international corruption.\n\nAnnouncing the sanctions in the House of Commons, Mr Raab said: \"Corruption has an immensely corrosive effect on the rule of law, on trust in institutions, it slows development, it drains the wealth of poorer nations, it keeps their people trapped in poverty. It poisons the well of democracy around the world.\"\n\nHe added: \"Our status as a global financial centre makes us an attractive location for investment... but it also makes us a honey pot, a lightning rod for corrupt actors who seek to launder their dirty money through British banks or through British businesses.\"\n\nMr Raab said the new sanctions regime, taken partly in tandem with measures in the US, would provide \"an additional powerful tool to hold the corrupt to account\".\n\nLabour welcomed the announcement, but said law enforcement needed the resources to support investigations, describing the current rate of prosecutions for economic crime as \"woefully low\".\n\nShadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy said: \"If he's serious about what he's saying today he needs to put his money where his mouth is.\"\n\nShe also criticised a \"tangled network of financial interests and cosy relationships in the heart of government\".\n\n\"We need to know that this announcement isn't just a gloss on the surface of a grubby system which underneath signals business as usual,\" she said.\n\nMeanwhile, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken backed the new regime, as the country also introduced its own corruption sanctions.\n\nHe said: \"Together, along with other allies and partners, we will seek to promote our shared values with similar tools. Corrupt actors, and their facilitators, will not have access to our financial systems.\"\n\nMore than 2% of global GDP is lost to corruption every year, and corruption increases the cost of doing business for individual companies by as much as 10%, according to government figures.\n\n\"Corruption also threatens our national security by exacerbating conflict and facilitating serious and organised crime, creating space for terrorist and criminal groups like Daesh and Boko Haram to operate,\" a Foreign Office statement said.\n\nIt added: \"This new regime will allow the UK to combat serious corruption, in particular bribery and misappropriation. It will promote effective governance, robust democratic institutions and the rule of law - demonstrating our power as a force for good around the world.\"", "A number of emergency contracts were awarded in the height of the pandemic to cover PPE and other items\n\nLabour is calling for ministers to publish all contacts and links they have with firms awarded government contracts during the Covid crisis.\n\nIn March 2020, emergency measures let the government speed up buying things like PPE and ventilators by directly awarding contracts rather than tenders.\n\nBut since then, ministers have faced accusations of offering a \"VIP fast-track\" to the contracts for friends.\n\nThe government said \"due diligence is carried out on every contract\".\n\nThe call comes as a lobbying row continues to surround Westminster, following revelations that former prime minister David Cameron texted ministers on behalf of a firm he worked for - Greensill Capital - during the crisis.\n\nLast week, the BBC also revealed that businessman Sir James Dyson directly texted Boris Johnson about tax issues during the pandemic, which the PM then said he would \"fix\".\n\nIn the months following coronavirus hitting the UK in 2020, the government awarded thousands of contracts to private companies, spending billions of pounds of public money in the process.\n\nThey covered everything from masks, gowns and gloves, to services such as researching public opinion about the government's Covid measures.\n\nBut rather than going through the usual competitive tendering process for such contracts - which can take months or even years - the government was allowed to go directly to a preferred supplier without any competition, speeding up the process.\n\nSince then, questions have arisen over the decisions made by government, with accusations from Labour of \"cronyism\" and investigations by the BBC and others showing links between some of the firms and Whitehall.\n\nA case is also going through the High Court - brought forward by the Good Law Project - arguing that several of these deals were handled as part of a so-called VIP lane, reserved for leads endorsed by government officials or politicians.\n\nA Downing Street spokesperson said: \"We have been dealing with an unprecedented global pandemic and our approach throughout has been to act quickly to save lives, and we make no apology for that.\"\n\nWhile the government had to award contracts at speed, \"due diligence is carried out on every contract\" and \"ministers have no role in awarding them\", the spokesman said.\n\nNumber 10 said it is committed to transparency in procurement and notices of contracts awarded are published online.\n\nLabour is now calling for all ministers to publish any communications they had with their business contacts or links who were awarded contracts over the pandemic under the emergency rules - as well as details of any firms who were part of the \"VIP fast track\".\n\nShadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Rachel Reeves, has written to her government counterpart, Michael Gove, saying there is \"a growing impression that there is one set of rules for ministers and their close friends, and another for the rest of the British public\".\n\nAs well as details on ministers and their contacts, she asked Mr Gove when the prime minister would share his own messages with Mr Dyson and other business leaders - which he pledged to do last week - and when a new independent advisor for ministerial standards would be appointed, following the resignation of Sir Alex Allan in November 2020.\n\nIn a statement, Ms Reeves added that there was an \"increasing spread of Tory sleaze\" creating \"increasingly serious questions for government\".\n• None Why have Covid contracts been challenged?\n• None What is lobbying? A brief guide", "That's all for our live coverage on this story today. But before we go, a word from our political correspondent Helen Catt.\n\nShe says there have been an awful lot of allegations made in recent days, but the most striking is that Boris Johnson suggested that \"bodies could pile high\" during a discussion about lockdown.\n\nShe says Michael Gove put up \"a robust defence\" against criticism of this in the Commons.\n\nAnd on Simon Case's questioning over the leak inquiry, she says it was \"interesting\" he said that given the amount of time had gone he didn't think it would be probable that they would actually find the source.", "Richard Okorogheye who had sickle cell disease, left home without his medication\n\nThe police watchdog will consider whether ethnicity played a role in the way initial reports of a teenager's disappearance were handled.\n\nRichard Okorogheye, 19, went missing from his home in Ladbroke Grove, west London, on 22 March.\n\nThe student was found dead in Epping Forest, in Essex, two weeks later.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said his mother had complained about the way her reports were treated initially.\n\nMr Okorogheye's mother, Evidence Joel, alleged that when her son's disappearance was first reported, police \"did nothing\". Ms Joel said she was initially told he was an adult, who could go out and come back whenever he wanted.\n\nHe was not officially recorded as missing until 08:00 GMT on 24 March.\n\nIOPC regional director Sal Naseem said: \"Our thoughts are with Richard's family and friends and all those affected by this tragic loss. We have spoken to his family and explained our role.\n\n\"Our investigation will establish whether the police responded appropriately to the concerns raised that Richard was missing.\n\nCCTV images showed Mr Okorogheye on 23 March walking alone towards Epping Forest\n\n\"We will examine whether the force appropriately risk-assessed those reports, and if the amount of resources the Metropolitan Police dedicated to its inquiries were suitable, based on the information known by the police and the risks posed.\n\n\"We will also consider whether Richard's or his mother's ethnicity played a part in the way the initial reports of his disappearance were handled.\"\n\nThe Met said previously that, as a matter of routine, a referral had been made to its Directorate of Professional Standards, as the 19-year-old had been reported missing by his family before his body was found.", "Alan Thompson had played bowls for 30 years but played his last game just a day before he had a stroke in 2018 Image caption: Alan Thompson had played bowls for 30 years but played his last game just a day before he had a stroke in 2018\n\nThe easing of restrictions in Wales from today means Alan Thompson, 74, will be able to step back on the bowling green for the first time in over three years after recovering from a stroke.\n\nWhile playing was banned, Alan, from Llantrisant, had been taking part in virtual games hosted by Sport Wales.\n\n\"I honestly didn't think I'd ever be able to play bowls again, but playing virtual bowls helped me ease back into it and I've found my confidence again,\" he says.\n\n\"I've done the rehearsal and now it's time for the real performance out on the green.\"\n\nMeanwhile, in county Conwy, Nick Jackson's zoo is preparing to open its doors again to visitors.\n\nHe said he was \"over the moon\" to reopen and staff had been working \"frantically\".\n\nHe says: \"We're so pleased to be opening and getting income back, but it still hangs over our heads the worry as to what the future holds.\"\n\nHowever, he thinks many of the zoo's animals - including primates and monkeys - will \"enjoy the company of the visitors coming in\" because they find them entertaining and amusing, he says.", "The TV advert shows scenes from vaccination centres cross the UK and urges people to \"join the millions already vaccinated\"\n\nAbout half a million more people in England are being invited to book their Covid-19 jab from Monday, as the vaccine rollout opens to 44-year-olds.\n\nTwo-thirds of the previous age group - 45 to 49-year-olds - have received their first dose.\n\nThe NHS said it would set out when 40 to 43-year-olds would be able to book appointments \"in the coming days\", and as supply allows.\n\nIt comes as a TV advert is launched to encourage under-50s to get vaccinated.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the \"great news\" at being able to open up jabs to 44-year-olds came after \"a huge few days for vaccinations\".\n\nHe added: \"We'll keep working down the age range to make sure everybody can have the offer of a jab by the end of July - all adults.\"\n\nAs well as 44-year-olds, people who are due to turn 44 by 1 July are also eligible to make an appointment, according to the NHS Covid vaccination booking website.\n\nThe total number of vaccine doses given in the UK reached almost 46.3 million on Sunday, with a further 498,430 second doses and 142,215 first doses reported.\n\nMore than 33.7 million people have now received their first dose and almost 12.6 million are fully vaccinated.\n\nNorthern Ireland is opening its vaccination programme to people aged 35 to 39, while Wales has been asking over-40s to book appointments and Scotland has been inviting over-45s for vaccination.\n\nThe TV advert promoting the Covid-19 vaccine - featuring the slogan \"every vaccination gives us hope\" - is predominantly aimed at people aged under 50 who are being invited for their first dose, the Department of Health and Social Care said.\n\nShowing scenes from vaccination centres across the country, it also aims to encourage over-50s to ensure they receive their second jab for the best possible protection.\n\nIt will be accompanied by a poster campaign highlighting how the Covid-19 jab helps to reduce infections, hospital admissions and deaths.\n\nThe advert shows people queuing up, baring their arms and getting the jab - with some punching the air in delight\n\nThe 60-second advert will be shown for the first time during Emmerdale on ITV at 19:15 BST on Monday, and it features people arriving at vaccination centres and getting the jab across the UK - to the accompaniment of a cover version of Dinah Washington's What a Difference a Day Makes recorded by songwriter and artist Shells.\n\nThe advert urges people to \"join the millions already vaccinated\" and reminds them \"you need two doses for maximum protection\".\n\nMr Hancock said it was a \"poignant reminder of everything we've been through as a country and everything we have to look forward to\".\n\nOne shot captures the gratitude felt by many, with thank you cards sitting on top of a fridge holding the vaccine doses\n\nOne of the people featured in the advert is 32-year-old Thor Porter, a drummer and graphic designer from Salisbury, in Wiltshire, who said: \"I feel the vaccine rollout is key to regaining some form of normality. As a musician, it will hopefully enable venues to reopen and ensure a future in my career.\"\n\nThe campaign will also be reflected in special postmarks put on stamped mail by the Royal Mail, vaccine messaging on Google and YouTube, and free advertising on LinkedIn to get the vaccine message to businesses.\n\nHow has coronavirus affected you? Do you have any questions about the vaccine rollout? 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\nIt comes as there are signs that the groups which are most hesitant about getting the vaccine are becoming more likely to get the jab.\n\nAmong ethnic minority communities, take-up has tripled since February, outpacing the national average increase among all ethnicities. In Pakistani communities, it has quadrupled, and among people from Bangladeshi backgrounds it has risen five-fold.\n\nAbout one in eight (12%) people aged 16 to 29 say they are hesitant about getting the vaccine, although this has decreased from 17% in February.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA 24-year-old student from Glasgow has been crowned the youngest ever champion of the BBC's Mastermind.\n\nJonathan Gibson won the final by four points - scoring a perfect 11 out of 11 in his specialist subject, the comedy song-writing duo Flanders and Swann.\n\nHe had specialised in Agatha Christie's Poirot in the heat and William Pitt the Younger in the semi-final.\n\nThe new champion said he was \"overwhelmed\" at the response since the programme was aired on Monday.\n\nThe PhD student in Modern History at the University of St Andrews told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme how he had to keep the result a secret between filming and broadcast.\n\nHe said: \"The last four months since filming have just felt like a dream, so it's good to have visual evidence on TV that it actually happened. I told my parents and my sister and that's basically it.\"\n\nJonathan said the key to his victory was choosing specialist subjects that he was passionate about.\n\n\"They were all things I have really loved since I was young,\" he said.\n\n\"The heat subject was the TV show Poirot, which I was introduced to by my mum and my grandma so that was really lovely to revisit.\n\n\"For the semi-final I did William Pitt the Younger, the late 18th century prime minister. That was inspired by a book my history teacher gave me in school and was one of the main reasons I decided to be a history student.\n\n\"And for the final I did Flanders and Swann which was a favourite of my dad's. I've known the lyrics of every single song since I was seven or eight so it has been lovely revisiting these things.\"\n\nJonathan, who had previously appeared on University Challenge, is a keen quizzer but is now focussing on finishing his PhD studies.\n\nJonathan said he only realised he was in the running to be Mastermind's youngest ever winner as the final approached.\n\n\"I didn't think about it as a possibility when I applied,\" he said. \"Or until after I won the semi-final when the producers told me I would be marginally younger than Gavin Fuller was when he won.\n\n\"It's really incredible to make history in that way and it is beyond anything I could have imagined.\"\n\nClive Myrie will front the new series later in the year\n\nMastermind has been running on the BBC since 1972. Monday night's grand final was John Humphrys' last episode after 18 years as host.\n\nThe television and radio broadcaster has presented 735 episodes of the quiz show and asked more than 80,000 questions during that time.\n\nThe new series, hosted by BBC journalist and newsreader Clive Myrie, will be on BBC One and the BBC iPlayer later this year.", "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.\"", "Last updated on .From the section League Cup\n\nManchester City won the League Cup for a record-equalling fourth time in succession with a deserved victory over a disappointing Tottenham Hotspur side at Wembley.\n\nCity defender Aymeric Laporte, arguably fortunate to be on the pitch after escaping a yellow card in the first half before being cautioned after the break, rose above Spurs substitute Moussa Sissoko to head home Kevin de Bruyne's free-kick eight minutes from time.\n\nIt was appropriate reward for City creating a host of chances and dominating Spurs, who did not enjoy any sort of positive reaction from sacking manager Jose Mourinho on Monday and replacing him with caretaker Ryan Mason.\n\nThe final was played in front of 8,000 supporters, including 2,000 from each club - and it was a delight to hear noise inside Wembley's vast arena once more.\n• None Re-live the action as Man City beat Tottenham in Carabao Cup final\n\nCity's victory equalled Liverpool's achievement in the early 1980s of winning the competition four years in a row, as well as matching the Reds' overall tally of eight triumphs, and manager Pep Guardiola said his players are motivated by such milestones.\n\n\"That is what these players give for the future generations of this club. It is not winning [just] one title,\" Guardiola told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"This team in the last decade was the team in England - since Roberto Mancini won the Premier League, this team wins a lot of times in England.\n\n\"It's nice, four Carabao Cups in a row, it means consistency in the team to be there. We beat Arsenal and Manchester United on the way so we can say we deserved to win this competition.\n\n\"The way we played was fantastic and it's nice when you win a title. The most impressive thing is in the last 33 games we won 30.\"\n\nGuardiola's face was a picture of happiness at the end of a week that saw Manchester City heavily criticised as one of the Premier League clubs involved in the ill-fated and quickly abandoned European Super League.\n\nNo-one can begrudge City or Guardiola this moment of joy and piece of history, with Laporte's winner finally making the breakthrough that their performance - top class in so many areas apart from end product - merited.\n\nRiyad Mahrez was outstanding while Raheem Sterling was tireless - even if his finishing touch still eludes him.\n\nIt means City, who lost the chance of a historic quadruple when they were beaten by Chelsea in the FA Cup semi-final at Wembley eight days ago, secure their first trophy of the season three days before their Champions League semi-final first leg at Paris St-Germain.\n\n\"We went out to play at an incredible level, with incredible quality,\" added Guardiola.\n\n\"We cannot deny one eye is always on the Champions League but we take every game seriously, otherwise it is impossible to win four Carabao Cups in a row.\"\n\nCity are within touching distance of regaining the Premier League title so this cup success, the 30th major trophy of Guardiola's glittering managerial career, sets the perfect platform for further glory ahead.\n\nThe Spaniard's players may have feared they would pay for their missed chances but anything other than a City win would have been a real injustice, even if France defender Laporte was slightly lucky to have received only one yellow card before his match-winning intervention.\n\nIt has been an eventual few days for Spurs, with Mourinho surprisingly dismissed at the start of a week in which they were attempting to win their first major trophy since 2008.\n\nChairman Daniel Levy and the club's hierarchy simultaneously became a target for criticism over Tottenham's involvement in the European Super League.\n\nIndeed, one of the first chants from the 2,000 Spurs fans who were reunited inside Wembley was 'We want Levy out'.\n\nIn the context of this cup final, it was a gamble to dispense with Mourinho - who boasts a track record of success on these sort of occasions - and replace him with 29-year-old rookie coach Mason.\n\nIf it was designed to lift clouds around this Spurs squad and spark a reaction that might overcome City, it failed miserably. Mason's side - and it should be stressed he has barely had any time to exert serious influence - were insipid, lacklustre and could have no complaints about the result.\n\nHarry Kane, an injury doubt until late in the build-up after sustaining an ankle injury in the draw at Everton, declared himself fit but looked well off the pace and stayed down on a couple of occasions after challenges.\n\nThe England captain made minimal impact on the game but he was not alone in that respect for Spurs, whose wait for a trophy goes on after a poor display.\n\nSon Heung-min was in tears on the pitch after the final whistle and caretaker boss Mason said: \"It hurts. I've been sitting there as a player, I've played for this football club and lost a final, I know what it's like.\n\n\"I know that feeling. It's normal that they're hurting. It's normal, because it shows that they care. I think we saw that today, they gave absolutely everything, 100% commitment.\n\n\"City are a great side, an incredible team, but I think our group of players gave everything with what they have had to deal with in seven days. That is something to be proud of.\"\n\nCity and Pep make history again - the stats\n• None Manchester City secured their eighth League Cup title, the joint-most alongside Liverpool. They are the second team to win the competition in four consecutive campaigns (Liverpool, 1981-1984).\n• None Only Arsenal (six) have lost more League Cup finals than Tottenham Hotspur (five), with Spurs now losing each of their last three finals in the competition (2008-09 v Man Utd and 2014-15 v Chelsea).\n• None Manchester City have won 19 of their 25 League Cup matches under Pep Guardiola (D4 L2); with only Roy Evans (78.3%) posting a higher win percentage among managers in League Cup history than the Spaniard (76%).\n• None Tottenham only attempted two shots versus Man City, accumulating an expected goals total of 0.06, while in contrast Guardiola's side fired in 21 shots and posted an xG of 3.63.\n• None Man City boss Pep Guardiola became the first manager to win the League Cup in four consecutive seasons, while no manager has lifted the trophy more times than the Spaniard's four (level with Brian Clough, Alex Ferguson and Jose Mourinho).\n• None Aymeric Laporte became the third French player to score in a League Cup final, after Louis Saha for Manchester United in 2006 and Samir Nasri for Manchester City in 2014.\n• None City's Kevin de Bruyne provided his 17th assist of the season, more than any other Premier League player has registered in all competitions.\n• None Spurs' Ryan Mason became the youngest manager to take charge of a side in a League Cup final (29 years, 316 days), surpassing Gianluca Vialli with Chelsea in 1998 (33 years, 263 days).\n\nManchester City visit Paris St-Germain in the first leg of their Champions League semi-final on Wednesday, April 28 (20:00 BST) before visiting Crystal Palace in the Premier League on Saturday, 1 May (12:30 BST).\n\nTottenham host the Premier League's bottom side Sheffield United on Sunday, 2 May (19:15 BST).\n• None Offside, Manchester City. João Cancelo tries a through ball, but Phil Foden is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Phil Foden (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ilkay Gündogan.\n• None Attempt missed. Aymeric Laporte (Manchester City) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Phil Foden with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ilkay Gündogan.\n• None Attempt blocked. Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Goal! Manchester City 1, Tottenham Hotspur 0. Aymeric Laporte (Manchester City) header from very close range to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne with a cross following a set piece situation. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None The rocky story of Derry City is streaming now\n• None Stephen Lawrence's story and the lessons still being learned", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Folajimi Olubunmi-Adewole was one of two men who jumped into the water after spotting a woman fall from London Bridge\n\nThe family of a man who died after jumping into the Thames to save a woman who had fallen from London Bridge have paid tribute to their \"hero\".\n\nFolajimi Olubunmi-Adewole, 20, known as Jimi, reportedly was one of two men who entered the water at 00:10 BST on Saturday after spotting the woman fall.\n\nThe coastguard and the Met Police's marine unit rescued the woman and one of the men.\n\nA body, thought to be Mr Olubunmi-Adewole's, was found six hours later.\n\nFormal identification has not yet taken place.\n\nHis father Michael Adewola, 63, told the Sun newspaper that his son deserved a medal for the bravery he showed by diving into the river to try to save the woman.\n\n\"He is a very unique and angelic soul, and I am proud of him, so proud, and I want the world to know he is the deepest and most wonderful man,\" Mr Adewola said.\n\nHe added: \"He is a hero, and always will be. I can't bring him back but I want him to be remembered forever for what he did. It was just like him to want to always try and help others.\"\n\nA body was found about six hours after Mr Olubunmi-Adewole entered the water\n\nMr Olubunmi-Adewole was with a friend, Bernard, when they heard a woman had fallen into the Thames.\n\nBernard told Sky News they could hear the woman screaming \"help me, help me, I'm gonna die\".\n\n\"Instantly Jimi looked at me and I said, 'all right, we can look for her'. But we couldn't see her, it was pitch black.\"\n\nPolice have not said how the woman fell into the river.\n\nA GoFundMe appeal to support Mr Olubunmi-Adewole's family and pay for his funeral has raised more than £50,000 - double the £25,000 target - with more than 4,000 people donating.\n\nIt was set up by Malcolm's World Foundation, a charity established by the parents of Malcolm Mide-Madariola, a student who was murdered in 2018. Mr Olubunmi-Adewole was involved with the organisation.\n\nOn Monday, Mr Olubunmi-Adewole's school, Harris Academy Peckham, held a two-minute commemorative clap in his honour, with all students and staff gathering in the playground to remember him.\n\nRebecca Hickey, the school's executive principal, said it was very emotional.\n\n\"He was quite a character, he would never be seen without a smile. He was known for his slightly cheeky, optimistic outlook. He was very popular, incredibly popular amongst his peers and obviously he leaves them devastated in his wake,\" she said.\n\n\"Anyone who knew him remotely well would not have been surprised at the actions he took. He put others in front of himself at all times.\n\nFlowers have been left near London Bridge\n\n\"He was a very gentlemanly young man. He had a clear set of moral values and his manners were very gentlemanly, he would hold doors open, and if anybody ahead of him failed to do that he would have been morally outraged and make that clear.\"\n\nMs Hickey said the school intended to work with his family to find a way to continue his memory in a way they would want them to.\n\n\"He will always be a hero within our community,\" she added.\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan posted on Twitter that Mr Olubunmi-Adewole \"was the best of us\".\n\n\"A true hero of our city who gave his life trying to save another,\" he wrote.\n\n\"My thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends at this time of tragic loss.\"\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel tweeted it was a \"truly selfless act of heroism from a brave young man\".\n\nMr Olubunmi-Adewole was also a member of Athenlay Football Club in south-east London and a minute's silence was held at all of their matches on Sunday.\n\nTony Underwood, from the club, later tweeted: \"Saw my first swallow of the summer yesterday. Hope his family can also see his soul now as a beacon of warmth and hope for us all. RIP #JimiTheHero.\"\n• None Man dies after jumping in Thames to rescue woman\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The former chief executive of the Post Office has quit her roles on the boards of Morrisons and Dunelm following the IT scandal which led to the wrongful convictions of former postmasters.\n\nMorrisons announced Paula Vennells would leave after serving as a non-executive director since 2016.\n\nShe is relinquishing her non-executive position at home furnishing retailer Dunelm with immediate effect.\n\nShe is also stopping her duties as an ordained Church of England minister.\n\nMs Vennells said: \"It is obvious that my involvement with the Post Office has become a distraction from the good work undertaken by the boards I serve.\n\n\"I have therefore stepped down with immediate effect from all of my board positions.\"\n\nMs Vennells was chief executive of the Post Office between 2012 and 2019.\n\nOn Friday, 39 former Post Office workers saw their criminal convictions overturned by the Court of Appeal.\n\nThe convictions had been based on the flawed software system Horizon, which showed shortfalls in the sub-postmasters' accounts where they did not exist. The IT system was installed in 1999 under former chief executive John Roberts.\n\nOther appeals are expected to follow in what is the most widespread miscarriage of justice in the UK's history.\n\nThe government has launched an inquiry into the prosecution of the former Post Office workers.\n\nMs Vennells said: \"I am truly sorry for the suffering caused to the 39 sub-postmasters as a result of their convictions which were overturned last week.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"How do you die knowing that you've done nothing wrong?\"\n\nMs Vennells said she now intended \"to focus fully on working with the ongoing government inquiry to ensure the affected sub-postmasters and wider public get the answers they deserve\".\n\nDunelm's chairman Andy Harrison said: \"We respect Paula's decision to step down from the board and I would like to thank her for the positive contribution she has made to the business since her appointment in September 2019.\"\n\nThe chairman of Morrisons, Andrew Higginson, said: \"Paula has been an insightful, effective and hardworking non-executive director, and, on behalf of the Board, I want to thank her for her significant contribution over the last five years.\"\n\nMore than 700 people were wrongly convicted of offences of theft, fraud and false accounting, in prosecutions between 2000 and 2014, and some of them were imprisoned.\n\nQuestions had been raised about the behaviour of Post Office directors during this time, and Ms Vennells, 62, faced calls to have her bonuses clawed back and be stripped of her CBE title, which had been given for \"services to the Post Office and to charity\".\n\nJo Hamilton, one of the 39 former Post Office workers whose convictions were quashed on Friday, said Ms Vennells' role at Morrisons and Dunelm was \"untenable and I don't think she could stay\".\n\nJo Hamilton saw her conviction quashed by the Court of Appeal last week\n\nShe added that she would now consider shopping at the retailers after boycotting both when Ms Vennells joined their boards. Even during the pandemic when many supermarket online delivery slots were booked up, Ms Hamilton said \"I'd rather starve to death\" than shop at Morrisons.\n\nIn a statement issued on Sunday evening, Ms Vennells, an associate Anglican minister in Bromham, Oakley and Stagsden, Bedfordshire, said she would be stepping back from her \"regular parochial duties\".\n\nMs Vennells said: \"It is obvious that my involvement with the Post Office has become a distraction from the good work undertaken in the Diocese of St Albans and in the parishes I serve.\n\n\"I have therefore stepped back with immediate effect from regular parish ministry.\"\n\nFor the sub-postmasters and postmistresses who faced prison, criminal convictions and financial ruin after being wrongly pursued by the Post Office, one of the hardest elements has been confronting a faceless institution.\n\nBut the name that has been repeated to me again and again by victims I've spoken to is that of Paula Vennells.\n\nAlthough the computer problems began before her tenure as chief executive, under her leadership, the glitches within the system became widely reported on.\n\nBut she insisted the system was \"robust\", defending the technology and her organisation's actions to a committee of MPs.\n\nAs chief executive, she chose to fight lengthy and expensive legal battles against sub-postmasters seeking redress.\n\nWhen more than 500 sub-postmasters won a civil court case against the Post Office in December 2020, the judge said that under her leadership the actions of the Post Office had been \"both cruel and incompetent\".\n\nShe received a CBE for \"services to the Post Office\" in 2019.\n\nSince Ms Vennells stepped down as boss, there has been a dramatic shift in tone from the Post Office. It did not contest the vast majority of individuals who managed to overturn their convictions in the Court of Appeal last week. It has issued an apology and is already mentioning compensation.\n\nThe Bishop of St Albans, the Right Reverend Dr Alan Smith, said that his father had been a sub-postmaster, adding: \" I express my distress at the miscarriage of justice that so many sub-postmasters have suffered.\"\n\nHe said: \"I am aware that there are still legal processes and inquiries to take place during which it is right that Ms Vennells stands back from public ministry.\"\n\nFollowing the legal decision on Friday, Ms Vennells said she was \"deeply saddened\" by the sub-postmasters' accounts. She said she would cooperate with the government inquiry \"as I did with last year's select committee inquiry\".\n\nTom Hedges (centre) was one 39 former postmasters celebrating as their convictions were quashed on Friday\n\nThe Horizon IT system, installed by the Post Office in branches across the UK, was flawed from the start.\n\nAt the Court of Appeal on Friday, Lord Justice Holroyde said the Post Office \"knew there were serious issues\" and had a \"clear duty to investigate\".\n\nBut the Post Office \"consistently asserted that Horizon was robust and reliable\" and \"effectively steamrolled over any sub-postmaster who sought to challenge its accuracy\".\n\nThose affected have long called for a judge-led, full, public inquiry, rather than the government's own inquiry which is set to report in the summer.\n\nThe Criminal Cases Review Commission, which investigates potential miscarriages of justice, is reviewing another 22 cases.\n\nThere were more than 700 prosecutions based on Horizon evidence. The commission and the Post Office are asking anyone else who believes their conviction to be unsafe to come forward.", "Dominic Cummings has launched a blistering attack on his old boss Boris Johnson, questioning his \"competence and integrity\".\n\nThe former top adviser denied leaking text messages sent between Mr Johnson and businessman Sir James Dyson.\n\nAnd he claimed Mr Johnson once had a \"possibly illegal\" plan for donors to pay for renovations of the Downing Street flat.\n\nNo 10 said ministers had always obeyed codes of conduct and electoral law.\n\nMr Cummings was forced out of his Downing Street role at the end of last year, following an internal power struggle.\n\nOn Friday, in his first blog post since leaving that role, he also denied leaking details of the second Covid lockdown in England.\n\nThis is an explosive intervention from a man Boris Johnson used to count on as one of his closest allies.\n\nAnd if you're tempted to roll your eyes and think it's just sour grapes from a jilted adviser, think again.\n\nDominic Cummings' blog is proof that he is willing to lift the lid on his time at the heart of Downing Street, regardless of how it reflects on the prime minister.\n\nBeyond his denial of leaking text messages, he has also given his version of events relating to two potential political weak spots for Boris Johnson.\n\nThey are the questions over the financing of the renovation of the Downing Street flat and the leaking of a plan to impose a lockdown.\n\nThe level of detail shows that Mr Cummings is willing to expose others while defending himself and lay bare the inner workings of No 10.\n\nSeveral newspapers ran front page stories suggesting Mr Cummings was the source of leaked messages between Mr Johnson and Sir James Dyson, first reported this week by the BBC.\n\nThe BBC - whose political editor Laura Kuenssberg first reported on the text messages on Tuesday - said it did not discuss the sources of stories.\n\nAsked whether he had blamed his former adviser for it, Mr Johnson said: \"I don't think people give a monkey's, to be frank, about who is briefing what to who.\"\n\nNo 10 has launched an inquiry into who leaked the text messages.\n\nThe text exchange between Mr Johnson and Sir James happened in March last year, after the government asked companies to help build thousands of ventilators needed to deal with very ill patients.\n\nIn it, the prime minister agreed to \"fix\" concerns the businessman had about tax bills for his Singapore-based staff if they moved to the UK to do this.\n\nWriting on his blog, Mr Cummings said: \"I was not directly or indirectly a/the source for the BBC/Kuenssberg story on the PM/Dyson texts.\"\n\nHe adds: \"I am happy to meet with the cabinet secretary and for him to search my phone for Dyson messages.\"\n\nMr Cummings continues that he is \"happy for No 10 to publish every email I received and sent July 2019-November 2020\".\n\nHe also calls for an \"urgent parliamentary inquiry into the government's conduct over the Covid crisis\", adding that he thinks Mr Johnson has fallen \"far below\" the standards of \"competence\" the \"country deserves\".\n\nMr Cummings promises to answer questions about \"any\" issues when he appears before a parliamentary inquiry into the government's pandemic response on 26 May.\n\nIn his blog, Mr Cummings also claimed the prime minister once planned to have donors \"secretly pay\" for renovation of his official Downing street flat.\n\nLike several of his recent predecessors, the PM is living in the flat above No 11 Downing Street, which is larger than the one above No 10.\n\nHe adds that Mr Johnson \"stopped speaking to me about the matter in 2020\", as he told him the renovation plans were \"unethical, foolish, possibly illegal and almost certainly broke the rules on proper disclosure of political donations if conducted in the way he intended\".\n\nMr Cummings says he would be \"happy to tell the cabinet secretary or Electoral Commission\" what he knew about the matter but that his knowledge is \"limited\".\n\nIn response to Mr Cummings's claims, a No 10 spokesperson said: \"At all times, the government and ministers have acted in accordance with the appropriate codes of conduct and electoral law.\n\n\"Cabinet Office officials have been engaged and informed throughout and official advice has been followed.\n\n\"All reportable donations are transparently declared and published - either by the Electoral Commission or the House of Commons registrar, in line with the requirements set out in electoral law.\n\n\"Gifts and benefits received in a ministerial capacity are, and will continue to be, declared in transparency returns.\"\n\nEarlier on Friday, the government said that \"costs of wider refurbishment in this year have been met by the Prime Minister personally.\"\n\nLabour's shadow Cabinet Office minister Rachel Reeves said the issue needed \"investigating in full\".\n\nDenying being the source of a leak last year ahead of the second Covid lockdown in November, Mr Cummings says an inquiry at the time found that neither he nor the then-Downing Street director of communications, Lee Cain, had been responsible.\n\nHe adds that the events around that inquiry \"contributed to [his] decision to stick to [his] plan to leave No 10 by 18 December\", which he says were \"communicated to the prime minister in July\".\n\nIn his blog, Mr Cummings also claimed Mr Johnson had considered stopping the inquiry.\n\nHe wrote that he recalled a meeting between Mr Johnson and the cabinet secretary at the time, after an inquiry had been launched, at which the cabinet secretary allegedly said \"all the evidence definitely leads to Henry Newman and others in that office\".\n\nAt the time, Mr Newman was a special adviser at the Cabinet Office. He took up a role in Downing Street earlier this year.\n\nMr Cummings claims that, in a conversation he had with the PM afterwards, Boris Johnson said: \"If Newman is confirmed as the leaker then I will have to fire him, and this will cause me very serious problems with Carrie [Symonds - the PM's fiancee] as they're best friends… [pause] perhaps we could get the cabinet secretary to stop the leak inquiry?\"\n\nIn response to Mr Cummings' claims, a Downing Street statement said: \"The prime minister has never interfered in a government leak inquiry.\"\n\nAnd a senior government official said: \"The allegations against Henry Newman are entirely false. He wouldn't be working in Downing Street if he was suspected of leaking information.\"\n\nEarlier, Downing Street declined to comment on \"speculation\" that Mr Cummings - who quit his government job last November after a row over his role as the PM's chief adviser - had leaked the texts.\n\nOn a visit to Derbyshire, Mr Johnson said anyone who thought there was something \"dodgy or rum\" in his dealings with Sir James Dyson was \"out of their mind\".", "Firefighters worked in challenging conditions on the mountainside in County Down\n\nA major blaze in the Mourne Mountains is believed to have been started deliberately, NI Fire and Rescue Service has said.\n\nIn a statement, it urged the public to take more caution when lighting fires outside.\n\nThe fire on Northern Ireland's highest mountain Slieve Donard led to a three-day emergency effort involving more than 100 firefighters.\n\nIt was brought under control on Sunday evening.\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said it is working to establish the circumstances of the fire and is appealing for information.\n\nArea Commander Mark Smyth said he was \"angry\" the fire may have been started deliberately.\n\nMr Smyth pleaded for \"people to stop lighting fires - especially over the next weeks and months\".\n\n\"A big issue for me is we have firefighters down the mountains when we really need them in towns where there might be some extremely serious life risk fires or there might be RTCs [road traffic collisions],\" he told the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme on Monday.\n\n\"That's the first thing that is major for us and our resourcing.\n\n\"But then whenever you see pictures of firefighters that we have they are absolutely exhausted, but they will keep going.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"I am extremely disappointed in whoever thinks this is fun or if they think this is a great opportunity to manage land.\"\n\nThe gorse fire was declared a major incident on Saturday and there has been extensive damage to wildlife and the environment.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service (NIFRS) said the fire is no longer considered a major incident.\n\nMore than 100 firefighters were involved in the operation.\n\nThe PSNI said it wanted to hear from anyone who was in the area of the main walkway along the Bloody Bridge path late on Thursday night and made a special appeal for the occupants of a specific vehicle.\n\n\"In particular, we want to hear from the owner/occupants of a black/dark coloured saloon-type car that is understood to have been present in the Bloody Bridge car park when NIFRS arrived just after 1am on Friday morning as they may have vital information which could assist us,\" it said.\n\nTwo groups normally get the blame following situations like this - landowners and recreational users of the uplands.\n\nBurning of vegetation is a recognised way of managing land.\n\nThere are strict rules around it and a designated season for it which has now passed.\n\nHuge numbers of people have also been using the mountains during lockdown.\n\nIt's estimated there's been three-to-four times the normal footfall in the mountains.\n\nThat's several hundred thousand people in the year.\n\nOne carelessly-discarded barbecue or poorly-extinguished camp fire would have been enough to start this devastating blaze.\n\nIn a statement on Monday, NI Fire Service's chief fire and rescue officer Michael Graham said firefighters had worked in \"intense conditions\" to stop the fire \"spreading to threaten human life or property\".\n\n\"While I am proud of the work our people did, we are all saddened by the destruction this fire has caused to our natural environment.\"\n\nHe said that firefighters had been involved in responding to 400 other incidents while the fire on the Mourne Mountains was burning.\n\nMr Graham thanked everyone in the fire service for their efforts in fighting the blaze, and said it had \"simply lost track of the number of people who contacted us offering anything they could to help us\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'We could hear the birds looking for their nests and they're gone'\n\n\"For everyone out there who watched the fire this weekend with horror, there is one thing we ask of you - help us prevent these fires starting in the first place,\" he said.\n\n\"Don't start fires in the countryside. Don't be careless with smoking materials or glass. Don't be careless with barbeques or any other flames.\"\n\nAgriculture Minister Edwin Poots said it was \"shockingly sad\" that extensive damage had been \"done to an area of outstanding natural beauty\".\n\n\"Whoever lit this fire - whether it was accidental or whether it was reckless - should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves, because this involved some element of human behaviour,\" he added.\n\n\"It is so easy for this to happen, it happens dozens of times every year, this one was very visible to the eye, there were major fires last year on the Antrim Plateau and other places, so this happens every year and we really need people to be very, very careful, very conscious of the fact that fires are so easy to light in these areas right through from March to June.\"\n\nMr Poots said he was committed to looking at legislation that would impose major penalties on anyone found guilty of starting such fires.\n\n\"If we are required to upgrade our legislation then that's something I will not be shy in bringing forward,\" he said.\n\nLater on Monday, Mr Poots said the fire was now under control but it would take decades for plant and animal life to recover from the damage caused.\n\nHe told the assembly that there would be a long-term loss to biodiversity, with the damage extending to more than 3.5km.\n\nMr Poots said the risk of wildfires had always existed but in Northern Ireland they were rarely natural.\n\n\"They are almost always started either deliberately or by reckless burning of inflammable vegetation or material,\" he said.\n\n\"We need to think about all measures that can be put in place to deter people from starting such fires.\"\n\nThe minister said that in 2020, Forest Service staff attended 22 fires. As a result of these, 70 hectares of forest and 110 hectares of peatland was burnt, he added.\n\nFire crews were briefed on Sunday morning before returning to the mountain\n\nSinn Féin MP for South Down, Chris Hazzard, said the fires made him feel \"sick to the stomach\".\n\n\"The Mournes on Friday night looked like a range of volcanoes erupting.\n\n\"We had messages coming in from as far away as Australia and from America and Canada, people who had travelled here previously and enjoyed this local area who were just completely shocked.\"\n\nMr Hazzard welcomed Mr Poots' comments that he was committed to looking at legislation in relation to major penalties and said \"greater action\" was need.\n\n\"The fire service says that they were dealing with this from the very early hours of Friday morning, likely to be 05:00 or so,\" he said.\n\n\"There's not too many people who go into the Mournes at 05:00 on a Friday morning for a barbecue.\n\n\"What we need to see now is a moratorium on all gorse burning right across the island.\"\n\nNational Trust director for Northern Ireland, Heather McLachlan, said it would take years to repair the damage caused by the gorse fire.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Foyle, Ms McLachlan said she \"found it personally devastating\" looking out at a landscape of 500-600 acres of scorched earth.\n\nShe said the people of Northern Ireland \"have lost a large asset\" as a result of the fire, and a lot of wildlife would be detrimentally affected because of it.\n\n\"So many Skylarks and Meadow pipits were out flying around yesterday trying to find their nests - their young are gone,\" she said.\n\n\"We have lost all those eggs and probably many other species we don't know, like lizards or newts that people probably don't see, but they are all absolutely vital to the ecosystem here.\"\n\nMs McLachlan said she hopes this incident will hopefully see the introduction of harsher legislation for anyone who deliberately starts these sort of fires.\n\n\"Hopefully, if there is someone responsible for this, they are morally struggling with themselves this morning,\" she said.\n\n\"I am very cross and very disappointed with whoever has done this.\"\n\nAssistant Chief Fire and Rescue Officer Aidan Jennings said the location, terrain and weather conditions continued had presented many challenges.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Northern Ireland Fire & Rescue Service This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 the location, terrain and weather conditions continued had presented many challenges.\n\n\"Everyone has worked so hard in extremely challenging conditions, they have worked tirelessly - it is at the heart of what it means to be a firefighter,\" he said.", "Well, that's about it for this year - we had some very happy winners, a controversial ending and a good dose of much needed red-carpet glamour.\n\nCongratulations to all the winners. Hopefully we'll see you all next year post-Covid restrictions for even more glitz!\n\nThanks for sticking with us. Oh, and while you're here, do catch up on the rest of our Oscars coverage too:\n• 13 key red carpet looks from the Oscars\n• A very different Oscars - intimate, muted and (mostly) serious", "Catalytic converter thefts have surged in lockdown amid a spike in the value of precious metals, research shows.\n\nThe RAC and insurer Ageas found the crime now accounts for three-in-10 thefts from private vehicles in the UK, up from two-in-10 before the pandemic.\n\nCatalytic converters contain metals such as platinum and rhodium which fetch high prices on the black market.\n\nWhen values of these metals go up it usually leads to a spate of thefts, the RAC and Ageas said.\n\nThey pointed out that prices of rhodium hit record highs earlier this year, having climbed more than 200% since March 2020.\n\nThe research compared thefts during the first three months of the year, compared with the period between October and December 2019.\n\nRAC spokesman Simon Williams said: \"Drivers are often oblivious of their vehicle's catalytic converter being stolen. Our patrols are often called to attend cars that have suddenly become excessively noisy.\n\n\"On investigation it's very often the case that the car's catalytic converter has been stolen.\"\n\nAccording to the research, most thefts happen while cars are parked at home, either on the driveway or the road.\n\nBut converters have occasionally been stolen in supermarket car parks while the driver is shopping, the research said.\n\nMr Williams recommended motorists take extra precautions, parking their vehicle in well-lit residential locations, or ideally a garage.\n\n\"When away from home, look for car parks that have security patrols and are covered by CCTV,\" he said.\n\nBecause thieves slide under the car to get at the catalytic converters, parking against a wall can also help.\n\nCatalytic converters form part of a car's exhaust system. They contain a honeycomb coated with precious metals such as platinum, palladium and rhodium which help to reduce and filter harmful gases from the vehicles' exhaust systems.\n\nWhile converters are just one component of a car, their theft can often result in a driver's car being written off.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Folajimi Olubunmi-Adewole died after jumping into the Thames to save a woman\n\nA man who died after he jumped into the River Thames to rescue a woman should be honoured, his father has said.\n\nFolajimi Olubunmi-Adewole entered the water on Saturday night when he saw the woman fall from London Bridge.\n\nThe 20-year-old's family has described him as \"the deepest and most wonderful man\" and said that he deserved a medal for bravery.\n\nFather Michael Adewola said: \"I can't bring him back but I want him to be remembered forever for what he did.\"\n\nMr Olubunmi-Adewole's body was recovered about six hours after he went to the woman's aid. She has since been discharged from hospital.\n\n\"It was just like him to want to always try and help others,\" his father said.\n\n\"He is a hero, and always will be.\"\n\n\"He is a very unique and angelic soul, and I am proud of him, so proud,\" he said, calling for his son to be \"honoured and appreciated for what he has done\".\n\nMr Olubunmi-Adewole's mother, Olasunkanmi Adewole, said she had started to hold her son's clothes close to her all the time because she could still smell him on them.\n\nOlasunkanmi Adewole holds a t-shirt of her son's and his father Michael Adewola called him \"an angelic soul\"\n\nOthers who knew Mr Olubunmi-Adewole, known to many as Jimi, paid tribute, describing him as a well-liked and selfless person.\n\nVivek Singh, executive chef at The Cinnamon Club, where Mr Olubunmi-Adewole worked on the front-of-house team, said he was \"diligent, kind and passionate\".\n\n\"We are all reeling from this incredibly tragic news,\" he said.\n\n\"He worked with The Cinnamon Club for over a year and was a diligent, kind and passionate young man, a real team player.\n\n\"What he did was a tremendous and selfless act of bravery, to save the life of a complete stranger.\"\n\nStudents and staff at Mr Olubunmi-Adewole's former school, Harris Academy in Peckham, gathered in the playground for a two-minute round of applause in his honour.\n\nPrincipal Rebecca Hickey said he was \"quite a character\" who would \"never be seen without a smile\".\n\n\"Anyone who knew him remotely well would not have been surprised at the actions he took. He put others in front of himself at all times,\" she said.\n\n\"He was known for his slightly cheeky, optimistic outlook. He was very popular, incredibly popular amongst his peers and obviously he leaves them devastated in his wake.\"\n\nMs Hickey said the school intended to work with his family to find a way to continue his memory in a way they would want them to.\n\n\"He will always be a hero within our community,\" she added.\n\nFlowers have been left near London Bridge\n\nPosting on Twitter, Mayor of London Sadiq Khan dsecribed Mr Olubunmi-Adewole as \"a true hero of our city who gave his life trying to save another\".\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said it was a \"truly selfless act of heroism from a brave young man\".\n• None Man dies after jumping in Thames to rescue woman\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. Extra costs of refurbishing Boris Johnson's Downing Street flat will be met by the prime minister, Liz Truss says\n\nBoris Johnson covered the renovation costs for his Downing Street flat \"from his own pocket\", one of his ministers has said.\n\nTrade Secretary Liz Truss told the BBC the work is being \"fully declared\".\n\nBut she did not answer repeated questions on whether a Tory party donor initially provided the money to him.\n\nIt comes after the PM's former chief adviser, Dominic Cummings, claimed Mr Johnson had a \"possibly illegal\" plan for donors to pay the refurbishment.\n\nLabour said questions remained, as details over how the work was paid for had yet to be made public.\n\nThe government is supposed to publish the list of minister's interests twice a year, but the last one showing money donated to them was released in July 2020.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner said Mr Johnson should come in front of MPs on Monday to answer questions and publish the list \"as the public deserves [to see] it\".\n\nMr Johnson lives in the flat above 11 Downing Street with his fiancee Carrie Symonds - a move echoing a number of his predecessors as it is bigger than the accommodation above No 10.\n\nIn March, Downing Street dismissed as \"speculation\" suggestions that refurbishments on the flat last year would be paid for by Tory donors through a charity set up for this purpose, amid reports that the costs had spiralled out of control.\n\nBut on Friday, Mr Cummings launched a blistering attack on his former boss via his blog, claiming he advised the PM the renovation plans were \"unethical, foolish, possibly illegal and almost certainly broke the rules on proper disclosure of political donations if conducted in the way he intended\".\n\nA No 10 spokesperson said: \"At all times, the government and ministers have acted in accordance with the appropriate codes of conduct and electoral law.\"\n\nAnd Cabinet Office Minister Lord True told the House of Lords on Friday that \"any costs of wider refurbishment in this year have been met by the prime minister personally\".\n\nDonations and loans to political parties of more than £7,500 must be reported to the Electoral Commission, which said it was having \"discussions with the Conservative Party\", but had not yet launched an investigation.\n\nThe controversy also comes amid an ongoing row over lobbying in Westminster, after revelations former prime minister David Cameron had texted ministers about the financial firm he was working for and businessman Sir James Dyson had directly contacted Mr Johnson over tax issues when working on ventilators during the pandemic.\n\nThe reason this issue is so difficult for Boris Johnson is it comes down to something simple - money.\n\nHow a job was paid for is a far more straightforward issue for people to form an opinion about than other recent questions about government conduct.\n\nThat swirl of revelation and allegation has dealt with the more intangible currency of politics, access, influence and favours.\n\nThis is about cash. Tens of thousands potentially.\n\nThe cost of a home makeover, and the as-yet-unanswered question, did Mr Johnson get help?\n\nAnd if he did, what about the implications for how that benefit should be declared - whether for electoral or tax reasons.\n\nAlso talking to Marr, Ms Truss defended Mr Johnson, saying: \"My understanding is the costs have been covered by the prime minister and everything has been fully declared by the rules.\"\n\nBut asked five times whether the money was put up by a party donor first, she would not answer.\n\nInstead, she told the programme: \"What I know is the prime minister has personally met the costs of the flat refurbishment and that is what people in Britain want to know and that is what has happened.\"\n\nWhen asked why the list of minister's interests had yet to be published, Ms Truss replied: \"I'm sure it will be published in line with the rules.\"\n\nAnd questioned about rumours of leaks out of No 10 - also addressed by Mr Cummings in his blog - the minister urged Mr Johnson to \"carry on\" doing \"an excellent job\" rather than \"listening to these noises off\".\n\nShe added: \"I think this a complete load of Westminster tittle tattle that people simply don't care about.\"\n\nBut Ms Rayner said there was a \"real stench\" around the government and the \"serious allegations\" it faces.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour's Angela Rayner: \"Tell us about where you're getting this money from, Boris, to do up your flat\"\n\nMs Rayner told Marr: \"The issues that we have seen with ministers over the last couple of months has really undermined the institution of government and there are serious questions now the Conservatives need to answer.\n\n\"These are serious allegations and we think the prime minister should come to the House of Commons on Monday and should declare the ministers register of interests, which is eight months in delay.\n\n\"The problem is the government is hiding.\"\n\nThe SNP's Westminster leader, Ian Blackford, backed the call for the prime minister to answer questions in Parliament.\n\nHe said: \"The longer Boris Johnson stays in hiding and dodges accountability, the more overpowering the stench of sleaze surrounding him and his government becomes.\n\n\"Rather than hiding behind Tory ministers, Boris Johnson must now come before Parliament and answer these very serious questions for himself.\"", "Thousands of human-made objects orbit earth and the majority of them no longer work. There’s a risk this space debris could collide with functioning satellites, which provide vital services like GPS and weather warnings.\n\nTo track and predict its behaviour, Prof Moriba Jah and his colleagues built AstriaGraph – a near real-time map of where each object is located in space. He explains that the system is monitoring around 200 ‘super-spreaders’ – large rocket bodies that have the potential to break into thousands of pieces.\n\nFor more on sustainability in space, listen to BBC CrowdScience: Can space exploration be environmentally friendly?", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLeicester City moved closer to Champions League qualification as they came from behind to beat Crystal Palace.\n\nWilfried Zaha put the visitors ahead after only 12 minutes, with a first-time finish following a fine through ball from Eberechi Eze.\n\nBut Timothy Castagne equalised for the Foxes within five minutes of the second half by firing the ball into the roof of the net after being set up by Kelechi Iheanacho.\n\nPalace nearly retook the lead but a superb sliding challenge from Jonny Evans denied Christian Benteke what would have been a tap-in into an unguarded goal.\n\nThat missed chance proved crucial as Iheanacho scored his 12th goal in nine games, when he cut inside on to his left foot and blasted the ball past goalkeeper Vicente Guaita for a late winner.\n\nThe result leaves the Foxes third in the Premier League, but takes them seven points clear of fifth-placed West Ham with five matches to go.\n\n\"It's a massive three points for us and we were nervous a bit,\" said Iheanacho.\n\n\"We changed it around and got control of the game and got them running. But there's still a lot of work to do, we can't talk about the Champions League until the last game.\"\n\nLeicester, who have also reached the FA Cup final for the first time since 1969, have only played in the European Cup or Champions League once, reaching the quarter-finals in 2016-17 after winning the Premier League the previous season.\n\nTheir run-in includes games against Manchester United in second, Chelsea in fourth and Tottenham in seventh.\n• None How has Iheanacho become so prolific?\n• None Relive Leicester v Crystal Palace as it happened, plus reaction and analysis\n\n'Evolved' Leicester on course for Champions League\n\nAfter 33 matches of the league campaign, Brendan Rodgers' side again find themselves third, just as they did in 2019-20.\n\nHowever, last season they lost three of their final five games as they finished fifth to miss out on a top-four spot by four points.\n\nBefore the game, Rodgers said his side had improved and \"evolved\" compared to a year ago, but would have been worried by old concerns and a lacklustre first half performance.\n\nBut it was an instant improvement after the break as Castagne's first goal at the King Power Stadium made it 1-1 following fine hold-up work from the impressive Iheanacho.\n\nThe Foxes ended strongly as Jamie Vardy, who had missed two chances when it was goalless, had a shot blocked by Guaita, fired just wide and had a goal correctly disallowed for offside.\n\nYouri Tielemans also missed the target when well placed but they finally got their second when Iheanacho produced some fine skill to get the ball on to his left foot and gave Guaita no chance from 10 yards.\n\nThe victory means Leicester, who were not one of the 'big six' English teams to sign up to the European Super League before the tournament plans collapsed two days later, now need three more wins to guarantee Champions League football.\n\nPalace stay 13th, but are 11 points clear of the relegation zone and surely safe from avoiding a drop into the Championship.\n\nBut Eagles' fans may be left ruing what might have been from this season after they were seventh following eight matches, only three points off the top.\n\nInconsistent form and a run of injuries have severely damaged their hopes of a top-half finish for the first time since 2014-15 and they have now only picked up six points from their past seven matches.\n\nThey had not been in action since 10 April, while Leicester had played three matches in that period, including an FA Cup semi-final win over Southampton to set up a final against Chelsea next month.\n\nPalace boss Roy Hodgson said before the game he was unsure whether the break would have benefited his team, although they made a great start, scoring early on.\n\nBenteke dispossessed Tielemans with a strong challenge on the halfway line, Eze had the quality and pace to run at the home defence, before sliding a perfectly-weighted pass into Zaha's path with the Ivorian slotting the ball past Kasper Schmeichel.\n\nAfter conceding, the visitors had a glorious chance to retake the lead as Jairo Riedewald was through on goal but opted to pass it square to Benteke and that enabled Evans to make a fine challenge to deny the Belgian.\n\nBut Iheanacho's late goal saw Palace leave empty handed as their season is ending in tame fashion.\n• None Leicester have picked up 62 points from their 33 Premier League games this season, only managing more at this stage of a top-flight campaign in 1962-63 (66) and 2015-16 (72).\n• None Crystal Palace have not won any of their last 18 league games against sides starting the day in the top six in the table (drew five, lost 13), since beating fifth-placed West Ham 2-1 in October 2019.\n• None Leicester have picked up 19 points from losing positions in the Premier League this season, a figure only Manchester United can better (28).\n• None Crystal Palace forward Wilfried Zaha has been involved in seven goals in his last seven Premier League appearances against Leicester, scoring six and assisting one.\n• None Only Harry Kane (14), Dwight Yorke (eight) and Andy Cole (seven) have netted more Premier League goals against Leicester than Crystal Palace winger Wilfried Zaha (six).\n• None Eberechi Eze registered an assist for the first time in 10 Premier League appearances, with the midfielder now joint-top for assists in the competition this season among Crystal Palace players (four, level with Andros Townsend).\n• None Leicester's Timothy Castagne scored just his second Premier League goal in 22 games, netting for the first time since his first appearance in the competition in September v West Brom.\n• None Kelechi Iheanacho has either scored (12) or assisted (two) in eight of his last nine appearances for Leicester across all competitions.\n• None Only Harry Kane (18) has registered more goal involvements than Kelechi Iheanacho (16 - 14 goals, 2 assists) among Premier League players in all competitions in 2021.\n• None Kelechi Iheanacho has netted 14 goals in his last 14 appearances for Leicester in all competitions, as many as he managed in his previous 76 games for the Foxes.\n\n'I thought we'd see the game through' - what they said\n\nLeicester City manager Brendan Rodgers to BBC Sport: \"It was a very important win for us. It was the third game in nine days so a tough schedule.\n\n\"Going one behind against a Roy team, they're super organised and tough to break down. I thought the players were outstanding. They kept the calmness and control and scored two very good goals.\n\n\"[Scoring early into the second half] definitely helps. It sets us up. It settled us. We could then control the rest of the game.\n\n\"[Iheanacho's goal was] incredible. Great pass by Jonny [Evans]. We told the strikers to find space in between the centre-backs and full-backs. It was a great ball into space. The skill to turn and finish quickly, a wonderful goal. It capped off a great night for him.\n\n\"The top priority for me as a coach is helping players to develop. it's been difficult for Kels because of the style we normally played which was one striker - Jamie Vardy. We had to change it round with injuries, he's come in and been exceptional. Not just his goals. He's so happy to work hard for the team and his quality is phenomenal.\"\n\nOn any fears of them tailing away like last season: \"We spoke about it at the start of the season and put it to bed then. Our performance levels this season have shown that's in the past.\"\n\nCrystal Palace boss Roy Hodgson to BBC Sport: \"I thought for long periods we were going to get at least a point. At half-time I thought we might go on to win.\n\n\"Leicester scored quickly after the break but after that we looked as though we were seeing the game through reasonably well. Kelechi Iheanacho's quick turn and strike is difficult to defend. Objectively I didn't think it was a bad performance. Had we got a good result I don't think people would have begrudged us.\"\n\nOn whether his players might lose focus with little on the line: \"I don't fear that because I know the players. That's not the kind of group we are. I don't think anyone who watched the game could accuse us of not doing our utmost.\n\n\"If we hadn't conceded the goal so early in the second half, our confidence would have been high. The equaliser came too early after half-time. We didn't get enough time to enjoy the fact we were leading. I honestly thought we'd see the game through... but I was wrong.\"\n\nLeicester play at Southampton on Friday (20:00 BST), a fixture the Foxes won 9-0 in 2019-20 when they equalled the record for biggest victory in Premier League history.\n• None Offside, Leicester City. Ayoze Pérez tries a through ball, but Jamie Vardy is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Christian Benteke (Crystal Palace) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Eberechi Eze following a set piece situation. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Which one do you prefer and is it the healthier choice?\n• None Would you crowdfund your rent?: Meet the young people having to find inventive ways to stay afloat", "Charlotte Crosby has described Channel 5 show Celebrities: What Happened to Your Face? as \"immoral\"\n\nChannel 5 has stopped streaming an episode of its celebrity plastic surgery series after condemnation from one of its subjects, Charlotte Crosby.\n\nLast Thursday's episode of Celebrities: What Happened to Your Face? analysed Crosby's changing appearance.\n\nThe reality TV star called the show \"immoral\", saying it had aired despite her team warning Channel 5 of its detrimental mental health implications.\n\nIn a statement, the broadcaster apologised for \"any upset caused\".\n\nIt added that both the channel and the programme's producers, Crackit Productions, \"take duty of care very seriously\".\n\n\"While we acknowledge that the programme was Ofcom compliant, we have taken on board Charlotte's feedback and removed the episode from our streaming platform My5.\"\n\nCrosby, who rose to fame on MTV's scripted reality show Geordie Shore and now hosts her own self-titled series, is yet to comment on the removal of the documentary.\n\nHowever, in her original statement, she said it was \"unbelievable\" that the programme had been made amid an increased focus on mental health within the entertainment industry.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Charlotte Crosby This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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\"At a time when the broadcast and media world were backing a policy of 'be kind', Channel 5 and Crackit decided to commission this one-hour special on 'rubber lip Charlotte' (their words not mine),\" Crosby wrote, while referring to the kindness campaign that was prompted by the death of Love Island presenter Caroline Flack.\n\n\"Their 'experts' dissected my 'plastic face' with disgust, discussing my fluctuating weight (with images), and then decided to flash up the worst troll comments from the past five years.\"\n\nCrosby's public criticism followed a similar statement from her Geordie Shore co-star Holly Hagan who, on Thursday evening, urged her Instagram followers to report Channel 5's programme to Ofcom.\n\nCrosby, 30, has been open about her cosmetic procedures and body image struggles - undergoing her first nose surgery in 2016 after becoming self-conscious over her appearances on TV, and later using lip-fillers.\n\nHolly Hagan (L) and Charlotte Crosby (R) at a 2015 photoshoot for series 10 of Geordie Shore\n\nShe previously told Heat magazine: \"It's not like I can hide it. If I'd not been on TV, I'd never have got it done.\n\n\"I do think [my nose] caused a lack of confidence, and you always compare yourself to other people who are on TV as well.\"\n\nCrosby's statement continued: \"Dealing with trolls is one thing, you ignore, you block but where are we as a society, when the trolls are the mainstream TV channels?\n\n\"Will they now take responsibility for my dip in mental health and plummeted self-esteem? Do they take responsibility for the resulting press from the show, again discussing how 'shocking' my face is?\" she asked.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Jo Goodman, whose father Stuart died with coronavirus, is part of a group representing thousands of bereaved families\n\nA group of families bereaved by Covid-19 say they are \"really disappointed\" at the government's response to their calls for an urgent inquiry into the handling of the pandemic.\n\nIn a letter sent to thousands of affected families, Downing Street said \"an inquiry now is not appropriate\".\n\nIt said there was \"simply no capacity\" for the government to divert resources to an \"intensive\" inquiry.\n\nThe PM has previously said there will be an inquiry in the future.\n\nThe Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK group has been lobbying Boris Johnson since last summer to meet them and to launch an urgent independent investigation.\n\nThe co-founder of the group said the lack of urgent inquiry was \"really, really disappointing\".\n\nThe six-page letter responding to the lawyers of the bereaved families read: \"The government's response to the pandemic is at a critical phase… there is simply no capacity for government to pause these efforts and divert resources to an intensive inquiry.\"\n\nThe letter, dated 1 April and from the government legal department, added: \"The very people who would need to give evidence to an inquiry are working round the clock to respond to the pandemic and keep us all safe.\n\n\"It is not anticipated that the government's workload will ease in the coming months.\"\n\nJo Goodman, co-founder of the Covid bereaved group, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that her reaction to the letter was a \"feeling of disappointment\".\n\n\"Those of us who lost loved ones early on - it's over a year since I lost my dad now - we really hoped that we would be able to use our losses… to ensure that lessons are learnt that could save other lives.\"\n\nShe said the group first started calling for a rapid review inquiry in June last year in the hope that lessons from the first wave could be implemented ahead of the second wave.\n\nJo Goodman speaking to the Archbishop of Canterbury next to the National Covid Memorial Wall in London\n\n\"It's been really heart-breaking for us to watch our group expanding day-on-day as the second wave hit.\n\n\"So many of the stories looked so similar to those of us who'd lost loved ones early on.\"\n\nShe added that it was \"really, really disappointing\" the government hadn't earmarked time for a public inquiry \"when there is a roadmap for almost everything else imaginable\".\n\nLabour has called for a inquiry into the pandemic to begin at the end of June when most restrictions in England are due to end.\n\nScotland First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she wanted a four nations inquiry into the pandemic by the end of the year.", "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.", "The dogs are a symbol of national pride in Turkmenistan\n\nThe Central Asian nation of Turkmenistan has been celebrating a new national holiday - dedicated to a very special breed of dog.\n\nThe Alabay - a native variety of shepherd dog - was honoured on Sunday with an awards ceremony.\n\nPresident Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov has encouraged veneration of the breed as a symbol of national heritage.\n\nAlabays and the ancient Ahal Teke horse breed are considered sources of national pride.\n\nSunday saw the dogs take centre stage in events designed to reinforce their lofty cultural status in Turkmenistan, a former republic of the Soviet Union.\n\nThe day's event included a best-of-show competition in which a procession of Alabay dogs were judged on appearance and agility.\n\nPresident Berdymukhamedov awarded the top prize for courage to a dog in the border guard service.\n\nThe award was presented by the president's son, Deputy Prime Minister Serdar Berdymukhamedov. He appeared at the ceremonial opening of a new complex for the breeding of Alabay dogs in the country's capital, Ashgabat, according to state media.\n\nThe Alabay is a Turkmen variety of the Central Asian shepherd dog\n\nAlabay dogs are widely used by many traditional herders in Turkmenistan. They are among the world's largest dogs, weighing up to 80kg (175lbs).\n\nLast year, President Berdymukhamedov unveiled a 19ft (6m) golden statue of an Alabay dog in the capital.\n\nThe city is adorned with similar monuments, including a gold-coated statue featuring Mr Berdymukhamedov's likeness atop a golden horse.\n\nA statue of President Berdymukhamedov riding a horse was unveiled in the capital in 2015\n\nIn power since 2007, Mr Berdymukhamedov is widely seen as an autocratic ruler who has built a personality cult. Turkmenistan is one of the least-free countries in the world, according to a survey by Freedom House.\n\nMr Berdymukhamedov has occasionally given a horse or a puppy to leaders of allied nations. He was criticised for his handling of a dog he gave to Russian President Vladimir Putin after a video of the incident went viral in 2017.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Putin was given an Alabay dog by the Turkmenistan president", "The explosion happened in an outdoor seating area of The King's Head\n\nA heater which exploded outside a pub, injuring three people, had been brought there by a customer, police said.\n\nTwo women in their 20s remain in hospital after the incident at The King's Head in Great Cornard, Suffolk, shortly before 22:00 BST on Saturday.\n\nA man in his 20s was discharged from hospital on Sunday evening.\n\nSuffolk Police said the appliance was believed to be a small portable fuel heater. The King's Head said its thoughts were with the injured people.\n\nAll three were taken to West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds, with one of the women transferred to Chelmsford Hospital in Essex.\n\nPolice had said their serious injuries were not life-threatening but potentially life-changing.\n\nJohn Collings, who lives near the pub, said: \"I just heard a woman screaming but I didn't hear any explosion.\"\n\nPhillippa Kaye, another neighbour, said she was \"aware of a commotion\" at the pub, before the emergency services arrived.\n\n\"We're limited on what we can say as this remains a police investigation,\" the pub said on its Facebook page.\n\n\"We can however confirm that the heating appliance was not one supplied by the pub, but was brought on to the premises without our knowledge.\n\n\"We have three of our customers with serious injuries, potentially life-changing.\n\n\"Our focus is on supporting the inquiry that is taking place while keeping them, and their families, at the forefront of our thoughts and prayers during this difficult time.\"\n\nPolice carried out an investigation at the scene until Sunday afternoon, with an inquiry into the circumstances continuing.\n\nThe pub said it planned to reopen on Tuesday.\n\nA police cordon was put in place following the incident, and was lifted on Sunday afternoon\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 Three people injured in 'explosion' outside pub\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Britain is set for a \"sharp snap back\" in spending by shoppers as restrictions ease, according to experts at Deloitte.\n\nThe firm found \"going to a shop\" topped the list of leisure activities people are most likely to do after lockdown.\n\nSeparate research suggested that the UK's economy will grow at its fastest rate on record this year, helped by the rebound in consumer spending.\n\nThe EY Item Club said the economy had \"proven to be more resilient than seemed possible\".\n\nThe forecasting body has upgraded its 2021 growth forecast from 5% to 6.8%, which would mark the fastest rate seen since Office for National Statistics (ONS) records began.\n\nThe UK's GDP, which measures all the activity of companies, governments and individuals in the economy, shrank by a record 9.9% last year as coronavirus restrictions hit output, according to the ONS.\n\nBut EY expects that the UK economy will return to its pre-pandemic size in the second quarter of 2022 - three months earlier than previously forecast.\n\nDeloitte's research also suggested that the UK could be on track for a faster economic rebound than previously thought.\n\nConsumer confidence increased at the fastest rate in a decade in the first three months of 2021, according to its survey of 3,000 adults between 19 and 22 March.\n\nThe survey found that six out of 10 people said they planned to return to the shops within a month of restrictions lifting.\n\nIan Stewart, chief economist at Deloitte, said: \"The UK is primed for a sharp snap back in consumer activity.\n\n\"High levels of saving, the successful vaccination rollout and the easing of the lockdown set the stage for a surge in spending over the coming months.\"\n\nThe economists at EY's Item Club also revised down their unemployment forecasts. The rate is now expected to reach 5.8% towards the end of this year, down from the 7% predicted in January.\n\nEY's chief economic adviser, Howard Archer, said that the latest forecast suggested the economy would \"emerge from the pandemic with much less long-term 'scarring' than was originally envisaged and looks set for a strong recovery over the rest of the year and beyond\".\n\nHe added : \"While restrictions have caused disruption, lessons learned over the last 12 months have helped minimise the economic impact.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Shopper in Liverpool: \"It means life has come back to normal again\"\n\nIn England and Wales, non-essential retail was allowed to reopen on 12 April.\n\nShops in Scotland will be allowed to reopen fully from Monday, while Northern Ireland is due to see non-essential retail reopen on 30 April.\n\nSeparate research published last Friday suggested that the recent easing of lockdown measures had triggered a surge in activity among UK firms.\n\nA closely watched survey, produced by IHS Markit/CIPS, indicated that the looser restrictions had led to the fastest UK private sector growth since late 2013.\n\nThe IHS Markit/CIPS Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) rose to 60 in April, according to initial findings, up from 56.4 in March. Any figure above 50 indicates expansion.\n\nThe service sector grew faster than manufacturing for the first time since the Covid crisis began, the survey found, largely down to the reopening of non-essential shops seen in April.", "A Northern Ireland Executive and assembly could be retained in a united Ireland, the taoiseach has said.\n\nMicheál Martin said support would be provided from Dublin in \"external matters\", with British government input also.\n\nHe said it would be a three-way relationship.\n\nMeanwhile, a poll suggests a majority on both sides of the border want an NHS-style health system in a united Ireland.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, 82% of people agreed that Ireland should adopt a British-style health care system with no charges for prescriptions or A&E and GP visits.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, 70% of people agreed with the proposition.\n\nThe poll was commissioned by BBC NI's Spotlight programme and these results were revealed on The View on Thursday night.\n\nTaoiseach Micheál Martin said a united Ireland could see a NI Assembly and Executive retained\n\nThe poll also suggests that:\n\nView the full, detailed results for Northern Ireland here and the Republic of Ireland here.\n\nYou can watch Spotlight - A Contested Centenary and The View on the BBC iPlayer.\n\nIn an interview with former BBC News NI political editor Mark Devenport for Spotlight, Mr Martin said he believed the latter point could be a possibility.\n\n\"You could have still a northern assembly and the northern executive, potentially, with the fulcrum towards Dublin, in terms of external matters and so on,\" Mr Martin said.\n\n\"But the British government would still be involved.\"\n\nHe added that the \"three sets of relationships have to be at the cornerstone\".\n\nFindings of the same poll released earlier this week found that a majority of people on both sides of the Irish border believes Northern Ireland will have left the UK within 25 years.\n\nMost respondents said they thought NI would still be part of the UK in 10 years time, but not in 25 years.\n\nThe poll was carried out by the NI Pollsters LucidTalk and the Irish polling firm Ireland Thinks.\n\nThe margin of error is +/- 2.5%.", "Christa Ludwig was awarded the French Legion of Honour in 2010\n\nThe celebrated German opera singer, Christa Ludwig, has died at the age of 93.\n\nThe mezzo-soprano, who was born in Berlin, died at her home near the Austrian capital, Vienna, on Saturday, her family confirmed.\n\nLudwig made her debut in Frankfurt aged 18 just after the end of World War Two. She retired in 1994.\n\nThe singer was widely praised for the rich quality, range and amplitude of her voice.\n\nLudwig grew up in Aachen, western Germany, with parents who were both musical. Her father was a tenor and also conducted at the local opera house. Her mother was a mezzo-soprano.\n\n\"Singing for me was as natural as learning to walk,\" Ludwig once said.\n\nShe performed with American soprano Shirley Verrett in Les Troyens at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 1973\n\nLudwig joined the Vienna State Opera in 1955 and performed at the famous Salzburg Festival under Austrian conductor Karl Boehm.\n\nHer most memorable roles included Dorabella in Mozart's Cosi fan tutte, Kundry in Wagner's Parsifal, Leonora in Beethoven's Fidelio and both Octavian and Marschallin in Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier.\n\nDuring her long career she also sang at London's Royal Opera House, New York's Metropolitan Opera, Milan's La Scala and other top international venues.\n\nLudwig, second right, in a scene from Mozart's Cosi fan tutte at the Salzburg Festival in 1963\n\nIn 2010 France awarded her the Legion of Honour.\n\n\"It was the very special combination of a unique voice and intelligence of interpretation that made her so special,\" the Vienna State Opera said.\n\nLa Scala opera house said the music world had \"lost a luminous and inimitable personality\".\n\nLudwig was married to the Austrian bass-baritone Walter Berry for 13 years. They divorced in 1970 and two years later she married French actor and director Paul-Emile Deiber, who died 2011.\n\nChrista Ludwig was born into a musical family in Berlin in 1928", "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.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. India coronavirus: \"A Covid tsunami we had never seen before\"\n\nFor the fourth day in a row, India has set an unwelcome world record for new coronavirus infections, with 349,691 more cases in the 24 hours to Sunday morning, and another 2,767 lives lost. The BBC's Vikas Pandey reports from the capital Delhi, where hospitals are overwhelmed and people are desperate.\n\nWhen Ashwin Mittal's grandmother's oxygen saturation level dropped a week ago, he started frantically looking for a hospital bed in Delhi. He called everybody he could, but every hospital refused.\n\nHer condition deteriorated further on Thursday and he took her to the emergency rooms of several hospitals, but every place was full. They accepted the fate that she was going to die without getting any treatment. But she was gasping for every breath and Ashwin just couldn't bear it after a while.\n\nHe took her in his car and went from one hospital to another for several hours until one in north Delhi agreed to take her in the emergency ward for \"a few hours\". He was to continue looking for a bed.\n\nAshwin, who has also tested positive for coronavirus, continued his search while battling a high fever and severe body aches. But he couldn't find a bed, and the hospital continued to keep his grandmother in the emergency ward on compassionate grounds.\n\nDoctors there said she needed an ICU and had a good chance of survival. A family friend told me that the hospital was planning to discharge her on Sunday as it was running out of oxygen.\n\n\"The family is back to where they started and has accepted the fate. They know that if she survives, it will be because of a miracle, not because of any treatment,\" the friend said.\n\nMiracles are what many families in Delhi are left to rely on. Most hospitals are full and many of them are refusing new admissions owing to the uncertainty over oxygen supply.\n\nOxygen-equipped ambulances are in short supply and it's becoming difficult for families to transport patients to hospitals even if they find a bed.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Yogita Limaye This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nI know a few cases where patients have died because they did not get high-flow oxygen support. Every morning starts with frantic calls from friends, family and colleagues asking for a bed, oxygen cylinders or medicines. The number of people I am able to help is reducing every day as the doctors and officials who could earlier help are no longer available to speak on the phone. Helplines are not working and the vendors who could earlier help have run out of supplies.\n\nI go to bed with a sense of defeat every night, but then pick myself up and start in the morning again as more and more people call for help. I can understand their helplessness as I lost a cousin a few days ago in a top hospital in the city. He waited for 18 hours to get a ventilator but the hospital didn't have any. His last message to us was \"please save me\". But we couldn't.\n\nThat's how Delhi is functioning at the moment. Friends are calling friends; social media is awash with desperate pleas for help.\n\nBut it's almost impossible to find a hospital bed here now. Oxygen cylinders and medicines are in short supply. On Saturday, Saroj Hospital and Batra Hospital told families to take their patients away as they were running out of oxygen.\n\nThe city has been been reporting more than 24,000 cases daily in the past few days. The hospitals are completely overrun, and healthcare workers are exhausted.\n\nSome people I know are taking dangerous journeys with their critically ill relatives to other cities which are 300-500km (180-300 miles) away. Sivesh Rana's brother was in a critical condition but he couldn't find a bed in Delhi and decided to take him in an ambulance to a city in the neighbouring state of Haryana.\n\nBut his condition worsened during the journey and the ambulance wasn't equipped to deal with a critical patient. He died a few hours after arriving at the hospital.\n\nDr A Fathahudeen, who is part of Kerala state's Covid task force, says the crisis is unprecedented and doctors can't do much if oxygen supply is not guaranteed.\n\n\"You need high-pressure liquid oxygen for the smooth functioning of ventilators and bi-pap machines. When the pressure drops, the machines fail to deliver adequate oxygen into the lungs, and the consequences can be fatal,\" he says.\n\nHe adds that oxygen is one of the major treatments to stabilise the patient, allowing doctors time to assess them and plan a future course of treatment.\n\nDr Fathahudeen says urgent measures are needed as patients are dying without getting the treatment they require.\n\n\"The Indian army is one of the finest in the world to build makeshift hospitals and ICU beds within a short span of time. They should be roped in,\" he adds.\n\nThe situation is not very different in other cities, including Pune, Nashik, Lucknow, Bhopal, Indore and Allahabad, as the second Covid wave devastates the country.\n\nIndia reported 349,000 cases on Friday - a record daily spike. It reported 2,767 deaths. But experts say the actual numbers are likely to be much higher.\n\nGetting tested has become very difficult in many cities as labs are overrun. As I earlier reported, many people are dying at home because they are not getting hospital beds or they are not being able to get tested for Covid. So, they don't find a place as a Covid patient in the database managed by different states.\n\nMeanwhile, frantic calls continue - each one more heartbreaking than the last.\n\nHow have you been affected by coronavirus in India? 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.", "Ben Kay (left) is one of the former international players taking part in the research\n\nFifty former elite rugby players are being recruited to a study into whether they are more likely to show early warning signs of dementia.\n\nThe Alzheimer's Society work comes amid growing concern over long-term head-injury risks in rugby and football.\n\nGoverning body World Rugby welcomed the study and said it would \"assist in broadening understanding around this incredibly complex area of medicine\".\n\nA statement added: \"While there is currently no medical consensus on this issue, World Rugby will continue to listen and engage with all sides of the scientific debate to understand what it means for our game.\n\n\"We have been in regular and positive dialogue with both professors on this topic and will continue to do so.\"\n\nThere are now strict protocols to deal with head injuries and concussion - but in previous decades, there was less awareness of the risks.\n\nKay, part of the England's 2003 World Cup winning team, told BBC News: \"As someone that will undoubtedly have suffered head trauma, mild head trauma, while I was playing rugby, if I can be part of the process that examines how that might affect not just sports people but anyone who's suffered head trauma in their life at some point, then absolutely I want to throw my weight behind it.\"\n\nFormer England international Ben Kay wants to help understanding of risks to brain health\n\nThe study, which began in 2013, is already monitoring 700 members of the public aged 40-59, assessing them every two years to check brain function and for early signs of damage.\n\nAnd the rugby players' results will be compared.\n\nAlzheimer's Society research head Dr Richard Oakley said the idea was to monitor people \"almost in real time\" during mid-life to look for \"subtle changes\" in the brain to understand \"not only what caused them but what effect they are having and what they go on to develop\".\n\nProf Craig Ritchie, of the University of Edinburgh, who is leading the research, said the goal was to identify conditions such as Alzheimer's at the earliest stages - when they might be halted or even reversed.\n\nAnd including elite athletes \"might help reduce all players' risk of developing dementia in the future\".\n\nSome former rugby internationals, including World Cup winner Steve Thompson, are planning legal action against the games' authorities, claiming the sport left them with permanent brain damage.\n\nFormer England footballer Alan Shearer has also been recruited\n\nThe study aims to recruit more former professional rugby players - and footballers.\n\nPrevious research suggested former professional footballers were five times more likely than the general population to die with Alzheimer's disease.\n\nFormer England footballer Alan Shearer said: \"The risk of dementia is something that worries many players, so work directed to understanding the earliest stage of dementia is incredibly important.\"\n\nOther projects are also looking into sports' players health.\n\nThe Drake Foundation is running a series of studies. One, which hopes to publish findings soon, is testing blood, saliva and urine samples from players in elite rugby union teams looking for potential biomarkers of concussion injuries.\n\nA spokesman for the organisation said: \"It is very reassuring to see the Alzheimer's Society putting their resources behind the search for answers around the link between sport and long-term brain injury and dementias. We're pleased to see this critical issue finally getting the attention it needs.\"\n• None BBC One - Shane Williams- Rugby, Concussion and Me\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A cordon was put in place and the car park closed\n\nA man has been charged with murder over the death of a man in a supermarket car park in Surrey.\n\nShaan Mir, of Arlington Lodge in Weybridge, is also charged with attempted murder of another man.\n\nMatthew Tester, 49, locally known as Tik, died at the scene in Walton-on-Thames on Thursday and a second man in his 40s received hospital treatment and is recovering from serious injuries.\n\nMr Mir, 26, is due to appear at Guildford Magistrates' Court later.\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.", "Greek islands such as Mykonos are proving popular, says Thomas Cook\n\nPeople are increasingly putting off their summer holidays and booking autumn breaks instead due to uncertainty over international travel, tour operators say.\n\nThomas Cook said autumn bookings were up 50% on normal levels, while luxury tour operator Kuoni said customers were \"holding out for October half term\".\n\nGreece and the Caribbean are among the most popular destinations.\n\nBut some fear prices will rise due to fewer countries being open to tourism.\n\nInternational travel is due to resume from 17 May under the government's roadmap to reopening, with plans for a \"traffic-light\" system categorising different countries.\n\nHowever, the list of countries that Britons can travel to will not be known until nearer 17 May and will be subject to change.\n\nThis has prompted a surge in autumn holiday bookings, with breaks in September and October accounting for 30% of Thomas Cook's live bookings for the year. That is up 50% on what the group normally sees in these months.\n\nA spokesman said there was a \"clear preference for September and October compared to what we normally expect\".\n\nHe said many people had already booked domestic breaks for July and August and were looking for a \"week of sun in the Med\" later in the year.\n\n\"Devon is lovely, but Devon in October is not Devon in July,\" he added.\n\nAccording to Thomas Cook, Greece is the most popular destination for autumn breaks, with Rhodes the most in-demand island followed by Crete, Santorini and Mykonos.\n\nThe Canary Islands, a popular winter-sun destination, are the second most popular destination.\n\nKuoni did not share booking figures but said the majority of 2021 sales have been from October onwards. It added that customers were \"saving and upgrading\" for long-haul winter sun breaks.\n\n\"We've chatted to lots of customers who have written off any hope of getting away in the summer but are holding out for October half-term,\" the company said.\n\nIts most popular destinations are the Maldives and the Caribbean, including Antigua, Barbados and Saint Lucia.\n\nOther travel firms are seeing evidence of the trend in searches on their websites. British Airways Holidays said there was a lot of \"pent-up demand\" for foreign holidays and it has seen a spike in searches for trips to long-haul beach destinations this autumn.\n\nSearches for December holidays have also seen a \"notable increase\", with New York proving popular.\n\nMeanwhile travel deals website Travelzoo predicts September and October will be \"big months for travel\".\n\nA survey of 2,000 of its members carried out last week found the majority said they plan to take a trip around that time.\n\nHowever, the company warned that prices could increase if demand continues and there is a limited number of destinations open for travel.\n\n\"Right now we are seeing some good prices for September and October, but there's every indication it will start to prove more challenging for [package-holiday customers],\" the company said.\n\nUnder the government's proposed traffic-light system, counties will be categorised as red, amber or green depending their infection rates, vaccination coverage and the prevalence of variants of concern.\n\nCovid testing and quarantine requirements will vary from category to category. All passengers will have to take Covid tests before leaving and on returning - even from low-risk \"green\" countries.\n\nThere will also be a green \"watchlist\" which will identify countries that are most at risk of moving from green to amber.\n\nCovid cases in some European countries remain high and vaccination programmes in the bloc have lagged behind the UK.\n\nThe Association of Independent Tour Operators said: \"Would-be travellers are nervous without certainty. We need those government traffic lights to be confirmed to give us all confidence.\"", "The former Royal Ballet dancer had faced allegations of sexual misconduct\n\nLiam Scarlett, the internationally-known choreographer who left the Royal Ballet last year after claims of sexual misconduct, has died at the age of 35.\n\nHis family called it a \"tragic, untimely death\". The cause of death has not been disclosed.\n\nA day earlier, the Royal Danish Theatre had reportedly cancelled his show over allegations of unacceptable behaviour.\n\nThe Royal Ballet cleared him after an independent investigation, but the British choreographer left the company.\n\nScarlett had joined the Royal Ballet in 2006 as a dancer and retired six years later to dedicate himself to choreography. The artist-in-residence was responsible for creating some of the company's major recent shows, including a new production of Swan Lake in 2018.\n\nHis work also included Despite, and Consolations and Liebestraum.\n\nBut he was suspended from his post in August 2019 after the allegations of misconduct with students emerged. Australia's Queensland Ballet also cancelled work with him as a result.\n\nOn Friday, the Royal Danish Theatre announced it was cancelling a planned production of the ballet Frankenstein, for which Scarlett was the guest choreographer, over alleged misconduct towards its staff in 2018 and 2019, the Times reported.\n\nIn a statement announcing the death, the family said: \"At this difficult time for all of our family, we would ask that you respect our privacy to enable us to grieve our loss.\"\n\nThe Royal Opera House said on Twitter: \"Our thoughts are with his friends and family at this very sad time.\"\n\nThe Royal Ballet said it was \"deeply saddened to hear the news of Liam Scarlett's death\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Yulia and Sergei Skripal both survived being poisoned in March last year\n\nA senior Russian military intelligence officer commanded the team suspected of the Salisbury poisoning, evidence uncovered by the BBC's Newsnight and the investigative website Bellingcat suggests.\n\nDetails of the \"third man's\" trip to London in March 2018 have been assembled after the investigative website obtained his phone records and shared them with the BBC.\n\nIn February, Bellingcat published information identifying Denis Sergeyev as a man who travelled to London under the false identity of Sergei Fedotov.\n\nThey also established details of his career and connection to his country's military intelligence service, known by its Russian acronym, the GRU, and linked him to a 2015 suspected poisoning in Bulgaria.\n\nNewsnight understands that Denis Sergeyev holds the rank of major general in the GRU. The other two men (Alexander Mishkin and Anatoly Chepiga) are colonels.\n\nThe pattern of his communications while in the UK indicates that Maj Gen Sergeyev liaised with officers in Moscow. Independently, sources speaking to Newsnight have pointed to Maj Gen Sergeyev being the operational commander.\n\nThe developments come as Prime Minister Theresa May called for an end to Russia's \"irresponsible and destabilising activity\", describing the Salisbury poisoning as a \"truly despicable act\".\n\nRussia denies any involvement in the attack.\n\nEvidence suggests Denis Sergeyev ran the operation to poison the Skripals\n\nMaj Gen Sergeyev arrived at London's Heathrow airport on the morning of Friday 2 March, and left on the afternoon of Sunday 4 March, after Novichok nerve agent was placed on the Skripals' front door handle in Salisbury, Wiltshire.\n\nAnalysis by Bellingcat of position data from his phone shows that he stayed near Paddington station in west London, whereas the other men took a room in Bow, east London.\n\nDuring his visit, Maj Gen Sergeyev shunned wi-fi networks, using 4G and 3G connections to access the internet hundreds of times.\n\nHis billing records show that he used secure messaging apps such as WhatsApp, Viber and Telegram, which might have been the way that he communicated with the other suspected members of his team.\n\nAlthough he spent much of his 2018 visit to the UK secreted away in Paddington, the phone data shared with Newsnight shows that on the morning of 3 March, Maj Gen Sergeyev made his way to the centre of the city, passing by Oxford Circus on his way to the Thames Embankment.\n\nIt was there, as shown by correlating his position data with police information about the other suspects, that there was a 30 to 40-minute window when Maj Gen Sergeyev could have met the others before they caught a train from nearby Waterloo station to carry out their final reconnaissance in Salisbury.\n\nPolice are still probing the questions of when Mr Chepiga and Mr Mishkin were given the Novichok nerve agent and how they disposed of it on 4 March.\n\nIn addition to contaminating Mr Skripal, his daughter Yulia and Det Sgt Nick Bailey, in July 2018 the poison claimed the life of Dawn Sturgess and caused her partner Charlie Rowley - who found the discarded Novichok container - to fall ill.\n\nBellingcat has established that while travelling to the UK and on all of the other operational trips he made during 2017-18, Maj Gen Sergeyev only spoke to a single telephone number, a Russian \"ghost mobile\" believed to be his connection to GRU headquarters.\n\nAlthough it resembles a pay as you go SIM, this number produces no cell tower or IMEI (the unique serial identifying the handset using a SIM card) information, and has for years remained unregistered to any individual, a violation of Russian law.\n\nMaj Gen Sergeyev took 10 calls from the Russian number while in London - and phoned it himself before departing Paddington on Sunday 4 March.\n\nWhile he was booked to leave on the same flight that evening as Colonels Chepiga and Mishkin, it is now believed that Maj Gen Sergeyev took an earlier flight home from Heathrow that afternoon. He left about an hour after police say the others planted the Novichok at Mr Skripal's home.\n\nRecords show that, using his Sergei Fedotov alias, Maj Gen Sergeyev had visited the UK before, in 2016 and 2017. On the latter occasion, almost exactly one year before the poisoning, Colonel Mishkin was also in the country at the same time. Investigators believe that the Salisbury plan may have taken shape during this 2017 visit.\n\nAlthough the evidence suggests long-term GRU surveillance of Mr Skripal and his daughter, as well as planning for an operation, it seems that the decision to take action in March 2018 may have been a last minute one. Christo Grozev from Bellingcat says the phone records show Maj Gen Sergeyev \"frantically calling travel agents\" on 1 March in order to book flights to London.\n\nBellingcat's coup in obtaining his phone records follows its success in accessing travel, passport, and motoring databases for the suspects.\n\nSeparately, journalists from the BBC Russian Service discovered that Maj Gen Sergeyev's wife works as a teacher in Moscow and that the couple listed the address of the GRU training academy as their own home on an official registry.\n\nContacted in February, Mrs Sergeyeva described claims that her husband was part of the Salisbury operation as \"a fairy story\".\n\nResponding to Newsnight's story, the Metropolitan Police said: \"The investigation team continues to pursue a number of lines of inquiry, including identifying any other suspects who may have been involved in carrying out or planning the attack. We are not prepared to discuss further details of what remains an ongoing investigation.\"", "Vladimir Putin's most prominent critic, Alexei Navalny, was jailed in February\n\nDoctors for the jailed Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny say he \"will die within the next few days\" if not given medical attention.\n\nDoctors say recent blood test results indicate he could suffer cardiac arrest or kidney failure at any moment.\n\nNavalny has been on a hunger strike for 19 days, to demand proper treatment for acute back pain and leg numbness.\n\nThe Russian ambassador to the UK has said that Mr Navalny will not be allowed to die in prison.\n\nA prominent critic of President Vladimir Putin, Mr Navalny was jailed in February for old embezzlement charges.\n\nFour doctors, including his personal physician, Anastasia Vasilyeva, have written to prison officials to ask for permission to see him urgently.\n\nIn the letter, which Dr Vasilyeva posted on Twitter, the experts said Alexei Navalny's potassium had reached \"critical levels\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Команда Анастасии Васильевой This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"This means both impaired renal function and that serious heart rhythm problems can happen any minute,\" it explained.\n\nHaving blood potassium levels higher than 6.0 mmol (millimoles) per litre usually requires immediate treatment. Navalny's blood test results, which were obtained by his lawyers, showed his were at 7.1, the letter said.\n\nThe doctors have urged prison officials to let them examine Navalny immediately, \"taking into account the blood tests and his recent poisoning\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Russia's ambassador to the UK Andrei Kelin: \"He (Alexei Navalny) will not be allowed to die in prison\"\n\nIn an interview with the BBC's Andrew Marr recorded on Friday but aired on Sunday, Russia's ambassador to Britain, Andrei Kelin, said that Mr Navalny was not in danger.\n\n\"Of course he will not be allowed to die in prison, but I can say that Mr Navalny behaves like a hooligan absolutely in trying to violate every rule that has been established,\" he said, adding that Mr Navalny was attempting \"to attract attention\".\n\nMr Kelin added that Mr Navalny, who is serving a two-and-a-half-year jail term, would be released from earlier if \"he will behave normally\".\n\nMr Navalny, 44, nearly died in August 2020 when he was poisoned with the chemical nerve agent, Novichock. He accuses President Vladimir Putin of ordering the poisoning, which the Kremlin denies.\n\nNavalny's wife Yulia said her husband now weighed 76kg (168 pounds), which is down 9kg since starting his hunger strike, according to AP.\n\nAlexander Polupan, who was one of the doctors to treat Navalny after the poisoning, posted an image of his blood test results, and said they were an \"absolute indication\" that he needed urgent medical care or he would \"die within the next days\".\n\nAlso joining the call for action are more than 70 well known writers, artists and academics, who have have signed a letter calling on President Putin to ensure Navalny receives adequate medical care.\n\nThe letter was published in The Economist and France's Le Monde newspaper, and included the signatures of Hollywood actors Jude Law, Ralph Fiennes and Benedict Cumberbatch, Harry Potter author JK Rowling and director Ken Burns.\n\nUS President Joe Biden told reporters on Saturday that Navalny's medical treatment is \"totally unfair and totally inappropriate\". In March, US intelligence concluded that the Russian government was behind the nerve agent attack. The Biden administration imposed sanctions on senior Russian officials, and now Moscow is doing similar in retaliation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alexei Navalny: what you need to know\n\nNavalny says he is suffering from acute back pain and numbness in his right leg. Earlier this month, he complained of a persistent cough and high temperature, and was moved to a sick ward in the prison in the town of Pokrov.\n\nHe went on the hunger strike to demand access to his own medical team. Russia's prison authorities say he has refused treatment from their doctor.\n\nNavalny's lawyers, who have been visiting him in custody, say there are no doctors at the prison and the medical unit on-site is run by a single paramedic.\n\nHuman rights campaigners say the prison is known for its especially harsh conditions, and Amnesty International said Navalny had been incarcerated in conditions that amount to torture and may slowly be killing him.", "Millions of children across England are being asked to contribute to a survey about their hopes for the future.\n\nChildren's Commissioner for England Dame Rachel de Souza says the results will inform a review aimed at tackling \"generational problems that have held back too many children for decades\".\n\nThe Big Ask is aiming to be the largest consultation with children undertaken in England.\n\nIt will be introduced with an online assembly by footballer Marcus Rashford.\n\nFrom Monday, the month-long anonymous survey will be made available to schools, youth groups, charities and other children's organisations and services with questions tailored to different age groups.\n\nChildren will be asked how happy they are about aspects of their lives, and what they think stops children achieving what they want to achieve when they grow up.\n\nThere will be focus groups for children with special educational needs, disabilities or other complex needs, and focus groups to ensure the experience of babies and pre-school children is captured.\n\nManchester United and England striker Marcus Rashford will introduce the survey in an online assembly\n\nInspired by the 1942 Beveridge Report, which laid the foundations of the welfare state, Dame Rachel says the results will inform a review - titled the Childhood Commission - which will propose solutions to barriers facing children and set targets to monitor improvements.\n\nThe 1940s report, written by Liberal economist Sir William Beveridge, was commissioned by the wartime coalition government to examine how Britain should be rebuilt after World War Two and paved the way for major reforms including the creation of the NHS.\n\nChildren's responses will be at the heart of the \"'Beveridge-style' blueprint for government\", Dame Rachel says\n\nDame Rachel will visit schools across the country to hear first-hand from children about their experiences of the coronavirus pandemic and hopes for the future.\n\nShe said she wanted to \"better understand what children want from the people in power and those who make decisions about their lives\".\n\nDame Rachel said children's responses would be at the heart of her \"'Beveridge-style' blueprint for government\".\n\nShe said: \"It is time to give something back to children after the huge sacrifices they have made during the Covid pandemic.\n\n\"The Big Ask will ask millions of children in England to tell us what life is like for them, what their hopes and ambitions are, and what is holding them back.\"", "High Street lenders are now starting to offer mortgages to borrowers offering a deposit of just 5% under a new government guarantee scheme.\n\nThe policy, announced in the Budget, is designed to help more first-time buyers secure a home.\n\nBut the launch comes as average house prices in the UK continue to rise to record levels.\n\nAnalysts also suggest that cheaper deals are available for those able to stretch to a 10% deposit.\n\nThe scheme is similar to policies previously used to boost the housing market and the economy, as well as offering support to those buying a home for the first time.\n\nThe new scheme will be available to anyone buying a home costing up to £600,000, unless they are buy-to-let or second homes.\n\nThe government is offering a partial guarantee, generally of 15%, to compensate lenders if the borrower defaults on repayments.\n\nKaren Wright, 41, runs a beauty salon in Cheshire, while her husband Christopher, 33, is a joiner.\n\nAs self-employed people, they have both been hit hard by the pandemic, with Karen's salon closed for five months out of the past year.\n\nThat's made it all the more difficult to save for a deposit for their dream home.\n\n\"We've been renting since 2010,\" says Karen, \"but we want something that's a 'forever' home for us.\n\n\"Trying to save up 20% is very difficult, but with this scheme, we might be able to pay down more than we thought we could and be able to come within the budget of what we currently pay in the rental market.\"\n\nThe couple are keen to find a three-bedroom house in the Wirral, so their two children can each have a room of their own.\n\n\"It's not the cheapest area, but we're looking for something we can maybe do up, utilising my husband's skills.\"\n\nThe guarantee is designed to give lenders the confidence to offer 95% loan-to-value mortgages - many of which were withdrawn during the Covid crisis.\n\nLloyds, Santander, Barclays, HSBC and NatWest are starting to offer products this week and Virgin Money will do so next month.\n\nHowever, some lenders such as Halifax, which is part of Lloyds Banking Group, and Barclays have said that these products will not be available for new-build properties.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said: \"Every new homeowner and mover supports jobs right across the housing sector, but saving for a big enough deposit can be hard, especially for first-time buyers.\n\n\"By giving lenders the option of a government guarantee on 95% mortgages, many more products will become available, boosting the sector, creating new jobs and helping people achieve their dream of owning their own home.\"\n\nHowever, lenders will still carry out affordability checks. Anyone who has lost a job, or whose income has been sporadic owing to the pandemic's effect on employment may find it difficult to secure a mortgage.\n\nHouse prices have been rising - partly because of government stimulus, and there are concerns too about the potential for some to fall into negative equity if this is followed by sharp falls in property values.\n\nSome of the new mortgage rates are close to 4% for a two-year fixed rate deal. For example, rates on NatWest's new 95% mortgages will start at 3.9%.\n\nLloyd Cochran, head of mortgages at NatWest, told the BBC's Today programme: \"It reflects the extra risk the bank is taking on. I think over the long term that is a pretty competitive rate for customers.\n\n\"One of the things we do is ensure that the customer can afford that rate. We also ensure... the customer can afford that loan if interest rates were to rise.\"\n\nHowever, analysts say rates could be cut significantly, by as much as 0.75 of a percentage point, for borrowers able to stretch to a 10% deposit.\n\n\"With more lenders poised to launch deals for this sector of the market, [borrowers] level of choice should hopefully increase even further,\" said Eleanor Williams, from financial information service Moneyfacts.\n\n\"Increased competition within the higher loan-to-value tiers will hopefully translate to more competitive rates for these borrowers.\"", "There has been a sharp rise in cases in India\n\nHealth officials are investigating whether a Covid variant first found in India spreads more easily and evades vaccines.\n\nThere is not yet enough data to classify it as a \"variant of concern\", a leading scientist has said.\n\nBut Dr Susan Hopkins of Public Health England said cases had been found in the UK that were not linked to travel, with their origin being investigated.\n\nMore than 70 cases have been identified in England and Scotland.\n\nIt is also too soon to decide if India should be put on the government's travel \"red list\", Dr Hopkins said.\n\nOn Sunday the UK recorded 1,882 new coronavirus cases and 10 deaths within 28 days of a positive test, according to the latest government figures. The number of deaths recorded at weekends tends to be lower because of reporting delays.\n\nMeanwhile, more than 32.8 million people have had their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, while more than 9.9 million people have had their second dose.\n\nDr Hopkins, chief medical adviser for NHS Test and Trace, told the Andrew Marr Show: \"We have seen a couple of cases [of the Indian variant] that haven't arisen from travel but we're still trying to undergo the investigations to look in great detail at where they might have acquired it from.\n\n\"To escalate it up the ranking we need to know that it is increased transmissibility, increased severity or vaccine evading, and we just don't have that yet.\"\n\nPublic Health England says 73 cases of the variant first identified in India have been found in England, and four in Scotland.\n\nEpidemiologist Dr Mike Tildesley said work needed to be done urgently on finding out more about the variant.\n\nHe said: \"I would always say when these new variants do emerge it is a concern and it's really important that we get as much information as we can as quickly as possible.\n\n\"What's concerning about the Indian variant is there appear to be two mutations which... may make the vaccines less effective, and may make the virus more transmissible.\n\n\"The key thing here is 'may'. We are still trying to gather evidence about this.\"\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\nAsked if India should be added to the government's \"red list\" of banned countries, Environment Secretary George Eustice said: \"We're allowing people in from India provided they have had a pre-departure test, provided they then quarantine - albeit not in a hotel or a designated facility, but quarantine at home - and then have a test at two and eight days.\n\n\"So there are quite a lot of robust tests and checks for anybody coming into the country.\"\n\nHe said the matter was kept \"under regular review\" and the government was taking scientific advice - adding that he believed the prime minister's trip to India should still go ahead later this month.\n\nBoris Johnson has already scaled down his trip due to the rising number of cases - India has reported more than 150,000 Covid cases a day for the past three weeks.\n\nMr Eustice also told Sky's Sophy Ridge on Sunday that business needed to continue \"with the right precautions\" in place.\n\nLabour shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds accused the government of not doing enough to keep variants out of the UK.\n\n\"Large numbers of cases of two deeply worrying variants, first discovered in South Africa and India, have been discovered in the UK,\" he said.\n\n\"We are at a critical moment in the fight against the pandemic, as the sacrifices of the British people and the vaccine give us hope of reopening large parts of life.\"\n\nIn early February, Labour criticised the government for being too slow in implementing a hotel quarantine scheme and called for it to be extended to arrivals returning from all countries - not just those on a red list.\n\n\"Now we are seeing the results of a disastrous policy that has let thousands of people enter the UK without a proper quarantine system,\" Mr Thomas-Symonds said.\n\nSpeaking about other variants, Dr Hopkins also told the BBC the current vaccines were \"not as good against the South African variant as they are against our own (variant) B117 at preventing infection and transmission\" and that caution was still required.\n\nBut she said it was highly likely they would still be effective in reducing deaths and hospitalisations.", "Brian Mahoney says his mother Elizabeth was dropped off at the wrong house after spending 10 weeks in hospital\n\nAn ambulance crew put an 89-year-old woman to bed in the wrong house after she was discharged from hospital, her son has said.\n\nElizabeth Mahoney had been in County Hospital in Pontypool, Torfaen, for 10 weeks being treated for Covid-19.\n\nBut when she was discharged on 12 March, instead of being taken home, Ms Mahoney's son Brian said she was taken to a stranger's house in Newport.\n\nThe Welsh Ambulance Service said it had apologised to the family.\n\nMr Mahoney said his wife went to meet his mum at her home in Pontypool on the day she was due to be discharged because he had a cold.\n\nMr Mahoney says he \"couldn't believe\" his mother had been left at a stranger's house\n\nBut when there was no sign of her, Mr Mahoney called the hospital to see where she was and was told the ward manager would call him back because there had been \"a bit of an issue\".\n\nMore than two hours later, he said, he was told she had been taken to Newport.\n\nMr Mahoney said he assumed she was still in the care of the ambulance crew at this point, so was shocked when he received another call from the ambulance service later to say \"we are on our way to pick your mum up\".\n\n\"I said 'what do you mean you are on your way to pick mum up?',\" Mr Mahoney recalled.\n\n\"And he said 'well, we have left your mother at a house in Newport', which we couldn't believe.\"\n\nElizabeth Mahoney might have thought she was being taken to a nursing home, her son says\n\nMr Mahoney said he understood his mother had tried telling the crew she was not the patient they thought she was, and that she was being left at the wrong house.\n\n\"Mum was frightened then because she thought we were putting her in a home,\" he explained.\n\n\"I don't know what she thought really. They left here there for over two hours.\"\n\nMr Mahoney said they had learned from the ambulance service that his mother had been put to bed in the mystery house.\n\nHe added that he had been told the man who lived there had been expecting the arrival of his sister, who had dementia, but had not immediately realised Mrs Mahoney was not his sister.\n\nMr Mahoney said his mother was a \"good mum\" who had been through a lot.\n\n\"My dad had dementia for a good number of years,\" he said.\n\n\"Dad passed away two years ago. After six months of dad having dementia, mum had a stroke. And she went on to break her hip, so she's been through a lot over the years.\n\n\"Mum's [health is] bad enough as it is... so this certainly hasn't helped.\"\n\nMr Mahoney said he did not want to see anyone punished for what had happened, he just wanted to see measures put in place to stop what happened to his mother happening again.\n\n\"We have all supported the NHS, but we just feel something should be in place to make sure nothing like this happens again to anyone else,\" he said.\n\nMark Harris, of the Welsh Ambulance Service, confirmed a patient had \"regrettably\" been \"discharged to the wrong address for a short period of time\".\n\n\"We are working closely with colleagues at Aneurin Bevan University Health Board to fully understand the chain of events and establish exactly what happened,\" he said.\n\n\"We have extended a sincere apology to both families concerned for the distress caused and will continue to liaise directly with those families as the investigation progresses.\"\n\nIn a statement, Aneurin Bevan health board said: \"We acknowledge the upset and distress this incident has caused Mrs Mahoney and her family and we are co-operating with the investigation being undertaken by the Welsh Ambulance Service.\"", "The first Covid-19 vaccines were given in Wales in December\n\nThe leader of the Conservatives in the Senedd has said he would not want to introduce vaccine passports if they come to power after May's election.\n\nAndrew RT Davies said he was \"very uneasy\" about the idea and they should not be mandatory.\n\nPlaid Cymru and the Liberal Democrats have also raised concerns about the possibility of such a scheme in Wales.\n\nLabour First Minister Mark Drakeford has previously said there were \"prizes to be won\" from vaccine certificates.\n\nBut he warned of \"very big practical and ethical challenges\".\n\nThe potential use of vaccine certificates for entry to certain venues or events is being kept under review by the UK and Welsh governments.\n\nMany Conservative MPs in Westminster have raised concerns about their potential introduction in England.\n\n\"On the science that I can see at the moment, I don't think there's a need for a passport to be brought forward, but I can understand why government needs to trial these options to make sure they're satisfied that they've explored all the opportunities available,\" Mr Davies said on the BBC Politics Wales programme.\n\nAndrew RT Davies says the Welsh Conservatives' manifesto was \"devised and authored\" in Wales\n\nResponding to criticism that the party in Wales had not been distinct enough from the Conservatives in Westminster, Mr Davies said the party's manifesto, due to be released on Tuesday, \"is devised and authored here in Wales\".\n\n\"But what you'll also see is a party that works together in the best interests of Wales with colleagues on the other end of the M4 because that's going to be really important, that close working relationship,\" he added.\n\nWhat's happening? On 6 May, people will vote to elect 60 Members of the Senedd (MSs). The party that can command the support of a majority of MSs will form the Welsh government. Find out more here.\n\nWhat powers does the Senedd have? MSs pass laws on aspects of life in Wales such as health, education and transport - and have some tax powers.\n\nWho can vote? Anyone who lives in Wales, is registered to vote and aged 16 or over on 6 May is eligible. You can register to vote online.\n\nIn an article in the Sunday Times, Plaid Cymru's election campaign director Liz Saville Roberts MP, criticised Mr Davies' leadership.\n\n\"To be respected in office, you must first prove that you respect that office,\" she said.\n\n\"Every utterance from the leader of the Welsh Conservatives throughout this campaign has suggested that he is incapable of doing just that.\"\n\nShe also criticised Welsh Labour for being \"too timid in challenging Westminster, too reluctant to tread too far from the UK government's line\".\n\nJane Dodds (right) defended the party's only Senedd member, Education Minister Kirsty Williams (left)\n\nThe Welsh Liberal Democrats' manifesto includes a commitment to \"work with local authorities to review school funding via an expert review panel\".\n\nAsked on Politics Wales if that was an admission schools had been underfunded while the party's sole Senedd member, Kirsty Williams, was responsible for the education portfolio, party leader Jane Dodds said: \"The local authorities are the responsible body for funding schools, and we need to look at how that funding happens.\n\n\"So it is about us making sure that there's parity, making sure that is fair funding.\"\n\nA Welsh government commissioned report, published in October 2020, calculated total spending on schools in Wales in 2018-19 was £2.6bn, or about £6,000 per pupil - 6% lower in today's prices than the figure for 2009-10.\n\nMs Dodds said: \"There's a need for us to look at how schools are funded, absolutely.\n\n\"But look at other issues around what we've done in education, smaller class sizes, we're funding holiday hunger, we're making sure that that doesn't happen, we have the new, very first ever made-in-Wales Welsh curriculum.\n\n\"Those are real advances in terms of what we're doing in education.\"\n\nVaughan Gething says the \"real choice\" in May's election is between Labour and the Tories\n\nWelsh Labour's Vaughan Gething said: \"The real choice at this election - as the numbers, the polling and the voter conversations tell us - is between Welsh Labour and the Tories in Wales.\n\n\"We all know that the Tories in Wales won't stand up to their London bosses.\n\n\"They never put the economic interests of Wales first, and will never speak out when Tory policies hit jobs in Wales.\"", "Talks have taken place over the creation of a new £4.6bn European Premier League, involving the top sides from across the continent.\n\nSources told the BBC that discussions are still at an early stage but the plan would involve replacing the Champions League with a new format.\n\nBut the project is said to still have a \"long way to go\" and the deal \"may not happen\".\n\nReports suggest five Premier League clubs, including champions Liverpool and Manchester United, have been approached by those behind the plan with more than a dozen teams from England, France, Germany, Italy and Spain in negotiations about becoming founder members of the competition.\n\nIt has also been reported that the European Premier League would see 18 sides compete in a single league with the top sides taking part in a play-off to determine an overall winner and that world governing body Fifa is involved.\n\nLast week Premier League clubs rejected 'Project Big Picture' - a proposal to reduce the league from 20 to 18 clubs and scrap the EFL Cup and Community Shield. It would also have seen more power transferred to the so-called 'big six' Premier League clubs.\n\nEuropean football's governing body Uefa said it opposed the plan.\n\n\"The Uefa president has made it clear on many occasions that Uefa strongly opposes a Super League.\n\n\"The principles of solidarity, of promotion, relegation and open leagues are non-negotiable. It is what makes European football work and the Champions League the best sports competition in the world.\n\n\"Uefa and the clubs are committed to build on such strength not to destroy it to create a super league of 10, 12, even 24 clubs, which would inevitably become boring.\"\n\n'Last nail in the coffin'\n\nKevin Miles, chief executive of the Football Supporters' Association, said the idea of a European Super League shows that billionaire owners of clubs \"are out of control\".\n\n\"The latest reports of plots, allegedly involving Manchester United and Liverpool, to create a European Super League, expose the myth that billionaire owners care about the English football pyramid, or indeed anything other than their own greed,\" said Miles.\n\n\"This has to be the last nail in the coffin of the idea that football can be relied upon to regulate itself.\"\n\nLa Liga president Javier Tebas said: \"The authors of that idea - if they really exist, because there is nobody actually defending it - not only show a total ignorance of the organisation and customs of European and world football, but also a serious ignorance of the audiovisual rights markets.\n\n\"A project of this type will mean serious economic damage to the organisers themselves and to those entities that finance it, if they exist, because they´re never official. These underground projects only look good when drafted at a bar at five in the morning\"", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nSheffield United were relegated to the Championship after Willian Jose's first goal for Wolves secured victory.\n\nThe visitors knew, following Newcastle's win over West Ham earlier on Saturday, that they had to avoid defeat at Molineux to delay their inevitable demotion for a few days.\n\nBut it was Wolves who edged a poor game of few chances, when they broke downfield after Enda Stevens' shot had been blocked. Adama Traore created room close to the goalline and delivered a low cross into the six-yard box, which Jose swept home.\n\nIt broke the Brazilian's Wolves duck in his 11th game for the club, having signed on loan from Real Sociedad in January.\n\nThe Blades tried to respond and Stevens brought an excellent save from Rui Patricio with a powerful shot from an angle.\n\nHowever, there was no preventing a relegation that has seemed certain since an abysmal start to the season brought just one point from their opening 13 games.\n\nAnd at the final whistle, a number of Blades players dropped to their haunches.\n\nSheffield United's relegation came on the same day that Norwich's immediate return to the Premier League was confirmed.\n\nInterim Blades boss Paul Heckingbottom believes the club should follow the Canaries' example and keep as much of the squad together as possible.\n\n\"It has to be the goal to come straight back,\" he said.\n\n\"This incredible journey started in League One. Look at Norwich, Watford, Bournemouth, who are doing well after they got relegated last season. Keeping the group together has to be a priority.\"\n\nIf it was a night to celebrate for the Wolves goalscorer, there was only more frustration for Rhian Brewster.\n\nThe 21-year-old arrived amid much expectation from Liverpool at the start of the season but the £23.5m striker is yet to score for the Blades.\n\nHe never looked like doing so in this game, although in fairness to Brewster, the service he received was inadequate.\n\nIt can only be hoped his and Sheffield United's confidence can be restored by dropping down a level. Norwich's promotion back to the top flight on Saturday - a year after they were relegated - underlines the potential for clubs going down to return at the first opportunity.\n\nEvidently, there are issues that need to be addressed at Bramall Lane.\n\nHeckingbottom has presided over four successive Premier League defeats since replacing Chris Wilder last month. His team have only scored once in that time.\n\nIndeed, Sheffield United are still one goal short of matching the all-time lowest tally in an English league season - with Loughborough scoring just 18 times in the second tier in 1899-1900.\n\nThey are also still three short of matching Derby's total of 20 goals from their 2007-08 campaign, which is the fewest in Premier League history.\n\nOn Friday, chairman Prince Musaad Bin Khalid Al Saud announced he was standing down, leaving another key role needing to be filled. The resolve of owner Prince Abdullah bin Mosa'ad bin Abdulaziz Al Saud to drive the rebuild will be tested over the coming months.\n\nIf there is any consolation from a chronic campaign for Sheffield United fans, it can be found in the difficulties of their great rivals from across the city.\n\nSheffield Wednesday are also mired in relegation trouble and the Steel City is bracing itself for both senior clubs going down in the same season for the first time.\n\n\"There's a lot of hurt in that dressing room,\" added Heckingbottom. \"That game encapsulates our season.\n\n\"Everyone knows and we have to look forward. We have to behave in the correct way, on and off the pitch. Careers are at stake. The fight is there but we have come up short.\"\n\nBetween them, Wolves and Sheffield United had failed to score in the first half of 47 league games before this meeting, so perhaps it was no surprise the opening period ended goalless.\n\nThere was an element of fortune about the only time either side even threatened to break the deadlock before half-time.\n\nWilly Boly seemed to get the ball trapped between his legs following Willian Jose's neat chest control and backheeled it to clear it away. By chance, the manoeuvre sent the ball looping towards goal and had Oliver Norwood not dropped back to the goalline and been perfectly placed to head away, it would have gone in.\n\nThe lack of goal threat from Wolves merely underlined how badly Mexican forward Raul Jimenez has been missed since he fractured his skull at Arsenal in November.\n\nWillian Jose received a slap on the back from his manager when he was replaced 12 minutes from time but the 29-year-old is no replacement for Jimenez, who was inspirational in successive seventh-placed finishes for Wolves.\n\n\"Willian works very hard for the team,\" said Nuno.\n\n\"He works a lot between the lines. The goal was missing, but today he got the goal and we go from there. The obligation of goalscoring is not just with the strikers.\"\n\nA top-half finish is the only target they have to aim for now and even that will take some work given Wolves are four points adrift of Arsenal and Leeds, having played a game more.\n\nStill, there were a couple of milestones to cheer for Wolves, who have achieved back-to-back wins for the third time this season and achieved a top-flight double over their opponents for the first time since 1964-65.\n\nAnd strangely, all Wolves' six home wins this season have come against teams from London and Yorkshire.\n• None With six games remaining, Sheffield United have suffered the joint-earliest relegation in Premier League history, alongside Ipswich Town (1994-95), Derby County (2007-08) and Huddersfield Town (2018-19).\n• None Only Sunderland in 2005-06 and Derby in 2007-08 (11 points each) have had fewer points on the board after 32 games in a Premier League season than Sheffield United this term (14).\n• None Wolves have secured their first league double over Sheffield United since the 2013-14 League One campaign.\n• None Sheffield United have equalled their record number of league defeats in a single season (26 - also in 1975-76 and 2010-11), while the Blades have lost 16 Premier League games by a single goal this season, the most one-goal defeats in a single top-flight campaign since Ipswich Town in 1985-86 (also 16).\n• None After a run of 35 Premier League games without a goal or assist, Adama Traore has now scored (one) or assisted (two) a goal in each of his last three games in the competition.\n\nWolves are next in action on Sunday, 25 April, when they entertain Burnley (12:00 BST). Sheffield United entertain Brighton on Saturday, 24 April (20:00 BST).\n• None Offside, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Adama Traoré tries a through ball, but Fábio Silva is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Adama Traoré (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Vitinha.\n• None Adama Traoré (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Adama Traoré (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from the right side of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Nélson Semedo following a fast break.\n• None Attempt saved. Fábio Silva (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Adama Traoré.\n• None Attempt saved. Romain Saïss (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from very close range is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Fábio Silva.\n• None Attempt missed. Fábio Silva (Wolverhampton Wanderers) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by João Moutinho with a cross following a set piece situation.\n• None Enda Stevens (Sheffield United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Adama Traoré (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Offside, Sheffield United. Enda Stevens tries a through ball, but Lys Mousset is caught offside. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The Indianapolis Sikh community say they feel traumatised by the attack\n\nOfficials in Indianapolis have released the names of the eight people who were killed when a gunman opened fire at a FedEx warehouse on Thursday night.\n\nAmong the victims were four members of the local Sikh community - including a mother, a father and two grandmothers. Other victims include two 19-year-olds, a university graduate and a father.\n\nLocal Sikhs say they feel \"traumatized\" by the attack.\n\nIt remains unclear if Sikhs were targeted, authorities say.\n\nAbout 90% of workers at the facility are members of the local Sikh community, police chief Randal Taylor said.\n\nHere's what we know about the victims.\n\nThe family of Amarjeet Kaur Johal (centre) say they are heartbroken\n\nJohal was a \"mother, grandmother and member of the Indianapolis' Sikh community\", according to the Indianapolis Star.\n\nHer granddaughter, Komal Chohan, says she is \"heartbroken\" at the death of her \"naniji\", or grandmother.\n\n\"I have several family members who work at the particular facility and are traumatised,\" Ms Chohan said in a statement released by the Sikh Coalition.\n\n\"My nani, my family, and our families should not feel unsafe at work, at their place of worship, or anywhere,\" she said. \"Enough is enough - our community has been through enough trauma.\"\n\nMr Singh only started working at the FedEx facility this week and had told everyone how excited he was, an in-law, Harjap Singh Dillon, told the New York Times. He said Mr Singh had been working a night-shift sorting mail when the attack happened.\n\nAn active member of the local temple, Mr Singh had moved to Indianapolis from California.\n\n\"He was a simple man,\" Mr Dillon said. \"He used to pray and meditate a lot, and he did community service.\"\n\nAuthorities provided Mr Singh's age as 68, but his family told the newspaper that he was 70.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Indianapolis police: 'Emotions are very high' after FedEx facility shooting\n\nA mother of two sons, Ms Sekhon began working at the FedEx facility six months ago on an overnight shift, her niece told the New York Times.\n\n\"She was a workaholic, she always was working, working. She would never sit still unless she felt really bad,\" her brother-in-law, Kuldip Sekhon, told the Associated Press news agency.\n\nWhile officials said Sekhon was 48, her relatives said she was 49.\n\nFamily members show pictures of Jaswinder Kaur at a vigil in Indianapolis\n\nMs Kaur had been planning to make her \"renowned yogurt\" to celebrate for her granddaughter's second birthday at a large family gathering on Saturday, Rimpi Girn, a family member, told the New York Times.\n\n\"And today we're gathering to plan a funeral,\" she said.\n\nAuthorities said Kaur was 64, but her family told media outlets she was 50.\n\nThe parents of Samaria Blackwell (centre) say she was a keen basketball player\n\nSamaria Blackwell was a 19-year-old soccer and basketball enthusiast who dreamed of becoming a police officer.\n\nHer parents, Jeff and Tammi Blackwell, said they were \"blessed by the Lord to have such a fun-loving, caring daughter as the baby of our family\", in a statement posted on GoFundMe page launched to fund funeral and other expenses.\n\n\"Samaria was tenacious in everything she did, from playing basketball and soccer to being a lifeguard for Indy Parks,\" they said. \"As an intelligent, straight-A student, Samaria could have done anything she chose to put her mind to.\"\n\nMr Weisert was a former Air Force officer who served in Vietnam and had previously worked as a mechanical engineer \"to make ends meet\", his son, Mike Weisert, told the New York Times. Mike Weisert said his father had been thinking of retiring in the coming months.\n\nMr Weisert's wife of 50 years, Mary Carol Weisert, told local broadcaster WKRC she felt \"terror, horror, fear, shock\" at his death. \"I don't know how else to describe it.\"\n\nMary Carol Weisert shows a photograph of her husband John Weisert, who was killed in the attack\n\nA fan of action and classic movies, he enjoyed playing country and bluegrass guitar, according to the New York Times.\n\nMike Weisert described his father as \"a very decent, kind man, very dedicated to protecting and providing for the ones he loved\".\n\nMs Smith was a sister and daughter, the Indianapolis Star reported her family saying.\n\nThe recent High School graduate was awaiting her first pay cheque after starting work at the plant two weeks ago, a family member told the newspaper.\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 IndyStar 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\n\"She was a lovely, beautiful and youthful teenage girl,\" a family member told the Indianapolis Star. \"She had just started to buckle down and get a job and take life a little more serious.\"\n\nMr Alexander was a former Butler University student who had worked at FedEx for several years, according to the Indianapolis Star.\n\n\"He was a great kid. He loved to play golf. Had a big heart - always had a smile on his face,\" Albert Ashcraft, a former FedEx colleague, told the newspaper.\n\n\"Everybody liked him,\" Ashcraft said. \"He was always saving somebody's ass. People would bring doughnuts in and he was always sticking doughnuts back for his drivers.\"\n\n\"The Butler community is mourning the loss of Matthew Alexander, a former student who was killed tragically along with seven others at the FedEx facility in Indianapolis. We want to extend our deepest sympathies to Matthew's friends and families during this time of great sorrow,\" the university said in a tweet.", "Pupils and staff from Gordonstoun school cast a wreath into the Moray Firth from the Ocean Spirit in a tribute to former pupil Prince Phillip\n\nPupils at the Duke of Edinburgh's former school have paid tribute to him by laying a wreath at sea in his memory.\n\nGordonstoun school remembered Prince Philip during an event at Hopeman Harbour in Moray.\n\nPupils gathered on the school's yacht, Ocean Spirit, which was anchored off the Moray harbour.\n\nA lone piper played Flowers of the Forest on the harbour wall as a wreath was laid in the water.\n\nAs a pupil at the exclusive boarding school in the 1930s, Prince Philip learned to sail in the sea in the Moray Firth.\n\nGordonstoun's principal Lisa Kerr said the school had spent the last week reflecting on \"how proud we are in shaping what was important to the duke\".\n\nShe added: \"We can't have large-scale gatherings at the moment, but to be able to have a smaller tribute to him which is still an appropriate scale is great.\n\n\"For us to put together this tribute felt like the right thing to do in these circumstances - it represents his love of the Moray Firth, Hopeman Harbour and Gordonstoun.\"\n\nThe Ocean Spirit was was anchored off Hopeman Harbour in Moray\n\nThe floral tribute was left in the seas where Prince Philip learned to sail\n\nMs Kerr said the school had provided stability after the turbulent early years of the prince's life.\n\nShe said: \"When he came to Gordonstoun in 1934 as the school's tenth pupil it was a place where he found security and stability and a place where he was able to discover his true self and become the very best version of himself.\n\n\"It was somewhere that he developed his love of the sea, his love of sport, his connection with the outdoors and particularly built his focus on service to others, which is such an important part of the Gordonstoun curriculum even today.\"\n\nThe school has released new pictures of the duke sailing a boat when he would have been about 15 years old.\n\nPrince Philip captured on camera in 1937 - when he would have been about 15 - at the helm of one of Gordonstoun's boats, a two-mast, 14-ton boat named Diligent\n\nMs Kerr said his connection to Gordonstoun was \"lifelong\", and he had written to the school in the final days of his life.\n\nThree of Prince Philip's children and two grandchildren attended Gordonstoun.\n\nMs Kerr added: \"When he came to Gordonstoun as a parent or grandparent, there was no pomp and ceremony.\n\n\"There's a lovely story of how he came to one of Prince Edward's drama performances and he sat in a seat with a handwritten sign that simply said 'mum and dad'.\"\n\nPupils gathered at Gordonstoun to observe the minute's silence for Prince Philip", "Lisa Lanfear was commended for her commitment to equine welfare during the pandemic\n\nThere are calls for charities to be handed powers to enforce laws around horse welfare.\n\nLisa Lanfear, a welfare officer for the Communities For Horses charity, said no charity had the statutory power to act on concerns about horses.\n\nCouncils are able to act, and Ms Lanfear said the situation had improved slightly in some areas.\n\nBut she said there were not enough properly trained officers.\n\nCouncils are also not obliged to uphold the laws, and Ms Lanfear would like to see them become accountable for equine welfare and be given the resources to enable this.\n\nThe Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA) said councils had taken \"strong enforcement action\" and enforcement teams were facing \"significant financial pressures\" and \"considerable costs\" when taking action.\n\nHowever, the WLGA said councils would \"consider all the circumstances of any case to determine the most appropriate course of action\".\n\nAs part of a series looking at the issues people in Wales would like to see tackled after the Senedd election, BBC News spoke to Ms Lanfear.\n\nThere are calls for tethering horses to be banned but Lisa Lanfear fears it will drive people to hide them\n\nIt follows a separate petition going before the Senedd calling for horse tethering - securing a horse to an area with a long rope or chain tied from its headcollar or neck strap - to be banned.\n\nHowever, Ms Lanfear did not think this was necessarily the correct approach. She said laws were already there to protect horses, and a code of practice was in place for horse tethering, but these needed to be enforced more proactively.\n\n\"I can understand why the petition is going, it's not the first to try and ban tethering and I feel a lot of empathy and sympathy towards it.\"\n\nMs Lanfear added: \"I can understand how people feel when they see a horse tethered as it's not very nice and it's a very emotive subject.\n\n\"But there are a lot of things already in place. We already have three sets of legislation.\"\n\nThis includes a requirement for all horses to be passported and microchipped by law, meaning all should be identifiable.\n\nLisa Lanfear says horses are sometimes tethered or stabled for 24 hours a day\n\nMs Lanfear said banning tethering would not stop people from owning horses, especially if it was within their culture and heritage to do so.\n\nShe added there were issues with stabled horses too, and generally how they were kept across the board.\n\n\"Horses are sometimes tethered or stabled 24/7.\"\n\nWhat's happening? On 6 May, people will vote to elect 60 Members of the Senedd (MSs). The party that can command the support of a majority of MSs will form the Welsh government. Find out more here.\n\nWhat powers does the Senedd have? MSs pass laws on aspects of life in Wales such as health, education and transport - and have some tax powers.\n\nWho can vote? Anyone who lives in Wales, is registered to vote and aged 16 or over on 6 May is eligible. You can register to vote online.\n\nMs Lanfear said she also wanted more awareness of the five domains of welfare, a tool to measure welfare needs of all animals.\n\n\"Some people do see them as a status symbol, but some people have an innate desire to have horses because it's part of their heritage.\n\n\"The horse community is very close-knit, and it comes down to a society which has marginalised them so they stick together, and we need to look at the fact that they are really marginalised and disadvantaged and, again, we see that across the whole of the UK.\"\n\nMs Lanfear added that, if tethering were banned, people would still keep the horses and in potentially worse conditions.\n\nShe instead called for more organised grazing schemes and for otherwise unused land to be utilised for horses, so there was enough space for people to offer horses better welfare standards.\n\n\"People start hiding horses any way they can, because all are not going to get rid of the horses, they are going to put them somewhere else.\n\n\"We have pulled horses out of sheds, coal bunkers, back gardens.\"\n\nMs Lanfear, who said horse sanctuaries were already overburdened, said the necessary legislation was already in place but there were simply not enough local authority officers with the correct skillsets to enforce it.\n\n\"When there are concerns about horses, we are totally powerless, we don't have statutory powers to act.\"\n\nShe said equine experts existed within charities who could be used to help enforce the rules if they were granted the power to do so.\n\nMs Lanfear, who co-founded Communities for Horses, was commended by the National Equine Forum for her commitment to equine welfare during the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThe charity received hundreds of calls during the pandemic from people concerned about the health and safety of horses in Swansea, and Ms Lanfear said she was \"thrilled\" her work had been recognised.\n\nThe WLGA spokesman said: \"Local authorities have taken strong enforcement action - including prosecutions leading to imprisonment - in a number of high-profile cases... and will continue to do so wherever appropriate.\n\n\"However, enforcement teams are experiencing significant financial pressures, and there are considerable costs involved in taking enforcement action of this kind. Individual local authorities will consider all the circumstances of any case to determine the most appropriate course of action.\"\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\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A selfie of the Ingenuity helicopter and the Perseverance rover\n\nNasa is set to make history as it attempts to launch a helicopter from the surface of Mars.\n\nIf successful, it would be the first powered, controlled flight on another planet.\n\nThe demonstration should see the Mars-copter - called Ingenuity - rise to about 3m, hover for roughly 30 seconds, swivel and then land.\n\nBut with never-tried-before technology and challenging flying conditions, the flight will be difficult to pull off.\n\n\"It feels absolutely nuts,” says Farah Alibay, a systems engineer at Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).\n\n\"We've been flying on Earth for just over 100 years, and now we're like, 'yeah, we're gonna go to another planet and fly'. It's crazy. But that's the beauty of exploration. That's the beauty of engineering.”\n\nIngenuity is scheduled for lift-off at 07:30 GMT (08:30 BST) on Monday. The first data revealing whether the chopper experiment worked should start arriving back at Earth some three hours later.\n\nThis information has to be relayed through Nasa's Perseverance rover and a satellite at Mars that will beam it to JPL.\n\nThis 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\nWhere will the flight take place?\n\nThe Perseverance Rover landed in a region of the Red Planet called Jezero Crater. The robot carried the helicopter beneath it as it made the perilous descent to Mars' surface in February.\n\nPerseverance then drove to an \"airstrip\" about 20m away from its landing site, lowering Ingenuity to the ground and taking a selfie of the two of them.\n\nThe helicopter was dropped onto the ground from underneath the rover\n\nEngineers say the helicopter looks in good shape for its test flight. A software patch to take care of a technical glitch was installed and tested in recent days, but everything should now be ready for the big moment.\n\n\"We have fully confirmed that Ingenuity has enough energy and power to perform this flight at Mars,\" said MiMi Aung, Ingenuity project manager, at a pre-flight press briefing.\n\nIf the flight works, a further four flights will be attempted over the coming days, each one taking the helicopter further afield.\n\nThe flight zone is very close to where Perseverance landed in February\n\nWhat makes flying on Mars so hard?\n\nThe atmosphere on Mars is extremely thin - about 1% of the density here on Earth - and this doesn't give the helicopter much air to \"bite\" into.\n\nThe pull of gravity on the Red Planet is less, which helps - but even so engineers have had to build their chopper very light. It has a mass of just 1.8kg (4lb).\n\nThe two 1.2m-long rotors spin in opposite directions at up to 2,500rpm. This is extremely fast - indeed, the rotor tips will be moving at about two-thirds of the speed of sound on Mars. This should provide the lift Ingenuity needs.\n\nNasa has been keeping an eye on the winds in Jezero. These could measure up to 20m per second - faster than what was tested on Earth. But the team believes the helicopter will cope.\n\nA black-and-white camera that points down to the ground, which is used for navigation, and a high-resolution colour camera that looks out to the horizon.\n\nThe rover will also be snapping away from a distance of about 65m. It will be using its zoom cameras to try to get some close-ups of the action. With luck we should also get to see some video.\n\nAll this has its complications as well. Both the rover and helicopter function autonomously and carry separate clocks. The timing devices will need to be in sync for the photography to work.\n\nKey frames have already been selected for priority return in the data downlink on Monday. We'll just have to wait to see if these were lucky choices.\n\n\"We have practised it, so we hope everything will go well… But we know there'll be surprises,\" said Elsa Jensen, uplink operations lead.\n\nThe flight could transform how we explore other worlds\n\nWhy is this flight so important?\n\nThe US space agency says the flight will be a \"Wright Brothers moment\" - a reference to the first powered, controlled aircraft flight here on Earth in 1903.\n\nTo mark the connection, a postage stamp-sized piece of fabric from a wing of the brothers' plane was taped to Ingenuity before it left Earth. It's worth noting that the Wright Brothers' first flight lasted just 12 seconds. Great things start with small steps.\n\nThe Wright Brothers fabric is taped just under Ingenuity's solar panel\n\nThe hope is this small technology demonstration could eventually transform how we explore some distant worlds.\n\n\"You can traverse places without being hindered by the terrain in the same way as a land-based vehicle is,” explains Havard Grip, Ingenuity’s chief pilot.\n\n\"It could do scouting missions for future rovers, perhaps, or even for astronauts, and then we're also thinking about it in terms of the potential for carrying its own science instruments to places that are very hard to access.\"\n\nNasa has already approved a helicopter mission to Titan, the big moon of Saturn. This has a very thick atmosphere. Dragonfly, as the mission is known, should arrive at Titan in the mid-2030s.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The billionaire Issa brothers who own Asda have bought the British fast food chain, Leon.\n\nMore than 70 Leon restaurants across the UK and Europe have been sold to the brothers' giant petrol forecourt business EG Group.\n\nIn a joint statement, Mohsin Issa and Zuber Issa said the firm was a \"fantastic brand we have long admired\".\n\nLeon boss John Vincent, who co-founded the firm in 2004, said: \"In some ways this is a sad day for me.\"\n\n\"We have tried hard, done some good things, made a healthy amount of mistakes, and built a business that quite a few people are kind enough to say that they love,\" he added.\n\nThe deal includes 42 company-owned restaurants, as well as 29 franchise sites which are mainly found in airports and train stations across the UK and a handful of European countries such as the Netherlands and Spain.\n\nThe group has also committed to keeping on Leon's management team and staff.\n\nEG Group said that the acquisition, reportedly worth up to £100m according to the Mail on Sunday, is \"complementary\" as it seeks to expand the food side of its business.\n\nIt already operates more than 700 food outlets in the UK and Ireland, including branches and \"drive-thrus\" for KFC, Starbucks and Greggs.\n\nIn a statement, EG Group said it planned to open about 20 new Leon outlets a year from 2022.\n\nIt also cited the importance of Leon's cookbooks, own-brand groceries and ready-meals sold in supermarkets.\n\nJohn Vincent co-founded the firm - named after his father - with Henry Dimbleby and Allegra McEvedy, when he was 33. The brand placed importance on creating a menu of \"healthy fast-food\", Mr Vincent told the BBC in a 2019 interview.\n\nLeon now has more than 70 restaurants\n\nMr Vincent said on Sunday that he has \"had the pleasure of getting to know Mohsin and Zuber [Issa] across the last few years.\n\n\"They have been enthusiastic customers of Leon, going out of their way to eat here whenever they visit London. They are decent, hard-working business people who are committed to sustaining and further strengthening the values and culture that we have built\".\n\nThe Asda deal has understandably attracted the most attention, but this is the latest example of EG Group's wider strategy in growing its non-fuel and food service operations.\n\nThe Issa brothers' statement today certainly gave no indication they're finished yet.\n\nIt was already apparent they were also interested in adding to their menu of café and restaurant brands. They have shown a taste for Caffè Nero, although the coffee chain rejected their bid in November - shortly after launching a company voluntary agreement (CVA).\n\nJohn Vincent has been open about how tough the past year's lockdowns have been for the brand he started 17 years ago, and Leon's outlets are most concentrated in London.\n\nLocations such as Canary Wharf, London Bridge railway station and Heathrow Airport seem unlikely to experience a return to pre-pandemic levels of trade soon.\n\nUnder EG Group's plans, it's now set to expand into both new geographical and - with possible drive-throughs - operational areas.\n\nThe Issa brothers, two entrepreneurs from Blackburn, in February completed a deal to buy Asda, Britain's third-largest supermarket chain, from US owners Walmart.\n\nIt was valued at £6.8bn, but the brothers and the investment firm TDR Capital paid just £780m.\n\nThe deal is still awaiting approval from the UK's Competition and Markets Authority, which is expected by the summer.\n\nAs part of it, Asda's 323 petrol stations will be sold for £750m to EG Group, adding to the portfolio of more than 6,000 around the world.\n\nIn 2020, questions were raised about the group's finances after its auditor, Deloitte, suddenly quit in October and was replaced by KPMG.\n\nEG Group said the auditor had signed a \"clean audit\" for EG Group's 2019 financial accounts and there had been \"no disagreements on any auditing or accounting matters\".", "A section of Brighton beach was closed following the discovery of a suspected mortar\n\nA section of Brighton beach has been cleared after a suspected unexploded mortar shell was found.\n\nSussex Police cordoned off an area to the west of Brighton Palace Pier following the discovery of the item.\n\n\"The scene has been made safe while we await attendance from the Explosive Ordnance Disposal,\" a police spokesman said.\n\nMembers of the public have been advised to stay away from the area until the beach is reopened.\n\nPart of the beach next to Brighton Palace Pier remains cordoned off\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.", "Sergei Skripal, 66, and his daughter Yulia, 33, were found unconscious but both survived the attack\n\nOn 4 March 2018 emergency services received a phone call from members of the public in Salisbury who had seen an old man and a young woman ill on a bench. It was a call that would set in motion a chain of events leading to a major crisis with Russia.\n\nAfter the pair were taken to hospital, local police did an online search on the name of the man taken ill.\n\nThe result set off alarm bells. He was a former Russian spy.\n\nA call came into the duty officer at MI6 headquarters that Sunday evening.\n\nThe realisation that Sergei Skripal - a man who had provided MI6 with secrets from his time in Russian military intelligence - had been targeted sent shock waves through the building, challenging the very core of its work in recruiting agents to work with the organisation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA few hours later, the next call went to Porton Down, home to Britain's biological and chemical research establishment.\n\nA rapid-response team was quickly deployed. Samples analysed in labs on-site identified A234, a military-grade nerve agent from the Novichok family developed by the Soviet Union in the Cold War.\n\nThe revelation caused shock. Detective work by police would identify two officers from Russian military intelligence as the main suspects and a perfume bottle as the means of delivery of the nerve agent onto Mr Skripal's front door handle.\n\nA local woman, Dawn Sturgess would die months later when she came into contact with the Novichok after it had apparently been discarded.\n\nAlexander Mishkin (left) and Anatoliy Chepiga are thought to have carried out the Salisbury attack\n\nRussia denied any role - even putting the two accused men on TV to say they had visited Salisbury simply to see the cathedral spire - but London was convinced it knew who was behind the attack.\n\nWhen another former Russian intelligence officer, Alexander Litvinenko, was killed in 2006 (that time by radioactive polonium) the response was delayed and perceived as weak.\n\nLondon was determined to learn its lesson.\n\nEvery known Russian intelligence officer operating under diplomatic cover in the UK (apart from the declared liaison officer for each Russian intelligence service) was quickly expelled - 23 in total.\n\nMany other countries then followed suit, with 60 expulsions in the US. It seemed as if the Kremlin was taken by surprise by the strength of the reaction.\n\nBut two years on, the legacy of those events looks more uncertain.\n\nBritish officials believe they did real damage to Russian intelligence operations in the country but that damage is likely to have been short term as new spies were dispatched to replace them and as Russia continues a shift to rely on alternative means of espionage.\n\nIn the Cold War, spies under diplomatic cover and illegals were the primary way the Russians could recruit and run agents and steal secrets.\n\nNow there is cyber-espionage and the use of people travelling under different cover, as say businessmen, to operate.\n\nIn the wake of the attack, there was also considerable talk of a tougher line over Russian money and influence in London. But there has been relatively little public sign of action.\n\nThe failure to publish the parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee's \"Russia Report\" about influence and subversion in British life before the election has only added to questions as to whether the appetite to deal with this broader issue remains strong.\n\nThere are also cracks in Western unity over a tough line on Russia, with President Emmanuel Macron of France pushing for trying to improve relations with the Kremlin and uncertainty over the position of the Trump administration in Washington.\n\nUK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Russia President Vladimir Putin met during an international summit on Libya in January\n\nMr Skripal himself has not appeared in public since the poisoning.\n\nMI5 and the Home Office carried out a \"refresh\" to check on the level of protection for defectors like Mr Skirpal - something officials acknowledge was overdue.\n\nThe poisoning itself was a failure, several senior officials who served in British intelligence concede.\n\nA risk assessment was carried out when Mr Skripal was swapped out of a Russian prison in 2010 but the Russia of 2018 was very different from Russia then.\n\nRussia appears to have stepped up a long-standing campaign to track defectors from 2014, including in the US as well as UK.\n\nThat was also the point at which relations began to deteriorate rapidly over the crisis in Ukraine and Crimea and in which other alleged operations, like the deployment of online trolls to interfere in US politics increased.\n\nOne question western intelligence officials have been asking is whether Russia has been deterred from taking such action again by the Western response.", "Former minister and Labour peer Frank Judd has died aged 86, the party has said.\n\nLord Judd served as an MP in Portsmouth from 1966 to 1979 and was a minister in the Wilson and Callaghan governments.\n\nHe was also a former director of Oxfam before being appointed a life peer in 1991.\n\nThe party's leader Sir Keir Starmer described him as \"a great Labour internationalist who fought for peace, human rights and social justice\".\n\n\"He will be missed by us all,\" he said on Twitter.\n\nLord Judd served as minister for the Royal Navy and overseas development as well as in the Foreign Office.\n\nBaroness Angela Smith, Labour's leader in the House of Lords, said he was a \"man of extraordinary personal generosity\".\n\n\"Frank Judd was special. Whether as an MP, minister, peer or director of Oxfam, he never lost his passion for politics as a force for good,\" she said.\n\n\"His Labour Lords' colleagues both admired and had enormous affection for Frank, and we valued his friendship.\"\n\nThe chairman of the Labour Peers Group, Lord Toby Harris of Haringey, said Lord Judd was \"much-loved and respected\".\n\n\"He was indefatigable, participating vigorously on the issues that mattered to him right up until the last few days,\" he said.\n\n\"He was passionate about social justice and international development, both as someone who headed up aid agencies and as minister for overseas development.\"\n\n\"He was always supportive and kind. He will be sorely missed,\" he added.", "Dr Henry stood down as the Church's race-relations adviser last year\n\nStaff complaining of racism in the Church of England have been paid off to \"buy their silence\", the BBC's Panorama programme has been told.\n\nFormer Church race-relations adviser Dr Elizabeth Henry says some had to sign non-disclosure agreements.\n\nThe Church is set to publish plans promising to address racism.\n\nThe Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev Justin Welby, admitted last year the Church had failed to tackle racism in its own ranks.\n\nAfter seven years in her job, Dr Henry retired last year feeling disillusioned.\n\n\"I felt frustrated by the lack of progress with issues of racism,\" she tells Panorama.\n\n\"A really shocking incident was a young black man who received a picture of a banana but that banana had his head superimposed upon it and underneath it said, 'Bananaman'.\n\n\"That is a deeply offensive and deeply racist image.\n\n\"He took it to HR [human resources department] and he did file a grievance - and the decision was that it was not racist.\n\n\"That person left and he received a very small compensation - however, he was forced to sign a non-disclosure agreement.\"\n\nThe Church told Panorama it could not comment on individual cases but \"any [racist] behaviour of the sort described by Dr Henry is unacceptable\".\n\nIt added confidentiality agreements were used only \"in exceptional circumstances\" where open processes \"may not have reached resolution\".\n\nPeterson Feital had high hopes for his career when he moved to London, in 2011\n\nBrazilian-born Peterson Feital was a trainee vicar when he was hired by a church in London with a mainly white middle-class congregation.\n\nHis task was to reach out to diverse communities who do not normally attend church - and for a couple of years, Peterson thrived.\n\nBut when the vicar who hired him left, Peterson says, his life became very difficult.\n\n\"People of my kind, of my colour, are just not clever enough,\" he says.\n\nHe says his new manager told him: \"Your English is not very good, I don't like your preaching, and you are too Brazilian in your compassion -you're not very coherent.\n\n\"Peterson, you've got to find a job with people of your kind.\n\n\"If the London diocese is going to give you a job, it's going to be for a diversity show.\n\n\"They're going to give you for a short period of time and they're going to drop you like we always do.\"\n\nFor seven years, Peterson says, he repeatedly complained to senior staff at the Diocese of London about the racism and bullying he experienced but was told to \"keep his head down\".\n\n\"No-one is going to be able to prove there's any racism,\" he says he was told.\n\nAnd if he created a problem, \"you're not going to get a job anywhere\".\n\nIn March 2021, after 10 years in the Church, Peterson's contract was not renewed.\n\nHe was given a £2,000 redundancy payment and is now out of work and claiming benefits.\n\nThe Diocese of London said: \"We are appalled at what Peterson has experienced.\n\n\"We have spoken with Peterson regarding the process for bringing formal complaints against those involved.\"\n\nMichelle Delves enrolled at Cranmer Hall in Durham in 2016\n\nOne in 25 of the Church's serving clergy belongs to an ethnic minority.\n\nHartlepool curate Michelle Delves, of mixed heritage, enrolled at Durham Bible college Cranmer Hall in 2016.\n\n\"When I got there, I've just never felt as black and poor - I felt like I'd landed on an alien planet,\" she says.\n\nShe was frequently ignored and treated differently, Michelle says, and when she complained, felt no-one was listening.\n\n\"The thing that really scares the pants off me about this institutional racism is that you don't know it's happening to you,\" she says.\n\nEventually, Michelle wrote to the Archbishop of Canterbury.\n\nIn response, his office described the \"anger\" of hearing about her experiences, adding: \"Much more needs to be done about institutional racism in the Church.\"\n\nCranmer Hall told Panorama the college was \"deeply sorry and saddened\" to hear Michelle's story.\n\nIt had been unable to investigate while Michelle had been enrolled because she had not made a formal complaint but if she was willing to talk to the college authorities now, they would \"explore her concerns thoroughly\".\n\nOver the past 35 years, there have been 20 reports examining racism in the Church, between them making more than 160 recommendations.\n\nSome changes have been made but there is still a lot more to do, the Archbishop of York, the Most Rev Stephen Cottrell, says\n\n\"It is simply the case that ethnic-minority people are under-represented and disadvantaged in many of the structures and systems of our Church,\" he says.\n\n\"That has a terrible knock-on for our mission in the wider communities we serve.\"\n\nBut for Dr Henry, that admission is insufficient.\n\n\"It's almost like, 'OK, so the job is done,' but the confession, it is not a new phenomenon or a new awakening or a new enlightenment in the Church,\" she says.\n\n\"Based on the racial reckoning of the Church, I'm afraid they've abysmally failed - and it's not fit for purpose.\"", "Many job centre workers currently do not feel safe about returning to the office due to continued concerns about the coronavirus, a union has claimed.\n\nThe Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union surveyed 1,299 members and found that three in five workers feel unsafe about going back.\n\nIt says \"a majority\" of in-person interviews to discuss benefits claims should be done remotely over the phone.\n\nThe issue could result in industrial action, the union has warned.\n\nPCS found that only 21% of staff surveyed could say for certain that they \"felt safe\" dealing with face-to-face claimant appointments in job centres across the UK.\n\nThe union says the vast bulk of the in-person interviews for Universal Credit and other benefits should be done remotely.\n\nFrom 12 April onwards, the numbers of in-person interviews at job centres, particularly in the 18-24 age group, will be increasing.\n\nThe BBC understands there are concerns that the government wants more people to visit job centres in person so they can be assessed for \"conditionality\".\n\nThe implication is that some people could see their benefits taken away from them, if they fail to meet certain behavioural conditions.\n\n\"These results reflect the anger and frustration our members feel every day,\" said PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka.\n\n\"Thousands of Department for Work & Pensions (DWP) staff have been providing support to claimants safely from home throughout the pandemic - the only logical reason they would insist on fully reopening is because management's obsession with sanctioning vulnerable claimants.\"\n\nHe added that the statistics collected by the union \"should send a strong signal to ministers\" that they needed to meet with staff soon \"to avoid potential industrial action\".\n\nA DWP spokesman said: \"Throughout this pandemic, jobcentres have remained open to ensure we can continue to provide vital support to the most vulnerable. Our return to full opening hours will enable us to provide even more help and support to those who need us.\"\n\nHe added that the health and safety of colleagues was taken \"extremely seriously\".\n\n\"[We] are absolutely committed to ensuring all our sites remain Covid secure in line with PHE and government guidance to keep colleagues and customers safe.\"\n\nAre you hoping to use the low deposit mortgage scheme? Get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Peloton has called the safety warning 'inaccurate and misleading'\n\nSafety regulators in the US have urged owners of a Peloton treadmill to stop using the product \"immediately\" if they have children or pets in the home.\n\nThe Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) says it is aware of 39 incidents including one death, involving the Peloton Tread+.\n\nPeloton had already confirmed the death last month and said children should stay away from the machines.\n\nOn Saturday, Peloton called the CPSC's warning \"inaccurate and misleading\".\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 CPSC issued the \"urgent warning\" on Saturday, releasing video footage of a child being dragged under one of the machines.\n\nIt said the machine posed \"serious risks to children for abrasions, fractures, and death\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by US Consumer Product Safety Commission This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 US Consumer Product Safety Commission\n\nThe CPSC said it believed at least one of the 39 incidents occurred while a parent was running on the treadmill. It also warned that children could be seriously injured while the Tread+ is being used by an adult and not just during cases where children have been left unsupervised.\n\nThe regulator advised owners of the machine to use it only in a locked room and to keep objects such as exercise balls away from it.\n\nPeloton said in a press release that the machine was \"safe for members to use in their homes and comes with safety instructions and warnings to ensure its safe use\".\n\n\"Like all motorised exercise equipment, the Tread+ can pose hazards if the warnings and safety instructions are not followed,\" it added.\n\nThe company told owners of the machine not to let children under the age of 16 use the treadmill and to keep children, pets, and objects away from the Tread+ at all times.", "The UK has named two Russian nationals suspected of the attempted murder of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May said the suspects entered the UK on Russian passports using the names Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov. Moscow denies any involvement in the attack.\n\nIn an interview with Russia's state-run international broadcaster, RT, on 13 September, the two men said they were in the UK to visit the \"wonderful town\" of Salisbury and see its \"famous\" cathedral.\n\nInvestigative website Bellingcat has since claimed Mr Boshirov is actually an intelligence officer by the name of Colonel Anatoliy Chepiga.\n\nMr Skripal and his daughter were discovered unconscious on a bench in the Wiltshire city of Salisbury on 4 March. A second poisoning incident in nearby Amesbury in July is believed to be linked to the attack.\n\nThe British government says a military-grade Novichok nerve agent was used.\n\nHere's what we know so far about the movements of the Skripals and the Russian suspects on 2, 3 and 4 March.\n\nTwo suspects using the names Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov arrive at London Gatwick Airport from Moscow on Aeroflot flight SU2588.\n\nPolice say the men are thought to be officers from Russia's military intelligence service.\n\nThe men say they work in the sports nutrition business and were in the UK on holiday.\n\nRussian officials have denied claims by the Bellingcat website that Mr Boshirov is Col Chepiga - who is reported to have been working undercover for the past nine years after serving with a special forces unit under the command of the GRU - Russia's military intelligence service.\n\nThey travel to London's Victoria station before heading to Waterloo for about 18:00 GMT. They then make their way to the City Stay Hotel in Bow, east London, for the first of their two-night stay.\n\nTraces of Novichok, below the levels that would cause health concerns, were later found in their room.\n\nThe Russian suspects arrive in Salisbury from Waterloo on what police believe was a reconnaissance mission.\n\nSergei Skripal's 33-year-old daughter, Yulia, flies into London's Heathrow Airport on a flight from Russia. It is believed she was picked up by a family friend.\n\nThe Russian suspects return from Salisbury to London by train.\n\nThe Russian suspects again take the London Underground from Bow to Waterloo, before continuing their journey by train to Salisbury.\n\nMr Skripal's red BMW is seen in Salisbury in the area of London Road, Churchill Way North and Wilton Road.\n\nLondon Road is home to Salisbury's cemetery, where Mr Skripal's wife Liudmila and son Alexander are buried.\n\nThe suspects arrive at Salisbury station. They are about a mile from Mr Skripal's home.\n\nThe men are filmed on CCTV at a Shell petrol station on Wilton Road, not far from Christie Miller Road, where Mr Skripal lives. Police believe this was moments before the Novichok was sprayed on the door handle of Mr Skripal's house.\n\nThe Russians are seen on CCTV on Fisherton Street, possibly on their way to the train station. They pass close to where the Skripals would later spend the afternoon having a drink and a meal together in the centre of Salisbury.\n\nMr Skripal's car is seen driving down Devizes Road, towards the town centre.\n\n1) Mr Skripal, 66, and his daughter arrive at the Sainsbury's upper level car park at the Maltings shopping precinct.\n\n2) They then head to the Mill pub.\n\nThe two Russian suspects return to London by train, arriving in the capital at approximately 16:45 GMT.\n\n3) The Skripals dine at Zizzi restaurant and stay until 15:35 GMT.\n\nTraces of a military-grade nerve agent are later found at the Mill and Zizzi.\n\n4) Emergency services receive the first report of an incident. Police find the Skripals on a bench in an \"extremely serious condition\".\n\nThey are taken to hospital along with police officer Det Sgt Nick Bailey, attending the incident. All three were later discharged.\n\nThe suspects board the London Underground to London Heathrow Airport.\n\nThe men are caught on CCTV going through passport control at Heathrow.\n\nThe pair depart on Aeroflot flight SU2585 to Moscow.\n\nA massive clean-up operation was launched to decontaminate nine sites known, or thought, to be contaminated with the nerve agent.\n\nUK authorities said the highest concentration of Novichok was found at Mr Skripal's house, but the operation involving more than 200 personnel, included eight other sites.\n\nWiltshire and Novichok again hit the headlines in July, when another couple fell ill in suspicious circumstances, in Amesbury, only a few miles from the Skripal investigation.\n\nParamedics are called twice to a flat in Muggleton Road, Amesbury, after Dawn Sturgess, 44, collapses.\n\nA friend of the couple, Sam Hobson, said Ms Sturgess appeared to have had a fit and was \"foaming at the mouth\".\n\nParamedics return to same address after Ms Sturgess's friend Charlie Rowley also falls ill.\n\nPolice initially think the two had been using heroin or crack cocaine from a contaminated batch of drugs, however they declare a major incident after Ms Sturgess and Mr Rowley need treatment for suspected exposure \"to an unknown substance\".\n\nTests at the UK's military research lab, Porton Down, find the pair had been exposed to the nerve agent Novichok.\n\nFive areas the victims are believed to have visited prior to falling ill are cordoned off: in Amesbury they are Muggleton Road, Boots pharmacy and the Baptist church, while in Salisbury and John Baker House in Rolleston Street and Queen Elizabeth Gardens.\n\nMs Sturgess dies in hospital on 8 July. Mr Rowley remains in a critical condition.\n\nPolice later confirm the Novichok that poisoned Ms Sturgess and Mr Rowley came from a small bottle found during searches of Charlie Rowley's house on Muggleton Road.\n\nThe counterfeit Nina Ricci perfume bottle, with a specially-adapted applicator, had been picked up by Mr Rowley from a charity bin on 27 June.\n\nHe told police he got some of the contents on himself while he was putting the bottle parts together. Ms Sturgess applied some of the substance to her wrist before feeling unwell.\n\nThe working assumption of police is that the bottle was a container discarded after the Skripals' poisoning, according to BBC security correspondent Gordon Corera.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nThe revamped 36-team Champions League was agreed on Monday.\n\nIt comes the day after 12 clubs, including six from England, announced plans to join a new, separate European Super League (ESL) instead.\n\nThe controversial new Champions League format is due to start in 2024 and run until at least 2033.\n\nA planned announcement last month was scrapped amid arguments over club involvement in the running of the tournament.\n\nThe new format will see 36 clubs qualifying for an expanded 'first phase', where all clubs will play against 10 opponents of varying strengths.\n\nThis will result in a league table, with the top eight qualifying for the knockout phase and the next 16 going into a play-off for the remaining eight slots.\n\nThe format has been criticised by fans' groups, not least because two of the additional four slots will be allocated on the basis of past performance, to the clubs with the highest Uefa co-efficient that did not qualify for the Champions League automatically - but did qualify for another European competition.\n\nIf the process was in existence this season, Liverpool - depending on the outcome of the domestic cup competitions - and Chelsea would have been the clubs who stood to benefit.\n\nThe criticism around this format is that it would strip away the basis of qualification being around league position as a team could qualify for the Champions League despite finishing lower in the table than a team in the same league that missed out.\n• None Big Narstie explores the impact of the Brixton Riots\n• None Find out on the Bad People podcast", "The Duke of Edinburgh's funeral was watched by more than 13 million television viewers in the UK, overnight figures showed.\n\nThe one-hour service was viewed by 11 million people on the BBC, 2.1 million on ITV, and around 450,000 on Sky.\n\nThe figures are from the official BARB overnight averages for between 15:00 BST and 16:00 on Saturday.\n\nAs well as television coverage, the Windsor service was broadcast on radio and several YouTube channels.\n\nOn that platform, the BBC's live stream recorded 7.5 million global views by Sunday morning.\n\nFigures for the Royal Family's YouTube live stream were not available, but it was third on YouTube's worldwide trending list - which uses view count as one measure - on Sunday.\n\nA separate BBC Two funeral programme in the evening that showed an edited package of coverage was watched by 1.31 million.\n\nIn 2002, more than 10 million watched the funeral of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother in the UK - though that ceremony was held on a Tuesday.\n\nIn 1997, the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, was watched by 31 million people - a record audience figure.\n\nAnd some 13.1 million tuned into the BBC's coverage of the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex in 2018.\n\nOn Saturday, Huw Edwards, Sophie Raworth and JJ Chalmers presented the BBC's live coverage of the funeral from Windsor, alongside expert guests and those who knew the 99-year-old duke.\n\nThey included Sir David Attenborough, who praised the duke's conservation work, saying: \"He spoke with the passion of a man who both cared about it, and knew about it, knew about it a lot.\"\n\nCoverage included a full military procession and showed members of the Royal Family accompanying the coffin, as it made a final journey from Windsor Castle to St George's Chapel.\n\nITV's special programme, Prince Philip - a Royal Funeral, was anchored by Tom Bradby and Julie Etchingham, with contributions from Mary Nightingale and Nina Hossain.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe service saw the Queen mourn her husband of 73 years with dignity and stoicism during an event that bore Prince Philip's touch and celebrated his life, military service, and legacy.\n\nSenior members of the Royal Family, including the Prince of Wales, the Duchess of Cornwall, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and the Duke of Sussex - who returned from the US - were also in attendance.\n\nThe BBC attracted a record number of complaints after it changed its schedules in the immediate aftermath of the duke's death, affecting programmes including MasterChef.", "Two Russian men suspected of carrying out the 2018 Salisbury poisonings are being linked to an explosion at an arms depot in the Czech Republic.\n\nEvidence links the 2014 explosion, and an attempted poisoning in Bulgaria, to a unit of Russian military intelligence - the GRU - the BBC has learnt.\n\nEuropean intelligence agencies believe the GRU's Unit 29155 is tasked with sabotage, subversion and assassination.\n\nThe Russian government said the claims were unfounded and absurd.\n\nCzech authorities say they are expelling 18 Russian diplomats believed to be intelligence operatives in retaliation for the explosion, which killed two people.\n\nCzech Prime Minister Andrej Babis said the country had to react to revelations tying the blast to the GRU.\n\nThe country will inform Nato and European Union allies about its suspicions, and will discuss the matter at an EU foreign ministers' meeting on Monday, its acting Foreign Minister Jan Hamacek said.\n\nThe Russian foreign ministry said it would \"take retaliatory measures that will force the authors of this provocation to fully understand their responsibility for destroying the foundation of normal ties between our countries\".\n\nA huge explosion tore apart an ammunitions storage depot in a forest in the Czech Republic on 16 October 2014.\n\nWindows in nearby buildings were blown out and local schools were evacuated as emergency vehicles rushed to the scene. The remains of two men - aged 56 and 69 - who worked at the site were found more than a month later.\n\nThe blast was assumed to have been an accident.\n\nBut painstaking detective work by Czech authorities has pointed the finger at Moscow - and Unit 29155 of the GRU.\n\nIn the wake of the Salisbury poisoning, European security services have been investigating a series of previously unexplained events.\n\nFor Czech police, that included the October 2014 explosion. A crucial find, sources close to the investigation have told the BBC, was an email sent to Imex Group, the company which operated the depot.\n\nIt claimed to come from the National Guard of Tajikistan. It asked for two men to be given access to the site for an inspection visit. Scans of their passports were attached. The men were said to be Ruslan Tabarov from Tajikistan and Nicolaj Popa, a Moldovan citizen.\n\nThe pictures on the passports match those of the two men accused by Britain of the Salisbury poisoning.\n\nThe two men travelled to the UK in March 2018 under the names Ruslan Boshirov and Alexander Petrov.\n\nBoth were caught on CCTV at Salisbury and identified by the Metropolitan Police as suspects in smearing Novichok nerve agent on the door handle of the house of former GRU officer Sergei Skripal.\n\nSkripal and his daughter fell ill while a local woman, Dawn Sturgess, was killed months later by Novichok from a discarded perfume bottle.\n\nThe investigative site Bellingcat soon after identified Ruslan Boshirov as Anatoly Chepiga and Alexander Petrov as Alexander Mishkin, both GRU officers.\n\nThe pair then appeared on Russian TV denying involvement, claiming they were sports nutritionists who visited Salisbury to see the spire of the cathedral.\n\nPassport scans were given to gain access to the site in the Czech Republic\n\nOn 11 October 2014, the men used the same cover identities they used in Salisbury - Ruslan Boshirov and Alexander Petrov - to arrive at Prague airport.\n\nThey stayed in Prague for two days (Chepiga's presence had previously been noted based on social media posts but not linked to the explosion).\n\nThey then booked into accommodation in Ostrava, near the ammunition depot on 13 October. They were booked to stay until the 17 October.\n\nThe explosion took place on the 16th and that day the pair headed to Vienna airport to fly to Moscow. The authorities do not appear to know exactly how the depot was blown up.\n\nTwo suspects pictured on CCTV at Salisbury railway station, England, in March 2018\n\nDawn Sturgess was poisoned after inadvertently spraying herself with Novichok in a perfume bottle\n\nAnother clue, the BBC has learnt, was the email used to request the men's visit to the arms depot. It was traced to a user in Russia rather than Tajikistan and when entered in a Skype directory linked to a username \"Andrey O\".\n\nThe commander of Unit 29155 was first reported by the New York Times to be Andrey Averyanov and he is believed to have used Andrey Overyanov as a cover identity.\n\nWhy would Russian intelligence blow up the arms depot?\n\nOne of the people storing weapons there was a Bulgarian arms dealer called Emilian Gebrev, sources have told the BBC.\n\nThat provided another link to Unit 29155.\n\nIn April 2015, six months after the Czech explosion, Gebrev fell seriously ill in the Bulgarian capital Sofia. After a month in hospital, he was released but then fell sick again. Despite suspicions, Bulgarian authorities made little progress amid talk it was simply food poisoning.\n\nIt was only after events in Salisbury in 2018 that people paid more attention.\n\nA third man, using the name Sergei Fedotov had been identified as coming to the UK to oversee the Salisbury poisoning. And he was also found to have been in Bulgaria at the time of Gebrev's poisoning.\n\nBulgarian authorities found that Fedotov and two other men from Unit 29155 had checked into a hotel in the same complex as Gebrev's office in April 2015 and insisted on rooms with a view of the underground car park.\n\nSurveillance of that car park released by a Bulgarian prosecutor last year shows one man approaching the cars of Gebrev, as well as his son and business partner who would also fall ill.\n\nA toxic substance is believed to have been smeared on the handles - similar to the way Novichok was placed on the handle of Sergei Skripal's house.\n\nAlthough he had a return flight booked two days later, Fedotov left the country on April 28th - the day of the poisoning.\n\nIt has been reported he was supplying weapons to a number of countries against Moscow's wishes, possibly including Ukraine, or to other countries in competition with Russian suppliers, including in Asia.\n\nAnd one business deal may also have brought him into direct conflict with powerful Russian businessmen linked to the GRU.\n\nThe explosion at the Czech depot in October 2014 looks like it could have been an initial attempt to hurt Gebrev's business or issue a warning which was then followed up with an attempt to kill him.\n\nPainstaking detective work into the blast by Czech authorities has pointed the finger at Moscow\n\nBut the only people to die were two innocent Czech men working at the depot. (There were also explosions at Bulgarian arms factories in 2015 although no link has publicly been made.)\n\nOn Saturday, the Czech Prime Minister announced evidence linked the explosion to the GRU and said 18 employees of the Russian embassy - identified as intelligence operatives - had to leave the country within 48 hours.\n\nCzech police issued pictures of the two suspects saying they wanted to speak to them. Russian authorities say their constitution prevents the men being extradited.\n\nCzech ministers pointed the finger specifically at Unit 29155. European intelligence officials say its mission is sabotage, subversion and assassination.\n\nThey think it numbers around 200 but with only 20 or so of those involved in carrying out operations with the rest support staff.\n\nAs well as Salisbury, Bulgaria and now the Czech Republic, the unit has been linked to other operations including an attempted coup in Montenegro in 2016.\n\nA number of European countries are investigating past travel to see if it correlates with suspicious events. That means this revelation may not be the last.\n\nThe pair involved in Salisbury and now linked to the Czech explosion have not been seen since they were identified in 2018. But Unit 29155, western intelligence officials say, is still active.\n\nUK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said the UK stands \"in full support of our Czech allies, who have exposed the lengths that the Russian intelligence services will go to in their attempts to conduct dangerous and malign operations in Europe\".", "The attack happened in the early hours of Sunday\n\nThe home of a Syrian family has been attacked in Newry, County Down, in what police are treating as a hate crime.\n\nThe attack happened in Carlingford Park in the city in the early hours of Sunday.\n\nPSNI Ch Insp Amanda Ford said a number of windows were smashed and graffiti was sprayed on the property at about 02:00 BST.\n\n\"This type of violent crime is unacceptable in our communities,\" she said.\n\n\"Hate crimes have no place in today's society and will simply not be tolerated.\"\n\nShe added that police inquiries are continuing.\n\nSDLP MLA for Newry and Armagh, Justin McNulty, described the attack as \"sickening\".\n\n\"What is even more distressing is the potential that this attack was racially motivated,\" he said.\n\n\"Newry is an incredibly diverse and vibrant city and for any individual or family to be targeted simply because of their ethnicity or nationality is vile and wrong.\n\n\"It is crucial we all stand united to support our neighbours and fellow citizens to show in the strongest form that racism has no place in our society.\n\n\"I appeal to anyone with information regarding this sickening hate crime to bring it forward to the police immediately.\"\n\nSinn Féin councillor Valerie Harte said the attack had been met with anger amongst the local community.\n\n\"I am both disgusted and saddened to learn of this attack on a family who have just recently moved into the area,\" she said.\n\n\"This was a cowardly attack carried out under the cover of darkness and forced this family to flee their home.\n\n\"Those responsible have shown blatant disregard for the community.\n\n\"The racists need to hear loud and clear that their cowardly actions are unacceptable.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. George Eustice: \"Rishi Sunak didn't do any favour for Greensill or David Cameron\"\n\nThe government will examine suggestions to improve lobbying rules after a series of inquiries, the environment secretary has pledged.\n\nGeorge Eustice said current systems were \"quite robust\" but it was possible they could be \"tweaked or improved\".\n\nHe said David Cameron's actions were \"acceptable\" when he lobbied ministers on behalf of finance firm Greensill Capital.\n\nBut Labour said the row over the ex-PM's work had eroded trust in politics.\n\nA government review and three separate MP-led inquiries are now looking into Mr Cameron's attempts to lobby ministers on behalf of Greensill.\n\nHis work for the firm, which collapsed in March, has prompted increased scrutiny of private companies' attempts to influence ministers and officials.\n\nMr Cameron began working as an adviser to Greensill in August 2018, just over two years after he stood down as PM in July 2016.\n\nHe has been criticised for unsuccessfully trying to help the firm, in which he had a financial interest, gain access to government-backed Covid schemes, including by sending text messages to Chancellor Rishi Sunak.\n\nHe also met Health Secretary Matt Hancock in 2019 for a \"private drink\" to discuss a new payment scheme for NHS staff developed by the firm.\n\nCurrently, former ministers are not allowed to lobby government for two years after they leave office - a rule the ex-PM appears to have followed.\n\nBut critics of the current system, including former Labour prime minister Gordon Brown, have suggested a longer ban is required.\n\nAll external lobbyists also have to list their work on a special register - although as an in-house employee, Mr Cameron was not required to do this.\n\nMr Cameron quit Downing Street in the wake of the 2016 Brexit referendum\n\nAsked whether Mr Cameron's work for the firm was acceptable, Mr Eustice told the BBC's Andrew Marr show: \"Well it is acceptable obviously, because he would have worked within the rules.\"\n\nMr Eustice said that all current cabinet ministers will be asked to declare contact with the firm as part of the government review, to be led by lawyer Nigel Boardman.\n\n\"Once it's concluded, and once all those parliamentary committees that are now looking at this have concluded, I'm sure some of them will make policy recommendations.\n\n\"And of course the government will look at that. I'm not saying that things couldn't be tweaked or improved.\"\n\nThe terms of reference for the government's own review say Mr Boardman will report \"findings and any recommendations\" to Prime Minister Boris Johnson by the end of June.\n\nSpeaking earlier to Sky's Sophy Ridge, Mr Eustice said that review was \"not really there to prescribe policy\" and would not have enforcement powers.\n\nLabour's shadow Cabinet Office minister Rachel Reeves said the Greensill affair showed the need for stricter lobbying rules.\n\nShe told the Marr programme that the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (Acoba), which advises former ministers and civil servants on outside employment, should be given greater powers.\n\n\"We are seeing the erosion of trust in our politics because of the behaviour by a few at the top of the Conservative Party,\" she added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rachel Reeves says the Greensill lobbying crisis is \"tip of the iceberg\".\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey, who was energy secretary under Mr Cameron during the Tory-Lib Dem coalition government, said \"much greater transparency\" over lobbying was required.\n\nHe suggested the code which governs the behaviour of current ministers should be overseen by an \"independent body\" similar to the one that oversees MPs' expenses.\n\nMeanwhile, senior Tory MP Sir Bernard Jenkin has warned Mr Johnson he could lose trust from former Labour voters in \"red wall\" constituencies they won in the last election - unless he can show he is more transparent.\n\nWriting in the Observer newspaper, Sir Bernard said the current system had \"allowed the lines between public service and private gain to become blurred\".\n\nHe said there had been a \"failure of successive governments\" to be more transparent about the relationships between administrations and business.\n\nMr Cameron has defended his work for Greensill but accepted he should have contacted ministers using more formal channels.\n\nHe has said he welcomes the government review and will \"respond positively\" to any requests from MPs for him to give evidence.", "Blossoms will headline the gig at Liverpool's Sefton Park\n\nMusic fans in Liverpool are to get the chance to enjoy a near-normal gig as part of a government pilot event.\n\nA crowd of 5,000 will see headline act Blossoms without having to social-distance or wear face coverings.\n\nBut they will only get into the 2 May event by having a negative Covid test.\n\nMeanwhile, the FA Cup semi-final between Leicester City and Southampton at London's Wembley Stadium will host a crowd of 4,000 later as part of a series of government trial events.\n\nOn Sunday, the UK recorded 1,882 new Covid cases and 10 deaths within 28 days of a positive test, according to the latest government figures. The number of deaths recorded over the weekend tends to be lower because of reporting delays.\n\nMore than 32.8 million people have had their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, while more than 9.9 million people have had their second dose.\n\nThe outdoor concert at Sefton Park will operate below its capacity of 7,500.\n\nTicket-holders will be required to take a lateral flow test, which can produce a result within 30 minutes, at a local testing centre before entry, the Department for Digital Culture Media and Sport said.\n\nAttendees will also be asked to take a test after the concert - and will have to provide contact details to NHS Test and Trace to ensure they can be reached if someone who attended tests positive.\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden said: \"We're one step closer to a summer of live events now our science-led programme is under way.\n\n\"Testing different settings and looking at different mitigations is key to getting crowds back safely.\"\n\n\"I hope it won't be too much longer until gigs are back for good,\" he added.\n\nAnnouncing Blossoms as headliners, Claire McColgan, director of Culture Liverpool, told BBC Radio 5 Live's Breakfast it was nearly two years since the city had held outdoor mass-attendance events.\n\nShe said scientists would assess how attendees move and respond during the gig, and voluntary tests taken afterwards will be used to identify any infections that might arise.\n\n\"The stuff you see on stage is just a tiny, tiny part of it,\" she said. \"It's loads of people's jobs - it's 60,000 jobs across our city region.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the results from the concert would \"inform our approach to ensuring future big events can take place safely\".\n\nThe event will be organised by music promoter Festival Republic in partnership with Culture Liverpool.\n\nGreg Parmley, chief executive of Live, the UK's live music industry body, said the outdoor pilot was \"a hugely positive development and brings the summer festival season one step closer\".\n\nThe government is trialling crowds at a series of events in England. The first of these - the World Snooker Championships - began on Saturday, with a reduced crowd of 213 watching at Sheffield's Crucible Theatre.\n\nOrganisers hope the crowd will be at its full capacity of 980 by the final on 2 May.\n\nOther events planned as part of the pilot scheme include other events in Liverpool including an evening at an indoor nightclub, a business conference and a cinema screening.\n\nA mass-participation 6.2 mile (10km) run was scheduled for later this month at Hatfield Park in Hertfordshire but has since been postponed.\n\nUnder the government's roadmap for easing lockdown in England, large events can restart from 17 May at the earliest - but with limits on audience numbers - and nightclubs will be able to reopen no earlier than 21 June.\n\nThe Welsh government is planning to hold a series of pilot events for audiences of up to 1,000 people after 12 April.\n\nA target date for the restart of large events in Scotland and Northern Ireland has not yet been set.\n\nMeanwhile, leaders of the UK's biggest hospitality businesses have signed an open letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson urging him to \"stick\" with England's roadmap to reopen the economy.\n\nThe letter in the Sunday Telegraph, signed by the chief executives of Mitchells & Butlers, Fuller's, Young's, JD Wetherspoon, Pizza Hut and Alton Towers owner Merlin, said two-thirds of hospitality venues \"couldn't open outdoors from 12 April, and none is breaking even\".\n\nThe signatories added: \"The prime minister set out the right path. He should stick to it and not let it be derailed by talk of vaccine passports in pubs and restaurants.\"\n\nSefton Park in Liverpool hosted capacity crowds the summer before the pandemic struck\n\nThe Night Time Industries Association admitted the reopening of outdoor hospitality in England had led to a \"challenging\" weekend.\n\nThe association's Michael Kill told BBC Breakfast: \"As you can appreciate it is a very challenging environment. It's great to be back - it's been a very busy weekend and the majority of customers have adhered to measures that have been put in place by the businesses.\"\n\n\"I think there is going to be a bit of a bedding in period for people to get used to things and for things to settle - particularly over the first weekend,\" he added.", "Helen McCrory played seven lead roles at the National Theatre\n\nStars have paid tribute to Peaky Blinders and Harry Potter actress Helen McCrory who has died of cancer aged 52.\n\nCillian Murphy, who starred alongside her in the BBC drama, described her as \"fearless and magnificent\".\n\nAlso known for her stage performances, National Theatre artistic director Rufus Norris said she was \"one of the great actors of her generation\".\n\nHer husband, actor Damian Lewis, announced her death on Friday \"after an heroic battle with cancer\".\n\nHe said he was \"heartbroken\", and that she was a \"beautiful and mighty woman\".\n\nAs well as her film and TV credits, she played seven lead roles at the National Theatre, whose boss Rufus Norris said: \"With her incisive wit and ferocious intelligence, she was one of the most charismatic and distinctive performers.\"\n\nShe also worked at the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Almeida and the Donmar Warehouse, and earned rave reviews for her role in Uncle Vanya in London and New York in 2002 and 2003.\n\nCarrie Cracknell, who directed McCrory in a stage production of Medea, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme she was one of \"very, very few\" people who knew about her illness and was \"sworn to secrecy\".\n\n\"Helen wanted to be very private about her illness and I understand why,\" she said. \"When you live in the public spotlight you have to find the space to protect the things that are just for you. And certainly that was, it was for her and her family and her very closest friends.\"\n\nMs Cracknell said working with McCrory was \"one of the highlights of my professional life\".\n\n\"She had this extraordinary, fierce depth of character and complexity and ability to articulate so many parts of the human condition.\"\n\n\"She was this tiny, tiny woman and she would stand in the middle of the Olivier stage and sort of be possessed really, it was like she was transforming,\" she said.\n\nShe said McCrory's charity work and commitment to her family had defined her last few years of life, with her not wanting people to focus on her illness.\n\n\"She faced up to it with a level of bravery and humour that was completely extraordinary and as ever was teaching people how to live so it was a remarkable thing.\"\n\nSir Richard Eyre, who gave McCrory one of her first significant stage roles in the 1990s, said one of the most upsetting things about her death was that \"we will be deprived of major performances that she would have been able to give\" and described her as a successor to Dame Judi Dench.\n\nLewis and McCrory met in the 2003 play Five Gold Rings\n\nIn 2003, she met Lewis when they both starred in a play called Five Gold Rings at the Almeida Theatre in London.\n\nMcCrory was nominated for two of London's Olivier Awards for playing Rosalind in As You Like It in 2006, and for The Last of the Haussmans in 2013.\n\nThe actress was perhaps best known for playing Aunt Polly, the matriarch of the Shelby clan, in all five series of hit BBC period gang drama Peaky Blinders from its start in 2013.\n\nPeaky Blinders creator Steven Knight said: \"Helen was one of the great actors of her generation. She was so powerful and controlled and this is so sad.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Helen McCrory starred as Aunt Polly in all five series of Peaky Blinders\n\nMurphy, who played Tommy Shelby in the show, added he was \"broken-hearted to lose such a dear friend\", describing her as \"a beautiful, caring, funny, compassionate human being\".\n\n\"She elevated and made humane every scene, every character she played,\" he said, adding it was \"a privilege to have worked with this brilliant woman... I will dearly miss my pal\".\n\nBBC director of drama Piers Wenger added: \"Helen was one of the finest actresses this country will ever see.\"\n\nActor Michael Sheen, who worked with McCrory on the 2006 film The Queen and more recently in ITV drama Quiz, described her death as \"heartbreaking\" and said it had been \"an honour to work with her and know her\" in a post on social media.\n\n\"So funny, so passionate, so smart and one of the greatest actors of our time,\" he tweeted.\n\n\"From the first moment I met her when we were just kids it was obvious she was very special.\"\n\nAlongside a photo of McCrory, actress Dame Helen Mirren wrote on Instagram: \"A great actress and a great person. this is so very very sad.\"\n\nMcCrory married Homeland star Lewis in 2007 and they had two children.\n\nLast year, the couple raised more than £1m to provide NHS workers with meals from high street restaurants during the pressures of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nComedian Matt Lucas, who worked with them on the FeedNHS campaign, tweeted that she \"will be remembered not just for her remarkable stage and screen performances, but also for her selflessness and generosity\".\n\nMcCrory played Narcissa Malfoy, the wife of Lucius Malfoy and Draco's mother, in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 and Part 2.\n\nIn her tribute, Harry Potter author JK Rowling wrote: \"I'm devastated to learn of the death of Helen McCrory, an extraordinary actress and a wonderful woman who's left us far too soon.\n\n\"My deepest condolences to her family, especially her husband and children.\"\n\nWith Jason Isaacs as Lucius Malfoy (left) and Tom Felton as Draco Malfoy in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows\n\nHer other screen roles included the MP Clair Dowar in 2012 James Bond movie Skyfall, and former Prime Minister Tony Blair's wife Cherie in the films The Queen and The Special Relationship.\n\nShe provided the voice of Stelmaria, Lord Asriel's snow leopard daemon, in the recent BBC One TV series His Dark Materials, and the show's Twitter account called her \"uniquely talented\".\n\nFilm and theatre director Sir Sam Mendes, who directed Skyfall, remembered her as \"an astonishing talent, a fabulous person, and an absolute true original\".\n\nShe played Cherie Blair in 2006 film The Queen", "Facebook's plans to roll out encryption across its messaging services could jeopardise ongoing work to combat child abuse, the Home Secretary has warned.\n\nSuch encryption means only the sender and recipient can read messages.\n\n\"We cannot allow a situation where law enforcement's ability to tackle abhorrent criminal acts and protect victims is severely hampered,\" Priti Patel told a charity-hosted event.\n\nFacebook says its plans for wider encryption protects users' privacy.\n\nThe National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC), which invited Ms Patel to speak, has claimed that private messaging \"is the frontline of child sexual abuse\".\n\nEncrypting messages by default could lead to the easier spread of child abuse imagery or online grooming, it has said.\n\nIn her speech, the Home Secretary said that Facebook must take into account public safety when it makes changes to its platform - and in particular seriously consider the effect on children.\n\n\"Sadly, at a time when we need to be taking more action... Facebook is still pursuing end-to-end encryption plans that place the good work and the progress that has already been made at jeopardy,\" she said.\n\n\"Offending is continuing, and will continue - these images of children being abused just continue to proliferate, even right now while we are speaking. But the company intends to blind itself to this problem through end-to-end encryption which prevents all access to messaging content.\"\n\n\"My view is that this is simply not acceptable,\" she added.\n\nFacebook, however, said that \"end-to-end encryption is already the leading security technology used by many services to keep people safe from hackers and criminals\". Safety features are already a part of its plans, it added.\n\nEnd-to-end encryption guarantees privacy by making sure only the sender or recipient can read the messages.\n\nWhile it travels, it is scrambled to be unreadable, including by law enforcement. The only way to read the message is usually to get physical access to an unlocked device receiving it.\n\nCurrently, only one of Facebook's major messaging platforms - WhatsApp - uses end-to-end encryption by default. The company has plans to make the privacy feature the norm on Facebook Messenger and Instagram - but has not yet done so.\n\nWhen messaging platforms are not end-to-end encrypted, tech giants such as Facebook can use automatic scanning of their users' posts to identify the sharing of known child abuse images and detect questionable use of private messaging - such as an older person chatting to underage users they do not already know.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe NSPCC argues that rolling out the encryption as planned would \"render these [scanning] tools useless\", and is calling on Facebook to reconsider. An estimate from the US National Center for Missing and Exploited children suggests as many as 70% of child abuse reports around the world could be lost if it goes ahead.\n\nThe NPSCC unveiled research at the event that suggests social media users are keen to see some guarantee that children's safety will be protected.\n\nThe charity is demanding a \"reset\" of the debate, arguing that it has become stuck as an \"either/or\" debate between personal privacy and child safety.\n\nInstead, it is calling for a \"balanced\" solution that protects both.\n\nMs Patel echoed that sentiment, saying: \"I want to make it clear that the government does support encryption, where of course companies can protect users' privacy, and there are many areas where this is important.\"\n\n\"We believe that it is possible to implement end-to-end encryption, the service, in a way in which is also consistent with public protection and child safety,\" she said.\n\nBut she did not say what that would look like. Some possible solutions, such as on-device software that scans messages before they are sent, have their own privacy concerns.\n\nGaining access to the content of encrypted messages has long been a topic of debate in government.\n\nOne of Ms Patel's predecessors, Amber Rudd, argued in the wake of the 2017 Westminster attack that \"we need to make sure that our intelligence services have the ability to get into... encrypted WhatsApp\".\n\nAnd former Prime Minister David Cameron, in the wake of the 2015 Paris attacks, declared that there should be no \"means of communication\" which \"we cannot read\".\n\nDespite such concerns, encrypted messaging remains a sensitive topic with much public support.\n\nJim Killock, executive director of the Open Rights Group, said: \"Encryption is popular and growing because users want security and protection from fraud, scams and abuse of their data.\"\n\n\"It would be completely unreasonable to ban or limit everyday security for one set of people over the other.\n\n\"It is absolutely necessary to deal with child abuse images, but solutions must be compatible with people's right to keep themselves safe from other kinds of criminality, so should move away from endlessly debating how to stop the use of encryption.\"\n\nBut Sir Peter Wanless, NSPCC chief executive, argued that view risked \"leaving children unprotected where there is most harm\".\n\n\"It's in firms' interests to find a fix that allows them to continue to use tech to disrupt abuse in an end-to-end encrypted world,\" he added.\n\nAnd he said that if the tech giants failed to do so, \"ultimately government must be the guardrail\" to protect children.\n\nFacebook has long defended its plans to introduce end-to-end encryption as essential to user privacy.\n\nIn a statement reacting to the Home Secretary's remarks, a company spokesman said: \"Child exploitation has no place on our platforms and Facebook will continue to lead the industry in developing new ways to prevent, detect and respond to abuse.\n\n\"Its full rollout on our messaging services is a long-term project and we are building strong safety measures into our plans.\"", "The vote is expected to give Mr Assad another term\n\nSyria is to hold a presidential election next month, the country's parliament says - a move likely to maintain President Bashar al-Assad's grip on power.\n\nMr Assad is not expected to face serious opposition despite continuing conflict and a growing economic crisis.\n\nAfter 10 years of war the Syrian government controls most of the big population centres in the country.\n\nAbout 400,000 people have been killed and over half of Syrians displaced.\n\nThe election for a president who will serve a seven-year-term will take place on 26 May, Speaker Hamouda Sabbagh said. Prospective candidates for the election would be able to register from Monday while Syrians abroad would be able to vote at embassies on 20 May.\n\nIt is the second presidential election to take place during the civil war. The previous vote in 2014 - dismissed as undemocratic and illegitimate by opponents within Syria and by the US and EU - saw Mr Assad win 92% of the vote.\n\nThe 2014 vote was also the first time in decades that someone other than a member of the Assad family had been allowed to stand for president in Syria. But the other two candidates were not widely known and received little publicity.\n\nAt the last presidential election in 2014 the result was not in doubt, but the future of President Assad was. Back then it was still possible that he could be defeated and forced from power. Russian military intervention a year later - coupled with growing Western disengagement - was decisive in his favour.\n\nMilitarily his situation now seems secure with the main cities under his control. He has proved himself a survivor but remains dependent on Russian and Iranian support.\n\nThe economy is in desperate straits, triggering renewed unrest in several regions. The president's inner circle has also shown signs of fracturing. But no alternative political process has so far been put in motion to replace the current power structure and put his rule at serious risk.\n\nSyria's civil war started after peaceful pro-democracy protests were violently suppressed by security forces, leading opposition supporters to take up arms. Fighting spread across the country, eventually involving hundreds of rebel and jihadist groups and drawing in outside powers for and against the government.\n\nPro-Syrian forces have now retaken large parts of the country and a fragile ceasefire is in place between the government and rebels in the last province under the rebels' control, Idlib, in the north-west.\n\nThe country is also in the grip of a deep economic crisis that has seen food prices soar and the Syrian currency nosedive, which the government has blamed on Western sanctions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What it's like inside the last rebel stronghold in Syria\n\nLast month the UN's special envoy to Syria told the BBC he saw a rare \"window of opportunity\" for a nationwide ceasefire because the front lines were no longer shifting.\n\nBut Geir Pedersen said that if the chance was lost the war could grind on for another decade.\n\nHe called on all the warring sides to take a \"step-by-step\" approach to build trust and reach a negotiated solution.\n\nMr Pedersen has been working towards reforming the Syrian constitution as part of a political process leading to elections that would be supervised by the UN.\n\nHowever in January he said there had been little progress due to a lack of \"true engagement\" by Syria.\n\nIt follows accusations by the US and other Western countries that Syria was deliberately delaying the draft of a new constitution in order to avoid having to hold the 2021 presidential election under UN supervision.", "Helen McCrory's husband has paid tribute to her \"fearlessness, wit, curiosity, talent and beauty\" after the actress died of cancer aged 52.\n\nDamian Lewis, who met McCrory on stage at London's Almeida Theatre in 2003, wrote in the Sunday Times that she \"has been utterly heroic in her illness\".\n\n\"She's shone more brightly in the last months than you would imagine even the brightest star could shine,\" he said.\n\nMcCrory died on Friday and is survived by Lewis and their two children.\n\nA prolific stage star, she was perhaps best known to television audiences for the role of matriarch Aunt Polly in BBC drama Peaky Blinders, as well as for film roles in the Harry Potter series and The Queen.\n\nIn the 1,000-word tribute in the Sunday Times, Lewis - known for his roles in US television series Band of Brothers and Homeland - said McCrory lived \"by the principle of kindness and generosity\".\n\n\"I've never known anyone so consciously spread happiness. To say 'please' and 'thank you' and 'you're so kind' as much as she did,\" Lewis wrote.\n\n\"Even when dying in her last few days, when talking to our wonderful carers, she repeatedly said, 'thank you so much' in her half delirious state.\"\n\nLewis said that, amid the outpouring of grief and shock from her colleagues, friends and fans, he wanted to reflect on McCrory's ability to make each person she met \"feel special, as though they were the only person in the room\".\n\n\"Gave them her full attention,\" he wrote. \"Made them laugh, always. There were few funnier people — she was funny as hell.\"\n\nAnd in her final months, Lewis said \"her greatest and most exquisite act of bravery and generosity has been to 'normalise' her death\".\n\n\"She's shown no fear, no bitterness, no self-pity, only armed us with the courage to go on and insisted that no one be sad, because she is happy,\" he wrote.\n\n\"I'm staggered by her. She's been a meteor in our life.\"\n\nThe couple met when they both starred in a play called Five Gold Rings at the Almeida, and married in 2007.\n\nLast year, they raised more than £1m to provide NHS workers with meals from high street restaurants during the pressures of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Actress Helen McCrory talks to Andrew Marr about her latest film, Harry Potter and how she is rarely recognised", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nArsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham are among 12 clubs who have agreed to join a new European Super League (ESL).\n\nIn a seismic move for European football, the Premier League clubs will join AC Milan, Atletico Madrid, Barcelona, Inter Milan, Juventus and Real Madrid.\n\nThe ESL said the founding clubs had agreed to establish a \"new midweek competition\" with teams continuing to \"compete in their respective national leagues\".\n• None 'A bonfire of greed' - how Europe reacted to the Super League\n\nIt said the inaugural season was \"intended to commence as soon as practicable\" and \"anticipated that a further three clubs\" would join the breakaway.\n\nThe ESL said it also planned to launch a women's competition as soon as possible after the men's tournament starts.\n\nUK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Uefa and the Premier League condemned the move when the news broke on Sunday.\n\nAnd speaking on Monday, he said the government was \"going to look at everything that we can do with the football authorities to make sure that this doesn't go ahead in the way that it's currently being proposed\".\n\nSpeaking to broadcasters on a visit to Gloucestershire, he said: \"I don't think that it is good news for fans, I don't think it's good news for football in this country.\"\n\nThe 14 Premier League clubs not signed up to the ESL will meet on Tuesday to assess the proposals and consider a response.\n\nCritics say the move is being driven purely by money, would destroy domestic leagues and is against the integrity of the sport.\n\nUnlike the Champions League, which teams must qualify for, the ESL would include the same 15 teams every year, with the remaining five qualifying annually.\n\nWorld governing body Fifa had previously said it would not recognise such a competition, and any players involved could be denied the chance to play at a World Cup.\n\nUefa, Europe's governing body, reiterated that warning on Sunday when it said players involved would be banned from all other competitions at domestic, European or world level and could be prevented from representing their national teams.\n\nAfter the ESL was announced, Fifa expressed its \"disapproval\" of the proposed competition and called on \"all parties involved in heated discussions to engage in calm, constructive and balanced dialogue for the good of the game\".\n\nThe ESL has sent a letter to Fifa president Gianni Infantino and Uefa boss Aleksander Ceferin issuing notice of legal proceedings in European courts designed to block any sanctions the two governing bodies may try enforce over the formation of the ESL.\n\nIn a statement, the ESL said: \"Going forward, the founding clubs look forward to holding discussions with Uefa and Fifa to work together in partnership to deliver the best outcomes for the new league and for football as a whole.\"\n\nThere were talks in October, involving Wall Street bank JP Morgan, over a new £4.6bn competition that would replace the Champions League.\n\nUefa had hoped the plans for a new 36-team Champions League - with reforms confirmed on Monday - would head off the formation of a Super League.\n\nHowever, the 12 sides involved in the Super League do not think the reforms go far enough.\n\nThey said the global pandemic had \"accelerated the instability in the existing European football economic model\".\n\n\"In recent months, extensive dialogue has taken place with football stakeholders regarding the future format of European competitions,\" they added.\n\n\"The founding clubs believe the solutions proposed following these talks do not solve fundamental issues, including the need to provide higher-quality matches and additional financial resources for the overall football pyramid.\"\n• None Super League: Why are football's biggest clubs starting a new tournament?\n• Tell us your thoughts on the proposals. Email\n\nWhat is the proposed format?\n\nThe league will have 20 teams - the 12 founding members plus the three unnamed clubs they expect to join soon, and five sides who qualify annually according to their domestic achievements.\n\nUnder the proposals, the ESL campaign would start in August each year, with midweek fixtures, and the clubs would be split into two groups of 10, playing each other home and away.\n\nThe top three in each group would qualify for the quarter-finals, with the teams in fourth and fifth playing a two-legged play-off for the two remaining spots.\n\nFrom then on, it would have the same two-leg knockout format used in the Champions League before a single-leg final in May at a neutral venue.\n\nThe ESL said it would generate more money than the Champions League and would result in a greater distribution of revenue throughout the game.\n\nWhat do the Super League leaders say?\n\nReal Madrid president Florentino Perez, the first chairman of the ESL, said the new competition would \"help football at every level\".\n\n\"Football is the only global sport in the world with more than four billion fans and our responsibility as big clubs is to respond to their desires,\" he added.\n\nJuventus chairman Andrea Agnelli has resigned from the Uefa executive committee and as chairman of the European Club Association (ECA), which had pushed the planned Champions League reforms.\n\nHe said the 12 clubs had \"come together at this critical moment, enabling European competition to be transformed, putting the game we love on a sustainable footing for the long-term future\".\n\nIt is understood all 12 clubs have resigned from the ECA and their respective representatives from the ECA board.\n\nManchester United executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward and Manchester City chief executive Ferran Soriano have also stood down from their roles at Uefa.\n\nManchester United co-chairman Joel Glazer will be a vice-chairman of the Super League.\n\nHe said: \"By bringing together the world's greatest clubs and players to play each other throughout the season, the Super League will open a new chapter for European football, ensuring world-class competition and facilities, and increased financial support for the wider football pyramid.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Borussia Dortmund have said they will not be joining and are committed to the ECA, along with fellow German side Bayern Munich.\n\nWhat has been the reaction?\n\nEssentially, widespread condemnation from anyone not involved in the proposed league.\n\nJohnson said the plans would be \"very damaging for football\".\n\nHe said: \"These clubs are not just great global brands - of course they're great global brands - they're also clubs that have originated historically from their towns, from their cities, from their local communities, they should have a link with those fans, and with the fan base in their community.\n\n\"So it is very, very important that that continues to be the case. I don't like the look of these proposals, and we'll be consulting about what we can do.\"\n\nUefa released a joint statement with England's Football Association, the Premier League, the Spanish Football Federation, La Liga and the Italian Football Federation, as well as Serie A, saying they would \"remain united\" in trying to stop the breakaway, using \"all available measures\".\n\nThe ECA said it \"strongly opposed\" the league, while the Football Supporters' Association said the plans were \"motivated by nothing but cynical greed\".\n\nWorld players' union Fifpro said it will \"vigorously oppose measures by either side that would impede the rights of players, such as exclusion from their national teams\".\n\nIt added: \"This decision leaves players and their unions with many concerns and questions about its impact not only on the fabric and cultural identity of football but also more practically on their careers.\"\n\nThe League Managers Association said a Super League would be \"catastrophically destabilising to the entire European football pyramid, with deep and far-reaching consequences\". It added: \"Closing off the top of the pyramid of European club football would immediately extinguish many of the ambitions and dreams that drive managers, coaches, players and fans.\"\n\nFormer Portugal midfielder Luis Figo tweeted: \"This greedy and callous move would spell disaster for our grassroots, for women's football, and the wider football community only to serve self-interested owners, who stopped caring about their fans long ago, and [show] complete disregard for sporting merit. Tragic.\"\n\nParis St-Germain and former Manchester United midfielder Ander Herrera tweeted: \"I fell in love with popular football, with the football of the fans, with the dream of seeing the team of my heart compete against the greatest.\n\n\"If this European super league advances, those dreams are over.\n\n\"I love football and I cannot remain silent about this, I believe in an improved Champions League, but not in the rich stealing what the people created.\"\n\nAmong ex-professionals, former Liverpool and Tottenham midfielder Danny Murphy told BBC Sport the plans \"sound soulless\", former Manchester United captain Gary Neville told Sky Sports he was \"absolutely disgusted\", while former team-mate Rio Ferdinand said on BT Sport that the proposals will hurt fans the most.\n\nFan groups associated with all six English clubs involved are strongly opposed to the Super League.\n\nLiverpool supporters' group Spirit of Shankly (SOS) said it was \"appalled\" by the decision of Fenway Sports Group, the club's US-based owner.\n\nIn a social media post, SOS said: \"FSG have ignored fans in their relentless and greedy pursuit of money. Football is ours, not theirs. Our football club is ours not theirs.\"\n\nChelsea Supporters' Trust called the move \"unforgivable\" and said its members and \"football supporters across the world have experienced the ultimate betrayal\".\n\nThe Arsenal Supporters' Trust called the club's agreement to join \"the death of Arsenal as a sporting institution\".\n\nManchester City's Official Supporters Club said the move showed \"those involved have zero regard for the game's traditions\", adding it was \"determined to fight against this proposed Super League\".\n\nThe Manchester United Supporters' Trust had earlier said the proposals were \"completely unacceptable\" and the ESL \"goes against everything football, and Manchester United, should stand for\".\n\nTottenham Hotspur Supporters' Trust said the ESL was a \"concept driven by avarice and self-interest at the expense of the intrinsic values of the game we hold so dear\".\n\nIf there was any lingering doubt over the desire of these 12 clubs to launch their own competition, it has been removed by their statement - reinforced by each of them through their own media platforms.\n\nChiefly, can they actually get their plan over the line given the strong resistance from Uefa and the leagues and associations of the countries concerned?\n\nBut beyond that, who will the other three clubs be to make up the 15 founding members? Will Bayern Munich and Paris St-Germain eventually join up? And how will the other five clubs be decided?\n\nThese discussions will be fascinating. But right now, the clubs who have signed up to the European Super League have a public relations battle to turn around perceptions - because initial reaction has been overwhelmingly negative.\n• None Big Narstie explores the impact of the Brixton Riots\n• None Find out on the Bad People podcast", "Charles Geschke, the co-founder of the software company Adobe who helped develop the Portable Document Format, or PDF, has died at the age of 81.\n\nGeschke set up Adobe in 1982, giving the world the ubiquitous PDF software, among many other audio-visual innovations.\n\nHe made headlines 10 years later when he was kidnapped at gunpoint and held for ransom before being released unhurt after a four-day ordeal.\n\nAdobe CEO Shantanu Narayen said Geschke, widely known as Chuck, \"sparked the desktop publishing revolution\".\n\n\"This is a huge loss for the entire Adobe community and the technology industry, for whom he has been a guide and hero for decades,\" he wrote in an email to the company's employees.\n\n\"As co-founders of Adobe, Chuck and John Warnock developed ground-breaking software that has revolutionized how people create and communicate,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Flash reaches the end of its life\n\nGeschke and Warnock were responsible for transformative software inventions, including PDF, Acrobat, Illustrator, Premiere Pro and Photoshop, Mr Narayen said.\n\nIn 1992, Geschke was kidnapped in an incident that made national headlines.\n\nHe was held at gunpoint in his office and taken to Hollister, California, for four days.\n\nGeschke was freed after a suspect, found with $650,000 (£470,000) in ransom money, took police to the location where he was being held, Associated Press reported.\n\nGeschke, left, and Warnock were awarded the National Medal of Technology\n\nIn 2009, President Barack Obama awarded Geschke and Warnock the National Medal of Technology.\n\n\"He was really a humble, humble man - I can say that, as his wife,\" Nan Geschke told Mercury News. \"He was very proud of his success, of course, but he was very circumspect about how much he had to do with that.\"", "Snoop Dogg, Justin Bieber, a ringwalk with a robot - if ever there was a fight where the boxing was second to the spectacle, this was it.\n\nJake Paul versus Ben Askren, a YouTube star versus a former UFC fighter. A much-hyped circus that, in the end, lasted just one minute and 59 seconds.\n\nNot that he'd had the greatest of tests beforehand. In a boxing career that now stretches to three professional bouts unbeaten, his previous opponents had been fellow YouTuber Ali Eson Gib and former NBA player Nate Robinson.\n\nAskren - a superb wrestler but not noted for his striking ability in his MMA days - was supposed to pose the first major challenge to Paul's boxing abilities. But a right-hander flush to the face put paid to that, sending Askren sprawling to the canvas, and although he wobbled back to his feet, the referee would not allow him to continue.\n\n\"It's been four months. I've been in training camp every day,\" said Paul. \"This is the craziest moment of my life.\n\n\"I told y'all I was going to do it in the first round. I told y'all I'm a real fighter. I don't know how many times I've got to prove myself this is for real.\"\n\nIn addition to Bieber and Snoop, performances from the Black Keys, Ice Cube and Doja Cat got more airtime than the actual fight. Comedian Pete Davidson was a roving reporter and arguably stole the show himself.\n\nSnoop also tried his hand at commentary. \"Get me my money, Jake,\" he repeated as Paul landed his final blow, before calling out UFC president Dana White for the $2m winnings he said he was owed on a bet.\n\nAskren later said the fight would be his last, prompting Paul to ask his millions of Twitter followers: \"Who should I retire next?\"\n\nLove Island star Tommy Fury - a professional boxer and brother of world champion Tyson - was already trending on Twitter as a potential suitor, while Logan Paul, Jake's brother, had flagged up the KO to Floyd Mayweather. Before the fight, Paul had said a boxing match-up with UFC star Conor McGregor was \"a lot closer than anyone thinks\".\n\nPaul dedicated the win to his security guard, who died 10 days before the fight. He said it had been \"the hardest 10 days of my life\".\n\nEarlier in the week, Paul denied accusations of sexual assault by TikTok star Justine Paradise, who alleged that he forced her to perform a sex act on him and touched her without her consent at his home in Los Angeles in 2019.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nUefa, the Premier League and UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson have condemned 12 major European clubs, including the 'big six' from England, signing up to a breakaway European Super League.\n\nArsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham are part of the group.\n\nLa Liga's Atletico Madrid, Barcelona and Real Madrid and Serie A's AC Milan, Inter Milan and Juventus are involved.\n\nUefa said it will use \"all measures\" possible to stop the \"cynical project\".\n\nSenior figures at European football's governing body are furious about the proposals.\n\nJohnson said the plans would be \"very damaging for football\" and that the UK government supports the sport's authorities \"in taking action\".\n\nHe added: \"The clubs involved must answer to their fans and the wider footballing community before taking any further steps.\"\n\nThe European Clubs' Association (ECA), which represents Europe's clubs, held an emergency meeting on Sunday in the wake of the reports.\n\nBBC Sport understands none of the clubs mentioned in the Super League reports responded to a request to attend the meeting.\n\nThe meeting was chaired by Ajax chief executive Edwin van der Sar. Bayern Munich and Paris St-Germain were among the clubs who were present.\n\nIn a statement the ECA said it would be \"strongly opposed\" to a \"closed super league model\".\n\nIt has pushed plans for a 36-team Champions League, which Uefa had hoped would head off the formation of a Super League. The Champions League reforms are set to be confirmed on Monday.\n\nBBC Sport was told last week of plans for some sort of confirmation about a European Super League.\n\nUefa released a joint statement, together with England's Football Association, the Premier League, the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), La Liga, and the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) as well as Serie A, on Sunday.\n\nThey said they will \"remain united\" in trying to stop the breakaway, using both judicial and sporting measures if required.\n\nThey also reiterated Fifa's stance that players taking part in the Super League would be banned from all other competitions at domestic, European or world level and could be prevented from representing their national teams.\n\nIn a separate statement, the Premier League said it condemned the proposal as it \"attacks the principles of open competition and sporting merit which are at the heart\" of domestic and European football.\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden said in a statement the government is \"concerned this plan could create a closed shop at the very top of our national game\".\n\nHe added: \"We have a football pyramid where funds from the globally successful Premier League flow down the leagues and into local communities.\n\n\"I would be bitterly disappointed to see any action that destroys that.\"\n\nLabour leader Keir Starmer said the clubs involved should \"rethink immediately\" or \"face the consequences of their actions\".\n\n\"This proposal risks shutting the door on fans for good, reducing them to mere spectators and consumers,\" he said.\n\nJuventus owner Andrea Agnelli, Manchester United executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward and AC Milan chief executive Ivan Gazidis would all have had a significant input into the Champions League discussions on Friday.\n\nHowever, those clubs are among those to have broken ranks, to the fury of Uefa, whose president Aleksander Ceferin wanted to stave off a Super League threat.\n\nThe Premier League said a European Super League would \"destroy\" the dream of fans that \"their team may climb to the top and play against the best\".\n\nIt added such a league would \"undermine the appeal of the whole game\" and that they would work with the FA, the English Football League, Professional Footballers' Association (PFA), League Managers Association (LMA) and fans to \"defend the integrity and future prospects of English football\".\n\nThe FA said it will \"not provide permission to any competition that would be damaging to English football\" and will \"take any legal and/or regulatory action necessary\" to stop it.\n\nBundesliga sides are opposed to the plans because the German model means commercial investors cannot have more than a 49% stake in clubs, so fans hold a majority of their own voting rights.\n\nFrench Ligue 1 side Paris St-Germain are not part of the group either.\n\nUefa said it thanked \"those clubs in other countries, especially the French and German clubs, who have refused to sign up\" to the breakaway league.\n\n\"We call on all lovers of football, supporters and politicians, to join us in fighting against such a project if it were to be announced,\" it added.\n\n\"This persistent self-interest of a few has been going on for too long. Enough is enough.\"\n\nQuite when the European Super League would start is unclear.\n\nHowever, world governing body Fifa has already said it would not recognise such a competition and any players involved in it would be denied the chance to play at a World Cup.\n\nSerie A has called an emergency board meeting to discuss the matter.\n\nThe Football Supporters' Association said it is \"totally opposed\" to the plans, which it said were \"motivated by nothing but cynical greed\".\n\nIt added: \"This competition is being created behind our backs by billionaire club owners who have zero regard for the game's traditions and continue to treat football as their personal fiefdom.\"\n\nThe PFA said it had \"substantial concerns\" about the proposal, adding it would \"detract from the strength and joy of domestic football and diminish the game for the vast majority of fans across the continent\".\n\nFrance's President Emmanuel Macron said he \"welcomes the position of French clubs to refuse to participate\" in a European Super League \"that threatens the principle of solidarity and sporting merit\".\n\nA statement from the French presidency added: \"The French state will support all the steps taken by the LFP [France's professional leagues governing body], FFF [France's football association], Uefa and Fifa to protect the integrity of federal competitions, whether national or European.\"\n\nIt has been agreed the new-look Champions League will involve an initial phase where every club plays 10 matches each rather than the current group phase.\n\nIn addition there would be play-offs, followed by a knockout phase.\n\nThe most controversial aspect of the proposals surround the allocation of the four additional places, with two being reserved for the clubs ranked highest in Uefa's coefficient table who fail to qualify for the Champions League through their domestic competition, but do secure some kind of European football.\n\nAt the moment, Liverpool and Chelsea would be the clubs who benefited from that system if it was in place this season.\n\nFormer Manchester United captain Gary Neville said he is \"absolutely disgusted\" by the plans.\n\n\"I'm a Manchester United fan and have been for 40 years,\" Neville, who also co-owns League Two club Salford City, told Sky Sports. \"It's an absolute disgrace.\n\n\"Honestly, we have to wrestle back the power in this country from the clubs at the top of this league and that includes my club.\"\n\nThe former England defender said the six English clubs involved should be docked points and fined.\n\n\"It's pure greed,\" Neville said. \"They're [the club's owners] imposters.\n\n\"They're nothing to do with football in this country. There's 100-odd years of history in this country of fans who have lived and loved these clubs.\n\n\"We're in the middle of a pandemic and an economic crisis. Football clubs in the [semi-professional] National League are going bust, furloughing players and these lot are having Zoom calls about breaking away.\n\n\"Dock them all points tomorrow. Put them at the bottom of the league and take the money off them. Seriously. You have to stamp on this.\"", "Coverage: Watch live on BBC One, BBC Two, BBC Four and Red Button, with uninterrupted coverage on BBC iPlayer, BBC Sport website and BBC Sport app.\n\nSix-time world champion Ronnie O'Sullivan says he was \"harassed\" by a \"boozed-up\" fan while relaxing at a Sheffield restaurant before sealing his first-round win at the Crucible.\n\nO'Sullivan beat qualifier Mark Joyce 10-4 at the World Championship, which has restricted numbers of fans back as part of a pilot scheme.\n\nDefending champion O'Sullivan said: \"About 99% of people have been fine.\n\n\"It is the odd one. He was boozed up - it is what it is.\"\n\nO'Sullivan, 45, had previously said he wanted \"protection\" from fans at the tournament, which will have increasing numbers of spectators as it progresses, culminating in a planned capacity crowd of 980 for the final.\n\nThe World Snooker Tour body has advised players not to pose for selfies or sign autographs while in Sheffield.\n\nBut O'Sullivan had warned he feared having to \"fend off over-excited fans or someone who might have had a drink that wants to get in your space\".\n\nThe world number two and top seed was having lunch and a coffee with friends in between Saturday's morning and evening sessions when the incident happened.\n\n\"I knew it would happen if it got busy,\" O'Sullivan said. \"What can you do? People don't think, do they?\n\n\"I was harassed like you wouldn't believe it. The geezer's come up to me, I was like: 'Please, I have to get through this tournament Covid-free. I beg you.'\n\n\"It's getting busier. The geezer was a nightmare. The guy at the restaurant came out with his two staff members, they got him away.\n\n\"It's no-one's fault. People have been let out and are out shopping. It's the way it is. Last year it was different and it is different this year. It was so much quieter; you could sit outside last year and have a meal.\n\n\"Most people are fed up with these lockdowns and want to live their lives now. It was one or two. It's the way it is. If I didn't have to be clean for this tournament, it wouldn't matter so much, but if I get Covid I cannot play.\n\n\"I have to stay away. I will find places to go where it is a little bit quieter if I can. I will come in at the last minute, stay away from Sheffield as much as I can.\"", "The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were seen chatting with the Duke of Sussex after the service\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge and the Duke of Sussex were seen talking together as they left the funeral of their grandfather, the Duke of Edinburgh.\n\nThe brothers spoke as they left St George's Chapel in Windsor, alongside the Duchess of Cambridge.\n\nIt is the first public meeting of the pair since Prince Harry stood down from royal duties more than a year ago.\n\nLast month, Prince Harry hinted at ongoing difficulties between him and Prince William.\n\nIn an interview with Oprah, he said the two were on \"different paths\", and that \"the relationship is 'space' at the moment\".\n\nOn Saturday, the princes walked with their cousin Peter Phillips in between them, as they walked behind their grandfather's coffin on its short journey to the chapel.\n\nIt was nearly 24 years since the two brothers made a similar walk together at the funeral of their mother Diana, Princess of Wales.\n\nPrince William and Prince Harry walked either side of their cousin Peter Phillips, who trailed slightly behind them\n\nAt the funeral service, the 30 members of the congregation wore face masks and socially distanced in line with Covid restrictions, with the Queen seated alone.\n\nAlso alone, Prince Harry sat on the opposite side of the aisle to his brother and sister-in-law Catherine.\n\nPrince Harry's wife, Meghan, who is pregnant with their second child, did not attend the funeral on the advice of her doctor and instead stayed at their home in California.\n\nThe service, conducted by the Dean of Windsor, paid tribute to Prince Philip's \"kindness, humour and humanity\" and the \"many ways in which his long life has been a blessing to us\".\n\nThe body language didn't look encouraging on the walk down to the chapel, though it was hardly the occasion for fraternal chit-chat.\n\nThe cameras did catch William and Harry as they left the chapel after the duke's funeral. Harry was talking to Catherine - William seemed a little reluctant to engage.\n\nThere is a rift. It is a distraction nobody would have wanted on a solemn occasion such as this and certainly not their grieving grandmother.\n\nWilliam feels let down and Harry appears to feel resentful. He is also very caught up in the lifestyle and attitudes of California.\n\nSo what impact, one wonders, will this brief but intense re-immersion in his old life have had on Harry?\n\nHe's been surrounded by his family on a day of heightened emotion. He's been surrounded too by the military and ceremonial: two things which he professes to admire.\n\nEverything today must have said \"duty\" to him, the thing many say he's walked away from.\n\nWill it have given Harry any second thoughts about the path he's taken? Will it have softened William's disappointment with his younger brother?\n\nAnd most important, did they find time for a proper heart to heart, in deference to the memory of their grandfather who would undoubtedly urge them to move on and sort this out?\n\nThe duke's association with the Royal Navy and love of the sea also featured heavily, including through the 1860 hymn Eternal Father, Strong to Save, by William Whiting.\n\nAfter the ceremony, Prince Harry joined Prince William and Catherine as they left the chapel. The three chatted together as they made their way up the hill to the main grounds of the castle.\n\nLike the other royal spouses, the Duchess of Cambridge was not part of the pre-funeral procession and was instead taken to the chapel by car\n\nMeghan and Prince Harry sent a floral wreath which included the national flower of Greece, to represent Prince Philip's heritage, and sea holly, to represent the Royal Marines.\n\nThe card on the wreath was handwritten by Meghan, who is skilled in calligraphy and used to write wedding invitations.", "Lyra McKee was regarded by many as a rising star in Northern Ireland media circles\n\nThe sister of journalist Lyra McKee has spoken of her ongoing heartbreak on the second anniversary of her death.\n\nMs McKee was shot dead while observing rioting in Londonderry on 18 April 2019.\n\nNichola Corner told BBC News NI that \"part of us left\" after her sisters death and her family have renewed an appeal for people to come forward with information.\n\nMs McKee's family have written to residents in Creggan appealing for information ahead of the second anniversary of her killing.\n\nThe family are asking local people to help them \"achieve justice for Lyra\".\n\nPaul McIntyre, 52, from Ballymagowan Park in the city has been charged with her murder, which he denies.\n\nAt a previous court appearance the prosecution alleged Mr McIntyre was seen walking beside the gunman and that he was seen crouching down and picking up four cartridge cases from the gun used to murder Ms McKee.\n\nThey also said Mr McIntyre was spotted leaving the scene with the gunman.\n\nMrs Corner said people in the Creggan area where Ms McKee was killed were \"very much familiar\" with fighting for justice, and \"would have and still continue to fight for for their own loved ones who've been so needlessly taken from their lives\".\n\n\"Our Lyra was really, really energetic and she had a wonderful and sometimes even wicked sense of humour,\" she said.\n\n\"She loved to laugh and she absolutely adored being around other people, she loved hugging people.\"\n\nShe said her sister \"just loved sharing love with other people\" and \"would do absolutely anything for anyone\".\n\nIn their letter to the residents of Creggan sent earlier this week, the McKee family wrote: \"Our Lyra deserves justice. Our mother died of a broken heart in March 2020. She just could not live without her baby.\n\n\"Our mother did not live to see justice for our Lyra's murder.\n\n\"Our family continue to struggle to deal with the loss of our sister and mother but we are determined to pursue justice for them both.\n\n\"We believe that you can help us\".\n\nMs McKee's partner, Sara Canning told BBC News NI, the last two years had been \"full of unimaginable heartache\".\n\nMs McKee was a writer and campaigner from Belfast who had only recently moved to Derry when she was killed.\n\nThe 29-year-old was standing near a police 4x4 vehicle on the night of 18 April 2019 when a masked gunman fired towards officers and onlookers.\n\nRegarded by many as a rising star in Northern Ireland media circles, she had written for many publications, including Buzzfeed, Private Eye, the Atlantic and Mosaic Science.\n\nMs McKee's death caused widespread revulsion in Northern Ireland and further afield\n\nShe was named Sky News young journalist of the year in 2006 and Forbes Magazine named her as one of their \"30 under 30\" in media in Europe in 2016.\n\nShe had signed a two-book deal with the publisher Faber and Faber.\n\nAccording to those who knew her best, she was someone who \"believed passionately in social and religious tolerance\".\n\nHer death caused widespread revulsion in Northern Ireland and further afield.\n\nHer funeral was attended by then prime minister Theresa May, Taoiseach (Irish PM) Leo Varadkar and Irish President Michael D Higgins at St Anne's Cathedral in Belfast.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEarlier this month, Ms McKee's family erected a number of billboards in Derry appealing for information about her death.\n\nOn Sunday, Derry's Guildhall and other council-owned building will be lit up in rainbow colours to mark the second anniversary of her killing.\n\n\"Lyra was a tremendously positive person who had so much still to offer the world, and it is important that her spirit lives on in both our memories and deeds,\" the city's Mayor Brian Tierney said.\n\nHe said it was fitting the city should lead the way in celebrating the journalist's life.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nPlayers who compete in a European Super League will be barred from international competitions, world football's governing body Fifa said.\n\nFifa and the six confederations, including Uefa, reiterated that such a competition \"would not be recognised\".\n\nTalks have taken place over the 'members only' concept, which could be a threat to the Champions League.\n\nEx-Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu said he had accepted proposals for the club to join a Super League.\n\nFifa said in a statement: \"In light of recent media speculation about the creation of a closed European 'Super League' by some European clubs, Fifa and the six confederations (AFC, CAF, Concacaf, Conmebol, OFC and Uefa) once again would like to reiterate and strongly emphasise that such a competition would not be recognised by either Fifa or the respective confederation.\n\n\"Any club or player involved in such a competition would as a consequence not be allowed to participate in any competition organised by Fifa or their respective confederation.\"\n\nFifa also stated that its Club World Cup, both in its current and future guise, and the confederations' respective tournaments were the only club competitions recognised.\n\nThe governing body plans to expand its Club World Cup to include 24 teams from the six confederations. The forthcoming event in Qatar, postponed from 2020, will feature six teams.\n• None You can stream five fourth-round games live on the BBC this weekend, including Liverpool's trip to Manchester United. Find out more here.", "The US has warned Russia there will be \"consequences\" if the opposition activist Alexei Navalny dies in jail.\n\nThe UK, France, Germany and the European Union have also expressed their concern over his treatment.\n\nNavalny's doctors say he \"will die within the next few days\" if not given urgent medical attention for acute back pain and leg numbness.\n\nRussia's ambassador to the UK has said that Navalny is attention seeking and \"will not be allowed to die in prison\".\n\nA prominent critic of President Vladimir Putin, Navalny, 44, was jailed in February for old embezzlement charges, which he claims are politically motivated.\n\nHe started a hunger strike on 31 March in protest at not being able to see his own medical team, and his doctors say recent blood test results indicate he could suffer kidney failure and go into cardiac arrest at any moment.\n\nHuman rights campaigners say the jail where Alexei Navalny is being held is known for its especially harsh conditions\n\nOn Sunday, a number of countries joined the international protest against Navalny's treatment inside the Russian jail in the town of Pokrov, about 100 km (62 miles) east of Moscow.\n\nUS national security adviser Jake Sullivan told CNN there would be \"consequences if Mr Navalny dies\" and Russia would be \"held accountable by the international community\", while President Joe Biden said his medical treatment was \"totally unfair and totally inappropriate\".\n\nThe US is already embroiled in a diplomatic row with Russia over the near-fatal poisoning of Navalny last year, with the chemical warfare agent Novichock.\n\nThe Kremlin denies Navalny's claims that President Vladimir Putin ordered the attack. But US intelligence officials concluded that the Moscow government was behind the poisoning, prompting the Biden administration to impose sanctions on senior Russian officials.\n\nNow Moscow is imposing its own measures in retaliation.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jake Sullivan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEU leaders are expected to discuss the situation on Monday, and Josep Borrell, the bloc's top diplomat, said the EU was \"deeply concerned\" and called for prison authorities to grant access to Navalny's medical team immediately.\n\nThe UK's Foreign Office said in a statement: \"Mr Navalny must be given immediate access to independent medical care. We reiterate our call for his immediate release from his politically motivated imprisonment.\"\n\nNavalny's 20-year-old daughter, Daria Navalnaya, who is currently studying in California, wrote \"allow a doctor to see my dad\" on Twitter.\n\nNavalny's wife Yulia said he had lost 9kg (19 lbs) since starting his hunger strike, according to AP.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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\nNavalny's supporters in Russia are organising a nationwide protest on Wednesday, saying \"there are circumstances in which you need to act quickly, otherwise the irreparable will happen\".\n\nOn Friday, four doctors wrote to prison officials to request permission to see Navalny urgently, saying his potassium had reached \"critical levels\".\n\nDr Alexander Polupan, who treated Navalny after he was poisoned with Novichock last year, said his blood test results were an \"absolute indication\" that he needed urgent medical care or he would \"die within the next [few] days\".\n\nOn Sunday, his personal physician, Anastasia Vasilyeva, who has previously been arrested for protesting outside Navalny's jail, tweeted that she and the three doctors had \"stood for two hours and begged\" to be let into the jail, but they were refused entry.\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\nAlso joining the call for action are more than 70 well known writers, artists and academics, who have have signed a letter calling on President Putin to ensure Navalny receives adequate medical care.\n\nThe letter was published in The Economist and France's Le Monde newspaper, and included the signatures of Hollywood actors Jude Law, Ralph Fiennes and Benedict Cumberbatch, Harry Potter author JK Rowling and director Ken Burns.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC's Andrew Marr recorded on Friday but aired on Sunday, Russia's ambassador to the UK, Andrei Kelin, said that Navalny was not in danger.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Andrei Kelin: \"He (Alexei Navalny) will not be allowed to die in prison\"\n\n\"Of course he will not be allowed to die in prison, but I can say that Mr Navalny behaves like a hooligan absolutely in trying to violate every rule that has been established,\" he said, adding that activist was attempting \"to attract attention\".", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nLeicester City boss Brendan Rodgers says his side have \"the chance to create history\" after reaching their first FA Cup final since 1969 at the expense of Southampton at Wembley.\n\nKelechi Iheanacho's second-half goal proved decisive for the Foxes, whose last major final of any description came in 2000, when they lifted the League Cup.\n\n\"That is what this game is about, creating a memory,\" said Rodgers, who is yet to win major silverware in English football, but won seven trophies in less than three years as manager of Celtic.\n\n\"I have been made aware since I've been at Leicester how important this cup is for the supporters.\n\n\"We have the chance to create history. When we arrived here, that was the ambition. From a football perspective we wanted to be able to compete and we have been able to do that. Now we have a trophy to genuinely go for.\"\n\nIheanacho, who benefited from Jamie Vardy's fine work to score at the second attempt 10 minutes after the interval, added: \"It is a dream come true. I watched the FA Cup when I was little and now I get the chance to play in the final.\n\n\"I think the FA Cup loves me and I love the FA Cup.\"\n\nThe game was played in front of 4,000 supporters as part of a pilot scheme, with research being carried out on allowing fans back in to sporting events as coronavirus restrictions are eased.\n\nTickets were limited to residents of Brent - the north London borough where Wembley Stadium is situated - and key workers.\n\nThose inside Wembley witnessed a mainly dour game but Leicester, playing in their first semi-final since 1982, will not care - and neither will their followers.\n\nSouthampton were strangely lacking in intensity, barely threatening Leicester keeper Kasper Schmeichel. Ibrahima Diallo went closest to an equaliser for the Saints but his powerful drive went just wide.\n\nRodgers' side will now face Chelsea in the final on 15 May, their first appearance in the showpiece since they lost 1-0 against Manchester City 52 years ago.\n\nLeicester fully merited their victory as they were much the more composed and ordered side in a low-key semi-final with few chances.\n\nIt took Iheanacho, who scored the winner against Brighton in the fifth round and was on target twice in the 3-1 win against Manchester United in the quarter-final, to make the decisive contribution.\n\nHis goal secured a place in the final against Chelsea, who the Foxes beat in the Premier League in January.\n\nAnd while they will be underdogs, Leicester have enough quality and resilience to be quietly confident.\n\nThis FA Cup final appearance is further evidence of the fine work being done by Rodgers, who also has Leicester right in the mix for the Champions League places next season.\n\nNow they have the chance to turn all this endeavour into silverware at Wembley against Thomas Tuchel's side.\n\nSouthampton will leave Wembley with bitter regrets as they failed to produce anything near their best and can have no complaints about the outcome.\n\nThey showed little of the intensity and energy that is their trademark when at their best under manager Ralph Hasenhuttl.\n\nThe Saints lacked ambition and positive intent apart from a brief revival a couple of minutes after Leicester scored, when Diallo was not far off target and there was a scramble after a corner.\n\nMain marksman Danny Ings cut a frustrated figure, starved of service and reduced mainly to chasing lost causes.\n\n\"That such a goal decides such a game is a pity for us,\" said Hasenhuttl.\n\n\"In the end, especially in the final third, we didn't have good moments. We couldn't get a shot on goal and this is not enough.\"\n\nThis will be a real blow to Southampton, who fancied their chances in the FA Cup this season and had a big opportunity to reach the final, but they came up short and must now return to ensuring their Premier League status.\n\nThis was the biggest crowd at a football match in England since the country went into lockdown in March last year - and what a glorious sound it was as the Leicester and Southampton players came out to cheers from 4,000 fans inside Wembley, reciprocating the gesture as they lined up before kick-off.\n\nIt did not have the partisanship and passion of the tradition football crowd because this was a test and research event with only locals and key workers in attendance.\n\nThere were moments, however, especially when Leicester scored and when Southampton substitute Theo Walcott came on to a very loud, mixed reception - presumably from Arsenal fans inside Wembley who idolised him from his time with the Gunners and Tottenham supporters who took the opposite view.\n\nThere were resounding cheers when the supporters were thanked over the public address system for their attendance and the hope is that this test event will help navigate a route out of the behind-closed-doors occasions that have been the way of things during lockdown.\n\nThe sight and sound of fans added to the spectacle, even when most of those watching this FA Cup semi-final were neutrals.\n\n'It feels amazing' - what they said\n\nLeicester boss Brendan Rodgers, speaking to BBC Sport: \"It feels amazing. I thought we deserved it, the players worked so hard. Commiserations to Southampton, they are a terrific team.\n\n\"We got the goal which was a great piece of play by Jamie [Vardy]. We had two or three moments after that to close it out. When you are 1-0 up, you have to show that self-control and stay calm and we did that.\n\n\"Even thought there were only 4,000 fans, it felt great. It will be amazing when we get supporters back into stadiums. I did hear some Leicester supporters in there and it was really nice.\"\n\nSouthampton boss Ralph Hasenhuttl, speaking to BBC Sport: \"We conceded our first goal in the FA Cup. [It is] Hard to take because we haven't been the worst team. We tried to put pressure on them. We saw a not very good football game to be honest, with both teams a little nervous.\n\n\"We had the chance to get to the final. We will try again next year.\"\n• None Leicester City have reached their first FA Cup final since 1969, a gap of 52 years, the longest between finals since Portsmouth went 69 and Cardiff went 81 between finals before facing one another in 2008.\n• None Southampton have now been eliminated in eight of their past 10 FA Cup semi-final appearances, two of which have come in the past four seasons (2017-18 vs Chelsea, 2020-21 vs Leicester).\n• None This was only Leicester's fourth win in 15 appearances at Wembley (D1 L10) and their first since the 2000 League Cup final against Tranmere, while Southampton have lost eight of their 10 matches at Wembley (W2), losing their last five in a row.\n• None Since his debut in the FA Cup in January 2016, Kelechi Iheanacho has scored more goals in the competition (first round onwards) than any other player, netting 14 times in 19 games.\n• None Iheanacho is the first Nigerian player to score 15 goals in all competitions in a season for a Premier League club since Odion Ighalo in 2015-16 for Watford, who scored 17.\n• None Southampton failed to have a single shot in the first half, the first time that had happened since November 2019 against Everton in a Premier League game.\n• None Only Sheffield United (13) have lost more games in all competitions in 2021 among Premier League clubs than Southampton (12).\n• None Jamie Vardy has gone 11 games without a goal in all competitions for Leicester, his longest goal drought since a run of 16 games between September - December 2016.\n\nLeicester return to action when they host West Bromwich Albion in the Premier League on Thursday, 22 April (20:00 BST).\n\nSouthampton travel to Tottenham for their next match in the Premier League on Wednesday, 21 April (18:00 BST).\n• None Attempt blocked. Kelechi Iheanacho (Leicester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Timothy Castagne.\n• None Jan Bednarek (Southampton) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Offside, Leicester City. James Maddison tries a through ball, but Jamie Vardy is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. James Maddison (Leicester City) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Kelechi Iheanacho.\n• None Attempt missed. James Maddison (Leicester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Kelechi Iheanacho. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None One simple thing that could improve your life!\n• None Why are Hong Kong citizens having to decide whether to move to the UK?", "The crisis caused by the pandemic has forced a growing number of people to depend on food donations Image caption: The crisis caused by the pandemic has forced a growing number of people to depend on food donations\n\nThe queue snakes around the block and each day it gets longer: hungry residents of Heliopolis, São Paulo's largest favela, waiting in line for the handout that will keep them going until the next morning.\n\nThey are given a bowl of pasta with meat and a portion of rice, two packets of biscuits and a carton of milk, shared between a whole household and usually their only meal of the day. Before the pandemic, 300 people would queue up here. Now it is more than 1,000, and the charity that runs it has 650 others across São Paulo.\n\n\"The vast majority of people who live in the favelas work in the informal economy, as cleaners in homes or helping to bake cakes, so when businesses close or houses stop using them, they feel the impact,\" says Marcivan Barreto, the local co-ordinator.\n\n\"You see people queuing up at 03:00 for food. I'm very worried that as the pandemic continues, a hungry father will start looting supermarkets. When you're starving, despair hits.\"", "PCs Lewis Mack, Sam Butler and Ian Gould drove up and down Lieutenant Ellis Way in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire\n\nThree Hertfordshire police officers who sped on a dual carriageway in a luxury car seized from its driver have been given a final written warning after being found guilty of gross misconduct.\n\nPCs Lewis Mack, Sam Butler and Ian Gould were taking the Bentley back to Cheshunt police station because its driver had no insurance.\n\nBut the car had a tracker and its owner saw the three had been on a detour.\n\nThey were given the warning at a police misconduct hearing held by the force.\n\nIt heard the black Bentley Continental GT V8 was stopped on the evening of 29 May as it travelled north on the A10 towards Cheshunt, because it was not displaying its lights.\n\nThe three PCs attended the scene, along with a number of other officers. After roadside checks revealed the driver was not insured, they decided to take it to the police station.\n\nThe three police officers were taking the car to Cheshunt police station, but took it on a detour\n\nBut after setting off they drove up and down nearby Lieutenant Ellis Way - a one-and-a-half mile-stretch of dual carriageway with a speed limit of 50mph - taking it in turns to drive, the hearing was told.\n\nThe car had a tracker and its owner - not the driver - could see they did not return to the station straight away and made a complaint.\n\nThe officers told a sergeant at the station what happened and how each had exceeded the speed limit.\n\nPC Mack said he had got caught up in the \"luxury\" of the car's interior.\n\n\"I am ashamed to say I didn't have the self-control,\" he said, adding it only \"dawned on us how wrong our actions were\" when they got back to the station, and they \"decided to be open and honest\".\n\nThe officers faced allegations they breached Standards of Professional Behaviour by driving the car for their own pleasure, speeding, failing to challenge one another's behaviour, and failing to show courtesy and respect, which the panel found amounted to gross misconduct.\n\nChairman Akbar Khan told the officers that public confidence and trust in the force would have been undermined.\n\nThe written warning will last for two years.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA wildfire on the slopes of South Africa's Table Mountain has spread to the nearby University of Cape Town campus, forcing the evacuation of hundreds of students, officials say.\n\nThe blaze spread quickly after breaking out on Sunday morning near a memorial to politician Cecil Rhodes. A restaurant was destroyed.\n\nThe university's historic library and other buildings were also affected.\n\nFour helicopters are water-bombing the flames.\n\nSouth African National Parks said firefighters were alerted at 09:00 local time (07:00 GMT). The flames spread quickly because of the low humidity and dry bush.\n\nThe fire created its own wind further increasing the rate of spread, it added, estimating that firefighters would need at least three days to control the blaze.\n\n\"After the initial investigation, it is surmised that the origin of the fire is from a vacated vagrant fire,\" it said.\n\nMore than 120 firefighters have been deployed to the area\n\nHelicopters have been used to try to control the fire\n\nMore than 120 firefighters have been deployed to the area, and one had to be sent to hospital for treatment with burn wounds.\n\nThe fire partially destroyed the University of Cape Town's Jagger Library and the historic Mostert's Mill. Other buildings were also affected.\n\n\"All UCT students have been evacuated from campus by emergency services support staff,\" the university said on Twitter.\n\nThe Jagger Library was partially destroyed by the fire\n\nThe historic Mostert's Mill is seen in ruins after the blaze\n\nResidents in the area have been warned of smoke and soot in the air, and told to keep windows and doors closed.\n\nMeanwhile hikers in the Table Mountain National Park have been urged to leave and drivers who have parked in the area have been told to collect their vehicles.\n\nA house used as a University of Cape Town students' residence was also partially destroyed\n\nThis file photo of Table Mountain shows its position above Cape Town", "As a boy, I watched Liverpool winning the league title and European Cup and dreamed of doing the same myself.\n\nWhen I became a Liverpool player, I wanted to win the things those teams had done, to show I was as good as they were.\n\nThat history, that tradition - all of those things that have grown since Liverpool Football Club formed in 1892 - would disappear if they joined this proposed breakaway European Super League and were banned from the Premier League.\n\nEverything that makes Liverpool the institution it is would be lost. If they leave domestic competition for this, what happens to the decades-long rivalry with Manchester United over who has won the most titles?\n\nDo the things that mattered when I put on that red shirt suddenly not matter any more? Where do they go?\n\n'From a players' point of view, I don't see the appeal'\n\nI am retired now, but it will be the same for current Liverpool players, and all those at the other English clubs involved - United, Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester City and Tottenham.\n\nThey have been dreaming of winning the titles and trophies they grew up with, that they are competing for right now, because they mean so much.\n\nThey won't wake up tomorrow and think 'well all I want to do is win a stagnated European Super League'.\n\nThe plans, which were officially announced on Sunday night, sound soulless.\n\nIt is beyond belief, actually, that they can think they can put this idea forward with the thought it will just be brought in smoothly and have everyone accept it.\n\nThat is just a complete lack of understanding about our game, our traditions, what we love about football and what is in our hearts when we watch it and play the game.\n\nWe've already seen strong opposition from leagues and federations who would be affected, and fans as well. Next, I think we will see a backlash from managers and players too.\n\nWhen I look at the proposals, and also the consequences if you are part of them, then from a players' point of view, I just don't see the appeal at all.\n\nPart of the joy of being a player is the rewards you get for your success on the pitch - you earn it, individually and collectively. This way, you don't get any of that. You would just get a closed shop every season, playing the same clubs every time.\n\nIt sounds sterile and boring. Players don't want that, they want to be tested. If there are no incentives, there will be no intensity. What is left for you to play for?\n\nYou're also being told you can no longer play for your country if you are part of this. Again, that's what you dream of doing as a kid, so I just don't see many footballers agreeing to that, which actually gives me hope that this whole idea will quickly fall apart.\n\n'The more I think about it, the more nonsensical it gets'\n\nWhen news of the breakaway plans came through on Sunday, my reaction was the same as I'd expect from most people who love football - disappointment and disgust at the greed that is behind the idea.\n\nThe intention here has nothing to do with the love of football or progressing the game, it is just about money.\n\nBy signing up for this, you are changing everything. If the big six go down this road and leave the Premier League, it dismantles the whole pyramid which makes English football brilliant, and has been the bedrock of our game for generations.\n\nThat's what has shocked me. Not the idea itself, because it has been talked about for years, but that there are actually people within the hierarchies at the big clubs who aren't intelligent enough to understand how damaging this could be.\n\nI'm open-minded enough to look at any ideas for football's future and consider the pros and cons of any changes, but I simply don't see any positives here.\n\nAs well as being guaranteed involvement every season, the clubs involved must think they will be able to sell the broadcast rights for these big games and get more money than they do now out of the Champions League and domestic competitions.\n\nBut I think they are naive, because I don't think there is an appetite to see the same fixtures every season, whoever is involved.\n\nSome of the clubs involved who have got owners from the United States might like that model, which works in sports over there. That doesn't matter, though, because it doesn't work for English football.\n\nFans don't want to see that, they want excitement. They want to see their team respond to disappointment, and fight to reach the next level, and get the rewards that follow that success.\n\nSo to make it a closed shop, with no ins and outs unless the member clubs decide it, goes against the whole nature of football. It's not beneficial, and it's not sustainable.\n\nIf these plans go through, they will have huge repercussions for football in this country and beyond, but my hope is that they are dealt with properly, and in unison, by everyone who does have the game's best interests at heart.\n\nI just hope this is not allowed to escalate, because the more I think about it, the more nonsensical it gets.", "Nasa has confirmed that this small helicopter has made history by becoming the first to successfully fly on another planet.\n\nIngenuity took its test flight on Monday 19 April but it wasn't until later in the morning that data showed it had worked.\n\nIngenuity is a 1.8kg (4lb) helicopter that travelled to Mars inside Nasa's Perseverance rover, which landed in February 2021.\n\nFlying on the Red Planet isn't straightforward - as BBC science reporter Laura Foster and Nasa systems engineer Farah Alibay explain.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon says she wants a four-nation public inquiry into the handling of the pandemic\n\nNicola Sturgeon has said the way elderly people were discharged from hospital to care homes in the early stages of the pandemic was a mistake.\n\nMore than 1,300 elderly people were sent to care homes before a robust testing regime was in place.\n\nMs Sturgeon said with \"hindsight\" she agreed with Health Secretary Jeane Freeman's view that this was mistaken.\n\nShe has called for a four nations inquiry into the pandemic by the end of the year.\n\nIn the early stages of the pandemic, hundreds of elderly people who no longer needed to be in hospital were discharged, in many cases to care homes.\n\nThis was at a time when the Scottish government was being advised to create as much spare capacity as possible in hospitals in anticipation of huge case numbers, and before a rigorous testing regime was in place.\n\nEarlier this month, the health secretary said the government failed to properly understand the needs of social care during the pandemic.\n\nShe said: \"We didn't take the right precautions to make sure that older people leaving hospital going into care homes were as safe as they could be and that was a mistake.\"\n\nIn an interview with BBC Scotland, Ms Sturgeon was asked if she agreed with this analysis.\n\nShe said: \"Looking back on that now, with the knowledge we have now and with the benefit of hindsight, yes.\"\n\nShe later tweeted, emphasising that decisions were taken based on knowledge that was available at the time, but that it was important to be \"candid\" about what happened.\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 first minister said the Scottish government changed the approach when it learned more about how Covid patients without symptoms could spread the virus.\n\nAsked if discharging untested patients from hospitals into care homes had cost lives, she said: \"The number of people who died were too many and we got some things wrong and I feel the responsibility of that every single day.\"\n\nCare home residents account for about a third of the 10,000 Covid-related deaths in Scotland so far\n\nScottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar said the situation in care homes had been the \"biggest crisis\" of the pandemic.\n\nHe said: \"We should never have been sending Covid-positive patients into care homes. That was unforgivable.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon told BBC Scotland she wants a judge-led public inquiry into how Covid was handled to begin before the end of this year.\n\nShe said her preference was for an inquiry to be established on a UK-wide basis and take account of devolved decision making, but she was prepared to go it alone.\n\nShe explained: \"I can't force other governments to agree to it, so if we can't get that agreement in good time I will move ahead with a Scottish-only public inquiry\".\n\nOther Holyrood parties have suggested distinct Scottish and UK inquiries should be set up and work together.\n\nMr Sarwar wants a Scottish inquiry running alongside a wider UK investigation, while Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said: \"It is right that there are inquiries and I think we'll see them both here in Scotland and across the UK.\"\n\nThe Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie said: \"there would be an advantage in Scotland actually starting that process, if the UK isn't prepared to come along at this stage.\"\n\nThe Scottish Greens co-leader Patrick Harvie said: \"The Scottish government's response to the pandemic, including its reluctance to diverge from the UK government's approach, must be examined.\"", "The UK's biggest hospitality firms have signed a letter urging the prime minister to \"stick\" with England's roadmap to reopen the economy.\n\nThe letter in the Sunday Telegraph, signed by 38 bosses, said two-thirds of venues \"couldn't open outdoors from 12 April, and none is breaking even\".\n\nSignatories urged the government to allow indoor dining to go ahead from 17 May in England.\n\nThe letter also warned against the introduction of vaccine \"passports\".\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"We cannot be complacent or lose sight of the risks this virus poses.\"\n\nChief executives of Mitchells & Butlers, Fuller's, Young's, JD Wetherspoon, Pizza Hut and Alton Towers owner Merlin signed the letter, which said: \"We must be driven by data not dates.\n\n\"The data say it is safe to confirm now the reopening of indoor hospitality on 17 May and the lifting of all social-distancing restrictions on hospitality on 21 June,\" it added.\n\n\"This is vital as government support for hospitality tapers away then, and without it many businesses will be unviable.\"\n\nHowever, speaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, Dr Susan Hopkins from Public Health England said that two to three weeks of data was needed before the impact of outdoor service in England from 12 April could be determined.\n\n\"As we release restrictions and as people start moving around again, transmission can occur. So people still need to take precautions as they do that,\" she said.\n\nShe added: \"We really hope the next step can take place as planned.\"\n\nAccording to data from CGA and AlixPartners Market Recovery Monitor, only 23% of English venues have been able to open for outside trade.\n\nExecutives at the Wahaca restaurant chain and Burger King were among the signatories who said that vaccine passports cannot be used as an excuse to \"derail\" the earliest possible date for lifting of all social distancing measures in June.\n\nThe government said on Saturday it is reviewing whether to use vaccine certificates and \"no decisions have been taken\".\n\nGovernment ministers have previously said that certificates would allow people to show if they have been vaccinated, had a negative test or had natural immunity from a confirmed infection in the previous six months.\n\nIt comes after local government secretary Robert Jenrick called on council leaders in England to work with pubs, cafes and restaurants trying to reopen safely.\n\nMr Jenrick wrote to councils on Thursday, warning them against applying Covid-19 rules \"disproportionately\" and threatening to punish pubs for failing to ensure social distancing outside.\n\n\"It is in the public interest that local residents can socialise in a licensed and controlled environment outside, where Covid-19 risks are lower,\" he wrote.\n\nOn Saturday, the UK recorded 2,206 new Covid cases and 35 deaths, according to the latest government figures.\n\nA spokesperson for the Department for Business said: \"We are continuing to make good progress in tackling the virus, with case rates and hospitalisations down and more than 42 million vaccine doses have been administered.\n\nBut they said people must not be \"complacent\" about coronavirus.\n\nThey added: \"That is why we must continue to take a cautious and irreversible approach to reopening and monitor the data ahead of each step of the roadmap.\"\n\nThey also pointed to the Pubs Restart Scheme, offered as part of a package to help hospitality firms reopen.", "Rob Roberts was elected to represent Delyn in 2019\n\nAn MP who was accused of multiple allegations of inappropriate behaviour towards parliamentary staff is facing no further action from his party.\n\nThe Conservatives said they had \"strongly rebuked\" Delyn's Rob Roberts for his \"unacceptable\" conduct.\n\nBut a woman who Mr Roberts had asked to \"fool around\" with him said it was like \"he's gotten away with it\".\n\nShe said he should have had the whip removed. The party said it did not take decisions on the whip.\n\nThe female former intern told BBC Wales: \"It's not one incident but multiple and he's a threat to our safety.\n\n\"He's gotten away with it, and that's not acceptable.\"\n\nShe added that the outcome of the party's investigation brought \"the morals and values of the Conservative Party under scrutiny if they are unwilling to stand up against sexual harassment and stand on the side of women - especially in the current climate.\"\n\nShe also criticised their decision of \"keeping him within the party and giving such a minimal punishment\".\n\nThe intern claimed that \"at no point\" was she contacted as part of the Conservative Party's investigation.\n\nRemoving the whip means that an MP is thrown out of their party.\n\nAn excerpt of messages sent by the MP to the intern on 12 April 2020\n\nIn response, the Conservative party said it does not make decisions on the whip and that no official complaint was received by the party from anyone who claims to have been sexually harassed.\n\nIt added that complaints made to the party were not directly from individuals involved, but came from third parties.\n\nLabour and Liberal Democrat politicians had previously called for the Conservative Party to remove his party whip.\n\nMr Roberts was warned about future conduct by the party's co-chairman and was instructed to do safeguarding and social media training.\n\nIn July, messages seen by BBC Wales showed Mr Roberts inviting a 21-year-old female intern who was working in Parliament to \"fool around\" with him.\n\nThe intern had told BBC Wales the messages had made her feel \"really vulnerable\".\n\nHe also admitted asking out another House of Commons employee, which led them to move position.\n\nAt least two complaints were made about Mr Roberts to Parliament's independent complaints and grievance scheme (ICGS).\n\nThe Conservative Party had said the MP's conduct was completely unacceptable and launched a party investigation into his behaviour.\n\nOn Thursday evening, a Conservative Party spokesperson said: \"The investigation into Rob Roberts has concluded.\n\n\"Rob Roberts' conduct was found to be unacceptable under the party's code of conduct and he has been strongly rebuked.\n\n\"Mr Roberts has apologised for his behaviour and was instructed to undertake safeguarding and social media protection training.\"\n\nThe party had looked into allegations about Rob Robert's conduct\n\nThe party have said complaints about Mr Roberts were examined by a panel constituted under the party's code of conduct, which was chaired by an independent QC.\n\nMr Roberts was elected as the Conservative MP for Delyn in north Wales in December 2019.\n\nHis seat was a gain from Labour in the so-called Red Wall and had been previously held by Labour MP David Hanson since 1992.\n\nLast year, the MP said he recognised the request to ask the staffer out \"was inappropriate\" but had not commented on the messages sent to the intern.", "Moses Christensen had denied murder by reason of diminished responsibility\n\nA man who murdered a walker in a random knife attack at a beauty spot has been jailed for at least 28 years.\n\nMoses Christensen, 22, killed 70-year-old Richard Hall on Brown Clee Hill in Shropshire in August.\n\nPassing sentence at Stafford Crown Court, the judge described it as a \"brutal and entirely senseless killing of an innocent stranger who had caused you no offence\".\n\nHe added the murder had been committed \"with great savagery\".\n\nThe trial last month heard Christensen had roamed the hillside looking for someone to kill.\n\nMr Hall's body was found on Brown Clee Hill in Shropshire in August 2020\n\nMr Hall, from Perton in Staffordshire, had gone out for a walk on the morning of 13 August, telling his wife, Sheila he would be back in time for something to eat.\n\nWhile he was there, Christensen attacked him with a combat-style knife, inflicting 26 wounds to his neck, chest and head, including one which penetrated his skull.\n\nDuring sentencing, Mr Justice Pepperall told him: \"You showed Mr Hall no mercy and you were later to tell the police that you felt no real remorse.\n\n\"I am sure that your offending was pre-meditated over, at the very least, some weeks before you murdered Mr Hall.\"\n\nThe 22-year-old, of Corser Street in Stourbridge, was also given a concurrent 28-month sentence for possession of an offensive weapon.\n\nThe sentencing hearing was told Richard Hall's widow had been left \"devastated beyond words\" by her husband's death\n\nAt trial, Christensen had denied murder by reason of diminished responsibility, but was found guilty.\n\nThe court was told Christensen was being sought by police after allegedly telling a relative he wanted to kill three of his former teachers and had \"a desire to... eat the flesh of one of them\".\n\nHe had a history of depression dating back to his early teens and was arrested after knocking on the door of a house and telling the woman inside he had committed a crime.\n\nChristensen then told the police he had \"cut himself whilst committing a murder\" and went on to describe in interviews his intention had been to \"go out and kill or be killed\".\n\nIn a statement issued following the trial, Mr Hall's family said he had been \"brutally and senselessly taken away by what can only be described as an act of pure evil\".\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.", "Online fashion group Asos has said the pandemic forced it to \"rip up the playbook\" as its young customers came to terms with being cooped up at home.\n\nChief executive Nick Beighton said its 20-something core market normally bought clothes for going out.\n\nBut the company's swift \"pivot\" to casual clothing paid off, with surging sales, profits and customer numbers.\n\nAsos added one and a half million customers in the past six months, giving it a total of 24.9 million.\n\nSales rose 24% in the six months to 28 February, with profits jumping to £106.4m, up from £30.1m a year earlier.\n\nMr Beighton told a conference call that under lockdown, there had been a greater emphasis on activewear, casual wear and beauty products.\n\nAsos had \"quickly pivoted the customer offer to meet demand\" in those areas, he said, with jersey tops and casual bottoms proving strong sellers.\n\nMr Beighton said Asos was expecting a \"shift back to occasion wear\" as lockdown restrictions eased. This would begin with daywear, then evening wear, he said.\n\n\"During that time, flexibility will be vital for us,\" he added.\n\nAsos said its integration of Topshop and other Arcadia brands, which Asos bought in February, was \"progressing to plan\".\n\nAs well as Topshop, Asos also acquired the Topman, Miss Selfridge and HIIT brands in a £295m deal, but not their network of about 70 shops.\n\nThe company said its latest \"record results\" had been driven by \"exceptional execution\".\n\nIn the UK, where Asos now has more than seven million customers, sales were particularly strong, climbing by 39%.\n\nAs an online-only business, Asos is one of the few retailers that have benefited from lockdown.\n\n\"For a long, long time, e-commerce has been growing,\" Mr Beighton told the BBC.\n\n\"What we've seen over the last 12 months is a step-change in e-commerce as a mix of total sales. So we don't think this is a high point, e-commerce is here to stay, but it can sit happily alongside stores.\"\n\nIn the company's results statement, Mr Beighton said he was \"delighted\" with the \"exceptional first-half performance\".\n\n\"Looking ahead, while we are mindful of the short-term uncertainty and potential economic consequences of the continuing pandemic, we are confident in the momentum we have built and excited about delivering on our ambition of being the number one destination for fashion-loving 20-somethings.\"\n\nAsos said it was still cautious about the outlook in the short term, because of uncertain economic prospects for its youthful target group.\n\nRisks included possible further Covid-19 peaks, as well as the timetable for the easing of global pandemic restrictions.\n\nHowever, it added that it was \"well positioned to capture demand for event-led product when lifestyles normalise\".\n\nArlene Ewing, investment manager at Brewin Dolphin, said Asos had beaten analysts' expectations on profits.\n\n\"The business is in great shape, with cash on its balance sheet and the acquisition and integration of brands such as Topshop yet to be fully reflected in performance,\" she added.\n\n\"With greater geographical diversification and investment in customer fulfilment over the last year or so, Asos is in a very strong position - a fact demonstrated by the more than 400% increase to its share price since the start of the pandemic.\"\n\nAsos confirmed that customers were still sending back fewer items than expected while coronavirus restrictions were in force, saying \"returns-related tailwinds in warehouse and distribution costs\" had given the firm a £48.5m boost.\n\nBut Chloe Collins, senior retail analyst at GlobalData, said that a post-pandemic resurgence of occasion wear and going-out styles could mean that customers resumed their old practice of returning more clothes.\n\nShe added: \"Though there is light at the end of the Covid-19 tunnel and Asos will be ready for increased demand for its more fashion-forward, dressy designs, shoppers' desire for more comfortable and versatile clothing is expected to be a long-term switch.\n\n\"Therefore, it should ensure that these styles retain a high presence on its social media platforms and that it showcases how items can be styled to suit multiple end uses.\"", "Hashem Abedi (left) and Ahmed Hassan are both being held at Frankland Prison, County Durham\n\nThe brother of the Manchester Arena bomber has said in court he regards a prison officer he is accused of assaulting as a \"filthy pig\".\n\nHashem Abedi appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court accused of assaulting Paul Edwards last May.\n\nMr Edwards received cuts to his head and bruising during the attack at HMP Belmarsh on 11 May 2020.\n\nMuhammed Saeed, 23, and failed Parsons Green bomber Ahmed Hassan are also both accused of the same attack.\n\nProsecutor Nicholas Alexander said Abedi, 24, Hassan, 21, and Saeed, who appeared in court on Wednesday, attacked Mr Edwards in an office in the prison.\n\nThe court heard that Mr Edwards suffered a laceration to the top of the scalp and that a blow to his ear had caused permanent sensory loss.\n\nWhen asked to give his name at the hearing on Thursday, addressing the Chief Magistrate, Hassan said: \"I want you to know that I hate you very much because you are a judge, judging by other than the law of Allah.\n\n\"You will be destined for hellfire unless you repent and submit yourself to the law of Allah.\"\n\nHe also complained he had not had the case papers and evidence disclosed to him.\n\nHe then pleaded not guilty to assaulting Mr Edwards causing him actual bodily harm.\n\nWhen Abedi, appearing via videolink from HMP Frankland in County Durham, where he is serving life in prison for his involvement in the Manchester attack, was asked to enter a plea to the same charge, he described Mr Edwards as a \"filthy pig\".\n\nChief magistrate Paul Goldspring said a plea of not guilty should be entered.\n\nDuring the 15-minute hearing, Abedi also refused to enter a plea to a charge of assaulting a second member of staff, Nick Barnett. Again the chief magistrate said a plea of not guilty should be entered.\n\nAbedi, Hassan and Saeed are next due to appear at Woolwich Crown Court on 5 May.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Golf\n\nTiger Woods was driving close to double the 45mph speed limit when he crashed in February, according to Los Angeles County's sheriff.\n\nThe 15-time major champion, 45, had to be \"extricated from the wreck\" of his car by firefighters and paramedics.\n\nWoods' car left the road at about 84-87mph and flipped several times during the accident in California.\n\nWoods was released from hospital earlier this month after sustaining a number of serious injuries.\n\nThere was no evidence Woods had been impaired by drugs or alcohol at the time of the crash.\n\nLA County sheriff Alex Villanueva said: \"The primary causal factor for this traffic collision was driving at a speed unsafe for the road conditions and the inability to negotiate the curve of the roadway.\"\n\nWoods' car crossed the centre-divider before coming to rest several hundred feet away, having hit a tree and rolling several times during the accident in Ranchos Palos Verdes.\n\nThe American required surgery after suffering open leg fractures as well as injuries to his foot and ankle.\n\nIn addition to the speed at the first area of impact occurring at up to 87mph, sheriff Villanueva added the \"estimated speed when the vehicle struck the tree was 75mph\".\n\nLASD Captain James Powers said: \"The car's so-called 'black box' data recorder showed Woods engaged the accelerator and never applied the brake during the incident. That could indicate he may have mistakenly hit the wrong pedal while trying to control the car.\"\n\nPowers added: \"It's believed that when you panic or you have some sort of sudden interruption while you're driving, your initial thought is to hit the brake and it's believed he may have done that but hit the accelerator.\"\n\nThere were were no citations issued because there were no witnesses to the incident.\n\nWoods tweeted his thanks on Wednesday to those who assisted his rescue, adding: \"I will continue to focus on my recovery and family, and thank everyone for the overwhelming support and encouragement I've received throughout this very difficult time.\"\n\nThe former world number one and 2019 Masters champion, who the LASD said was \"fortunate to be alive\" following the incident on 23 February, was the sole occupant in his vehicle and was wearing his seatbelt.\n\nWoods was involved in a car crash in November 2009 which eventually led to admissions of infidelity and the breakdown of his marriage. He then took a break from golf but returned shortly afterwards.\n\nIn 2017, he was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence when he was found asleep at the wheel of his car. He later pleaded guilty to reckless driving.\n• None Why are we the exception to the norm when it comes to sex?\n• None Six life lessons the four-legged friends could teach us", "There has been one case in Wales of a person developing a rare blood clot after having the AstraZeneca jab, the head of the vaccine rollout has said.\n\nDr Richard Roberts confirmed there had been \"one firm case\" but no deaths.\n\nThe UK's medicines regulator has said under-30s should be offered an alternative Covid jab due to evidence linking it to blood clots.\n\nDr Roberts insisted the vaccine was safe for anyone aged over 30 without underlying health conditions.\n\nA review by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) found that by the end of March 79 people had suffered rare blood clots after having the AstraZeneca vaccination in the UK - 19 of whom had died.\n\nThis was out of 20 million administered doses - giving a risk of about four in one million of developing a blood clot, and one in a million of dying.\n\nThe people who died were aged between 18 and 79, with three of them aged under 30.\n\nThe side effects are however, extremely rare and the vaccine's effectiveness was proven, the MHRA said, while the Welsh government had said it did not \"envisage a delay to the roll-out of our vaccine programme in Wales\".\n\nDr Roberts told BBC Radio Cymru the AstraZeneca vaccine remained a safe choice for those aged 30 and above, but that the balance of risks for younger people meant another vaccine should be used.\n\n\"For those people who are receiving the [AstraZeneca] vaccine now, in their 40s and 50s, the balance of risk and benefits lies heavily on the side of the benefits,\" he said.\n\n\"If you consider a million people in their 40s, if all of them caught Covid then 1,000 deaths would occur.\n\n\"You must balance that against the risk of one in a million dying because of a very rare blood clot.\"\n\nDr Roberts said under-30s would be offered Pfizer and Moderna vaccines instead as the rollout continued across Wales.\n\nHe said other medicines such as the contraceptive pill carried risks of blood clots, and added: \"We must accept that we cannot get effective [medicines] that carry no risk at all.\n\n\"Nothing can be 100%, and we must accept some risk in order to get the benefits.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn Wales, 1,519,760 people have been given their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine - 48.2% of the population.\n\nOn Wednesday, unpaid carer Elle Taylor, 24, became the first person to receive the Moderna vaccine in the UK, as the rollout of the third vaccine in Wales began.\n\nMiss Taylor, 24, from Ammanford, cares for her grandmother and said it was important so she could care for her safely and properly.", "An activist known as Pigeon in a stand-off 30ft (9m) up in a beech tree with a bailiff working for the National Eviction Team\n\nThree people were arrested as campaigners protested against the felling of a woodland said to have inspired Roald Dahl.\n\nNatural England issued licences last week permitting the felling of two-thirds of Jones' Hill Wood, which is in the path of HS2.\n\nCampaigners said they wanted to \"fight for the woodland\" in Buckinghamshire.\n\nA spokesman for the high-speed rail line said 4.1 hectares (10 acres) of new woodland would be created nearby.\n\nThe three have been charged with obstructing a public highway, while a fourth was arrested on suspicion of a public order offence dating to last month, and released under investigation.\n\nThe estimated final cost of the HS2 project is now more than £100bn.\n\nProtesters who blocked an access route to Jones' Hill Wood are removed\n\nRoald Dahl wrote his stories in the Buckinghamshire town of Great Missenden, and classics like Fantastic Mr Fox are said to have taken inspiration from the beech wood.\n\nIts felling had been delayed since last year after bats were discovered roosting at the site, which is in the Chiltern Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.\n\nOn 30 March, Natural England's director for wildlife licensing and enforcement cases Dave Slater said: \"After careful assessment, we have determined that the felling of a small number of trees at Jones' Hill Wood will not be detrimental to the overall conservation status of the bat populations in this area.\"\n\nHe added \"mitigations\", including the creation of new roosts, had been put in place.\n\nA protester in her mid-20s, who called herself Pigeon, was involved in an aerial stand-off with a bailiff on Wednesday that went on for several hours.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC from high in the branches of a beech tree, she said she was \"here to fight for the woodland - I'm making a stand\".\n\nShe said: \"I'm here in physical form because the legal system is not designed to protect the environment.\n\n\"HS2 isn't encouraging rail travel - if it were then it would be making it cheaper and more accessible than car travel.\n\n\"It will be more expensive, and it won't be carbon neutral in its 120-year lifetime.\"\n\nPigeon said she was making a stand\n\nThe campaigner, who has been at the site on-and-off for nearly a year, added: \"The damage that is being done to facilitate this railway is extreme.\"\n\nThe much-loved story tells the tale of wily Mr Fox, who outwits farmers Boggis, Bunce and Bean.\n\nThe real-life Bunce family still farms the area. Peter Bunce told the BBC that he played in the wood with his brother and sisters as a child and added he was \"gutted\" at its destruction.\n\nPeter Bunce, whose family still farm locally, said the destruction of the wood was \"disgusting\"\n\n\"It's disappearing as we look in front of us,\" he said. \"It's just hollow. There's no feeling left.\n\n\"It used to be full up with primroses, foxgloves, bluebells, wood anemones, all sorts of things … it's disgusting what they have done.\"\n\nAn activist sleeps in a tree at sunrise as they prepare themselves for eviction from Jones Hill Wood\n\nThe construction and operation of Phase One of HS2 is authorised by the High Speed Rail (London - West Midlands) Act 2017.\n\nIt plans to create a new woodland, planting 22,000 trees, which will link to the remains of Jones' Hill Wood, connecting it to another wood.\n\nAlex Towse, construction director with HS2 contractor Fusion JV, said: \"What we are doing through the compensation is to look at the native species that are already within the landscape and design a mitigation scheme that is sympathetic to what is around it.\n\n\"And by joining up those existing habitats, it creates a green corridor along the route.\"\n\nThe construction site at the entrance to the HS2 Chiltern tunnel, beside the M25 in Denham, Buckinghamshire\n\nHS2 said it would plant up to seven million trees and shrubs along the first phase of the line and create more than 33 sq km (12.7 sq miles) of new woodland, wildlife and river habitats.\n\nIt claims to be one of the most sustainable high-speed railways in the world, supporting the UK's transition to a net zero economy.\n\nA 200-year-old oak tree in Steeple Claydon, known locally as the 7 Sisters Oak, was felled to make way for the line", "Islamic scholars and NHS leaders are urging Muslims not to let fasting over Ramadan stop them getting a Covid jab.\n\nDuring Ramadan many Muslims abstain from food and drink in daylight hours.\n\nIslamic teaching says Muslims should refrain \"from anything entering the body\" between sunrise and sunset.\n\nBut Qari Asim, an imam in Leeds, said that because the vaccine goes into the muscle rather than the bloodstream and is not nutritious, it does not amount to breaking the fast.\n\n\"The majority of the Islamic scholars are of the view that taking the vaccine during Ramadan will not invalidate the fast,\" Mr Asim, who chairs the Mosques and Imams National Advisory Board, told the BBC.\n\nHe said his message to the Muslim community was: \"If you are eligible for the vaccine and have received your invite, you need to ask yourself: do you take the vaccine which has proven to be effective or do you risk catching Covid, which can make you quite ill, and you may potentially miss the whole of Ramadan and possibly end up in hospital?\"\n\nSome NHS vaccine sites in Nottingham and Brighton are extending their opening hours so Muslims can come after they have broken their fast.\n\nBut Dr Farzana Hussain, a senior GP from The Surgery Project in east London, said there was no need to avoid daylight hours.\n\n\"We know that a lot of Muslims are a bit concerned about having their Covid vaccination during Ramadan. Many people believe that having an injection actually breaks the fast,\" she said. \"But it doesn't at all because it's not considered nutrition.\"\n\nShe added: \"The Quran says saving your life is the most important thing: 'To save one life is to save the whole of humanity.' It's a responsibility of a practising Muslim to take their vaccine.\"\n\nSome mosques are being used as vaccination centres in an effort to boost take up among minority communities.\n\nPolling from Ipsos Mori suggests a dramatic increase in ethnic minority Britons who say they have had, or are likely to have, the vaccine - from 77% in January to 92% in March.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRamadan, which is expected to begin on Monday evening after the sighting of the Moon over Mecca, is traditionally marked by regular communal prayers in mosques and shared meals - or Iftars - to break the fast after sunset.\n\nAlthough communal worship is allowed across the UK, social distancing must be enforced and different households cannot mix indoors.\n\nThe British Islamic Medical Association (BIMA) has issued guidance for mosques during Ramadan. They recommend keeping Taraweeh - the main evening prayers - short, increasing ventilation, and say imams should wear \"properly fitted double masks to protect congregants\".\n\nDr Shehla Imtiaz-Umer urged people to get vaccinated to protect future Ramadans\n\nDr Shehla Imtiaz-Umer, a GP in Derby and representative of the BIMA, told the BBC: \"We've seen a lot of devastation in our communities because of the Covid pandemic and we want to try and make sure that our future Ramadans are not affected to this extent.\n\n\"Unfortunately it's been affected last year and this year. But if we carry on taking our vaccines and making sure that we're all protected, we can ensure that next Ramadan we do return to some normality.\"", "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'", "The findings come from the US Muon g-2 experiment\n\nFrom sticking a magnet on a fridge door to throwing a ball into a basketball hoop, the forces of physics are at play in every moment of our lives.\n\nAll of the forces we experience every day can be reduced to just four categories: gravity, electromagnetism, the strong force and the weak force.\n\nNow, physicists say they have found possible signs of a fifth fundamental force of nature.\n\nThe findings come from research carried out at a laboratory near Chicago.\n\nThe four fundamental forces govern how all the objects and particles in the Universe interact with each other.\n\nFor example, gravity makes objects fall to the ground, and heavy objects behave as if they are glued to the floor.\n\nThe UK's Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) said the result \"provides strong evidence for the existence of an undiscovered sub-atomic particle or new force\".\n\nBut the results from the Muon g-2 experiment don't add up to a conclusive discovery yet.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Scientists say they have found \"strong evidence\" for the existence of a new force of nature\n\nThere is currently a one in a 40,000 chance that the result could be a statistical fluke - equating to a statistical level of confidence described as 4.1 sigma.\n\nA level of 5 sigma, or a one in 3.5 million chance of the observation being a coincidence, is needed to claim a discovery.\n\nProf Mark Lancaster, who is the UK lead for the experiment, told BBC News: \"We have found the interaction of muons are not in agreement with the Standard Model [the current widely-accepted theory to explain how the building blocks of the Universe behave].\"\n\nThe University of Manchester researcher added: \"Clearly, this is very exciting because it potentially points to a future with new laws of physics, new particles and a new force which we have not seen to date.\"\n\nThe finding is the latest in a string of promising results from particle physics experiments in the US, Japan, and most recently from the Large Hadron Collider on the Swiss-French border.\n\nProf Ben Allanach, from Cambridge University, who was not involved with the latest effort, said: \"My Spidey sense is tingling and telling me that this is going to be real.\n\n\"I have been looking all my career for forces and particles beyond what we know already, and this is it. This is the moment that I have been waiting for and I'm not getting a lot of sleep because I'm too excited.\"\n\nThe experiment, based at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, Illinois, searches for signs of new phenomena in physics by studying the behaviour of sub-atomic particles called muons.\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 (fundamental particles).\n\nThe muon is one of these fundamental particles; it's similar to the electron, but more than 200 times heavier.\n\nThe Muon g-2 experiment involves sending the particles around a 14-metre ring and then applying a magnetic field. Under the current laws of physics, encoded in the Standard Model, this should make the muons wobble at a certain rate.\n\nInstead, the scientists found that muons wobbled at a faster rate than expected. This might be caused by a force of nature that's completely new to science.\n\nBased on a 2,700-hectare site near Chicago, Fermilab is America's premier particle physics lab\n\nNo one yet knows what this potential new force does, other than influence muon particles.\n\nTheoretical physicists believe that it might also be associated with an as-yet undiscovered sub-atomic particle. There is more than one concept for what this hypothetical particle might be. One is called a leptoquark, another is the Z' boson (Z-prime boson).\n\nLast month, physicists working at the LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider described results that could point to a new particle and force.\n\nDr Mitesh Patel, from Imperial College London, who was involved with that project, said: \"The race is really on now to try and get one of these experiments to really get the proof that this really is something new. That will take more data and more measurements and hopefully show evidence that these effects are real.\"\n\nProf Allanach has given the possible fifth force various names in his theoretical models. Among them are the \"flavour force\", the \"third family hyperforce\" and - most prosaic of all - \"B minus L2\".\n\nThere are many puzzles about the Universe that we can't currently explain\n\nIn addition to the more familiar forces of gravity and electromagnetism (which is responsible for electricity and magnetism), the strong and weak forces govern the behaviour of sub-atomic particles.\n\nA fifth fundamental force might help explain some of the big puzzles about the Universe that have exercised scientists in recent decades.\n\nFor example, the observation that the expansion of the Universe was speeding up was attributed to a mysterious phenomenon known as dark energy. But some researchers have previously suggested it could be evidence of a fifth force.\n\nDr Maggie Aderin-Pocock, co-presenter of the BBC's Sky at Night programme, told BBC News: \"It is quite mind boggling. It has the potential to turn physics on its head. We have a number of mysteries that remain unsolved. And this could give us the key answers to solve these mysteries.\"", "\"I never realised how much I wanted to live until I thought I was going to die,\" said Tracey Emin\n\nArtist Tracey Emin has said her cancer has \"gone\" after a series of major surgeries.\n\nThe 57-year-old told BBC Newsnight she reached a \"big, big milestone\" last week when her three-monthly scans were \"all clear\".\n\nEmin was diagnosed with a \"really rapid, really aggressive\" bladder cancer last year.\n\n\"I'm not painting because I'm using my willpower to stay alive. That's what I'm doing,\" she told the programme.\n\nBut she said that over the coming years she hoped to put her energy back into painting, as well as \"being happy, smiling more, just enjoying life\".\n\n\"I never realised how much I wanted to live until I thought I was going to die,\" she said.\n\nEmin, who is known for her frank, confessional art, said she had her bladder removed, a full hysterectomy, her urethra removed, her lymph nodes removed, \"half of my vagina removed\", and part of her intestine removed to stop the spread of the cancer.\n\nShe now has a urostomy bag, which replaces the bladder and urinary system. It is a \"major disability\" because it needs to be emptied as frequently as every 20 minutes, she said.\n\n\"You never know when it's going to happen,\" she said.\n\nThe extensive surgery meant her bladder cancer \"couldn't actually latch on to anything else\". Following the clear three-monthly scan, she will now move to annual scans, she said.\n\nBest known for such installations as her unmade bed and the tent Everyone I Have Ever Slept With, Emin was speaking ahead of the re-opening of a joint exhibition of her work with paintings by Edvard Munch on 18 May, which had been closed by England's lockdown this winter.\n\nThe Margate-based artist said when she began working on the Royal Academy of Arts exhibition four years ago she had \"no idea that there was a possibility that I was never going to see this show\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tracey Emin: \"People would have come to this show and I would have been dead. It would have been so Tracey.\"\n\nEmin said she resisted suggestions to cancel the show before the lockdown because \"if something happens to me, what else have I got? I've just got to do this\".\n\nThe government made a \"big mistake\" in categorising museums and galleries alongside nightclubs when it comes to reopening, she said, describing the decision as \"absolutely ridiculous\".\n\n\"I think it's because the majority of the government at the moment have never probably been to museums or art galleries,\" she said.\n\n\"If they had and if they knew and if they knew the soulful benefits of looking at art, they would have kept them open or found some system to make it work.\"\n\nThe full interview with Tracey Emin will be shown on Newsnight on Friday 9 April from 22:45 GMT and afterwards on BBC iPlayer.", "Navalny, seen here in February, started a hunger strike to demand proper medical treatment\n\nThe health of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny is deteriorating and he is beginning to lose sensation in his legs and hands, his lawyer says.\n\nVadim Kobzev said Navalny, who has been sent to a penal colony for two and a half years, had been diagnosed with two spinal hernias.\n\nLast week, Navalny started a hunger strike to demand proper treatment for acute back and leg pain.\n\nThe White House said reports that his health was worsening were disturbing.\n\nMr Kobzev, who visited Navalny on Wednesday, said on Twitter (in Russian): \"Alexei is walking himself. He feels pain while walking. It is very concerning that the illness is clearly progressing in terms of losing sensation in his legs, palms and wrists.\"\n\nEarlier this week, Navalny, 44, was moved to a sick ward in the prison in the town of Pokrov with symptoms of a respiratory illness. He had complained of a persistent cough and temperature.\n\nHis temperature was oscillating and had fallen to 37C (98.6F) on Wednesday after reaching 39C (102F) on Monday, according to the lawyer, who said Navalny was losing 1kg (2lbs) a day due to a hunger strike.\n\nIn an Instagram post, Navalny said prison authorities were trying to undermine his hunger strike by roasting chicken near him and placing sweets in the pockets of his clothes.\n\nAlso on Wednesday, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said the Biden administration considered Navalny's imprisonment \"politically motivated and a gross injustice\" and called for his immediate release.\n\nEarlier, human rights group Amnesty International said Navalny had been incarcerated in conditions that amount to torture and may slowly be killing him. Campaigners say the prison is known for its especially harsh conditions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alexei Navalny: What you need to know\n\nNavalny's lawyers, who have been visiting him in custody, say there are no doctors at the colony and the medical unit on-site is run by a single paramedic.\n\nLast week, Russia's prison service denied Navalny's allegations that he was not receiving proper treatment, saying he had been given \"all the necessary medical assistance in accordance with his medical indications\".\n\nOn Monday, he said as many as three people from his unit had been taken to hospital with tuberculosis recently, a claim the Russian prison service denied.\n\nNavalny was given a suspended sentence for embezzlement in 2014, a conviction widely seen as politically motivated.\n\nHe was airlifted to Germany for treatment after he was poisoned in Siberia with a Novichok nerve agent. When he returned in January he was immediately taken into custody and a court jailed him for defying the probation terms of the suspended sentence while he was being treated in Germany.", "Boris Johnson has paid tribute to former Conservative MP Peter Ainsworth who has died aged 64.\n\nMr Ainsworth was MP for East Surrey from 1992 to 2010 and served in the shadow cabinet.\n\nMr Johnson said he was \"a delightful colleague and passionate about his causes especially the environment\".\n\nThe PM also recalled sharing a corridor with him in Parliament and said the pair often found themselves \"charging late\" for votes.\n\n\"He has been taken far too young,\" Mr Johnson added and said his thoughts were with Mr Ainsworth's widow Claire and his family.\n\nBefore becoming an MP, Mr Ainsworth worked as an investment analyst and banker.\n\nHe was a long-term supporter of the Conservatives, having joined the party as a schoolboy and in the 1980s he became a Tory councillor in Wandsworth.\n\nIn 1992, he won the East Surrey constituency and three years later was named 'Country Parliamentarian of the Year\" by Country Life for his opposition to enlarging the M25 and for trying to preserve hedgerows.\n\nDuring his time in the House of Commons, Mr Ainsworth held a series of senior frontbench roles, including shadow culture secretary and shadow environment secretary.\n\nFormer Prime Minister David Cameron described him as \"a key driver of our modernising agenda in opposition, particularly our environmental policy\".\n\n\"It was an honour to have him in my shadow cabinet - he was also such a kind, generous and thoroughly decent man and will be greatly missed,\" added the former PM.\n\nMr Ainsworth also served under ex-Conservative leader William Hague who described him as a \"most thoughtful, considerate and conscientious man\".\n\nCommons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle said Mr Ainsworth was \"without doubt a genuinely lovely guy, who was well-liked across the House\".\n\n'Like so many people we enjoy being around, he was taken too soon. My thoughts and prayers go out to his family.\"\n\nMr Ainsworth went on to be chairman of the Big Lottery Fund, which distributes cash to good causes, after leaving politics.\n\nHe also served as chairman of trustees at the Churches Conservation Trust and the Heritage Alliance.\n\nBoth organisations said Mr Ainsworth had been \"a passionate advocate for heritage\" who would be \"greatly missed\".", "The palace boasts the largest private garden in London, according to the RCT\n\nVisitors to Buckingham Palace will be allowed to wander around its gardens unguided for the first time, the Royal Collection Trust (RCT) has said.\n\nThe traditional summer opening of the palace's state rooms, which normally attracts thousands, has been cancelled for a second year due to the pandemic.\n\nDemand for garden visit tickets - priced at £16.50 for adults and £9 for children - is so high that customers must enter an online queuing system.\n\nThe RCT said it was \"overwhelmed\".\n\nThousands of people have been queuing online for tickets with a wait time \"of more than an hour\".\n\nThe visits, which will take place between July to September, will give the paying public the chance to explore the Queen's private 39-acre grounds, as well as picnicking on the lawn.\n\nGuided tours of the garden will also be available this spring\n\nThe grounds were originally landscaped by Capability Brown, but the current landscape dates back to the 1820s when George IV turned Buckingham House into a palace.\n\nToday, the land is home to a rich and biodiverse habitat, with more than 1,000 trees and 320 different wildflowers and grasses.\n\nSince 2000, the grounds have also housed the National Collection of Mulberries.\n\nVisitors will be able to see the plane trees planted by and named after Queen Victoria and Prince Albert\n\nVisitors will be able to explore a 156-metre long herbaceous route through the garden and view the plane trees planted by and named after Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.\n\nBarbecues, ball games and alcohol will be forbidden though.\n\nAn RCT spokeswoman said: \"The traditional opening of the State Rooms at Buckingham Palace will not take place this year.\n\n\"We anticipate that social distancing will still be in place this summer and that visitor numbers to London will be low for some time yet due to the uncertainty around domestic and international travel.\n\n\"The costs incurred opening the palace to the public in the usual way would be far greater than the visitor admissions and retail income that we could expect.\n\n\"However, we are delighted to offer unique access to the Buckingham Palace garden this year as an alternative.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Duke of Cambridge has urged banks to \"invest in nature\" to help fight global climate change.\n\nSpeaking at an IMF and World Bank meeting, Prince William said protecting nature continued to play only a small part in combating global warming.\n\nHe said investing in reforestation and sustainable agriculture were \"cost effective\" ways of tackling the issue.\n\nBanks have come under increasing pressure to step up efforts to help fight climate change.\n\nJust this week, Barclays' London headquarters was the target of a protest staged by climate activist group Extinction Rebellion. Members held placards and broke several windows as they called on the bank to stop financing fossil fuel companies.\n\nAddressing central bankers and finance ministers at the spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank, the duke said the world's natural habitats continue to decline at an \"alarming rate\".\n\n\"We cannot recover sustainably from coronavirus, eradicate global poverty, achieve net-zero emissions, or adapt to climate change, without investing in nature,\" he said.\n\nThe duke said investing in nature accounted for only a \"fraction of the money that is spent on the fight against climate change\".\n\n\"We must invest in nature, through reforestation, sustainable agriculture and supporting healthy oceans… because doing so is one of the most cost effective and impactful ways of tackling climate change.\n\n\"It removes carbon from the atmosphere, helps build more resilient communities, tackles biodiversity loss and protects people's livelihoods.\"\n\nThe spring meetings of the IMF and World Bank are taking place virtually this week bringing together central banks, policymakers and business leaders to discuss the state of the world's economy.\n\nA key focus of the discussions will also centre on climate risks and building a sustainable economic recovery post Covid.\n\nThe duke said: \"All of you here at the World Bank and across each of the multilateral development banks have that crucial part to play by supporting a green, inclusive and resilient recovery from the pandemic, by valuing nature and putting it at the heart of your work, and by increasing investment in a future where the natural world can thrive.\"\n\nThe decisions taken at the next UN climate change summit in Glasgow later this year will be a \"vital step\" in putting nature centre stage, the duke added.\n\nThe duke has become a vocal campaigner on environmental issues. He launched a competition to try to inspire people to solve \"some of the world's greatest environmental challenges\".\n\nThe Earthshot Prize will recognise ideas and technologies that can safeguard the planet offering five prizes of £1m to support environmental and conservation projects.\n\nBarclays' London headquarters was the target of a protest staged by Extinction Rebellion this week\n\nThe duke's comments come amid growing pressure from shareholders on banks to take a tougher stance on climate change.\n\nHSBC announced last month it would stop financing coal projects across the EU by 2030, and all other markets by 2040, following pressure from a coalition of investment firms.\n\nShareholders at Barclays are set to table a resolution at the bank's upcoming annual general meeting calling on the bank to phase out financing for coal, oil and gas companies.\n\nMeanwhile a group of central banks are reviewing ways to use monetary policy to tackle climate change.\n\nOptions include greener asset purchases and lending schemes, according to report by the Network for Greening the Financial System.", "The man died in his flat in Oslo in 2011, police say\n\nPolice in Norway have asked how a man's body could have lain in his flat for nine years after he is believed to have died.\n\nThe man had been in his 60s and no-one reported him missing, police told Norwegian broadcaster NRK.\n\nPolice found the body in December last year in an apartment block in the capital, Oslo.\n\nAccording to NRK, the body was found when a caretaker needed to enter the apartment for maintenance work.\n\nPolice say milk cartons and letters in the home suggested that the man had died in April 2011.\n\nOslo police inspector Grete Lien Metlid told NRK: \"We have thought a lot about it, my colleagues and people who have worked with this for many years.\n\n\"This is a special case, and it makes us ask questions about how it could happen.\"\n\nAn autopsy showed the man had died from natural causes.\n\nThe Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration (NAV) stopped sending his pension in 2018 when they could not contact him, the report says.\n\nNot much is known about the man, but according to NRK he had been married a number of times and had children.\n\n\"Based on the picture we have, it is obviously a person who has chosen to have little contact with others,\" Ms Lien Metlid told NRK.\n\nHe was not interested in talking to anyone, according to one neighbour.\n\nSome in Norway say the case also highlights how technology is changing society.\n\n\"All his expenses were paid automatically from his bank account, everything was automatic,\" said Prof Arne Krokan at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.\n\n\"That's something that would not have happened in the past. So if something strange happens, it's possible nobody will notice.\"", "The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has backed the Czech Republic in its requirement for mandatory pre-school vaccinations.\n\nThe case was brought by families who were fined or whose children were refused entry to pre-schools because they had not been vaccinated.\n\nIn a landmark ruling, the court found that while the Czech policy interfered with the right to a private life, there was a need to protect public health.\n\nAll the cases pre-date the pandemic.\n\nHowever, the issue of routine childhood vaccinations has come under increasing scrutiny due to the spread of Covid-19.\n\nThis is the first ruling from the ECHR on compulsory vaccination against childhood diseases.\n\nThe judges backed the Czech legislation by 16 to 1.\n\n\"The... measures could be regarded as being 'necessary in a democratic society'\" the court said, adding: \"The objective has to be that every child is protected against serious diseases, through vaccination or by virtue of herd immunity.\"\n\nUnder the Czech rules, parents are legally obliged to vaccinate their children against a number of childhood diseases unless this is not possible for health reasons.\n\nHowever, the jabs cannot be forcibly given and unvaccinated children cannot be excluded on this basis once they reach primary school age.\n\nIn one of the five cases involving pre-school exclusions, a family refused to allow their daughter to received the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) jab.\n\nThe child joined the school in 2006 but her place was withdrawn two years later when the family doctor informed the headteacher that the child had not received the vaccination. A Czech court later backed the school's decision on the grounds that allowing the child to continue to go to the pre-school could endanger others.\n\nOther parents had been refused pre-school places, while one father was fined for failing to fully vaccinate his children.\n\nThe Czech Republic is not the only EU country with mandatory childhood vaccinations.\n\nLast year, a law came into effect in Germany requiring all parents to vaccinate their children against measles or face a fine of up to €2,500 ($3,000; £2,160).\n\nFrance and Italy have also changed their vaccine rules following a measles outbreak in recent years, while similar suggestions were made in England amid falling uptake of the MMR jab in England in 2018-19.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. From the pandemic to measles, Smitha Mundasad looks at global health challenges in 2021", "Petrol bombs, fireworks and stones have been thrown at police during another night of violence in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt follows rioting on Wednesday night which police said was on a scale not seen in Northern Ireland in years.\n\nCrowds rioted on both sides of an interface between loyalist and nationalist areas in west Belfast.\n\nPolice deployed water cannon in a bid to stop the violence - the first time in six years they have done so in a riot situation.\n\nThey urged people to avoid the Springfield Road area of the city.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson and Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin have spoken over the phone and called for a calming of tensions.\n\nThe US has also appealed for calm, with the White House saying it was concerned by the violence.\n\nStones and fireworks were among the objects thrown\n\nPolice had warned people to \"disperse immediately or the water cannon will be used\"\n\nNorthern Ireland Justice Minister Naomi Long said it was \"utterly reckless and depressing to see more violence at interface areas\" on Thursday night.\n\n\"Violence achieves nothing. It brings fear and worry to the doors of local residents who deserve so much better. This needs to stop,\" she said.\n\nIn a tweet, the Alliance Party leader said that the violence \"needs to stop before lives are lost\".\n\n\"My heart goes out to those living in the area who are living with this fear and disturbance,\" added Mrs Long.\n\nThe Green Party has called for a special meeting of Belfast City Council to discuss \"the serious violence which has occurred in our city over recent days\".\n\nMeanwhile, Ulster Unionist Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) Doug Beattie said that \"the sad thing is that we will all just become immune to this disgraceful, shameful behaviour\".\n\nHe added that \"the momentum will be hard to stop if we don't stop it now\".\n\nA heavy police presence was in operation on Thursday night\n\nColum Eastwood MP, leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), said: \"This needs to stop now. There is absolutely no justification for destroying your community. Violence has never solved anything. Go home.\"\n\nEarlier, Mary Lou McDonald, president of Sinn Féin, urged young people \"to please leave the area and for parents to contact their children\".\n\n\"There can be no repeat of last night's event, the people of our community deserve better.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kelly Bonner This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDuring several hours of violence on Wednesday night, police officers were attacked, petrol bombs were thrown and a bus was burnt.\n\nIn recent days, more than 50 police officers have been injured.\n\nOn Thursday an emergency meeting of the Northern Ireland Assembly was held to discuss the ongoing disorder.\n\nNorthern Ireland's executive has said it is \"united behind law and order\" after consecutive nights of \"deplorable\" violence.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Maria McCann This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn Thursday evening, a spokesperson for US President Joe Biden called for calm.\n\n\"We are concerned by the violence in Northern Ireland and we join the British, Irish and Northern Irish leaders in their calls for calm,\" said press secretary Jen Psaki.\n\n\"We remain steadfast supporters of a secure and prosperous Northern Ireland in which all communities have a voice and enjoy the gains of the hard-won peace.\n\n\"We welcome the provisions in both the EU and UK trade and co-operation agreement and the Northern Ireland Protocol which helped protect the gains of the Belfast, Good Friday Agreement.\"\n\nPetrol bombs and police officers attacked in west Belfast on Wednesday night\n\nEarlier, Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Micheál Martin confirmed that he had spoken with Prime Minister Boris Johnson about the ongoing violence.\n\n\"The way forward is through dialogue and working the institutions of the Good Friday Agreement,\" Mr Martin said in a statement.\n\nDid you witness the violence? Do you live in the area? 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.", "NI Secretary Brandon Lewis has denied that the UK government has abandoned unionists through the new Brexit arrangements.\n\nHe was responding to concerns raised by loyalist community workers who said the new Irish Sea border created by the Northern Ireland protocol had left unionists feeling disconnected from the rest of the UK.\n\nIt followed a night of rioting on Thursday at an interface in Belfast during which police were pelted with petrol bombs.\n\nMr Lewis returned to Northern Ireland today to speak to political leaders and the police.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC he denied the government had played a part in the unrest.\n\n“We recognise the issues around identity and are working to make sure UK citizens in Northern Ireland have the same experience as UK citizens living in Great Britain,\" he said.\n\nHe added that the government was working with the EU to address concerns raised over the protocol.\n\nHe insisted there were a range of “complicated” issues which had been flagged up including criminal gangs, which according to the PSNI were behind much of the trouble in Northern Ireland this week.\n\n“Whatever the concerns, violence is not the answer,” he said\n\nHe also welcomed the cross party condemnation of lasts night violence through a joint statement issued by the Northern Ireland Executive.", "Richard Okorogheye, who has sickle cell disease, left home without his medication\n\nA body found in a pond in Essex has been confirmed as London student Richard Okorogheye.\n\nThe 19-year-old, who had sickle cell disease, had not been seen by his family since 22 March when he left their home in Ladbroke Grove.\n\nOfficers searching for the Oxford Brookes student found a body in a pond in Epping Forest on Monday evening.\n\nPolice said Mr Okorogheye's family had been informed and were being supported by specially trained officers.\n\nMr Okorogheye's death is being treated as unexplained. Police do not believe anyone else was involved.\n\nA post-mortem found no evidence of physical trauma or assault.\n\nThe cause of death is pending whilst further investigations are carried out.\n\nSpecialist police divers were previously seen searching a body of water in the Epping Forest area\n\nDet Supt Danny Gosling said: \"My deepest sympathies go out to Richard's family at this incredibly difficult time.\n\n\"This was not the outcome that any of us had hoped for.\n\n\"I would like to extend my thanks to the many officers, staff and members of the public who have each played a part in the extensive effort to locate Richard.\"\n\nCCTV images show Mr Okorogheye at about 00:30 GMT on 23 March walking alone on Smarts Lane, Loughton, towards Epping Forest\n\nAfter leaving his family home on 22 March, police said he took a taxi to a residential street in Loughton, Essex, where he was last seen on CCTV in the early hours of the following day, walking towards Epping Forest.\n\nHe did not take his medication or any money when he left home.\n\nMr Okorogheye's mother, Evidence Joel, previously said her son had been \"struggling to cope\" with his business and IT degree.\n\nAs someone with sickle cell disease, Mr Okorogheye would only leave the house to go to hospital for regular blood transfusions for his condition, his family explained.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The gates of one of Belfast's so-called peace walls were prised open before being set alight\n\nRioting in Belfast on Wednesday night was on a scale not seen in Northern Ireland for years, police have said.\n\nDuring several hours of violence, police officers were attacked, petrol bombs were thrown and a bus was burnt.\n\nEight officers were injured at an interface between loyalist and nationalist areas in west Belfast.\n\nSenior police sources now say there was no evidence of UVF organisational involvement in last night's trouble in west Belfast.\n\nEarlier the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) had suspected that individuals within the paramilitary group had encouraged some of the trouble.\n\nHowever, following the progress of an investigation, police are now satisfied the group and its leadership was not involved.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police officers were attacked, petrol bombs were thrown and a bus was burnt during rioting in Belfast\n\nNorthern Ireland's power-sharing executive said it was \"gravely concerned\" by recent street violence and has called for calm to be restored.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has also condemned the disorder.\n\nDisorder on previous occasions - in south Belfast, Newtownabbey and Londonderry - has been connected to the Ulster Defence Association (UDA).\n\nMore than 50 officers have been hurt in violence in several areas since the end of last month\n\nEarlier, PSNI Assistant Chief Constable Jonathan Roberts said it was likely that paramilitary organisations were involved and had planned the rioting on Wednesday night.\n\n\"Last night was at a scale we haven't seen in Belfast or further afield in Northern Ireland for a number of years,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Youths attacked a bus which had been hijacked\n\n\"We are very, very lucky no-one was seriously injured or killed last night given in particular the large number of petrol bombs thrown.\"\n\nPolice officers were called in from other parts of Northern Ireland to help to deal with the rioting.\n\nMore than 50 officers have been hurt in violence in several areas since the end of last month.\n\nThe bus driver whose double-decker was attacked and burned is \"very shaken by the incident but is physically unhurt\", according to the public transport provider Translink.\n\nThe PSNI is concerned at the potential for further trouble in the days ahead.\n\nAccording to police, Wednesday night's trouble involved \"equally large numbers on both sides\" of the peaceline at Lanark Way.\n\nIt is believed the PSNI will be paying close attention to interface areas and the risk of further clashes between communities.\n\nThe activities of dissident Republicans are monitored as routine and the police are wary of any attempt to escalate the situation.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Jonathan Roberts was asked at a press conference if he feared weapons could come on to the streets.\n\n\"Given the history of Northern Ireland, it is something always in the back of our minds,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMeanwhile, a group linked to the south Belfast UDA has issued a statement urging calm.\n\n\"The way forward must be through politics alone,\" the message from the Ulster Political Research Group read.\n\n\"Rioting, street disturbances and the destruction of property will not change what must be solved by our political representatives.\"\n\nIt cited the Irish Sea border and policing as the main problems.\n\nThe group is associated with the Jackie McDonald, the man widely regarded as the UDA leader in south Belfast.\n\nThe Loyalist Communities Council, an umbrella body which includes representatives of the UDA and UVF, was due to meet on Thursday.\n\nIt has not issued any public statements since it published a letter it sent to Boris Johnson in March warning of the danger created by the Irish Sea Border.\n\nSome unionists have linked the violence in recent days to the decision by the Public Prosecution Service (PPS) not to prosecute anyone who attended the funeral of former IRA man Bobby Storey in June 2020.\n\nIt was attended by 2,000 mourners - including Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill - at a time when Covid-19 restrictions were in place.\n\nThey have also linked it to simmering loyalist tensions over the Irish Sea border imposed as a result of the UK-EU Brexit deal.\n\nIn recent days 10 people have been arrested as a result of rioting by gangs of people, some as young as 13.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"The way to resolve differences is through dialogue, not violence or criminality.\"\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, the White House said it was \"concerned by the violence in Northern Ireland\" and joined other leaders in their \"steadfast\" support of \"a secure and prosperous Northern Ireland in which all communities have a voice and enjoy the gains of the hard won peace peace\".\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis travelled to Belfast on Thursday to meet political parties.\n\nMr Lewis said he was aware of unionist concerns in recent months and he had been \"engaging and listening\" them.\n\nHe denied that the UK government has abandoned unionists through the new Brexit arrangements.\n\nLabour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer said the violence was \"completely unacceptable\" and he called on Mr Johnson to \"step up\" and \"show leadership\".\n\nThe disorder at the Shankill and Springfield Road areas lasted for several hours\n\nTaoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Micheál Martin wrote on social media: \"Now is the time for the two governments and leaders on all sides to work together to defuse tensions and restore calm.\"\n\nThe taoiseach and prime minister spoke on Thursday afternoon.\n\nIrish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney told BBC News NI that political leaders need to come together to make a \"clear and strong statement that violence is not the answer\".\n\n\"This is a time for unity in the face of violence and concern across Northern Ireland in terms of what's been happening,\" he said.\n\nAll of the main political parties in Northern Ireland have criticised the disorder but they are divided over its causes.\n\nHowever, after an emergency meeting of the Northern Ireland Executive, a joint statement was issued from ministers, saying they were \"gravely concerned\" by the recent disorder.\n\n\"Attacks on police officers, public services and communities are deplorable and they must stop,\" they said.\n\nA bus was hijacked and left to freewheel along a road before it was set on fire\n\n\"Destruction, violence and the threat of violence are completely unacceptable and unjustifiable, no matter what concerns may exist in communities.\n\n\"Those who would seek to use and abuse our children and young people to carry out these attacks have no place in our society.\"\n\nThe violence has been brought on by a combination of factors.\n\nNorthern Ireland politics and bigger events like Brexit are all in play here but there is no single straightforward reason.\n\nThere is a lot of fury over the attendance of Sinn Féin politicians at a funeral of a former IRA leader last summer which appeared to blatantly flout Covid-19 rules.\n\nSinn Féin's most senior politicians, among long lines of former IRA members, walked through the streets behind a cortege at a time when many people missed attending funerals for their own loved ones.\n\n\"Republicans do what they like and get away with it\" has broadly become one of the narratives being used to justify trouble against the police.\n\nHowever there were also loyalist funerals which broke rules during the pandemic.\n\nBrexit has been creating tension in loyalist communities for months, with the growing realisation over just how differently Northern Ireland is now being treated from the rest of the UK.\n\nSigns of anger over the new Irish Sea trade border are plastered on walls and lampposts in unionist and loyalist areas.\n\nLoyalists have been angered by the post-Brexit arrangements for Northern Ireland\n\nIn these areas it feels that Boris Johnson has betrayed Northern Ireland and there is a backlash.\n\nBut that isn't all - there are much more localised issues too.\n\nLoyalist paramilitaries have been subject to a series of raids and arrests for their criminal activities and police believe in some areas these are the figures in the background helping to encourage trouble.\n\nUnionist political leaders - including Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader and First Minister Arlene Foster - have said PSNI Chief Constable Simon Byrne should resign over the force's handling of the funeral of senior republican Bobby Storey in June 2020.\n\nLast week a decision was made not to prosecute senior Sinn Féin members who attended the funeral.\n\nMrs Foster tweeted on Thursday morning that she had spoken to Mr Byrne in the wake of the violence, as did Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald.\n\nThe first minister had faced criticism for not speaking to the chief constable after the violence on previous days.\n\nMr Byrne briefed both the Stormont executive and individual parties.\n\nSinn Féin, the SDLP, and the Alliance Party have accused unionist politicians of ramping up rhetoric in recent days by calling for Mr Byrne to stand down.\n\nCouncil workers cleared the debris from the peace wall gates on Thursday morning\n\nMark Lindsay, the chairman of the Police Federation, which represents rank and file officers, said removing the chief constable \"in the middle of a crisis\" would not be helpful, although he said there were \"serious issues that need to be addressed\".\n\nOn Thursday the Northern Ireland Assembly was recalled for politicians to consider a motion calling for an \"immediate and complete end\" to violence in loyalist areas.\n\nMrs Foster said the violent scenes were unacceptable, and Northern Ireland is \"faced with a number of deep and significant political challenges in the time ahead, and collectively we must work through those challenges\".\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill of Sinn Féin said the violence in Belfast on Wednesday night was a \"dangerous escalation\" of events.\n\nBus drivers hold a protest at Belfast City Hall in support for a colleague whose bus was burnt\n\nMeanwhile, Education Minister Peter Weir has confirmed the further reopening of some youth services in response to the violence.\n\nMr Weir said it would apply in areas of \"heightened community tensions\".\n\nDid you witness the violence? Do you live in the area? 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.", "Covid-19 has caused longterm lung damage in many patients (file image from the Jacques Cartier hospital in France)\n\nA woman in Japan has become the world's first Covid patient to receive a living donor lung transplant.\n\nThe patient received lung segments from her son and husband after her organs failed because of damage caused by the coronavirus.\n\nDoctors in Kyoto hope she will make a complete recovery within months.\n\nWaiting lists for full lung transplants - where the organ is provided by donors who have died - are very long in Japan and elsewhere.\n\nThe procedure at Kyoto University Hospital took around 11 hours to perform. Both donors and patient are in a stable condition, doctors said.\n\nDozens of lung transplants to treat coronavirus infections have been carried out in China, Europe and the United States by using the lungs of organ donors who have passed away, but the waiting list can be years-long in Japan, the hospital said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Radiologist Dr Sam Hare uses a plastic cup to demonstrate how Covid-19 can leave lung damage\n\nWhen it became clear that the patient - who had no underlying health conditions - would need a lung transplant in order to survive, her son and husband decided to donate part of their lungs. They were warned of health risks due to decreased lung capacity.\n\nProfessor Hiroshi Date, a thoracic surgeon who was in charge of the operation, told Kyodo News: \"I think there is a lot of hope for this treatment in the sense that it creates a new option.\"", "Susan Lowe says she struggled to get pain relief medication for her mother, Sheila (pictured)\n\nUnpaid carers looking after terminally ill friends and relatives during the pandemic struggled to access pain relief, with some patients dying in unnecessary pain, a survey has found.\n\nThe survey of 995 unpaid carers by Marie Curie also found people had difficulties getting personal care and respite nursing for loved ones.\n\nFigures show the number of people dying at home rose by 42% in the past year.\n\nThe government said it had taken action to support unpaid carers.\n\nNearly two-thirds of carers surveyed by the charity said their loved one did not get all the pain relief they needed when they were dying.\n\nSusan Lowe, from Solihull, cared for her mother Sheila before she died with bowel cancer in April last year, aged 74.\n\nShe said caring for her mum during lockdown was hard as \"the system was just under so much pressure that we had to manage largely on our own\".\n\nThe public health worker says she struggled to get the right pain relief medication for her mother in her final weeks and spent hours travelling to different chemists.\n\nSusan, 50, told the BBC: \"My biggest regret is that my mum died in pain - more pain than she needed to be. She really wanted to be comfortable at the end. She knew she was dying.\n\n\"What she really wanted - and this is what she was assured would happen - was to be comfortable. She was told she would get the drugs that she needed for it to be as bearable as possible.\n\n\"I remember breaking down in tears a couple of times in the pharmacy when I was told the medication mum needed wasn't in stock.\"\n\nMichele Chilvers, looked after her wife Terri, 49, who had been diagnosed with incurable bowel cancer. The 53-year-old, from Hull, struggled to get access to respite care due to support nursing staff being furloughed.\n\nShe said: \"I was sleeping on the sofa for the last 10 days. Terri was very restless and very noisy and quite agitated so I didn't get much sleep. When I asked if I could have a night sitter, I was told they were going to try and get me one but this was difficult because by this point, we were in lockdown.\n\n\"They eventually got me two nights. And on the second night when the sitter arrived, I had to tell her Terri had died five minutes earlier. It was really lonely, and really hard.\"\n\nAlthough she struggled to get enough respite care, Ms Chilvers, who works in a school as a head of year, stressed that she \"could not fault\" the nursing staff who treated her wife.\n\nHospices also experienced shortages of essential PPE, medicines, equipment and staff, separate research compiled by Marie Curie, the University of Cambridge, University of Hull and Kings College London says.\n\nIt adds that palliative care was not classified as \"frontline NHS\" in the pandemic and as such it has been compromised.\n\nMarie Curie said that the past year has been a stress test for community-based palliative care in homes.\n\n\"Many people will not be able to forget the deaths we have experienced this last year and it is vital that the government, local health and social care leaders, and providers learn vital lessons from the pandemic,\" its chief executive, Matthew Reed, said.\n\n\"It's heartbreaking to see that people dying at home and their carers struggled behind closed doors.\n\n\"The government must now ensure that end of life care is seen as essential and not a forgotten after-thought ... no-one should be allowed to die in pain and without the essential care they need.\"\n\nThe charity is calling for the government to sustainably fund end-of-life care, with a particular emphasis on ensuring people dying at home always receive the support they need.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics figures showed the number of those dying in their own homes rose by 42% in England, Scotland and Wales in the year to March 2021.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: \"Unpaid carers continue to perform an incredibly important role and throughout the pandemic we have taken action to support them.\n\n\"This includes funding through a number of charities, tailored guidance, and ongoing work to help carers access the support they need, with many prioritised for vaccination.\"", "The pig has been named Milton by Ms Allan's children\n\nA pig destined for the slaughterhouse is looking forward to a long life after a dramatic escape.\n\nSmallholder Sarah Allan, from Langtree in north Devon, had been driving three pigs to an abattoir 11 miles (18km) away in Holsworthy.\n\nBut when she arrived she was astonished to find that one of the animals had jumped out of the trailer. It was later found in a field in Milton Damerel.\n\nMs Allan said: \"I don't think I have it in me to send him back.\"\n\nMilton was spotted wandering in a field after escaping the trailer\n\nThe pig, now named Milton by her children, made its leap for freedom on Monday from a trailer with a high back.\n\nMs Allan thinks it could have only succeeded in its bid by launching itself from another pig's back.\n\n\"We got to the abattoir and my husband checked the trailer and said, 'We are missing a pig'.\n\n\"There were only two pigs in the trailer, I could not believe it.\n\n\"We had been driving very slowly and we had not seen or felt a thing.\"\n\nSarah Allan said she admired \"his determination to survive\"\n\nHer immediate concern was the pig may have caused an accident so they made calls to neighbours and friends, police and vets.\n\nThe pig was later found in a field at Milton Damerel as they returned from the abattoir.\n\nMs Allan said the pig was now back home where he would stay\n\nAnd it is now back where it started, with little chance of leaving.\n\n\"He doesn't like trailers anyway, he hates going in them,\" said Ms Allan.\n\n\"He even tried to get out again on the way home.\n\n\"And I really admire his determination to survive.\n\n\"He's back, and that's where he's going to stay.\"\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.", "Naana Aisha Issaka had struggled to source funding via the usual routes\n\nA woman has raised nearly £40,000 to pay for her nursing training after making a tearful plea on social media.\n\nNaana Aisha Issaka, a support worker from Nottingham, set up a fundraising page in August after applications for financial support were rejected.\n\nAfter her Instagram video went viral last week, she has been inundated with donations.\n\nModel and actress Cara Delevingne was among those who donated money to the appeal.\n\nThe fundraiser has now received more than 2,600 contributions, sending it sailing past its target amount of £38,750.\n\nThe 22-year-old said the cash would pay for tuition, accommodation and travel during the three-year course at De Montfort University in Leicester, which started in September.\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\nMs Issaka grew up in Ghana but has lived in the UK since she was 10.\n\nWhen she turned 18, her father's visa no longer supported her, so she was detained by the Home Office before being granted leave to remain.\n\nHer visa status meant applications for funding from Student Finance England and a private student loans company were both unsuccessful, while an attempt at receiving a university scholarship also failed.\n\nMs Issaka set up the fundraising page but it was her video that received hundreds of thousands of views and prompted the avalanche of donations.\n\nThe clip went viral after being shared by imjustbait, a meme page with millions of followers.\n\n\"I just took my phone and just expressed to people what was going on and how I was feeling,\" she said.\n\n\"I think from them seeing my emotion and seeing my passion, I think that's just basically what kicked everything off.\"\n\nCara Delevigne donated £2,000 to the appeal last week, writing on the fundraising page: \"You are a gift on this planet and I hope your dreams come true.\n\n\"Thank you for everything you do and will come to do in the future.\"\n\nMs Issaka said: \"I was just so shocked. She also posted it so I'm so grateful and thankful.\n\n\"The public has just basically changed my life.\"\n\nThe student said the success of her fundraiser highlighted the need to help aspiring healthcare workers who may not be able to access financial aid.\n\n\"It's not just me in this situation, there are so many students who are also wanting to do a healthcare-related degree, which obviously this country is screaming that they need, but are unable to do because of their circumstances,\" she said.\n\nMs Issaka is due to graduate in 2023\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.", "Gates at Lanark Way were shut by police but became the centre of violence on Wednesday\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has said he is \"deeply concerned\" about scenes of violence in Northern Ireland.\n\nPolice were attacked, petrol bombs thrown and a bus set on fire in another night of disorder in Belfast.\n\n\"The way to resolve differences is through dialogue, not violence or criminality,\" he said.\n\nThe disturbances took place on both sides of an interface in the loyalist Shankill and nationalist Springfield Road areas of the city on Wednesday.\n\nForty-one police officers were injured in disturbances in parts of Northern Ireland over the Easter period, involving children as young as 13.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe BBC's Ireland correspondent Emma Vardy said crowds of a few hundred on each side threw petrol bombs in both directions on Wednesday night.\n\nThe disruption took place close to where a number of loyalist protesters had earlier gathered.\n\nPolice confirmed a vehicle was set alight at the junction of Lanark Way and the Shankill Road in the west of the city.\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\nOur correspondent said the arrival of a line of police cars interrupted the attacks over the peace wall.\n\nBy 00:30 GMT, a few bottles were being thrown but things were calmer, said BBC correspondent Emma Vardy\n\nThe police and political parties have repeatedly called for calm\n\nPetrol bombs, fireworks and rocks were thrown over the peace wall\n\nNorthern Ireland's power-sharing Executive will meet on Thursday to be briefed about what Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill denounced as \"the violence and street disorder which is causing huge distress in local communities\".\n\n\"Those involved in violence, criminal damage, manipulation of our young people and attacks on the police must stop,\" said Sinn Féin's vice-president.\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\nPolice also confirmed they had received a report of an assault on a press photographer.\n\nThe Police Federation for Northern Ireland said the violence could \"set our society back years\".\n\nCalling for the ongoing street disorder to stop, PSNI Chief Constable Simon Byrne said he was \"open to dialogue with anyone who is willing to work with me to resolve the issues facing our community\".\n\nAddressing the rioters, he tweeted: \"Violence is not the answer.\"\n\nDrone footage shows the bus fire in the Shankill area\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster condemned what she called \"vandalism and attempted murder\" and said it did \"not represent unionism or loyalism\".\n\nShe said the actions \"only serve to take the focus off the real law breakers in Sinn Féin\", and her thoughts were with the driver of the hijacked bus.\n\nPolice Landrovers arrived to try to block off the Springfield Road to prevent more disorder at the Lanark Way interface\n\nJustice Minister Naomi Long of the Alliance Party said \"these are 'real law breakers', burning buses, terrorising passengers and attacking police.\n\n\"Let's focus on that and getting this stopped before someone loses their life.\"\n\nUlster Unionist leader Steve Aiken said the violence was \"unacceptable and unjustified\".\n\nA bus was set alight at the Lanark Way and Shankill Road junction\n\nTaoiseach (Irish PM) Micheál Martin tweeted that he \"utterly condemned\" the unrest, adding: \"Now is the time for the two governments and leaders on all sides to work together to defuse tensions and restore calm.\"\n\nIrish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney said the scenes were \"very disturbing\" and that \"attacks on police, journalists and citizens must be condemned by all\".\n\n\"There are peaceful, democratic and legal channels to address all issues and concerns. Calm and positive leadership needed from all,\" he said.\n\nThe attack on the press photographer, Kevin Scott from the Belfast Telegraph, took place on Cupar Way.\n\nMr Scott told BBC News NI: \"I cover everything as fairly and impartially as possible, working at both sides of the community covering both the positive and the not so positive,\" he said.\n\n\"I won't be deterred from covering stories that are important and note-worthy.\"\n\nSome damage was caused to the camera of Belfast Telegraph photo journalist Kevin Scott\n\nNI Infrastructure Minister Nichola Mallon said the hijacking and attack on a bus was \"sickening\".\n\n\"Those responsible for this and ongoing attacks on the PSNI need to stop,\" she tweeted.\n\nA number of Belfast services, including the Glider buses, have been suspended.\n\nA number of tyres were set on fire at Lanark Way\n\nIn total, 10 arrests have been made across Northern Ireland during disorder over the past week.\n\nThe Easter disturbances have been blamed on loyalist frustrations over a Public Prosecution Service decision not to prosecute people who attended the large-scale funeral of republican Bobby Storey in June 2020, as well as concerns about the NI Protocol in the Brexit deal.\n\nThe leaders of the Democratic Unionist Party, Ulster Unionist Party, Traditional Unionist Voice and Progressive Unionist Party have said the position of Chief Constable Simon Byrne is untenable over the PSNI's handling of the funeral.\n\nThat event was attended by a number of senior Sinn Féin politicians, including the deputy first minister.", "\"The Chalet\" at The Marlborough has been completed in the past year\n\nA \"livid\" pub landlord says he has spent £50,000 on a chalet for outside dining only to be told a week before opening it contravenes Covid-19 rules.\n\nJason Kalen, who runs The Marlborough in Wiltshire, fitted a bar, pizza oven and a TV in the wooden structure.\n\nHe said he followed Wiltshire Council's advice to comply with the regulations.\n\nBut it said government guidance had not changed and outdoor roofed structures had to have at least 50% of their walls open when in use, which his did not.\n\n\"Less than a week before we're supposed to open saying it doesn't comply. It makes no sense.\"\n\nThe wooden structure was mostly built during the first lockdown in 2020 and finished in the second. A planned New Year's Eve party sold out, but had to be cancelled.\n\n\"I built it to their [Wiltshire Council] specifications. I've got a breathable roof with a one inch gap around the outside, I've got double doors, I've got ventilation through the ground up. Then we get an email saying it's not permitted,\" he said.\n\n\"It's the lack of timing. They should've sent this a month ago, it's just not fair.\"\n\nMr Kalen said having worked closely with the council to realise his project \"to suddenly do this to us is outrageous. I'm livid.\"\n\nJess Gibbons, the council's director for communities and neighbourhood services, said guidance on outdoor hospitality was emailed to more than 800 alcohol licensed premises in Wiltshire on Monday night, following the government's confirmation on moving to step 2 of the roadmap on 12 April.\n\nHe added: \"This guidance is not new - it is the same as the guidance issued previously, following the last re-opening just prior to Christmas which was covered by the \"all tiers\" regulations.\n\n\"It is based on the legal rules for smoking shelters in the smokefree legislation from 2007 which licensees will be very familiar with.\n\n\"We have now contacted Mr Kalen to find out more about his new structure and to work with him and offer advice on what he needs to do to ensure it meets planning and licensing regulations.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Today, people across China are marking a year since the central city of Wuhan ended lockdown.\n\nFor the Chinese people, this was one of the most powerful and emotional moments of the country’s Covid-19 outbreak. People today are revisiting footage of a city clock tower striking midnight, symbolising that the city’s 11 million people were safe enough to leave their homes for the first time.\n\nWuhan was the original epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic. There were more than 50,000 confirmed cases in the city, more than half of China’s total cases.\n\nPeople there spent 76 days in full lockdown in order to control the outbreak. On 23 January 2020, Wuhan closed its borders and people were ordered to stay within their homes. The city, which has a population of 11 million people, became a ghost town.\n\nBut today, state media is full of footage showing the city’s streets returning to their former vitality. Praise is being given to people for staying in their homes during a period of great uncertainty.\n\nThe lockdown had a significant impact on people’s mental health.\n\nA psychology professor tells Xinhua: “When the epidemic was at its worst, we answered more than 300 calls a day.”\n\nAnd other specialists have warned there needs to be continued attention in the city with regards “feelings of uncertainty, PTSD haunting front-line medics, and discrimination against former Covid-19 patients”.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hannah Munns: \"I can't image there is a situation where someone could tell me a reason why it has taken so long.\"\n\nA woman who survived a fatal fire at a Scottish luxury hotel has said she \"cannot fathom\" why it took three years for the case to get to court.\n\nHannah Munns said that not knowing the cause of the blaze at Cameron House had \"played with my mental health\".\n\nIt has emerged that the cause was known just five months after the fire in December 2017, which killed two men.\n\nBut the survivors did not know the full details until they emerged in court in December 2020.\n\nThe fire was started after a night porter placed a plastic bag of ashes in the concierge cupboard.\n\nSimon Midgley and his partner Richard Dyson died when the blaze ripped through the five-star hotel on the shores of Loch Lomond.\n\nFirefighters arrived within 10 minutes of the 999 call\n\nAndrew Wade, an independent forensic scientist who specialises in fires and explosions, was asked by Police Scotland in May 2018 to investigate what happened at Cameron House.\n\nHe told the BBC that the investigation was \"relatively straightforward\".\n\nMr Wade viewed CCTV footage showing the night porter placing a bag of ash in the cupboard, then visited the site to thoroughly examine the physical evidence.\n\nThe investigator said the ground floor of the hotel was relatively undamaged with the exception of the concierge cupboard.\n\n\"You have to, in a way, ignore what you saw on the CCTV, establish where the fire started and then look at the possible causes,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"At that stage the two halves come together and say all the physical evidence confirms what we can see on the CCTV.\n\n\"So at that stage I was satisfied that we were dealing with a smouldering fire from the hot embers which were put in the cupboard there.\"\n\nMr Wade submitted his preliminary report on 13 May 2018.\n\nIt took a further two years and seven months until the case came to court and the families of the men who died and the survivors found out the full details of what happened.\n\nThe Crown Office said subsequent reports covered a wider range of matters and led to criminal proceedings. Covid also had an impact on timings.\n\nThe hotel was fined £500,000 after admitting breaches of fire safety rules, while porter Christopher O'Malley was given a community payback order for breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act.\n\nRichard Dyson, left, and Simon Midgley, right, who both died, had been on a winter break in Scotland\n\nMs Munns and her family had been staying on the same floor as the men who died.\n\nShe told the BBC that the time it took to get the case to court \"beggars belief\".\n\n\"It's really hard to articulate or understand if you haven't been through it, but not knowing what caused it, what the danger was, has really played with my mental health,\" she said.\n\n\"I can't fathom how it's taken so long to get to court and the amount of pain people have been through, not just me.\n\n\"I speak to Jane, Simon's mum, and she has been through absolute hell trying to understand what happened and why her son's not coming home.\n\n\"I can't imagine there is a situation where someone could tell me a reason why it has taken so long and for it to be acceptable.\"\n\nMs Munns is calling for a fatal accident inquiry (FAI) to be held into the fire. A decision on whether to hold an inquiry is expected later this month.\n\nA spokesperson for the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service said: \"COPFS appreciates the impact the time taken to conclude investigations can have on those involved and we are committed to resolving them as soon as we can.\n\n\"We maintained regular contact with the nearest relatives of Simon Midgley and Richard Dyson and are satisfied that our communications were appropriate having regard to the welfare and wishes of those involved.\n\n\"The convictions and sentences in this case were the culmination of a thorough and technical investigation carried out by Scottish Fire and Rescue Service, West Dunbartonshire Council and Police Scotland, overseen by the health and safety investigation unit of COPFS.\"", "Almost a million vaccine doses have been administered in Northern Ireland to date\n\nPeople aged from 40 to 44 are now eligible for a Covid-19 vaccine in latest expansion of Northern Ireland's vaccination programme.\n\nBooking opened at midday on Thursday and 17,374 people have booked appointments already.\n\nNI's chief medical officer has urged those eligible to book their jab.\n\nAppointments are available to book online at the Health and Social Care booking website and by telephone on 0300 200 7813.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann said the announcement was a welcome development.\n\n\"Vaccination is by far our best defence against Covid-19 and is essential to our goal of getting Northern Ireland out of lockdown on a sustainable basis,\" he said.\n\nAlmost a million Covid-19 vaccine doses have been administered in Northern Ireland.\n\nThere have been 799,410 first doses and 173,772 second doses.\n\nChief medical officer Dr Michael McBride said the benefits of receiving the AstraZeneca vaccine \"far outweigh any potential risk for the vast majority of adults\".\n\n\"We all want to live without a constant dread of Covid and to get our old lives back,\" he said, adding that vaccination has an \"essential role in ensuring we have a better and safer summer\".\n\nThe AstraZeneca vaccine has been administered almost 500,000 times in Northern Ireland\n\nAbout half of the total of 973,182 doses administered in Northern Ireland were the AstraZeneca vaccine.\n\nConcerns had been expressed after a small number of unusual blood clots were reported among some people worldwide who had received a first dose.\n\nNorthern Ireland's Department of Health has said it would follow the advice of Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), which decides vaccine priorities in the UK.\n\nThe JCVI has said young adults aged 18-29 who do not have an underlying medical condition should be offered an alternative vaccine, when available.\n\nThose who have already had a first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine will still receive their second, unless they are among the very small number of people who have experienced blood clots with low platelet counts after their first dose.\n\nDr McBride said vaccines still offered the \"best pathway\" out of the pandemic.\n\n\"Vaccination is the best protection from what is a serious virus that has taken many lives and impacted on many livelihoods,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\n\"The uptake has been very good across all of the age groups.\n\n\"There are always balances between the risks and the benefits [of vaccines] and for the vast majority of people the risks of Covid are greater.\"", "The sister of a man who died from a blood clot on the brain after having the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine says she \"strongly believes\" people should keep having the Covid jab.\n\nNeil Astles, 59, a solicitor from Warrington, Cheshire, died on Sunday. He was vaccinated on 17 March.\n\nPharmacist Alison Astles told the BBC that doctors were \"99.9% sure\" the clot was due to the jab.\n\nBut she said he was \"extraordinarily unlucky\" and the risk was \"very low\".\n\nDr Astles said she felt she had a responsibility to speak out \"because, overall, we will save more lives by people having the vaccine than not\".\n\nThe family is still awaiting a report from the coroner on Mr Astles' cause of death.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alison Astles says her brother was \"extraordinarily unlucky\" to suffer a blood clot\n\nOn Wednesday, UK vaccine advisers recommended healthy under-30s in the UK should be offered an alternative Covid vaccine to the AstraZeneca jab due to the evidence linking it to rare blood clots.\n\nThe recommendation came after a review by the UK drugs regulator found that, by the end of March, 79 people had suffered rare blood clots accompanied by low blood platelet count after vaccination - 19 of whom had died.\n\nThe regulator said this was not proof the jab had caused the clots, but it said the link was getting firmer. The figures suggest the risk of dying from one of the clots following vaccination is about one in a million.\n\nMeanwhile, the EU's medicines regulator has said the benefits of the jab outweigh the risks.\n\nDr Astles, who is pharmacy lead at the University of Huddersfield, said her brother started to have headaches and feel nauseous \"a week or so\" after having his first jab.\n\nAround eight days later he began to lose his vision and he was taken to the Royal Liverpool University Hospital on Friday.\n\nDoctors found a \"huge blood clot\" on his brain, she said, and he died on Sunday evening.\n\nShe said she was told by doctors \"they were 99.9% sure this was due to the Covid vaccine\" and that his blood results mirrored similar cases in the UK.\n\nDr Astles described her brother as a much loved sibling, husband and son, adding that his death had left \"an immense hole in our lives\".\n\nThe Daily Telegraph reported that he had been diagnosed with a \"cerebral sinus thrombosis and subarachnoid haemorrhage\" with \"low platelets and extraordinarily high d-dimer\".\n\n\"The human being, the sister in me, still feels absolutely furious and very angry this has happened to my brother,\" Dr Astles told the BBC News channel.\n\n\"Despite what has happened to Neil and the impact on our family, I still strongly believe that people should go ahead and have the vaccine.\n\n\"If you've had one dose, go ahead and have your second. If you haven't had your dose yet make sure that you do. Because, overall, we will save more lives by people having the vaccine than not.\n\n\"The risk of a clot is very, very small and my brother was extraordinarily unlucky.\"\n\nDr Astles welcomed the decision to offer an alternative vaccine to the under-30s - a group which includes her son - who are much less likely to die from Covid.\n\nShe received the Pfizer jab but she said other family members have had the AstraZeneca jab and she would recommend they still have their second dose.\n\nShe said she decided to speak out about her brother's death to raise awareness of the side effects of the vaccine, adding: \"If we can save one life, one other family as a result of this, then that would be worthwhile.\"\n\nAnyone who suffers symptoms such as a persistent headache, blurred vision or confusion four days or more after vaccination or who experience unusual skin bruising, shortness of breath or chest pain are being asked to seek medical advice.", "Anti-government protesters in Hong Kong believe China is undermining their rights and freedoms\n\nHundreds of thousands of Hong Kong citizens expected to move to the UK under a new visa scheme will be helped to access housing, schools and jobs, the communities secretary has said.\n\nAround 27,000 applications have been made for visas brought in after Beijing imposed a national security law in the former British colony.\n\nThe visas give Hong Kong citizens the right to live in the UK for five years.\n\nRobert Jenrick told the BBC ministers wanted to provide \"necessary\" help.\n\n\"If they struggle, then we're here to support them,\" he said.\n\n\"That means local councils being there to provide them with housing, with the benefit system standing behind them, with all the support the state can offer to make sure that no-one gets into difficult times,\" he added.\n\nMeanwhile, one of Hong Kong's leading pro-democracy activists, Nathan Law, has been granted asylum by the UK.\n\nMr Law said the Home Office had accepted he was \"exposed to severe political persecution\" if he returned to Hong Kong.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said the UK has a \"proud history of providing protection to those who need it\".\n\nSince 31 January, Hong Kong residents have been able to come to the UK for up to five years and apply for permanent residency.\n\nThe UK introduced the British National (Overseas), or BNO, visa after China passed a wide-ranging new security law for Hong Kong which makes it easier to punish protesters and reduces the city's autonomy.\n\nThe UK says the law is an erosion of freedoms and rights.\n\nGovernment sources said school places for the new arrivals, many of whom will have young families, were \"a pressure to be acknowledged\".\n\nIf the number of applications for the visas continues to rise at the same rate, they will far outstrip the Home Office's prediction of 154,000 arrivals in the first year of the scheme.\n\nMr Jenrick said he expected the new arrivals to make a \"real and important contribution\" to the UK - and that many had qualifications in teaching, medicine or engineering.\n\nBut community groups have previously raised concerns that BNO visa holders will need help to find jobs and housing.\n\nJabez Lam, the manager of one group, Hackney Chinese Community Services, said he thought around 7,000 people had arrived already.\n\nMany have booked into hotels or Airbnbs while they look for rented accommodation, he said.\n\n\"We believe as the lockdown eases that rate will accelerate,\" said Mr Lam.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is the BNO visa for Hong Kongers?\n\nHis charity has already raised concerns with the government about school admissions and the right to obtain tenancies.\n\nIt also urged police to step up action against UK-based supporters of the Chinese government who might target Hong Kongers.\n\nSimon Cheng, the chairman of another charity, Hong Kongers in Britain, said the UK government should also offer to help people who had taken part in protests against Beijing but who were not eligible for BNO visas.\n\nHe said: \"The BNO visa scheme is rather a life-boat scheme for rescuing people out of tyranny, and some of those may need actual help for resettlement, and to have a launch pad to contribute more to the UK economy and for sure, UK democracy.\"\n\nAlthough the BNO visa states holders have no recourse to public funds in the UK, the government says those who become destitute may be offered assistance to access social housing and other benefits.\n\nThere will be 12 virtual \"welcome hubs\" in the nations and English regions to provide access to housing, education and employment.\n\nTeaching material about the UK's historical links with Hong Kong will be given to schools.", "Older age groups which received the vaccine first have seen the steepest falls in deaths\n\nWeekly deaths involving coronavirus in England and Wales have dropped 92% since the peak of the second wave in January, according to official figures.\n\nMeanwhile, the total number of deaths registered in the UK over one week is 5% below the five-year average.\n\nIt comes amid continued efforts to reassure the public over the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine's possible link to rare blood clots.\n\nHe urged those who had received one dose to take up their second and said the UK was on track to vaccinate all adults by 31 July.\n\nFigures from the Office of National Statistics showed there were 712 deaths involving Covid in the week ending 19 March, down from 8,945 in late January.\n\nThe largest falls were seen among the oldest age groups, with deaths falling 92.9% among those aged 80 and over and 93.4% for the 75 to 79 age group, compared to 83.7% for those aged 60 to 64.\n\nSeparate figures showed the number of deaths registered in the UK in the week ending 26 March was 11,439, which was 5% below the five-year average. Last week, deaths were 8% below the 5-year average.\n\nSome 799 of these deaths involved coronavirus.\n\nAdults aged over 80 were the second priority group for vaccination, followed by over-75s and over 70s. The government says everyone in these groups was offered a jab by mid-February.\n\nFigures on Thursday showed the UK's vaccination programme had recovered after a lull over Easter, with an extra 408,396 second doses administered and 99,530 first doses. The number of people fully vaccinated is now over six million, while 31.8 million have received just one dose.\n\nAnother 3,030 confirmed cases were reported, along with 53 further deaths within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nSeeking to reassure people who have received a first dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab, Mr Hancock said there was \"no evidence\" of the rare blood clots after the second dose of the vaccine.\n\nThe UK changed policy on Wednesday to offer under-30s an alternative to the AstraZeneca vaccine, after weighing the benefits of vaccination compared to a potential very rare risk of blood clots.\n\nThere had been 79 incidents of the clots and 19 deaths among the 20 million Oxford-AstraZeneca doses administered, the UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) said. That equates to a one-in-a-million risk of a fatal side effect.\n\nIt said there was no proof the vaccine had caused the clots but the link was getting firmer. Both the MHRA and the European Medicines Agency (EMA) said the benefits of the jab outweigh the risks, however.\n\nMr Hancock said people should have confidence in the safety system for vaccines because it was \"able to spot this extremely rare event\".\n\nThe risk was about the same as taking a long-haul flight, he said.\n\nAnd he said there was \"more than enough\" doses of vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna due to arrive to offer an alternative to the 8.5 million UK adults under 30 yet to be vaccinated.\n\nThe UK has ordered 40 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine and 17 million of the Moderna jab and also has agreements with several other companies for jabs that are still waiting for approval, including 100 million doses from Valneva and 30 million from Janssen.\n\nA government scientific adviser said communication of the benefits and side-effects was \"critical\" to avoiding a loss of confidence in the vaccines.\n\nProf Stephen Reicher told BBC Radio 4's World at One that having a Covid jab is \"actually one of the safer things you do in the day\".\n\n\"Something like 30 or 40 people drown in the bath every year, something like 1,000 people die falling down the stairs, something like 200 die from choking on their breakfast, and that's many, many more deaths than we get from these vaccines,\" he said.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Thursday evening. We'll have another update for you tomorrow morning.\n\nA pharmacist whose brother suffered a fatal blood clot after receiving the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine has urged people to keep having the jab. Neil Astles, 59, a solicitor from Warrington, Cheshire, had the vaccine in March. His sister, Dr Alison Astles, told the BBC that doctors were \"99.9% sure\" the clot was due to the jab, but he had been \"extraordinarily unlucky\". The UK's medicine regulator says the benefits of the vaccine still outweigh the risks for the vast majority of people - read more about the risks here.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alison Astles says her brother was \"extraordinarily unlucky\" to suffer a blood clot\n\nMore than six million people in the UK are now fully vaccinated after receiving a second dose of a Covid jab. After a lull in the vaccination programme over Easter, the number of people who received a second dose jumped to 408,396 on Wednesday - up from 186,793 the previous day, while another 99,530 first doses were administered. The latest figures also showed there were a further 3,030 confirmed coronavirus cases, while another 53 deaths were reported within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nBus services in England should return to pre-pandemic levels by Monday - when non-essential shops and outdoor hospitality are reopening, according to industry body CPT. Passenger levels were at about 40% just before Easter, says CPT, but companies are expecting more people to be travelling as lockdown measures ease further. Here's a reminder of what you can do as part of the next stage of the roadmap out of lockdown in England.\n\nA pub landlord says he has spent £50,000 on a chalet for outside dining - only to be told a week before opening that it contravenes Covid-19 rules. Jason Kalen, who runs The Marlborough in Wiltshire, fitted a bar, pizza oven and a TV in the wooden structure. He says he followed the council's advice - but Wiltshire Council says the structure doesn't comply with the guidance.\n\n\"The Chalet\" at The Marlborough has been completed in the past year\n\nThe traditional summer opening of Buckingham Palace's state rooms, which normally attracts thousands of people, has been cancelled for a second year due to the pandemic. Instead, the Royal Collection Trust says it will offer visitors the chance to wander around its gardens unguided for the first time, as well as being able to picnic on the lawns. However getting a ticket may prove difficult - the website has already been overwhelmed by demand.\n\nThe palace boasts the largest private garden in London, according to the Royal Collection Trust\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nAnd what are the symptoms of a blood clot? Here we've answered that question, and your other Covid-related queries.\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.", "Bus services in England should return to pre-pandemic levels by Monday, according to industry body CPT.\n\nCPT, which represents the bus and coach sector, said passenger levels were at about 40% just before Easter.\n\nBut companies are expecting more people to be travelling as lockdown measures ease further from 12 April, with shops and outdoor hospitality reopening.\n\nIn Wales services are at 80% of normal levels, while in Scotland they are at 95%, according to CPT.\n\nFrom Monday in England, non-essential shops and close-contact services like hairdressers and beauty salons can reopen, while pubs and restaurants can serve customers outdoors, as part of the next stage of the roadmap out of lockdown.\n\nIn Wales, non-essential shops and close-contact services can also reopen from Monday, while in Northern Ireland the stay-at-home message is being relaxed and non-essential retail can operate click-and-collect.\n\nBut in Scotland people will have to wait until at least 26 April for more of the economy to reopen.\n\nBus services fell to around 80% of pre-pandemic levels in England during the third lockdown that began in January, compared to around 50% during the first lockdown in March last year, according to CPT.\n\nHowever, they increased to 100% as measures were eased over the summer.\n\nA spokesman for CPT said: \"Operators have reacted flexibly during the pandemic to respond to passenger demand and with the reopening of non-essential retail and outdoor hospitality now is the right time to increase service levels to help people visit shops and see family and friends.\n\n\"The industry will be closely monitoring passenger demand as restrictions ease to ensure that services are at a level that allows passengers to travel safely.\"\n\nWelcoming the return to normal services, chief executive of the Bus Users charity Claire Walters said: \"Buses are the most used form of public transport and are vital to the UK's recovery.\n\n\"Millions rely on them to access work, education, training, health services, leisure facilities and shops, so the sooner we can get people back on board, the better for everyone.\"", "Sir Richard Sutton and his family's wealth was valued at £301m in the 2020 Sunday Times Rich List\n\nOne of the UK's richest men has been stabbed to death.\n\nSir Richard Sutton, 83, was pronounced dead at a his mansion near Gillingham, Dorset, at 21:15 BST on Wednesday. A woman, in her 60s and believed to be his partner, was also stabbed and remains in a critical condition.\n\nThe businessman and his family's wealth was valued at £301m in the 2020 Sunday Times Rich List.\n\nA 34-year-old man, from Gillingham, has been arrested on suspicion of murder.\n\nHe was stopped in a vehicle in the Hammersmith area of London and taken to hospital with injuries that were not believed to be life-threatening.\n\nDorset Police said the arrested man and the victims were known to each other.\n\nSir Richard, who was number 435 in last year's Sunday Times Rich List, owned a string of top hotels.\n\nThe baronet had an extensive property and farming portfolio, including owning the freehold of the Sheraton Grand London Park Lane and the Athenaeum Hotel in Mayfair.\n\nDorset Police said the victim and the arrested man were known to each other\n\nA statement from the businessman's company, Sir Richard Sutton Limited, said staff were \"deeply saddened and devastated by the sudden death\".\n\n\"Sir Richard was a caring, generous and warm family man, who genuinely regarded those who worked for him as part of his extended family,\" it said.\n\nIt added he was \"passionately devoted to both his company and its people, setting the highest standards for quality in the hotel, farming and property interests within the group\".\n\nDescribing him as an an \"incredible individual\", the firm said Sir Richard's loss \"will be felt by everyone within the company\".\n\nA cordon is in place at the property and police have appealed for information.\n\nA police cordon is still in place at the country estate in Gillingham\n\nNorth Dorset Conservative MP Simon Hoare, who was a friend of Sir Richard, said he had received a briefing from Dorset Police and described the death as \"deeply awful\".\n\n\"I knew him, strangely enough I knew him before I was an MP as my company did a lot of work for his estate many years ago,\" he said.\n\n\"He was a charming man, he had a very good sense of humour, he was politically astute and genial.\n\n\"If you wanted to conjure up a picture of a country gentleman then that was him.\n\n\"It is a huge loss for his family in what is clearly deeply awful circumstances.\"\n\nThe MP added the incident was rare for his constituency and there was \"no cause or reason for alarm\" based on the police briefing.\n\nDorset Police said it received a report at 19:30 on Wednesday raising concerns about the welfare of the occupants of an address in Higher Langham.\n\nDet Insp Simon Huxter, of Dorset Police's Major Crime Investigation Team (MCIT), said the force is appealing for anyone to come forward who saw or heard anything suspicious.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with the family of the man who sadly died and the injured woman at this extremely difficult time and they are being supported by specially-trained officers,\" he said.\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.", "Beijing added 33 billionaires last year, according to Forbes\n\nBeijing is now home to more billionaires than any other city in the world, according to the latest Forbes' annual rich list.\n\nThe Chinese capital added 33 billionaires last year and now hosts 100, said the business magazine.\n\nThis narrowly beats New York City, which hosts 99 and has held the top ranking for the last seven years.\n\nChina's quick containment of Covid-19, the rise of its technology firms and stock markets helped it gain top spot.\n\nAlthough Beijing now has more billionaires than the Big Apple, the combined net worth of New York City's billionaires remained US$80bn (£58bn) greater than that of their counterparts in Beijing.\n\nBeijing's richest resident was Zhang Yiming, the founder of video-sharing app TikTok and chief executive of its parent firm ByteDance. He saw his net worth double to $35.6bn.\n\nIn contrast, New York City's richest resident, former Mayor Michael Bloomberg, had a fortune worth $59bn.\n\nChina, along with the US, has seen its technology giants become even bigger during the pandemic as more people shopped online and looked for sources of entertainment.\n\nThis saw the massive creation of personal wealth for the founders and shareholders of these tech titans.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. So what is Jeff Bezos going to do now?\n\nChina, whose figure included Hong Kong and Macao in the Forbes count, added more billionaires to the list than any other country globally, with 210 newcomers.\n\nHalf of China's new billionaires made their fortunes from manufacturing or technology ventures, including female billionaire Kate Wang, who made her money from e-cigarettes.\n\nWith 698 billionaires, China is closing in on the US, which still leads with 724 billionaires.\n\nA record 493 newcomers joined the list globally last year, roughly one new billionaire every 17 hours, according to Forbes.\n\nIndia had the third-highest number of billionaires, with 140. In total, the 1,149 billionaires from Asia Pacific were worth $4.7tn, compared with the US billionaires' $4.4 tn.\n\nJeff Bezos, founder and chief executive of Amazon, remains the world's richest person for the fourth consecutive year. His net worth grew by $64bn to $177bn last year.", "The UK's leading sports bodies are backing the use of 'vaccine passports' and Covid testing as a \"credible\" means of allowing full capacities at venues.\n\nIn a joint letter to the leaders of the major political parties, the group said it could \"see the benefit\" of a certification process \"in getting more fans safely back as quickly as possible\".\n\n\"We know that our stadia can only be fully filled with an assurance process,\" it added.\n\n\"This process must ensure that everyone can access stadia and must include arrangements that would verify a negative Covid test or an antibody test or vaccination certification.\"\n\nHowever, the group also warned that \"the final approach must not be discriminatory, should protect privacy, and have clear exit criteria\".\n\nSignatories to the letter, which has been seen by the BBC, include the Football Association, the Premier League, the England and Wales Cricket Board, the Rugby Football Union, the All England Tennis Club at Wimbledon and the Silverstone motor-racing circuit.\n\nAll of them are suffering an unprecedented financial crisis as a result of being forced to stage events behind closed doors for almost all of the past year.\n\n\"The alternative [to certification] is not freedom,\" Premier League executive director Bill Bush told BBC Radio 4's Today Programme.\n\n\"The alternative is social distancing, tiny crowds, major restrictions on people's movement and ability to eat, drink, travel. Away fans banned, for example.\n\n\"So to end those restrictions of freedom, we believe that something like this is an acceptable burden to give fans the freedom to attend.\"\n\nAs part of the government's reopening roadmap, from 17 May in England larger outdoor sports venues will be allowed to operate at up to 25% capacity, with a maximum of 10,000 spectators.\n\nRestrictions will be eased further from 21 June, but with all adults not expected to be offered at least their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine until the end of July, full venues at major sports events are understood to be unlikely until late summer at the earliest.\n\nWembley will only have a maximum of 50% capacity for the latter stages of the Euro 2020 matches in July.\n\nUnder current plans in Scotland, large-scale events could also resume from 17 May, though the Euro 2020 matches at Hampden in June that could see 12,000 supporters attend are the first confirmation of fans returning to stadia in Scotland.\n\nThe Welsh government hopes to put on a series of outdoor cultural and sporting pilot events in the summer, for between 200 and 1,000 people.\n\nSupporters will not be able to return to matches in Northern Ireland until phase four of the Stormont executive's lockdown exit plan, with no date yet set and the next review due on 15 April.\n\nThe extent to which all social distancing can end from 21 June to allow for larger crowds at sport, arts and hospitality venues is being examined by the Events Research Programme (ERP) at a number of forthcoming pilots, including a semi-final and the final of the FA Cup at Wembley.\n\nPasses that would show if a person had been vaccinated, had a recent negative test, or natural immunity are among a number of measures to be trialled.\n\nIn their letter to the Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the leaders of the main opposition parties, the group of sports bodies - which also includes the English Football League, Lawn Tennis Association and the Rugby Football League - warn that the 25% cap on crowds \"will be insufficient to end sport's Covid financial crisis.\"\n\nThey appeal for \"certainty as soon as possible\" over the plans to lift social distancing after 21 June, \"so we can plan efficiently and effectively with many big sporting events scheduled for late June and onwards.\n\n\"There are many issues to be addressed including how [Covid certification] technology would work and its ease of use at major events, for both the attendees and the organisers,\" the group added.\n\nOn Wednesday, EFL chief executive Trevor Birch said Covid passports \"had to be embraced because without Covid certification, we may not be able to get full fans back in stadiums, which will have a dramatic financial effect.\"\n\nEFL clubs have suffered £250m of losses caused by more than a season with almost no fans at matches.\n\nHowever, the use of such measures in wider society has sparked opposition from politicians and civil liberties campaigners, and some figures in sport have also expressed their concern before a parliamentary vote on the issue.\n\nFormer Wolves goalkeeper Carl Ikeme urged the FA not to use Covid passes, describing them as a \"form of discrimination\" against people from ethnic minorities.\n\n\"We know black and ethnic minorities are more hesitant to have vaccines,\" Ikeme told the i newspaper.\n\n\"It will create a bigger divide. I don't believe communities who have their own personal choice not to have a vaccine should be discriminated against even further than they have been throughout the years.\n\n\"Having these Covid passes is either going to force people to have a jab they don't want or is going to force people not to take part in society the way we're all used to. Football players have been bending the knee all year against discrimination and this will affect ethnic communities even more.\"\n\nThe group of sports bodies supporting certification say that \"the final approach must not be discriminatory, should protect privacy… [and] should not be a requirement for any form of participation in grassroots sport.\n\n\"Based on these principles, we support the review of the use of Covid certification for major events,\" it added.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"We welcome the constructive approach from major British sports as we explore how testing Covid certification and other steps can help get more fans back into stadiums and other large events safely.\n\n\"We want as many fans as possible to be able to enjoy a great British summer of sport, safely.\"\n• None Watch as Louis Theroux revisits the now famous Joe Exotic\n• None Step inside the fast-paced, fabulous lives of the Khans", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. M25 crash: The moment a lorry ended up hanging over bridge\n\nA lorry has crashed through barriers of a motorway and been left overhanging the side of a bridge.\n\nThe M25 has been closed anti-clockwise at junction 2 south of Dartford, Kent, and the A2 is shut in both directions as a result.\n\nHighways England said a \"complex recovery and repair operation\" was under way and the roads would be closed for some time.\n\nKent Police said the driver was not seriously injured.\n\nThe crash in which part of the lorry's trailer went through the safety barrier was reported to Kent Police at about 13:20 BST.\n\nHighways England said \"significant damage\" had been caused\n\nThere are delays to traffic on the M25 from junction 4 on the anti-clockwise carriageway, and over the Queen Elizabeth II Bridge on the clockwise carriageway.\n\n\"Significant damage\" has been caused and congestion stretched 6 miles (10km) approaching the Dartford Crossing, a Highways England spokesman said.\n\nDrivers have been warned to allow extra time for journeys if travelling in the area, or to consider alternative routes.\n\nThe driver was not seriously injured, Kent Police said\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPolice in Sri Lanka have arrested the reigning Mrs World Caroline Jurie, after she allegedly injured a fellow beauty queen in an on-stage bust-up.\n\nPushpika De Silva won the \"Mrs Sri Lanka\" title in a televised ceremony on Sunday, and former winner Mrs Jurie was meant to crown her.\n\nInstead, she pulled the crown off Mrs De Silva's head, claiming she could not hold the title as she was divorced.\n\nThe winner later said she is separated from her husband, not divorced.\n\nMrs Sri Lanka is part of the Mrs World beauty pageant series for married women. The winners of each country's title progress to the overall Mrs World competition.\n\n\"There is a rule that prevents women who have already been married and are divorced, so I am taking steps to make the crown go to second place,\" Mrs Jurie told the audience.\n\nShe placed the crown on the runner-up, prompting a tearful Mrs De Silva to walk off stage, a video of the incident showed.\n\nA video showed former winner Caroline Jurie handing the crown to the runner-up\n\nIn a Facebook post, Mrs De Silva said she went to hospital to be treated for head injuries after the incident.\n\n\"There are a lot of single mums like me today who are suffering in Sri Lanka,\" she later told a press conference. \"This crown is dedicated to those women, those single mums who are suffering to raise their kids alone.\"\n\nShe added that she would take legal action for the \"unreasonable and insulting\" way she was treated.\n\nAnother Sri Lankan model involved in the fracas was also arrested.\n\n\"Police arrested Caroline Jurie and model Chula Padmendra over Sunday's incident on charges of simple hurt and criminal cause,\" police spokesman Ajith Rohana told the BBC.\n\nBoth Mrs Jurie and the chief organiser of Mrs Sri Lanka pageant, Chandimal Jayasinghe, were questioned by police on Thursday. Mrs Jurie and Chula Padmendra were bailed to appear in Colombo Magistrates Court on 19 April.\n\nMrs De Silva has now been re-crowned, and the pageant's organisers have said they expect Mrs Jurie to issue a public apology.\n\nMr Jayasinghe told the BBC earlier: \"We are disappointed. It was a disgrace how Caroline Jurie behaved on the stage and the Mrs World organisation has already begun an investigation on the matter.\"\n\nThe Mrs Sri Lanka World beauty pageant is a major contest in the country. The prime minister's wife was among the guests at the ceremony.", "Increasingly strong evidence shows that the UK's vaccination programme is breaking the link between Covid-19 cases and deaths, scientists tracking the epidemic have said.\n\nA study found infections had fallen by roughly two-thirds since February, before beginning to level off.\n\nThis is probably because people are beginning to mix more - but deaths have not followed the same pattern.\n\nThis was not the case before January, when the vaccine rollout began.\n\nThe research, commissioned by the government and run by Imperial College London, is based on swabs taken from 140,000 people selected to represent England's population.\n\nOf that group, who were tested for the virus between 11 and 30 March, 227 had a positive result, giving a rate of 0.2%, or one in 500 people.\n\nBut in people over the age of 65, the infection rate was half that with one in 1,000 people testing positive for Covid.\n\nDuring the period of 4 to 23 February, when the React study was last carried out, an estimated one in 200 people in England had the virus.\n\nThis represented a two-thirds fall since January and, at that time, it was almost entirely down to lockdown.\n\nNow, scientists can identify decreases which are being driven by vaccination.\n\nAfter a significant fall between February and March, during the roughly three-week period to the end of March, cases were \"just about flat\", said Prof Stephen Riley at Imperial College London, one of the study's authors.\n\nThey estimated the virus's reproduction number during this period up to the end of March to be one, meaning the epidemic is level but not receding.\n\n\"Since the first substantial relaxation of lockdown in England with the opening of schools on 8 March 2021, the rate of decline of new cases has slowed considerably,\" the report said.\n\nInfections were most common in primary and early secondary school-aged children (five to 12-year-olds) and lowest in the over-65s, which the Imperial team said was \"consistent with an effect from the vaccination rollout\".\n\nThe flattening off \"probably does reflect increased social mixing\", Prof Riley said, and some of that will be to do with schools opening up.\n\nHe said it was \"gratifying\", however, that rates did not go up when schools reopened, which he said was \"certainly a possibility\".\n\nScientists and government would need to keep a \"close watching brief as the lockdown gets eased further\", Prof Riley said. But, he explained, the faster the vaccine is rolled out, the less chance increased contact will lead to an increase in cases.\n\nMore than 5.6 million people have now been fully vaccinated with two doses in the UK, while 31.7 million have had a first dose.\n\nFresh guidance was issued on Wednesday recommending that under-30s in the UK should be offered a different Covid vaccine to the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab, after a review found a potential link to rare blood clots.\n\nThe UK's medicines regulator said there was no proof the jab had caused the clots, but the link was getting firmer.\n\nSome European countries have restricted use of the AstraZeneca vaccine, and the EU's medicines regulator has said unusual blood clots should be listed as a possible very rare side-effect of the jab.\n\nExperts and politicians have sought to reassure people that the blood clot events are very rare, and the change to the rollout plan does not affect the plan to offer all adults a first dose by the end of July.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson urged people to continue getting the AstraZeneca jab, tweeting that it had \"already saved thousands of lives\" and people should \"continue to have full confidence in vaccines\".\n\nThe UK reported a further 45 deaths from Covid-19 and another 2,763 confirmed cases on Wednesday.\n\nVaccinations remained low after the Easter weekend, with 186,793 second doses administered and 85,227 first doses.\n\nOf the vaccines currently approved for use, the UK has ordered the most of the AstraZeneca jab - 100 million doses. It has bought 40 million of the Pfizer-BioNTech jab and 17 million of Moderna.", "The UK has more than enough supply of the Pfizer and Moderna jabs to vaccinate all adults under 30, the health secretary has said.\n\nUK vaccine advisers say people aged 18 to 29 should be offered a different vaccine due to evidence linking AstraZeneca jabs to blood clots.\n\nMatt Hancock said the UK is on track to vaccinate all adults by 31 July.\n\nHe said the AstraZeneca jab remained safe and urged those who had received one dose to take up their second.\n\nThe UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) said there was no proof the vaccine had caused the clots but the link was getting firmer, while the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has said the benefits of the jab outweigh the risks.\n\nMr Hancock said there was \"no evidence\" of rare blood clots after the second dose of the vaccine.\n\nHe also urged everyone to take up the offer of a first vaccine when they were called.\n\nIt comes as the UK's vaccination programme recovered after a lull over Easter, with an extra 408,396 second doses administered and 99,530 first doses. The number of people fully vaccinated is now over six million.\n\nAnother 3,030 confirmed cases were reported and 53 further deaths within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nThe health secretary sought to reassure the public and said they can have confidence in the safety system because regulators were \"able to spot this extremely rare event\".\n\n\"The safety system that we have around this vaccine is so sensitive that it can pick up events that are four in a million [the chance of developing a rare brain blood clot] - I'm told this is about the equivalent risk of taking a long-haul flight,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\nThere is \"more than enough of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine\" for the 8.5 million adults under 30 who are yet to be vaccinated in the UK to have two doses, he said.\n\nThe UK has ordered 40 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine and 17 million of the Moderna jab and also has agreements with several other companies for jabs that are still waiting for approval, including 100 million doses from Valneva and 30 million from Janssen.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock says there are \"more than enough\" alternatives to the AstraZeneca vaccine for the under-30s\n\nMr Hancock said Covid was a \"horrible disease\" and long Covid affected people in their 20s \"just a much\" as any other age group, sometimes with \"debilitating side effects that essentially ruin your life\".\n\nHe said he was looking forward to getting vaccinated \"as a healthy 42 year old\" and said when the time comes \"I will take whatever vaccine I am offered\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer also urged people to have the AstraZeneca vaccine, saying he had received the jab himself and would have the second dose.\n\n\"I think the most important thing is that we get the vaccine programme rolled out as quickly as possible - that is the surest way through this pandemic,\" he said.\n\nAs of Tuesday more than 31.7 million people have received a first dose of a coronavirus vaccine in the UK, with some 5.6 million having received a second shot.\n\nThe recommendation to offer alternative vaccines to younger people came after a review by the MHRA found that by the end of March 79 people had suffered rare blood clots after vaccination - 19 of whom had died.\n\nProf Anthony Harnden, deputy chairman of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), said that both the regulators had said the AstraZeneca jab could continue to be used in all age groups.\n\nBut he said the committee, which advises the government on the vaccine rollout, had decided it felt more comfortable if the under-30 age group - which is at lower risk from Covid - was offered an alternative option.\n\nProf Stephen Reicher, who is a member of the Scientific Pandemic Insights Group on Behaviours (Spi-B), told BBC Radio 4's World at One the move to favour other jabs for the under-30s could dent confidence in vaccination, saying we are \"not being as good in the rollout of information as we have been at the rollout of the vaccine itself\".\n\nNeil Astles, 59, a solicitor from Warrington, Cheshire, started to have headaches and feel nauseous about a week after receiving the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine on 17 March.\n\nAround eight days later he began to lose his vision and he was taken to hospital last Friday, his sister, Dr Alison Astles, told the BBC.\n\nDoctors found a \"huge blood clot\" on his brain and he died on Sunday evening,\n\n\"The human being, the sister in me, still feels absolutely furious and very angry this has happened to my brother,\" she said. But Dr Astles, a pharmacist, said she \"strongly\" believes people should continue to have the vaccine.\n\n\"Overall, we will save more lives by people having the vaccine than not. The risk of a clot is very, very small and my brother was extraordinarily unlucky.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alison Astles says her brother was \"extraordinarily unlucky\" to suffer a blood clot\n\nEuropean countries have made their own decisions on the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine with many restricting them to older age groups, while Australia has said people under the age of 50 should be given the Pfizer vaccine instead.\n\nProf Andrew Pollard, director of the Oxford Vaccine Group, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme now was \"not the time to waiver\" and said people had to put their confidence in the system.\n\nProf Beverley Hunt, an expert in thrombosis and haemostasis at King's College London who has been working with the MHRA on the clot cases, said we do not know if the AstraZeneca vaccine causes the blood clots.\n\nPeople had been seeing doctors with \"the worst headache they've ever had\" four days after vaccination or sometimes later, she said, and said early treatment could improve outcomes for people.\n\nThe focus on the AstraZeneca jab comes as scientists tracking the epidemic have said there is increasing evidence that the England's vaccination programme is breaking the link between Covid-19 cases and deaths.\n\nThe React survey, run by Imperial College London, found infections had fallen by roughly two-thirds since February, but had now begun to level off.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. After being refused treatment because of her BMI, Victoria told the BBC her disorder got worse and worse\n\nVictoria Spence says she fell into a \"deep, dark hole\" about her own body image as a teenager, leading to her developing an eating disorder.\n\nFrom staring at pictures of \"girls with thigh gaps\" on social media to having her weight shared during a science class, she eventually hit rock bottom, telling her mum that she had begun to hate herself.\n\nBut when Victoria's parents tried to seek help, her doctor told her that her Body Mass Index (BMI) wasn't low enough for treatment.\n\n\"I came away and just got worse and worse and worse, because I saw what the doctor said to me as 'you are not thin enough yet, there is still more to go, you should still lose weight',\" the 26-year-old from Manchester told the BBC.\n\nAfter seeking private treatment and her parents being warned she could die, Victoria is on the road to recovery and shares her story on Instagram with over 100,000 followers, offering support to others.\n\nShe is now backing the findings of an inquiry by MPs calling for BMI to be scrapped.\n\nThe report from the Women and Equalities Committee has also branded the government's obesity strategy \"dangerous\", saying some of the measures - such as calorie labels on menus - could affect those with, or at risk of developing, eating disorders.\n\nThe government says NHS England does not support the use of \"BMI thresholds\" and that its approach is \"guided by the latest research and emerging evidence\".\n\nBMI is calculated by dividing an adult's weight by the square of their height.\n\nIt gives a number that then fits on a scale, concluding whether someone is underweight, a healthy weight, overweight or obese.\n\nBut while it is a simple tool, a number of scientists have questioned its validity as a measure of a person's health, saying other factors are not included and it is based on the physique of a European man.\n\nDuring its inquiry into body image, the committee looked into BMI and concluded it \"inspires weight stigma\".\n\nIts report said for those with higher BMIs, serious medical issues were being disregarded as simply the patient being \"overweight\" and patients were being made to feel \"shamed\" into losing weight.\n\nIt also pointed to stories like Victoria's, saying some GPs had \"an over-reliance on BMI, particularly when diagnosing eating disorders\".\n\nCommittee chair Caroline Nokes said the measure needed to be scrapped and replaced with a \"health at every size\" approach instead.\n\nThe Tory MP added: \"We know BMI is an absolutely lousy measure of good health in an individual. It works as an average across populations, but for individuals, it really doesn't help at all.\n\n\"We have seen instances of people who have been refused treatments because their BMI is too high or they have been refused access to eating disorder services because their BMI isn't low enough - and what a dreadful target that is to set anyone with an eating disorder.\n\n\"We want young people to be enjoying their childhood, we want them to be healthy and active, not obsessing over numbers like BMI.\"\n\nTory MP and chair of the committee Caroline Nokes is calling for \"urgent action\" from the government\n\nThe call was backed by eating disorder charity Beat, which said BMI \"should never be used as the sole factor in diagnosing eating disorders, or for determining who is 'unwell enough' to access treatment\".\n\nIts director of external affairs, Tom Quinn, said: \"This can lead to potentially dangerous delays, and can drive people deeper into eating disorders in order to be taken seriously.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Social Care said that NHS England \"had been clear it does not support the use of BMI thresholds\".\n\nHealth Minister Nadine Dorries also acknowledged to the committee that there was \"good and bad\" in the use of BMI - although she said doctors needed to gauge whether a person is a healthy weight or not.\n\nThe report also criticised the government's obesity strategy, saying it was \"at best ineffective and at worst perpetuating unhealthy behaviours\".\n\nBoris Johnson unveiled his plan in July 2020 amid the pandemic, saying it would \"reduce our health risks and protect ourselves against coronavirus\".\n\nIt included banning \"buy one get one free\" deals on unhealthy food, as well as restrictions on where those foods can be promoted in-store, and new rules for displaying calories on menus.\n\nBut the committee said there had been no reviews of the effectiveness of the current or previous obesity strategies before the plan was published, and called for an urgent review to examine the evidence behind the measures.\n\nOther conclusions of the report included:\n\nMs Nokes said: \"The government must ensure its policies are not contributing to body image pressures.\"\n\nResponding to the committee's report, a Department of Health and Social Care spokeswoman said the government's approach was \"guided by the latest research and emerging evidence\".\n\nShe added: \"We know poor body image can be a factor in disordered eating for both men and women and we are committed to improving outcomes for those with eating disorders and related mental health issues - with record funding to expand dedicated services in the community.\"\n\nBut, she added: \"With over six in 10 adults overweight or living with obesity, it is important that we take action to help people live healthier lives.\"\n\nIf you need support with an eating disorder, visit the BBC Action Line website for details of organisations that can help.", "Richard Okorogheye, who had sickle cell disease, left home without his medication on 22 March\n\nThe police watchdog is assessing whether the Met needs to be investigated over its handling of the disappearance of Richard Okorogheye.\n\nThe student was found dead in a pond in Essex after being reported missing by his family two weeks earlier.\n\nAfter Mr Okorogheye's body was found, the Met Police made a mandatory referral to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC).\n\nThe IOPC said it would look to see if any \"future involvement is required\".\n\nThe Met said as a matter of routine a referral had also been made to its Directorate of Professional Standards, as the 19-year-old had been reported missing by his family before his body was found.\n\nAfter making the initial missing persons report on 22 March, Mr Okorogheye's mother Evidence Joel alleged that when his disappearance was first reported, police \"did nothing\".\n\nMs Joel said she was initially told her son was an adult, who could go out and come back whenever he wanted.\n\nOn Monday, the Met said it had been informed by Essex Police about the body of a man found in a pond\n\nShe said she told officers her son, who had sickle cell disease, had \"no jacket, no money, so I'm worried, I'm concerned about his wellbeing\" but that it was only on the following Sunday and Monday after his disappearance that she \"felt like they were doing something\".\n\nAfter leaving the family home in Ladbroke Grove, west London, on 22 March, Mr Okorogheye took a taxi to a residential street in Loughton, Essex, where he was last seen on CCTV in the early hours of the following day, walking towards Epping Forest.\n\nCCTV images show Mr Okorogheye at about 00:30 GMT on 23 March walking alone on Smarts Lane, Loughton, towards Epping Forest\n\nMs Joel previously said her son had been \"struggling to cope\" with his business and IT degree at Oxford Brookes University.\n\nHis body was found in a pond in Epping Forest on Monday evening.\n\nMr Okorogheye's death is currently being treated as unexplained. A post-mortem examination found no evidence of physical trauma or assault.\n\nFurther tests are being carried out to establish the cause of his death.\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\nMyanmar's ex-ambassador in London spent Wednesday night in his car after saying he was locked out of his embassy.\n\nKyaw Zwar Minn said staff were asked to leave the building by Myanmar's military attaché, and he was dismissed as the country's representative.\n\nBritish Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has condemned the \"bullying actions,\" but the UK has accepted the change.\n\nMyanmar's military seized power in a coup on 1 February, sparking protests and escalating violence.\n\nKyaw Zwar Minn has criticised the military coup, and called for Myanmar's ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to be released.\n\nAbout 600 people - including dozens of children - have been killed so far as pro-democracy protesters demand a return to power of elected leader Ms Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy (NLD) party.\n\nThrough a spokesman out the front of the embassy on Thursday morning, Kyaw Zwar Minn urged the UK government not to recognise the military junta's newly appointed ambassador, and to send them back to Myanmar.\n\n\"There was a coup in Myanmar in February. Now there is the same situation in central London,\" he said, adding embassy staff were being threatened with \"severe punishment if they don't continue to work for the military general\".\n\nKyaw Zwar Minn slept in a car outside the Myanmar embassy in central London on Wednesday night\n\nPolice were reportedly called to stop staff re-entering the building. Protesters gathered outside after news spread that the ambassador had been locked out.\n\nAccording to the Vienna Convention on diplomatic relations, an ambassador's job officially ends once the host country has been informed.\n\nThe Foreign Office confirmed it received the notification, and that it \"must accept the decision taken by the Myanmar regime\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Dominic Raab This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDeputy ambassador Chit Win is said to have taken over as chargé d'affaires in London, Reuters reported, citing diplomats with knowledge of the matter. However, the Foreign Office said it has \"received no formal notification of his replacement\".\n\nA chargé d'affaires serves as the head of a diplomatic mission in the absence of an ambassador.\n\nIn March, Kyaw Zwar Minn called for the release of Ms Suu Kyi and told the BBC that Myanmar was \"divided\" and could be at risk of civil war.\n\nHe maintained that his remarks were not \"betraying the country\", adding that he was standing on \"middle\" ground. In response, the Myanmar government issued a statement saying he had been summoned home, but he stayed in London.\n\n\"He's trying to work in the middle ground but there is no doubt which is the right side,\" the spokesman for Kyaw Zwar Minn said.\n\nDiplomacy has its rules. Most are set out in the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations. These are clear that governments choose who they want to represent them abroad.\n\nSo if the military regime in Myanmar wants to sack its ambassador in London, it can. Under Article 43 of the Convention, it simply has to notify the Foreign and Development Office formally that \"the function of the diplomatic agent has come to an end\". And that is what has happened here. The UK government has no choice but to accept that.\n\nThe foreign secretary can say as many supportive things as he likes about the ambassador but he can't get him back in his job.\n\nThis presents a dilemma for the government. By accepting the ambassador has been sacked, it will face accusations that it is tacitly accepting the authority of the regime in Myanmar. And this is something it does not want to do. So the question may turn to whether the UK will also recognise the now ex-ambassador as some kind of representative of the deposed administration.\n\nIt follows another day of deadly protests in Myanmar. In the northwest town of Taze, at least 11 anti-coup demonstrators were killed in clashes with security forces on Wednesday night. Local media are reporting the troops fired at protesters who fought back with hunting rifles and firebombs.\n\nMyanmar's military seized power on 1 February after overthrowing the government and declared a state of emergency.\n\nJust days later, a protest movement began to emerge, which quickly gained momentum, leading to hundreds of thousands of people taking part in street protests.\n\nA popular model and actor, Paing Takhon, was arrested as part of a growing crackdown on artists and actors. The 24-year-old was active in both online protests and in-person rallies, and has millions of fans in Myanmar and Thailand.\n\nLast week, Ms Suu Kyi was charged with breaking a colonial-era official secrets law, which carries a term of up to 14 years in prison.\n\n8 April: This story was updated after the UK Foreign Office amended the wording of its statement.", "The number of shoppers visiting retail parks and essential shops in March shows consumers have missed bricks-and-mortar shops, says Springboard.\n\nThe analyst predicts a 48% rise in sales when lockdown restrictions are lifted on 12 April.\n\nWhile footfall was still lower in March, the annual decline had halved in retail parks by the end of the month.\n\nSpringboard said it indicated there was \"pent up demand\".\n\nBetween the first and last weeks of March, shopping centres saw the decline in footfall move up from -69% to -62.5%, compared with the same period in 2019.\n\nMeanwhile, a -29.8% annual drop in footfall at retail parks shrank to -14.8% just before the Easter weekend.\n\nAnd during the four-day bank holiday, footfall in central London and other large British cities was three times greater than for the same period in March 2020, which was just after the first coronavirus lockdown began.\n\nSpringboard says that the fact more consumers are visiting these locations to buy from those essential shops allowed to stay open indicates a \"pent up demand\" to make shopping decisions in person in bricks and mortar stores, rather than online.\n\n\"Footfall in UK retail destinations has increased from week to week for 10 of the past 11 weeks despite all but non-essential stores being closed,\" said Diane Wehrle, insights director at Springboard.\n\n\"This is the longest period of sustained increases in footfall since the lead up to the reopening of non-essential retail stores in June 2020 when footfall rose for a consecutive six weeks.\"\n\nNew window displays being created by staff at a store on Regent Street in London in preparation for reopening on 12 April\n\nMeanwhile, latest data from consultants PwC's Consumer Sentiment Index shows that consumer confidence is now at its highest level since the tracking of the data began in 2008.\n\nPwC says the figures show there are consumers with more disposable income and \"a pent up demand to spend after a year of lockdown restrictions\".\n\nIt says a big reason for the optimism stems from the coronavirus vaccination rollout and the fact that people over 65 and many of those over 55 have already received their first jabs.\n\nThe consultants added that it saw a \"never before seen\" jump in leisure-spending intentions, rising from -7% to -16% in February, to a positive 25-32% in April.\n\n\"Forced savings during lockdown have led to record levels of optimism and a number of 'firsts' such as all regions being positive since we started the survey in 2008,\" said PwC's consumer markets lead Lisa Hooker.\n\n\"Consumers have missed their favourite activities such as shopping, eating out and going on holiday and so there is ample opportunity, over the spring and into the summer, for operators to maximise this appetite to spend.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Talks about the possibility of introducing vaccine passports in Wales are ongoing\n\nA decision on vaccine passports needs to be made \"urgently\", according to the artistic director of the Wales Millennium Centre.\n\nGraeme Farrow said a settlement over their possible introduction \"can't come soon enough\".\n\nWales' First Minister Mark Drakeford has said the matter is being discussed between the four governments in the UK.\n\nOpposition parties have highlighted concerns about the plans for such a scheme in Wales.\n\nThe centre is hoping to be open by October and \"fully operational\" - with no social distancing - by Christmas.\n\nThe Wales Millennium Centre is aiming to be fully operational by the end of the year\n\nThe news about passports was a \"step forward\", Mr Farrow said.\n\n\"If passports are a way to reopen this building then we are all for it, and we will be discussing with government how we do that,\" Mr Farrow said.\n\nPassports \"would work for us\", he said, but details of how they would work would need to be examined.\n\n\"Anything that brings back audiences more quickly into theatres, and safely, we are going to be supportive of,\" he said.\n\nArtistic director Graeme Farrow said a decision on vaccine passport introduction was needed \"urgently\"\n\nBut he said he feared a situation where those yet to be vaccinated, or unable to be, could not attend shows.\n\n\"We want to open to as many people and to as diverse an audience as we can,\" Mr Farrow said.\n\nBarrister Andrew Taylor said there were \"legal, ethical and security issues\" with the idea of passports.\n\n\"If most people can have the vaccine, which we know is the case, then that covers the majority of the population,\" he said.\n\n\"But not everyone is able to have it because of health considerations, or some people perhaps choose not to have it.\n\n\"The difficulty I see in the future is in the jobs market and, for example, the ability to go to venues could lead to a two-tier economy.\"\n\nHe warned of the possibility of workplace discrimination.\n\n\"Employers might say, 'You can only work here if you have the passport'.\n\nBarrister Andrew Taylor said \"legal, ethical and security issues\" surrounded the idea of passports\n\n\"If you are not allowed to have the vaccine, you therefore cannot work, so what is already a situation of disadvantage for some people may become exacerbated.\"\n\nHe believed any policy would have to be UK-wide.\n\nNight Time Industries Association chief executive Michael Kill said he was against vaccine passports.\n\nHe said: \"There are other mechanisms that we have in place that we do very well, that I think need to be considered, as well as some further engagement with the industry as a whole, to ensure we are all very aware of the output of this, if it is something that is being considered.\"\n\nMr Kill called for an \"even playing field\" for different businesses.\n\n\"There are some challenges around the age group we attract,\" he said.\n\n\"The 18-24 age group is not going to be vaccinated, or have the opportunity or choice to be vaccinated until the end of July potentially, and that has to be taken into account when you are looking at some of these measures.\"\n\nFirst Minister and Welsh Labour leader Mr Drakeford said there were \"practical and ethical\" problems to be solved around vaccine passports.\n\nHe said he was in discussions with the governments of the other UK nations and would be \"having discussions again next week\".\n\nHe said: \"If you can do it in a way that doesn't discriminate unfairly against people, if you can do it in a way that does not make the system vulnerable to fraud and counterfeit certificates and so on, then I think there is a part they might be able to play in Wales.\"\n\nThe Welsh Conservatives said talk of vaccine passports in Wales was \"unnecessary\" as there was \"a review ongoing at a UK level\".\n\nIn Israel, a \"green pass\" showing someone is fully vaccinated is required for people to do certain things\n\nA spokesman said: \"The focus of ministers in Cardiff Bay should be on the vaccine rollout, accelerating the reopening of outdoor hospitality and gyms, whilst extending business support for those firms who've been badly let down by Labour's decision this week to backtrack on previous commitments.\"\n\nA spokesman said it was concerned about people being excluded because they were unable to take the vaccine.\n\n\"It could risk marginalising those groups and further entrenching divides in our society,\" he said.\n\n\"Plaid Cymru cannot support the introduction of vaccine certificates for domestic use until these concerns have been fully addressed.\"\n\nWelsh Liberal Democrats leader Jane Dodds said her party \"remain opposed to these plans\" as vaccine passports would be \"divisive and discriminatory, as well as unworkable and illiberal\".\n\nMs Dodds said: \"They would mean that only those over-50 would be able to visit a shop or restaurant when they reopen, and individuals in their 20s and 30s will be barred from premises for many, many months until they are offered a vaccine.\"", "Alan Willson, pictured with his wife, is in a coma in hospital following the attack\n\nA man who was attacked by a group in a park after he went to protect his son is in hospital in a critical condition, family friends have said.\n\nAlan Willson ran from his home in Worthing, West Sussex, after his son called him to say he was being attacked.\n\nThe 46-year-old was taken to the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton, where he remains in a coma.\n\nFive boys have been arrested and released on bail under \"strict curfew\".\n\nRhiann Wiseman, who has set up an online appeal to help Mr Willson's family, wrote: \"Alan's son rung him to say he was in trouble in Longcroft Park, he went round to see what was happening to his young son and was brutally attacked.\n\n\"He is now in a coma after being beaten. His son saw the whole thing.\"\n\nA police presence remains in Longcroft Park in Worthing after the attack\n\nSussex Police said they were called to Whitebeam Road at about 19:30 BST on Sunday after a man had been found injured in nearby Longcroft Park.\n\nA police spokesman said: \"Four boys were arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and grievous bodily harm with intent.\n\n\"They were released on bail with conditions while police enquiries continue. These conditions include strict curfews, staying at a given address away from the local area and not associating with each other.\n\n\"Police also arrested a fifth boy on suspicion of attempted murder on Monday. He has also been released on bail with strict conditions.\"\n\nPolice are keen to hear from anyone who witnessed the attack.\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.", "Bitcoin mining in China is so carbon intensive that it could threaten the country's emissions reduction targets, according to new research.\n\nChina wants its emissions to peak in 2030, and has plans to be carbon neutral by 2060.\n\nThe cryptocurrency's carbon footprint is as large as one of China's ten largest cities, the study found.\n\nChina accounts for more than 75% of bitcoin mining around the world, researchers said.\n\nThe study was written by academics from the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tsinghua University, Cornell University and the University of Surrey. It was published by the peer-reviewed journal Nature Communications.\n\n\"Without appropriate interventions and feasible policies, the intensive bitcoin blockchain operation in China can quickly grow as a threat that could potentially undermine the emission reduction effort taken place in the country,\" it warned.\n\nSome rural areas in China are popular among bitcoin miners, mainly due to the cheaper electricity prices and undeveloped land to house the servers.\n\nMiners play a dual role, effectively auditing bitcoin transactions in exchange for the opportunity to acquire the digital currency.\n\nThe process requires enormous computing power, and in turn consumes huge amounts of energy.\n\nAlready, bitcoin-related emissions in China exceed the total emissions of the Czech Republic and Qatar in 2016.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Man loses £210 million worth of bitcoin after throwing away hard drive.\n\nBy 2024, China's bitcoin operations will exceed the total energy consumption of Italy and Saudi Arabia, and would rank 12th among nations.\n\nAt its peak, it could account for about 5.41% of China's electricity generation emissions.\n\nThe researchers said a carbon tax would be relatively ineffective for bitcoin, and suggested \"site regulation\" policies instead.\n\nThe researchers said the \"attractive financial incentive of bitcoin mining\" has caused an arms race in dedicated mining hardware\n\nThe price of the cryptocurrency surged during the pandemic, rising from $7,000 last April to pass $60,000 in March before hitting a period of volatility.\n\nBitcoin's price increase was pushed higher by well-known companies adopting it as a method of payment, including electric carmaker Tesla.\n\nThe Covid-19 pandemic also likely played a part, with more people shopping online and moving further away from physical currencies.\n\nCritics have long charged that in addition to its environmental impact, its main use is as a financial speculation tool rather than as a currency.\n\nThey also worry that it is prone to market manipulation by a few large players.", "\"Like A Village\" forms part of a mural to run alongside the Elizabeth Line\n\nA public artwork in east London has attracted criticism over the inclusion of a poem saying \"the only negative thing\" about the area is the rising number of murders.\n\n\"This is unfortunate, but everything else is fine,\" the wording continues.\n\nArtist Sonia Boyce, commissioned by Crossrail, collected memories from people living in Newham.\n\nShe will use their anecdotes as part of a 2km mural that will run alongside the new Elizabeth Line.\n\nThe mural on the Newham Trackside Wall also features photographs of the changing landscape which have been printed on to 1,500 panels, and it will run through Custom House, Silvertown and North Woolwich.\n\nA spokesperson from Crossrail said the company planned to cover up that one panel \"to allow the content to be further considered with the local community and council\".\n\nThe contribution \"Like a Village\", which is anonymous, praises the local amenities before claiming there is a rising murder rate, a situation described as \"unfortunate\".\n\nI'm glad I was brought up here, it's like a village.\n\nIt has a hairdresser, a corner shop, a post office, a library, three parks, a bakery and a pharmacy.\n\nThere's the Police Station, there's a Chinese takeaway.\n\nIt has everything all in one small area and everyone knows everyone.\n\nThe only negative thing is the crime and the murders, which has been increasing.\n\nThis is unfortunate, but other than that everything else is fine.\n\nAlso there's a little beach and you can take a ferry ride.\n\nReaction to the inclusion of Like a Village has ranged from amused to outraged.\n\nOne Twitter user, Stop City Airport, posted \"How have Crossrail let this happen?????\".\n\nThe most recent figures show Newham has a crime rate of 195, rising from the previous 12-month statistics of 112. The crime rate details the number of offences committed per 1,000 members of the population.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Oxfam projects in the Democratic Republic of Congo include water and sanitation works\n\nThe UK has suspended aid funding for Oxfam again after fresh allegations of sexual exploitation and bullying were made against staff.\n\nTwo Oxfam workers in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) were suspended last week following the latest claims.\n\nThe charity had only been allowed to start reapplying for aid funds in March.\n\nIt had served a three-year ban after evidence of sexual exploitation by staff in Haiti came to light in 2018.\n\nThe Foreign and Development Office said Oxfam would not be able to make any applications for UK aid money until the new allegations were resolved.\n\n\"All organisations bidding for UK aid must meet the high standards of safeguarding required to keep the people they work with safe,\" a spokesman said.\n\nThe recent reports \"call into question\" Oxfam's ability to meet those standards, he added.\n\nOxfam said its suspensions of the two members of staff showed \"our commitment to tackle abuses of power\".\n\nThe allegations of sexual exploitation by Oxfam staff in Haiti in 2018 lifted the lid on the dark underbelly of international aid charities.\n\nThe scandal and the reforms that followed were supposed to put an end to that.\n\nBut the latest allegations emerging from the Democratic Republic of Congo pose new questions about whether there has been enough change.\n\nCertainly, the Foreign Office does not think Oxfam yet meets the highest standards of safeguarding.\n\nAfter three years in the cold, just a month after it was finally able to resume applications for UK aid, Oxfam is once again shunned by Whitehall.\n\nEven if this is only a temporary pause in funding, the charity's reputation has suffered another blow.\n\nA spokesman for the charity said it was keeping the Foreign Office and the Charity Commission informed about its investigation in the DRC and it was seeking further information about the ban.\n\nLast week the charity revealed it had suspended the two workers in the DRC as part of an investigation set up in November. But the Times - which revealed the original scandal in 2018 - said whistleblowers were \"frustrated\" at the speed of the inquiry.\n\nCurrent and former Oxfam staff made allegations of sexual exploitation, bullying, fraud and nepotism against 11 people in a letter send to the charity's leadership in February, the paper said.\n\nSome of these complaints dated back to 2015.\n\nAfter claims that staff sexually exploited survivors of the 2010 Haiti earthquake were revealed in 2018, the Charity Commission concluded Oxfam had a \"culture of poor behaviour\" and was issued with a warning over its \"mismanagement\".\n\nWith thousands of people cancelling their regular donations and the government suspending its funding of the charity, Oxfam had to make £16m of cuts.", "Thousands of people have fled the coastal town following the outbreak of conflict\n\nMozambique's military says it has regained full control of the coastal town of Palma, more than a week after it was raided by militant Islamists.\n\nA \"significant\" number of militants were killed in the counter-offensive, an army spokesman said.\n\nState radio reported that residents who had fled were starting to return - some to homes that were looted.\n\nDozens of civilians were killed and at least 11,000 displaced after the militants invaded Palma on 24 March.\n\nA South African and British national were among those killed in what was one of the biggest attacks by the militants in northern Mozambique's Cabo Delgado province since they launched an insurgency in the region in 2017.\n\nCommunication with the town, which has a population of about 75,000, remains cut.\n\nThe militants, known locally as al-Shabab, have pledged allegiance to the Islamic State (IS) group.\n\nTheir assault on Palma forced energy giant Total to suspend its multi-billion dollar natural gas project in Afungi, a short distance from the town.\n\nA message asking for help was seen on the grounds of a hotel in Palma\n\nTotal withdrew its staff on Friday, while the United Nations suspended flights to evacuate civilians because of security concerns.\n\nArmy spokesman Brigadier Chongo Vidigal said the gas plant was secure, and Palma was now \"safe\" .\n\n\"The airfield area was the only one we needed to clear and we did that [on Sunday]. It's completely safe,\" Brig Vidigal was quoted by AFP news agency as saying.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn the first footage from Palma in the aftermath of the attack, state television broadcast images of soldiers putting black plastic sheets over the dead on the streets, reports the BBC's Jose Tembe from the capital Maputo.\n\nAlthough some residents were reported to be returning, the streets were mostly deserted.\n\nThe town's hospital, commercial banks and the state prosecutor's office were all destroyed, our reporter adds.\n\nThe governor of Cabo Delgado, Valgy Tauabo, visited Palma on Sunday, and promised to help people rebuild their lives.\n\n\"We are now moving on to the next stage, one as critical as retaking the town, whereby we will be welcoming the communities who fled to the bush,\" Brig Vidigal said.\n\nThousands of others fled by boat to Pemba, the capital of Cabo Delgado.\n\nMany people are questioning why it took around 10 days for the military to regain full control of Palma.\n\nIt suggests that the militants have become strong, and government forces are struggling to contain the insurgency.\n\nA private security firm from South Africa, Dyck Advisory Group, has been helping the military to fight the militants, but the government has never officially acknowledged its involvement and there are reports that it has suspended its contract.\n\nThe regional body, the Southern African Development Community (SADC), is due to discuss the insurgency at a meeting later this week, amid fears that it could spread.\n\nThere have been calls for the deployment of regional troops, but Mozambique's government has so far resisted this. Many academics agree with its decision, saying the deployment of a regional force could complicate the situation and some of its troops may even collude with the militants.\n\nInstead, it has called for its army to be given training and resources to fight the militants - an unspecified number of US military instructors are already in Mozambique for this purpose.\n\nPortugal, the former colonial power, has also said it will send about 60 troops in the coming weeks to provide training.", "Shadow Cabinet Office minister Rachel Reeves said new legislation is needed\n\nLabour is calling on the government to tighten the law around lobbying amid continued questions over David Cameron's links to collapsed finance firm Greensill Capital.\n\nA watchdog cleared the former prime minister of unregistered lobbying after it was found he did not have to declare his work on behalf of the company.\n\nShadow Cabinet Office minister Rachel Reeves said the rules were \"toothless\".\n\nMinisters say the lobbying process has become significantly more transparent.\n\nMs Reeves's comments come after it emerged Mr Cameron tried to lobby government figures to increase Greensill Capital's access to emergency Covid loans, when the company collapsed into administration.\n\nUnder the current rules, Mr Cameron was not classed as an outside \"consultant\" lobbyist so did not have to make a declaration when he went to work for Greensill after leaving office.\n\nMs Reeves said it was \"crucial\" ministers include legislation in next month's Queen's Speech to expand the register of consultant lobbyists to include so-called \"in house\" lobbyists like Mr Cameron.\n\nThere have also been claims the Greensill founder, Lex Greensill, benefitted from \"privileged access\" to Whitehall, gained during Mr Cameron's time at Downing Street.\n\nNeither Mr Cameron or Mr Greensill have commented.\n\nThe government said it has \"significantly increased transparency since 2010 - routinely publishing details of contracts, spending and meetings, and introducing a statutory register of consultant lobbyists\".\n\nIt said further changes are planned to make sure \"the highest standards\" are upheld in public life.", "The leak was discovered at the reservoir at Piney Point\n\nEmergency crews in Florida have been working to prevent a \"catastrophic\" flood after a leak was found in a large reservoir of toxic wastewater.\n\nMore than 300 homes near Tampa Bay have been evacuated, and a highway near the Piney Point reservoir has been closed.\n\nOn Sunday, he said the water was \"primarily saltwater\" from a dredging project mixed with \"legacy process water and storm water runoff\".\n\nHe added that the water was not radioactive, as had been feared, and that the priority was to prevent a \"real catastrophic flood situation\".\n\nOfficials said the 77-acre (31-hectare) reservoir holds millions of gallons of water containing phosphorus and nitrogen from an old phosphate plant.\n\nThe pond where the leak was found is in a stack of phosphogypsum, a radioactive waste product from the manufacture of fertiliser.\n\nAttempts to repair the leak late on Friday, by plugging the hole with rocks and other materials, were unsuccessful.\n\nDeclaring a state of emergency allowed funds to be released to send more pumps and cranes to the area.\n\nOn Sunday, Mr DeSantis said emergency workers - assisted by the Florida National Guard - were pumping water out of the pond at a rate of 33 million gallons a day and discharging it into the nearby Tampa Bay.\n\nOther workers have been charting the path to control the flow of the water and more pumps are being deployed to the region.\n\nManatee County Administrator Scott Hopes told a press conference on Saturday that there were concerns the water could flood the area, which is mostly agricultural.\n\n\"We are talking about the potential of about 600 million gallons (2.3 billion litres) within a matter of seconds and minutes, leaving that retention pool and going around the surrounding area,\" he said.\n\nBy Sunday, however, he was more optimistic - telling reporters that the situation should be in a \"much better position\" by Tuesday.\n\nBut he also warned that \"we are not out of the critical area yet\".\n\nNational conservation group the Center for Biological Diversity also released a statement calling for the US Environmental Protection Agency to intervene.\n\n\"Federal officials need to clean up this mess the fertiliser industry has dumped on Florida communities and immediately halt further phosphogypsum production,\" Jaclyn Lopez, the organisation's Florida director, said.", "Everyone in England is to be given access to two rapid coronavirus tests a week from Friday, under an extension of the government's testing programme.\n\nThe lateral flow kits, which can provide results in around 30 minutes, will be available for free at testing sites, pharmacies and through the post.\n\nThe health secretary said it would help squash any outbreaks as lockdown eases.\n\nBut critics of the programme say it risks becoming a \"scandalous\" waste of money.\n\nIt comes as Boris Johnson is due to meet the cabinet to sign off the next stage of lockdown easing in England, which will see non-essential shops reopen and pubs and restaurants start serving outdoors from 12 April.\n\nLater, the prime minister will hold a Downing Street briefing, where he is expected to confirm countries will be graded under a traffic light system when international leisure travel resumes.\n\nHe is also set to outline plans for coronavirus passports - recording whether people had been vaccinated, recently tested negative or had natural immunity - as a means of enabling mass-audience events to take place in the future.\n\nHowever, dozens of MPs oppose the use of Covid passports and Mr Johnson faces the prospect of a rebellion among a number of senior Conservatives if he proceeds with them.\n\nLateral flow tests are already available for school children and their families to take at home as well as for those who have to leave home for work.\n\nThe prime minister hailed the plan to offer everyone testing from 9 April, saying: \"As we continue to make good progress on our vaccine programme and with our road map cautiously easing restrictions under way, regular rapid testing is even more important to make sure those efforts are not wasted.\"\n\nHealth minister Edward Argar told BBC Breakfast he expected the lateral flow tests to be used by those returning to work in the coming weeks as the \"economy starts opening up again\".\n\nHe said fewer than one in every 1,000 lateral flow tests gave a false positive result and refused to set an \"arbitrary\" date for when testing would end.\n\nMr Argar said the tests would be paid for as part of NHS Test and Trace's funding of £37bn over two years, with 80% of that expected to be used for testing.\n\nThe rapid tests are aimed at those without any Covid symptoms and can be taken at home.\n\nThe government introduced lateral flow testing for secondary school children and staff earlier this year, under plans to reopen classes in England by March.\n\nIn February, the scheme was extended to the families of all school and college-age children in England.\n\nKits were also offered to those who cannot work from home in the pandemic, so they can be tested twice a week.\n\nFrom 9 April, kits will be available through:\n\nAnyone who tests positive using a lateral flow test will be expected to self-isolate along with their household. They can then order a second PCR Covid test, typically used for symptomatic cases, which will be sent off to a laboratory for analysis.\n\nIf the confirmatory test comes back negative, their quarantine period is considered over immediately and they can resume normal life.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Laura Foster explains how lateral flow tests work and how to do one\n\nThe schools testing programme, combined with the wider use of workplace testing, has led to a jump in the number of lateral flow tests carried out in England.\n\nThere were about 250,000 rapid tests a day taken in mid-February - climbing to more than a million a day by the end of March.\n\nDr Susan Hopkins, Covid-19 strategic response director at Public Health England, said rapid testing might find cases that would not otherwise be discovered, helping to break chains of transmission and suppress the spread of variants or mutations of coronavirus.\n\nThe Department of Health said parents may wish to consider testing children under the age of 11 but the current Public Health England advice was that there was a \"limited public health benefit from testing primary school age children with lateral flow devices\".\n\nSecondary school children in England have been using lateral flow tests since all classes restarted in March\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said: \"Around one in three people who have Covid-19 show no symptoms, and as we reopen society and resume parts of life we have missed, regular rapid testing is going to be fundamental in helping us quickly spot positive cases and squash any outbreaks.\"\n\nShadow health secretary, Jonathan Ashworth, said any expansion of the testing scheme must be backed by financial support so people could self-isolate, adding: \"Lack of adequate sick pay and support remains a dangerous hole in our defences against this horrific virus.\"\n\nThe latest data shows that, of the 4.2 million lateral flow tests taken in schools and colleges in the week from 18 to 24 March, 4,502 returned a positive result.\n\nCritics of the programme say that when rates are at low levels, it makes it hard to distinguish between actual infections and so-called \"false positives\" - an error where the test registers a positive result incorrectly.\n\n\"Mass testing is a scandalous waste of money,\" said Allyson Pollock, professor of public health at Newcastle University.\n\n\"When the prevalence rate of coronavirus falls as low as it is at the moment then an increasing proportion of cases are likely to be false positives meaning that cases and contacts will self isolate unnecessarily.\"\n\nProf Pollock said it is likely that mass testing \"is going to do more harm than good\" and there had been no evaluation of mass testing programmes by the government.\n\nThe government requires secondary school children to take a second PCR or lab test if their first rapid lateral flow test comes back positive in school.\n\nParents and scientists had warned some pupils were self-isolating unnecessarily after just returning to the classroom.\n\nThe government said that for every 1,000 lateral flow tests carried out, there was less than one false positive result, and the rapid tests were particularly useful at detecting high levels of virus.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, a spokesperson for the department of health said rapid testing was recently extended to private sector firms with more than 50 staff, and \"consideration may be provided to other sectors\".\n\nThe Scottish government said it was expanding rapid testing in hospitals, care homes, schools and in the community to spot asymptomatic cases in high prevalence areas, while also \"considering the implications\" of the announcement in England.\n\nThe Welsh government said 22% of the population already had access to regular rapid testing and this would continue to grow with the expansion of workplace and community testing programmes.", "A decade-long battle over copied code in Google's Android operating system has ended in the US Supreme Court.\n\nOracle, another tech titan, had sued Google in 2010 for copyright infringement over what it said was copied computer code.\n\nAndroid is now used in an estimated 70% of global smartphones, and damages could have run into the billions.\n\nBut the Supreme Court let Google off the hook, overturning a lower court's decision it had infringed copyright.\n\nThe court ruled six to two in favour of Google.\n\nAt issue was whether Google's use of Oracle's Java API - a widely-used \"building block\" for programmers - counted as \"fair use\" under US copyright law.\n\nIf it was, the fact that Google was accused of copying more than 11,000 lines of code would not matter.\n\nJustice Stephen Breyer, in his written opinion, said that \"to allow enforcement of Oracle's copyright here would risk harm to the public\".\n\nSo many programmers used and had deep knowledge of Oracle's building blocks that such a move would turn computer code into \"a lock limiting the future creativity of new programs\".\n\n\"Oracle alone would hold the key,\" he warned.\n\nOracle made clear that it firmly disagreed with the court's judgement, saying that it had increased Google's power further and damaged other companies' ability to compete.\n\n\"They stole Java and spent a decade litigating as only a monopolist can,\" said Dorian Daley, the company's general counsel, in a statement.\n\n\"This behaviour is exactly why regulatory authorities around the world and in the United States are examining Google's business practices.\"\n\nGoogle, meanwhile, painted the decision as a victory for the software industry as a whole.\n\n\"Today's Supreme Court decision in Google v Oracle is a big win for innovation, interoperability and computing,\" wrote Ken Walker, the company's senior vice president for global affairs.\n\n\"Thanks to the country's leading innovators, software engineers and copyright scholars for their support.\"\n\nThe majority of judges agreed that Google's copying of the Java code - in the particular way it was used - was \"a fair use of that material\".\n\nBut the judges disagreed on how to apply traditional copyright law to computer code.\n\nJustice Breyer, writing for the majority, acknowledged that it is \"difficult to apply traditional copyright concepts in that technological world\".\n\nBut in a dissenting opinion, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote that allowing fair use simply because it allows new products to be created effectively redefines the idea.\n\n\"That new definition eviscerates copyright,\" he warned.\n\nHe also lamented that the majority had decided not to rule on whether code was copyrightable, instead saving the question for another day and relying on fair use instead.\n\n\"The majority cannot square its fundamentally flawed fair-use analysis with a finding that declaring code is copyrightable,\" he wrote of his peers.", "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.", "Unions have criticised a 50p-per-week increase in statutory sick pay (SSP) as \"miserly\".\n\nSSP increases from £95.85 to £96.35 on Tuesday, but unions including the Trades Union Congress (TUC) and Unite say it is too little to live on.\n\nTUC general secretary Frances O'Grady said: \"No-one should be plunged into hardship if they need to self-isolate.\"\n\nA government spokesman said there was a \"comprehensive package\" in place to support those who need to self-isolate.\n\nIt also said many employers pay more than the minimum level of statutory sick pay.\n\nAccording to the OECD, the UK has one of the lowest statutory sick pay rates of any developed country, as a proportion of the average worker's earnings.\n\nHowever, its coverage lasts longer than in most European nations.\n\nMs O'Grady said \"low\" SSP payments could risk \"undermining\" public health efforts as lockdowns ease across the UK.\n\n\"Many working in pubs and shops are on low wages and face having to survive on just £96 a week if they get sick,\" she said.\n\nThe TUC is calling for the level of SSP paid to be raised in line with the National Living Wage, which stands at £8.91-per-hour for workers aged 23 and over.\n\nIt also warned that nearly two million workers do not earn enough to qualify for SSP - most of them women.\n\nNor are the self-employed eligible to receive it, unlike in most other European countries.\n\nLen McCluskey, Unite general secretary, said: \"Time and again the government has been told that people will not isolate without a living income.\n\n\"Unless and until the government addresses the scandalously low level of sick pay provision in this country, any scheme to reopen the economy that rests on isolation but without income is half-baked and will fail.\"\n\nA government spokesman said that there was a \"comprehensive package of financial support in place for workers who need to self-isolate to help stop the spread of coronavirus\".\n\nThat includes a £500 payment for those on the lowest incomes who have been contacted by NHS Test and Trace.\n\n\"Many employers pay more than the minimum level of statutory sick pay and employers with up to 250 staff can be reimbursed the cost of up to a fortnight's statutory sick pay.\"", "LG Electronics said on Monday it would close down its loss-making smartphone business.\n\nIn January, the South Korean electronics giant said it was looking at all options for the division after almost six years of losses totalling around $4.5bn (£3.3bn).\n\nLG had made many innovations including ultra-wide angle cameras, rising to third largest smartphone maker in 2013.\n\nBut bosses said the mobile phone market had become \"incredibly competitive\".\n\nWhile Samsung and Apple are the two biggest players in the smartphone market, LG has suffered from its own hardware and software issues.\n\nAs LG struggled with losses it had held talks to sell part of the business but these fell through.\n\nIt still ranks as the third most popular brand in North America but has slipped in other markets. LG phones are still fairly common in its domestic South Korean market.\n\n\"LG's strategic decision to exit the incredibly competitive mobile phone sector will enable the company to focus resources in growth areas such as electric vehicle components, connected devices, smart homes, robotics and artificial intelligence,\" it said in a statement.\n\nLast year it shipped 28 million phones, which compares with 256 million for Samsung, according to research firm Counterpoint.\n\nThe smartphone business is the smallest of LG's five divisions, accounting for just 7.4% of revenue. Currently its global mobile phone market share is about 2%.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: LG's display rolls up out of the way into the ceiling when not in use\n\nIt has been innovating its phones to compete with its bigger rivals, with last year's launch of the T-shaped Wing, a smartphone with a larger screen which swivels out to reveal a second, smaller one underneath.\n\nLG still has a strong consumer electronics business, particularly with home appliances and televisions. LG is the world's second best-selling TV brand after Samsung.\n\nIn December it launched a joint venture with automotive supplier Magna International that will make key components for electric cars.\n\nLG's phone inventory will continue to be available for sale, and it will still provide service support and software updates for existing customers. The divisions is expected to be wound down by the end of July.\n\nLG has a joint venture with automotive supplier Magna International to make parts for electric cars.\n\n\"Moving forward, LG will continue to leverage its mobile expertise and develop mobility-related technologies such as 6G to help further strengthen competitiveness in other business areas,\" a spokesman added.\n\nAnalysts said South Korean rival Samsung and Chinese companies such as Oppo, Vivo and Xiaomi are likely to benefit the most from LG's exit.\n\nSmartphone makers struggled during the pandemic with sales down about 10% in 2020 mainly due to lockdowns limiting store openings.", "Three famous classical musicians, the Gundechas, have been accused of sexual harassment\n\nHer discomfort and nervousness is palpable, even across the Zoom screen. Monica's name has been changed to protect her identity because she fears reprisal. But she is keen to share her story.\n\nShe alleges that she was raped by the late Ramakant Gundecha, a famous classical Indian musician, while she was a student at his school, Dhrupad Sansthan, in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.\n\nGundecha died in November 2019 but he and his brothers, Umakant and Akhilesh, have since been accused of sexual harassment and assault by female students of the music school. Over the course of a three-month investigation, the BBC has heard multiple allegations against all three Gundecha brothers. Umakant and Akhilesh deny the allegations.\n\nRamakant was and Umakant still is a famous exponent of Dhrupad, one of the oldest genres of Hindustani music, while Akhilesh is a percussionist. In 2012, Ramakant and Umakant received the Padma Shri, India's fourth-highest civilian award for their contribution to music.\n\nDhrupad Sansthan, the prestigious school they founded and taught at, has attracted hundreds of students, foreign and Indian, from across the globe. It claims to have accreditation from Unesco's Intangible Cultural Heritage Committee. But the Unesco told the BBC that it had no links to the school and said it will be sending a 'cease and desist' notice demanding the withdrawal of such claims.\n\nDhrupad Sansthan has drawn students from across the world\n\nThe allegations against the brothers have sent shockwaves through the classical music world, where they enjoy fame and status. The allegations have also shone a spotlight on an ancient tradition, the guru-shishya parampara - an informal contract by which the student is usually expected to completely surrender to the will of the teacher.\n\nAllegations against the the three brothers range from sharing flirtatious and sexually suggestive messages to exposing themselves during class to molestation and, in the case of Ramakant, even rape.\n\nMonica said she was in her first week at the school when she began receiving inappropriate WhatsApp messages from Ramakant. She alleged that one evening he drove her to a dark car park and molested her in the backseat of his car.\n\n\"He started kissing me. I pushed him away but he kept trying,\" she said. \"He touched my body and tried to unclothe me. At that time, I realised I was not moving. I was like a stone. At one point he realised that I was not responding. So he asked me, should I drop you back at the school? But I couldn't even reply.\"\n\nMonica said she wanted to erase the memory of the incident. She didn't leave the school immediately because she loved the music and was keen to pursue it further. She had left her job and invested all her money to study at the school.\n\nBut then three months later, she alleged, Ramakant raped her. \"[He] entered the room, pulled my pants off and forcefully had sex with me. And when he had finished he just left. I went to the door and bolted it. And for three days, I didn't eat,\" she said.\n\nSarah, another student at the school, whose name has also been changed, told the BBC that she was molested by Akhilesh Gundecha.\n\n\"I got sick when I was there and was hospitalised,\" she said. \"Akhilesh came to take me back to the school. He sat next to me in the car and started touching my hands. I pulled them away. It felt very strange.\"\n\nIn total, five women told the BBC they had witnessed abuse and harassment on the Dhrupad Sansthan campus. Some said that when they rebuffed sexual advances from Ramakant Gundecha, he lost interest in teaching them. They also alleged that if a student complained, she was often publicly humiliated in class.\n\nRachel Fairbanks, a primary school teacher who now lives in Seattle, said the abuse began on her first day at the school in March 2017. She alleged that she was cornered by a campus driver who'd come to drop off her luggage in her room.\n\n\"I thought he was going to hurt me. So I asked Ramakant to step in,\" she said.\n\nBut instead of helping, she alleged, he began molesting her. She accused him of attempting to kiss her and repeatedly texting her, professing his love. On one occasion, she alleged, he drove her outside the campus to an abandoned field late at night, pulled her pants down and touched her vagina.\n\n\"I pushed him off. He drove me back to a small town, which is right outside of the school,\" she said. \"And then I had to walk back in the dark through the town and through the fields, back to the school. I left the school soon after that happened. I couldn't even sit in Ramakant's presence anymore.\"\n\nThe Gundechas are famous exponents of the Dhrupad style\n\nRachel, who didn't want to remain anonymous, said she had found the strength to speak up now, several years later, only after similar allegations came to light in a Facebook post shared by a group called 'Dhrupad Family Europe' in September 2020.\n\nThrough their lawyers, both Akhilesh and Umakant Gundecha denied all of these allegations, stating that \"vested interests\" from outside the student community were trying to \"further their agenda of causing damage to the art and reputation of the Gundecha Brothers and Dhrupad Sansthan\".\n\nBut the charges are also being investigated by an internal complaints committee over the last four months. Indian law mandates every institution to set up a panel to address complaints of sexual harassment or assault.\n\nStudents say the committee at Dhrupad Sansthan was formed only after they put pressure on the school. Former students, who are part of a support group for the survivors, have also alleged that they have received threats on multiple occasions for speaking out in support. Survivors are bound by law not to disclose the results of the investigation.\n\nAlthough this is the first time #MeToo movement has touched the world of Hindustani classical music, many say this reckoning was overdue.\n\nMany classical musicians say the teaching methods make women more vulnerable to abuse\n\nWhile many classical musicians say retaining the rigours of the teacher-student relationship is fundamental to learning the ancient form, several others told the BBC that there was still a need to recognise that it's an easy vehicle for exploitation.\n\n\"The guru (teacher) expects complete submission, complete subservience from the student,\" said Neela Bhagwat, a 79-year-old vocalist. \"If it's a male student the surrender is less. If it's a female student, the surrender is more. I think this makes female students very vulnerable,\" she said.\n\nBhagwat said she often composed her own lyrics because of the inherent misogyny in traditional compositions.\n\nTM Krishna, a famous classical musician of the Carnatic form, has gone to the extent of suggesting that the guru-shishya tradition be demolished entirely.\n\n\"Like most relationships, the guru-shishya relationship is grounded in a power imbalance, but here, crucially, the inequality is celebrated,\" he wrote in the Indian Express newspaper recently after allegations against the Gundechas emerged.\n\n\"No doubt there will be claims that I seek to destroy something ancient. But a storied past must never be a defence against criticism.\"\n\nBoth Krishna and Bhagwat argue that there's a need to humanise the guru, and treat him like an expert in his field, rather than a god who can do no wrong.\n\n\"In the wake of the recent accusations, has anyone even thought of contacting the institutions - and there must be hundreds of them in the country - to do an audit on whether they have a valid internal compliance committee already in place?\" said Shubha Mudgal, a popular vocalist whose repertoire includes classical and Indie-pop music.\n\nMudgal is among the few musicians to speak out in support of the survivors\n\nBhagwat, Krishna and Mudgal are rare exceptions in a fraternity that has largely remained silent. And many also wonder how much of an impact the allegations will have on the careers of the two remaining Gundecha brothers.\n\nAkhilesh Gundecha, for instance, was invited to perform at the prestigious Tansen Samaroh 2020 festival, before being dropped following a social media backlash.\n\nThe students who spoke to the BBC said a lack of faith in the Indian judiciary's ability to deliver justice was a key reason why they were not pursuing a legal course. Their future course of action is unclear, particularly because most have now left India.\n\nMost of the women said they wanted some closure from the investigating committee's findings, along with a public apology from the Gundechas. But that has not happened yet.\n\nRachel said she saw no point in the investigation if its findings couldn't be made public. She said what continued to hurt is that her experience also spelled the end of her relationship with Dhrupad.\n\n\"I have my tanpura [an Indian musical instrument] in the living room right now and it's going to be sold,\" she said. \"I unfortunately can't sing without having flashbacks.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Burnt-out cars and debris remained at the roundabout on Sunday morning\n\nPolice have been attacked in Newtownabbey, on the outskirts of Belfast, for the second night in a row.\n\nBricks and bottles were thrown at police and a bin was set alight on Sunday night.\n\nIt happened again at the Cloughfern roundabout in the O'Neill Road area. Police asked motorists to avoid the area.\n\nPetrol bombs were also thrown at police on the North Road in Carrickfergus, County Antrim, on Sunday night.\n\nEarlier a 47-year-old man was charged with riot and throwing a petrol bomb following trouble in Newtownabbey on Saturday night.\n\nHe is due to appear at Belfast Magistrates Court on 26 April.\n\nThirty petrol bombs were thrown at police and three vehicles were hijacked and set alight during rioting in Newtownabbey on Saturday night.\n\nPolice said a crowd of 20 to 30 people gathered at the Cloughfern roundabout from about 19:30 BST to 22:30 BST on Saturday.\n\nThe crowd consisted of young people and older men, some of whom were wearing masks, according to police.\n\nThe trouble was described as an \"orchestrated attack on police\" by Ch Supt Beck.\n\n\"No one, no matter what line of work they are in, deserves to be subjected to any kind of violence,\" he said.\n\nIt followed riots on Friday night in which 27 police officers were injured in Belfast and Londonderry.\n\nThere were five nights of violence in a row in the Tullyally area of Derry.\n\nWhen the police arrived to stop the violence on Saturday night, a member of the crowd shouted: \"It's party time.\"\n\nClearly they were spoiling for a fight.\n\nThis was not a loyalist protest that went wrong. It looked like a planned confrontation.\n\nBy burning three vehicles at a busy roundabout, the crowd knew the police would arrive soon. They did.\n\nWhat happened next was ugly, but the police operation was firm and controlled.\n\nWithin an hour, order had been restored.\n\nCh Supt Beck called on those involved in the attacks to \"stop immediately\".\n\n\"Their actions are causing nothing but harm and distress to the very communities they are representing,\" he said.\n\n\"No one wants to be dragged back to the dark days when rioting was a common occurrence on the streets of Northern Ireland.\"\n\nOne man had his clothing set alight while he was confronting police. A petrol bomb was thrown from the crowd behind him and landed in front of him.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe fell to the ground and was caught up in the flames.\n\nHe ran to get help and members of the crowd helped to dampen the flames.\n\nPolice worked with \"very closely\" with local councillors in an effort to defuse the situation, according to Ch Supt Beck.\n\n\"We will continue to work with our partner agencies, community and elected representatives and the people of Newtownabbey to ensure we can all live in a peaceful society,\" he added.\n\nPolice appealed for anyone with information on the violence to contact them.", "The singer has become one of the biggest chart stars of the last decade\n\nR&B singer The Weeknd has promised to donate $1m (£700,000) to Ethiopians caught up in the conflict in Tigray.\n\nThe star, born Abel Tesfaye in Canada, is the son of Ethiopian immigrants.\n\n\"My heart breaks for my people of Ethiopia as innocent civilians ranging from small children to the elderly are being senselessly murdered,\" he said.\n\nFighting between the Ethiopian army and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) began in November and has left millions of people homeless.\n\nThe fighting started when Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed sent forces to the Tigray region, after accusing the TPLF of attacking a government military base.\n\nThe TPLF had been the ruling party in the area, but fell out with Mr Abiy over his efforts to increase the central government's power.\n\nLast week, a BBC Africa Eye investigation uncovered evidence suggesting the Ethiopian military had carried out a massacre in Tigray, killing at least 15 men.\n\nSo far more than two million people have left their homes to get away from the fighting, according to Tigray's interim administration.\n\nThe government estimates that 4.5 million people need emergency food assistance, according to the UN's World Food Programme (WFP).\n\nThe WFP adds in a statement that the government has asked WFP to provide food for 1.4 million people.\n\nThe Weeknd's donation to WFP \"will provide lifesaving food to those affected by conflict in Ethiopia's northern Tigray Region\", WFP adds.\n\nThe Weeknd said on Twitter and Instagram that his $1m donation would go to the UN's World Food Programme to pay for two million meals.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe singer has become one of the biggest chart stars of the last decade with hits including Blinding Lights.\n\nHe has spoken before about his Ethiopian heritage, telling Rolling Stone magazine in 2015 that his grandmother would take him to services at their Ethiopian Orthodox church in Canada, that his first language was Amharic, and that his vocal style was influenced by Ethiopian singer Aster Aweke.\n\nMore about the conflict in Tigray:\n\nThe conflict in Tigray spread over international borders as forces from neighbouring Eritrea joined Ethiopian government troops in fighting the TPLF.\n\nEritrean troops are reported to have started to withdraw after the G7 group of industrialised nations called for them to do so on 2 April.\n\nThe G7 group also said it is \"strongly concerned\" by reports of human rights abuses in Tigray. These include mass killings of civilians, sexual violence, looting and the abuse of refugees.\n\nEthiopia's prime minister has previously denied that any civilians have been killed.\n\nTigrayan forces, meanwhile, have also faced accusations of human rights abuses.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Four things that explain the crisis in the Tigray region of Ethiopia.", "CPR is already taught in all schools in England and Scotland.\n\nSchools in Wales will be required to teach lifesaving skills and first aid under the nation's new curriculum.\n\nEducation Minister Kirsty Williams has previously rejected calls for compulsory lessons on emergency resuscitation skills.\n\nThe British Heart Foundation had called for cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) to be taught in all schools.\n\nConservative Senedd member Suzy Davies said it was \"difficult to understand why Welsh Government was so resistant\".\n\nMs Williams said guidance to schools would be amended.\n\nIn September 2020 CPR was added to the English secondary school curriculum, and in Scotland every local authority has committed to teaching lifesaving skills in secondary schools there.\n\nMs Davies attempted to add lifesaving skills to the new curriculum for Wales - which is planned to come into force from 2022 - through amendments to a law implementing the new system.\n\nOn Wednesday her amendments won the support of Labour MS Alun Davies, who suffered a cardiac arrest last year while jogging in a Cardiff park.\n\n\"It was a defibrillator that restarted my heart,\" he told the Senedd.\n\nThe Blaenau Gwent member said he was lucky enough that someone could cycle to get the device, which was in a college, \"whilst the people performing CPR on me were able to keep me alive for that to happen\".\n\n\"That doesn't happen and couldn't happen and wouldn't happen in too many parts of Wales,\" he said.\n\nMs Williams said in response that the statutory guidance to schools would in future say they \"should also consider what strategies their learners will need to be able to safely intervene to support others who may be at risk\".\n\n\"This should include lifesaving skills and first aid,\" she told the Senedd.\n\n\"I hope that this strengthened wording and this approach, which will, I hope, put it beyond doubt that this is a statutory element of the curriculum that must be provided to children and young people, will achieve what you have long campaigned for, Suzy, that children leaving our schools will have had the opportunity to acquire these skills.\"\n\nMs Davies, who dropped her amendments following the minister's commitment, welcomed the changes.\n\nShe said: \"From securing cross-party support for this in my early days as an Assembly Member, through several debates and pitches to different ministers, on to my own proposed legislation which found favour among Senedd members, it was difficult to understand why Welsh Government was so resistant.\n\n\"In this country, our chances of surviving a cardiac arrest outside hospital are as poor as 10%. In countries around the world where teaching CPR and defibrillator use is compulsory, those odds improve dramatically.\n\n\"These skills are quick and easy to learn, and easy to remember.\"\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"As part of the new curriculum, teachers will be able to focus on a wide range of health and well-being topics, including first aid.\n\n\"We have worked closely with partners, including the British Heart Foundation, in developing guidance and will continue to work with experts in this field as we refine the curriculum going forward.\"", "At least 12 women were pictured posing nude on a balcony in Dubai's marina\n\nA group has been arrested in Dubai accused of public debauchery after an outdoor nude photoshoot.\n\nVideo footage posted online on Saturday shows a group of naked women having their photo taken on a balcony.\n\nEleven Ukrainian women are among those detained, the Ukrainian consulate told the BBC. A Russian was also detained, according to Russian media.\n\nPublic debauchery carries a sentence of up to six months in prison and a 5,000 dirham fine (£981).\n\nMany of the UAE's laws are based on Sharia law, and people have been jailed in the past for public displays of affection and homosexual relationships.\n\nRoughly a dozen women were pictured on the balcony in the Marina district of Dubai.\n\nThe Ukrainian consulate says it will visit the women on Tuesday.\n\nEarlier reports in Russian media that eight Russian women were arrested have since been denied, but Ria news agency quoted officials as saying that a Russian who organised the shoot has been arrested.\n\nHe faces up to 18 months in prison, the agency says.\n\nPolice in Dubai warned that anyone publishing pornographic material or any material that \"may prejudice public morals\" faces imprisonment and a fine.\n\n\"Such unacceptable behaviours do not reflect the values and ethics of Emirati society,\" a police statement said.\n\nAny person who lives in or visits the UAE is subject to its laws: there are no exceptions for tourists.\n\nThere have been a few high-profile cases of tourists getting arrested while on holiday in Dubai.\n\nIn 2017, a British woman was sentenced to one year in prison for having consensual sex with a man she wasn't married to. The relationship came to light when the woman reported him to the authorities for sending her threatening messages.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. (July 2019) Dubai: It's flash, it's brash, it's successful – but what's going on beneath the surface?", "Lucille Downer was a great grandmother who had spent her working years as a cook in a care home\n\nTwo dogs which carried out a \"horrific\" attack on an 85-year-old woman have been humanely destroyed, police said.\n\nLucille Downer, a great-grandma, died after being attacked by the dogs which got into her garden in Rowley Regis through a hole in the fence on Friday.\n\nPolice said following specialist advice it was established the dogs \"could never be re-homed due to the violent act and should be humanely destroyed\".\n\n\"Further analysis\" is taking place to determine what breed they were.\n\nSupt Phil Asquith, from West Midlands Police, told a news conference on Saturday the dogs were \"large\" but would not speculate on whether or not they were banned under the Dangerous Dogs Act, adding DNA samples had been taken from them.\n\nThe force said the ownership of the dogs had been \"voluntarily transferred to police\".\n\nA 43-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of being the person in charge of a dog dangerously out of control after the attack in Boundary Avenue on Friday afternoon. He has been bailed while inquiries continue.\n\nMrs Downer's family said she was a mother, grandmother and great-grandmother.\n\n\"Lucille was born in Jamaica and emigrated to the UK in her early 20s. Since arriving in the UK, Rowley Regis has always been her home and her family will miss her dearly.\"\n\nShe had spent her working years as a cook at a care home in West Bromwich, they said in a statement issued through police.\n\nSupt Asquith said neighbours and family who live nearby responded \"very quickly\" after the dogs escaped from a neighbouring property.\n\nHowever, Mrs Downer had suffered multiple injuries in the \"sustained\" attack and despite the efforts of medics, died at the scene, he said.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Trial of the Chicago 7 cast won the night's top prize\n\nIt was a big night for diversity at the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards, with actors from ethnic minorities winning all four individual film categories for the first time.\n\nThe 27th SAG Awards were held on Sunday as a virtual event.\n\nViola Davis, Youn Yuh-jung, Daniel Kaluuya and the late Chadwick Boseman all triumphed in their categories.\n\nAaron Sorkin's The Trial of the Chicago 7 won best ensemble cast in a motion picture, making history for Netflix.\n\nThe ensemble prize is seen as the top honour at the SAG Awards, in the absence of a best picture category.\n\nThe Trial of The Chicago 7 retells the story of the notorious courtroom drama involving a largely unrelated assortment of political activists who were accused of inciting a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.\n\nIts win means Keaton sets a new record by becoming the first person to be part of three SAG-winning ensembles, following his wins as part of 2014's Birdman and 2015's Spotlight.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Taylor Simone Ledward accepted her late husband Chadwick Boseman's award for best actor\n\nThe SAG Awards are seen as a key indicator of which films and stars may come out on top at the Oscars, which will be presented later this month.\n\nHowever, the favourite to win the best picture Oscar this year, Nomadland, was not nominated for the top prize at SAG, as it centres around one character (played by Frances McDormand) rather than an ensemble cast.\n\nThere was no red carpet to welcome nominees in Los Angeles this year because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nInstead, the awards were pre-recorded via video conference and squeezed into a one-hour broadcast.\n\nChadwick Boseman, who died of cancer in August last year at the age of 43, won best male actor for his performance as a Blues musician in the 1920s drama Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, a film adapted from a cycle of plays by the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, August Wilson.\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's final performance was honoured at Sunday's SAG awards, with his widow Taylor Simone Ledward delivering a moving speech as she accepted his posthumous prize.\n\n\"If you see the world unbalanced, be a crusader that pushes heavily on the seesaw of the mind,\" she said, quoting her late husband.\n\nViola Davis, who played the singer Ma Rainey in the film, won the award for best female actor in a leading role. Accepting the prize, she thanked \"the beautiful Chadwick Boseman\" and \"August, for leaving a legacy to actors of colour that we can relish for the rest of our life.\"\n\nDavis looked visibly shocked to win the prize. The best actress race is seen as wide open this year, with Carey Mulligan, Andra Day, Frances McDormand and Vanessa Kirby also in the running for the equivalent Oscar.\n\nViola Davis appeared to almost fall off her chair when she was announced as the winner of best female actor\n\nBritish star Daniel Kaluuya won best supporting actor for his performance in Judas and the Black Messiah. The film follows Black Panther leader Fred Hampton, who was killed in a co-ordinated raid by the FBI and Chicago Police in 1969.\n\nYoun Yuh-jung was named best female supporting actor for her performance in Minari, a red-hot favourite of awards season.\n\nShe plays an unconventional grandmother in the film, which follows a Korean-American family who move to Arkansas as they chase the American Dream.\n\nIn the television categories, British actress Anya Taylor-Joy picked up best female actor in a miniseries for her performance in The Queen's Gambit, a seven-part drama about a chess prodigy.\n\nThe actress paid tribute to her fellow nominees in her acceptance speech and made light of the virtual ceremony.\n\n\"Thank you for your performances, I'm unbelievably honoured to be in this room, even though it's not a room, it's all mental, but you know what I mean,\" she joked.\n\nAnya Taylor-Joy was recognised for her performance in chess drama The Queen's Gambit\n\nThe Crown was named best overall drama, while Gillian Anderson won best female drama actor for her performance as British prime minister Margaret Thatcher.\n\nSchitt's Creek, which came to an end last year after six seasons, picked up best comedy series as well as best female comedy actor for Catherine O'Hara.\n\nIt rounds off a hugely successful year for the series and O'Hara in particular, who has won the same prize at the Emmys and the Golden Globes.\n\n\"Thank you to all who voted for us, what a way to say goodbye,\" said Dan Levy, who co-created and starred in the series.\n\nOther TV category winners included Jason Bateman for Ozark, Jason Sudeikis for Ted Lasso, and Mark Ruffalo for I Know This Much Is True.\n\nSchitt's Creek stars Sarah Levy, Dan Levy and Eugene Levy celebrate their win for best comedy series\n\nTheir co-star Catherine O'Hara was named best female comedy actor\n\nDame Helen Mirren, pictured preparing to announce the winner of best ensemble cast, which went to The Trial of the Chicago 7\n\nDaniel Kaluuya paid tribute to Fred Hampton and Chadwick Boseman as he accepted the prize for best supporting actor\n\nMinari star Youn Yuh-jung was named best supporting actress for her portrayal of an unconventional grandmother\n\nCynthia Erivo presented the best supporting actor prize to Kaluuya\n\nJason Sudeikis was named best comedy actor for his performance in Apple TV series Ted Lasso\n\nGillian Anderson's portrayal of Margaret Thatcher in The Crown won her best female actor in the drama series\n\nMark Ruffalo won best actor in a miniseries for I Know This Much Is True, which follows identical twin brothers and was based on the 1998 novel of the same name", "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.", "Wales is set to become the first UK nation to have offered a first Covid-19 jab to over-50s and at-risk adults with long-term health conditions, the Welsh government has said.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said everyone in the top nine priority groups would be offered a first jab by Sunday.\n\nAll four UK governments had promised to reach the milestone by mid-April.\n\nHe paid tribute to front-line staff for helping to reach the target early.\n\n\"This is a truly remarkable effort and is down to the hard work of thousands of people who are working tirelessly on the NHS front line across Wales to make this happen,\" he said.\n\n\"I want to thank each and every one of them.\n\n\"And it is because of those efforts that I am able to say today that we will meet our next vaccine milestone early.\n\n\"By Sunday we will have offered a vaccine to everyone in the first nine priority groups - that's everyone over 50; all adults with an underlying health condition and a great many unpaid carers.\n\n\"By Sunday, a minimum of 75% of those in each priority group will have received a first vaccination.\"\n\nData on vaccinations will not be published by Public Health Wales on Easter Sunday.\n\nThe news comes as Mr Drakeford announced a series of lockdown easing measures, including plans for pubs, restaurants and hotels to reopen indoors in time for the Spring Bank Holiday at the end of May.\n\nEarlier on Thursday, he told Claire Summers on BBC Radio Wales Breakfast: \"The presence of the virus in Wales is the lowest in the United Kingdom, the rate of vaccination in Wales is the highest in the United Kingdom.\"\n\nThe announcement follows concern about a slow-down in vaccine supplies and people not attending appointments.\n\nOn Monday the Welsh Government's Chief Pharmacist said second Covid-19 vaccine doses will be prioritised during the expected supply slowdown of the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab with Wales receiving 250,000 fewer Oxford-AstraZeneca jab doses than expected.\n\nBut Andrew Evans insisted the shipping delay not affect Wales hitting its targets.\n\nThe NHS has also been urging people to attend vaccine appointment after hundreds failed to show up for their jabs.\n\nIn the Swansea Bay area almost 500 people did not attend on Monday.\n\nAt a mass vaccination centre in Bangor in Gwynedd, almost 200 people failed to show up over a three-day period.\n\nIn February it was announced that Wales became the first UK nation to offer a first dose to the top 4 priority groups.\n\nThe next target is to offer at least a first jab to every adult by the end of July.\n\nThe Welsh Liberal Democrats' health spokeswoman Jo Watkins said: \"This is good news and our thanks go out to everyone working on this programme and those who will be working over the Easter break.\n\n\"We must continue this rollout to ensure everyone in Wales is vaccinated as quickly and safely as possible.\"\n\nWelsh Conservative health spokeswoman Angela Burns said: \"The milestone that is expected to be met in Wales on Sunday has been made possible because of the strength of our United Kingdom, where the UK government made the swift decision to place orders for vaccines, and the superb work of NHS staff, volunteers and all others involved in the rollout of the programme in Wales.\"", "Parts of the Philippines are under tight controls to stop the spread of Covid Image caption: Parts of the Philippines are under tight controls to stop the spread of Covid\n\nA Filipino man who was found breaking quarantine rules has died after being made to do 300 squat-like exercises by police as punishment, his family says.\n\nDarren Manaog Penaredondo was allegedly stopped by officers while buying water after 18:00 local time in Cavite province on Thursday.\n\nHe collapsed the following day and later died.\n\nCavite province, on the island of Luzon, is currently under strict lockdown to tackle the spread of Covid.\n\nMarlo Solero, police chief of General Trias City, says there is no physical punishment for those found violating curfew rules, only lectures from officers. He tells local media that if officers were found to have enforced the punishment, it would not be tolerated.\n\nA relative of the victim, Adrian Lucena, announced his death on Facebook. He says Mr Penaredondo and others found violating the curfew were told to do 100 squat-like exercises in sync together.\n\nIf they failed to do them at the same time, they would have to repeat the set, he says. The group ended up doing 300 of the exercises.\n\nMr Penaredondo came home at 06:00 on Friday morning in pain, his brother says. His live-in partner told local news outlet Rappler that he struggled to move throughout Friday .\n\n\"That whole day, he struggled to walk, he was just crawling. But I did not take that seriously because he said it's just a simple body ache,\" Reichelyn Balce says.\n\nThe following day he collapsed and stopped breathing. Ms Balce asked the neighbours to help revive him, but he reportedly died not long after.", "Police have accused the banned separatist group, the Indigenous People of Biafra, of carrying out the attack\n\nMore than 1,800 inmates have escaped from a prison in Nigeria after it was attacked by gunmen, officials say.\n\nThe attackers reportedly entered the prison yard in the south-eastern town of Owerri by using explosives to blast the administrative block.\n\nSix prisoners have reportedly returned, while 35 refused to escape.\n\nPolice have accused the banned separatist group, the Indigenous People of Biafra, of carrying out the attack. It has reportedly denied involvement.\n\nThe Nigerian Correctional Service has confirmed that 1,844 inmates escaped from the jail in Imo state.\n\nHeavily armed men stormed the Owerri Custodial Centre in the early hours of Monday, after arriving in pickup trucks and buses, the service said.\n\nA police spokesperson said the attackers carried rocket-propelled grenades, machine guns, explosives and rifles.\n\nBurnt-out vehicles were seen outside after the explosion\n\nPresident Muhammadu Buhari called the attack an \"act of terrorism\" carried out by \"anarchists\". He called upon security forces to capture the attackers and the escaped prisoners.\n\nA spokesman for the Indigenous People of Biafra separatist movement told the AFP news agency that accusations it was behind Monday's attack were \"lies\".\n\nImo state has long been a breeding ground for separatist groups, while relations between the central government and indigenous Igbo population are strained.\n\nSince January several police stations and vehicles across south-eastern Nigeria have been attacked and large amounts of ammunition stolen. No-one has claimed responsibility for the attacks.", "Britain's biggest publisher says it will not hand back funds it received under the furlough scheme, despite seeing strong sales in lockdown.\n\nPenguin Random House UK is thought to have claimed about £1m via the scheme.\n\nLike other publishers, it has seen demand for books surge as people spend more time at home.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"We have used the government's furlough scheme for its intended purpose: to protect jobs during this extraordinary time.\"\n\nCompanies are under no obligation to repay the taxpayer cash they receive through the government's job retention scheme, but they have been urged to do so if they can afford it.\n\nIt is not known how many of workers at Penguin Random House were furloughed at the height of the pandemic.\n\nOnly six of 1,800 members of staff are now on paid leave, including a number of facilities staff at its head office in London, which is currently closed.\n\nThe publishing house, which is owned by German firm Bertelsmann, saw global revenues rise by 4.6% to €3.8bn last year. It does not publish its UK profits separately, but they are thought to have soared.\n\nIn its 2020 annual report, the publisher said that it sells more than 600 million printed books, e-books and audiobooks each year, with the UK making up 6.5% of its sales.\n\nOther publishers such as Hachette UK and Harper Collins were reported as having placed staff on furlough at the height of the pandemic, although the latter said after a \"strong performance\" it did not claim any money from the scheme.\n\nHousebuilders Redrow, Barratt and Taylor Wimpey also handed back cash, so too gaming retailer Games Workshop, distribution giant Bunzl and the Spectator magazine.\n\nThe furlough scheme was launched in April 2020 to support businesses that could not operate, or had to cut staffing levels, during lockdown.\n\nMore than 1.3 million employers in the UK have claimed support under the scheme, which covers up to 80% of an employee's salary for the hours they can't work up to £2,500 per month.\n\nIt has cost the government around £55.7bn to date, according to latest figures from HMRC.\n\nThe highest take-up rate has been in hospitality businesses such as restaurants, cafes and pubs.\n• None What happens when furlough ends?", "A number of masked men can be seen in footage of the parade\n\nPolice have said they are investigating a parade that took place in Portadown, County Armagh, on Monday.\n\nSocial media footage appears to show a number of masked men taking part in a loyalist band parade.\n\nPolice said they received a report regarding an \"un-notified parade in the Jervis Street area of Portadown\".\n\nSinn Féin assembly member John O'Dowd said \"reckless rhetoric from unionist politicians has seen tensions rise right across the community\".\n\n\"Tonight's so-called band parade in Portadown was led by masked men through the streets,\" he added.\n\n\"I would appeal for calm and I call on those in positions of influence in political unionism to demonstrate more measured and responsible leadership before someone is killed or seriously injured.\"\n\nHowever, Upper Bann MP Carla Lockhart of the DUP, said that \"Sinn Féin's arrogant disregard for the Covid regulations is to blame for this political crisis\".\n\nShe added: \"When there is a double standard by the police, then that damages respect for the law.\n\n\"For my part, I will oppose law-breaking in all forms.\n\n\"All law-breaking is wrong. I urge those loyalists, frustrated by the actions of Sinn Féin, to step back.\n\n\"Remain peaceful and stay off the streets. We don't want young lives criminalised. Two wrongs don't make a right.\"\n\nMeanwhile, about 300 people marched through the Ballykeel estate in Ballymena on Monday night.\n\nPolice officers were at the scene.\n\nA social media post said the march was to show support for loyalist culture.", "A greater proportion of people in Wales have received a jab than other UK nations\n\nWales will be the first UK nation to have offered the top four priority groups a Covid jab, the Welsh Government has said.\n\nWithin hours, officials say, all over-70s including care home residents, will have been offered a first dose.\n\nWales and the other UK nations have aimed to hit the target by mid-February.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford thanked \"everyone who had been working around the clock to reach this point\".\n\nIt follows a warning that vaccine supplies will fall in the coming weeks.\n\nThe UK Government's Welsh Secretary Simon Hart said Wales' milestone was \"fantastic news\" and testament to the continued effort made by NHS and military staff.\n\nThe country currently leads the UK in the percentage of the population that has received a first jab - at least 715,944 doses have been given out.\n\nThere have been warnings that supplies could slow down\n\nFigures up to Thursday night show 22.7% of the population have been vaccinated, compared to 21% in England, 20.4% in Scotland and 19.7% in Northern Ireland.\n\nBut there were more than 87,000 people from target groups, including more than 37,000 in their early 70s, still to get a first dose.\n\nThe picture is complicated by a built-in delay on data being published while figures are checked and verified.\n\nThere are also issues involving some care home residents having to wait for doses, because of isolation due to Covid outbreaks.\n\nBut Mr Drakeford said he was confident the programme remained on track - with plans remaining in place to reach the next five priority groups by the spring.\n\nHe said: \"We're the first UK nation to reach this milestone, others will follow in a couple of days.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. First Minister Mark Drakeford says the success of the vaccine rollout is due to the \"phenomenal effort\" of all involved.\n\nAsked how many people in those top groups who will not have had vaccine appointments by the weekend, he said it would be \"a very small number\".\n\n\"We've already completed 92% of all the people in those priority groups thanks to the amazing efforts of our NHS and other staff,\" he said.\n\n\"There will be some people who were ill when they were offered and need to be re-book. There will be some people who chose not to have a vaccine when they were first offered it, who may have changed their minds.\"\n\nMr Drakeford said the NHS was \"checking and rechecking\" whether anyone had been left out and final appointments were being arranged for the weekend.\n\n\"Anybody who knows of somebody who may have missed out, it is not too late at all,\" he said.\n\n\"We will make sure that those people have an appointment as fast as possible.\"\n\nHealth minister Vaughan Gething said \"a leave no-one behind approach\" was being taken.\n\n\"The next group, those people 65 and over, all health boards are already sending out invites for those people to come forward as well,\" he said.\n\n\"We're not looking to miss a step, we're carrying on with the vaccine we have available.\"\n\nFigures show 88.4% of those aged 80 or older have had a first dose, compared to 86.3% for 75 to 79 year olds and 79.8% of 70 to 74 year olds.\n\nPublic Health Wales said a total of 80.3% of care home residents have had a first dose, and 83.5% of care home workers.\n\nBritish Medical Association chairman Dr David Bailey said Wales was \"hopefully on the home straight\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio Wales: \"People are really making an effort to make the thing go smoothly as possible, and it is a credit to the Welsh public, as well as everyone who has actually been delivering the vaccine, because it has gone smoothly and everyone has been trying to do their part.\"\n\nMr Drakeford said: \"To have achieved this first milestone and offered vaccination to everyone in the first four priority groups - those who are most vulnerable to coronavirus - is a truly phenomenal effort.\n\n\"Of course, the hard work has only just begun - there are many, many more people to vaccinate yet and a lot of second doses still to give.\"\n\nHe said it showed the UK Government had \"ensured Wales has had the vaccines available to protect the most vulnerable in our society and meet this target\" and hoped Wales could soon reopen its economy.\n\nHowever he added there was a still a \"long way to go\" with 80% of the population yet to be offered the vaccine.\n\nPlaid Cymru's health spokesperson Rhun ap Iorwerth, said it was thanks to NHS staff and volunteers \"that Wales has been able to accelerate the vaccination effort to its current levels\".\n\nMr ap Iorwerth added his party would continue to call for \"those in all care settings, not just the elderly, to be vaccinated as a matter of priority, and for key workers in schools, the emergency services and public transport to be brought in to the priority system sooner.\"", "Captain Sir Tom Moore, originally from Keighley near Bradford, raised almost £33m for charities supporting the NHS\n\nThe family of Captain Sir Tom Moore have encouraged people to take on their own \"100\" challenge on what would have been his 101st birthday weekend.\n\nThe Army veteran, who raised almost £33m for NHS charities by walking 100 laps of his Bedfordshire garden before he turned 100, died on 2 February.\n\nPeople have been asked to create their own challenge around the number 100 to raise money for charity.\n\nAny challenges would take place on the 30 April-3 May bank holiday weekend.\n\nCapt Sir Tom, whose fundraising walk in his garden in Marston Moretaine captured the hearts of the nation last year, died with coronavirus at Bedford Hospital.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHis daughter Hannah Ingram-Moore urged people to create their own challenge to raise money for the Captain Tom Foundation or a charity of their choice.\n\nMs Ingram-Moore said her family were \"still a grieving family\" but are \"propelled forward by hope\".\n\n\"I really hope people see this [100 challenge] for what it is, which is an absolute chance to bring joy, put money back into charities and support the Captain Tom Foundation, which after all is the legacy of hope that he's left us,\" she said.\n\nShe said the family had spoken with Capt Sir Tom about what they might do for his 101st birthday.\n\n\"The number 100 - it really meant a lot to my father - and he was fully part of this next event to celebrate his 101st birthday and we fully expected him to be at it.\"\n\nShe said the family would take part by continuing Capt Sir Tom's walk \"right where he left it because we feel it's the only right thing to do\".\n\n\"We've talked about is that 100 [laps] a day? Is that 25 each? We're still working out the finer details,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Ingram-Moore added: \"We want people to go crazy and create their own 100 - a challenge around the number 100.\n\n\"Because he was 100 and he was so proud to be 100.\n\n\"We thought of whether it should be 101, but it's definitely 100 because that year he lived being 100 was the best year of his life, almost certainly.\"\n\nCaptain Sir Tom Moore received his knighthood from the Queen at Windsor Castle\n\nMs Ingram-Moore said her father \"loved the beach so he would have said 100 sandcastles or jump 100 waves\".\n\nShe the challenge \"feels like the perfect way to celebrate the hope and joy we know he inspired in so many\" and her father \"would have loved the idea that everyone could get involved\".\n\n\"Just be in his spirit of hope... just help to keep that legacy of hope alive, that my father gave us,\" she added.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion please email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Two men who parachuted 20m (70ft) off a rock arch have been branded \"idiotic and irresponsible\".\n\nThe men were seen climbing up Durdle Door on the Dorset coast and jumping off at around 10:30 BST on Sunday.\n\nJames Weld who runs the estate where the arch is located said their actions endangered lives by encouraging others.\n\nLast May, three people were seriously hurt jumping into the sea from the arch, leading to extraordinary scenes as the crowded beach was evacuated.\n\nIn May 2020, three people were injured jumping from the arch\n\nSigns are in place warning people not to climb Durdle Door.\n\nMr Weld, who manages the 12,000 acre Lulworth Estate on behalf of his family, said: \"Climbing Durdle Door disturbs wildlife and is dangerous.\n\n\"Jumping off is life-threatening, requiring the emergency services and others to respond to a conscious decision by those who have no excuse not to be aware of the potential consequences.\"\n\nThe coastguard said it had received reports of two people jumping at 10:30, but no assistance was required.\n• None Three seriously hurt 'jumping off cliff into sea'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Richard Okorogheye, who has sickle cell disease, left home without his medication\n\nA post-mortem examination is due to be carried out on a body found in Epping Forest by police searching for missing student Richard Okorogheye.\n\nThe family of the 19-year-old, who has sickle cell disease, have been spoken to by officers, who are waiting for formal identification.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said the body was discovered in a pond in the woodland.\n\nDet Supt Danny Gosling said Mr Okorogheye's family have been informed.\n\n\"This is an extensive inquiry and we are working tirelessly.\n\n\"Our officers and specialist search teams and dogs have been carrying out extensive searches since Richard was last seen on CCTV in the area.\"\n\nOn Monday, the Met said it had been informed by Essex Police about the body of a man found in a pond\n\nThe Oxford Brookes student, who has sickle cell disease, was last seen by his family on 22 March, when he left their home in the Ladbroke Grove area of west London.\n\nPolice said he then took a taxi to a residential street in Loughton, Essex, where he was last seen on CCTV in the early hours of the following day, walking towards Epping Forest.\n\nThe force previously said Mr Okorogheye's phone had not been in use since his disappearance. He did not take his medication or any money when he left home.\n\nOfficers and police dogs were searching the forest for a fifth day when they made the discovery on Monday afternoon.\n\nMr Okorogheye's mother, Evidence Joel, previously said her son had been \"struggling to cope\" with his business and IT degree.\n\nAs someone with sickle cell disease, Mr Okorogheye would only leave the house to go to hospital for regular blood transfusions for his condition, his family explained.\n\nOfficers have been seen at the Wake Valley pond in Epping Forest following the discovery\n\nCrime scene tape flutters in the trees around the Wake Valley pond.\n\nA few Met officers stand guard, shivering on a bright, freezing morning. They are supporting their Essex Police colleagues, making sure nobody interferes with any evidence.\n\nThere is urgent and important work to do as there is a body to identify and a cause of death to establish.\n\nDetectives must piece together the puzzle of how that person ended up in the pond.\n\nRichard's family and friends are waiting anxiously for answers to those and many other questions.\n\nWhat drew the 19-year-old student from his home nearly two weeks ago? Why did he travel across London then head for the forest after midnight and was anybody else involved?", "There have been violent incidents in County Antrim for a third night in a row, with young people involved in disturbances in Carrickfergus on Monday night.\n\nFive PSNI officers were injured during disorder in County Antrim on Sunday.\n\nPolice Federation chair Mark Lindsay said \"older more sinister elements\" were influencing younger people to attack police officers.\n\nPetrol bombs were thrown at police in Carrickfergus on Sunday.\n\nOfficers were also attacked in Newtownabbey on the same night.\n\nIn Londonderry, police were targeted in the Dungiven Road area on Sunday with children as young as 12 involved.\n\nThere were reports that police were attacked at the scene of a bomb alert at the Templemore Road, in a predominantly nationalist part of Derry, on Monday night.\n\nSpeaking to BBC News NI's Good Morning Ulster, Mr Lindsay said there is \"obviously paramilitary involvement\" in the recent attacks.\n\n\"Some [young people] don't even know why they are attacking them, they're simply doing as they're told or it's seen by some as a bit of fun or recreational.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Police Federation say \"sinister elements\" are influencing younger people to attack police\n\nCh Supt Davy Beck described the violence as \"senseless\" and \"reckless\".\n\n\"To those in our community with influence, I would urge you to use that influence so we do not see any further disgraceful scenes of violence on our streets so we can ensure young people do not get caught up in criminality and that they are kept safe and away from harm,\" he said\n\nCh Supt Beck said there had been an element of \"organisation\" to the attacks.\n\n\"I believe there is a small group of disaffected criminal elements involved in influencing young people,\" he said.\n\nHe urged young people involved to \"think about your future and employment prospects and not get sucked in\".\n\nHe added that police had been \"successful in respect of criminal gangs\" in the area and the trouble was a \"perhaps a reaction from those involved in criminality\".\n\nPolice moving a bin which was set alight on North Road in Carrickfergus on Sunday night\n\nThe disorder in Newtownabbey started at about 21:00 BST on Sunday at the Cloughfern roundabout.\n\nBetween 20 to 30 people in masks set bins on fire. When officers moved in to the area, four petrol bombs were thrown at them leaving one officer with a leg injury.\n\nAbout an hour later, on North Road in Carrickfergus, a crowd of up to 50 people gathered and 20 petrol bombs were thrown at police.\n\nFour officers were injured after they were struck by masonry and sustained leg, foot and neck injuries.\n\nLast week, it emerged that prosecutors would not charge anyone in relation to their attendance at the funeral of republican Bobby Storey.\n\nThe funeral attracted 2,000 mourners when Covid restrictions were in place. The actions of 24 Sinn Féin politicians who attended were examined, including Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill.\n\nIt led to unionist politicians calling on Police Service of Northern Ireland's (PSNI) Chief Constable Simon Byrne to resign.\n\nDUP MLA Christopher Stalford said \"cool heads must prevail\" and there will be \"far reaching effects on the lives of those who are arrested and convicted\".\n\nHe said if people are \"angry or frustrated\" over issues surrounding the funeral, or the NI Protocol, an element of the Brexit deal which has caused disruption at Northern Ireland's ports, they should \"get politically active\" and not riot.\n\nSinn Féin MLA and policing board member Gerry Kelly accused unionist leadership, \"in particular the DUP\", of using rhetoric that has caused the violence.\n\n\"There is a responsibility in the unionist leadership, political leadership, to show leadership here and not be winding the situation up,\" he told the programme.\n\n\"First of all over the hard Brexit that they created and then they're trying to blame everything on the decision that was made recently.\n\n\"This calling for everybody in high office who they disagree with to resign and demanding their resignation also winds the situation up as well.\"\n\nBurnt-out cars and debris remained at the roundabout on Sunday morning\n\nUlster Unionist MLA Doug Beattie has said \"everyone bears responsibility\" for the violence that has erupted across Northern Ireland.\n\n\"Any politician whether they are a nationalist or a unionist to say that it has got nothing to do with them is pretty disgraceful,\" Mr Beattie said.\n\nHe added: \"For anybody to sit there and not take blame are in absolute denial.\"\n\nSDLP leader and Foyle MP Colum Eastwood described the trouble as \"deeply frustrating\".\n\nHe said: \"Unionist leaders need to take some responsibility for the incendiary rhetoric they have been using over many weeks.\n\n\"They need to show some leadership before the consequences become even more severe.\"\n\nAlliance Party MLA John Blair said it was \"never acceptable or justifiable to direct that anger at police\".\n\nThirty-two police officers have been injured during violence in Belfast and Derry since Friday.\n\nOn Saturday night, there were disturbances in Newtownabbey, on the outskirts of Belfast.\n\nIt involved three vehicles being hijacked and set alight, and thirty petrol bombs being thrown at police, at Cloughfern roundabout in the O'Neill Road area.\n\nPolice described the violence as an \"orchestrated attack on police\".\n\nA number of people have been charged over the incidents.\n\nA statement from the Church of Ireland bishops called for the violence \"stop immediately\".\n\n\"The PSNI do an incredibly difficult job and deserve our support,\" the church leaders said.\n\n\"People may have criticisms of policing but there is a forum for this, and any criticisms should always be expressed respectfully.\"", "The changes are due to come in from the autumn of next year\n\nPlans to overhaul how children are taught in schools in Wales will become law after a vote in the Senedd.\n\nIt follows a consultation in 2019 on the first complete reform of the system in more than 30 years.\n\nHowever, there was a row between the education minister and Plaid Cymru over whether or not studying Welsh history is compulsory in the curriculum.\n\nThe changes, coming in from 2022, do not set out detailed plans for exactly what schools should be teaching.\n\nIn secondary schools subjects will be incorporated into six \"areas of learning and experience\".\n\nThe legislation was passed with 32 Senedd members backing it, 18 voting against and one abstention.\n\nPlaid Cymru voted against the bill. Education spokeswoman Sian Gwenllian said that without mandatory Welsh history \"on the face of the bill, there is no guarantee that it will be taught to every pupil in Wales, and that is something we as a party cannot accept\".\n\n\"The new curriculum is focused on local history, so pupils in different parts of Wales won't learn the same things,\" she said before the debate.\n\n\"The threat in this is that key aspects of Welsh history that have long been disregarded, including that of Black people and People of Colour, women, the working class, LGBT+ people, etc. won't be a consistent element of the learning experience of Welsh pupils.\"\n\nThe new curriculum for Wales Six areas of learning and experience\n\nAnswering the criticism in the Senedd chamber, Education Minister Kirsty Williams said: \"Welsh history and the story of Wales will be a compulsory part of this curriculum, it is included in the statutory guidance.\"\n\n\"There will be no way a school cannot teach the history of Wales.\n\n\"Indeed, every single area of learning and experience is required to have a golden thread of celebration of Welsh identity in all its diversity in every area and that is underpinned in the legislation before us.\"\n\nSchools will be required to teach lifesaving skills and first aid under the curriculum, following a change of policy by the Welsh Government announced last week.", "Crowds will be back at May's FA Cup final - if they can prove their Covid status\n\nAny \"Covid passport\" scheme to prove people in England are safe to attend mass-audience events would be \"time-limited\", the government said.\n\nA \"Covid status certification\" scheme is being developed to enable concerts and sporting matches to take place.\n\nIt would record whether people had been vaccinated, recently tested negative or had natural immunity, having already had a bout of coronavirus.\n\nThe government is also trialling other ways of holding mass events safely.\n\nSports Minister Nigel Huddleston said the trials would be a \"learning experience\" and no decisions had been made about processes or vaccine certification.\n\nImproved ventilation and testing before and after events are among the other approaches being tested for mass gatherings and indoor events, including sports matches and nightclubs.\n\nMr Huddleston said the PM would receive a report on all the trial events at the end of May.\n\nThe pilot events - which include the FA Cup final, the World Snooker Championship, cinema screenings and nightclub events - will take place up until mid-May.\n\nThe NHS is said to be working on a system to allow people to demonstrate their Covid vaccination status through an app or paper certificate.\n\nFor people who have not yet been vaccinated, it could record any recent negative tests, or whether they have tested positive in the last six months and are likely to have natural immunity.\n\nThe FA Cup final will require certification but some of the venues stressed they would not be involved in trialling the so-called Covid passports proposed by the government.\n\nPaul Blair, co-owner of the Hot Water Comedy Club in Liverpool which is due to host the very first event, said his club faced the \"worst negative press we've ever had\" when it was wrongly reported certification would be used at his event.\n\nHe told the BBC that one person sent a message saying they hoped the owners would \"catch Covid and die\", while several messages seemingly organised by a conspiracy theorist group accused the club of practising \"medical apartheid\".\n\nInstead of using Covid passports, his event will involve testing audience members before and after the show as part of a scientific experiment to ensure that it will be safe to reopen without social distancing after 21 June.\n\n\"The sole reason we are doing this is to help prove it's safe for live venues to open,\" he said, adding that it would apply to people regardless of their vaccine status.\n\nAnother series of events to be piloted in Liverpool will be three open-air cinema nights put on by Luna Cinema, with around 1,000 people expected each time.\n\nGeorge Wood, the cinema's founder, told the BBC they would aim to run the screenings \"in a way that will be allowing people not to think about social distancing\".\n\n\"For just those few hours when they come to the event, it'll be back to pre-Covid restriction levels, where people will be able to sit next to each other and enjoy a film on a big screen,\" he said.\n\nHe added that detail on how testing will work at the events will come out in the next few days.\n\nMore than 31.5 million people have received a first dose of a Covid vaccine and nearly 5.4m have received both jabs, but most people vaccinated so far are over 50.\n\nThe government said it was also working with clinical and ethical experts on exemptions for people for whom vaccination is not advised and repeat testing would be difficult.\n\nBusinesses in England which can reopen in the coming weeks, including pubs, restaurants and non-essential retail will not have to use the system for now.\n\nHowever, sources say requiring a certificate to access hospitality further down the line - perhaps to reduce the need for social distancing - has not been ruled out.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said the government was doing everything it could to ensure people could return to events and travel \"as safely as possible\".\n\nCabinet Office Minister Michael Gove, who is leading a review into the use of Covid passports, has called certification for international travel an \"inevitability\".\n\nIt could also be a \"valuable aid\" in reopening parts of the domestic economy faster, he wrote in the Sunday Telegraph.\n\nHowever, critics, including more than 40 Tory MPs and privacy campaigners, have suggested a Covid passport scheme could be \"discriminatory and counterproductive\".\n\nFormer Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who now sits as an independent, and senior Tory Iain Duncan Smith are among a broad coalition of MPs who have pledged their opposition.\n\nWhile the proposed plans cover England only, the government is discussing the scheme with Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe plans come as the UK reported another 2,297 cases and 10 deaths - although Wales and Northern Ireland did not report data for that 24-hour period.\n\nOn Monday, the prime minister is expected to outline plans for easing restrictions on international travel, involving a \"traffic light\" system for rating the virus risk of international destinations.\n\nInternational travel will not be allowed until 17 May at the earliest.\n\nBut the government said the traffic-light system would \"help ensure the UK's vaccine progress isn't jeopardised and provide clear guidance\" when travel resumes.\n\nPeople coming back from countries in the green category will not have to self-isolate on their return, although pre-departure and post-arrival tests will still be required.\n\nFor countries assigned red and amber, restrictions would remain as they are now, with arrivals required to enter quarantine or self-isolation.\n\nThe list of countries included in each category will only be announced nearer the launch date, and the government continues to advise people not to book summer holidays abroad.\n\nIndustry body Airlines UK, which has been calling for a similar system, said travel could take place \"proportionately and in a risk-based way\" without \"opening up the border to every country out there\".\n\nChief executive Tim Alderslade said: \"There are tens of thousands of jobs dependent upon aviation and restarting travel, and the sector cannot survive another lost summer with little or no revenue.\"\n\nAlso expected on Monday are details of a review into social distancing, which is examining when distancing requirements and the guidance to \"work from home if possible\" could be lifted.", "Rescue crews are still removing the train wreck from the tunnel, and fear they may still find more bodies\n\nA construction site manager whose lorry slid on to a railway track and led to Taiwan's worst train disaster in decades has expressed \"deep regret\".\n\nLee Yi-hsiang, 49, said he was \"deeply remorseful\" and wanted to give his \"most sincere apologies\".\n\nHis flatbed lorry was parked on an embankment but slipped down it, causing the train to derail on Friday near the city of Hualien.\n\nAt least 50 people were killed and more than 200 injured in the crash.\n\nInvestigators say CCTV footage from the front carriage showed the train driver had only 6.9 seconds to respond and the train was only 250m (820ft) away from the lorry, not enough time or distance for the driver to stop and avoid the collision.\n\nThe probe is now looking into whether Mr Lee failed to set the emergency brake or whether there was a mechanical failure in his vehicle.\n\nHe was questioned over the weekend by prosecutors and released on bail, but on Sunday he was taken back into custody because he was deemed a flight risk and had a previous conviction, Taiwanese media reported.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nReading a statement to news crews outside his house, Mr Lee said he would co-operate with crash investigators, and \"take the responsibility I should take\". He was then taken away by police.\n\nHe was part of a team who regularly inspected Taiwan's mountainous eastern train line for landslides and other risks. He was also thought to be the flatbed's operator.\n\nThe eight-carriage train was travelling from the capital Taipei to Taitung when it hit the flatbed and crashed inside a tunnel north of Hualien.\n\nThe train was packed with people travelling to celebrate a long-weekend holiday, and many of the nearly 500 passengers on board may have been standing because the train was so full.\n\nSome survivors lost their whole families, AFP reports, and Taiwan declared three days of national mourning.\n\nPriest Sung Chih-chiang said he spoke to one female survivor who lost her husband and two children in the crash.\n\n\"She could not find her daughter. When she yelled, she found her daughter was under the steel panels. She put some effort into moving those pieces one by one, but her daughter's voice became quieter and quieter, and then there was no response,\" he told Reuters.\n\nCrews are still slowly and carefully removing the train wreck from the tunnel. There are fears more bodies could be found.\n\nInvestigators have been going through the train's recording devices and CCTV footage from the front carriage, the chairman of the Taiwan Transportation Safety Board told AFP.\n\n\"According to the testimonies by some passengers, they heard the horn being sounded and it's believed the train driver had spotted an object on the track,\" Hong Young said.\n\nHe added that the train driver, who was among those killed, would have struggled to avoid the crash.\n\nPrayer ceremonies have been held for the victims of the crash, of whom the youngest was five years old\n\nThere have been mounting questions over how full the train was, and why there were no barricades on that section of the track.\n\nThis led to Taiwan's transport minister, Lin Chia-lung, offering his resignation on Sunday. On Facebook, he wrote: \"I should have accepted all the criticism over the past few days, but we have not done well enough.\"\n\nThe government has not accepted his resignation, however, and said he should stay in the position until the investigation was complete.\n\nThe incident has brought safety in Taiwan back into the spotlight and raised questions about whether enough importance is being placed on preventing accidents.\n\nIn 2019, a bridge collapse caused by a lack of maintenance killed four fishermen in a boat. A year earlier, 18 people were killed and 187 injured after a passenger train derailed in north-east Taiwan.", "Hairdressers and barbers like Tony Mann's in Giffnock can now reopen by appointment only\n\nHairdressers, homeware shops and garden centres are reopening in Scotland as Covid restrictions on the economy have eased.\n\nNon-essential click-and-collect services are also allowed to resume.\n\nThey are the latest lockdown measures to be relaxed after the Scottish government lifted its \"stay at home\" rule on Friday.\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney urged people to remember the virus is still circulating and to continue following the rules.\n\nHe said: \"The virus is down but it's not yet out, and the last thing we need is to see it making a comeback and undoing all the progress from the massive effort and sacrifices we have all had to make.\"\n\nHairdressers and barbers with shopfronts can reopen by appointment only - but not mobile services.\n\nWhile some limited click-and-collect services have been operational since January - including clothing, footwear and books - non-essential click-and-collect can now resume.\n\nHowever, they will have to operate by staggered appointments.\n\nPeople still have to abide by the \"stay local\" rule, meaning they cannot travel outside their local authority boundaries, unless for essential reasons.\n\nGarden centres are among the businesses that can reopen\n\nMr Swinney added: \"While it's great news that garden centres and hairdressers are allowed to reopen, everyone needs to bear in mind that it doesn't mean the virus has gone away.\n\n\"My message is simple - enjoy the latest relaxing of the rules but remember to look out for each other, too.\"\n\nStylist Fallon Carberry said her salon in Glasgow had already been swamped with bookings.\n\nShe told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"When we got the first announcement, we opened our books and we had over 1,000 bookings in 24 hours. We weren't expecting that.\n\n\"It's crazy busy but the staff are all well rested. We are going to be open seven days until eight at night. There are long days ahead but we're ready.\"\n\nMarc McCune, who owns two hair salons in Glasgow, said his staff were as much a priority as customers as restrictions are lifted.\n\nHe said: \"The government has provided financial support and furlough has allowed us to keep all our team employed.\n\n\"It's been a strange year for our team who have only worked for five months in the last year. So we are concerned more about their mental wellbeing.\"\n\nDavid Lonsdale, director of the Scottish Retail Consortium, welcomed the reopenings and urged shoppers to respect the rules in place.\n\nHe said: \"The decision to expand the list of essential retailers and unwind some of the elevated lockdown restrictions are positive steps. Its good news for shoppers and for the economy.\n\n\"Retailers are working hard to prepare for reopening. Shoppers can play their part by adhering to the rules on face-coverings, social distancing, queuing, and by being respectful of shop staff.\"\n\nOutdoor contact sports for 12 to 17-year-olds can also start again and college students are able to return to in-person teaching for practical subjects.\n\nIt is expected that all school pupils will return full-time after the Easter holidays. Those in secondary schools are currently operating under a blended learning system.\n\nMeanwhile Police Scotland have criticised campers who breached lockdown rules by pitching up in the Mennock Pass on Dumfries and Galloway.\n\nThe campers were ordered by police to move on\n\nThe force tweeted: \"Whilst out on patrol yesterday in the Mennock Pass our officers found a large number of people who had travelled from out with our region to #DumfriesandGalloway.\n\n\"Approximately 50 people who had intended camping for the weekend were reminded of the current guidelines prior to them leaving the area.\n\n\"Our officers will continue to visit local beauty spots to encourage people to #StaySafe.\n\n\"Please follow the The Scottish government guidelines as we ease out of lockdown.\"\n\nIt comes after Scotland recorded 343 coronavirus cases and no new deaths of Covid patients on Sunday.\n\nFigures published by the Scottish government indicated the daily test positivity rate was 2.7%, up from 2.1% on Saturday.\n\nIn total, 2,553,837 people had received a first dose of the Covid-19 vaccination and 451,057 had received their second dose.", "French tycoon and and former Adidas owner Bernard Tapie and his wife have been attacked in a violent burglary at their estate near Paris.\n\nThe couple were tied up with electrical cords, physically assaulted and robbed of their jewellery.\n\nBernard Tapie, 78, who was briefly a government minister, is a flamboyant and controversial figure.\n\nHe has been at the centre of legal battles concerning corruption and fraud for decades, and spent time in jail.\n\nThe investigation has now been taken over by prosecutors in the capital Paris.\n\nMr Tapie and his wife, Dominique, 70, were sleeping when four men slipped passed security guards and broke into their home around 00:30 on Sunday (22:30 GMT Saturday).\n\nThe intruders pulled Mrs Tapie by the hair \"because they wanted to know where the treasure was\", the mayor of Combs-La-Ville, Guy Geoffroy, told AFP.\n\n\"But of course there was no treasure, and the fact that they didn't find it made the violence only worse.\"\n\nMr Tapie was hit over the head with a club while sitting in a chair.\n\nManaging to free herself, Dominique Tapie ran to a neighbour's home and called the police. She suffered facial injuries after being hit several times, and was taken to hospital.\n\n\"She is doing well,\" Mr Tapie's grandson Rodolphe Tapie said.\n\nMr Tapie refused to go to hospital.\n\n\"He is shattered, very tired,\" Rodolphe Tapie said.\n\nThe thieves reportedly stole two watches, including a Rolex, earrings, bracelets and a ring.\n\nThe couple's son posted a photo of his father's injuries 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 Stéphane Tapie This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBernard Tapie has a long list of accomplishments over a number of decades:\n\nBut he has also had a string of legal problems, declared bankruptcy in the 1990s and spent five months in jail after a series of cases concerning corruption, tax fraud and misuse of corporate assets.\n\nBernard and Dominique Tapie at the unveiling of a new theatre in Paris in 2007\n\nFlaunting his wealth by buying the football club, Olympique de Marseille won the French championship while he was their owner, but he was accused of match-fixing and the club was stripped of its league championship title and later relegated to a lower division.\n\nHis most high-profile case has lasted more than two decades, and involves a controversial settlement of €400m ($470m) awarded to him in 2008 after he sold his stake in Adidas.\n\nMr Tapie had sued French state bank Crédit Lyonnais, accusing it of undervaluing the sports goods company during the sale.\n\nA panel concluded he had been the victim of fraud, and awarded him the massive damages.\n\nOlympique de Marseille won the French Championship five times while Tapie was president, and took home the UEFA Champions League in 1993\n\nThe scandal also implicated then-Finance Minister Christine Lagarde. She was found guilty of negligence, because she approved the compensation money.\n\nMs Lagarde denied any wrongdoing, and was not fined or imprisoned. She now runs the European Central Bank.\n\nMr Tapie was ordered to repay the money in 2015, after a court found he had in fact not been defrauded by Crédit Lyonnais - a decision he continues to fight.\n\nBernard Tapie is currently suffering stomach cancer and cancer of the oesophagus, and the trial concerning his appeal was postponed last year until May 2021 because of his health.", "Last updated on .From the section Rowing\n\nCambridge continued their recent dominance of the Boat Race, winning both the men's and women's contests in thrilling style.\n\nThe women's team triumphed first on Sunday, earning their fourth straight win, by less than a length.\n\nAnd the Cambridge's men followed suit, with victory in the 166th staging of the race by less than a length as well.\n\nThe race had been moved from the Thames to Ely in Cambridgeshire because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe narrower Great Ouse river produced moments of drama with Sarah Winckless, the first female umpire in the history of the men's race, repeatedly warning Cambridge cox Charlie Marcus to change his crew's line to avoid a clash of oars.\n\nCambridge had hit the front early on and held their advantage throughout for their third straight win and a fourth in five stagings.\n\n\"I had to be as far over as I could. I never fouled them, so that's what I had to do,\" Marcus said on BBC One. \"About three strokes before the finish was when I thought we had this won.\"\n\n\"You dream of this moment,\" Cambridge rower Theo Weinberger said. \"I don't know what to say, it's two years' worth of training and hard work, it just means so much and I don't think there's anything you can quite compare it to.\"\n\n'The closest boat race the females have had'\n\nIn the 75th women's race, Oxford were also repeatedly warned by umpire Judith Packer for encroaching on their rivals' line in a tight race.\n\nBut Cambridge held their nerve, having taken a slender lead after halfway.\n\nDylan Whitaker, the winning cox, was full of praise for his opposite number Costi Levy.\n\n\"Massive, massive props to Costi because she steered like an absolute champ. That was close but we knew what our plan was, we kept it calm and loose and it worked,\" he said on BBC One.\n\nSarah Tisdall, one of the Cambridge rowers, added: \"Awesome race, massive congrats to Oxford. That's the closest boat race the females have had. Awesome day for women's sport and really proud of this team. It's been awesome.\"\n• None How are different faiths celebrated in modern Britain?\n• None Test your knowledge of how different countries celebrate the holiday", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAt least 113 people have died after flash floods and landslides hit Indonesia and East Timor on Sunday.\n\nTorrential rain sparked widespread destruction in the South East Asian neighbours, with water from overflowing dams submerging thousands of homes.\n\nThe affected area stretches from Flores island in eastern Indonesia to East Timor.\n\nIn Indonesia alone, 86 people have died with dozens still missing. Officials warn the toll could still rise.\n\n\"The mud and the extreme weather have become a serious challenge and the debris piling up has hampered the search and rescue team,\" Indonesian Disaster Mitigation Agency spokesman Raditya Djati told reporters.\n\n\"We suspect many people are buried but it's not clear how many are missing,\" his colleague Alfons Hada Bethan, head of the East Flores disaster agency, said.\n\n\"The evacuees are spread out. There are hundreds in each sub district but many others are staying at home. They need medicine, food, blankets.\"\n\nAt least 27 people have also died in East Timor, also known as Timor Leste, news agencies quoted officials in the island nation as saying.\n\nMany of the victims are believed to be from the country's capital Dili.\n\nIndonesian President Joko Widodo has offered his condolences and urged people to follow the advice from officials during extreme weather periods.\n\n\"I have ordered for disaster relief efforts to be conducted quickly and well, for example for health service assistance, availability of logistics and basic needs for the displaced and the reparation of infrastructure,\" he said.\n\nOne woman's body was recovered from the seashore on the island of Lembata after being swept down a mountainside.\n\n\"There was a rumbling sound and the floods swept away homes, everything,\" her son, Juna Witak, told the AFP news agency.\n\nTorrents of mud washed over homes, bridges and roads in East Flores\n\nMud and debris has made it difficult to reach survivors\n\nLandslides and flash floods are not uncommon across the Indonesian archipelago during the rainy season.\n\nIn January this year, 40 people died when flash floods hit the town of Sumedang on Java.\n\nAnd last September, at least 11 people were killed in landslides on Borneo, while a few months earlier dozens died in Sulawesi.\n\nThe country's disaster agency has estimated that nearly half of the country's population - some 125 million people - live in parts of the country at risk of landslides.\n\nFlooding is common on the Indonesian archipelago during the rainy season", "Dame Cheryl Gillan had been an MP for Chesham and Amersham since 1992\n\nFormer Welsh Secretary Dame Cheryl Gillan has died at the age of 68 after a long illness.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson paid tribute to the Conservative MP for Chesham and Amersham, saying she will be \"sorely missed\".\n\nHe described Dame Cheryl as \"a great servant\" and \"always full of wise advice and good humour\".\n\nDame Cheryl had served as the MP for the Buckinghamshire seat since she was first elected in 1992.\n\nCo-chairwoman of the Conservative Party, Amanda Milling, said the noted anti-HS2 campaigner had made a \"huge contribution to public life\".\n\nMs Milling said: \"It was incredibly sad to hear that Dame Cheryl Gillan MP passed away at the weekend.\n\n\"Cheryl had been ill for some time, but battled her illness with great stoicism and grace.\n\n\"Cheryl was a dedicated parliamentarian for many decades, serving in the cabinet and she made a huge contribution to public life and our party.\n\n\"Our thoughts and prayers are with Cheryl's family and friends.\"\n\nDame Cheryl helped preside over the Conservative leadership contest to elect a successor Theresa May - a contest won by Boris Johnson\n\nFormer marketing executive Dame Cheryl was acting joint chair of the 1922 Committee of Tory backbench MPs from May to September 2019.\n\nThat year, along with Charles Walker MP, she helped preside over the Conservative leadership contest to elect a successor to former prime minister Theresa May - a contest Mr Johnson won.\n\nBorn in Llandaff in Cardiff, Dame Cheryl was Welsh Secretary between 2010 and 2012.\n\nWelsh Conservative Senedd leader, Andrew RT Davies said Dame Cheryl was a \"model of public service and was respected across the political spectrum\".\n\n\"She was incredibly proud of her Welsh roots and served with distinction as secretary of state,\" he said.\n\n\"Cheryl was a good friend to the Welsh Conservatives and will be sorely missed.\"\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\nConservative MP for Chatham and Aylesford, Tracey Crouch, who revealed her own breast cancer diagnosis in June, said in a series of messages on social media that she was \"heartbroken to hear the desperately sad news\" and felt \"blessed\" to have known Dame Cheryl.\n\n\"She had been a great source of strength as we went through chemo together,\" she wrote.\n\n\"When she told me she was dying I told her all the nice things I would say, so she knew she was an incredibly inspirational woman in politics who fought for the things she believed in.\n\n\"She was always kind and helpful to us newbies. She had oodles of wisdom from her years as an MP which she shared willingly. I shall miss her greatly.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said he was \"very sad to hear that Dame Cheryl Gillan has passed away\".\n\nHe added on Twitter that he had worked with Dame Cheryl \"on a number of issues\" and that she was \"respected across the House and a great champion for her constituents\".\n\n\"My thoughts are with her family and friends at this sad time.\"\n\nDame Cheryl Gillan, born in Llandaff, Cardiff, was Welsh secretary between 2010 and 2012\n\nSpeaker of the House of Commons, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, said Dame Cheryl's death would leave \"a big hole in all our lives\".\n\nHe said she \"was one of the most popular, friendly and kindly people\" in the Commons.\n\n\"An assiduous attendee of debates, Dame Cheryl never passed up an opportunity to speak against the proposed high-speed rail link HS2,\" he added.\n\nBBC political correspondent Chris Mason added that, in time, there would be a by-election in the seat she represented for nearly three decades.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion please email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Ciaran Leigh Morris was two weeks old when he died\n\nA 34-year-old man has been charged in connection with a car crash that killed a two-week-old boy in a pram.\n\nCiaran Leigh Morris was being pushed along the pavement by family members on High Street, Brownhills, West Midlands, when he was struck on Sunday afternoon.\n\nJames Paul Davis, from Walsall, has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving and causing death by driving while uninsured.\n\nHe will appear at Wolverhampton Magistrates Court on Tuesday morning.\n\nMr Davis also faces further charges of failing to stop at the scene of a collision and failure to report a collision.\n\nFlowers, toys and tributes have been placed at the scene\n\nFlowers, toys and tributes have been left at the scene, where damage to a brick wall can be seen.\n\nIn a tribute released on Monday, Ciaran's parents said: \"Mommy's and Daddy's hearts will always ache, we love you more than anything.\n\n\"We didn't get to keep you for long but we are happy we had the chance to meet you, look after you and call you our son.\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.", "Ciaran Leigh Morris was two weeks old when he died\n\nThe parents of a two-week old baby who died when a car hit his pram have paid tribute to their son.\n\nCiaran Leigh Morris was with family members on High Street, Brownhills, West Midlands, on Sunday afternoon when the car mounted the pavement.\n\nOn Monday, his parents said: \"Mommy's and Daddy's hearts will always ache, we love you more than anything.\"\n\nA 34-year-old man is being questioned on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving.\n\nWest Midlands Police said a BMW was involved in a crash with another car on High Street, at about 16:00 BST, before hitting the pram.\n\nThe driver left the scene, but a man was arrested in Bloxwich a short while later.\n\nCiaran's parents, who issued a tribute through the force, added: \"We didn't get to keep you for long but we are happy we had the chance to meet you, look after you and call you our son. Fly high angel.\"\n\nA relative suffered a shoulder injury, but no-one else was hurt.\n\nSgt Mark Crozier, from the force's serious collision investigation unit, said: \"We've all been left numb by the sad death of Ciaran. He was just two-weeks-old and his life has been tragically taken away.\n\n\"To see the loss of someone so young is difficult for us as officers, but we know the pain is even greater for Ciaran's family.\n\n\"We'll be doing all we can to support them while also trying to establish what happened.\"\n\nFlowers, toys and tributes have been placed at the scene\n\nSgt Crozier said he understood the baby's death would cause shock in the community.\n\nFlowers, toys and tributes have been left at the scene, where damage to a brick wall can be seen.\n\nPeople have been laying tributes at the scene\n\nA passenger from the BMW and the occupants of the other vehicle are helping with the investigation.\n\nPolice said they were keen to hear from anyone who was in the area who may have dashcam footage.\n\nThe baby was taken to hospital but could not be saved, said police\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 prime minister said international travel from 17 May was \"hopeful\"\n\nLeading travel industry figures have reacted with dismay to Boris Johnson's latest comments on the lockdown roadmap, saying they need more clarity.\n\nThe prime minister said he was \"hopeful\" that foreign travel could begin again on 17 May.\n\nBut he said more data was needed before a firm decision could be taken.\n\nThe Business Travel Association said the announcement was \"beyond disappointing\" and called for \"a clear pathway to international travel and trade\".\n\nIts chief executive, Clive Wratten, said moves to open borders had \"once again been kicked down the road\".\n\n\"The business travel industry continues to be crippled by today's lack of movement,\" he added.\n\nIn a Downing Street briefing on Monday, Mr Johnson said he did not want to see coronavirus re-imported from abroad and urged people to await a report from the Global Travel Taskforce on 12 April.\n\nMr Wratten called on the government to be \"confident in its roadmap\", adding: \"This is our last resort.\"\n\nOther travel industry bodies expressed similar discontent as they await further details of a risk-based \"traffic light\" system for foreign travel, due to be published later this week.\n\nUnder the system, no isolation would be necessary on return to the UK from \"green\" countries - although pre-departure and post-arrival tests would be required.\n\nTim Alderslade, chief executive of Airlines UK, said: \"Whilst we support the establishment of a framework for restarting international travel and welcome the removal of self-isolation for arrivals from 'green countries', today's announcement does not provide the clarity we were seeking on the roadmap back towards normality.\n\n\"We await further details, but the measures indicated, including the potential for multiple tests for travellers even from 'green countries', will prevent meaningful travel even to low-risk destinations.\"\n\nMark Tanzer, chief executive of the Abta travel association, welcomed the traffic light system, but said: \"We need to see the details in the Global Travel Taskforce report before this can be assessed fully.\"\n\nHe added: \"It is vital that the government clarifies how the transition between green, amber and red levels will work, both to help travel businesses plan ahead and to provide reassurance for travellers.\n\n\"Destinations should not be suddenly closed off unless variants of concern dictate that this must happen.\"\n\nThe chief executive of the Airport Operators Association, Karen Dee, said she was \"disappointed\" that the prime minister \"continues to suggest significant barriers to international travel and may push back the date of restart beyond 17 May\".\n\nShe said a \"risk-based, proportionate system\" could \"open up aviation without quarantine and with affordable, rapid testing\".", "All people in the top nine priority groups have been offered a vaccine, the Welsh government says\n\nAll over-50s and at-risk adults with underlying health conditions have been offered a Covid-19 vaccine in Wales, according to the Welsh government.\n\nThe government said it had hit its target after First Minister Mark Drakeford said everyone in the top nine priority groups would be offered a first jab by Sunday.\n\nAll four UK governments had promised to reach the milestone by mid-April.\n\nThe Welsh government said it had achieved its \"second milestone\".\n\nIt comes after the top four priority groups in Wales, which is made up of all over-70s, including care home residents, were offered a jab by mid-February.\n\nOn Monday, Public Health Wales said 1,490,372 people had received a first dose of the vaccine, and 467,683 had had both doses and were fully vaccinated.\n\n\"I can confirm that the second milestone has been achieved, all phase one priority groups have been offered a vaccine by the NHS,\" a Welsh government spokesman said.\n\n\"We are encouraging people in these priority groups who haven't yet had a vaccine to contact their local health board to arrange it.\"\n\nWelsh Conservative Senedd leader Andrew RT Davies said: \"This is a true British success story and I would like to thank everyone involved, especially our incredibly hard-working vaccination teams and armed forces who have gone above and beyond delivering the rollout programme.\n\n\"This is a significant milestone we can all celebrate as we continue on the road to recovery.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru's health spokesman Rhun ap Iorwerth said reaching the milestone was \"testament to the hard work of our wonderful NHS staff and the army of volunteers who have gone beyond the call of duty\".\n\n\"The vaccine rollout gives us hope and confidence that we are moving in the right direction and it must continue at pace to ensure that the people of Wales are vaccinated as quickly as possible. We need to know what this milestone now means for further easing of restrictions.\"\n\nThe Welsh Liberal Democrats said it was \"good news\" and thanked staff who worked over Easter.\n\n\"We must continue this roll out to ensure everyone in Wales is vaccinated as quickly and safely as possible,\" the party's health spokeswoman Jo Watkins said.\n\nMeanwhile, everyone in England is to be given access to two rapid coronavirus tests a week from Friday, under an extension of the UK government's testing programme.\n\nWhen asked if people in Wales would be offered the same service, the Welsh government said it was \"already providing access to over 22% of our total population to regular testing\", and that this was growing.", "Mental health \"hubs\" for new, expectant or bereaved mothers are to be set up around England.\n\nThe 26 sites, due to be opened by next April, will offer physical health checks and psychological therapy in one building.\n\nNHS England said these centres would provide treatment for about 6,000 new parents in the first year.\n\nFive years ago, 40% of areas in England had no dedicated maternal mental health services.\n\nThings have improved since then with some specialist services available in each of the 44 local NHS areas in England.\n\nBut in the NHS's Long Term Plan, published in 2019, the health service pledged to offer more \"evidence-based\" support, including to partners and families through these hubs or \"outreach clinics\".\n\nThe NHS hopes to offer services to people with moderate-to-severe difficulties, whereas earlier investment focused on the most acutely unwell mothers.\n\nThese clinics will \"integrate maternity, reproductive health and psychological therapy for women experiencing mental health difficulties directly arising from, or related to, the maternity experience,\" NHS England said.\n\nOne of the new sites, in Devon, opened in January this year.\n\nLizzie, who experienced low mood and nightmares during her pregnancy having previously suffered a miscarriage, was referred to the service for some support.\n\nShe was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and offered a therapy called Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), which is designed to help people cope with distressing memories.\n\nAfter the treatment and having had her baby girl Enfys, Lizzie said: \"I feel unbelievably better after this pregnancy and birth compared to how I felt after my experience with my first child, when there wasn't any support available to me; even with the added distress of having a miscarriage, the pressures of Covid-19 restrictions and not being able to see my family.\n\n\"I feel happier, more confident and much better in my mental health. I feel fully recovered.\"\n\nIn 2019-20, more than 30,000 women were seen by specialist perinatal mental health community services.\n\nNHS England has made a commitment to offer specialist care to at least 66,000 people with mental health difficulties related to pregnancy, birth or parenthood by 2023-24.\n\nEmily Slater, CEO of the Maternal Mental Health Alliance, said: \"For the more than one in 10 expectant and new mothers experiencing mental health problems, and the increased numbers as a result of the pandemic, there needs to be a system of care available to support them.\n\n\"These new services will enable more women than ever to access vital perinatal mental health care.\"\n\nHelp will be available from before conception - for those with pre-existing mental health conditions who want to get pregnant - until the baby's second birthday, whereas currently these services are available for the first year of a child's life.\n\nNHS England said care would be provided for a \"wide range of mental health issues from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after giving birth to others with a severe fear of childbirth,\" for 1,001 days from conception.\n\nClaire Murdoch, NHS England's national mental health director, said: \"Every woman has a unique experience with pregnancy and motherhood and some will need extra support to cope with mental health issues that can range from anxiety to severe depression.\n\n\"I would encourage any mum who needs this support to come forward safe in the knowledge that her mental health and wellbeing are of paramount importance and she should not feel ashamed of accessing the help she needs.\"\n\nThe clinics will also train maternity staff and midwives as well as providing psychological therapies to people during pregnancy and after giving birth.\n\nThe first 10 sites will open around England \"within months\", in:\n\nThe rest are expected to be up and running by April 2022, with plans for all 44 local NHS areas to have one of these hubs by April 2024.", "French police have launched an investigation into alleged clandestine fine dining and parties in Paris, revealed in an undercover TV report.\n\nFrench Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin ordered the probe, saying such gatherings, breaching Covid lockdown rules, would be \"totally unacceptable\".\n\nA private TV channel, M6, tweeted the undercover film, with the description \"caviar, champagne, top chefs' menus and no masks allowed\".\n\nFrance is now in its third lockdown.\n\nThe new restrictions took effect nationally on Saturday and will continue for four weeks, with the aim of curbing a surge in Covid-19 cases. On Sunday the number of Covid patients in intensive care rose to 5,341, putting French hospitals under huge strain.\n\nAll schools and non-essential shops are shut and a night curfew is in place from 19:00 to 06:00.\n\nThe M6 film showed an unnamed private dining club in a \"smart district\" of Paris, where guests were told they could remove their masks. The secret venue, with window blinds down, was accessed via an apartment block.\n\nA waiter is heard telling the reporter - who is posing as a guest - that \"the people who come here don't wear masks; once you enter here there's no more Covid\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by M6info This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAccording to the report, the haute cuisine on the menu starts at €160 (£136; $188) and can cost as much as €490 per person.\n\nThe video also shows separate undercover footage of what is apparently a secret dinner party in a luxurious venue. The voice-over says the guests paid €220 per head, and some kissed each other cheek-to-cheek, ignoring all Covid distancing rules.\n\nA woman is heard claiming that \"this week I dined at two or three restaurants - so-called clandestine restaurants - with some ministers\".\n\nThe video has gone viral, and triggered the Twitter hashtag #OnVeutLesNoms, meaning \"we want the names\".\n\nThe video points out the penalties for lockdown offences in France - a year in jail and €15,000 fine for putting someone's life at risk and, for each guest, potentially a €135 fine for violating the curfew and another €135 for not wearing a mask.\n\nWhen asked about the report, Mr Darmanin said that in the current crisis there was not one rule for the rich and privileged and another for everyone else.\n\nIf the video is proven to be accurate, he said, \"these people must be prosecuted and, I imagine, sentenced for having organised such parties\".\n\nHe said police were intervening daily to break up \"big barbecues\" in working-class districts, \"because people don't respect the lockdown\".\n\n\"Clearly, in the capital's smartest districts, the rules are the same for everyone. We don't have two types of citizen: those with a right to party and those who don't.\"\n\nFrench Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire also voiced concern about the video, and insisted that \"all ministers, without exception, are respecting the rules and no-one among them thinks they have some sort of special pass\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Boris Johnson is expected to unveil a traffic light system for foreign travel in an update on measures for easing Covid restrictions in England.\n\nThe prime minister is to make a series of announcements on changes to lockdown rules at a Downing Street briefing.\n\nMore detail might be given on the possible use of Covid certificates to access services or events domestically.\n\nHe will also say if non-essential shops can reopen and restaurants can start serving outdoors from 12 April.\n\nOther changes in stage two of England's roadmap include:\n\nMr Johnson will be joined by chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance and England's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty at the Downing Street briefing at 17:00 BST.\n\nThe government has also announced plans for everyone in England to be given access to two rapid coronavirus tests a week from Friday, in an expansion of its testing programme.\n\nCurrently foreign holidays are banned in the UK, with £5,000 fines in England for people trying to travel abroad without a good reason.\n\nUnder the current plan for easing restrictions, the earliest date people in England could go abroad for a holiday would be 17 May.\n\nHealth minister Edward Argar said the government was acting \"very carefully and cautiously\" due to the risk of importing new variants.\n\nAsked on BBC Breakfast if Europe was likely to be on the \"caution list\" of destinations due to a surge in cases, Mr Argar said the thing the government did not want to see \"as the vaccination programme is working so well\" was \"new variants getting imported into the country\".\n\nHe said at the moment ministers were \"very much focused\" on the gold standard PCR tests \"in the context of travel\" and suggested the model where travellers paid for their own tests would continue.\n\nMr Johnson is unlikely to set out which countries will be in each category of the traffic light system in his briefing later.\n\nAfter months of anticipation, many in the travel industry will be pleased if the prime minister announces some measures on how international travel can restart.\n\nBut there will still be unanswered questions. Boris Johnson is unlikely to announce which destinations will be designated green, amber or red yet under any traffic light system.\n\nThe vaccination rate and the level of variants in a country are likely to determine which level a country is placed at, but the travel industry still wants to know more about how this will be decided and how quickly things could change to move countries into different categories.\n\nThe government's roadmap has stated international travel could restart from England on 17 May at the earliest; there's no guarantee yet that it won't be pushed back.\n\nImperial College London scientist Prof Neil Ferguson told BBC Radio 4's Today programme testing everyone from European countries would be \"sensible\", rather than \"some of the 'red list' countries which are far away\".\n\nHe said there was \"concern\" over the proportion of cases of the South African variant, which might undermine the UK's vaccine programme, in some European countries such as France and Luxembourg.\n\nThe Times has reported that thousands of tourists are being let in to the country every day, despite the government's restrictions on travel.\n\nImmigration minister Kevin Foster said he did not \"recognise\" the figures but Labour's Yvette Cooper tweeted that the Home Office needed to \"urgently respond, explain and publish these figures\".\n\nThe potential role of vaccine passports or Covid certificates is being reviewed by Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove, with the government announcing trials of a series of measures for opening up the economy.\n\nA certification scheme could record whether people had been vaccinated, recently tested negative or had natural immunity and are seen as a possible means of enabling mass-audience events to take place in the future.\n\nOne way such a scheme could be implemented is through the existing NHS app.\n\nThe FA Cup final on 15 May is one event which will be piloting certification, the government said.\n\nShadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth told BBC Radio 4's World At One programme he was worried introducing vaccine passports would make people feel they were being forced to have a jab, which he thought could be \"counterproductive\".\n\n\"All the evidence has always suggested that if you want to maintain confidence in vaccination, that you don't make it compulsory, don't force people to be vaccinated - you encourage people, you persuade people,\" he said.\n\nMore than 40 Conservative MPs have signed a cross-party letter opposing the use of vaccine passports for access to jobs or services, with critics calling such a move \"discriminatory\".\n\nFor foreign travel, European officials have announced a plan for an EU-wide \"Green Digital Certificate\", which would allow anyone vaccinated against Covid, or who has tested negative, or recently recovered from the virus, to travel within the region.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTUI UK and Ireland managing director Andrew Flintham called for \"clear guidelines\" for the travel industry.\n\nHe said the company would take its lead from the government on travel certification, but the industry wanted it to be as \"wide as possible\".\n\n\"So free, ideally free, or cheap testing that is freely available is another major way of getting people moving and also being able to certify that people have actually had the disease and have recovered, therefore they have created these antibodies,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\nHe added what the sector did not want the \"stop and start\" situation of last year with advice changing at short notice.\n\nIn Scotland, hairdressers, homeware shops and garden centres have reopened as part of the nation's latest easing of Covid restrictions.\n\nFrom 12 April, at the earliest, all pupils are due to return schools in Wales, which will coincide with the reopening of shops and close contact services.\n\nOn the same date Northern Ireland is set to relax its stay at home message, with non-essential retail to reopen and groups of up to 10 people from two households able to meet in a private garden.", "John Owen killed himself in 2001 when he was due to face trial for sexually abusing pupils\n\n\"He would call me into his office to discuss some script or speech I was working on. He would lock the door and pull the zip on my trousers down.\n\n\"My heart would sink because I knew what was going to happen next.\"\n\nNearly two decades after pupils at a Rhondda Cynon Taf school were allegedly sexually abused by their drama teacher, one has spoken about the ordeal.\n\nJohn Owen killed himself at a caravan in Porthcawl in 2001 when he was due to face trial.\n\nA new S4C documentary looks at alleged abuse pupils at Ysgol Gyfun Rhydfelen near Pontypridd were subjected to by Owen between 1977 and 1992.\n\nThe former pupil said Owen began to abuse him when he was \"very young\" and he did not understand \"how sinister the trap I was in was going to become\".\n\n\"I enjoyed performing, singing, reciting and competing. I remember thinking: 'I must get him to notice me',\" he said.\n\n\"He was an extremely charismatic man and you wanted him to praise you.\"\n\nReferring to the success of the school's shows and in getting children from non Welsh-speaking homes to feel passionately about the language, the man said: \"I was working hard on those shows.\n\n\"John Owen always insisted on loyalty from you. The night we heard John Owen had killed himself, we went for a drink. At last, it was all over.\"\n\nOwen killed himself after failing to appear at Cardiff Crown Court to face trial for the sexual abuse of pupils, which led to an investigation in 2004 by Peter Clarke, the children's commissioner for Wales at the time.\n\nHis report, which led to more victims coming forward, noted there was no doubt Owen was guilty of serious sexual offences against pupils over a number of years.\n\nSpeaking to S4C, Owen's accuser said there was a likeable side to him even though they hated him.\n\n\"He was a man who gave me a load of advice, there was a gentle and kind side to him and he could bring the best out of me.\"\n\n\"Emotionally, I'm still angry with him. I blame him for hurting me, but I could also make excuses for him and see him as a victim.\n\n\"If you weren't 100% with him, you were against him and you were the enemy. That's how he manipulated us.\n\n\"He could help me with what I wanted out of life but I had to make a deal with the devil.\n\n\"And when the sexual abuse began I switched off and tried to pretend I was somewhere else.\"\n\nOwen also scripted and produced the drama series Pam Fi Duw? for S4C from 1997, and the documentary will hear from some of its actors, along with journalist Eifion Glyn, who reported on the story and researched Owen's history.\n\nAn S4C spokesman said: \"It's almost 20 years since John Owen killed himself in a caravan in Porthcawl after failing to appear at Cardiff Crown Court to face trial, but the scars remain in the minds of his victims.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Google owner Alphabet saw its earnings soar in the first quarter as people stuck at home in the pandemic used more of its services.\n\nNet profit jumped by 162% to a record $17.9bn in the three months to March as advertising revenue swelled by a third.\n\nIt comes as the tech giant faces increased scrutiny over its power and the pandemic has people turning to the internet more than ever.\n\nThe firm credited \"elevated consumer activity online\" for its results.\n\n\"Over the last year, people have turned to Google Search and many online services to stay informed, connected and entertained,\" said Alphabet and Google chief executive Sundar Pichai.\n\nAnalysts had expected a good performance as economies around the world have continued to reopen, prompting more spending on online advertising.\n\nReflecting this revenue at Google's search business jumped by 30% to $31.9bn in the quarter , while sales at YouTube leapt 49% to $6bn.\n\nSophie Lund-Yates, equity analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said Alphabet had \"lapped up the rewards from the pandemic like a big cat pouncing on cream\".\n\n\"While famous for its start-up culture and offices, this tech giant is, rather unspectacularly, an advertising business,\" she said.\n\n\"Covid means phenomenal sums of money have shifted to online shopping, so Alphabet's impenetrable family of digital advertising businesses have seen revenue skyrocket.\"\n\nThe only problem facing the tech giant is continued regulatory action over issues such as competition and privacy.\n\nThe latest dispute emerged on Monday when streaming TV technology company Roku accused Google of engaging in anticompetitive behaviour to benefit its YouTube and hardware businesses.\n\nMeanwhile, US and European regulators continue to discuss tightening oversight of Google and other tech giants, but have yet to agree legislation.\n\nOn the back of the strong results, shares in Alphabet rose by 4.5% in after-hours trading.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the moment officer says: \"I love it\"\n\nUS police officers are seen mocking a 73-year-old woman with dementia as they watch video of her shoulder going \"pop\" during her forcible arrest, according to footage released by her lawyer.\n\nKaren Garner was detained on 26 June last year after she walked out of a Walmart store in the state of Colorado without paying for $13 (£9) of items.\n\nHer elbow was fractured and shoulder dislocated, says her lawyer.\n\nAn investigation has been launched into the Loveland Police Department arrest.\n\nIn the footage released on Monday from the booking area of the police station on the day of the arrest, officers are seen fist-bumping one another as they review body camera video of the incident.\n\nVideo from inside Ms Garner's nearby holding cell shows the frail-looking grandmother slumped handcuffed to a bench while the officers joke about the incident, says her lawyer.\n\n\"Ready for the pop? Hear the pop?\" one of the officers says at one point, referring to Ms Garner's shoulder.\n\nAs they continue to watch the footage, the same officer says: \"I love it.\"\n\nThe Garner family hired a sound engineer to enhance audio of the officers' remarks.\n\nTheir lawyer has filed a federal lawsuit against the department, alleging the officers violated the Americans with Disabilities Act and \"violently assaulted\" Ms Garner.\n\nAttorney Sarah Schielke says her client went six hours without medical help while confused and crying in pain after an arrest that amounted to \"torture\".\n\n\"They failed Karen Garner,\" Ms Schielke said in a press release. \"They failed the community. And they did it all on camera.\"\n\nLoveland police said in a statement on Monday they would not be making any comments pending the results of a \"criminal investigation\" launched last week.\n\nThe Larimer County district attorney is looking into the department's use of force during Ms Garner's arrest. Loveland police chief Robert Ticer has pledged full transparency with the inquiry, which will be led by Fort Collins Police.\n\nOne officer has been placed on administrative leave and two others moved to administrative duties.\n\nThe bodycam footage caused public outcry when it was released earlier this month. It shows two police officers stopping Ms Garner as she was picking flowers by the roadside after she left the Walmart store in the town of Loveland, about 50 miles (80km) north of Denver.\n\nCCTV from the supermarket shortly beforehand showed members of staff stopping Ms Garner to recover the $13.38 of merchandise, which included cans of fizzy drinks and laundry detergent.\n\nAfter she walks away from the officers, she is thrown to the ground, handcuffed, shoved face down on the bonnet of the police car and has her legs tied together with a hobble. She was left bleeding.\n\nMs Garner's daughter-in-law, Shannon Steward, told the Denver Post the arrest had worsened Ms Garner's dementia.\n\n\"She hasn't come back the way she was before,\" Ms Steward told the newspaper. \"It was too much.\"\n\nThe release of the footage comes amid a nationwide reckoning over police brutality, especially against African Americans, although Ms Garner is white.", "The US will share up to 60 million doses of its AstraZeneca vaccine with other countries as they become available, the White House has said.\n\nThe doses will be able to be exported in the coming months after a federal safety review.\n\nThe US has a stockpile of the vaccine even though its regulators have not yet authorised it for public use.\n\nCritics have accused the government of hoarding the vaccine, while other countries are in desperate need.\n\nLast month President Joe Biden pledged to share about four million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine with Mexico and Canada - both of which have approved the jab.\n\nThe crisis in India has also piled pressure on the Biden administration to share US health resources.\n\nOn Monday, the White House said it expected that about 10 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine could be released when the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) finishes its review in the coming weeks.\n\nIt said that another 50 million doses were in various stages of production.\n\nAt a news briefing, White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said FDA officials would carry out quality checks on doses before they were exported.\n\n\"Our team will share more details about our planning and who will be receiving offers from here, but we're in the planning process at this point in time,\" she added.\n\nThe US has already announced that it will provide raw materials for Indian vaccine manufacturers as the country battles a devastating surge in cases.\n\nIn a \"warm and positive\" phone call with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday, President Biden promised more emergency assistance \"including oxygen-related supplies, vaccine materials and therapeutics\", a White House statement said.\n\nWashington is also looking at supplying oxygen, Covid tests, personal protective equipment (PPE) and the antiviral drug remdesivir to India's health service.\n\nThe FDA has so far authorised three vaccines against Covid- 19 - Pfizer BioNTech, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson (Janssen). Experts say it looks likely that these will provide all the country's needs and the AstraZeneca jab may not be needed.\n\nAccording to the latest figures, more than 53% of adults have so far received at least one dose of vaccine.\n\nThe US handling of the coronavirus pandemic has had plenty of shortcomings, but vaccine production isn't one of them. The Biden administration has an abundance of jabs, and now it is sharing some of that bounty with other countries.\n\nThe decision to ship as many as 60 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine - which have yet to be approved for use in the US - comes at a critical moment, with US neighbours Canada and Mexico continuing to struggle and India facing a devastating surge in cases.\n\nIt gives the Biden administration the opportunity to engage in \"vaccine diplomacy\" - using the shipments to pressure other nations to follow suit and engender goodwill that might help advance other US foreign policy priorities.\n\nAt the very least it inoculates Joe Biden from criticism that the US has turned its back on the world as it sat on millions of doses that weren't needed - or wanted - when they could be saving lives.\n\nThe domestic risk for the president seems minimal, as long as the US supply holds up. It signals the administration's growing confidence that the domestic challenge ahead isn't one of having enough jabs, but convincing all Americans to receive vaccinations that are already available.\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", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson denies making 'bodies pile up' claim during third lockdown conversation\n\nBoris Johnson said he would rather see \"bodies pile high\" than take the country into a third lockdown, sources familiar with the conversations have told the BBC.\n\nThe remarks were said to have been made last autumn, just as England went into a second lockdown.\n\nThe PM has strongly denied saying the phrase, describing the reports as \"total rubbish\".\n\nThe government is also facing questions over possible donations made to re-decorate the prime minister's flat, and an investigation into leaked information about England's second lockdown.\n\nEngland entered its third lockdown on 6 January.\n\nMr Johnson's comments - first reported in the Daily Mail - came at the end of October when the government announced there would be a second lockdown in England following a sharp rise in coronavirus cases.\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg says, at the time, the prime minister was reported to have had big concerns about the implications of another lockdown on the economy and non-Covid related health issues.\n\n\"This does take us back to that moment and back to the very serious claims made by some people who were involved in the decision making - including some ministers - that the hesitancy around the second lockdown did cost lives,\" she said.\n\nAsked about the comments earlier on Monday, Mr Johnson denied having made them adding that the public wanted the government \"to make sure that the lockdowns work, and they have\".\n\nThe PM's spokesman said the reported comments were false adding: \"This is untrue and the PM has denied it… I'm not aware of anyone else making that statement.\"\n\nMr Johnson was also defended by Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove who told MPs he was in the room during conversations about the lockdown but \"never heard language of that kind\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said he was \"astonished\" by the reports adding: \"Everybody would be deeply concerned, not least all those families who have lost someone in the pandemic.\"\n\nThe prime minister was also strongly criticised by other opposition MPs in the House of Commons.\n\nMs Reeves - Labour's shadow Cabinet Office minister - said the prime minister was a man who \"would rather the bodies pile high than act on scientific advice - but they are not bodies; they are people, they are loved ones and they are deeply missed.\"\n\nShe called for an urgent public inquiry into the government's handling of the pandemic adding: \"This is all about conduct, character and decency - frankly, our country deserves an awful lot better than this.\"\n\nThe SNP's Alison Thewliss said the comments were \"not befitting the office of prime minister\" describing his words as \"despicable, cruel and callous\".\n\nMatt Fowler, co-founder of the group Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice, which is calling an inquiry into the pandemic, said the comments had caused outrage among members.\n\nHe said: \"These callous comments will have caused untold hurt to hundreds of thousands of us across the whole of the country.\n\n\"This demonstrates exactly why an urgent inquiry is so vital, to understand the decisions, rationale and consideration in protecting our loved ones that the government chose.\"\n\nThis comes amid a bitter row between Downing Street and the prime minister's former senior adviser Dominic Cummings.\n\nLast week, Mr Cummings published a blog in which he:\n\nEarlier, Mr Case gave evidence at an MPs' committee and said the inquiry into the second lockdown leak is ongoing; however, he added that \"given the time that has now passed, I think it's probable the team will not successfully identify the source or sources\".\n\nA Cabinet Office source told the BBC that no-one had yet been exonerated in the investigation.\n\nAsked if he would launch an inquiry into the leak of the prime minister's lockdown comments, Mr Case said he would have to discuss that with Mr Johnson.\n\nBoris Johnson and his fiancee Carrie Symonds moved into No 11 Downing Street in July 2019\n\nThe prime minister is also facing questions about the funding of his Downing Street flat refurbishment.\n\nOver the weekend, ministers had said the prime minister \"personally paid the bill\" for the flat but did not answer questions on whether a Tory party donor initially provided the money to him.\n\nMr Johnson has said he would make any necessary declarations about donations \"in due course\" and Mr Case - who is the UK's top civil servant - said he would review how the refurbishment was paid for.\n\nSpeaking in Wrexham, Mr Johnson said the public were more interested in what the government was doing to move the country \"cautiously but irreversibly through the steps of the road map to unlock and to get our country going\".\n\nHe said the disease was \"under control\" and that deaths and hospitalisations were low but added \"that doesn't mean that we've got it totally licked\".\n\n\"We've got to be realistic about that; unfortunately, there probably will be another wave of the disease.\"", "A van driver was left with life-changing injuries after their vehicle was hit on a level crossing\n\nA driver was seriously hurt when their van was hit by a train at a level crossing where safety changes were first demanded 12 years before.\n\nThey suffered life-changing injuries at the private Smiths Lower Cefn crossing in Powys, last June.\n\nA Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) report found the driver may not have known they needed to call the signaller before crossing.\n\nThe Department for Transport (DfT) said it agreed signs \"needs updating\".\n\nThe RAIB first warned in 2009 in a report into another crash that signs at user-operated level crossings needed to be made clearer.\n\nIt has made similar demands in several reports into level crossing crashes in the following years.\n\nThe Rail Accident Investigation Branch launched a probe into the crash, which happened last June\n\nUser-worked crossings are found where railways cross a right of way, such as a road on private land, a footpath or a bridleway.\n\nAny gates or barriers often need to be operated manually, with some crossings requiring users to telephone a signaller to check it is safe to cross.\n\nHowever, the RAIB found that in the crash on 22 June at the Smiths Lower Cefn crossing, near Welshpool, the need to call the signaller could have been overlooked as it was \"not present\" in a list of instructions on the sign at the crossing.\n\nThe report found the van driver, who may have got out of the vehicle to move a gate which had started to swing as they drove over the level crossing, had been standing on the driver side of the vehicle when it was hit by the train.\n\nIt caused the black Mercedes van to spin around, flinging the van driver - who suffered multiple injuries - into a field.\n\nThe RAIB said it had carried out \"many investigations\" into crashes on level crossings.\n\nIt gave the example of a similar accident at the Frognal Farm crossing in Teynham, Kent, in October 2017, where signs had not been \"clear and concise\".\n\nThe RAIB also referred to a 2009 probe into the risks of user-operated level crossings.\n\nIts report then recommended rules for level crossing signs had to be reviewed by the Department for Transport and changed \"as necessary\", taking into account \"the need to convey information and instructions clearly and unambiguously\".\n\nAfter the Powys crash, the RAIB said it contacted Network Rail, the Office of Rail and Road (ORR), and the DfT \"to alert them to this event and the need for action to implement previously made recommendations\".\n\nIt said: \"RAIB remain concerned that accidents and incidents will continue to occur unless substantive action is taken.\"\n\nA spokesman for the DfT said its \"thoughts\" were with the driver.\n\nA spokesman said: \"We welcome the RAIB report on Smiths Lower Cefn, and wholeheartedly agree that signage at private crossings needs updating.\n\n\"The department is currently producing a consultation on updating these, which we aim to publish later this year.\"\n\nNetwork Rail said safety was its \"priority\".\n\nChristine Booth, its level crossings risk advisor, said: \"We are installing red and green lights to some of the highest risk private crossings and public footpath crossings across Wales to make them safer.\n\n\"This includes at Smith crossing in Powys and follows safety improvements already made at crossings such as Ty Gwyn and Pen Uchaf on the north Wales coast.\"\n\nThe ORR, which is responsible for the safety regulation of Britain's railways, said: \"We've been working with Network Rail and the Department for Transport to ensure recommendations are duly considered and acted upon.\n\n\"We are also working with industry to introduce new guidance for managing level crossing safety.\n\n\"This will help improve risk assessments at level crossings and will apply to all crossings including user worked crossings.\"", "Boris Johnson lives in Downing Street with his fiancee Carrie Symonds\n\nThe UK's top civil servant says Boris Johnson has asked him to review how the refurbishment of his Downing Street flat was paid for.\n\nCabinet Secretary Simon Case was responding to MPs' questions about how the work was funded.\n\nThe row escalated after Mr Johnson's ex-adviser Dominic Cummings claimed the PM once planned to have donors \"secretly pay\" for the revamp.\n\nThe PM has said any relevant donations will be declared \"in due course\".\n\nLabour has called on the Electoral Commission, which regulates political donations in the UK, to launch a formal investigation.\n\nThe watchdog has said it is talking to the Conservative Party about whether the spending on the flat falls within its remit.\n\nAppearing before a Commons committee on Monday, Mr Case said a review into the refurbishment would look at \"how this has been done\".\n\nAsked repeatedly whether he was aware if private donations covered any of the costs, he said he had \"not been involved directly in this\".\n\n\"I do not have all of the facts and details at my disposal,\" he said, adding that his review would probably take \"a matter of weeks\".\n\nAnother day, another denial. Another 24 hours when rather than making their arguments, the government is embroiled in arguments about the past.\n\nWhether it's the prime minister's alleged frustrations about lockdown, attacks from his former adviser Dominic Cummings, or the mystery over his expensive flat renovation, as one senior Tory put it, it matters, because it all relates to Boris Johnson's judgement.\n\nMany Conservatives have been confident however that the prime minister's reputation, his enjoyment for pushing convention, is something that many voters are even attracted to.\n\nBut there's a risk that confidence could turn to complacency.\n\nThere is a belief in the Labour Party that the unhappy mess is starting to be noticed by voters.\n\nAnd no one knows when, or what might next emerge.\n\nOne cabinet minister told me \"there's nothing we can do to control it.\"\n\nThe claims about the flat are contained in a blog posted by Mr Cummings on Friday, his first since leaving his role in No 10.\n\nIn the blog, Mr Cummings also denied he was behind the leaking of details of November's second coronavirus lockdown in England.\n\nMr Case told MPs that an internal inquiry into that leak was ongoing, but it was \"probable\" officials working on it would fail to identify any sources.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Johnson has denied reports he said he would rather \"let the bodies pile high in their thousands\" than order a third lockdown.\n\nThe Daily Mail reported the prime minister made the remarks during heated conversations within government in the autumn over lockdown restrictions.\n\nSources familiar with the conversation have told the BBC Mr Johnson suggested he would rather see \"bodies pile high\" during the discussions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Simon Case was asked whether private donations funded work at the flat\n\nLike several of his recent predecessors, the PM is living in the flat above No 11 Downing Street, which is larger than the one above No 10.\n\nSpeaking earlier, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said the prime minister had paid for the revamp \"from his own money\" .\n\nHe said this came \"on top of\" public money from the annual £30,000 taxpayer grant available to all prime ministers for the upkeep of their accommodation.\n\nIn a written statement on Friday, the government said no money from this grant was spent in the 2019/20 financial year. Figures for this year are expected to be published in the summer.\n\n\"At all times the prime minister has complied with the rules. He's paid for it out of his own money, \" he said.\n\nMichelle Obama visited Samantha Cameron in the 11 Downing St flat back in 2011\n\nSpeaking to reporters on Monday, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer urged a \"full and transparent investigation\" into the allegations about the Downing Street flat, arguing they risked undermining trust in government.\n\n\"It's all very well the prime minister saying now 'I paid for it', the critical question was: what was the original arrangement - and why is it so complicated?\"\n\n\"If there's a straightforward answer, well give it. And if there isn't, then there are very serious questions to be asked,\" he added.\n\nA No 10 spokesperson said: \"At all times, the government and ministers have acted in accordance with the appropriate codes of conduct and electoral law.\"\n\nDonations and loans to political parties of more than £7,500 must be reported to the Electoral Commission.\n\nThe Conservative Party has previously said that all \"reportable donations\" are \"correctly declared to the Electoral Commission, published by them and comply fully with the law\".\n\nThe party said \"gifts and benefits received in a ministerial capacity\" are declared in government transparency returns.\n\nMr Case was also asked by MPs about the case of businessman Lex Greensill who was a part-time unpaid government adviser in David Cameron's government.\n\nThe civil servant boss said that situation was not \"acceptable\" and that it \"looks like there were conflicts\". He added that he didn't think there was anything of that equivalent happening in the civil service now.\n\nThe prime minister has already appointed the lawyer Nigel Boardman to hold a review into all the issues surrounding Greensill Capital.", "Jonty Bravery, now 19, was 17 years old when he was charged with attempted murder\n\nA teenager who threw a six-year-old from the 10th floor of the Tate Modern had a history of violent behaviour.\n\nA serious case review found that Jonty Bravery had expressed a desire to hurt people prior to the attack in 2019.\n\nThe review blamed an undiagnosed personality disorder for the offence, and found professionals failed to distinguish \"callous\" traits from behaviours linked to Bravery's autism.\n\nIt called for \"critical lessons\" to be translated into action.\n\nIt highlighted a series of troubling incidents involving Bravery in the two years before the attack, including threatening to kill members of the public and putting faeces in his mother's make-up brushes.\n\nBut his violent behaviour had been less frequent in the period before the Tate Modern attack, while he was living in a placement with two-to-one care funded by Hammersmith and Fulham Borough Council and the NHS clinical commissioning group (CCG).\n\nThe six-year-old boy was taken by air ambulance to the Royal London Hospital\n\nThe report says: \"There was no recent evidence that he presented a risk to other children or adults unknown to him.\n\n\"It was in this context that he was progressively given more freedoms, which saw him able to visit central London unaccompanied on the day of the incident.\"\n\nOn 4 August 2019, Bravery made his way to the Tate Modern's viewing balcony where CCTV footage showed him following young children and looking over railings.\n\nHe then threw the six-year-old from the viewing platform and he fell 100ft (30m), suffering a bleed to the brain, and other injuries, including fractures to his spine.\n\nBravery, who was diagnosed with autism at the age of five, was jailed for 15 years in June for attempted murder.\n\nThe review, by the Local Safeguarding Children Partnership (LSCP), highlights a national shortage of specialist and residential community care for children and young people with complex and high-risk behaviours.\n\nBravery spent various periods of time being moved from psychiatric intensive care units, specialist residential schools and hotels from the age of 15 as his behaviour became more troubling.\n\nBravery told mental health professionals that he was planning to kill his stepmother and sister\n\nHis parents thought this detrimental to his mental health, the report says.\n\nHis father told the review he felt \"frustrated\" at the apparent lack of expertise among private care providers dealing with his son.\n\nThe key question: how was Jonty Bravery, with a history of violence, who had warned he would do something similar, allowed out alone to the Tate?\n\nToday's report only adds to the disbelief that he was allowed to visit the gallery unaccompanied.\n\nThe report says there was no \"recent\" evidence that he posed a risk to other children or adults he didn't know.\n\nYet in the two and a half years before the attack at the Tate, Bravery was involved in at least eight assaults.\n\nHe attacked and bit another child, he attacked a support worker with a brick, he dragged a care worker by her hair, he assaulted police not once but three times, he confessed he had thoughts about killing himself and others, he punched a member of staff in a restaurant and racially abused his care worker.\n\nThe last attack was just four months before he threw the young French boy from the Tate.\n\nNo-one is blamed for letting Bravery out although the system is criticised for the lack of treatment and residential places for him.\n\nLast year, the BBC revealed a recording from 2018 where Bravery told some of his care workers he planned to push someone off a building and go to jail.\n\nThe serious case review accepts the care agency's statement that it had no prior knowledge of this and says the review didn't identify anything to undermine that.\n\nIt's unlikely this will provide much comfort to the injured boy's family as he relearns how to walk and speak.\n\nDuring a four-week placement in a children's home in 2017, Bravery hit a climbing wall instructor at a leisure centre, deliberately damaged a car and assaulted a member of staff with a brick.\n\nLater that year, he dragged a member of staff along the floor by her hair and, in 2018, he disclosed he was planning to kill his stepmother and sister.\n\nThe review says: \"It is evident that professionals working with (Bravery) at this time did not think he would act on these statements, which were seen as attention-seeking behaviour.\n\n\"This was because all of (Bravery's) actions were viewed as products of his autistic behaviour and there was no consideration of these threats in a context of conduct disorder.\"\n\nThe boy had been visiting London from France with his parents\n\nA psychiatric report in 2018 said Bravery, who is now 19, had learnt to use his autism as an excuse to evade responsibility for dangerous behaviour.\n\nThe review says Bravery needed residential therapeutic solutions that could enable him, as an autistic young person, to engage in a treatment regime for his conduct disorder.\n\n\"But such a residential option did not exist,\" it adds.\n\nThe LCSP says it is continuing to make improvements across police, health and social care in the delivery and co-ordination of support for autistic children and those with complex high-risk behaviours.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nChelsea produced a composed performance to secure a fully deserved draw and a crucial away goal to put themselves in a promising position after their Champions League semi-final first leg against Real Madrid.\n\nThomas Tuchel's side were superior on the night and might even regard themselves as unfortunate not to take an advantage into the return at Stamford Bridge in eight days' time as they set their sights on a final date against either Manchester City or Paris St-Germain in Istanbul on 29 May.\n\nChelsea over-ran Madrid in the early stages and should have taken the lead when Timo Werner shot straight at keeper Thibaut Courtois from only six yards - but they were ahead after only 14 minutes when Christian Pulisic kept his cool to steer home a clever finish.\n\nReal were on the ropes but danger man Karim Benzema, who had glanced the outside of an upright from long range, brought them back into the game with a brilliant equaliser, cushioning the ball with a header before sending an acrobatic volley beyond Edouard Mendy in the 29th minute.\n\nChelsea had the better of the second half but could not carve out the chance to score a potentially vital second. Manager Tuchel will still be very satisfied with both the performance and result.\n• None Chelsea will need to show fight in Real Madrid second leg - Thomas Tuchel\n\nChelsea's only regret as they left rain-soaked Madrid will be that they did not make their moments of superiority count even more after a performance of quality and discipline.\n\nWerner was guilty of an awful miss in the opening moments, shooting straight at Courtois with the goal at his mercy, but Chelsea were soon celebrating the brilliance of Pulisic, who showed commendable calm to go around the keeper in a congested penalty before steering a shot between two Real Madrid defenders on the line.\n\nChelsea had a brief spell of anxiety around the time when Benzema equalised but they were rarely troubled until the dying seconds when Raphael Varane steered a header wide.\n\nTuchel will be happy but he knows this tie is far from over and much work remains to be done against this dangerous Madrid side, who have already proved their enduring ability to get the job done in the Champions League by eliminating Liverpool.\n\nChelsea have the edge because of that away goal but Real are masters of these situations and will still travel to Stamford Bridge with confidence for the second leg.\n\nChelsea will rightly regard themselves as having a very slight advantage after not only avoiding defeat but also taking an away goal back to Stamford Bridge for the second leg.\n\nReal Madrid, however, still present a serious threat and they may well be satisfied to have avoided defeat after a desperately slow start in which they could have conceded more than one goal and were grateful for that awful miss by Werner.\n\nAnd in a side packed with experience and battle-hardened, streetwise operators who have been down this route before, there will be a steely determination that they can still navigate a way past Chelsea into the final.\n\nBenzema, at 33, remains the consummate striker and will be the big danger to Chelsea's aspirations of reaching their first final since they beat Bayern Munich in their own Allianz Arena in 2012.\n\nThe French striker was Real's best performer, so has been so often under-rated and in the shadow of the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo. The brilliant strike that pegged Chelsea back was his 71st goal in the Champions League, making him joint-fourth highest scorer in the competition, level with another Real legend Raul and only behind Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and Robert Lewandowski.\n\nBenzema's class is permanent and he will be a huge threat in the return game at Stamford Bridge.\n• None Chelsea manager Thomas Tuchel has faced Real Madrid more often without losing in the Champions League than against any other opponent (W1 D4) - in the competition's history, he is the only manager to face Los Blancos as many as five times without ever losing.\n• None Chelsea have failed to win any of their eight Champions League semi-final matches played away from home (D5 L3), drawing each of the last five in a row.\n• None Real Madrid have faced Chelsea more often than any other side in all competitions without winning in their entire history, failing in all four matches (D2 L2).\n• None Real Madrid registered just one shot on target versus Chelsea - only versus Paris St-Germain (0) in September 2019 have they had fewer in a Champions League game since 2003-04.\n• None Real Madrid's Karim Benzema scored his 71st goal in the Champions League, making him the joint-fourth top scorer in the competition's history (along with Raúl). Only Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and Robert Lewandowski have now scored more than the Frenchman.\n• None Chelsea's Christian Pulisic became the first American player to score in a Champions League semi-final, and one of only four Americans overall to score in the knockout stages of the competition.\n• None Christian Pulisic became the youngest Chelsea player to score in a semi-final match in Champions League history (22 years and 221 days).\n• None Chelsea defender Thiago Silva (36 years and 217 days) became the oldest outfield player to start in a Champions League semi-final since April 2011, when Ryan Giggs (37 years and 148 days) started for Manchester United against Schalke.\n• None Álvaro Odriozola (Real Madrid) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Raphael Varane (Real Madrid) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Toni Kroos with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Toni Kroos (Real Madrid) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Luka Modric.\n• None Offside, Real Madrid. Nacho tries a through ball, but Marco Asensio is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Hakim Ziyech (Chelsea) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner.\n• None Raphael Varane (Real Madrid) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Saskia Jones, 23, and Jack Merritt, 25, were killed by Usman Khan during a conference on rehabilitating offenders\n\nA convicted terrorist who killed two people had been one of the UK's highest risk inmates, an inquest heard.\n\nUsman Khan, 28, killed Jack Merritt and Saskia Jones at Fishmongers' Hall in London Bridge on 29 November 2019.\n\nEight months earlier he had been released from prison, where he was viewed as an \"influential\" inmate who mixed with high-profile terrorists.\n\nA panel tasked with managing Khan after his release did not discuss the risks of his London visit, the inquest heard.\n\nDuring his eight years in prison Khan was considered to be among the 70 highest-risk prisoners in the entire country, jurors were told.\n\nKhan associated with terrorists including Fusilier Lee Rigby's killer Michael Adebowale, and was involved with violent incidents and radicalisation of fellow inmates at seven prisons across England, the inquest heard.\n\nAt HMP Woodhill he was deemed to be a \"Muslim enforcer\" who headed up \"a bullying gang\".\n\nSenior investigating officer Det Ch Insp Dan Brown gave evidence about Khan's life and long history of extremism in and out of prison, including:\n\nJanuary 2011: Khan suggested he had access to a weapon and would \"do someone in the eye or neck\" and wanted to die and go to paradise\n\nMarch 2011: Khan and others were involved in an attack on another prisoner to shouts of \"Allahu Akbar\"\n\nNovember 2011: Khan shouted during the two-minute silence for Armistice Day.\n\nMay 2013: A stockpile of chemicals was found in Khan's cell\n\nNovember 2013: A Church of England chaplain was caught up in an assault by Khan on another prisoner. A razor blade was found in his cell later that day.\n\nKhan recorded a video for Learning Together months before launching the attack\n\nBy March 2017, Khan was at HMP Whitemoor where he remained a high risk, Mr Brown said, and in June of the same year was regarded as an \"influential\" terrorist prisoner involved in \"extremist bullying\".\n\nEvidence suggested he continued to harbour extremist attitudes and deliberately \"told lies or ticked boxes to achieve progression\", the detective said.\n\nIntelligence gathered in October 2018 suggested he would \"return to his old ways\" following release, the court heard.\n\nJurors have also heard Khan engaged with Learning Together, the education project where Mr Merritt and Ms Jones worked, describing it as \"kind of a family\".\n\nHe launched his fatal attack at one of its rehabilitation conferences held at Fishmongers' Hall.\n\nThe inquest has heard Khan shaved off his body hair - an apparent preparation for an act of martyrdom - in a toilet cubicle at the venue before attacking fellow attendees.\n\nHe was chased on to London Bridge by several people, including a serving and former offender, and was then shot dead by police.\n\nA multi-agency public protection arrangements (Mappa) panel tasked with managing Khan after his release had not discussed the risks his trip might pose, the court was told.\n\nAt a final meeting on 14 November 2019, jurors heard, the group mentioned arrangements for Khan to travel to London on 29 November.\n\nHowever, Jonathan Hough QC, counsel for the coroner, said consideration of the trip referred to \"logistics rather than risks\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "People aged 42 and over in England are now able to book their Covid-19 jab, the health secretary has said.\n\nThose who are due to turn 42 by 1 July are also eligible to make an appointment under the latest extension of the vaccine rollout.\n\nMatt Hancock, who is 42, said he was \"really looking forward\" to receiving his invitation via text and urged others to book their jabs.\n\nMeanwhile, one in four UK adults have now had both of their Covid jabs.\n\nMore than 33.8 million people in the UK have received their first dose, while more than 13.2 million have received two, according to the latest government figures.\n\nThey also show that a further 17 people have died within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test and 2,685 new cases were recorded.\n\nThe extension of the rollout comes just a day after vaccinations were opened to 44-year-olds in England.\n\nIn a video posted on Twitter, Mr Hancock said that rollout had gone \"very, very well\" and thanked those who had booked their jabs.\n\n\"Now we're able to go that little bit further,\" he said.\n\nNHS medical director Prof Stephen Powis added the success of the rollout \"hasn't happened by accident\".\n\n\"It is down to months of careful planning and sheer hard work by nurses, doctors and countless other staff supported by our volunteers,\" he said.\n\nNorthern Ireland has opened its vaccination programme to people aged 35 to 39. Wales, meanwhile, has been inviting over-40s for vaccination, as well as over-30s in some areas. Scotland has been inviting the over-45s for vaccination.\n\nAcross the UK, there have now been 152,205 deaths where Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate, according to the Office for National Statistics.\n\nThe highest number of deaths to occur on a single day was 1,477 on 19 January, the ONS added.\n\nHowever, it also said deaths involving Covid-19 in England and Wales have fallen by 97% since the peak of the second wave of the virus.\n\nA total of 266 deaths occurred in the week ending 9 April where Covid-19 was recorded on the death certificate - this is down 97% from 8,965 deaths in the week to 22 January.\n\nAnother set of figures produced by the government, which measure deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test result, show 127,434 Covid-19 deaths since the start of the pandemic, after a further 6 were reported on Monday.\n\nAt Tuesday's cabinet meeting, the PM \"re-iterated that the data continues to look good but warned that we are not out of the woods yet as variants of concern continue to pose a threat\", a No 10 statement said.\n\nThe statement continued: \"The PM said that while the road ahead looks positive, there will still be challenges and this government will continue to take tough decisions where necessary to protect both lives and livelihoods.\"\n\nWhile England's vaccine rollout continues to draw praise, its approach towards the policing of Covid lockdown breaches has been criticised as \"muddled, discriminatory and unfair\" by a parliamentary committee.\n\nMPs on the Joint Committee on Human Rights want a review of all the fixed penalty notices served for lockdown breaches, which can be as high as £10,000.\n\nThe JCHR, which is made up of MPs and peers, said it had \"significant concerns\" about the validity of fines, the inadequacy of the review and appeal process, the size of the penalties and the criminalisation of those who could not afford to pay.\n\n\"The whole process disproportionately hits the less well-off and criminalises the poor over the better off,\" said the committee chairwoman, Labour MP Harriet Harman.\n\nAccording to the report, coronavirus rules have changed at least 65 times since March 2020.\n\n\"It is possible to tell from penalties that have not been paid and have then progressed through the system towards a prosecution, that a significant number of FPNs are incorrectly issued,\" the committee said.\n\nA government spokesperson said it was right there were consequences for those who most flagrantly breached the rules.\n\nElsewhere, medical supplies from the UK arrived in India, the first international shipment aimed at stemming a devastating Covid surge.\n\nIndia recorded 320,000 new infections on Tuesday, and deaths have risen to almost 200,000 overall.\n\nThe UK shipment of 200 pieces, including ventilators and oxygen concentrators, to help hospitals manage oxygen supplies was unloaded at Delhi airport on Tuesday.\n\nHowever, asked if surplus vaccines would be sent to India, the PM's spokesman said: \"We don't have surplus doses.\"\n\nThe spokesman added: \"We committed in February to sending excess doses from the UK's supply to the Covax procurement pool and to countries in need once they are available.\"\n\nHow has coronavirus affected you? Do you have any questions about the vaccine rollout? 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:", "Ajay and Atul Gupta have been sanctioned, along with their brother Rajesh, accused of corruption in South Africa\n\nThe UK has imposed sanctions on 22 individuals, 14 of them Russians, involved in notorious corruption cases under a new anti-corruption regime.\n\nIndividuals across South Africa, South Sudan and Latin America were also targeted with the asset freezes and travel bans.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab told MPs the UK had an important role to play in combating corruption.\n\nHe also described the country as a \"honey pot\" for \"corrupt actors\".\n\nThe new regime means individuals \"involved in some of the world's most serious cases of corruption\" will no longer be able to channel their money through UK banks or enter the country, a statement from the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office said.\n\nSanctions were imposed on people from six countries, including:\n\nThis is the first time the UK has imposed sanctions for international corruption.\n\nAnnouncing the sanctions in the House of Commons, Mr Raab said: \"Corruption has an immensely corrosive effect on the rule of law, on trust in institutions, it slows development, it drains the wealth of poorer nations, it keeps their people trapped in poverty. It poisons the well of democracy around the world.\"\n\nHe added: \"Our status as a global financial centre makes us an attractive location for investment... but it also makes us a honey pot, a lightning rod for corrupt actors who seek to launder their dirty money through British banks or through British businesses.\"\n\nMr Raab said the new sanctions regime, taken partly in tandem with measures in the US, would provide \"an additional powerful tool to hold the corrupt to account\".\n\nLabour welcomed the announcement, but said law enforcement needed the resources to support investigations, describing the current rate of prosecutions for economic crime as \"woefully low\".\n\nShadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy said: \"If he's serious about what he's saying today he needs to put his money where his mouth is.\"\n\nShe also criticised a \"tangled network of financial interests and cosy relationships in the heart of government\".\n\n\"We need to know that this announcement isn't just a gloss on the surface of a grubby system which underneath signals business as usual,\" she said.\n\nMeanwhile, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken backed the new regime, as the country also introduced its own corruption sanctions.\n\nHe said: \"Together, along with other allies and partners, we will seek to promote our shared values with similar tools. Corrupt actors, and their facilitators, will not have access to our financial systems.\"\n\nMore than 2% of global GDP is lost to corruption every year, and corruption increases the cost of doing business for individual companies by as much as 10%, according to government figures.\n\n\"Corruption also threatens our national security by exacerbating conflict and facilitating serious and organised crime, creating space for terrorist and criminal groups like Daesh and Boko Haram to operate,\" a Foreign Office statement said.\n\nIt added: \"This new regime will allow the UK to combat serious corruption, in particular bribery and misappropriation. It will promote effective governance, robust democratic institutions and the rule of law - demonstrating our power as a force for good around the world.\"", "The Queen has been photographed carrying out official duties for the first time since the death of her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh.\n\nThe monarch, 95, held virtual audiences via video-link on Tuesday from Windsor Castle.\n\nThe Queen was pictured on a computer screen smiling as she held audiences with ambassadors from Latvia and Ivory Coast who were at Buckingham Palace.\n\nTwo weeks of royal mourning following Prince Philip's death ended on Friday.\n\nThe Royal Family has since resumed taking part in official engagements.\n\nFor the engagements she was dressed in a pale blue floral dress which featured large purple, white and yellow flowers, with a three-string pearl necklace and a diamond brooch as accessories.\n\nLatvian ambassador Ivita Burmistre presented the letters of recall for her predecessor and her own letters of credence at the audience, as did Sara Affoue Amani, ambassador from Ivory Coast.\n\nLatvian ambassador Ivita Burmistre smiles during a virtual audience with the Queen\n\nSara Affoue Amani, from Ivory Coast, presents letters to the Queen during a virtual audience\n\nAlthough it is the first time the monarch has been pictured carrying out official duties since the death of her husband of 73 years she has continued to work during the period of mourning.\n\nShe held her first in-person event on 13 April - an audience and investiture with Earl Peel, who was relinquishing his role as Lord Chamberlain.\n\nA day later she welcomed her new Lord Chamberlain, Baron Parker, who was overseeing Prince Philip's funeral, at another Windsor ceremony.\n\nShe was not photographed at these two events.\n\nAlthough the Queen was not seen in public, Buckingham Palace considers these audiences official public engagements because they are listed in the court circular.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge carried out their first public visit since the end of the period of mourning\n\nOn Tuesday, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge took turns behind the wheel of a tractor as they visited a family farm in County Durham.\n\nIt was their first royal visit since the end of the period of mourning and took place two days before their 10th wedding anniversary.\n\nThe Queen, the nation's longest-reigning monarch, had her 95th birthday just 12 days after her husband's death and used her birthday message to thank the public for messages of comfort during a \"period of great sadness\".\n\nPrince Philip was laid to rest in a Covid-compliant ceremony at St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle on 17 April.\n\nDuring the service the Queen was pictured sitting alone due to social distancing rules.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Assistant head teacher Victoria Day has five tips to ensure children's vocabulary keeps improving\n\nThere is growing evidence that the past year of lockdowns has had an impact on young children's language skills, according to research.\n\nData from 50,000 pupils and a survey of schools across England have shown an increased number of four- and five-year-olds needing help with language.\n\nEvidence shows poor speech development can have long-term effects on learning.\n\nThe government says it is investing £18m in early-years catch-up, including extra help for those in Reception year.\n\nThe Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) research suggests the measures taken to combat the pandemic have deprived the youngest children of social contact and experiences essential for increasing vocabulary.\n\nLess or no contact with grandparents, social distancing, no play dates, and the wearing of face coverings in public have left children less exposed to conversations and everyday experiences.\n\nAnd 56% of parents were concerned about their child starting at school following the lockdown in the spring and summer.\n\nNiamh, in Reception at Ryders Hayes Primary School, in Walsall, is slowly building her confidence with words.\n\nLike many children, her life has been limited by the pandemic, her social circle shrinking to her immediate family. And this left her mother, Lisa, anxious about her starting school.\n\nLisa, whose surname we have not used, was worried about her daughter starting school\n\n\"She was one of the youngest in the year and it worried me that other children had got more school experience with nursery or pre-school,\" Lisa said.\n\n\"We tried to prepare her as well as we could. She was looking forward to it - but she didn't know any of the children in the class, so we were a bit worried about that.\n\n\"My concern was, after being locked down all of the summer and not going out to play with her friends, how was she going to respond to a room full of new children and new teachers?\"\n\nBut the school's approach had worked well. \"We never had a tearful morning - we never had a day where she didn't want to come to school,\" Lisa said.\n\nAnother mother at Ryder Hayes - Emma - was also worried about the school start and whether her son, Harry, would be able to articulate his needs.\n\n\"I was worried about him making friends, that if something was troubling him he'd be sat in the corner upset and he'd not be able to ask for help or say what was wrong with him, so I was concerned,\" she said.\n\nEmma, whose full name we have not used, says Harry is now \"a little chatterbox\"\n\nBut Harry has been participating in the Nuffield Early Language Intervention at school, which can help children make up about three months' progress.\n\n\"It is making a huge difference,\" Emma said. \"He's become a little chatterbox. He's always asking questions and thinking more and asking more like, 'How does hair grow?' He's communicating his thoughts more.\"\n\nThe school's head teacher Saly Miner said problems with communication were \"really limiting\" for young children, particularly if they were unable to express themselves, interact with peers and make themselves understood.\n\n\"It's absolutely key,\" she said. \"It's all about a child's self-esteem and confidence.\n\n\"And without that, they're not going to feel happy, they're not going to be able to grow, they're not going to be able to gain all the benefits of interacting with their peers as we'd want them to, and interact with staff.\n\n\"All the research shows that if a child does have issues with language at that age, by adulthood they're four times more likely to struggle with reading, three time more likely to have mental health issues, twice as likely to be unemployed and have social-mobility issues, so getting this right at such an early age is literally the key to children's futures.\"\n\nEEF chief executive Prof Becky Francis said there was \"huge concern expressed by schools about young children's speech and language following the impact of the pandemic\".\n\n\"We can see that in the survey results but also anecdotally right across our networks.\"\n\nThe EEF's findings are also reflected in data from the company Speech Link, which offers standardised assessments to primary schools.\n\nAmong 50,000 four- and five-year-olds starting school in September, an extra 20-25% needed help with language skills compared with the previous year, the company found. There are also concerns about the impact of the pandemic on pre-school children.\n\nIn some parts of England, up to 63% of health visitors, who check on the development of babies and toddlers, had been redeployed early in the pandemic, the Institute of Health Visiting said.\n\nMany families had missed out on face-to-face assessments, acting executive director Alison Morton said.\n\n\"We know there are children out there with difficulties who haven't been identified,\" she said. \"There hasn't been a 'build back better' for younger children in the way there has been for older children.\"\n\nChildren and Families Minister Vicky Ford said the earliest years were \"the most crucial\".\n\n\"On top of the £3.5bn we have spent in each of the past three years on our free childcare entitlements, we have also invested £18m to support language development in the early years, part of our new £700m package to provide extra support to children who need it as they return to the classroom,\" she said.\n\n\"This includes funding to build on the early successes of the Nuffield Early Language Intervention scheme and roll it out to more schools, so that thousands more four- and five-year-olds whose language, communication and literacy skills have been impacted by the disruption of the past year will benefit from targeted support.\"\n\nBut Shadow Education Secretary Kate Green said the government had treated children as \"an afterthought\" throughout the pandemic.\n\n\"Government 'catch-up' plans fall far short of what is needed for children to recover lost learning, including nothing on wellbeing or social development. In addition, their stealth cut to the pupil premium hinders schools' ability to put their own plans in place,\" she said.\n\n\"Labour want children to be at the heart of our national recovery.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jonathan Gibson, a student from Glasgow, has been crowned the youngest ever champion of Mastermind.\n\nGibson scored a perfect 11 out of 11 on his specialist subject, the comedy song-writing duo Flanders and Swann.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast he had used the trophy to hold sweets that he was given at Christmas.", "All fixed penalty notices for Covid lockdown breaches, which can be as high as £10,000, should be reviewed - according to a parliamentary committee.\n\nThe system is \"muddled, discriminatory and unfair\", MPs on the Joint Committee on Human Rights argued.\n\nMore than 85,000 fixed penalty notices have been issued in England since the pandemic began, and 8,000 in Wales.\n\nA government spokesperson said it was right there were consequences for those who most flagrantly breached the rules.\n\nThe JCHR, which is made up of MPs and peers, said it had \"significant concerns\" about the validity of fines, the inadequacy of the review and appeal process, the size of the penalties and the criminalisation of those who could not afford to pay.\n\n\"The whole process disproportionately hits the less well-off and criminalises the poor over the better off,\" said committee chairwoman Harriet Harman.\n\nWhile the committee recognised swift action had been needed in the face of the pandemic, the government needed to ensure rules were clear, enforcement was fair and that mistakes could be rectified, she said, adding: \"None of that is the case in respect of Covid-19 fixed penalty notices.\"\n\nMs Harman said police had a difficult job enforcing the rules during the pandemic, but warned a \"lack of legal clarity\" meant there could be a large number of wrongly issued fines.\n\nThe Labour MP added: \"This means we've got an unfair system - with clear evidence that young people, those from certain ethnic minority backgrounds, men, and the most socially deprived, are most at risk.\n\n\"Those who can't afford to pay face a criminal record along with all the resulting consequences for their future development.\"\n\nHave you been issued with a lockdown fine? 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\nThose given fixed penalty notices by police mean people can either pay a penalty - between £200 and £10,000 - or opt to face a criminal prosecution.\n\nAccording to the report, coronavirus rules have changed at least 65 times since March 2020.\n\n\"It is possible to tell from penalties that have not been paid and have then progressed through the system towards a prosecution, that a significant number of FPNs are incorrectly issued,\" the committee said.\n\nIt highlighted a Crown Prosecution Service review of prosecutions under coronavirus regulations which found in February that 27% of the defendants had been incorrectly charged.\n\nIn January, two women received an apology and had their fines waived after being given fixed penalty notices after driving to a Derbyshire beauty spot for exercise.\n\nA solicitor's daughter received a fixed penalty notice (FPN) in March while in halls of residence at the University of Nottingham.\n\nJane, who did not want to share her surname, told the BBC her daughter was visiting another flat for a \"get together\" with eight others.\n\nShe said all nine had previously tested positive for Covid-19 and were \"playing cards and listening to smooth jazz\".\n\nThen the police entered the flat shouting \"where is everyone?\", according to Jane.\n\nShe said they were \"aggressive and overbearing\".\n\nThose who did not live in the flat then returned to their own residences - but were still issued with £100 fines, rising to £200 if paid late.\n\nJane said: \"[The police] did not at any time follow the National Police Chiefs' Council guidance to 'engage, explain, encourage, enforce'.\"\n\nJane paid the £200 fine and has now requested a review by Nottinghamshire Police, but is yet to hear back.\n\nNottinghamshire Police Chief Constable Craig Guildford said the force had a duty to protect the public \"and this was clearly an illegal gathering taking place in halls of residence, where dozens of other students live as well\".\n\nHe said that police have followed the four Es of approach of engaging, explaining, encouraging and then enforcing as a last resort throughout most of the first year of the pandemic.\n\nAnd he added: \"By now the laws around Covid can come as a surprise to no one - and where people are blatantly or repeatedly holding parties or going to parties outside their own home they really shouldn't be shocked to be given a fine.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage shows an amphetamine lab found in raid near Redditch\n\nA drugs laboratory capable of producing £10m of amphetamine a month has been uncovered during a police raid.\n\nThe \"large-scale\" operation was found in outbuildings on Ullenhall Lane near Redditch, Worcestershire.\n\nThe investigation began after text messages were obtained by French police during the penetration of the encrypted phone network Encrochat last year.\n\nVats and sacks of ingredients were found in the lab, which is currently too hazardous for police to enter.\n\nFive people have been arrested in the joint operation between the National Crime Agency (NCA) and Warwickshire Police on Tuesday.\n\nFirefighters and a chemicals expert were drafted in to assist with the raid.\n\nFirefighters and scientific advisers have also been at the scene\n\nFootage of the inside of the building has been sent to scientific experts for analysis.\n\nPeter Stevens, branch commander at the NCA, said conducting the raid on the \"semi-rural\" site had taken weeks of meticulous planning.\n\n\"The laboratory will make illicit amphetamine, it is a class B drug, and will be sold on the market for approximately £2,000 per kilo, wholesale price,\" he said.\n\n\"It involves a number of different chemicals, all very volatile and dangerous chemicals, as well as some quite specific and sophisticated scientific apparatus and equipment.\n\n\"It takes someone with a very good knowledge of those chemicals and the processes required to produce the amphetamine, which is why it is rare for us to encounter it as it needs a crime group that is able to access the chemicals, able to access the equipment and then have someone that can essentially cook the chemicals.\n\n\"Once it is cooked, they can then distribute it to other crime groups in the UK, as this crime group has done.\"\n\nPeter Stevens, from the NCA, said he was \"pleased and proud\" with the efforts of officers\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Alex Franklin Smith, from Warwickshire Police, said he is confident the operation will have a \"huge\" impact on the organised criminal gangs involved.\n\n\"Such an operation taking place in such a quiet, rural location will no doubt have caused some concerns for people in the area,\" he said.\n\n\"Our officers will be working with people in the local community in the coming days to provide reassurance.\"\n\nPolice raided two other properties in Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire, and Quinton, Birmingham, in connection with an investigation into an organised crime network.\n\nSearches are ongoing at the farm buildings\n\nWarwickshire Police said two men, aged 40 and 60, were arrested in Buckinghamshire. A third man, aged 50, suspected of operating the lab, was apprehended at his home in Quinton.\n\nWhile a man aged 36 and a woman aged 28 were arrested at a building on the site.\n\nAll five remain in custody where they are being interviewed, the force added.\n\nOfficers said searches of the farm buildings are ongoing, with support from specialist teams from West Midlands Police, West Midlands Fire Service and West Midlands Ambulance Service.\n\nThis operation is the latest in a string of cases which have resulted from the penetration of Encrochat.\n\nFrench police obtained the messages of 9,000 British people using the service, and the NCA said the vast majority were using it for criminal purposes.\n\nMore than 1,500 people have been arrested in Operation Venetic, the British effort to analyse criminality using the messages.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nUpdate: This story has been amended to remove references to methamphetamine following updated information provided by the NCA.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA 24-year-old student from Glasgow has been crowned the youngest ever champion of the BBC's Mastermind.\n\nJonathan Gibson won the final by four points - scoring a perfect 11 out of 11 in his specialist subject, the comedy song-writing duo Flanders and Swann.\n\nHe had specialised in Agatha Christie's Poirot in the heat and William Pitt the Younger in the semi-final.\n\nThe new champion said he was \"overwhelmed\" at the response since the programme was aired on Monday.\n\nThe PhD student in Modern History at the University of St Andrews told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme how he had to keep the result a secret between filming and broadcast.\n\nHe said: \"The last four months since filming have just felt like a dream, so it's good to have visual evidence on TV that it actually happened. I told my parents and my sister and that's basically it.\"\n\nJonathan said the key to his victory was choosing specialist subjects that he was passionate about.\n\n\"They were all things I have really loved since I was young,\" he said.\n\n\"The heat subject was the TV show Poirot, which I was introduced to by my mum and my grandma so that was really lovely to revisit.\n\n\"For the semi-final I did William Pitt the Younger, the late 18th century prime minister. That was inspired by a book my history teacher gave me in school and was one of the main reasons I decided to be a history student.\n\n\"And for the final I did Flanders and Swann which was a favourite of my dad's. I've known the lyrics of every single song since I was seven or eight so it has been lovely revisiting these things.\"\n\nJonathan, who had previously appeared on University Challenge, is a keen quizzer but is now focussing on finishing his PhD studies.\n\nJonathan said he only realised he was in the running to be Mastermind's youngest ever winner as the final approached.\n\n\"I didn't think about it as a possibility when I applied,\" he said. \"Or until after I won the semi-final when the producers told me I would be marginally younger than Gavin Fuller was when he won.\n\n\"It's really incredible to make history in that way and it is beyond anything I could have imagined.\"\n\nClive Myrie will front the new series later in the year\n\nMastermind has been running on the BBC since 1972. Monday night's grand final was John Humphrys' last episode after 18 years as host.\n\nThe television and radio broadcaster has presented 735 episodes of the quiz show and asked more than 80,000 questions during that time.\n\nThe new series, hosted by BBC journalist and newsreader Clive Myrie, will be on BBC One and the BBC iPlayer later this year.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA former SAS soldier who has wanted to \"row an ocean\" for 30 years is set to cross the North Atlantic alone.\n\nIan Rivers, from Hereford, said an unsupported solo row between New York and the Scilly Isles had never been achieved and was a \"true adventure\".\n\nMr Rivers, who will use a sextant and the stars to navigate, used nature as a guide when he escaped after being kidnapped while working in Syria.\n\nHis solo row, covering about 3,500 miles (5,632 km), is for two charities.\n\n\"I'm treating it as a true adventure and, as in any true adventure, you never know the outcome until you actually get there and that's pretty much why I am doing it,\" he said.\n\nMr Rivers, who was in the military for 27 years, is raising money for the Special Air Service Regimental Association (SASRA) and St Michael's Hospice in Hereford.\n\nIan Rivers became interested in basic navigation at school\n\nHe said both were \"brilliant\" charities and also hopes to raise awareness of the mental health challenges facing military personnel and veterans.\n\nWhile at school, he said, he was inspired by a geography teacher and became \"enthused by maps and compasses\", and that basic navigation had \"taken me through my military career\".\n\nMr Rivers said it also helped him survive when he was working as a safety advisor in Syria in 2013 and his team was ambushed.\n\nHe looked at natural indicators, such as the way trees leant towards the sun and moss on rocks during three days of travelling across the country.\n\n\"Those natural indicators gave me the pointer towards north and the safe area in Turkey,\" he said.\n\nIan Rivers said his nerves were starting to build with the trip just days away\n\nMr Rivers, who starts his trip next month, first pictured the feat when he was based at the Royal Citadel in Plymouth at the start of his military career.\n\n\"I used to look out across Plymouth Sound and think one day I'll actually row across from New York back to the UK,\" he said.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "In the UK parents only qualify for treatment on the NHS if they have had three miscarriages in a row.\n\nEastEnders actress Lacey Turner has has two miscarriages and believes the current system needs reforming.\n\nNew research published in The Lancet reveals that miscarriage doubles the risk of depression and quadruples the risk of suicide.", "This month is provisionally the frostiest April in the UK for at least 60 years, the Met Office has said.\n\nApril 2021 has already seen an average of 13 days of air frosts across the UK, beating the previous record of 11 days reported in April 1970.\n\nNorthern Ireland had eight days of air frosts, while Scotland recorded 16.\n\nThe Met Office says the conditions have been challenging for farmers and growers and are advising gardeners to keep their tender plants indoors.\n\nThe records on frosty days go back to 1960.\n\nThe breakdown of frosty days by UK nation in April is:\n\nNorthern Ireland's record for frost in April was 11 days in 1983.\n\nApril saw the return of drinkers to pub gardens in England\n\nMark McCarthy, from the National Climate Information Centre, said: \"We've been seeing a high frequency of frosts overnight throughout April, thanks largely to persistent clear skies for most.\n\n\"This will be reflected in the end of the month statistics, which are already showing above average sunshine duration, as well as low minimum temperature readings overnight, with some parts of northern England and Scotland reporting minimum temperatures 3.5°C lower than the average for April.\"\n\nBBC Weather's Gemma Plumb said there were a number of reasons for the frosty month but the main one was that high pressure had dominated the weather across the UK for much of April.\n\n\"High pressure can lead to clear skies overnight and this allows temperatures to fall below zero and brings frosty nights,\" she said.\n\n\"We have also seen the winds often coming in from the north which brings in colder air and overnight this can lead to cold and frosty nights.\n\n\"Another reason is that the soil is dry due to this month being drier than average across most of the UK. The dry soil allows for more radiative cooling so more frosts overnight.\"\n\nThe frosty conditions have been challenging for gardeners and farmers with Guy Barter, chief horticulturist at the Royal Horticultural Society, saying that flowers such as camellia and magnolias had been \"scorched\" while cherry, plum and pear blossom had been injured so the \"fruit crop will be reduced\".\n\nIt is a marked contrast to last month when parts of the UK enjoyed the second warmest March day on record with temperatures hitting 24.5C (76.1F).\n\nAt the start of April temperatures plummeted over the Easter weekend and there was some snow in Scotland as well as parts of England.", "Dominic Cummings has launched a blistering attack on his old boss Boris Johnson, questioning his \"competence and integrity\".\n\nThe former top adviser denied leaking text messages sent between Mr Johnson and businessman Sir James Dyson.\n\nAnd he claimed Mr Johnson once had a \"possibly illegal\" plan for donors to pay for renovations of the Downing Street flat.\n\nNo 10 said ministers had always obeyed codes of conduct and electoral law.\n\nMr Cummings was forced out of his Downing Street role at the end of last year, following an internal power struggle.\n\nOn Friday, in his first blog post since leaving that role, he also denied leaking details of the second Covid lockdown in England.\n\nThis is an explosive intervention from a man Boris Johnson used to count on as one of his closest allies.\n\nAnd if you're tempted to roll your eyes and think it's just sour grapes from a jilted adviser, think again.\n\nDominic Cummings' blog is proof that he is willing to lift the lid on his time at the heart of Downing Street, regardless of how it reflects on the prime minister.\n\nBeyond his denial of leaking text messages, he has also given his version of events relating to two potential political weak spots for Boris Johnson.\n\nThey are the questions over the financing of the renovation of the Downing Street flat and the leaking of a plan to impose a lockdown.\n\nThe level of detail shows that Mr Cummings is willing to expose others while defending himself and lay bare the inner workings of No 10.\n\nSeveral newspapers ran front page stories suggesting Mr Cummings was the source of leaked messages between Mr Johnson and Sir James Dyson, first reported this week by the BBC.\n\nThe BBC - whose political editor Laura Kuenssberg first reported on the text messages on Tuesday - said it did not discuss the sources of stories.\n\nAsked whether he had blamed his former adviser for it, Mr Johnson said: \"I don't think people give a monkey's, to be frank, about who is briefing what to who.\"\n\nNo 10 has launched an inquiry into who leaked the text messages.\n\nThe text exchange between Mr Johnson and Sir James happened in March last year, after the government asked companies to help build thousands of ventilators needed to deal with very ill patients.\n\nIn it, the prime minister agreed to \"fix\" concerns the businessman had about tax bills for his Singapore-based staff if they moved to the UK to do this.\n\nWriting on his blog, Mr Cummings said: \"I was not directly or indirectly a/the source for the BBC/Kuenssberg story on the PM/Dyson texts.\"\n\nHe adds: \"I am happy to meet with the cabinet secretary and for him to search my phone for Dyson messages.\"\n\nMr Cummings continues that he is \"happy for No 10 to publish every email I received and sent July 2019-November 2020\".\n\nHe also calls for an \"urgent parliamentary inquiry into the government's conduct over the Covid crisis\", adding that he thinks Mr Johnson has fallen \"far below\" the standards of \"competence\" the \"country deserves\".\n\nMr Cummings promises to answer questions about \"any\" issues when he appears before a parliamentary inquiry into the government's pandemic response on 26 May.\n\nIn his blog, Mr Cummings also claimed the prime minister once planned to have donors \"secretly pay\" for renovation of his official Downing street flat.\n\nLike several of his recent predecessors, the PM is living in the flat above No 11 Downing Street, which is larger than the one above No 10.\n\nHe adds that Mr Johnson \"stopped speaking to me about the matter in 2020\", as he told him the renovation plans were \"unethical, foolish, possibly illegal and almost certainly broke the rules on proper disclosure of political donations if conducted in the way he intended\".\n\nMr Cummings says he would be \"happy to tell the cabinet secretary or Electoral Commission\" what he knew about the matter but that his knowledge is \"limited\".\n\nIn response to Mr Cummings's claims, a No 10 spokesperson said: \"At all times, the government and ministers have acted in accordance with the appropriate codes of conduct and electoral law.\n\n\"Cabinet Office officials have been engaged and informed throughout and official advice has been followed.\n\n\"All reportable donations are transparently declared and published - either by the Electoral Commission or the House of Commons registrar, in line with the requirements set out in electoral law.\n\n\"Gifts and benefits received in a ministerial capacity are, and will continue to be, declared in transparency returns.\"\n\nEarlier on Friday, the government said that \"costs of wider refurbishment in this year have been met by the Prime Minister personally.\"\n\nLabour's shadow Cabinet Office minister Rachel Reeves said the issue needed \"investigating in full\".\n\nDenying being the source of a leak last year ahead of the second Covid lockdown in November, Mr Cummings says an inquiry at the time found that neither he nor the then-Downing Street director of communications, Lee Cain, had been responsible.\n\nHe adds that the events around that inquiry \"contributed to [his] decision to stick to [his] plan to leave No 10 by 18 December\", which he says were \"communicated to the prime minister in July\".\n\nIn his blog, Mr Cummings also claimed Mr Johnson had considered stopping the inquiry.\n\nHe wrote that he recalled a meeting between Mr Johnson and the cabinet secretary at the time, after an inquiry had been launched, at which the cabinet secretary allegedly said \"all the evidence definitely leads to Henry Newman and others in that office\".\n\nAt the time, Mr Newman was a special adviser at the Cabinet Office. He took up a role in Downing Street earlier this year.\n\nMr Cummings claims that, in a conversation he had with the PM afterwards, Boris Johnson said: \"If Newman is confirmed as the leaker then I will have to fire him, and this will cause me very serious problems with Carrie [Symonds - the PM's fiancee] as they're best friends… [pause] perhaps we could get the cabinet secretary to stop the leak inquiry?\"\n\nIn response to Mr Cummings' claims, a Downing Street statement said: \"The prime minister has never interfered in a government leak inquiry.\"\n\nAnd a senior government official said: \"The allegations against Henry Newman are entirely false. He wouldn't be working in Downing Street if he was suspected of leaking information.\"\n\nEarlier, Downing Street declined to comment on \"speculation\" that Mr Cummings - who quit his government job last November after a row over his role as the PM's chief adviser - had leaked the texts.\n\nOn a visit to Derbyshire, Mr Johnson said anyone who thought there was something \"dodgy or rum\" in his dealings with Sir James Dyson was \"out of their mind\".", "Premier Inn owner Whitbread has said it expects strong demand for holidays in the UK throughout the summer as Covid restrictions ease further from mid-May.\n\nThe hotel and restaurant firm forecasts \"a significant bounce in leisure demand in our tourist locations\".\n\nAt the same time, Whitbread laid bare the impact of the pandemic on its business as annual losses reached £1bn and sales tumbled by more than 70%.\n\nThe firm said last year was the \"most challenging in our 279 year history\".\n\nIt revealed that it had benefitted from £270m worth of government support during coronavirus, including the furlough scheme.\n\nWhitbread, which also owns the Beefeater and Brewers Fayre restaurant chains, said almost all of its 800 UK and Ireland hotels, some 92%, were now open. This compares with just 39 that were opened during the first lockdown when they were used to provide accommodation for essential workers.\n\nRecent lockdowns saw its hotels at just 23% of potential occupancy in January and 29% in February.\n\nThe company said: \"Strong demand is expected for 'staycations' in UK tourist destinations throughout the summer, with business and event-led leisure demand starting to gradually recover thereafter.\"\n\nIt also plans to invest £350m this year, which will go partly toward refurbishments, but also to new advertising, which will again feature comedian and actor Sir Lenny Henry.\n\nDespite this investment programme, it still intends to cut £100m in costs.\n\nLast year, it warned it may have to lay off thousands of staff and approached landlords for a temporary rent cut. It also scrapped its dividend payout to shareholders, while directors and senior management took pay cuts.\n\nIt employs some 30,000 staff, 27,000 of which were furloughed under the Job Retention Scheme.\n\nWhitbread's chief executive, Alison Brittain, said: \"The vaccination programme in the UK means we can look forward to the planned relaxation of government restrictions as we move into summer, with the first major milestone being the return of leisure guests to our hotels, and the full reopening of restaurants from 17 May.\n\n\"We expect a significant bounce in leisure demand in our tourist locations during the summer, followed by a gradual recovery in business and event-driven leisure demand.\"\n\nJulie Palmer from professional services firm, Begbies Traynor, said: \"After having been able to report positive results and sell its profitable Costa arm to focus on hotels in previous years Whitbread, like so many others in this industry, has been rocked by the pandemic.\n\n\"It can get back on its feet again, but the Whitbread we saw before the pandemic could be different to the one we see after it. Even after all restrictions are removed change is coming.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Folajimi Olubunmi-Adewole died after jumping into the Thames to save a woman\n\nA man who died after he jumped into the River Thames to rescue a woman should be honoured, his father has said.\n\nFolajimi Olubunmi-Adewole entered the water on Saturday night when he saw the woman fall from London Bridge.\n\nThe 20-year-old's family has described him as \"the deepest and most wonderful man\" and said that he deserved a medal for bravery.\n\nFather Michael Adewola said: \"I can't bring him back but I want him to be remembered forever for what he did.\"\n\nMr Olubunmi-Adewole's body was recovered about six hours after he went to the woman's aid. She has since been discharged from hospital.\n\n\"It was just like him to want to always try and help others,\" his father said.\n\n\"He is a hero, and always will be.\"\n\n\"He is a very unique and angelic soul, and I am proud of him, so proud,\" he said, calling for his son to be \"honoured and appreciated for what he has done\".\n\nMr Olubunmi-Adewole's mother, Olasunkanmi Adewole, said she had started to hold her son's clothes close to her all the time because she could still smell him on them.\n\nOlasunkanmi Adewole holds a t-shirt of her son's and his father Michael Adewola called him \"an angelic soul\"\n\nOthers who knew Mr Olubunmi-Adewole, known to many as Jimi, paid tribute, describing him as a well-liked and selfless person.\n\nVivek Singh, executive chef at The Cinnamon Club, where Mr Olubunmi-Adewole worked on the front-of-house team, said he was \"diligent, kind and passionate\".\n\n\"We are all reeling from this incredibly tragic news,\" he said.\n\n\"He worked with The Cinnamon Club for over a year and was a diligent, kind and passionate young man, a real team player.\n\n\"What he did was a tremendous and selfless act of bravery, to save the life of a complete stranger.\"\n\nStudents and staff at Mr Olubunmi-Adewole's former school, Harris Academy in Peckham, gathered in the playground for a two-minute round of applause in his honour.\n\nPrincipal Rebecca Hickey said he was \"quite a character\" who would \"never be seen without a smile\".\n\n\"Anyone who knew him remotely well would not have been surprised at the actions he took. He put others in front of himself at all times,\" she said.\n\n\"He was known for his slightly cheeky, optimistic outlook. He was very popular, incredibly popular amongst his peers and obviously he leaves them devastated in his wake.\"\n\nMs Hickey said the school intended to work with his family to find a way to continue his memory in a way they would want them to.\n\n\"He will always be a hero within our community,\" she added.\n\nFlowers have been left near London Bridge\n\nPosting on Twitter, Mayor of London Sadiq Khan dsecribed Mr Olubunmi-Adewole as \"a true hero of our city who gave his life trying to save another\".\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said it was a \"truly selfless act of heroism from a brave young man\".\n• None Man dies after jumping in Thames to rescue woman\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Domestic Abuse Bill is set to become law, after peers backed down in a dispute over how best to monitor stalkers and abusers.\n\nThe Lords has been pressing for legal changes to ensure offenders are automatically monitored under an existing police database.\n\nThe government has rejected this, arguing changing monitoring rules would be more effective.\n\nWith time to pass the bill running out, peers withdrew the demand on Tuesday.\n\nThe bill - which only applies to England and Wales - aims to strengthen rules surrounding controlling or coercive behaviour, target revenge porn and end the \"rough sex defence\" in court.\n\nIt also recognises children as victims of domestic abuse.\n\nThe House of Lords approved the bill just days before the parliamentary session is due to end on Thursday.\n\nPeers had wanted to create a new category of offender to ensure stalkers are managed under multiagency public protection arrangements (Mappa), between police and probation services.\n\nBut the amendment, which has previously been defeated twice by MPs, was again rejected by the government.\n\nHome Office Minister Baroness Williams of Trafford told peers that improving \"how Mappa operates on the ground\" was more important.\n\nInstead of supporting changes to legislation, she pledged to widen the binding guidance governing Mappa to ensure stalkers who pose a threat are covered.\n\nBut Labour's Baroness Royall of Blaisdon, who had originally tabled the amendment, said there was \"no proper direction\" on how the guidance should be used.\n\nShe also argued that spending cuts had led to a situation where authorities \"cannot use their professional judgment\" because \"the resources are so stretched\".\n\nShe added that the current system \"is not working\" and \"leads to thousands of women living in fear and hundreds murdered\".\n\nHer comments were echoed by Liberal Democrat peer Baroness Brinton, who said: \"We have said repeatedly the consequences of these fixated, obsessive, serial and high-risk perpetrators who escalate their behaviour far too often results in serious violence and murder.\n\n\"At the end of the day, lives depend on the government and everyone in the police and criminal justice system getting it right.\"\n\nPeers had previously defeated the government four times over changes to the bill including an effort to strengthen standards in child contact centres - neutral meeting places for children and parents who are involved in a difficult break up.\n\nHowever, they accepted a series of compromises from the government on this issue to ensure the bill passed.\n\nCrossbench peer Baroness Finlay of Llandaff said she was disappointed her amendment on child contact centres had not been accepted by the government but added she didn't want to \"jeopardise\" the bill.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPeople are feeling \"a lot of anxiety\" as a mountain fire continues to burn for a fourth day.\n\nThe blaze on Machen mountain near Caerphilly was one of around 80 started deliberately across south Wales, with 100 breaking out in the last 24 hours.\n\nSouth Wales Fire and Rescue Service (SWFRS) said crews had to retreat from one fire overnight as the terrain was too dangerous to work on in the dark.\n\nCrews in north Wales have also tackled a fire on the Great Orme in Llandudno.\n\nFirefighters are returning again to the scene in Miskin, Mountain Ash in Rhondda Cynon Taf.\n\nOn Monday night people living in Machen were advised to close doors and windows in the area because of smoke.\n\nThe flames have moved closer to homes although none were evacuated, the fire service said.\n\nA horse is silhouetted by the fire on Machen mountain\n\nThe fire's proximity to housing is \"quite sobering\", one resident says\n\nMachen resident Ben Cottam told BBC Radio Wales the last few days had been hugely concerning for villagers.\n\n\"The whole of the mountain is smoking,\" he said.\n\n\"At the back of the house we can see the fire is still smouldering - the helicopter started dousing the fire again this morning.\n\n\"The fire crews have been absolutely immense.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"It was only when darkness fell you realised how much of it was still alight,\" he added.\n\n\"It's quite sobering when you look out the window and see a fire that size not far away from houses.\n\n\"It's been a very busy, concerning few days for residents in Machen.\"\n\nHe said the community had rallied round to buy the fire crews pizza and drinks.\n\n\"There was a lot of anxiety,\" he added. \"It's very, very sad to see what happened - it's an important habitat up there.\"\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nUp to 50 firefighters at a time were tackling the blaze across 50 hectares (123 acres) of land on Machen mountain.\n\nJason Evans, SWFRS head of risk reduction, said the last few days had been a particularly challenging period.\n\n\"The last 24 hours in the south Wales area have been particularly busy and challenging for the service,\" he said.\n\n\"We've had over 100 wildfire incidents. They've been very resource intensive for our crews on the ground but also our control room staff in particular.\n\n\"The fires are very visible on our valleys hillsides so the control room have taken a huge volume of calls - in the last 24 hours 500 calls.\"\n\nVast areas of wildlife habitat have been lost to the fire\n\nAlongside the service's firefighting vehicles, including a helicopter, engines and off-road vehicles, Natural Resources Wales has also provided heavy plant machinery to create firebreaks to stop the fire spreading down the mountain.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"The impact of grass fires is devastating on the environment, killing animals and destroying wildlife habitat as we have already seen in multiple areas across south Wales.\"\n\nSgt Andy Jones from South Wales Police, said: \"Sadly, over the weekend we lost many acres of our beautiful landscape to deliberate grassfires.\n\n\"Every grassfire poses a serious risk to the public and to property and the emergency services are doing everything they can to tackle this issue.\"\n\nThe force is appealing for information to find the culprits.\n\nSgt Jones said: \"Our officers are patrolling every day and they are making use of drones, CCTV equipment and bikes to cover as much ground as they can. But they cannot be everywhere at once.\n\n\"The onus is upon the public. My plea is for everyone to make a stand now, to prevent further damage and to avoid a potential tragedy which could be just one grassfire away.\"", "Suits you sir: Questlove wore a pair of gold Crocs at this year's Academy Awards\n\nNo, you didn't imagine it. The Academy Awards' musical director Questlove really did wear a pair of crocs on the Oscars red carpet this year. But they were spray-painted gold for the special occasion.\n\nWhether you love them or loathe them, crocs are making a comeback.\n\nOn Tuesday, the shoe-maker reported record sales in the first three months of the year and raised its revenue outlook for 2021.\n\nSales rose 64% to $460m (£331m) in the first quarter compared to the same period last year. Pre-tax profit grew to $122.5m between January and March from a previous $18.7m.\n\nCrocs' chief executive, Andrew Rees, now expects sales for the full year to rise by as much as 50%, compared to an increase of up to 25% the company predicted in February.\n\nDemand for Crocs is \"stronger than ever\" across the world, said Mr Rees.\n\nBranded by some as the \"it-shoe\" of the pandemic, people have turned to the divisive footwear company for comfy clogs to pair with leggings and hoodies during lockdown.\n\nBut the US brand had already started working with celebrities and pop-stars to boost its popularity again.\n\nIn 2018, it partnered with rapper Post Malone who designed his own shoe - which still slightly resembled Swiss cheese.\n\nCollaborations with Latin pop-star Bad Bunny and singer Justin Bieber followed, both of which sold out in minutes.\n\nCrocs has focused on growing online sales, which rose by 75.3% in the first quarter and made of a third of total sales for the period.\n\nThe company's strategy includes social media promotion, with #crocs having gained 1.6 billion views on TikTok, where so-called influencers post videos dancing around in the shoes or show how they style their footwear.\n\nLooking ahead, it said it was counting on new products for future growth such as sandals, or their \"Jibbitz\" shoe charms which loyal fans can use to customise their shoes.\n\nIt is also set to focus on celebrity and social campaigns in Asia, where it sees the \"largest long-term growth opportunity\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Richard Ratcliffe said he has not broken the news of the new jail sentence to their young daughter\n\nThe husband of British-Iranian woman Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe says he has not yet told their daughter that \"mummy could be in prison for another year\" after her sentencing in Iran on Monday.\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who was first jailed in 2016, was found guilty of propaganda against Iran's regime and was also given a one year travel ban.\n\nForeign Office minister James Cleverly said the move by Iran was \"totally inhumane and wholly unjustified\".\n\nSpeaking in the Commons, he told MPs the charges were \"baseless\", adding: \"It is indefensible and it is unacceptable that Iran has chosen to continue this wholly arbitrary court case.\"\n\nHe reiterated that the government was committed to doing everything it could to secure her return to the UK.\n\nBut Labour MP Tulip Siddiq, who represents the family's north London constituency, criticised Prime Minister Boris Johnson for his \"dismal failure\" in getting her released.\n\nThe British-Iranian charity worker was first jailed in Tehran in 2016 and served a five-year sentence. She has always denied the spying charges levelled against her.\n\nEarlier, her husband Richard Ratcliffe, who has not seen his wife since 2016, said he felt \"more jaded as time goes on\".\n\nMr Ratcliffe told BBC 5 Live his wife was enduring \"a long-running abusive saga\" and he worried for her mental health.\n\nHe said he did not want their six-year-old daughter, Gabriella, to \"live too closely to the ups and downs\" of her mother's case, adding that it \"has been in the shadow for all the time she's been growing up\".\n\n\"We haven't sat down and explained to her that we think mummy could be in prison for another year. We felt it was better to wait until that actually happens before stressing that,\" he said.\n\n\"Certainly, at the end of Nazanin's sentence, which was last month, we were counting down the days and that was quite upsetting… when in the end she didn't come out,\" he said.\n\nGabriella counted down the days to her mother's release\n\nMr Ratcliffe maintains his wife was imprisoned as leverage for a debt owed by the UK over its failure to deliver tanks to Iran in 1979.\n\nThe charity worker was told that her imprisonment was linked to the £400m debt, owed by Britain for an arms deal to Iran that was done before she was born.\n\nIn the days of the Shah, Iran had bought tanks from Britain but, after the 1979 Revolution, they were not delivered. The UK and Iran have been battling in court over interest on the debt for years.\n\nLabour's Ms Siddiq said there was a clear link between the the debt and Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's situation. \"Every time something happens in terms of the debt hearing being postponed, something happens on her case,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"It's just too much of a correlation to deny it. The government knows it, there's no point in pretending.\"\n\nSpeaking in Parliament, Ms Siddiq accused the prime minister of failing to send UK officials to Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's recent court hearing, which she says might have ensured she got a free and fair trial.\n\nShe said: \"At the heart of this tragic case is the prime minister's dismal failure to release my constituent and to stand up for her, and his devastating blunder in 2017 when he was foreign secretary - when he exposed his complete ignorance of this tragic case, and put more harm in Nazanin's way.\"\n\nIn response, Mr Cleverly said: \"Her anger and frustration is misdirected because Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and the other British dual nationals held in arbitrary detention are being held by Iran. It is on them.\"\n\nFormer foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt asked what the consequences would be for Iran \"because we know they don't fundamentally care what we think or what we say\".\n\nMr Cleverly replied that the government was investigating \"the full range of options\" but that it would be inappropriate to speculate what they may be.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLeicester City moved closer to Champions League qualification as they came from behind to beat Crystal Palace.\n\nWilfried Zaha put the visitors ahead after only 12 minutes, with a first-time finish following a fine through ball from Eberechi Eze.\n\nBut Timothy Castagne equalised for the Foxes within five minutes of the second half by firing the ball into the roof of the net after being set up by Kelechi Iheanacho.\n\nPalace nearly retook the lead but a superb sliding challenge from Jonny Evans denied Christian Benteke what would have been a tap-in into an unguarded goal.\n\nThat missed chance proved crucial as Iheanacho scored his 12th goal in nine games, when he cut inside on to his left foot and blasted the ball past goalkeeper Vicente Guaita for a late winner.\n\nThe result leaves the Foxes third in the Premier League, but takes them seven points clear of fifth-placed West Ham with five matches to go.\n\n\"It's a massive three points for us and we were nervous a bit,\" said Iheanacho.\n\n\"We changed it around and got control of the game and got them running. But there's still a lot of work to do, we can't talk about the Champions League until the last game.\"\n\nLeicester, who have also reached the FA Cup final for the first time since 1969, have only played in the European Cup or Champions League once, reaching the quarter-finals in 2016-17 after winning the Premier League the previous season.\n\nTheir run-in includes games against Manchester United in second, Chelsea in fourth and Tottenham in seventh.\n• None How has Iheanacho become so prolific?\n• None Relive Leicester v Crystal Palace as it happened, plus reaction and analysis\n\n'Evolved' Leicester on course for Champions League\n\nAfter 33 matches of the league campaign, Brendan Rodgers' side again find themselves third, just as they did in 2019-20.\n\nHowever, last season they lost three of their final five games as they finished fifth to miss out on a top-four spot by four points.\n\nBefore the game, Rodgers said his side had improved and \"evolved\" compared to a year ago, but would have been worried by old concerns and a lacklustre first half performance.\n\nBut it was an instant improvement after the break as Castagne's first goal at the King Power Stadium made it 1-1 following fine hold-up work from the impressive Iheanacho.\n\nThe Foxes ended strongly as Jamie Vardy, who had missed two chances when it was goalless, had a shot blocked by Guaita, fired just wide and had a goal correctly disallowed for offside.\n\nYouri Tielemans also missed the target when well placed but they finally got their second when Iheanacho produced some fine skill to get the ball on to his left foot and gave Guaita no chance from 10 yards.\n\nThe victory means Leicester, who were not one of the 'big six' English teams to sign up to the European Super League before the tournament plans collapsed two days later, now need three more wins to guarantee Champions League football.\n\nPalace stay 13th, but are 11 points clear of the relegation zone and surely safe from avoiding a drop into the Championship.\n\nBut Eagles' fans may be left ruing what might have been from this season after they were seventh following eight matches, only three points off the top.\n\nInconsistent form and a run of injuries have severely damaged their hopes of a top-half finish for the first time since 2014-15 and they have now only picked up six points from their past seven matches.\n\nThey had not been in action since 10 April, while Leicester had played three matches in that period, including an FA Cup semi-final win over Southampton to set up a final against Chelsea next month.\n\nPalace boss Roy Hodgson said before the game he was unsure whether the break would have benefited his team, although they made a great start, scoring early on.\n\nBenteke dispossessed Tielemans with a strong challenge on the halfway line, Eze had the quality and pace to run at the home defence, before sliding a perfectly-weighted pass into Zaha's path with the Ivorian slotting the ball past Kasper Schmeichel.\n\nAfter conceding, the visitors had a glorious chance to retake the lead as Jairo Riedewald was through on goal but opted to pass it square to Benteke and that enabled Evans to make a fine challenge to deny the Belgian.\n\nBut Iheanacho's late goal saw Palace leave empty handed as their season is ending in tame fashion.\n• None Leicester have picked up 62 points from their 33 Premier League games this season, only managing more at this stage of a top-flight campaign in 1962-63 (66) and 2015-16 (72).\n• None Crystal Palace have not won any of their last 18 league games against sides starting the day in the top six in the table (drew five, lost 13), since beating fifth-placed West Ham 2-1 in October 2019.\n• None Leicester have picked up 19 points from losing positions in the Premier League this season, a figure only Manchester United can better (28).\n• None Crystal Palace forward Wilfried Zaha has been involved in seven goals in his last seven Premier League appearances against Leicester, scoring six and assisting one.\n• None Only Harry Kane (14), Dwight Yorke (eight) and Andy Cole (seven) have netted more Premier League goals against Leicester than Crystal Palace winger Wilfried Zaha (six).\n• None Eberechi Eze registered an assist for the first time in 10 Premier League appearances, with the midfielder now joint-top for assists in the competition this season among Crystal Palace players (four, level with Andros Townsend).\n• None Leicester's Timothy Castagne scored just his second Premier League goal in 22 games, netting for the first time since his first appearance in the competition in September v West Brom.\n• None Kelechi Iheanacho has either scored (12) or assisted (two) in eight of his last nine appearances for Leicester across all competitions.\n• None Only Harry Kane (18) has registered more goal involvements than Kelechi Iheanacho (16 - 14 goals, 2 assists) among Premier League players in all competitions in 2021.\n• None Kelechi Iheanacho has netted 14 goals in his last 14 appearances for Leicester in all competitions, as many as he managed in his previous 76 games for the Foxes.\n\n'I thought we'd see the game through' - what they said\n\nLeicester City manager Brendan Rodgers to BBC Sport: \"It was a very important win for us. It was the third game in nine days so a tough schedule.\n\n\"Going one behind against a Roy team, they're super organised and tough to break down. I thought the players were outstanding. They kept the calmness and control and scored two very good goals.\n\n\"[Scoring early into the second half] definitely helps. It sets us up. It settled us. We could then control the rest of the game.\n\n\"[Iheanacho's goal was] incredible. Great pass by Jonny [Evans]. We told the strikers to find space in between the centre-backs and full-backs. It was a great ball into space. The skill to turn and finish quickly, a wonderful goal. It capped off a great night for him.\n\n\"The top priority for me as a coach is helping players to develop. it's been difficult for Kels because of the style we normally played which was one striker - Jamie Vardy. We had to change it round with injuries, he's come in and been exceptional. Not just his goals. He's so happy to work hard for the team and his quality is phenomenal.\"\n\nOn any fears of them tailing away like last season: \"We spoke about it at the start of the season and put it to bed then. Our performance levels this season have shown that's in the past.\"\n\nCrystal Palace boss Roy Hodgson to BBC Sport: \"I thought for long periods we were going to get at least a point. At half-time I thought we might go on to win.\n\n\"Leicester scored quickly after the break but after that we looked as though we were seeing the game through reasonably well. Kelechi Iheanacho's quick turn and strike is difficult to defend. Objectively I didn't think it was a bad performance. Had we got a good result I don't think people would have begrudged us.\"\n\nOn whether his players might lose focus with little on the line: \"I don't fear that because I know the players. That's not the kind of group we are. I don't think anyone who watched the game could accuse us of not doing our utmost.\n\n\"If we hadn't conceded the goal so early in the second half, our confidence would have been high. The equaliser came too early after half-time. We didn't get enough time to enjoy the fact we were leading. I honestly thought we'd see the game through... but I was wrong.\"\n\nLeicester play at Southampton on Friday (20:00 BST), a fixture the Foxes won 9-0 in 2019-20 when they equalled the record for biggest victory in Premier League history.\n• None Offside, Leicester City. Ayoze Pérez tries a through ball, but Jamie Vardy is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Christian Benteke (Crystal Palace) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Eberechi Eze following a set piece situation. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Which one do you prefer and is it the healthier choice?\n• None Would you crowdfund your rent?: Meet the young people having to find inventive ways to stay afloat", "UK consumer book sales climbed 7% to £2.1bn last year as people \"rediscovered their love of reading\" in lockdown, the industry body says.\n\nDemand for fiction and non-fiction jumped, while audio-book sales were up 37%, the Publishers Association said.\n\nBestsellers included The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman, Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo and 7 Ways by Jamie Oliver.\n\nBut educational book sales slumped as schools were shut for months.\n\nStephen Lotinga, chief executive of the Publishers' Association, said: \"It's clear that many people rediscovered their love of reading last year and that publishers were able to deliver the entertaining and thought-provoking books that so many of us needed.\n\n\"But we shouldn't ignore the fact that it's been a particularly challenging year for education publishers and many smaller publishers.\n\n\"It's also been a hugely difficult time for many booksellers and authors whose livelihoods have been enormously disrupted.\"\n\nAccording to the association, total UK publishing sales - including consumer, educational and academic titles - rose 2% in 2020 to £6.4bn.\n\nThe consumer market performed particularly well, with sales of fiction up 16% and non-fiction by 4%. Print accounted for £1.7bn of those sales (up 4%) while for digital it was £418m, up 24%.\n\nOther bestselling titles included The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel and Barack Obama's memoir A Promised Land, published in November, which sold well in audio.\n\nThe UK's enormous academic publishing industry also remained in good shape, with total income up 3% at £3.3bn. But sales of school textbooks and word books fell by a fifth.\n\nMr Lotinga said: \"With bookshops now able to reopen, and physical events returning, we are optimistic that people will soon be able to enjoy books together again.\n\n\"We need to harness this return to reading and build on the huge opportunity this presents to everyone.\"", "The government has been defeated for a fourth time on its Fire Safety Bill as the House of Lords voted to shield residents from fire safety work costs.\n\nMPs had, earlier in the day, rejected the Lords amendment but it will now be reinserted into the bill.\n\nThousands of leaseholders are currently facing large bills to pay for safety improvements following the Grenfell fire which killed 72 people.\n\nHousing minister Chris Pincher said the Lords' amendment was \"ineffective\".\n\nThe Fire Safety Bill must be approved by both the House of Commons and the House of Lords if it is to become law.\n\nThe government is under pressure to get the bill passed before the end of the parliamentary session on Thursday.\n\nIf the bill is not approved by both MPs and peers before then, it will be dropped - although the government could choose to carry it over to the next session.\n\nThe issue of who should pay for fire safety work has become a sticking point, with the House of Commons repeatedly voting to reject Lords amendments on the subject.\n\nThe government introduced its Fire Safety Bill to address safety concerns triggered by the 2017 fire.\n\nThe bill modifies a previous law to clarify that building owners must manage and reduce the risk of fire in their properties.\n\nHowever, last week the House of Lords added an amendment which sought to ensure building owners do not pass on the costs to leaseholders and tenants until a support scheme is in place.\n\nIn February, ministers said it would introduce a loan scheme to cover repair work with repayments capped at £50 a month.\n\nOn Tuesday afternoon - despite a rebellion by 31 Conservative MPs - the House of Commons rejected the Lords' amendment.\n\nBut, later on Tuesday evening the House of Lords voted by 329 votes to 247 to reinsert the motion.\n\nHe argued it would prevent any remediation costs from being passed to the leaseholder, even in instances where the cost was very minor - such as replacing a smoke alarm.\n\nThe minister also warned that the amendment would slow down repair work as it did not make clear who would be responsible for the costs.\n\nAnd in the Lords, communities minister Lord Greenhalgh called the proposals \"unworkable\" and wouldn't \"deliver solutions for leaseholders\".\n\nLabour's shadow Home Office minister Sarah Jones said thousands of leaseholders were \"worrying about their futures, getting into debt and facing bankruptcy\".\n\n\"Why, when it is directly in their gift, won't the government pay to fix these problems and then go after the building companies and developers who are responsible,\" she asked.\n\nThe government also faced criticism from its own MPs, including former leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith.\n\nHe acknowledged problems with the Lords amendment but said \"My problem is I don't see the government responding to what is an overwhelming concern about what's happening to leaseholders.\"\n\nAnother Conservative rebel, Stephen McPartland, told MPs: \"It astonishes me that people in government cannot hear the screams of pain from people begging from help.\"\n\n\"Homes have to be made safe it is a basic human right.\"\n\nThe bill will now return to the Commons on either Wednesday or Thursday for MPs to reject or agree the Lords amendment.", "Ashley Banjo (left) is also sitting in for Simon Cowell as a judge\n\nDiversity's controversial routine on Britain's Got Talent, which provoked thousands of complaints, is up for the must-see moment award at the TV Baftas.\n\nInspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, the routine saw Ashley Banjo being knelt on by a police officer, a reference to George Floyd's murder.\n\nOfcom received 24,500 complaints about the segment, but said the programme had not broken broadcasting guidelines.\n\nScenes from Bridgerton, Gogglebox and EastEnders are also up for the Bafta.\n\nViewers have until 17:00 BST on 24 May to vote for the winner - the only Bafta award decided by the public.\n\nThe winner will be announced as part of the ceremony on 6 June, which will be hosted by comedian Richard Ayoade for a second year.\n\nBut unlike last year, the awards will be held in person, at a venue yet to be announced.\n\nHere is a guide to the shows and scenes that are in the running.\n\nWARNING: The six nominees are described below, revealing plot details about shows you may not yet have had the chance to watch.\n\nDiversity's performance was their interpretation of the events of 2020, and in particular the Black Lives Matter protests following the murder of George Floyd by the now-jailed police offer Derek Chauvin in Minneapolis last May.\n\nIt was set to a medley of powerful music and used the viral poem, The Great Realisation, to portray the coronavirus pandemic as well as the BLM movement.\n\nA total of 24,500 people complained about the routine, which saw lead dancer, and BGT judge, Ashley Banjo being knelt on by a white performer, a reference to George Floyd's killing.\n\nBanjo said Diversity \"wanted to express how the events of this year have made us feel\".\n\nBridgerton's second series is currently in production\n\nAfter a gripping first series of the steamy Netflix costume drama, the mysterious high society gossip columnist Lady Whistledown, who powers the narrative, was finally unmasked.\n\nVoiced by Dame Julie Andrews, the writer stirred up London's aristocracy by revealing their most intimate secrets in her scandal sheet, while keeping her identity concealed. But in the last episode, a dramatic flashback revealed her true identity to viewers.\n\nA scheme to trap her as she printed her latest letter was foiled by Eloise Bridgerton, who believed Genevieve Delacroix was the writer. But when Eloise discovered Genevieve had an alibi, she realised the mystery remained.\n\nThen, in a dramatic flashback, Lady Whistledown was seen escaping in her carriage, before she removeed her hood to show her face.\n\nThe soap's character Gray Atkins had physically and psychologically abused his wife Chantelle for years. But Chantelle finally summoned the courage to stand up to her husband. Humiliated, Gray refused to let Chantelle leave and, in a violent tussle, murdered her.\n\nIn the scene, a terrified but determined Chantelle forced Gray to listen as she told him she was leaving and taking the kids with her.\n\nAfter she frankly declared she'd fallen out of love with him, the scene reached its harrowing ending. A defiant Chantelle screamed at Gray to get out of her way. Humiliated, he refused to let her leave, leading to her tragic death.\n\nGiles and Mary are among the contributors who appear regularly on Gogglebox\n\nIn this particular episode of the Channel 4 show, the nation's armchair critics offered their opinions on the moment Boris Johnson returned to work after his battle with Covid-19 and laid out his government's plans for the fight against the spread of the disease.\n\nThey became increasingly puzzled by lockdown measures while debating the need for caution versus their desire to get down to the pub.\n\nNigella Lawson has her very particular way of doing things, which includes unusual ways to pronounce kitchen appliances\n\nThe scene: Self-proclaimed domestic goddess Nigella Lawson was busy in her kitchen making a scrummy-sounding brown butter colcannon.\n\nWhile talking to the camera in her unique Nigella way, she moved onto the potato-mashing step, and gave viewers a peek inside the pan.\n\nWhile adding a splash of milk, she turned to the camera and... baffled everyone with some unusual pronunciation.\n\n\"I'm aiming for a solid mash at this stage, but I still need to add a bit of milk which I've warmed in the mee-cro-wah-vay\" (that's microwave to the rest of us).\n\nGrogu is an infant of the same species as the Star Wars character Yoda\n\nBaby Yoda - aka Grogu - had been rescued in the series finale of The Mandalorian, but the title character and his allies were still trapped aboard Moff Gideon's starship with Imperial Dark Troopers closing in.\n\nOut of nowhere, a lone X-wing Starfighter appeared and landed in the ship's docking bay. Enemy droids turned to meet the new arrival - a mysterious hooded figure dressed in black who, wielding a green lightsaber, promptly cut them into pieces.\n\nWith the Dark Troopers gone, the Mandalorian ordered the blast doors to be opened and the shadowy figure entered. As he pulled down his hood, audiences gasped - it was the young Luke Skywalker, recreated with CGI, who had arrived to take Grogu under his care.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Charlotte Crosby has described Channel 5 show Celebrities: What Happened to Your Face? as \"immoral\"\n\nChannel 5 has stopped streaming an episode of its celebrity plastic surgery series after condemnation from one of its subjects, Charlotte Crosby.\n\nLast Thursday's episode of Celebrities: What Happened to Your Face? analysed Crosby's changing appearance.\n\nThe reality TV star called the show \"immoral\", saying it had aired despite her team warning Channel 5 of its detrimental mental health implications.\n\nIn a statement, the broadcaster apologised for \"any upset caused\".\n\nIt added that both the channel and the programme's producers, Crackit Productions, \"take duty of care very seriously\".\n\n\"While we acknowledge that the programme was Ofcom compliant, we have taken on board Charlotte's feedback and removed the episode from our streaming platform My5.\"\n\nCrosby, who rose to fame on MTV's scripted reality show Geordie Shore and now hosts her own self-titled series, is yet to comment on the removal of the documentary.\n\nHowever, in her original statement, she said it was \"unbelievable\" that the programme had been made amid an increased focus on mental health within the entertainment industry.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Charlotte Crosby This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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\"At a time when the broadcast and media world were backing a policy of 'be kind', Channel 5 and Crackit decided to commission this one-hour special on 'rubber lip Charlotte' (their words not mine),\" Crosby wrote, while referring to the kindness campaign that was prompted by the death of Love Island presenter Caroline Flack.\n\n\"Their 'experts' dissected my 'plastic face' with disgust, discussing my fluctuating weight (with images), and then decided to flash up the worst troll comments from the past five years.\"\n\nCrosby's public criticism followed a similar statement from her Geordie Shore co-star Holly Hagan who, on Thursday evening, urged her Instagram followers to report Channel 5's programme to Ofcom.\n\nCrosby, 30, has been open about her cosmetic procedures and body image struggles - undergoing her first nose surgery in 2016 after becoming self-conscious over her appearances on TV, and later using lip-fillers.\n\nHolly Hagan (L) and Charlotte Crosby (R) at a 2015 photoshoot for series 10 of Geordie Shore\n\nShe previously told Heat magazine: \"It's not like I can hide it. If I'd not been on TV, I'd never have got it done.\n\n\"I do think [my nose] caused a lack of confidence, and you always compare yourself to other people who are on TV as well.\"\n\nCrosby's statement continued: \"Dealing with trolls is one thing, you ignore, you block but where are we as a society, when the trolls are the mainstream TV channels?\n\n\"Will they now take responsibility for my dip in mental health and plummeted self-esteem? Do they take responsibility for the resulting press from the show, again discussing how 'shocking' my face is?\" she asked.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The explosion happened in an outdoor seating area of The King's Head\n\nA heater which exploded outside a pub, injuring three people, had been brought there by a customer, police said.\n\nTwo women in their 20s remain in hospital after the incident at The King's Head in Great Cornard, Suffolk, shortly before 22:00 BST on Saturday.\n\nA man in his 20s was discharged from hospital on Sunday evening.\n\nSuffolk Police said the appliance was believed to be a small portable fuel heater. The King's Head said its thoughts were with the injured people.\n\nAll three were taken to West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds, with one of the women transferred to Chelmsford Hospital in Essex.\n\nPolice had said their serious injuries were not life-threatening but potentially life-changing.\n\nJohn Collings, who lives near the pub, said: \"I just heard a woman screaming but I didn't hear any explosion.\"\n\nPhillippa Kaye, another neighbour, said she was \"aware of a commotion\" at the pub, before the emergency services arrived.\n\n\"We're limited on what we can say as this remains a police investigation,\" the pub said on its Facebook page.\n\n\"We can however confirm that the heating appliance was not one supplied by the pub, but was brought on to the premises without our knowledge.\n\n\"We have three of our customers with serious injuries, potentially life-changing.\n\n\"Our focus is on supporting the inquiry that is taking place while keeping them, and their families, at the forefront of our thoughts and prayers during this difficult time.\"\n\nPolice carried out an investigation at the scene until Sunday afternoon, with an inquiry into the circumstances continuing.\n\nThe pub said it planned to reopen on Tuesday.\n\nA police cordon was put in place following the incident, and was lifted on Sunday afternoon\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 Three people injured in 'explosion' outside pub\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Parents of autistic children want an end to their restraint in hospitals\n\nThe mother of a teenager with autism has told MPs that her daughter's treatment in the care of the NHS was \"barbaric and inhumane\".\n\nBenji O'Reilly, who herself works for the NHS, described a \"prison-like environment\" endured by her daughter.\n\nMPs on the Health and Social Care Committee also heard from Dr Sarah Ryan whose son Connor Sparrowhawk died in a bath in a learning disability unit.\n\nCare minister Helen Whately said she backed better support in the community.\n\nThe hearing comes as a serious case review into Jonty Bravery, who threw a six-year-old boy from a balcony at London's Tate Modern, highlights a national shortage of specialist and residential care for children and young people with complex and high-risk behaviours.\n\nMs O'Reilly, a former nurse who now works in healthcare planning, wept as she told MPs how her daughter had waited three years for community support.\n\nIn her last admission, in October 2020, the girl was forced to wait 30 hours in an emergency department before being transferred to an infant ward.\n\nThere, her mother says, she was \"kept in a tiny box-sized, bland side-room for four weeks, with no fresh air, no exercise, no stimulation, no activities, not able to see friends, family, pets\".\n\n\"Unsurprisingly, she had a huge meltdown and started displaying some, what is seen as, challenging behaviour\".\n\nThe teenager has been an inpatient for the past seven months, in a hospital \"miles away from home\", without access to her phone and cut off from friends, home, community, school and hobbies, Ms O'Reilly told MPs.\n\n\"She has been treated like a criminal at times. She has often asked why she's being punished.\"\n\nMs O'Reilly described how her daughter was \"physically pulled away from me and restrained in front of my eyes\", having been left \"screaming and crying for her mum\" when the hospital cancelled a planned visit at the last minute.\n\nThe teenager is approaching her GCSE examinations, but her mum says that \"education has gone out of the window\".\n\nShe said the family does not feel listened to and it \"feels like our daughter has just been swallowed up by the system\".\n\nMs O'Reilly said restraint needed to be banned: \"Our daughter's been forcibly stripped and sedated via injection.\"\n\nDr Ryan said the only treatment her 18-year-old son was offered during the 107 days he spent at the specialist unit where he died, was a change in medication which increased his seizures.\n\n\"We are generating traumatic experiences for people and then puzzling about why we cannot release people back into the community,\" she said.\n\n\"There is absolutely no reason why anybody should be restrained or secluded in the 21st century for health-related reasons.\"\n\nCommittee chairman Jeremy Hunt suggested the UK needed a \"radical change\" in its care of people with learning disabilities and autism.\n\nCare Minister Helen Whately, who also appeared before the committee, said she shared the horror of the image of the teenager being held down and agreed the system should change.\n\nShe added: \"Everyone is calling out, myself included, for there to be more effective support in the community.\n\n\"We need actually greater clarity on what does actually work in the community, what is the right model, so we can then say to every area across the country: 'Make sure you have this in place.'\"", "Boris Johnson has chaired a cabinet meeting as he attempts to shift the focus from a series of claims and questions over his conduct.\n\nAmong them is an accusation the PM once said he would rather see \"bodies pile high\" than approve a third lockdown.\n\nMr Johnson and No 10 strongly denied he said the phrase, as the PM described multiple reports as \"total rubbish\".\n\nThe prime minister is also facing mounting pressure over the cost of redecorating his Downing Street flat.\n\nDowning Street refused to say whether Mr Johnson received a loan from the Conservative Party to pay for renovations, but said any \"gifts or benefits\" would be declared in the ministerial transparency registers.\n\nShadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that Mr Johnson had not explained how the renovation was being funded.\n\n\"If he wanted to prove to the country that he has acted entirely above reproach, he should give us that full and frank explanation - but so far he's refused to do it,\" Mr Ashworth said.\n\nAsked about the funding, Work and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey told BBC Breakfast: \"The only thing I do know is the prime minister has said that he paid for the expenses of redecoration.\"\n\nOn Monday, the prime minister was asked whether he said he would rather see \"bodies pile high\" than approve a third lockdown. He responded by saying: \"No, but I think the important thing I think people want us to get on and do as a government is to make sure that the lockdowns work.\"\n\nMr Johnson was expected to use the cabinet meeting to emphasise the importance of ministers focusing on everyday concerns, rather than the noise at Westminster, BBC political correspondent Chris Mason said.\n\nA statement from Downing Street after the meeting said ministers discussed a range of topics, from sending support to India through to updates from Northern Ireland.\n\nBut there was no mention in the statement of the ongoing questions facing Mr Johnson, which instead offered a warning on coronavirus that the UK was \"not out of the woods yet as variants of concern continue to pose a threat\".\n\nIt added: \"The PM said that while the road ahead looks positive, there will still be challenges and this government will continue to take tough decisions where necessary to protect both lives and livelihoods.\"\n\nThe cabinet meeting was seen as an opportunity for senior ministers to wrestle back control of the political agenda after a series of damaging allegations made by Mr Johnson's former chief aide Dominic Cummings last week.\n\nAhead of the meeting, No 10 said the cabinet would be told to focus on \"jabs and jobs\".\n\nLabour has called for a full inquiry into the cost and financing of the renovations to Downing Street.\n\nAnd shadow Cabinet Office minister Rachel Reeves described Mr Johnson's alleged comments about bodies piling high as \"stomach-churning\".\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said the opposition believed the furore was starting to be noticed by voters - and one cabinet minister told her \"there's nothing we can do to control it\".\n\nOn Monday, the UK's top civil servant Simon Case said Mr Johnson had asked him to review how a refurbishment of the No 11 flat was funded - after Mr Cummings alleged the prime minister once planned to have donors \"secretly pay\" for the revamp.\n\nBoris Johnson and his fiancee Carrie Symonds moved into No 11 Downing Street in July 2019\n\nSenior Conservative backbencher Sir Charles Walker told BBC Two's Newsnight he \"doesn't really care\" about the flat funding issue \"as long as my constituents didn't pay for it\".\n\nSir Charles, the MP for Broxbourne, added: \"I'm not a signed-up member of the Boris Johnson fan club.\n\n\"But we are talking about a man that nearly killed himself last year while in office trying to navigate this crisis.\n\n\"We're talking about a man who has delivered the most successful vaccine programme of any major developed country in the world. We're talking about a man who bent over backwards to get ventilators made... so I'm sorry I can't really understand [the outrage].\"\n\nMr Case also confirmed a probe was still ongoing into leaks pre-empting the official announcement of a second lockdown in England, but he admitted a culprit for the unauthorised disclosure may never be found.\n\nHe also said steps were being taken to tighten the rules around civil servants having second jobs in the wake of a row over the now-collapsed Greensill Capital, which employed ex-PM David Cameron.\n\nMr Johnson has strongly denied saying last year he would rather see \"bodies pile high\" than take the country into a third lockdown.\n\nThe remarks were alleged to have been made last autumn, during a heated discussion in Downing Street - just before the country went into its second lockdown from early November to early December.\n\nLaura Kuenssberg reported that, at the time, the prime minister was said to have had big concerns about the implications of another lockdown on the economy and non-Covid related health issues.\n\nEngland entered its third lockdown on 6 January.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson denies making 'bodies pile up' claim during third lockdown conversation\n\nFollowing an article in the Daily Mail - which first reported the alleged \"bodies\" comments - the BBC and ITV separately reported sources as confirming Mr Johnson did make the remarks.\n\nBut the prime minister's spokesman said the reported comments were false, adding: \"This is untrue and the PM has denied it… I'm not aware of anyone else making that statement.\"\n\nCabinet Office Minister Michael Gove defended Mr Johnson, telling the Commons it was \"incredible\" to think he would have said it, adding: \"I was in that room, I never heard language of that kind\".\n\nMs Reeves urged Mr Johnson to apologise, while bereaved families described the reported comments as \"callous\".\n\nDominic Cummings criticised the PM in a blog post last week\n\nThe latest claims come after a bitter row between Mr Johnson and Mr Cummings - who left Downing Street in December - burst into the open last week.\n\nThe former aide published a 1,000-word blog post in response to newspaper articles that claimed he had leaked text messages between the prime minister and businessman Sir James Dyson.\n\nMr Cummings suggested he was motivated in part by a desire to see an urgent parliamentary inquiry into the government's Covid-19 response. He is due to give evidence to MPs on the topic next month.\n\nFormer Conservative party leader William Hague warned that Mr Cummings would presumably turn up \"armed with audio recordings, screen grabs, email chains and other partial but revealing evidence\".\n\nWilliam Hague was Conservative leader from 1997 to 2001 and foreign secretary between 2010 and 2014\n\nMr Hague wrote in an opinion piece for the Times it would be a mistake \"to dismiss the latest allegations of sleaze as a fleeting problem\" and that a trail of digital evidence \"is one of several reasons the government should worry about the latest accusations of impropriety\".\n\nMeanwhile, the Covid situation in the UK has continued to improve, with latest coronavirus data showing the UK recorded 2,064 new cases on Monday, alongside six further deaths within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nA total of 33,752,885 people have now received at least one vaccine dose, while 12,897,123 are now fully vaccinated, the figures showed.", "Over the last few days, Chinese media have been dominated by reports on the catastrophic scenes in India. State media yesterday noted that China had sent hundreds of oxygen concentrators, and was vowing to send 10,000 more. The national Global Times newspaper said that the country would “keep in contact with India for urgent support”.\n\nToday, the Global Times has criticised the US for not responding in the same way. It says that “US aid to India is long overdue”, and says that “countries with strong, anti-epidemic capabilities must shoulder greater responsibilities”. The Xinhua news agency says that only 1.4% of India’s population have been vaccinated, and that “the US is hoarding Covid-19 vaccines”. It adds that this comes amid other developing nations denouncing US “vaccine apartheid”.\n\nChinese media have been keen to highlight internal divisions between ordinary Indians and the elite. They were critical of India’s super-rich chartering eight private jets to London ahead of being included on the UK government’s red list, and The Paper notes that some Bollywood stars have been trolled for taking holiday photos in the Maldives as the situation continues to escalate.\n\nMeanwhile, papers have been speaking to Chinese nationals who are based in India. One called Niko told Beijing News that she has tested positive for Covid-19, “but the hospital said on 13 April that hospital beds were all occupied… so I’ve had no choice but to take medicine at home”.\n\nIn a video shared by the Global Times, a student, Ms Chen, says that “there are no flights; I can only stay at home and protect myself”.", "Two members of college staff who tackled an armed suspect on campus have been praised for their \"heroics\".\n\nArmed police officers descended on Crawley College in West Sussex at 15:10 BST on Monday after reports of gunshots.\n\nA teacher and a member of support staff suffered minor injuries detaining a suspect, Sussex Police said. An 18-year-old man was arrested by police.\n\nCh Insp Shane Baker said the pair's \"heroics have not gone unnoticed\".\n\n\"They put themselves in harm's way in order to protect their students, fellow employees and the wider public, and I am hugely grateful for their quick-thinking actions,\" he added.\n\nA blank-firing handgun and knife were seized from the scene, police said.\n\nVideo appearing to show a member of staff tackling the suspect to the ground and pinning him to the floor was shared by students on Snapchat on Monday.\n\nThe two members of staff were not injured by gunshots and went to a walk-in medical centre for treatment, police said.\n\n\"Thankfully, no other injuries were reported, and no damage was caused by the blank shots fired,\" Ch Insp Baker said.\n\nScores of police officers were sent to Crawley College\n\nThe college was evacuated, and all staff and students relocated to a safe space while police carried out a search of the buildings.\n\nSussex Police officers were assisted by a bomb disposal team, East Sussex Fire and Rescue Service and the South East Coast Ambulance Service.\n\nIt is not being treated as a terrorist incident, police said.\n\nPolice officers have also conducted a search at an address in Barton Walk, Crawley.\n\nPolice asked people to stay away from Crawley College\n\nCh Supt Howard Hodges thanked \"all the students, staff and public for their co-operation\".\n\n\"We continue to have a policing presence in Crawley and are speaking to witnesses. We are still appealing for anyone with information to come forward,\" he added.\n\nCrawley College was closed to students on Tuesday while police inquiries 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 by eddie mitchell This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAn 18-year-old student, who did not want to be named, said the \"frightening experience\" had left him feeling shaken up.\n\n\"It was quite hectic and it seemed liked something out of a game, like Call of Duty,\" he continued.\n\n\"Everyone was just shouting and screaming and bangs in the background, which some people assumed were gunshots.\"\n\nTeachers told students to \"get under the table and shut the door, just as a precautionary measure,\" he said.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The couple have been encouraging the private sector to make donations to Covax\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan Markle will appear at a star-studded concert aimed at increasing access to Covid vaccines.\n\nThe couple were announced as campaign chairs of the Vax Live event, organised by anti-poverty group Global Citizen.\n\nUS President Joe Biden will also appear at the concert, which is being hosted by pop star Selena Gomez.\n\n\"We will all benefit, we will all be safer, when everyone, everywhere has equal access to the vaccine,\" Harry and Meghan said.\n\n\"We must pursue equitable vaccine distribution and, in that, restore faith in our common humanity. The mission couldn't be more critical or important.\"\n\nThe event will be recorded on Sunday at the SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles, and broadcast on 8 May.\n\nVax Live is calling on governments to commit to vaccine equity by donating doses and resources.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Selena Gomez This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 campaign is also pushing businesses to \"donate dollars for doses\", and for pharmaceutical companies to make vaccines available at not-for-profit prices.\n\nIn their role as campaign chairs, Harry and Meghan have been encouraging the private sector to make donations to the Covax scheme, which is co-led by the World Health Organization (WHO) and aims to ensure vaccines are shared fairly among all nations, rich and poor.\n\nMore than one billion doses of coronavirus vaccines have now been administered worldwide. But there are vast differences in the pace of progress in different parts of the world, with some countries having delivered doses to a large proportion of their population and others still waiting for their first shipments to arrive.\n\nPresident Biden will appear at the concert, as will Jennifer Lopez, who performed at his inauguration\n\nThe concert will feature performances from artists including Jennifer Lopez, Foo Fighters and Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder.\n\nMr Biden, his wife Jill and Vice-President Kamala Harris will promote the \"We Can Do This\" initiative, which seeks to increase confidence in Covid-19 vaccines\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic will also make appearances.\n\nLast year, Global Citizen partnered with the WHO to put on a virtual concert to celebrate healthcare workers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lady Gaga, Billie Eilish, and the Rolling Stones Together At Home", "The City of London is planning to convert empty offices into housing in a bid to revive the area after the Covid crisis.\n\nThe City of London Corporation, which looks after the Square Mile, is aiming for at least 1,500 new homes by 2030.\n\nIts policy chair said firms had told them their operations will change to accommodate flexible working.\n\nCurrent government guidance says people in England should work from home if possible.\n\nDuring the pandemic, many city centre areas have been left deserted as workers stayed at home to reduce the risk of transmitting the virus.\n\nAs part of a recovery strategy, the Corporation has set out how it will \"rise to the challenge of adapting to the new normal that emerges after the pandemic.\"\n\nIt plans to use a mixture of new schemes and refurbishments of old buildings to meet its housing target.\n\nThe Corporation said this would include at least 35% affordable housing \"with an ambition to deliver higher levels of affordable housing where this is viable\".\n\nAlthough the area in and around the City dates back over 2,000 years, most of its housing stock was built in the late 1960s, according to estate agents Knight Frank.\n\nIn March 2020, there were about 7,850 residential units in the area many financial services firms call home - mostly found across purpose-built estates.\n\nUnder the new proposals published on Tuesday, long-term lets in empty buildings could be offered to creatives, while it will also try to attract \"high-potential tech-led businesses\" to the area with improvements like making 5G available across the area.\n\nCatherine McGuinness, policy chair at the City of London Corporation, said the body had been trying to listen to companies and how their needs have changed during the pandemic.\n\n\"Firms have told us that they remain committed to retaining a central London hub but how they operate will inevitably change to reflect post-pandemic trends, such as hybrid and flexible working.\n\n\"The Square Mile must evolve in order to provide an ecosystem that remains attractive to workers, visitors, learners and residents.\"\n\nThe pandemic has accelerated a shift to a new way of working that has seen many firms shake up routines. BP staff, for example, are set to work from home two days a week going forward.\n\nIWG, the world's biggest flexible workspace provider, also expects a big jump in demand once pandemic subsides and \"hybrid working\", a mixture of going in and working from home, becomes more common.\n\nThe firm, formerly known as Regus, recently struck a deal with London-based bank Standard Chartered which will provide its 95,000 employees access to 3,500 offices, which are found across suburbs and cities.\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\".", "Greek islands such as Mykonos are proving popular, says Thomas Cook\n\nPeople are increasingly putting off their summer holidays and booking autumn breaks instead due to uncertainty over international travel, tour operators say.\n\nThomas Cook said autumn bookings were up 50% on normal levels, while luxury tour operator Kuoni said customers were \"holding out for October half term\".\n\nGreece and the Caribbean are among the most popular destinations.\n\nBut some fear prices will rise due to fewer countries being open to tourism.\n\nInternational travel is due to resume from 17 May under the government's roadmap to reopening, with plans for a \"traffic-light\" system categorising different countries.\n\nHowever, the list of countries that Britons can travel to will not be known until nearer 17 May and will be subject to change.\n\nThis has prompted a surge in autumn holiday bookings, with breaks in September and October accounting for 30% of Thomas Cook's live bookings for the year. That is up 50% on what the group normally sees in these months.\n\nA spokesman said there was a \"clear preference for September and October compared to what we normally expect\".\n\nHe said many people had already booked domestic breaks for July and August and were looking for a \"week of sun in the Med\" later in the year.\n\n\"Devon is lovely, but Devon in October is not Devon in July,\" he added.\n\nAccording to Thomas Cook, Greece is the most popular destination for autumn breaks, with Rhodes the most in-demand island followed by Crete, Santorini and Mykonos.\n\nThe Canary Islands, a popular winter-sun destination, are the second most popular destination.\n\nKuoni did not share booking figures but said the majority of 2021 sales have been from October onwards. It added that customers were \"saving and upgrading\" for long-haul winter sun breaks.\n\n\"We've chatted to lots of customers who have written off any hope of getting away in the summer but are holding out for October half-term,\" the company said.\n\nIts most popular destinations are the Maldives and the Caribbean, including Antigua, Barbados and Saint Lucia.\n\nOther travel firms are seeing evidence of the trend in searches on their websites. British Airways Holidays said there was a lot of \"pent-up demand\" for foreign holidays and it has seen a spike in searches for trips to long-haul beach destinations this autumn.\n\nSearches for December holidays have also seen a \"notable increase\", with New York proving popular.\n\nMeanwhile travel deals website Travelzoo predicts September and October will be \"big months for travel\".\n\nA survey of 2,000 of its members carried out last week found the majority said they plan to take a trip around that time.\n\nHowever, the company warned that prices could increase if demand continues and there is a limited number of destinations open for travel.\n\n\"Right now we are seeing some good prices for September and October, but there's every indication it will start to prove more challenging for [package-holiday customers],\" the company said.\n\nUnder the government's proposed traffic-light system, counties will be categorised as red, amber or green depending their infection rates, vaccination coverage and the prevalence of variants of concern.\n\nCovid testing and quarantine requirements will vary from category to category. All passengers will have to take Covid tests before leaving and on returning - even from low-risk \"green\" countries.\n\nThere will also be a green \"watchlist\" which will identify countries that are most at risk of moving from green to amber.\n\nCovid cases in some European countries remain high and vaccination programmes in the bloc have lagged behind the UK.\n\nThe Association of Independent Tour Operators said: \"Would-be travellers are nervous without certainty. We need those government traffic lights to be confirmed to give us all confidence.\"", "A post-mortem examination found Loretta Herman had died due to compression of the neck\n\nA man has been charged with the murder of an 85-year-old woman found in a bathtub in London.\n\nMet Police officers have named the victim as Loretta Herman, although formal identification has yet to take place.\n\nShe was found unconscious in a home in Rushden Gardens, Ilford, on Friday.\n\nMark Herman, 54, of Rushden Gardens, has been remanded in custody and will appear at Redbridge Magistrates' Court on 12 April.\n\nA post-mortem examination found the cause of death was compression to the neck.\n\nHer family has been informed.\n\nParamedics battled for an hour to save Ms Herman's life but she was pronounced dead at 11:48 BST.\n\nFlowers have been left outside the property where she was believed to have lived for about the last 35 years.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police have released images of Mohammed Ali Ege while he was in police custody in India in 2013\n\nPolice have released new images of the fugitive wanted in connection with the 2010 murder of a 17-year-old boy.\n\nAamir Siddiqi was hacked to death at his home in Cardiff 11 years ago after his killers went to the wrong house.\n\nMohammed Ali Ege, 42, was arrested in India in 2011 on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder but escaped custody before he could be extradited.\n\nSouth Wales Police said the pictures of Mr Ege, from Cardiff, were taken while he was in custody in 2013.\n\nThe appeal comes 11 years to the day since Aamir was murdered in front of his parents as he waited for his Quran teacher at his home in Roath.\n\nAamir Siddiqi had been offered a place to study law at university and was was described as a \"bright, gentle and courteous boy\"\n\nJason Richards and Ben Hope were jailed for a minimum of 40 years in 2013.\n\nSouth Wales Police previously said Mr Ege was \"Wales' most wanted man\".\n\nBen Hope and Jason Richards were convicted of murder at Swansea Crown Court\n\nRichards and Hope had been paid £1,000 by a businessman, angry over a collapsed property deal, to kill a father-of-four who lived in a neighbouring street.\n\nThe judge in their trial described Aamir as a \"bright, gentle and courteous boy who was much loved by his family\".\n\nMr Ege was arrested in India in 2011 but in 2017, he escaped while in a New Delhi railway station toilet as police officers prepared to extradite him back to the UK.\n\nFour years on from his escape, Mr Ege's whereabouts remain unknown.\n\nDetectives leading the hunt have released new images in the hope it will lead to any recent sightings being reported to police.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Miriam Siddiqi recalls the murder of her 17-year-old brother Aamir\n\nSouth Wales Police said: \"We continue to work with the National Crime Agency and international law enforcement agencies to trace Mr Ege and return him to the UK.\"\n\nAamir's family continue to be updated and supported by specially-trained officers, the force added.\n\nAnyone with information is asked to contact police, or report it via the police website.\n\nMohammed Ali Ege escaped police custody before he was due to be extradited", "David Cameron has said he should have contacted the government “through only the most formal of channels\" when lobbying for a financial firm.\n\nThe former prime minister has faced criticism for contacting ministers on behalf of Greensill Capital.\n\nIn his first statement on the issue, he said he should have left \"no room for misinterpretation\".\n\nBut Mr Cameron reiterated that he had broken no codes of conduct or government rules on lobbying.\n\nHe added: \"However, I have reflected on this at length. There are important lessons to be learnt.\"\n\nThe Labour Party said Mr Cameron's statement had left \"many serious questions\" unanswered, and called for him to answer them before Parliament.\n\nIt was revealed earlier that Health Secretary Matt Hancock had met Mr Cameron and financier Lex Greensill for a \"private drink\" in 2019 to discuss a new payment scheme for the NHS.\n\nAn ally of Mr Hancock said he had \"acted in entirely the correct way\".\n\nThe meeting is the latest in a series of Sunday Times disclosures about Mr Cameron's lobbying work since leaving office, with Chancellor Rishi Sunak - whom he texted - among the ministers contacted.\n\nFor three weeks the headlines kept coming. For three weeks David Cameron said nothing.\n\nAnd now this - the former prime minister admits he made a dud judgement call.\n\nForget the rules; this is about the sniff test. Does it smell bad? Does it feel right?\n\nPlenty had been saying no it doesn't, and now David Cameron appears to agree.\n\nIt's a lengthy statement from him, worthy of detailed examination.\n\nBut it boils down to this: he acknowledges texting and ringing the chancellor and going for a private drink with the health secretary, as part of his paid work for a private company, was a bad idea.\n\nThere's another point worth making too: journalism matters.\n\nThe work of the Financial Times and the Sunday Times, ferreting out awkward truths, is what has prompted this.\n\nMr Greensill, an Australian, worked as an unpaid adviser to Mr Cameron's government, and the former prime minister went on to be employed by his company - Greensill Capital - in 2018, two years after leaving Downing Street.\n\nIn his statement, Mr Cameron said: \"In my representations to government, I was breaking no codes of conduct and no government rules.\n\n\"Ultimately, the outcome of the discussions I encouraged about how Greensill's proposals might be included in the government's CCFF (Covid Corporate Financing Facility) initiative - and help in the wake of the coronavirus crisis - was that they were not taken up.\n\n\"So, I complied with the rules and my interventions did not lead to a change in the government's approach to the CCFF.\"\n\nHe added: \"As a former prime minister, I accept that communications with government need to be done through only the most formal of channels, so there can be no room for misinterpretation.\"\n\nMr Cameron added that he had worked for Greensill Capital in the belief that there \"would be a material benefit for UK businesses at a challenging time\".\n\n\"That was, in large part, my reason for working for Greensill in the first place,\" he said.\n\nThe company recently collapsed, with the loss of 440 jobs.\n\nMr Cameron said: \"I completely understand the public interest in this issue, given the impact of Greensill's collapse on the hundreds of people who worked for the company and on other businesses and livelihoods. I feel desperately sorry for those affected.\"\n\nHe added that Mr Greensill had been brought in as a government adviser by then-Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood, in 2011.\n\n\"He was not a political appointee,\" Mr Cameron said, \"but part of the Civil Service drive to improve government efficiency.\"\n\nHe continued: \"The false impression has been created that Lex Greensill was a close member of my team, meeting with me on a regular basis.\n\n\"The truth is, I had very little to do with Lex Greensill at this stage - as I recall, I met him twice at most in the entirety of my time as prime minister.\"\n\nMr Cameron - who was in Downing Street from 2010 to 2016 - is reported to have told friends he was set to earn as much as £60m from shareholdings in Greensill Capital prior to its collapse, although this has since been disputed.\n\nShadow chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Rachel Reeves said: \"The events unfolding over the last few weeks stretch across government and affect thousands of people.\n\n\"Transparency and accountability are crucial and that requires the utmost openness from government to establish the full facts behind this scandal.\"", "Election campaigning will resume this week after a pause following the death of the Duke of Edinburgh.\n\nElections to the Scottish and Welsh parliaments and for councillors, mayors and police and crime commissioners in England are being held on 6 May.\n\nCampaigning will resume after tributes are paid to Prince Philip on Monday in the House of Commons, Holyrood and the Senedd.\n\nIt will pause again on Saturday, the day of the duke's funeral.\n\nConservative Party co-chair Amanda Milling said: \"The respectful pause to campaigning will end on Tuesday morning.\"\n\nLabour said it will allow leafleting following tributes in Parliament on Monday with a \"full return to campaigning\" on Tuesday.\n\nThe party said campaigning would be suspended again on 17 April - the day of the duke's funeral - \"to allow members to join a day of reflection\".\n\n\"These arrangements have been agreed with the UK government,\" it added.\n\nParliament will return a day early from recess on Monday so that MPs can honour Prince Philip, with the House of Commons sitting at 14:30 BST for tributes.\n\nPeers - who were due to return to the House of Lords on Monday - will also start their proceedings with a humble address of condolence to the Queen.\n\nThe Scottish Parliament, the Northern Ireland Assembly and the Welsh Senedd will also be recalled on Monday for tributes.\n\nPoliticians across the UK have paid tribute to Prince Philip, with Prime Minister Boris Johnson praising his \"extraordinary life\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the UK had \"lost an extraordinary public servant\", while Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon sent her condolences to the Royal Family.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ash fell like snow on Saint Vincent following the eruptions\n\nThe Caribbean island of St Vincent has been blanketed in a layer of ash, bringing major disruption after a volcano erupted on Friday.\n\nWhite-coloured dust has covered buildings and roads around the island, including in its capital Kingstown.\n\nThe La Soufrière volcano was still rumbling and emitting ash thousands of metres into the air on Saturday. The prime minister has called for calm.\n\nThe volcano was dormant for decades but started to become active in December.\n\nThousands of people have been forced out of their homes and the water supply to most of the island has been cut off.\n\nAbout 3,000 people spent Friday night in emergency shelters, Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves said, and some 16,000 were evacuated from ash-covered or vulnerable areas.\n\nMr Gonsalves said it was unclear how much more ash the volcano would release. Some scientists have warned that eruptions could continue for days or even 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 CDEMA This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPeople across the island, which has a population of around 110,000, woke on Saturday to find their homes covered in the white-coloured volcanic dust.\n\nOne witness in the town of Rabaka told Reuters news agency the ground was covered with about 12 inches (30cm) of ash and rock fragments.\n\nIt prompted warnings from officials to stay indoors, while emergency groups advised caution for those suffering with respiratory problems.\n\n\"Be careful all. We are covered in ash and strong sulphur scents pervade the air. We ask that you take the necessary precautions to remain safe and healthy,\" the island's main emergency management group said.\n\nSome evacuation procedures were hindered by the heavy ash fall, which hindered visibility.\n\nThe ash has travelled far beyond St Vincent and on Saturday, more than 100 miles to the east, officials in Barbados urged people to stay indoors.\n\n\"Unless you have reason to be outside, stay in your house. This is to protect yourselves and your family,\" Chief Medical Officer Kenneth George said.\n\nOther Caribbean countries, including Antigua and Guyana, have offered to send emergency supplies to St Vincent. They also said they would open their borders to those fleeing the fallout from the eruption.\n\nStreets of the capital Kingstown were covered in ash on Saturday morning\n\nThe volcano had been dormant since 1979, but in late 2020 it started spewing steam and smoke and making rumbling noises.\n\nThe first sign that an eruption was imminent came on Thursday evening, when a lava dome became visible on La Soufrière.\n\nJust before 09:00 on Friday (13:00 GMT), seismologists from the University of the West Indies confirmed that an \"explosive eruption\" was under way.\n\nEvacuees were taken to cruise ships and safer parts of the island.\n\nA second explosion was recorded, causing a large vertical column of ash\n\nJournalist Robertson Henry told Reuters of the moment of the eruption.\n\n\"It was bright, but then the light began to deteriorate. And it wasn't at a slow pace, it was rapidly deteriorating,\" he said.\n\n\"You began to feel something hitting your skin - ash. People looked up and there is this huge plume of ash hanging in the sky, silent, deadly, dreadful, ominous.\"\n\nLater on Friday another explosion was recorded, the UWI Seismic Research Centre said.\n\nLocal media have also reported increased activity from Mount Pelee on the island of Martinique, north of St Vincent.\n\nMost of the Lesser Antilles islands are part of a long volcanic arc in the Eastern Caribbean.", "A series of volcanic eruptions has blanketed parts of the Caribbean island of St Vincent in ash and smoke.\n\nLocals reported \"extremely heavy ash fall and sulphur smells\" and thousands of people were forced from their homes.\n\nLa Soufrière, which had been dormant for decades, started showing volcanic activity in December, but that increased this week.\n\nThe first sign that an eruption was imminent came on Thursday evening, when a lava dome became visible on La Soufrière.\n\nJust before 09:00 on Friday (13:00 GMT), seismologists from the University of the West Indies confirmed that an \"explosive eruption\" was under way.\n\nEvacuees were taken to cruise ships and safer parts of the island.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"My family and I miss my father enormously,\" said Prince Charles at his Highgrove home\n\nThe Prince of Wales has paid tribute to his \"dear papa\", the Duke of Edinburgh, saying that he and the Royal Family miss him \"enormously\".\n\nHe said the duke, who died at Windsor Castle on Friday, aged 99, had given the \"most remarkable, devoted service\" to the Queen, the Royal Family, the country, and the Commonwealth.\n\nPrince Charles said his father was a \"much loved and appreciated figure\".\n\nHis comments came after details of Prince Philip's funeral were announced.\n\nSpeaking from his Highgrove home in Gloucestershire, Prince Charles said over the last 70 years his father had \"given the most remarkable, devoted service to the Queen, to my family and to the country, but also to the whole of the Commonwealth\".\n\nThe prince said the Royal Family were \"deeply touched\" by the number of people in the UK, around the world and the Commonwealth, who he said shared \"our loss and our sorrow\".\n\nHe added his \"dear papa\" was a \"very special person who... above all else would have been amazed by the reaction and the touching things that have been said about him\".\n\nThe prince said he and his family were \"deeply grateful\" for this, adding: \"It will sustain us in this particular loss and at this particularly sad time.\"\n\nBuckingham Palace has announced that a national minute's silence will mark the start of the duke's funeral next Saturday at 15:00 BST at St George's Chapel, in Windsor.\n\nThe arrangements, which \"very much\" reflect Prince Philip's wishes, have been adapted in light of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe Duke of Sussex will fly in from his home in the US to join other members of the Royal Family at the ceremony.\n\nBut his wife the Duchess of Sussex, who is pregnant with their second child, has been advised by her doctor not to travel, the spokesman added.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson will not attend the ceremony to allow for the attendance of \"as many family members as possible\" during coronavirus restrictions, No 10 said.\n\nEarlier, royal gun salutes across the UK and at sea marked the duke's death.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"A loss to us all\" read one of the tributes to Prince Philip\n\nThere will be eight days of national mourning - to end on 17 April - ahead of the televised funeral, which will be a ceremonial event rather than a large state affair usually associated with the death of a monarch.\n\nPrince Philip will also not lie in state - where members of the public would have been able to view his coffin.\n\nHis coffin will instead lay at rest in the private chapel at Windsor Castle and will be draped with the duke's personal standard with a wreath of flowers on top.\n\nThe Royal Family will observe two weeks of mourning, although royal engagements will continue where appropriate.\n\nUnion flags will remain at half mast and the Royal Standard will be at full mast.\n\nThe funeral will take place at St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle\n\nA spokesman for the Palace said: \"Whilst this is a time of sadness and mourning the coming days will be an opportunity to celebrate a remarkable life.\"\n\nOnly 30 people - expected to be the duke's children, grandchildren and other close family - will attend the ceremony as guests.\n\nOn the day of the funeral, Prince Philip's coffin will be transported from Windsor Castle to St George's Chapel in a specially modified Land Rover he helped to design.\n\nMembers of the Royal Family including the Prince of Wales will walk behind the coffin, and the Queen will travel separately to the chapel.\n\nGuests will socially distance and wear face coverings in line with coronavirus restrictions.\n\nJockeys, owners and trainers marked a two-minute silence in tribute to the duke at Aintree Racecourse, Liverpool on Saturday\n\nMilitary guns will fire during the procession, which will take eight minutes, and the curfew bell will toll.\n\nEight pallbearers will carry the coffin, draped with duke's standard, with a wreath and the duke's naval cap and sword on top, up the west steps into the chapel. It will be greeted by the Dean of Windsor and the Archbishop of Canterbury.\n\nThese 10 people are not included in the number of attendees allowed.\n\nA guest list will be released on Thursday.\n\nAfter the service, the duke will be interred in the Royal Vault of the chapel.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Earl and Countess of Wessex spent about an hour at Windsor Castle on Saturday morning.\n\nMembers of the Royal Family have visited the Queen at Windsor Castle following the duke's death on Friday.\n\nThe Countess of Wessex said \"the Queen has been amazing\" as she left the castle with the Earl of Wessex on Saturday.\n\nThe Duke of York also visited on Saturday, while the Prince of Wales travelled there on Friday afternoon.\n\nThe Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev Justin Welby, paid tribute to Prince Philip's \"righteous impatience\" and \"gift of moral imagination\" in an online memorial service from the crypt at Lambeth Palace on Saturday evening.\n\nMr Welby will lead a live service at Canterbury Cathedral in memory of the duke on Sunday at 10:30.\n\nMembers of the public have been asked not to attend any of the funeral events, in line with public health advice, and the Royal Family has asked people not to leave flowers and tributes at royal residences.\n\nOn the Royal Family website, members of the public are asked to consider making a donation to a charity instead of leaving floral tributes in memory of the duke. An online book of condolence is also available for the public to post their personal tributes.\n\nAll UK government buildings have been told to fly official flags at half-mast in tribute to the duke until 08:00 on the day after the duke's funeral.\n\nUnder earlier arrangements for the days after the duke's death, codenamed Forth Bridge, thousands of people would have been expected to gather in London and Windsor, with some even camping out to get a vantage point to watch the military procession.\n\nBut since the pandemic began, organisers have been working on contingency plans which would avoid attracting mass gatherings in the event that the duke died.\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge has withdrawn from giving a speech at the Bafta Awards ceremony on Sunday night, Kensington Palace said. His grandfather was Bafta's first president.\n\nMeanwhile, the Football League has announced that matches scheduled to begin at the same time as Prince Philip's funeral will be rearranged \"as a mark of respect\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAnnouncing the duke's death on Friday, Buckingham Palace said: \"It is with deep sorrow that Her Majesty the Queen announces the death of her beloved husband.\n\n\"The Royal Family join with people around the world in mourning his loss.\"\n\nIn tribute to the duke, saluting batteries fired 41 rounds on Saturday in cities including London, Edinburgh and Cardiff, and at Hillsborough Castle in County Down. Guns were also fired in Gibraltar.\n\nRoyal Navy ships at sea, including HMS Diamond and HMS Montrose, also fired the salute in honour of the duke, who served as a naval officer during World War Two and held the office of Lord High Admiral.\n\nA two-minute silence was held ahead of the Grand National at Aintree Racecourse in memory of the duke, who was an honorary member of the Jockey Club.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gun salutes have been fired across the UK, in Gibraltar and at sea, in tribute to Prince Philip", "Sir Richard Sutton's wealth was valued at £301m in the 2020 Sunday Times Rich List\n\nA 34-year-old man has been charged with the murder of a multi-millionaire hotelier, one of the UK's richest men.\n\nSir Richard Sutton died at his home near Gillingham, Dorset, on Wednesday. His partner, Anne Schreiber, was also stabbed and is in a critical condition.\n\nThomas Schreiber was charged with murder, attempted murder and dangerous driving.\n\nThe wealth of Sir Richard, 83, and his family was valued at £301m in the 2020 Sunday Times Rich List.\n\nMr Schreiber is due to appear before magistrates in Poole on Monday.\n\nDetective Inspector Simon Huxter, of Dorset Police, said: \"Our thoughts remain with the victims' family and all of those affected by this terrible incident.\n\n\"Following a detailed investigation, we have consulted with the Crown Prosecution Service.\n\n\"As a result, Dorset Police have been authorised to formally charge Thomas Schreiber with the murder of Sir Richard, attempted murder of the injured woman and dangerous driving.\"\n\nA spokesman from the businessman's company, Sir Richard Sutton Limited, said on Sunday: \"Our thoughts are with Anne Schreiber, who remains in a critical condition in hospital and was a hugely important part of Sir Richard's life, especially in his later years.\n\n\"After caring for Sir Richard for a long period, we in turn wish her a swift and full recovery.\n\n\"Though separated, Sir Richard also remained on good terms with his wife, Lady Fiamma, and very close to their children, who are mourning the loss of a devoted father.\n\n\"Employees across the group have been united in their shock at what has happened and will need time to come to terms with the loss of such an influential figure.\"\n\nSir Richard, who was number 435 in last year's Sunday Times Rich List, owned a string of top hotels.\n\nThe baronet had an extensive property and farming portfolio, including owning the freehold of the Sheraton Grand London Park Lane and the Athenaeum Hotel in Mayfair.\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. \"A heck of a guy\": US President Joe Biden, NZ PM Jacinda Ardern and other world leaders pay tribute to Prince Philip\n\nMonarchs, heads of state and prime ministers across the world have sent heartfelt tributes following the death of Prince Philip at the age of 99.\n\nEurope's royal households and Commonwealth leaders alike praised the Duke of Edinburgh's public service.\n\nJoe Biden described the duke as a \"heck of a guy\", and all living former US presidents also sent tributes.\n\nMeanwhile, commemorative church services and remembrance ceremonies are taking place on Sunday.\n\nAustralia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison attended a service at Sydney's St Andrews Cathedral which included prayers for the Royal Family and a naval hymn in honour of Prince Philip..\n\nHe earlier described the duke as \"a man who was steadfast, who could be relied upon, who always [stood] by his Queen\".\n\nSpecial church services - such as this one in Sydney - are taking place around the world on Sunday\n\n\"On Prince Philip's many visits to Australia, we have come to know him as a man of compassion and service, personal warmth, intellectual curiosity and generous spirit,\" Reverend Kanishka de Silva Raffel said at the service.\n\nIn neighbouring New Zealand, a ceremony took place on Sunday in the country's capital, Wellington, featuring a 41-gun salute.\n\nBarack Obama said Philip was a \"remarkable man... who helped provide steady leadership and guiding wisdom\"\n\nOn Saturday, Pope Francis paid tribute to the duke's \"devotion to his marriage and family\".\n\nThe leader of the Roman Catholic Church also noted the prince's \"commitment to the education and advancement of future generations\".\n\nThe spiritual leader of Tibet, the Dalai Lama, wrote to the Queen and Prince Charles, saying Prince Philip would be remembered for having lived a meaningful life.\n\nPresident Xi Jinping of China also sent his condolences.\n\nThe duke, whose death was announced by Buckingham Palace on Friday, accompanied the Queen during hundreds of overseas visits.\n\nPrince Philip had blood ties with a number of former or current European royal households, and many of their members sent condolences.\n\nThe telegram from King Felipe and Queen Letizia of Spain was particularly poignant, sending \"all our love and affection\" to Aunt Lilibet (the affectionate name used by the duke for his wife) and Dear Uncle Philip.\n\n\"We shall never forget the moments that we shared with him,\" they told the Queen.\n\nPrince Philip rides in a carriage with Spain's Queen Letizia in London in 2017\n\nSweden's King Carl Gustaf said the duke had been \"a great friend of our family for many years, a relation we have deeply valued\".\n\nSwedish royal family spokeswoman Margareta Thorgren told the BBC the king and the duke had sailed together in England, adding: \"That was the start of a great friendship between them.\"\n\nThe Dutch royal family said they remembered Prince Philip with great respect, adding: \"His lively personality made an indelible impression.\"\n\nBelgium's King Philippe said he and Queen Mathilde would \"always cherish the memories of our warm encounters\".\n\nTributes came in too from the Commonwealth - 54 nations, most with roots in the British Empire and home to 2.4 billion people.\n\nAustralian flags were flown at half-mast on the Sydney Harbour Bridge in tribute to the duke\n\nFlags were lowered to half-mast at Australia's Parliament House in Canberra, where a 41-gun salute took place on Saturday, and at the Sydney Harbour Bridge, where in 1954 Prince Philip arrived alongside the newly crowned Queen Elizabeth on the first visit by a reigning monarch to the country.\n\nNew Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern noted that thousands of young people had \"completed life-changing challenges\" through the duke's Hillary Award.\n\nA 41-gun salute is fired to commemorate the death of Prince Philip at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia\n\nCanada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the duke had \"contributed so much to the social fabric of our country - and the world\".\n\nPakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan said Philip had been a \"wise leader\" and his \"role in promoting Pakistan-UK relations will always be remembered\".\n\nAnd Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was another to praise a lifetime of dedication to \"many community service initiatives\".\n\nKenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta said the duke had been a \"towering symbol of family values and the unity of the British people as well as the entire global community\".\n\nOther warm condolences from Africa included Zimbabwe - which has had a rocky relationship with the UK and is no longer in the Commonwealth - and the president of Tanzania, which only recently lost its leader John Pombe Magufuli amid Covid-19 rumours.\n\nOther tributes came from nations deeply linked to the duke and his family.\n\nMalta's Prime Minister Robert Abela wrote: \"Truly saddened by the loss of Prince Philip, who made Malta his home and returned here so often. Our people will always treasure his memory.\"\n\nPhilip and Elizabeth spent two idyllic years on Malta, where he was stationed in the Navy, before King George VI died in 1952.\n\nIsrael's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the duke had been \"the consummate public servant\" and would be much missed.\n\nThe duke's mother, Princess Alice of Battenberg, who died in 1969, is buried at the Church of Mary Magdalene in Jerusalem.\n\nThe Duke of Edinburgh with his mother Princess Alice Of Battenberg\n\nThe Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, sent his \"sincere condolences and sympathies\" to the Queen, the Royal Family and the British people.\n\nIn a personal tribute, Barack Obama, one of the 18 US presidents in the duke's lifetime, said Philip had immediately put him and Michelle at ease, and that he was \"kind and warm, with a sharp wit and unfailing good humour\".\n\nDonald Trump said Prince Philip had \"defined British dignity and grace. He personified the quiet reserve, stern fortitude and unbending integrity of the United Kingdom...\"\n\nIn a telegram to the Queen, Russian President Vladimir Putin said the duke had \"rightfully enjoyed respect\" both at home and internationally.\n\nAnd Chancellor Angela Merkel said the duke's \"friendship with Germany, his straightforward nature and his sense of duty\" would be remembered.\n\nFrance's Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian called the duke a man of \"great style\", saying: \"France joins in the sorrow of its friends across the Channel and salutes the life of a man who was a witness to a century of trials and hopes for our continent.\"\n\nItalian President Sergio Mattarella said he would \"cherish\" the memories of Prince Philip's \"deep admiration for Italy's artistic and cultural heritage\". He said the duke had accompanied the\" evolution of his country with an open and innovative spirit\".\n\nIrish President Michael D Higgins praised Prince Philip's ability to bring \"an air of informality to otherwise formal occasions\".\n\n\"His distinctive presence and unique sense of humour put participants at ease and always engaged those who encountered him,\" he said.\n\nEuropean Commission President Ursula von der Leyen expressed her sympathy to the royal family and \"the people of the United Kingdom on this very sad day\".", "More than 400,000 second doses of Covid vaccines have been given in the UK for the fourth consecutive day, according to the latest government data.\n\nA record total of 475,230 second doses were administered on Saturday - along with 111,109 first doses.\n\nOn Friday, 450,136 second doses and 106,878 first doses were received.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson welcomed the \"record-breaking day\", adding that more than seven million people have now been fully vaccinated.\n\nHe wrote on Twitter: \"Thanks to everyone involved in this extraordinary effort, which has already saved thousands of lives.\"\n\nMeanwhile, government figures shows there were 1,730 new infections recorded in the past 24 hours and a further seven deaths within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nThat is the lowest daily death toll by this measure since 14 September 2020. However, there can be a lag in reporting coronavirus statistics during weekends.\n\nThe total number of people to die within 28 days of a positive Covid test is 127,087, according to government figures.\n\nSeparate figures published by the UK's statistics agencies show there have been 150,000 deaths registered in the UK where Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate.\n\nThe latest figures show that of the 39,587,893 vaccinations administered in the UK so far, 32,121,353 were first doses and 7,466,540 were second doses.\n\nIt comes as England and Wales prepare to reopen non-essential retail stores on Monday, as the next step in easing lockdown.\n\nStage two of the plan to ease restrictions in England will allow pubs and restaurants to serve food and alcohol to customers sitting outside from midnight.\n\nHairdressers, beauty salons, gyms, theme parks, libraries and community centres will also be able to open their doors in England.\n\nIn Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland all pupils and students will start returning to school, college and other education on Monday depending on term dates.\n\nThe wider stages of lockdown easing in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are earmarked for no earlier than 26 April.", "The baby was found by a member of the public in the car park of Morrisons on the Black Country Route in Bilston\n\nA newborn baby has been found dead in the car park of a supermarket.\n\nA member of the public found the baby at Morrisons on the Black Country Route in Bilston at about 09:00 BST, West Midlands Police said.\n\nIn a statement, the force said it did not currently know \"when the baby was born or how they came to be in the car park\".\n\nPolice have since identified the mother of the baby and said she was receiving \"appropriate care\".\n\nDet Insp Jim Edmonds said it had been a \"tragic discovery\" and officers had been \"treating the scene and the baby with the utmost care and dignity\".\n\nIn an update, issued at 20:00 BST, West Midlands Police said it had traced the mother and officers would be speaking to her \"in due course\".\n\nIt thanked the public for sharing its appeal to trace her.\n\nA Morrisons spokesman said the company was helping the police and it would not be releasing any further information.\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 Princess Royal has said her father the Duke of Edinburgh was her \"teacher, supporter and critic\".\n\nPrincess Anne - the duke's only daughter - said he would leave a \"legacy which can inspire us all\".\n\nHer written statement comes after her brother, the Duke of York, said the Queen had described the death of Prince Philip as \"having left a huge void in her life\".\n\nHe and his brother the Earl of Wessex earlier paid tribute to their father.\n\nIn a statement on the Royal Family's website, the princess said she \"most wanted to emulate\" her father's example of a \"life well lived and service freely given\".\n\nShe said \"his ability to treat every person as an individual in their own right with their own skills\" was reflected in the organisations he worked with.\n\n\"I regard it as an honour and a privilege to have been asked to follow in his footsteps and it has been a pleasure to have kept him in touch with their activities,\" she added.\n\nOn Sunday, a special remembrance service for Prince Philip was held in Canterbury Cathedral as the UK observes a period of official mourning.\n\nIt was led by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, who is expected to officiate at the duke's funeral on Saturday.\n\nHe said that \"for the Royal Family, as for every other, no words can reach into the depth of sorrow that goes into bereavement\".\n\nA ceremonial royal funeral will be held for the duke at St George's Chapel, in the grounds of Windsor Castle, at 15:00 BST on 17 April. The event will be televised.\n\nMembers of the Royal Family will walk behind the coffin ahead of the funeral, while the Queen will travel separately to the chapel.\n\nThe Duke of Sussex will fly from the US for the service, though it is not clear when. His wife, Meghan, who is pregnant, will remain at home in California on the advice of doctors.\n\nIt will be the first time Prince William and Prince Harry will meet face to face since the Sussexes aired criticisms of the Royal Family in an interview to US broadcaster Oprah Winfrey last month.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"A huge void in her life\": Prince Andrew describes the Queen's feelings of loss\n\nMeanwhile, Prince Andrew has said that his father's death was a \"terrible loss\", and his family was \"rallying round\" to support the Queen.\n\n\"We've lost the grandfather of the nation,\" he added, as he left a service at Windsor's Royal Lodge.\n\nHe was joined by the Earl and Countess of Wessex and their daughter Lady Louise Windsor.\n\nHe said the Royal Family was grateful for all the \"absolutely amazing tributes\" to Prince Philip, who died at Windsor Castle on Friday, aged 99.\n\nHe added: \"The Queen, as you would expect, is an incredibly stoic person.\n\n\"She described it as having left a huge void in her life but we, the family, the ones that are close, are rallying round to make sure that we're there to support her.\"\n\nSpeaking of his love for his father, Prince Andrew said: \"He was so calm. If you had a problem, he would think about it.\n\n\"He was always somebody you could go to and he would always listen so it's a great loss.\n\nPrince Andrew stepped back from royal duties in 2019 after criticism of his ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein intensified following a BBC interview.\n\nThe Earl and Countess of Wessex attended the service with their daughter Lady Louise Windsor\n\nThe Earl of Wessex, the Queen's youngest son, said: \"However much one tries to prepare oneself for something like this, it's still a dreadful shock.\"\n\nThe Countess of Wessex said the Queen was \"thinking of others before herself\".\n\nSpeaking to members of the congregation outside the chapel, Sophie said that Prince Philip's death was \"very peaceful\".\n\n\"It was right for him. It was so gentle. It was just like somebody took him by the hand and off he went,\" she said.\n\n\"Very, very peaceful and that's all you want for somebody isn't it?\"\n\nShe added: \"I think it's so much easier for the person that goes than the people that are left behind.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"My family and I miss my father enormously,\" said Prince Charles at his Highgrove home\n\nThe Prince of Wales paid tribute to his \"dear papa\" on Saturday, saying he and the Royal Family would miss him \"enormously\".\n\nHe said the duke had given the \"most remarkable, devoted service\" to the Queen, the Royal Family, the country, and the Commonwealth.\n\nEarlier, the former prime minister Sir John Major, who was appointed a special guardian to the Duke of Cambridge and the Duke of Sussex after their mother, Diana, Princess of Wales died in 1997, said the \"shared grief\" over the death of Prince Philip is an \"ideal opportunity\" to mend any rifts in the Royal Family.", "A man arrested on suspicion of the murder and indecent assault of Stuart Lubbock at the home of entertainer Michael Barrymore has been released under investigation by police.\n\nMr Lubbock, 31, was found unconscious in the TV presenter's pool in Roydon, Essex, in March 2001 following a party.\n\nThe unnamed suspect, aged 50, was arrested in Cheshire on 17 March following \"significant new information\", Essex Police said.\n\nHe was initially released on bail.\n\nOn Sunday, Essex Police said: \"A 50-year-old man arrested on suspicion of the indecent assault and murder of Stuart Lubbock has been released under investigation while our inquiries continue.\"\n\nLast month Det Supt Lucy Morris said the investigation had been \"extremely lengthy and complex\".\n\n\"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,\" Det Supt Morris said.\n\nMr Lubbock, a butcher from Harlow, was described by neighbours at the time of his death as a \"pleasant, sociable\" man.\n\nA post-mortem examination found Mr Lubbock had suffered \"horrific\" injuries prior to his death, police said.\n\nMr Barrymore's Essex home became the centre of inquiries into how Mr Lubbock died\n\nAlcohol, ecstasy and cocaine were found in his bloodstream.\n\nNo-one has ever been charged with any offence in relation to his death.\n\nMr Barrymore, 68, 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\nAn inquest into Mr Lubbock's death, in 2002, recorded an open verdict.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "There is no need to stop the clocks, nor disconnect the phone. Noisy dogs need not be silenced with a juicy bone.\n\nTo suggest the nation is convulsed with grief - or should be - ill-serves the memory and legacy of a man who knew well his place in public life.\n\nPrince Philip was not one given to public soul-searching. But when he did speak of his role in life he was very clear; it was to be at his wife's side.\n\nTo support the Queen: never to overshadow her; never to undermine her; never to embarrass her.\n\nThat he chose to do so much more than that - the dizzying numbers of speeches and engagements, passions, patronages and interests, remembered in the outpouring of tributes that has followed his death - was testament to his desire to make a difference.\n\nHe could have led a very different life, one much less burdened by the ceremony and formality that he made clear, in as light-hearted a way as possible, that he had little time for.\n\n\"Get on with it\" might have been his informal motto. Said at some volume.\n\nBut in life, there was a lot of waiting around - for formal welcomes, for ceremonies grand and bizarre and often overlong, for functions that meant so much to those hosting and attending but must have blurred into one after so many decades.\n\nIn death it will be different. In death, he'll do it his way.\n\nNo princes with heads bowed at the corners of his coffin. No public procession. No gun carriage.\n\nInstead, in a hat-tip to his greatest service - his military service in wartime - his coffin will ride on the back of the workhorse that sprang from World War Two, a Land Rover, that he had redesigned.\n\nSomething tells you that he was pretty pleased with that redesign.\n\nGoing with him into St George's Chapel, his naval cap and sword, and the glory of those who offer and sometimes give their lives for their country.\n\nMissing will be the many representatives of 'his' charities, the ones he established or championed for so long and to such effect. Missing will be some sliver of the people who would like to thank him for his tireless and often unmentioned work.\n\nChildren and grandchildren, says the palace, that's about it.\n\nMissing also will be the kings and princes and grand dukes, politicians, pop stars and aristocrats that have in some variety turned royal events into a century-long media phenomenon.\n\nThis will be by recent royal standards a simple, family farewell. A time for his relatives to mourn and celebrate and remember.\n\nAnd a simple service may well appeal. This is a funeral, not the end of a fairy tale. A no-nonsense moderniser, the Duke's last service to the monarchy may be in the way he departs it.", "Bridgend had the second-worst Covid case rates in Wales over Christmas\n\nA county that was one of the hardest-hit regions in the UK during the second wave of the pandemic now has among the lowest case rates in Wales.\n\nPublic Health Wales data shows 7.5 people per 100,000 people in Bridgend have tested positive for the virus in the past seven days.\n\nAt its peak over the Christmas period that figure was 1,118.7.\n\nIn December Bridgend had the second-highest case rate of Covid in Wales, behind only Merthyr Tydfil.\n\nIn the week leading up to 20 December - when Wales imposed strict lockdown measures - both areas had case rates almost double the Wales average.\n\nCase rates have been falling substantially in Wales since January.\n\nRobert Morgan, a Bridgend-based GP, said despite a \"challenging\" year, his experience was that people had been following the rules as best they can.\n\n\"It's been very challenging for patients throughout the year. My experience is, in a majority of cases, patients have been trying to grasp what the rules mean to them and then tried to stick to them.\n\n\"Once this virus gets in an enclosed space, it's going to spread, and it really doesn't take a lot of people to actually facilitate that spread.\"\n\nThe turnaround since January has been substantial, with the case rate in Bridgend remaining lower than the Wales average since the start of February.\n\nIn data published on Sunday, the rolling seven-day case rate for Bridgend was 7.5, behind only Monmouthshire (2.1), Ceredigion (2.8) and Powys (6.8).\n\nThe positivity rate was also among the lowest in Wales, indicating only 1% of tests carried out returned a positive result.\n\nThe World Health Organization recommends the positivity rate should be lower than 5% for a stable period before any restrictions are eased.\n\nEvery area of Wales is now under that 5% threshold.\n\nDespite the improvement, there was a long way to fall to reach the current levels, with many lives lost.\n\nWhile case numbers in Bridgend started to fall towards the end of December, death figures continued to rise into January.\n\nHelen Foley, a GP in the area, said: \"One of the care homes we worked with lost most of their clients. We lost a lot of the elderly patients over the winter, which was really really tragic.\n\n\"It's pretty devastating to have that happen to your local community. They're obviously all people with families with lives and it's really upsetting.\"\n\nOffice for National Statistics (ONS) data, which only includes deaths in which Covid was officially recorded as the main cause, show the mortality rate in Bridgend rising to one of the highest in the UK during January.\n\nThere were 159 Covid deaths recorded there in January, more than any other authority in Wales, without even taking into account population differences.\n\nThe area accounted for more than half of the 303 deaths in Wales during the month.\n\nThe ONS uses a different method to calculate their death rates, so although they are not comparable to previously stated case rates, they can be used to compare Covid deaths in different areas.\n\nThe death rate in Bridgend during January was 1,277, more than double the all Wales rate of 539.\n\nThis was the ninth-highest rate in England and Wales, out of the 365 local authority areas.\n\nAs Covid rates fall in Bridgend, and across Wales, one of the priorities is now dealing with issues people have not been able to visit the doctor for.\n\nDr Foley said: \"Covid work has reduced significantly, it's left us to actually start being able to deal with the things people haven't been seeing us about for months and months.\n\n\"I think there's going to be huge knock-on effect with general health, both physical and mental, and that's all just starting to come through now that things are much calmer and settled.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Former Big Brother star Nikki Grahame has died at the age of 38.\n\nThe TV personality was admitted to a private hospital last month with an eating disorder.\n\nIn a statement to the BBC, Grahame's manager confirmed \"with immeasurable sadness\" that Grahame died on Friday morning.\n\n\"Please respect the privacy of Nikki's friends and family at this tragic and difficult time,\" he added.\n\nFormer Big Brother presenter Davina McCall led the tributes, tweeting: \"I am so desperately sad to hear about Nikki Grahame. My thoughts are with her friends and family xx she really was the funniest, most bubbly sweetest girl.\"\n\nIf you are affected by the issues in this story, help and support is available via the BBC Action Line and the charity Beat Eating Disorders.\n\nGrahame, originally from Northwood in north-west London, took part in the seventh series of Big Brother in 2006.\n\nShe became known for her tantrums, particularly in the Diary Room.\n\nGrahame would often complain to Big Brother about the conditions in the house or fellow contestants, famously shouting \"It's so cold,\" and, on another occasion, asking \"Who is she?\" after a new housemate joined the show.\n\nShe was hugely popular with viewers, and was voted back into the house four weeks after she was first evicted. She subsequently finished in fifth place.\n\nSpeaking to The Guardian last year, Grahame said: \"I hold fond memories of Big Brother, even though there were times where it looked like I was having a meltdown.\n\n\"Those meltdowns really were me, though. What you see has always been what you get - I can't be any other way.\"\n\nAfter her appearance on Big Brother, she won a National Television Award for most popular TV contender.\n\nFormer contestants Craig Phillips, Brian Dowling and Nikki Grahame took part in Ultimate Big Brother, hosted by Davina McCall, in 2010\n\nGrahame returned to the house in 2010 to take part in Ultimate Big Brother, the final series of the show to be broadcast on Channel 4.\n\nThe show saw several popular Big Brother contestants from over the years return to take part in one final series, before it moved to Channel 5. Grahame finished in second place.\n\nBy this time, she had developed her career as a popular TV personality, and starred in her own reality TV series called Princess Nikki.\n\nShe also guest-starred on programmes such as the Friday Night Project and as a contestant on celebrity editions of shows such as Pointless and The Weakest Link.\n\nPrior to finding fame on Big Brother, Grahame was an aspiring actress. She appeared as an extra in the BBC's EastEnders and played a footballer's wife in Sky One's Dream Team.\n\nGrahame also appeared as a contestant on ITV's Blind Date and competed in the 2004 Miss Hertfordshire pageant.\n\nGrahame launched her own reality series Princess Nikki following her appearance on Big Brother\n\nShe continued her relationship with Big Brother, returning for 2015's \"Time Warp\" twist on Channel 5, and made a cameo in the final series of Big Brother in 2018.\n\nShe also appeared as a \"wildcard\" housemate in the 2016 series of Big Brother Canada.\n\nGrahame's experience of anorexia was well documented, and she released a book about her eating disorder in 2009.\n\nLast month, a fundraising page was set up, asking fans to donate towards her recovery. It eventually raised more than £65,000.\n\nThe page said the 38-year-old was in \"a very bad way\" and needed treatment in a rehabilitation centre. Several Big Brother figures including former winner Rylan Clark-Neal retweeted the appeal for donations.\n\nOn Saturday, the page was updated to announce the news of Grahame's death.\n\n\"It breaks our hearts to know that someone who is so precious was taken from us at such a young age,\" it said. \"Nikki not only touched the lives of millions of people, but also her friends and family who will miss her immensely.\"\n\nGrahame was named most popular TV contender at the National Television Awards in 2006\n\nPaying tribute to Grahame on Twitter, Clark-Neal wrote: \"Thinking of [Grahame's mother] Susan and Nikki's close friends and family. A Big Brother Icon.\"\n\nTV presenter Paddy McGuinness added: \"Definitely one of the stars from the glory years of reality TV. I met her a long time ago and she was a lovely girl. RIP young lady.\"\n\nChannel 4 tweeted: We are desperately saddened by the tragic news about Nikki Grahame and our thoughts and deepest sympathies are with Nikki's family and friends.\"\n\nBig Brother Canada added:\"Our hearts break for the loss of Nikki Grahame. Nikki will forever be a beloved part of the Big Brother family. Rest in peace.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Big Brother UK This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. 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If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The UK has reported the largest number of second coronavirus vaccine doses given in a single day, according to the latest government data.\n\nA total of 450,136 second doses were received on Friday - with 106,878 first doses also administered.\n\nThe previous record was set on Thursday when 449,269 second doses were reported - in addition to 96,242 first doses.\n\nThere were 2,589 new infections in the past 24 hours, and another 40 deaths within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nThe latest figures show that of the 39,001,554 vaccinations administered in the UK so far, 32,010,244 were first doses - a rise of 106,878 on Friday.\n\nMeanwhile, 6,991,310 were second doses, a rise of 450,136.\n\nAfter the latest figures, the UK's death toll stands at 127,080 and the total number of infections is 4,368,045.\n\nIt comes after scientists tracking the epidemic say there is increasingly strong evidence to show that the UK's vaccination programme is breaking the link between coronavirus cases and deaths.\n\nA study, commissioned by the government and run by Imperial College London, found that infections had fallen by roughly two-thirds since February, before beginning to level off.\n\nThis is probably due to people beginning to mix more - but deaths have not followed the same pattern.\n\nHowever this was not the case before January, when the vaccine rollout began.\n\nMeanwhile, Office for National Statistics (ONS) data suggests that coronavirus cases in the UK are down to less than a sixth of the January peak.\n\nInfections were \"likely level\" in England and Northern Ireland in the week up to 3 April, but decreasing in Scotland and Wales, the ONS said.\n\nOn Wednesday, it was announced that people under the age of 30 in the UK will be offered an alternative Covid vaccine to the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab due to evidence linking it to rare blood clots.\n\nThe recommendation followed a review by the UK's medicines watchdog the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) found that by the end of March 79 people had suffered rare blood clots after vaccination - 19 of whom had died.", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nRachael Blackmore made sporting history by becoming the first female jockey to win the Grand National with victory on Minella Times at Aintree.\n\nThe Irish rider scored a thrilling triumph aboard the 11-1 chance, trained by Henry de Bromhead who also saddled runner-up Balko Des Flos.\n\n\"I don't feel male or female right now. I don't even feel human,\" 31-year-old Blackmore told ITV.\n\nAny Second Now was third, with Burrows Saint fourth.\n• None 'Modest trailblazer' Blackmore says National triumph was 'beyond belief'\n• None Where they finished in Grand National\n\nThe 173rd running of the world's most famous steeplechase provided a story for the ages as Blackmore won in the colours of owner JP McManus.\n\nBlackmore had already achieved a landmark success at last month's Cheltenham Festival when becoming the first woman to be the meeting's leading jockey.\n\nShe demonstrated perfect poise and timing to guide Minella Times expertly round the 30 fences over more than four and a quarter miles for victory by six and a half lengths.\n\nThe closest a female jockey had previously come to winning the race was Katie Walsh on Seabass in 2012 when she finished third.\n\n\"I cannot believe it,\" Blackmore said. \"He was a sensational spin. It is unbelievable.\"\n\nThere were no spectators at the Merseyside track because of Covid-19 protocols, but the historic moment was not lost on the jockeys, trainers and owners in attendance who cheered the pair back into the winner's enclosure.\n\nThe 1-2 for De Bromhead sealed his own remarkable story, having won the Champion Hurdle, Champion Chase and Gold Cup at Cheltenham.\n\nOne of the 40 runners, The Long Mile, was euthanised after suffering an injury while running on the flat between fences. It was the second equine fatality from a total of 316 runners in eight editions of the race since safety changes were introduced in 2013.\n\nJockey Bryony Frost was taken to hospital after being unseated from her mount Yala Enki.\n\nAmateur jockey Sam Waley-Cohen, who has won six times in other races over the National fences, led the way with an enterprising ride on outsider Jett.\n\nThe favourite, Cloth Cap, followed on the inside and travelled well for a long way before fading as McManus runners Any Second Now and Minella Times entered the picture.\n\nMark Walsh did well to stay on Any Second Now after nearly being brought down on the first circuit and the challenges of Burrows Saint and Discorama waned as Balko Des Flos and Minella Times pushed ahead.\n\nAs Blackmore and Minella Times safely jumped the last, it became clear a piece of racing folklore was being created and the pair passed the winning line clear of their rivals.\n\nForty-four years after Charlotte Brew was the first woman to ride in the race on 200-1 outsider Barony Fort, who refused at the 27th fence, Blackmore had bettered Walsh's third-placed finish with an historic victory.\n\n\"It is huge. It's the first woman to win the National. It's history, but I suppose this has been coming over time,\" said Walsh.\n\n\"There's been more women riding in the National over the last couple of years.\"\n\nIn the late 1970s and 1980s, female riders in this race were a bit of a novelty and a lot of people were actively against female participation in this race.\n\nIt has been a long time but we can finally put that to bed. Rachael Blackmore is a flagbearer for the sport and I'm absolutely delighted to be one of the few to have witnessed it - a very special Grand National moment.\n\nIt was less than a month ago that Blackmore was setting new benchmarks at Cheltenham.\n\nShe claimed six victories in all, including the Champion Hurdle on Honeysuckle, and was a narrow runner-up in the Gold Cup with A Plus Tard.\n\nRacing followers were already aware of her talents - composed, determined, tactically astute and strong in a finish.\n\nThe daughter of a dairy farmer and a school teacher from Killenaule, County Tipperary, she is a modest trailblazer.\n\nStarting out riding ponies as a child, Blackmore went on to gain a degree in equine science and combined her studies with competing as an amateur jockey.\n\nShe was just the second woman to hold a professional licence in Irish jump racing when switching from the amateur ranks in March 2015.\n\nHard graft has mixed with innate talent, and she was runner-up to Paul Townend in the Irish jockeys' championship last year.\n\nTeaming up with De Bromhead, who is based in Knockeen, County Waterford, has given her plenty of major rides and ultimately this biggest win of all.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir John Major: \"I hope it's possible to mend any rifts\"\n\nShared grief over the death of the Duke of Edinburgh is an \"ideal opportunity\" to mend any rifts within the Royal Family, ex-PM Sir John Major has said.\n\nSir John, who was guardian to Princes William and Harry following their mother's death, said he hoped it would end any \"friction\" between the pair.\n\nHe also said the Queen needed time to grieve for her husband.\n\nHis comments came as the Archbishop of Canterbury paid tribute to the duke in a remembrance service.\n\nThe Queen has described the death of her husband as \"having left a huge void in her life\", the Duke of York has said.\n\nDuring a service at Canterbury Cathedral earlier, which was also streamed online, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby said that \"for the Royal Family, as for every other, no words can reach into the depth of sorrow that goes into bereavement\".\n\nThe archbishop is also expected to lead the duke's funeral on Saturday, which Princes William and Harry are both due to attend.\n\nThe Duke of Sussex will fly from the US for the service, though it is not clear when.\n\nHis wife the Duchess of Sussex, who is pregnant, will remain at home in California on the advice of doctors.\n\nMembers of the Royal Family will walk behind the coffin ahead of the funeral at Windsor Castle.\n\nCardinal Vincent Nichols, the head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales, has suggested that coming together for Philip's funeral could help to heal any tensions.\n\nSir John, who was appointed a special guardian to the princes after their mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, died in 1997, told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show: \"The friction that we are told has arisen is a friction better ended as speedily as possible.\"\n\nHe added: \"They shared emotion. They share grief at the present time because of the death of their grandfather. I think [this] is an ideal opportunity.\n\n\"I hope very much that it is possible to mend any rifts that may exist.\"\n\nHarry and Meghan, who have stepped back from frontline royal duties, gave an interview to US broadcaster Oprah Winfrey last month.\n\nIn it, Harry said of his older brother: \"The relationship is 'space' at the moment. And time heals all things, hopefully.\"\n\nSir John also told Andrew Marr the Duke of Edinburgh would \"still be there in [the Queen's] memory\" and that she would \"hear his voice\".\n\nBeing head of state was a \"lonely position in many ways\" for the Queen, and the duke was \"the person to whom she could unburden herself\", he added.\n\nA period of national mourning will end after 17 April, when Prince Philip's funeral takes place at Windsor Castle's St George's Chapel.\n\nA national minute's silence will be held to coincide with the start of the service at 15:00 BST.\n\nIn an interview at a service in Windsor, Prince Andrew said he loved his father, who was \"always somebody you could go to\" - and that his death was a \"terrible loss\".\n\nHe added: \"We've lost the grandfather of the nation.\"\n\nMembers of the public have continued laying flowers outside the castle, although the new government guidance asks the public to refrain from doing so and give to charity instead.\n\nA spokesman for Windsor Great Park said on Saturday that tributes would be removed \"respectfully\" and displayed within the castle grounds.\n\nRoyal household staff were photographed on Sunday placing bouquets on the ground outside St George's Chapel.\n\nJoanna Lumley was among those to pay their respects to Prince Philip on BBC One's Andrew Marr Show.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"He was very kind, that's quite often overlooked\": Joanna Lumley's memories of Prince Philip", "The 32nd anniversary of the Hillsborough stadium disaster will be marked on Thursday\n\nThe Hillsborough Family Support Group (HFSG) has been disbanded because \"we have gone as far as we can\", its former chair has said.\n\nThe families will mark the 32nd anniversary of the football stadium disaster privately on Thursday.\n\nNinety-six fans died as a result of a crush in a game between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest at Sheffield Wednesday's ground on 15 April 1989.\n\nHFSG ex-chair Margaret Aspinall said it was time \"for families to move on\".\n\nThe trial of two former police officers and a police solicitor accused of altering police statements after the disaster is due to start on 19 April.\n\nMargaret Aspinall, seen here with former Liverpool manager Sir Kenny Dalglish, thanked fans for their support\n\nIn an interview with LFC TV, Ms Aspinall said: \"The group has folded now - it's a very sad thing to say, after 30-odd years together, that we folded it.\n\n\"But I think it is time now for families to move on, but also for the survivors to be able to move on and the city, because we have had Hillsborough thrown at us now for all them years.\n\n\"I think people need peace in their lives and to start to just reflect and remember the 96 on the anniversary... and [for] people to be able to have some time with their families now - that is so important.\"\n\nJames Aspinall was among 96 people who died as a result of the Hillsborough disaster\n\nShe said her work in representing the affected families meant she previously felt \"guilty\" when speaking about her son James, who died in the disaster at the age of 18, without also remembering the other victims.\n\n\"I didn't realise how much I didn't look into James' case because I was busy doing things for everybody. I feel like now is the time that I can discuss James without feeling guilty about the other 95, even though I will never forget the other 95.\"\n\nShe said she also received \"some terrible, terrible abuse\" from people outside the group during her time as its chair.\n\n\"I would love to be able to tell people what I had to go through and listen to, but the vast majority of families were beautiful and I am going to miss them so much.\n\n\"They stuck by me, they believed in me and I can't thank them enough for that, even though I wouldn't like to do it again. I would never do it again.\"\n\nThe Liverpool squad paid tribute outside Anfield's Hillsborough Memorial in 2019\n\nMs Aspinall said she was \"most proud\" of the families' solidarity in the past decades.\n\n\"Everyone is entitled to their opinions, but to still stay together, when there were some rough times, was amazing and incredible.\"\n\nShe added that they owed \"a great gratitude\" to supporters and survivors of the disaster.\n\nMs Aspinall also confirmed that the group had stopped fundraising, adding: \"If anybody starts asking things for Hillsborough, to help the families, please don't give, because the families don't need anything else now.\n\n\"We don't need to ask anybody for anything as we have gone as far as we can come.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, won widespread respect for his steadfast and constant support of the Queen.\n\nIt was a desperately difficult role for anyone, let alone a man who had been used to naval command and who held strong views on a wide range of subjects.\n\nYet it was that very strength of character that enabled him to discharge his responsibilities so effectively, and provide such wholehearted support to his wife in her role as Queen.\n\nAs male consort to a female sovereign, Prince Philip had no constitutional position. But no-one was closer to the monarchy, or of greater importance to the monarch, than he was.\n\nPrince Philip of Greece was born on 10 June 1921 on the island of Corfu. His birth certificate shows the date as 28 May 1921, as Greece had not then adopted the Gregorian calendar.\n\nHis father was Prince Andrew of Greece, a younger son of King George I of the Hellenes. His mother, Princess Alice of Battenberg, was the eldest child of Prince Louis of Battenberg and sister of Earl Mountbatten of Burma.\n\nAfter a coup d'etat in 1922, his father was banished from Greece by a revolutionary court.\n\nA British warship sent by his second cousin, King George V, took the family to Italy. Baby Philip spent much of the voyage in a crib made from an orange box.\n\nHis mother, Princess Alice, was a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria\n\nHe was the youngest child, the only boy in a family of sisters - and his early childhood was spent in a loving atmosphere.\n\nThe prince began his education in France but, at the age of seven, came to live with his Mountbatten relatives in England, where he attended a prep school in Surrey.\n\nBy this time his mother had been diagnosed with schizophrenia and been placed in an asylum. The young prince would have little contact with her.\n\nIn 1933, he was sent to Schule Schloss Salem in southern Germany, which was run by educational pioneer Kurt Hahn. But within months, Hahn, who was Jewish, was forced to flee Nazi persecution.\n\nHahn moved to Scotland where he founded Gordonstoun school, to which the prince transferred after only two terms in Germany.\n\nGordonstoun's Spartan regime, with its emphasis on self-reliance, was the ideal environment for a teenage boy who, separated from his parents, felt very much on his own.\n\nWith war looming, Prince Philip decided on a military career. He wanted to join the Royal Air Force but his mother's family had a seafaring tradition and he became a cadet at the Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth.\n\nWhile there he was delegated to escort the two young princesses, Elizabeth and Margaret, while King George VI and Queen Elizabeth toured the college.\n\nAccording to witnesses, Prince Philip showed off a great deal. But the meeting made a deep impression on the 13-year-old Princess Elizabeth.\n\nPhilip quickly proved himself an outstanding prospect, passing out at the top of his class in January 1940 and seeing military action for the first time in the Indian Ocean.\n\nPhilip (seated) thrived at Gordonstoun where he enjoyed amateur dramatics\n\nHe transferred to the battleship HMS Valiant in the Mediterranean Fleet, where he was mentioned in dispatches for his part in the Battle of Cape Matapan in 1941.\n\nAs the officer in charge of the ship's searchlights, he played a crucial role in this decisive night action.\n\n\"I found another ship and it lit up the middle part of it, whereupon it practically disappeared instantly under a salvo of 15in shells at point-blank range,\" he told BBC Radio 4 in 2014.\n\nBy October 1942, he was one of the youngest first lieutenants in the Royal Navy, serving on board the destroyer HMS Wallace.\n\nThroughout this period, he and the young Princess Elizabeth had been exchanging letters, and he was invited to stay with the Royal Family on a number of occasions.\n\nIt was after one of these visits, over Christmas 1943, that Elizabeth placed a photograph of Philip, in naval uniform, on her dressing table.\n\nTheir relationship developed in peacetime, although there was opposition to it from some courtiers - one of whom described Prince Philip as \"rough and ill-mannered\".\n\nBut the young princess was very much in love and, in the summer of 1946, her suitor asked the King for his daughter's hand in marriage.\n\nHowever, before an engagement could be announced, the prince needed a new nationality and a family name. He renounced his Greek title, became a British citizen and took his mother's anglicised name, Mountbatten.\n\nThe day before the marriage ceremony, King George VI bestowed the title of His Royal Highness on Philip and on the morning of the wedding day he was created Duke of Edinburgh, Earl of Merioneth and Baron Greenwich.\n\nThe wedding took place in Westminster Abbey on 20 November 1947. It was, as Winston Churchill put it, a \"flash of colour\" in a grey post-war Britain.\n\nThe duke returned to his naval career and was posted to Malta where, for a while at least, the couple could live the life of any other service family.\n\nTheir son, Prince Charles, was born at Buckingham Palace in 1948, and a daughter, Princess Anne, arrived in 1950. They were later joined by Prince Andrew (1960) and Prince Edward (1964).\n\nOn 2 September 1950, he achieved the ambition of every naval officer when he was appointed to his own command, the sloop HMS Magpie.\n\nBut his naval career was about to be curtailed. The worsening health of George VI meant his daughter had to take on more royal duties and needed her husband by her side.\n\nHis wedding to Princess Elizabeth was described as \"a flash of colour in a grey post-war Britain\"\n\nPhilip took leave from the Royal Navy in July 1951. He never returned in an active role.\n\nThe duke was not a man to carry regrets, but he did say in later life that he was sorry he had been unable to continue his career in the navy.\n\nContemporaries have said that he could, on his own merit, have risen to become first sea lord.\n\nIn 1952, the royal couple set off on a tour of the Commonwealth originally planned to be undertaken by the King and Queen.\n\nIt was while they were staying at a game lodge in Kenya in February that word came through the King had died. He had suffered a coronary thrombosis - a fatal heart blood clot.\n\nIt fell to the prince to break the news to his wife that she was now Queen.\n\nA friend later described Prince Philip as looking as if \"half the world\" had dropped on him.\n\nPhilip was the first to pay homage to the Queen at her coronation\n\nDeprived of his naval career, he had to create a new role for himself, and Elizabeth's accession to the throne raised the whole question of what that was to be.\n\nAs the coronation approached, a Royal Warrant proclaimed that Prince Philip would have precedence after the Queen on all occasions, yet he was never to have any constitutional position.\n\nThe duke was full of ideas about how best to modernise and streamline the monarchy but became increasingly disillusioned by the entrenched opposition from a number of the palace old guard.\n\nHe channelled some of his energies into an active social life. He and a group of male friends met every week in rooms above a restaurant in Soho, central London.\n\nThere were long, convivial lunches and visits to nightclubs and he was often photographed with glamorous companions.\n\nOne area in which the duke was given free rein to exercise his authority was in the family, although he lost the battle over the name his children would carry.\n\nHe had to adapt to life as a royal consort\n\nThe Queen's decision that the family would carry the name of Windsor, rather than his own family name of Mountbatten, was a bitter blow.\n\n\"I am the only man in the country not allowed to give his name to his children,\" he complained to friends. \"I'm nothing but a bloody amoeba.\"\n\nAs a parent, Prince Philip could appear brusque and insensitive.\n\nAccording to Prince Charles's biographer, Jonathan Dimbleby, Charles was reduced to tears in his youth by public reprimands from his father and the relationship between father and eldest son was never easy.\n\nPhilip insisted that Prince Charles go to his old school, Gordonstoun, in the well-intentioned belief that its regime would help counter his son's somewhat retiring nature.\n\nIn the event the young prince hated the school, where he suffered homesickness and was often the target of bullies.\n\nThe duke's attitudes reflected the difficult nature of his own, sometimes lonely, childhood.\n\nHe was forced from an early age to develop self-reliance and found it difficult to understand that not everyone shared his strength of character.\n\nHis insistence that Prince Charles attend Gordonstoun caused a rift between father and son\n\nOne of Prince Philip's main concerns was for the welfare of young people, and in 1956 that interest sparked the launch of his phenomenally successful Duke of Edinburgh's Award.\n\nOver the years it enabled some six million 15-to-25-year-olds - many with disabilities - the world over to challenge themselves physically, mentally and emotionally in a range of outdoor activities designed to promote teamwork, resourcefulness and a respect for nature.\n\n\"If you can get young people to succeed in any area of activity,\" he told the BBC, \"that sensation of success will spread over into a lot of others.\"\n\nThroughout his life the duke continued to devote much time to the scheme, attending various functions and involving himself in its day-to-day running.\n\nHe was also a passionate advocate for wildlife and the environment, although his decision to shoot a tiger while on a trip to India in 1961 caused a furore.\n\nThe publication of a photograph, in which the tiger was displayed as a trophy, only made matters worse.\n\nHowever, he threw his considerable influence and energy behind the World Wildlife Fund, later to become the World Wide Fund for Nature, and seemed a natural choice as its first president.\n\nThe Duke of Edinburgh threw himself into his conservation efforts with typical energy and enthusiasm\n\n\"I think it's marvellous we have such a fantastic variety of life on this planet, all interdependent,\" he told a BBC interviewer.\n\n\"I think also that if we humans have the power of life or death - or extinction or survival - we ought to exercise it with some sort of moral sense. Why make something extinct if you don't have to?\"\n\nHe upset some conservationists when he defended grouse shooting.\n\n\"If you have a game species, you want it to survive because you want to have some next year - exactly like a farmer. You want to crop it, you don't want to exterminate it.\"\n\nBut he was widely praised for his commitment to preserving the world's forests and campaigning against overfishing in the oceans.\n\nPrince Philip also took a keen interest in industry, visiting factories and becoming patron of the Industrial Society, now known as the Work Foundation.\n\nIt was to a group of industrialists in 1961 that the duke displayed characteristic bluntness when he told them: \"Gentlemen, it's time we pulled our fingers out.\"\n\nHe took a keen interest in British industry\n\nThis tendency to be forthright was interpreted by some as boorishness and sometimes got him into trouble. He certainly gained a reputation for misjudging situations, particularly when he was abroad.\n\nHe made one of his most controversial comments while accompanying the Queen on a state visit to China in 1986. He made what he thought was a private remark about \"slitty eyes\".\n\nThe tabloids went into a frenzy, although it seemed to cause little concern in China.\n\nOn a visit to Australia in 2002, he asked an Aboriginal businessman whether \"you still throw spears at each other\".\n\nWhile he was heavily criticised in some quarters for such remarks, others saw them as reflecting someone who was his own man and who had refused to become bound by political correctness.\n\nIndeed, many saw his so-called \"gaffes\" as nothing more than an attempt to lighten the atmosphere and put people at their ease.\n\nThroughout his life, Prince Philip maintained an enthusiasm for sport. He sailed, played cricket and polo, excelled at carriage driving and was president of the International Equestrian Federation for many years.\n\nHe had a particular passion for polo\n\nThe tensions with his eldest son resurfaced with the publication of Jonathan Dimbleby's biography of Prince Charles.\n\nThe Duke of Edinburgh, it was said, had pushed Charles into his marriage to Lady Diana Spencer.\n\nYet the duke was more solicitous than many critics would allow during the difficult years when his children's marriages were disintegrating.\n\nHe took the lead in attempting to understand the problems, prompted perhaps by his own memories of the difficulties of marrying into the Royal Family.\n\nPrince Philip was greatly saddened by the ending of the marriages of three of his four children - Princess Anne and Prince Andrew, as well as Prince Charles.\n\nBut he always refused to talk about personal matters, telling a newspaper in 1994 that he had not done so before and was not going to start then.\n\nAdvancing years barely slowed the pace of his life. He continued to travel extensively, both for the World Wide Fund for Nature and with the Queen on state visits abroad.\n\nCarriage driving was one of the duke's many sporting interests\n\nAnd he made a personal pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 1994 to visit the tomb of his mother. Her wish to be buried there had been fulfilled.\n\nThere was another poignant moment for him during the 50th anniversary of VJ Day in 1995.\n\nPrince Philip had been on a British destroyer in Tokyo Bay when the Japanese surrendered and, on the anniversary, he joined other veterans of the Far East campaign in marching past the Queen on The Mall.\n\nHe also expressed sympathy for those former prisoners of the Japanese who had found it hard, or indeed impossible, to forgive what had been done to them.\n\nHis brusqueness mellowed a little in later years, prompted by the public's sometimes hostile attitude to the Royal Family after the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.\n\nHe was a source of great support to Diana, Princess of Wales\n\nIn 2007, letters between the duke and the princess were published in an attempt to refute claims that he had been hostile to his daughter-in-law.\n\nDubbed the Dearest Pa letters, they showed he had been a source of great support to Diana, a fact underlined by the warm tones in which she wrote to him.\n\nMohamed Al Fayed, the father of Diana's last companion, Dodi, even suggested at the inquest into her death that she had been murdered on Prince Philip's orders - an allegation the coroner strongly rejected.\n\nPrince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, was a strong-willed and independent man who found himself at the centre of British society.\n\nHe was a natural leader whose role forced him always to take second place; a man with a combative temperament that frequently sat uneasily with the sensitivities of his position.\n\n\"I've just done what I think was my best,\" he once told the BBC. \"I can't suddenly change my whole way of doing things, I can't change my interests or the way I react to things. That's just my style.\"\n\nThe Queen referred to him as her 'strength and stay'\n\nThe duke retired from public life in August 2017 after decades supporting the Queen and attending events for his own charities and organisations.\n\nBuckingham Palace calculated he had completed 22,219 solo engagements since 1952, and Theresa May, the then prime minister, thanked him for a \"remarkable life of public service\".\n\nPhilip celebrated his 70th wedding anniversary later that year.\n\nA hip replacement operation did not stop him driving his carriages around the grounds of Windsor Castle, and he survived a serious car accident while driving near Sandringham in January 2019.\n\nTwo women in the other car were injured, and the duke voluntarily surrendered his driver's licence.\n\nDuring the coronavirus pandemic, Philip and the Queen moved to Windsor Castle, and were given a vaccine in January 2021.\n\nPhilip was successful in using his position to make a huge contribution to British life and played his part in helping the monarchy come to terms with changing social attitudes over the years.\n\nBut his greatest achievement was undoubtedly the constancy and strength of his support for the Queen in the long years of her reign.\n\nHe believed his job was, as he told his biographer, \"to ensure the Queen can reign\".\n\nAt a speech given at a celebration to mark the couple's golden wedding anniversary, the Queen paid tribute to her husband, the longest-serving royal consort in British history.\n\n\"He is someone who doesn't take easily to compliments, but he has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years. And I, and his whole family, and this and many other countries, owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim or we shall ever know.\"", "Dyfed-Powys Police urged people not to take part in \"tombstoning\" following the rescue\n\nA 23-year-old man has been pulled unconscious from the sea after jumping off a cliff into the water, police say.\n\nDyfed-Powys Police urged people not to take part in \"tombstoning\" following the rescue in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, on Saturday evening.\n\nIt said it was called to the beach opposite St Catherine's Island at about 18:15 BST.\n\nThe man was not breathing but was given CPR and regained consciousness, it said.\n\nInsp Gavin Howells said: \"This incident highlights the serious danger posed by tombstoning or cliff jumping, and the potentially life-threatening consequences.\n\n\"We urge people not to take part in this sort of activity anywhere along our coastline, and not to put themselves or the emergency services at risk for a thrill.\"\n\nHe thanked the RNLI for their swift response, adding their actions \"most likely saved this man's life\".\n\nTenby RNLI said its inshore lifeboat was launched and when its volunteer crew arrived the man had been pulled from the water and was on the rocks.\n\nThe coastguard said it also attended and the man was taken to Morriston Hospital in Swansea by road ambulance.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Officers addressed the congregation on Good Friday, asking them to leave the building\n\nPolice have said they \"deeply\" regret the hurt caused when a Good Friday service was shut down for breaching Covid-19 restrictions.\n\nMet Police officers found some worshippers without masks and not socially distancing at Christ the King on Balham High Road, London.\n\nVideo of officers addressing the congregation inside the church circulated online.\n\nDet Supt Andy Wadey also addressed the congregation after Mass on Sunday.\n\nHe said Covid-19 restrictions had been challenging for faith communities, but the restrictions were designed \"to protect and support communities in staying safe during the pandemic\".\n\n\"We know, however, that many people were very upset by what happened on Good Friday and we deeply regret that,\" he said.\n\nDet Supt Wadey also said that there had been \"significant reflection and learning\" by both officers and senior leaders at New Scotland Yard.\n\nAt the time of the incident, a representative of Polish Catholic Mission Balham, which runs the church, said it believed police had \"brutally exceeded their powers by issuing their warrant for no good reason\".\n\nThey added the congregation had \"been wronged on such an important day for every believer\" and that worship had \"been profaned\".\n\nThe Roman Catholic Archbishop of Southwark, Most Rev John Wilson, accompanied Supt Wadey to the service on Sunday and said the concerns of the church had \"been heard directly by the Metropolitan Police Service\".\n\n\"We are all deeply saddened by the events that took place in this church on Good Friday afternoon,\" he added.\n\nCommunal worship in churches, synagogues, mosques, gurdwaras, temples and meeting rooms is allowed under current rules.\n\nThe number allowed at any service is determined by a risk assessment on the building where it is held.", "Friends of Big Brother star Nikki Grahame have spoken of their heartbreak following her death, aged 38.\n\nThe TV personality had anorexia and friends had set up a crowd fund to pay for her treatment.\n\nFormer Emmerdale actress Gemma Oaten fought back tears in a video, saying: \"I wish I could have done more.\"\n\nFriends also posted on Nikki's fundraising page: \"It breaks our hearts to know that someone who is so precious was taken from us at such a young age.\n\n\"Nikki not only touched the lives of millions of people, but also her friends and family who will miss her immensely.\"\n\nIf you are affected by the issues in this story, help and support is available via the BBC Action Line and the charity Beat Eating Disorders.\n\nIn her video, Gemma Oaten said: \"I am so sorry Nikki to lose such a beautiful and bright human being... I wish I could have done more.\"\n\nThe actress had anorexia herself and founded SEED Eating Disorder Services Charity with her mother Marg Oaten.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 5 live, Marg Oaten said she hoped Nikki's death would raise awareness of \"how cruel this illness is\".\n\nJoanne Byrne, CEO of Anorexia and Bulimia Care, tweeted that she was \"devastated\". She said: \"A beautiful, fragile girl who struggled with anorexia for over 30 years. We must be able to do more for people like Nikki.\"\n\nHarriet Clifford said she had got to know Grahame over several months of inpatient treatment for eating disorders. She described her as \"caring, big-hearted and admirably open\".\n\nShe told the BBC: \"It was a privilege to have met her, even though we were all going through really horrific times in our lives. She brightened up the place with her infectious personality.\"\n\nMental health campaigner Hope Virgo told BBC Breakfast she was hospitalised with an eating disorder aged 17 and hoped Nikki's story would encourage others to seek help.\n\nShe said: \"Life on the other side of an eating disorder, there's just so much positivity and so much potential.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Big Brother UK This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFormer Big Brother presenter Davina McCall led the tributes, tweeting: \"I am so desperately sad to hear about Nikki Grahame. My thoughts are with her friends and family xx she really was the funniest, most bubbly sweetest girl.\"\n\nPaying tribute to Grahame on Twitter, Clark-Neal wrote: \"Thinking of [Grahame's mother] Susan and Nikki's close friends and family. A Big Brother Icon.\"\n\nTV presenter Paddy McGuinness added: \"Definitely one of the stars from the glory years of reality TV. I met her a long time ago and she was a lovely girl. RIP young lady.\"\n\nChannel 4 tweeted: We are desperately saddened by the tragic news about Nikki Grahame and our thoughts and deepest sympathies are with Nikki's family and friends.\"\n\nBig Brother Canada added:\"Our hearts break for the loss of Nikki Grahame. Nikki will forever be a beloved part of the Big Brother family. Rest in peace.\"\n\nGrahame was named most popular TV contender at the National Television Awards in 2006\n\nGrahame, originally from Northwood in north-west London, took part in the seventh series of Big Brother in 2006.\n\nHer experience of anorexia was well documented, and she released a book about her eating disorder in 2009.\n\nLast month, a fundraising page was set up, asking fans to donate towards her recovery. It eventually raised more than £65,000.\n\nThe page said the 38-year-old was in \"a very bad way\" and needed treatment in a rehabilitation centre. Several Big Brother figures including former winner Rylan Clark-Neal retweeted the appeal for donations.\n\nIn a statement to the BBC, Grahame's manager confirmed \"with immeasurable sadness\" that Grahame had died on Friday morning.\n\n\"Please respect the privacy of Nikki's friends and family at this tragic and difficult time,\" he added.\n\nGrahame launched her own reality series Princess Nikki following her appearance on Big Brother\n\nGrahame was hugely popular with viewers and was known for her tantrums in the Big Brother house.\n\nShe would often complain in the diary room about the conditions in the house or fellow contestants, famously shouting \"It's so cold,\" and, on another occasion, asking \"Who is she?\" after a new housemate joined the show.\n\nGrahame was voted back into the house four weeks after she was first evicted. She subsequently finished in fifth place.\n\nFormer contestants Craig Phillips, Brian Dowling and Nikki Grahame took part in Ultimate Big Brother, hosted by Davina McCall, in 2010\n\nShe went on to win a National Television Award for most popular TV contender and starred in her own reality TV series called Princess Nikki.\n\nShe also guest-starred on programmes such as the Friday Night Project and as a contestant on celebrity editions of shows such as Pointless and The Weakest Link.\n\nPrior to finding fame on Big Brother, Grahame was an aspiring actress. She appeared as an extra in the BBC's EastEnders and played a footballer's wife in Sky One's Dream Team.\n\nGrahame also appeared as a contestant on ITV's Blind Date and competed in the 2004 Miss Hertfordshire pageant.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Nomadland, a drama about a woman who lives in a van in the American West after the financial crash, has taken top honours at the Bafta Film Awards.\n\nIt scooped four prizes including best film, best actress for its star Frances McDormand and best director.\n\nThat made Chloe Zhao only the second woman to win best director in the 53 years of the category's history.\n\nMeanwhile, Sir Anthony Hopkins won best actor for The Father, 27 years after his last competitive Bafta win.\n\nOlivia Colman stars with Sir Anthony Hopkins in The Father\n\nThe 83-year-old, who won for playing a man losing his grip on reality, is the oldest ever winner of the award. But he was not watching Sunday's ceremony and later said he only found out he'd won when he heard cheering from the next room.\n\n\"I was sitting here painting, and I heard this cheer go off next door,\" he said after the ceremony. \"I thought, what the hell's happened? I thought they were watching a football match. And they came in and said I'd won.\"\n\nMost winners were watching live and delivered acceptance speeches remotely, with none of the nominees at the Royal Albert Hall in person.\n\nZhao, who was born in China and is based in the US, referred to her education in the UK when she told the ceremony: \"I think I just made my teacher at Brighton College very proud.\"\n\nHer win comes 11 years after Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win best director for The Hurt Locker, and Zhao's victory means she is the first woman of colour to pick up the prize. Nomadland will be released in the UK on Disney+ on 30 April.\n\nBritish star Daniel Kaluuya was named best supporting actor for playing Black Panther leader Fred Hampton in Judas and the Black Messiah.\n\nThe supporting actress trophy went to South Korea's Yuh-Jung Youn for playing a grandmother in Korean-American drama Minari. Giving her speech in broken English, the 73-year-old said the award meant a lot because Brits were \"snobbish\" people.\n\n\"Every award is meaningful, but this one especially recognised by British people, known as very snobbish people, and they approved me as a good actor so I'm very, very privileged,\" she said.\n\nEmerald Fennell said the reception for Promising Young Woman had been \"completely incredible\"\n\nThe prize for best British film went to Promising Young Woman, a revenge thriller about a woman, played by Carey Mulligan, who pretends to be blind drunk when men pick her up in bars and clubs.\n\nIts writer and director Emerald Fennell also won best original screenplay. She joked that everyone involved in the film had made it for \"a packet of crisps\", and said the experience was \"the greatest thing in my life\".\n\nFennell is best known to viewers for her acting as Patsy in BBC drama Call the Midwife and for playing Camilla Parker-Bowles in Netflix's The Crown.\n\nOther Bafta winners included Bukky Bakray. The 18-year-old was named rising star following her first ever acting role in Rocks, in which she played a teenage schoolgirl abandoned by her mother.\n\nThe low-budget film, set in east London, was the joint highest nominee along with Nomadland, with seven nominations each. Rocks also won the casting award for finding its group of largely novice young stars.\n\nMany of the young stars of Rocks, which won best casting, had not acted before\n\nOther films to win two prizes included Disney/Pixar's animated hit Soul; Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, adapted from August Wilson's play about a 1920s blues band; and Sound of Metal, which stars Riz Ahmed as a rock drummer who loses his hearing.\n\nThis year's shortlists included a diverse line-up of talent, following an outcry last year when voters only nominated white actors.\n\nThis time 16 of the 24 acting contenders came from minority ethnic backgrounds, while 21 were first-time nominees.\n\nMore on the winning films:\n\nThe night began with a tribute to the Duke of Edinburgh, who was Bafta's first president between 1959 and 1966.\n\nCo-host Edith Bowman said Prince Philip \"occupies a very special place in Bafta's history, and our thoughts are with the Royal Family\".\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge had been due to appear in a pre-recorded segment, but pulled out following the death of his grandfather.\n\nThis year's Baftas were delayed by two months because of the pandemic, and come two weeks before the awards season reaches its climax with the Academy Awards.\n\nUnlike the Baftas, Oscars organisers want nominees to appear in person and will have a London venue for the first time for UK-based contenders.\n\nSir Anthony, however, said he would stay in Wales, where he is having \"a quiet time\", rather than travelling to take part in the Oscar ceremony.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The Alma Inn near Halifax, West Yorkshire, has invested heavily in converting an overflow area by the car park Image caption: The Alma Inn near Halifax, West Yorkshire, has invested heavily in converting an overflow area by the car park\n\nPubs have been upgrading their outdoor areas ahead of lockdown restrictions being eased in England.\n\nFrom Monday, venues with outdoor seating will reopen for the first time since the beginning of January.\n\nHalf of Britons are planning to visit a pub or restaurant when the rules ease, a recent poll by investment bank Jefferies found.\n\nThe Alma Inn near Halifax, West Yorkshire, has invested heavily in converting an overflow area by the car park to make what its Instagram account dubbed a \"second pub\".\n\nThe new area includes a mobile bar, food truck and new benches, while the land also had to be levelled.\n\nJohn Priest, 38, one of the pub's managers, said: \"We have to be ready for the demand.\n\n\"If we get to a point next week or the week after where we didn't have anywhere for people to sit, then we would have failed as a business in our eyes.\n\n\"If we can't satisfy the demand that's there, then we've got it wrong.\"\n\nThe Cornubia Inn in Hayle, West Cornwall, has added wi-fi and a new payment system for its outdoor area Image caption: The Cornubia Inn in Hayle, West Cornwall, has added wi-fi and a new payment system for its outdoor area\n\nIn Hayle, Cornwall, Damian Knight, 45, who runs the Cornubia Inn with his wife Miranda, said the pandemic has changed the \"traditional\" pub model.\n\nWhile they have spent money on a covered shelter, heating and updated furniture, the addition of wi-fi and a new ordering and payment system are important updates that customers may not notice at a glance.\n\n\"If you open your doors with what you had before, you're going to get left behind.\"", "Protests have been going on in Bago, as in other cities, for more than two months\n\nMore than 80 people have been killed by Myanmar security forces in a crackdown on a protest in the city of Bago, activists say.\n\nThe military is reported to have taken away the bodies of those killed, and the true number of deaths may never be accurately established.\n\nWitnesses told local media that soldiers had used heavy weapons and had shot at anything that moved.\n\nMore than 600 people have been killed since the 1 February military coup.\n\nThe military has resorted to increasing levels of violence to maintain its grip on power.\n\nThe latest killings in Bago, near the main city of Yangon, are reported to have happened on Friday but took a whole day to emerge as many residents were forced to flee to nearby villages.\n\nMonitoring group the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) said the actual number of deaths was likely to be much higher.\n\nThe Myanmar Now news outlet quoted protest organiser Ye Htut as saying: \"It is like genocide. They are shooting at every shadow.\"\n\nMass protests have been taking place across Myanmar, also known as Burma, since the military seized control of the South East Asian country and declared a year-long state of emergency.\n\nThe armed forces claim there had been widespread fraud during a general election late last year which had returned elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy (NLD) party to power. The election commission has dismissed this.\n\nOn Friday ousted MPs and Myanmar's UN ambassador called on UN Security Council members to take action against the military, including extending sanctions and imposing an arms embargo and no-fly zone.\n\nThe UN meeting was also warned that Myanmar was \"on the brink of state failure\".\n\nInternational Crisis Group senior adviser Richard Horsey said the military's actions were creating a situation where the country could become ungovernable.", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nLike countless young pony riders, Rachael Blackmore watched the film National Velvet starring Elizabeth Taylor and dreamed of one day winning the Grand National.\n\nOn 10 April 2021 she made fantasy a reality. The first female jockey to triumph in the world's most famous steeplechase, with a stirring victory on Minella Times.\n\n\"National Velvet was definitely something that would have been on the television when we were growing up. I've got no punchy line to go with it,\" she told me.\n\nThe iconic 1944 film saw Taylor play 12-year-old Velvet Brown who won the National on a gelding called The Pie but was later disqualified on a technicality.\n\nBlackmore, a quietly spoken and articulate individual, had saved her 'punchy line' for shortly after passing the finishing line on 11-1 chance Minella Times, trained by Henry de Bromhead for owner JP McManus.\n\n\"I don't feel male or female right now. I don't even feel human,\" the 31-year-old Irish rider told ITV. \"This is just unbelievable.\"\n\nA little later she paused during an interview as the magnitude of her achievement sank in, took a breath and composed herself before continuing. Wonder woman is human after all.\n• None Where they finished in the 2021 Grand National\n\nThe daughter of a dairy farmer and a school teacher, she rode ponies as a child near her home in Killenaule, County Tipperary.\n\nBlackmore had once hoped to become a vet, gaining a degree in equine science and combining her studies with riding out and competing as an amateur before turning professional in 2015.\n\nShe has gone on to be a quiet pioneer - finishing in the top three in the Irish jockeys' championship for the past two seasons and is in with a chance of winning the title this time.\n\n\"My first memory of racing was when I was about seven or eight watching the Grand National round a friend's house and it had that special kind of hype,\" she said.\n\n\"I took out my amateur jockey's licence and didn't even dare to dream I would get a ride in the race, let alone ride the winner of it.\n\n\"It's such a special race. I finished 10th last year and got a kick out of that. To finish with your head in front is beyond belief, to be honest.\"\n\nHer world is racing. Boyfriend Brian Hayes and housemate Patrick Mullins are both successful jockeys.\n\nTeaming up with De Bromhead, who is based in Knockeen, County Waterford, has provided plenty of big rides including Honeysuckle, the landmark Champion Hurdle winner which the trainer followed up with Champion Chase and Gold Cup victories.\n\nBlackmore has the talent - riding instinct, tactical awareness, strength in a finish - but also the work ethic. She is a grafter, competing in more races (516 and counting) than anyone else in Ireland this season.\n\nAnd she has a high pain threshold, a big plus in a sport where ambulances follow every race and falls at 30mph are a way of life.\n\n'I won't be the last' - the modest trailblazer\n\nIt might be too much to say Blackmore has ridden to racing's rescue, but her feelgood story comes after a troubled start to the year where a trainer and jockey were banned after social media posts emerged of them posing with dead horses.\n\nThe success of women, competing on a level playing field against men, is a hugely positive narrative for the sport.\n\nFlat jockey Hollie Doyle was third in the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award in December, while Bryony Frost was the first woman to ride the winner of the King George VI Chase at Kempton when victorious aboard Frodon.\n\n\"This means everything, it really does, it's hard to even comprehend it right now,\" said Blackmore.\n\n\"It's just an incredible feeling but you don't really let yourself believe it until you do actually cross the line.\"\n\nWomen were not permitted to ride in the National into the 1970s before Charlotte Brew was the first on a 200-1 outsider 44 years ago.\n\nEighteen other women have ridden in the race on a total of 35 runners but only in recent years have their chances increased - 11 of the first 15 National rides for female jockeys were priced 100-1 or more.\n\nThe previous best came when Seabass finished third in 2012 for Katie Walsh, who paid tribute to Blackmore.\n\n\"I'm delighted for Rachael,\" said Walsh. \"This isn't just pot luck or a fluke, she's worked hard to get this.\n\n\"She's an inspiration to male and female jockeys. This is the most watched race in the world and it's just brilliant for horse racing.\"\n\nMost within racing have little time for the phrase 'female jockeys' on the basis they are all just jockeys, although Blackmore recognised she would always be the first to have won the National.\n\n\"Ah, look, it's brilliant, but I won't be the last. I'm delighted for myself anyway,\" she said.\n\n\"I just hope it shows it doesn't matter, male or female. Plenty of people have gone before me and done that - Katie Walsh was third here on Seabass. All those things help girls coming along, but I don't think it's a major talking point any more.\"\n\nIt has been a surreal and privileged position to be among the limited media allowed to attend the Cheltenham and Aintree meetings, where spectators have been absent because of Covid-19 protocols.\n\nWith no throngs of exuberant punters, this allowed me to go to the finishing line and personally say \"well done\" to Blackmore as the meeting's leading jockey returned on all six of her winners at the Cheltenham Festival.\n\n\"Thank you, thank you,\" she would reply on horseback with a smile.\n\nWhen I reminded her of this on Saturday evening, she said: \"I'll never tire of saying 'thank you' after winning.\"\n\nBlackmore may have smashed the glass ceiling as she went clear of her rivals, but is unlikely to get ahead of herself.", "Twelve months later, the prince had appeared to be in good health when he accompanied the Queen on the royal barge, the Spirit of Chartwell, which formed part of the rain-drenched Diamond Jubilee river pageant on 3 June 2012. He and the Queen stood for most of the 80-minute journey, as they were accompanied by 1,000 boats travelling seven miles down the River Thames to Tower Bridge. However, the duke was admitted to hospital with a bladder infection before the Diamond Jubilee concert on 4 June.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lockdown lifting in Liverpool: 'Light at the end of the tunnel'\n\nFor the first time in months, pub gardens, shops and hairdressers have reopened in England, as rules were also eased in the rest of the UK.\n\nShoppers flocked to the High Street, with long queues seen outside some retailers. Other people took advantage of England's gyms and zoos reopening.\n\nThe PM had planned to have a celebratory pint to mark the measures easing, but that has been postponed following the death of the Duke of Edinburgh on Friday.\n\nSnow showers and chilly temperatures in parts of southern England appeared to do little to dampen enthusiasm for outdoor pints.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A Leeds landlord says his pub has had thousands of bookings for their outside area.\n\nScott Westlake, landlord of the Myrtle Tavern in Leeds, said the pub had received 5,000 bookings over the next month for his new outside eating and drinking area.\n\nMr Westlake said: \"If the weather's good, I think most people are optimistic and excited.\n\n\"Atmosphere, ambience, seeing your mates, I think they (customers) are looking forward to that more than anything - and they'll sit in a blizzard for the first few days at least.\"\n\nGroups of people sat at tables outside bars in the Northern Quarter of central Manchester\n\nDrinkers at the Still & West pub in Portsmouth came prepared for all weather\n\nTwo friends enjoy a celebratory drink at the Skylight roof top bar in London\n\nNicholas Hair, landlord and owner of the Kentish Belle pub in Bexleyheath, south-east London, said there was a \"sense of celebration\" in the early hours of Monday as it opened to midnight customers.\n\n\"I'm hoping that this is a sort of rebirth, and that we are reopen for the foreseeable,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile, a town in Lincolnshire has introduced its own European-style pavement cafes to help boost trade.\n\nSeveral hospitality venues in the market town of Louth have been allowed to put seating and tables outside to serve people during the day.\n\nLewis Phillips, general manager of the Masons Arms, which is one of the venues involved in the Louth scheme, said: \"We don't have a lovely big beer garden. So what we've got out the front here is absolutely brilliant.\"\n\nSeveral hospitality businesses in Louth are taking part in the scheme\n\nThe prime minister had planned to have a celebratory pint to mark the measures easing, but that was postponed following the death of the Duke of Edinburgh on Friday.\n\nHowever, Downing Street confirmed that Mr Johnson did have a haircut before he paid tribute to the duke in the House of Commons.\n\nThe PM had previously suggested he would prioritise a visit to the pub over a trip to the hairdressers\n\nMarika Smith, general manager of Hough End Leisure Centre, Withington, Manchester, said all of their swimming times were already fully booked on Monday.\n\nKelly Boad, owner of the Hair & Beauty Gallery in Warwick, opened her salon at midnight for a symbolic \"first cut\" of 2021, adding she is fully booked for the first few weeks.\n\nShoppers rushed back to the High Street, as queues formed outside branches of Primark, JD Sports and TK Maxx and retailers extended their opening hours.\n\nAnother business that reopened in England was Secret Spa, which offers at-home salon and spa treatments in London, Manchester and Brighton.\n\nCo-owner Emily Ewart-Perks said it had \"been such a long time coming\", saying: \"Everyone has really missed the social contact of the day-to-day job and making clients happy.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Long queues were not going to put shoppers off from visiting their favourite High Street retailers\n\nThe rule changes in England from Monday include:\n\nBut the British Beer and Pub Association has estimated that only 40% of licensed premises have the space to reopen for outdoor service.\n\nPeople flocked to salons after months without a haircut\n\nThrillseekers have been enjoying the rides at Thorpe Park in Surrey\n\nIn Northern Ireland, the remaining school year groups 8-11 returned to the classroom. The stay-at-home message has been lifted and up to 10 people from two households can meet in a private garden.\n\nIn Scotland, pupils at schools in six council areas went back to school but not everyone returned on Monday because differing term times mean some schools are still closed for the Easter holidays.\n\nAfter a drop in Covid cases prompted the Welsh Government to bring forward some dates for reopening, all students returned to face-to-face teaching on Monday.\n\nNon-essential shops can also reopen, close-contact services can resume, driving lessons can restart and travel in and out of Wales from the rest of the UK is allowed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Shopper in Liverpool: \"It means life has come back to normal again\"\n\nFamilies descended on London Zoo, which has also been closed for months\n\nShoppers, gym fans, domestic holiday makers, outdoor drinkers and diners, plus those in need of a haircut will share the government's hope that Monday is an irreversible step towards old and cherished freedoms.\n\nSo will the business owners who will be welcoming them back.\n\nBut this significant easing of lockdown is also an important test.\n\nWill customers want or be able to return in sufficient numbers for firms to break even and if they don't, what will it take to make the economy work again?\n\nOnly two in five hospitality venues have any outdoor space and the rules over future inside opening are still unclear.\n\nThe government and the opposition have distanced themselves from requiring Covid certificates for day-to-day life but the government has also hinted individual businesses may require them if they wish.\n\nHospitality chiefs have told the BBC they fear having to choose between two different ways to lose money - half-empty venues without certificates or full ones with extra staff and hassle to check Covid status.\n\nHairdressers are booked solid, retailers are hopeful of high footfall and are welcoming longer opening hours but some holiday parks are reporting subdued bookings as many of their public amenities remain closed.\n\nIt is a test for everyone - but a welcome one for most.\n\nIn a statement, the prime minister said the rule relaxations are \"a major step forward in our roadmap to freedom\".\n\n\"I'm sure it will be a huge relief for those business owners who have been closed for so long, and for everyone else it's a chance to get back to doing some of the things we love and have missed,\" he added.\n\n\"I urge everyone to continue to behave responsibly and remember 'hands, face, space and fresh air' to suppress Covid as we push on with our vaccination programme.\"\n\nUltimate Fitness Gym in Wallsend, north-east England, was among the businesses to have reopened early on Monday\n\nSynchronised swimmers are able to return to indoor pools, which can reopen, such as this one at Clissold Leisure Centre, north London\n\nThe rule changes in England marks the third easing since the country's third national lockdown began on 6 January.\n\nThere is a gap of at least five weeks between each step on the government's \"roadmap\" out of lockdown, to allow the impact of changes on infection rates and hospital admissions to be assessed.\n\nThe next significant date is 17 May, when up to six people from different households could be allowed to socialise indoors.\n\nMore than 32 million people in the UK have now had their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine and of those 7.6m have had their second dose, according to the latest government data.\n\nMeanwhile, 189,665 second doses were administered on Sunday - along with 69,223 first doses.\n\nSaturday marked a record total for second doses, with 475,230 given, while 111,109 were first doses.\n\nA further 13 people are reported to have died within 28 days of a positive Covid test, and there have been 3,568 new infections.\n\nThere can be a lag in reporting coronavirus statistics during weekends.\n\nMeanwhile, surge coronavirus testing is being rolled out in areas of Wandsworth and Lambeth in south London, where cases of the South Africa variant were found.\n\nAll identified cases are self-isolating or have completed their isolation, and their contacts have been traced and asked to self-isolate.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The rule of six applies for those visiting pubs and restaurants outdoors in England", "People are being asked to be respectful to shop workers as thousands of non-essential retail stores prepare to reopen across England and Wales.\n\nThe British Retail Consortium (BRC) is calling on shoppers to adhere to social-distancing rules and \"queue considerately\" as curbs ease on Monday.\n\nThe Co-op reported a rise in abuse and assaults involving staff during Covid.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said last year she \"will not tolerate\" abuse against shop workers.\n\nThe latest step in the government's roadmap in England sees non-essential retail such as clothes and technology shops reopen on Monday alongside hairdressers, beauty salons and gyms.\n\nIn Wales, all shops will reopen as every pupil returns to the classroom.\n\nThe BRC, which represents big chain stores, said the public \"have a key part to play in creating a safe and enjoyable retail environment\".\n\nIt estimates the three national lockdowns in England since March 2020 have cost non-food stores about £30bn in lost sales - but an initial sales surge is expected as restrictions ease.\n\nChief executive Helen Dickinson said it was vital retailers \"are able to make their contribution to the UK's economic recovery\".\n\nShe said: \"Many of us will be looking forward to returning to our favourite shop in the coming weeks, and we all have a duty to keep each other safe. Everyone should be considerate and respectful to their fellow shoppers and hard-working shop staff.\n\n\"This way we can all enjoy shopping and support our local communities.\"\n\nAmong its pleas to the public, the BRC asked people to \"shop alone where possible\", \"follow instructions\", and observe hygiene measures.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A shop manager has described the abuse she's experienced at work during the pandemic.\n\nThe Co-op said last year that violence, abuse and anti-social behaviour had become \"normalised\" and was at \"unprecedented levels\" during the pandemic.\n\nCo-op food boss Jo Whitfield said face-covering requirements and social-distancing rules had led to shop workers being \"spat at and threatened\".\n\n\"The reality is that shop workers are facing levels of violence for just doing their job: they have been spat at and threatened just because they've asked customers to respect social distancing,\" she wrote in the Daily Telegraph.\n\nSpeaking on the launch of a consultation over new legislation to protect shop staff, Ms Patel said last July: \"I will not tolerate violence and abuse against any shopworker and it's right that those who commit these crimes must be caught and punished.\"\n\nMonday will see more businesses begin trading once more, with restaurants and pubs able to serve food and alcohol outside, theme parks and self-contained overnight accommodation for single households reopen.\n\nIt marks the latest step in the government's roadmap in England and a nudge towards normality - as children can attend any indoor activities and driving lessons resume.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, Monday will see the stay-at-home order relaxed with up to 10 people from two households able to meet in a private garden - and non-essential retail will be able to operate click-and-collect services.\n\nIn Scotland, homeware stores have already reopened and the next easing of restrictions on 26 April will see remaining shops welcome customers.\n\nA further 2,589 coronavirus cases were reported on Saturday across the UK alongside another 40 deaths within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nLatest figures showed 39 million vaccinations have been given, with 6.9 million second doses.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock met former PM David Cameron and financier Lex Greensill for a \"private drink\" in 2019 to discuss a new payment scheme for the NHS, it has been revealed.\n\nIt is the latest in a series of Sunday Times disclosures about Mr Cameron's lobbying work since leaving office.\n\nMr Greensill advised Mr Cameron's government, and the ex-PM went on to be employed by Greensill Capital.\n\nAn ally of Mr Hancock said he had \"acted in entirely the correct way\".\n\nThey told the BBC that Mr Hancock had \"updated officials on the business that was discussed, as is appropriate\".\n\nGreensill Capital's scheme, which allowed staff to be paid early for hours they had already worked, went on to be used by some NHS trusts.\n\nThe development is the latest to be published by the Sunday Times detailing Mr Cameron's work for Greensill Capital after he left politics.\n\nMr Hancock is the fourth minister to have been lobbied by Mr Cameron on behalf of the company, which recently collapsed costing 440 jobs.\n\nMr Greensill worked as an unpaid adviser to Mr Cameron when he was prime minister.\n\nThe financier developed a policy designed to help small businesses get their bills paid faster, as part of a scheme that also benefited his own financial company, Greensill Capital.\n\nMr Cameron began working for Greensill Capital after leaving office, and tried unsuccessfully to lobby the government to increase the firm's access to government-backed loans during the first phase of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMr Cameron pressed Treasury officials - and sent text messages to Chancellor Rishi Sunak's personal phone - to access emergency funding for Greensill Capital.\n\nThe former Tory leader - who was PM between 2010 and 2016 - is reported to have told friends he was set to earn as much as £60m from share options in Greensill Capital, although this has since been disputed.\n\nIn the end, Mr Cameron's pleas to the Treasury for Covid emergency loans for Greensill Capital fell on deaf ears.\n\nThe \"private drink\" between Mr Hancock, Mr Cameron and Mr Greensill took place in October 2019.\n\nIn August 2019, Mr Greensill wrote to Mr Hancock to set out a proposal to allow the NHS access to an app Greensill Capital had devised, called Earnd, to pay doctors and nurses either daily or weekly in advance and free-of-charge to workers.\n\nHaving received the letter, the health secretary commissioned advice from civil servants to explore the idea.\n\nThe advice was that the \"principle\" of the idea was \"good,\" but sources insisted he wanted other suppliers to be able to offer the same work and it would be up to local NHS managers to decide whether to sign up to it.\n\nSome NHS trusts went on to use Greensill Capital's Earnd app during the pandemic.\n\nThis is the latest illustration of the web of connections between a former prime minister, a businessman and government ministers.\n\nRemember, Lex Greensill worked in Downing Street when David Cameron was PM.\n\nAnd then their relationship reversed when Mr Cameron left office: he went to work for Mr Greensill.\n\nIndividuals, businesses, charities and trade unions seek to influence the government all the time.\n\nBut how many people get to have a private drink with the health secretary?\n\nNeither Mr Cameron nor Mr Greensill have spoken publicly since headlines about the two of them started to appear several weeks ago now.\n\nIn the last few days, those close to them have begun to talk.\n\nWill Mr Cameron eventually feel compelled to face a camera and address the many questions he now faces?\n\nA source close to Mr Greensill said the scheme was offered free to both the NHS and its employees, while a source close to Mr Cameron said: \"David Cameron was an enthusiastic champion of Greensill's pay product, Earnd, and met with various people to discuss its rollout across the NHS.\"\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesman said: \"The wellbeing of NHS staff is the top priority of the department and health secretary.\n\n\"Our approach was and is that local NHS employers are best placed to decide how different pay flexibilities fit with their overall pay and reward offer for their staff.\"\n\nLabour's Bridget Phillipson said \"every day brings fresh revelations about the culture of cronyism\" in government and called for a \"full and thorough investigation into what happened\".\n\nThere has been no comment from Mr Cameron or from Mr Greensill.", "The movie Ma Rainey's Black Bottom has won two prizes on the first night of the Bafta Film Awards, which are being split over two days for the first time.\n\nMany of the technical prizes were handed out on Saturday, with the main awards still to be presented on Sunday.\n\nRiz Ahmed, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Vanessa Kirby and Daniel Kaluuya are among the stars up for acting awards.\n\nBoth halves of the ceremony are being presented from the Royal Albert Hall, but winners are appearing virtually.\n\nMa Rainey's Black Bottom stars Viola Davis and the late Chadwick Boseman as members of a 1920s blues band.\n\nMany of the young stars of Rocks, which won best casting, had not acted before\n\nOther winners included Rocks, a low-budget British film starring a group of teenage girls, many of whom had not acted before; Christopher Nolan's time-bending thriller Tenet; and Mank, in which Gary Oldman plays Citizen Kane screenwriter Herman J Mankiewicz.\n\nThe winners from the first night were:\n\nNoel Clarke - the Kidulthood, Bulletproof and Doctor Who actor - was also presented with the outstanding British contribution to cinema award.\n\nHe dedicated it to \"my young black boys and girls out there that never believed it could happen to them\".\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge had been due to appear in a pre-recorded segment, but pulled out following the death of his grandfather, the Duke of Edinburgh. Host Clara Amfo paid tribute to Prince Philip, who was Bafta's first president from 1959-66.\n\nOn Sunday, prizes including best film, director, screenplay and animated feature will be handed out, as well as the acting awards.\n\nThis year's shortlists include a diverse line-up of talent, following an outcry last year when voters only nominated white actors.\n\nThis time, 16 of the 24 acting contenders come from minority ethnic backgrounds.\n\nTwo films lead the overall field with seven nominations each - Rocks and Nomadland, which stars Frances McDormand as a US woman living a nomadic life in a van after the financial crash.\n\nWhile the nominees will all appear remotely on Sunday, stars including Hugh Grant, Tom Hiddleston, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, and Phoebe Dynevor will be at the London venue to announce the winners.\n\nThey will be joined by fellow award presenters Chiwetel Ejiofor, Cynthia Erivo, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Richard E Grant, Felicity Jones, Asim Chaudhry, James McAvoy, David Oyelowo, Pedro Pascal and Jonathan Pryce.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Mauritanian star Tahar Rahim is nominated for best actor\n\nRose Byrne, Andra Day, Anna Kendrick and Renee Zellweger will announce some winners from Los Angeles.\n\nSunday's ceremony will be hosted by Edith Bowman and Dermot O'Leary, and will be broadcast on BBC One from 19.00-21.00 BST.\n\nDermot O'Leary and Edith Bowman will host Sunday's leg of the ceremony\n\nFollowing the lack of diversity last year, a seven-month review led Bafta to introduce more than 120 changes to its voting, membership and campaigning processes.\n\nThey included 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\nThis year's Baftas were delayed by two months because of the pandemic, and come two weeks before the awards season reaches its climax with the Oscars.\n\nUnlike the Baftas, the Oscars organisers want nominees to appear in person, and will have a London venue for the first time for UK-based contenders.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Hideki Matsuyama hit a seven-under 65 to take a four-shot lead into the final day of the Masters as he aims to become the first Japanese man to win a major.\n\nThe 29-year-old posted the first bogey-free round at Augusta National this week to leapfrog England's Justin Rose into top spot and lead on 11 under.\n\nOvernight leader Rose scrambled to a 72 and is one of four at seven under.\n\nAmericans Xander Schauffele and Will Zalatoris and Australia's Marc Leishman are also tied with Rose.\n\nSchauffele had four birdies, an eagle and two bogeys in his 68, while Leishman had four birdies in his 70.\n\nJordan Spieth, the 2015 champion, is two further back after recovering from a double bogey at seven to card a level-par 72 that leaves him at five under.\n\nScotland's Robert MacIntyre, on his Masters debut, sits at two under par in joint 10th after a second successive 70, trading six birdies with four bogeys.\n\n\"When the wind calmed down you could kind of get at it. I am happy enough with the last couple of days' play,\" said the 24-year-old.\n\nWorld number two Justin Thomas began the day three shots back and birdied the second and third but made three bogeys and a triple-bogey eight at 13 between the ninth and the 14th to slip to one under par.\n\nPlay was suspended for more than an hour on Saturday because of a storm passing through Georgia.\n\nMatsuyama posted rounds of 69 and 71 to keep himself within touching distance heading into the weekend and he started the day three off the pace set by Rose.\n\nThe world number 25 made a steady start with pars on his opening six holes before a birdie at seven preceded an impressive run.\n\nWith Rose dropping shots at the fourth and fifth, the former world number two carded two successive birdies on 11 and 12 to move into a share of the lead with the Englishman.\n\nThat became a three-way tie for top spot when Zalatoris, playing in the final pairing alongside Rose, birdied the 10th.\n\nSchauffele briefly made it four players in a share of the lead with an eagle at the par-five 15th, only for Rose to birdie 12 moments later and edge clear again at eight under.\n\nBut it was Matsuyama who jumped into the outright lead seconds later with an eagle of his own at the 15th to go nine under.\n\nMatsuyama, who has occupied a top-10 spot entering the final round of a major on eight previous occasions, extended his lead to two after landing his tee shot at the par-three 16th four feet from the pin, before prodding in for birdie.\n\nHe stretched that advantage to three shots with a 10-foot birdie putt at 17, and made a smart up-and-down to save par on 18 and set the clubhouse lead.\n\nMatsuyama, who has two top-10 finishes at Augusta National, becomes the first Japanese player to lead a round at the Masters.\n\n\"Before the horn blew I didn't hit a very good drive but after the restart I hit practically every shot exactly how I wanted to,\" he said after playing the last eight holes in six under par.\n\n\"It will be a new experience for me, being a leader going into the final round of a major. All I can do is relax, prepare well and do my best.\"\n\nRose's struggles during the opening two rounds had come in the first seven holes, while he had not made a bogey on either day beyond that.\n\nThe 40-year-old made a birdie-birdie start on Saturday before being pegged back with successive bogeys on four and five, but it meant he still held a one-stroke lead when the hooter sounded while he was on the seventh green.\n\nAn hour and 18 minutes later, the Englishman returned and completed the front nine with a run of pars.\n\nRose looked to be in trouble on 11 after finding the trees down the right and then the bunker, but splashed out to within a foot for a tap-in par and then made birdie at 12.\n\nHe made two excellent pars on the 14th and 15th holes after hitting his approach shots through the green.\n\nThe two-time Masters runner-up dropped back to seven under when he bogeyed 16 but finished with two more scrambling pars, including holing a 10-foot putt on the last, to keep himself in contention.\n\n\"It was a tricky day, when the storm was approaching it was really windy,\" said Rose. \"When we came back out it felt there was a period of time to make a score, but then the greens slowed up a lot.\n\n\"There was definitely some tricky moments out there. I had to work hard and after 12 holes I thought I was in a nice spot. Hideki hit the jets and I hit the brakes a bit, that was the difference.\n\n\"A lot is to do with how Hideki plays, but there is a big chasing pack waiting. We are in a good spot.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTropical cyclone Seroja has ripped across a 1,000km (621-mile) stretch of Western Australia, leaving a trail of damage.\n\nThe category three storm made landfall near the town of Kalbarri on Sunday with gusts of up to 170km/h (105mph).\n\nThe storm was later downgraded to a tropical low, though strong winds continue to move south-east.\n\nKalbarri resident Debbie Major said the storm, which hit the resort town around 19:00 local time (11:00 GMT), raged through the night and was \"absolutely terrifying\".\n\n\"You just thought, this is it. I would have thought that when we opened the door, that there would be nothing around us except that roof,\" she told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.\n\n\"We are a small town. Half of it has been flattened.\"\n\nWeather authorities said Cyclone Seroja had maintained \"uncommon\" pace and strength throughout Sunday night, as it moved from Kalbarri and Geraldton on the coast, and inland across the state's Wheat Belt.\n\nEmergency services said about 70% of structures in Kalbarri, which is home to about 1,500 people, were damaged by the cyclone. Several towns in the state's south-east remain under \"red alert\" on Monday, meaning residents were advised to take shelter, and thousands of homes were left without power.\n\nOne Kalbarri resident told the West Australian newspaper that he was forced to hide in a pantry with his pregnant wife and their dog.\n\n\"I heard a few windows smash and some loud bangs. I went upstairs to check and felt that it was raining. I didn't look up but I am guessing I have lost some of my roof,\" Jason Regan said.\n\nAuthorities have warned the heavy rain may cause flooding\n\nDarius Winterfield, a reporter for Channel 9 news in Kalbarri, lost the roof to his balcony and said the storm would be \"devastating for many come first light\".\n\nEmergency services received 175 calls for help on Monday, a Department of Fire and Emergency Services spokeswoman told the BBC.\n\nGovernment emergency funding is being offered to affected residents.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Darius Winterfield This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 the storm hit, state Premier Mark McGowan warned that the cyclone was \"like nothing we have seen before in decades\". The Bureau of Meteorology said it was the first cyclone to hit some affected areas since 1956.\n\nLast month, areas of eastern Australia were evacuated as rivers and dams overflowed in the worst floods in decades, with around 18,000 people displaced.\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. \"My family and I miss my father enormously,\" said Prince Charles at his Highgrove home\n\nA remembrance service for the Duke of Edinburgh has been held in Canterbury Cathedral as the UK observes a period of official mourning.\n\nIt was led by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, who is also expected to officiate at Prince Philip's funeral next Saturday.\n\nFormer Prime Minister Sir John Major, a friend of the duke, said he hoped the Queen would be given space to grieve.\n\nThe duke \"will still be there in her memory\", he told the BBC.\n\nSir John said in an interview with Andrew Marr that being the head of state was a \"lonely position in many ways\" for the Queen, and the duke was \"the person to whom she could unburden herself\".\n\n\"Prince Philip may physically have gone, but he will be in the Queen's mind as clearly as if she were sitting opposite him,\" he said.\n\n\"I do hope she is given a little space, and a little time and a little freedom to grieve in the way anybody else would wish to do so after having lost their spouse.\"\n\nSir John, who was guardian to the dukes of Cambridge and Sussex following the death of their mother, said he hoped the brothers would seize the \"opportunity\" to \"mend any rifts that may exist\" between them.\n\n\"The friction that we are told has arisen is a friction better ended as speedily as possible,\" he said.\n\nDuring the service at Canterbury Cathedral, the archbishop said: \"For the Royal Family as for every other, no words can reach into the depth of sorrow that goes into bereavement.\"\n\nHe added that Prince Philip showed \"a remarkable willingness to take the hand he was dealt in life and straightforwardly to follow its call, to search its meaning to go out and on as sent to inquire and think, to trust and to pray\".\n\nThe period of national mourning will end after 17 April, when Prince Philip's funeral will take place at St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle.\n\nA national minute's silence will be held to coincide with the start of the funeral at 15:00 BST.\n\nNew government guidance says it is up to individual businesses whether or not they close during this time, while organisers of sporting events have been told they can choose whether or not fixtures go ahead.\n\nThe EFL said it would move next Saturday's 15:00 games \"as a mark of respect\".\n\nOther events scheduled for Saturday include the FA Cup semi-final between Chelsea and Manchester City and two women's Six Nations rugby matches.\n\nOnly 30 people - expected to be the duke's children, grandchildren and other close family - can attend the funeral because of Covid rules.\n\nNo 10 said Prime Minister Boris Johnson will not attend the funeral to allow \"as many family members as possible\" to go.\n\nThe public has been asked to stay away.\n\nPeople laid flowers at Windsor Castle over the weekend, but the new government guidance asks the public to refrain from doing so and to give to charity instead.\n\nPeople left flowers and tributes to Prince Philip at Windsor Castle on Saturday\n\nThe duke died at Windsor Castle on Friday, aged 99.\n\nFuneral arrangements for next weekend, which Buckingham Palace said \"very much\" reflect Prince Philip's wishes, have been adapted in light of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe televised service will be a ceremonial event rather than a large state affair usually associated with the death of a monarch.\n\nAmong Royal Family members to attend the ceremony will be Prince Harry, who will fly from his Californian home to the UK.\n\nHis wife the Duchess of Sussex, who is pregnant with their second child, has been advised by her doctor not to travel, Buckingham Palace said.\n\nOn the day of the funeral, Prince Philip's coffin will be transported from Windsor Castle to St George's Chapel in a specially-modified Land Rover he helped to design.\n\nMembers of the Royal Family, including the Prince of Wales, will walk behind the coffin, and the Queen will travel separately to the chapel.\n\nGuests will socially distance and wear face coverings in line with coronavirus restrictions.\n\nMilitary guns will fire during the procession, which will take eight minutes, and the curfew bell will toll.\n\nEight pallbearers will carry the coffin, draped with duke's standard, with a wreath and the duke's naval cap and sword on top, up the west steps into the chapel. It will be greeted by the Dean of Windsor and the Archbishop of Canterbury.\n\nThese 10 people are not included in the number of attendees allowed.\n\nA guest list will be released on Thursday.\n\nSpeaking from his Highgrove home in Gloucestershire on Saturday, the Prince of Wales said his \"dear papa\" would be missed \"enormously\".\n\nHe said his late father was a \"very special person who... above all else would have been amazed by the reaction and the touching things that have been said about him\".\n\nThe prince said he and his family were \"deeply grateful\" for this, adding: \"It will sustain us in this particular loss and at this particularly sad time.\"\n\nPrince Charles said the duke had given the \"most remarkable, devoted service\" to the Queen, the Royal Family, the country, and the Commonwealth over the last 70 years.\n\nMembers of the Royal Family visited the Queen at Windsor Castle following the duke's death.\n\nThe Countess of Wessex said \"the Queen has been amazing\" as she left the castle with the Earl of Wessex.\n\nThe Duke of York also visited on Saturday, while the Prince of Wales travelled there on Friday afternoon.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Earl and Countess of Wessex spent about an hour at Windsor Castle on Saturday morning.\n\nIn tribute to the duke, saluting batteries each fired 41 rounds on Saturday in cities including London, Edinburgh and Cardiff, and at Hillsborough Castle in County Down. Guns were also fired in Gibraltar.\n\nPrince Philip will not lie in state - where members of the public would have been able to view his coffin.\n\nHis coffin will instead lay at rest in the private chapel at Windsor Castle and will be draped with the duke's personal standard with a wreath of flowers on top.\n\nThe funeral will take place at St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle\n\nThe Royal Family will observe two weeks of mourning, although royal engagements will continue where appropriate.\n\nA spokesman for the Palace said: \"Whilst this is a time of sadness and mourning the coming days will be an opportunity to celebrate a remarkable life.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAll UK government buildings have been told to fly official flags at half-mast in tribute to the duke until 08:00 on the day after the duke's funeral.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's charity, the Royal Foundation, paid tribute to Prince Philip over the weekend by pinning a black and white photograph of him to the top of its website.\n\nPrince William has withdrawn from giving a speech at the Bafta Awards ceremony on Sunday night, Kensington Palace said. His grandfather was Bafta's first president.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"A huge void in her life\": Prince Andrew describes the Queen's feelings of loss\n\nThe Queen has described the death of the Duke of Edinburgh as \"having left a huge void in her life\", her son the Duke of York has said.\n\nPrince Andrew said his father's death was a \"terrible loss\", and his family was \"rallying round\" to help the Queen.\n\n\"We've lost the grandfather of the nation,\" he added, as he left a service at Windsor.\n\nEarlier, ex-PM Sir John Major said the Royal Family's shared grief was an \"ideal opportunity\" to mend any rifts.\n\nAnd during a special service at Canterbury Cathedral, the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby paid tribute to Prince Philip, saying that \"for the Royal Family, as for every other, no words can reach into the depth of sorrow that goes into bereavement\".\n\nThe archbishop, who is expected to lead the duke's funeral service at Windsor Castle on Saturday, said Prince Philip showed \"a remarkable willingness to take the hand he was dealt in life and straightforwardly to follow its call, to search its meaning, to go out and on as sent to inquire and think, to trust and to pray\".\n\nPrince Andrew was joined by the Earl and Countess of Wessex and their daughter Lady Louise Windsor at a separate service at Windsor's Royal Lodge.\n\nHe said the Royal Family was grateful for all the \"absolutely amazing tributes\" to Prince Philip.\n\nHe added: \"The Queen, as you would expect, is an incredibly stoic person.\n\n\"She described it as having left a huge void in her life but we, the family, the ones that are close, are rallying round to make sure that we're there to support her.\"\n\nSpeaking of his love for his father, Prince Andrew said: \"He was so calm. If you had a problem, he would think about it.\n\n\"He was always somebody you could go to and he would always listen so it's a great loss.\n\n\"We've lost almost the grandfather of the nation. And I feel very sorry and supportive of my mother who's feeling it probably more than everybody else.\"\n\nHe added: \"I know there is a huge amount of support, not just for her (the Queen) but for everybody as we go through this enormous change.\"\n\nPrince Andrew stepped back from royal duties in 2019 after criticism of his ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein intensified following a BBC interview.\n\nThe Earl of Wessex, the Queen's youngest son, said: \"However much one tries to prepare oneself for something like this, it's still a dreadful shock.\n\n\"And we're still trying to come to terms with that. And it's very, very sad.\n\n\"But I have to say that the extraordinary tribute and the memories that everybody has had and been willing to share has been so fantastic.\"\n\nThe Earl and Countess of Wessex attended the service with their daughter Lady Louise Windsor\n\nThe Countess of Wessex said the Queen was \"thinking of others before herself\".\n\nSpeaking to members of the congregation outside the chapel, Sophie said that Prince Philip's death was \"very peaceful\".\n\n\"It was right for him. It was so gentle. It was just like somebody took him by the hand and off he went.\n\n\"Very, very peaceful and that's all you want for somebody isn't it?\"\n\nShe added: \"I think it's so much easier for the person that goes than the people that are left behind.\"\n\nRemembering Prince Philip's popularity on the Windsor estate, she said: \"He always exchanged words with everybody because it didn't matter what anybody was doing in and around the estate here, and everywhere else - they all meant a lot to him and he always took a very personal interest in everything that they were doing.\n\n\"So they all have got stories to tell, and most of them are quite funny as well.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the Prince of Wales paid tribute to his \"dear papa\" on Saturday, saying he and the Royal Family would miss him \"enormously\".\n\nHe said the duke, who died at Windsor Castle on Friday, aged 99, had given the \"most remarkable, devoted service\" to the Queen, the Royal Family, the country, and the Commonwealth.\n\nA ceremonial royal funeral will be held for the duke at St George's Chapel, in the grounds of Windsor Castle, at 15:00 BST on Saturday, 17 April. The event will be televised.\n\nMembers of the Royal Family will walk behind the coffin ahead of the funeral at Windsor Castle.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"My family and I miss my father enormously,\" said Prince Charles at his Highgrove home\n\nThe Duke of Sussex will fly from the US for the service, though it is not clear when. His wife, Meghan, who is pregnant, will remain at home in California on the advice of doctors.\n\nIt will be the first time Prince William and Prince Harry will meet face to face since the Sussexes aired criticisms of the Royal Family in an interview to US broadcaster Oprah Winfrey last month.\n\nEarlier, Sir John, who was appointed a special guardian to the Duke of Cambridge and the Duke of Sussex after their mother, Diana, Princess of Wales died in 1997, said the \"shared grief\" over the death of Prince Philip is an \"ideal opportunity\" to mend any rifts in the Royal Family.\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Marr show: \"They shared emotion. They share grief at the present time because of the death of their grandfather. I think [this] is an ideal opportunity.\n\n\"I hope very much that it is possible to mend any rifts that may exist.\"", "-10 -9-7 -6 -5 -4 P Reed (US), C Conners (Can)\n\nHideki Matsuyama held off the field to win the Masters by one stroke at Augusta National and become the first Japanese man to claim a major title.\n\nMatsuyama had a four-shot lead heading into the final day and, despite some nervy moments on Sunday, shot a one-over 73 to win on 10 under par.\n\nAmerican debutant Will Zalatoris was his closest challenger on nine under.\n\nEngland's Justin Rose, who led for two rounds, faded in the final 18 holes with a two-over 74 to end five under.\n\nXander Schauffele, playing with Matsuyama, birdied the 15th to close to within two shots, but hit his tee shot in the water on the 16th as his challenge finished with a triple-bogey six.\n\nHe ended on seven under in a share of third with fellow American and 2015 champion Jordan Spieth.\n\nSpanish world number three Jon Rahm posted a final-day 66 to come in a further stroke back, alongside Australia's Marc Leishman.\n\nScotland's Robert MacIntyre impressed on his debut and finished joint 12th at two under to secure his place at next year's Masters.\n\nI am glad to open the floodgates - Matsuyama on historic win\n\nA decade since Matsuyama was awarded the Silver Cup as the leading amateur at the 2011 Masters, the 29-year-old returned to record a victory that will resonate hugely in his home nation.\n\nJapan has boasted major champions in 1977 LGPA Championship winner Hisako Higuchi and Hinako Shibuno, who won the Women's Open two years ago, but the closest a male player had previously come to golf's most sought-after prizes was Isao Aoki with a runner-up finish at the 1980 US Open.\n\n\"I am really happy. My nerves really didn't start on the back nine, it was right from the start and right until the very last putt,\" said Matsuyama.\n\n\"I was thinking about them [friends and family] all the way around. I am really happy I played well for them. Hopefully I will be a pioneer and many other Japanese players will follow and I am glad to open the floodgates.\"\n\nThe foundations for Matsuyama's success were laid on Saturday, returning from an hour-long delay for storms to shoot six under par through his final eight holes.\n\nIt meant the world number 25, who passed the time by sitting in his car playing games on his phone, signed for a stunning 65 that put him four strokes clear of the field on 11 under.\n\nThere were some early nerves on Sunday as Matsuyama sent his opening drive into the trees and watched his lead cut to one after Zalatoris made a birdie-birdie start to climb to nine under.\n\nThe 24-year-old American, who was aiming to become the first debutant to win since Fuzzy Zoeller in 1979, emerged as a surprise challenger but Matsuyama birdied the second, made smart par-saves at three and five and then completed the front nine with successive birdies.\n\nAfter Zalatoris dropped shots at 10 and the Golden Bell 12th, Matsuyama's advantage was stretched to six strokes.\n\nMatsuyama, who had not won on the PGA Tour since 2017, could afford to cautiously bogey the par-three 12th but was fortunate to avoid sending his approach to the par-five 13th green into the azaleas and he went on to birdie the hole.\n\nPlaying partner Schauffele looked to have blown his challenge with four dropped shots in three holes through three, four and five.\n\nBut a run of four birdies that started on the 12th suddenly put the pressure on Matsuyama, especially when the leader hit his second shot on the par-five 15th over the green and into the water on the nearby 16th. That resulted in a dropped shot and his advantage was down to two.\n\nSchauffele's grandparents live in Japan and he says he knows enough of the language to share a joke with Matsuyama, but the American was is no mood for that when his tee shot on the par-three 16th dropped into the water as he recorded a triple-bogey six.\n\nThat handed Matsuyama the initiative once more, despite carding a bogey himself, and he held a two-shot lead heading down the 18th, where he converted a bogey putt to clinch the Green Jacket in front of the patrons gathered around the green.\n\nThe former world number two becomes the second Japanese player to enjoy a victory at the iconic Georgia venue in eight days, after Tsubasa Kajitani won the Augusta National Women's Amateur last week.\n\nTwo-time runner-up Rose opened the tournament with a seven-under 65 and held on to that lead through the second round after a level-par 72. He shot 72 on Saturday to be in the group starting Sunday four behind Matsuyama.\n\nBut he could not sustain his bid for a first Green Jacket as he faded to finish five back.\n\n\"I enjoyed the week and it's a bit more evidence that I love playing this golf course and I know how to play it,\" 40-year-old Rose said after a round that featured six bogeys and four birdies. \"Weirdly I felt I played better than I had all week. Just the putter went cold.\n\n\"I say that nothing really important happens before April. The major season is when it really counts. This is the start of it.\n\n\"Every month there is one to prepare for and work for and that is what I will be doing. This is a confidence boost and gives plenty of evidence that things are going in the right direction.\"\n\nMacIntyre will be back next year after a level-par 72 on the final day, with the top 12 and ties getting invites to return.\n\n\"I have to take the positives,\" he said. \"I have played great on a golf course I have never seen. I have only played it on computer games with my pals. If I had known this golf course more I could have been up there competing.\"\n\nZalatoris was also making his debut and continued his impressive rise by ending the week as runner-up for his sixth top-10 finish in 15 starts on the PGA Tour this season, including a tie for sixth at the US Open last September.\n\n\"I am speechless,\" he said. \"To come one shot short is motivating, but for it to come at the Masters where I have been coming since I was nine years old is exciting,\" he said.\n\n\"I will come back next year and hopefully go one better.\"\n\nRahm, who became a father last week, carded the round of the day with an impressive bogey-free 66 to move to six under and post his fourth successive top-10 finish at Augusta.\n\nThe 26-year-old Spaniard is still searching for his first major title but is a combined 37 under par at the venue in that period, better than any other player.\n\nAmerican Patrick Reed, the 2018 champion, and Australia's Cameron Smith, five months after his runner-up finish, also enjoyed top-10 finishes at four under and three under respectively.", "The risk of developing a serious brain clot - known as a cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) - is 8 to 10 times higher in people with Covid than those who get a vaccine, a study suggests.\n\nBased on US data, the Oxford research team says people being vaccinated should be reassured by the findings.\n\nIt follows investigations into links between the AstraZeneca vaccine and rare blood clots.\n\nThe study only looked at those who had had a Pfizer or Moderna vaccine.\n\nThe research, which involved electronic health records of 81 million people in the US, looked at the number of CVST cases seen in the two weeks following a diagnosis of coronavirus and the number of cases occurring in the two weeks after people had their first coronavirus vaccine.\n\nIt estimates that while these blood clots are uncommon after Covid - with 39 in every million people developing one within two weeks of being ill - they are much rarer still after a vaccine.\n\nBut researchers say their study - which has not been through a formal review and is separate from the Oxford vaccine group - is still a work in progress and must be interpreted cautiously because it is difficult to calculate with certainty how common CVSTs are in the general population, partly because of just how rare they are.\n\nThe European Medicines Agency says a particular type of CVST occurs in around five in a million people after the first dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine - but the populations vaccinated were not the same as in the US and the rates cannot be compared.\n\nPaul Harrison, professor of psychiatry at the University of Oxford, said their study had important conclusions for people deciding on vaccines.\n\nHe said: \"Firstly, Covid-19 markedly increases the risk of CVST, adding to the list of blood clotting problems this infection causes.\n\n\"Secondly, the Covid-19 risk is higher than seen with the current vaccines, even for those under 30; something that should be taken into account when considering the balances between risks and benefits for vaccination.\"\n\nFrom their database they were unable to investigate whether the CVST clots they were seeing had similar features to those seen in rare cases after vaccines - which all had a peculiar pattern of blood cells associated with them, where certain cells called platelets were diminished.\n\nProf Beverley Hunt, of Thrombosis UK, said the mechanisms behind people getting clots after Covid and those experiencing clots after vaccines were likely to be different.\n\nShe said: \"Patients who are hospitalised with Covid-19 have very pro-thrombotic (sticky) changes in their blood, which persist after they have been discharged. This will lead to an increased rate of blood clots.\n\n\"The mechanism for the very rare blood clots and low platelet counts seen after the AstraZeneca vaccine is different. It is associated with an immune response.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Members of the Royal Family have released previously unpublished photographs of the Duke of Edinburgh, following his death at the age of 99.\n\nThe Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and Buckingham Palace shared the new images on social media.\n\nA new image from 2018 shows the Queen and Prince Philip with seven of their great grandchildren. They are: (from left to right) Prince George, Prince Louis, Savannah Phillips (standing at rear), Princess Charlotte, Isla Phillips holding Lena Tindall, and Mia Tindall.\n\nThe Queen and Duke of Edinburgh seen with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George and Princess Charlotte at Balmoral in 2015\n\nThe Duke of Edinburgh beside the Prince of Wales playing polo in 1966\n\nClarence House shared an image of the Duke of Edinburgh laughing with the Prince of Wales on the day of Prince William's wedding in 2011\n\nBuckingham Palace also shared a photograph of the duke alongside Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie at the Derby Festival in 2012", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Friedrich Joussen tells the BBC's Aaron Heslehurst that he is optimistic about the summer.\n\nSuccessful vaccine programmes will prevent another washout for summer holidaymakers, the boss of Europe's largest tour company has told the BBC.\n\n\"We are optimistic about the summer,\" said Friedrich Joussen, who runs TUI.\n\nThe firm - which owns a fleet of aircraft, cruise ships and a chain of travel agencies - said bookings in March alone had hit 2.8 million.\n\nAs a result, it expected to operate up to 75% of its normal schedule for the summer season.\n\n\"We are still confident that we will have a decent summer,\" said Mr Joussen, pointing to coronavirus vaccination programmes in the UK, US and Europe.\n\nThe company, which sells holidays to 180 different countries, suffered heavy losses during the pandemic.\n\nAcross the industry, income slumped by almost $4.5 trillion last year, leaving more than 62 million people without work, according to the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC).\n\nThe industry body is pressing for international travel to resume in June to stem further job losses.\n\nBut Mr Joussen said he expected some countries to ask travellers to prove they had been vaccinated before they were allowed to cross the border. Although he thinks demonstrating a negative test result would be just as effective in preventing the spread of the virus.\n\nHowever, for that strategy to be successful, he said the cost of those tests should be reduced.\n\n\"The cheaper it gets, the better it works and the less harmful it is for the general economy,\" he said.\n\nEuropean countries have ramped up their vaccination programmes in recent weeks, as the continent experiences a third wave of infections in the face of new variants. Nevertheless, Mr Joussen is optimistic about the summer.\n\n\"All medical advice we are getting as a company says that existing vaccines are working with existing variants,\" Mr Joussen said.\n\n\"Now they might be less efficient sometimes, but still it's much better than not being vaccinated.\"\n\nIn the past year, TUI has been forced to borrow billions from the German government just to stay afloat. But analysts have warned that in the wake of the crisis, the part-nationalised firm may struggle to compete against leaner rivals, as the industry reels from more than 12 months of international travel bans.\n\nMr Joussen said the German state stepped in at a time of great uncertainty, when the firm was struggling to survive and could not raise money from private investors.\n\n\"Berlin is a very rational investor,\" he said, adding: \"Germany would want to exit the loan as soon as possible.\"\n\nYou can watch Friedrich Joussen'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 06: 30 GMT & 10:30 GMT, Tuesday at 12:30 GMT and Thursday at 07:30 GMT.", "Most positive rapid coronavirus tests taken since 8 March appear to have returned a correct result, according to data seen by the BBC.\n\nAnalysis of data from Public Health England shows 82% sent off for a confirmatory PCR test returned the same positive result.\n\nAll secondary school pupils in England have been asked to carry out two tests a week since schools reopened.\n\nThere had been concerns that many would have to self-isolate needlessly.\n\nBut this data suggests these fears may be unfounded.\n\n\"This suggests that people who test positive using a lateral flow device should definitely take that result seriously, and isolate while waiting for a follow-up PCR test,\" said Prof Oliver Johnson, director of the institute for statistical science at the University of Bristol.\n\n\"The fact that a high proportion of these rapid tests have been confirmed by the slower PCR method means that they can be a valuable tool in controlling the pandemic.\"\n\nWhat the data does not show is how many people who received a negative test result did in fact have Covid-19.\n• None 26,144,449Number of rapid lateral flow results from 8 March to 4 April\n• None 81% Rapid tests took place in educational settings from 4 March to 31 March\n\nThe government has said that rapid testing using lateral flow kits, which can give a result in 30 minutes, will be \"fundamental\" in helping to prevent future outbreaks of coronavirus.\n\nAll secondary schools and colleges in England have been using the devices since 8 March along with care homes, universities and some workplaces.\n\nFrom April 9 the scheme was extended allowing anyone in England to order the kits from a local testing centre or pharmacy or to be delivered through the post. A similar mass testing programme is being introduced in Scotland.\n\nUnlike laboratory PCR tests, which are typically used on those with Covid symptoms like a cough or fever, rapid lateral flow tests are being used to screen large swathes of the population without symptoms who are unlikely to be infected in the first place.\n\nThat means the accuracy of the test is crucial. If even a small proportion are being told they have the virus when they don't - a so-called \"false positive\" - then, multiplied across the population, it could still mean large numbers being forced to self-isolate unnecessarily.\n\nNew data show 26,144,449 lateral flow results were recorded by Public Health England in the four weeks from 8 March to 4 April.\n\nThe vast majority were negative for coronavirus, leaving another 30,904 cases where a positive case was found.\n\nThe rapid tests can be carried out at home and give a result within 30 minutes\n\nJust over half of those were sent off to a laboratory for a follow-up PCR test, which are far slower to process but can detect much lower levels of virus in the sample, although a positive result doesn't always mean someone is capable of passing the virus on to others.\n\nOf those, 3,034 - or 18% - came back negative, suggesting the individual concerned and their household had been self-isolating for no reason. Under the current rules, a negative re-test would mean their quarantine period would be considered over immediately.\n\nBut the other 13,918 - or 82% - returned the same positive result, indicating that the original test was accurate and they did have the virus.\n\n\"It may be that in future months the prevalence of Covid in the population will fall, in which case a greater proportion of positive lateral flow tests would be false positives,\" said Prof Johnson at the University of Bristol.\n\n\"However, these results indicate that, at the coronavirus levels seen in March, a positive result had a very good chance of coming from an infected person, so that these tests had genuine value as a tool in fighting the pandemic.\"\n\nThe lateral flow data seen by the BBC does not break down the location of the tests - but separate figures from NHS Test and Trace show that 81% of all rapid tests took place in an educational setting, mostly in secondary schools, between 4 March and 31 March.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Laura Foster explains how lateral flow tests work and how to do one\n\nAcademics say analysing the data in this way does have limitations. It assumes that the 55% of positive lateral flow samples sent off for laboratory analysis were representative of the overall number tested, which may not be the case.\n\nThe latest data from Public Health England can only give an indication of the accuracy of a positive test.\n\nIt does not tell us anything about the millions of negative test results returned by the lateral flow devices and whether they were effective at ruling out people who were carrying the disease.\n\nA recent review of the evidence to date found the main type of kit used in the UK may be only 58% accurate at detecting Covid in symptomatic people and works best in the first week after those symptoms appear.\n\nLittle data exists to show how well the tests perform when the person has no symptoms.\n\nJon Deeks, professor of biostatistics at the University of Birmingham, has described it as \"quite shocking\" that the government is rolling out the mass testing programme across England based on \"inadequate evidence\" of its effectiveness.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Police cameras show the final seconds before Adam Toledo, 13, was shot\n\nChicago police have released graphic footage of an officer shooting dead a 13-year-old boy in a dark alley.\n\nBodycam video shows the policeman shouting \"drop it\" before shooting Adam Toledo once in the chest on 29 March.\n\nThe boy does not appear to be holding a weapon in the split second he is shot, but police video shows a handgun near the spot where he falls.\n\nSmall protests were held on Thursday evening around Chicago, hours after the city's mayor appealed for calm.\n\nThe video's release follows the fatal police shooting on 11 April of Daunte Wright by an officer in a Minneapolis suburb.\n\nThat shooting has sparked violent protests as the city awaits the outcome of the trial of Derek Chauvin, the officer accused in the death of George Floyd.\n\nThe clip shows the officer jumping out of his squad car and chasing the Latino boy on foot down a dark alley as another suspect disappears from view.\n\nThe policeman shouts: \"Police! Stop! Stop right [expletive] now! Hands! Hands! Show me your [expletive] hands!\"\n\nThe boy turns and raises his hands. The officer shouts \"Drop it\" and fires his weapon - 19 seconds after exiting his squad car.\n\nSeparate CCTV footage appears to show the teenager throwing something through a gap in the fence as the officer runs up to him. Bodycam video shows officers shining a light on a handgun behind the wooden fence after the shooting.\n\nThe policeman calls for an ambulance while urging the fallen boy to \"stay awake\". Other officers arrive at the scene in the Little Village neighbourhood on the city's west side and CPR is performed.\n\nAccording to prosecutors, the teenager was with a 21-year-old man, Ruben Roman, who had just fired a gun at a passing car. The gunfire drew police to the area, resulting in the deadly confrontation.\n\nMr Roman appeared in court on Saturday charged with aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, reckless discharge of a firearm and child endangerment, according to local media reports.\n\nThe Civilian Office of Police Accountability released the bodycam footage on Thursday along with CCTV video, arrest reports and audio recordings of the shots fired in the area that alerted police.\n\nShortly before the video was released, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot held a press conference where she called the footage \"excruciating\" to watch.\n\n\"Simply put, we failed Adam,\" she said. \"And we cannot afford to fail one more young person in our city.\"\n\nChicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said the footage was \"excruciating\" to watch\n\n\"We live in a city that is traumatised by a long history of police violence and misconduct,\" the mayor said. \"So while we don't have enough information to be the judge and jury of this particular situation, it is certainly understandable why so many of our residents are feeling that all too familiar surge of outrage and pain.\"\n\nThe Toledo family also appealed for calm.\n\n\"We have heard reports in the media that more protests are planned today, and while we have no direct knowledge of such events, we pray that for the sake of our city, people remain peaceful to honour Adam's memory and work constructively to promote reform,\" they said in a statement.\n\nOn Thursday night, protestors called on Ms Lightfoot and the city's police superintendent David Brown to resign, alleging that authorities have dragged their feet in sharing information about the case and have not punished the officer involved.\n\nAt a news conference on Thursday, Toledo family lawyer Adeena Weiss Ortiz said the boy had not been holding a gun in the moment he was shot.\n\nBut she said they could not say with \"100% certainty\" whether the teenager had been carrying a weapon just beforehand, the Chicago Tribune reported.\n\nThe officer who fired the fatal shot, Eric Stillman, has not been officially accused of wrongdoing. He has been placed on administrative duty pending the outcome of an inquiry into whether he followed proper procedure on use of force.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Stillman's lawyer said there was \"irrefutable evidence\" his client had done the right thing because \"all prior attempts to deescalate and gain compliance with all of the officer's lawful orders had failed\".\n\nThe attorney added it was \"amazing and disheartening\" that nobody had asked about Mr Stillman's well-being after the incident.\n\nMr Stillman is a 34-year-old military veteran who joined the force in 2015. He has had four use of force reports and three complaints filed against him, according to the Invisible Institute, which publishes data about police misconduct in Chicago.\n\nThe Chicago-Sun Times reports that the Chicago Police Department has been on alert for potential retaliation against officers because the area where Adam Toledo was shot is a stronghold of the Latin Kings street gang.\n\nJohn Catanzara, president of the Chicago Police Union, alleged live on CNN that Toledo was a Latin Kings member and his shooting was \"100% justified\" and \"heroic\".\n\nAccording to a database compiled by the Washington Post Newspaper, 265 people have been killed by police so far this year in the US.", "Food delivery firm Deliveroo has apologised to riders after a software error meant some were overpaid a bonus.\n\nRiders were promised a payout of between £200 to £10,000 after Deliveroo listed its shares in London last month.\n\nA spokesperson for the firm said all rider payments had been halted while the glitch was sorted out, but that riders had all now received the bonus.\n\nMeanwhile, Deliveroo reported that orders and sales more than doubled in the first three months of 2021.\n\nRiders were notified that they would get a bonus which was due to be credited to their app accounts on Tuesday.\n\nDeliveroo said in a statement: \"A technical error meant a small number of riders were offered a higher payment than intended.\n\n\"We have apologised to riders for this confusion. The £16m thank-you fund has been paid in full and is a sign of our appreciation of their contribution.\"\n\nDeliveroo declined to say whether riders who had been paid extra in error would be able to keep additional money.\n\nDeliveroo has been rapidly gaining customers as people have looked for food delivery options during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIn the first three month of the year the number of customers using the delivery firm each month rose by 91% year-on-year to 7.1 million.\n\nBut Deliveroo shares dived when it listed on the London Stock Exchange last month, and fell more than 4% in afternoon trading on Thursday.\n\nThe firm said in a statement it was unsure how much of the quarterly growth was due to lockdown.\n\nBut it still expects full year sales to rise by 30% to 40%.\n\nThe firm is loss making and as this was trading update did not offer guidance on future profits.\n\nFounder and chief executive Will Shu said: \"This is our fourth consecutive quarter of accelerating growth, but we are mindful of the uncertain impact of the lifting of Covid-19 restrictions.\n\n\"So while we are confident that our value proposition will continue to attract consumers, restaurants, grocers and riders throughout 2021, we are taking a prudent approach to our full year guidance.\"\n\nDeliveroo said that orders soared by 121% in the UK in the past three months to 34 million as the pandemic takeaway boom continued during the third national lockdown. In its overseas markets orders were up 108% to 37 million.\n\nHowever, the company said it expects its current rate of growth \"to decelerate as lockdowns ease\", although the extent of the slowdown remains \"uncertain\".\n\nThe update comes weeks after the group's flotation on the London Stock Exchange, which saw the value of its shares cut by a third in a week amid investor concerns over corporate governance and worker rights.\n\nWill Shu said riders value flexibility above all else\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\nMr Shu said on an analyst call on Thursday that self-employment was \"the only way you can give complete rider flexibility, which is what they want\".\n\n\"I'm very supportive of pensions and holiday pay, but in a manner that is congruent with [riders] being able to log in and log out,\" he said. \"I don't personally support one model.\"\n\n\"There is a trade-off between flexibility and security,\" Mr Shu added. \"Riders want to have flexibility and they value that above everything else.\"\n\nIn its update the firm said rider satisfaction in the UK was at an all time high of 89% at the end of March.\n\nMichael Hewson, an analyst at CMC Markets, said: \"This morning's update is certainly encouraging, and shows the business is heading in the right direction.\n\n\"It remains to be seen whether it will be enough to tempt shareholders back on board after the losses [in the share price] seen since the beginning of the month.\"", "Tenby Surgery staff visited Caldey Island by boat to vaccinate the Cistercian monks\n\nFrom sports halls to surgeries and orangeries to old toy shops, people are being vaccinated in all buildings.\n\nYou can add a monastery to that list as the monks who live on an island just off the Welsh coast had their second Covid-19 jab on Wednesday.\n\nStaff from Tenby Surgery sailed over to Caldey Island, less than a mile (1.6 km) off the Pembrokeshire coast, to give the Cistercian monks a full dose.\n\nHealth chiefs said it was one of \"the more unique vaccination clinics\".\n\nThe Cistercian monks, who took up residence on the island in 1929 to lead a life of prayer and quiet living, had their first vaccination during a visit in February.\n\nBut their local surgery staff paid another visit to the island on Wednesday with a dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.\n\nPrior to the Covid pandemic, day guests were allowed to visit the island in the summer season\n\nJabs were also given to other eligible residents of Caldey Island, which is one of the UK's holy islands with a long monastic heritage.\n\n\"This is definitely one of our more unique vaccination clinics to reach our communities and we are pleased to be returning,\" said Jill Paterson of Hywel Dda University health board.", "BBC reporter Sima Kotecha had been preparing for a live broadcast\n\nA man has admitted harassing BBC reporter Sima Kotecha as she prepared to broadcast on live television.\n\nRussell Rawlingson, from Leicester, was originally charged with causing racially-aggravated harassment, alarm or distress, as Ms Kotecha believed his behaviour was \"racist and abusive\".\n\nHowever, he pleaded guilty to a lesser non-racially aggravated version of the offence.\n\nHe is due to be sentenced on 11 May.\n\nNo details were given about what Rawlingson said to Ms Kotecha when he pleaded guilty at Leicester Crown Court.\n\nThe charge was put to him as follows: \"You are charged with racially aggravated intentional harassment, alarm or distress.\n\n\"On 10 May 2020, with intent to cause harassment, alarm or distress, you used threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour towards Sima Kotecha.\"\n\nWhen asked how he pleaded, Rawlingson said: \"Guilty, but not to the racial.\"\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 prosecution did not initially accept his plea to the lesser charge, which meant Rawlinson would have had to stand trial for the original offence, and Ms Kotecha would have had to give evidence in court.\n\nHowever, the prosecution then said Ms Kotecha did not wish it to go to trial, and the plea to the lesser charge was therefore accepted.\n\nThis charge was using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour with intent to cause fear or provoke violence.\n\nRawlingson, 51, of Glenfield Road, Leicester, also entered guilty pleas to offences relating to two other cases.\n\nHe admitted having a bladed article in a public place in June.\n\nHe also pleaded guilty to assaulting an emergency worker and another charge of using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour with intent to cause fear or provoke violence in October.\n\nMs Kotecha had been due to interview people at Leicester's Clock Tower following a government statement on coronavirus lockdown restrictions but the segment was cancelled.\n\nA BBC News spokesperson said: \"It's completely unacceptable that our journalists should suffer abuse for doing their jobs.\n\n\"The BBC stands by our brave and talented correspondent Sima Kotecha, her colleagues, and her guest.\"\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.", "MPs and peers are calling for funding for families forced to buy medicinal cannabis for their children privately.\n\nThe treatment was made legal with a prescription in 2018 for those with an \"exceptional clinical need\".\n\nBut a cross-party letter from 100 politicians says only three NHS prescriptions have been given out since, forcing families to spend thousands on private treatments.\n\nThe government said it sympathised with those facing hard-to-treat conditions.\n\nThe change in law came about after the cases of Alfie Dingley and Billy Caldwell, who had both been denied access to cannabis oil to treat their rare forms of epilepsy.\n\nThe Home Office later granted the boys licences to access the treatment.\n\nBut after a review by experts, the then home secretary Sajid Javid introduced legislation to make it legal for specialist doctors to provide prescriptions for cannabis-derived medicinal products in \"exceptional circumstances\".\n\nOver two years have passed since the law changed, but the All Parliamentary Group on Access to Medical Cannabis Under Prescription said dozens of families were not seeing the benefit.\n\nIn a letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the group's chair, Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi, said instead, parents were having to fund raise up to £2,000 a month to pay for the treatment privately.\n\n\"In any circumstance, this is a severe financial burden for families already having to cope with very sick children and Covid restrictions have rendered most fund-raising impossible,\" she added.\n\n\"The reasons for the lack of NHS prescriptions appear to be complex and will inevitably take time to resolve. However, the families to which we refer simply do not have time.\n\n\"They are emotionally and financially broken and their children are at risk of being without their life-transforming medicine within weeks.\"\n\nBacked by 100 MPs and peers from all parties, Ms Antoniazzi appealed to the PM to \"grant access to some form of compassionate funding until the wider issues can be resolved\".\n\nLabour MP Tonia Antoniazzi has written to the PM on behalf of the families\n\nThe APPG receives help with its administration from campaign group End Our Pain, which has welcomed the intervention.\n\nGroup director Peter Carroll said the situation was \"desperate\" for the families, telling the BBC: \"When the law was changed, we thought as campaigners 'job done', there will be prescriptions - but it didn't happen.\"\n\nHe claimed the advice given out by various medical bodies on prescriptions for the treatment had been \"extremely cautious\", and as a result, \"we are in this crazy situation where it is totally legal, but hardly any specialist doctors will prescribe it\".\n\nBut Mr Carroll said the call for funding for the families was \"the only thing that can work in very short term\".\n\nHe added: \"We can't fight the other battles and win in weeks - the only way forward right now is to give these families the money to pay for prescriptions in the short term.\n\n\"I appeal to the government, give them money, stop them having to do online raffles for fundraising so they can focus on caring for some of the sickest children in the country.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Department of Health and Social Care said: \"We sympathise with every patient and every family courageously confronting life with hard-to-treat conditions.\"\n\nThe spokesman added that after the law was changed in 2018 on prescriptions, the department was considering \"what further action we can take with regard to broader access to unlicensed cannabis-based products, while giving immediate priority to resolving the supply of Bedrocan oils from the Netherlands, which many patients are receiving.\"", "Human cells were grown in an early monkey embryo\n\nMonkey embryos containing human cells have been made in a laboratory, a study has confirmed.\n\nThe research, by a US-Chinese team, has sparked fresh debate into the ethics of such experiments.\n\nThe scientists injected human stem cells - cells that have the ability to develop into many different body tissues - into macaque embryos.\n\nThe developing embryos were studied for up to 20 days.\n\nOther so-called mixed-species embryos, or chimeras, have been produced in the past, with human cells implanted into sheep and pig embryos.\n\nThe scientists were led by Prof Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte of the Salk Institute in the US, who, in 2017, helped make the first human-pig hybrid.\n\nTheir work could pave the way in addressing the severe shortage in transplantable organs as well as help understand more about early human development, disease progression and ageing, he said.\n\n\"These chimeric approaches could be really very useful for advancing biomedical research not just at the very earliest stage of life, but also the latest stage of life.\"\n\nHe maintained that the study, published in the journal Cell, had met the current ethical and legal guidelines.\n\n\"Ultimately, we conduct these studies to understand and improve human health,\" he said.\n\nSome scientists have, however, raised concerns about the experiment, arguing that while the embryos in this case were destroyed at 20 days, others could try to take the work further.\n\nThey are calling for public debate over the implications of creating part human/part nonhuman chimeras.\n\nCommenting on the research, Dr Anna Smajdor, lecturer and researcher in biomedical ethics at the University of East Anglia's Norwich Medical School, said it posed \"significant ethical and legal challenges\".\n\nShe added: \"The scientists behind this research state that these chimeric embryos offer new opportunities, because 'we are unable to conduct certain types of experiments in humans'. But whether these embryos are human or not is open to question.\"\n\nProf Julian Savulescu, director of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and co-director of the Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities, University of Oxford, said the research \"opens Pandora's box to human-nonhuman chimeras\".\n\nHe added: \"These embryos were destroyed at 20 days of development but it is only a matter of time before human-nonhuman chimeras are successfully developed, perhaps as a source of organs for humans. That is one of the long-term goals of this research.\"\n\nSarah Norcross, director of the Progress Educational Trust, said that while \"substantial advances\" are being made in embryo and stem cell research, which could bring equally substantial benefits, \"there is a clear need for public discussion and debate about the ethical and regulatory challenges raised\".", "Thousands of people are dying every day in Brazil with Covid-19 Image caption: Thousands of people are dying every day in Brazil with Covid-19\n\nBrazil's \"failed Covid-19 response\" is driving the country to a \"humanitarian catastrophe\", the international charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has said.\n\nThe country has seen a sharp rise in cases and deaths in recent weeks, fuelled by more transmissible variants of the virus and a lack of co-ordinated national measures. President Jair Bolsonaro has strongly opposed imposing a lockdown, despite growing calls from health experts, and criticised state governors and mayors for announcing local restrictions.\n\n\"The federal government has all but refused to adopt evidence-based comprehensive public health guidelines, leaving Brazil's dedicated medical staff to manage the sickest in intensive care units and improvise solutions when beds are unavailable,\" MSF's international president Dr Christos Christou said in a statement.\n\n\"This has put Brazil into a permanent state of mourning and led to the near collapse of Brazil's health system.\"\n\nThe virus continues to circulate across the country and the situation is unlikely to improve in April as some states and cities are already easing restrictions, according to the health institute Fiocruz.\n\nPatients with Covid-19 are occupying more than 90% of intensive care beds in most states, Fiocruz said, while some parts of the country have reported short supplies of oxygen and anaesthetics needed to help patients with serious complications.\n\nThe country recorded 73,513 new cases and 3,459 deaths in 24 hours on Wednesday, according to the health ministry. As the pandemic rages, hundreds of babies and young children have died, as our colleagues Nathalia Passarinho and Luis Barrucho from BBC Brasil report.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has promised to provide a \"transformational\" increase in NHS funding if the SNP wins the election.\n\nSpeaking as she launched the party's manifesto, Ms Sturgeon said frontline NHS spending would increase by at least 20% over the next five years - which she said would total £2.5bn.\n\nThe SNP leader repeated her call for an independence referendum to be held within the next parliamentary term.\n\nBut added it would be a \"dereliction of duty\" to do so during the pandemic.\n\nThe manifesto also promises a £10bn investment programme in NHS facilities, and a minimum 25% rise in mental health spending.\n\nAnd it pledges to abolish NHS dental charges, which Ms Sturgeon said would \"ensure that cost is not a barrier to accessing health care\".\n\nIn a video speech to coincide with its publication, Ms Sturgeon said the coronavirus pandemic had \"turned life as we know it upside down\".\n\nMs Sturgeon received her first Covid vaccination jab at the NHS Louisa Jordan in the SSE Hydro in Glasgow after launching her party's manifesto\n\nBut she said her party was putting forward \"unashamedly optimistic\" proposals that would \"build a better nation\" rather than return things to how they were before.\n\nAnd she described the manifesto as a \"serious programme for serious times\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said: \"If the SNP is re-elected, we will use our experience to undertake a full-scale post-pandemic remobilisation of the NHS.\n\n\"Investment in the NHS is already at record levels. But the pandemic has placed exceptional pressures on our NHS - and that requires an exceptional response.\n\n\"Over the next parliament, we will increase frontline NHS spending by at least 20%. This will deliver an additional £2.5bn for frontline health services - and is almost double what an inflation-only increase would amount to.\"\n\nWhat's 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 government. Find out more here.\n\nWhat powers do they have? MSPs pass laws on aspects of life in Scotland such as health, education and transport - and have some powers over tax and welfare benefits.\n\nWho can vote? Anyone who lives in Scotland, is registered to vote and aged 16 or over on 6 May is eligible. You can register to vote online.\n\nThe first minister admitted that her government had made mistakes in response to Covid-19, but insisted that it had learned from those errors.\n\nShe added: \"A year ago, we had to act fast without the knowledge we have now about this virus - and without the benefit of the hindsight we have today.\n\n\"I know we didn't get every decision right, but we have done our level best and we have learned from experience.\n\n\"It is that combination of commitment and experience that I believe is so vital for these times.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Sturgeon also said her government would \"move towards what is known as a minimum income guarantee\".\n\nShe said the first step would to establish independently assessed minimum income standards.\n\nMs Sturgeon added: \"We will then identify the extent to which we can use our existing powers over social security, as well as our investments in fair work, childcare and public services to ensure that people meet these income standards.\n\n\"We will lay the foundation for the introduction of a Citizens' Basic Income should Scotland choose to become independent and gain the tax and social security powers that are necessary to make that a reality.\"\n\nThe SNP plan to increase NHS spending by at least £2.5bn over the next five years goes beyond the £2bn minimum promised by the Conservatives.\n\nThere is no doubt that this would be a significant uplift - almost twice the rate of inflation. But it is not money for nothing.\n\nThe SNP wants the NHS to work harder, to increase treatment activity by 10% compared to pre-pandemic levels to help clear the big backlog of cases caused by covid.\n\nTo achieve that and meet the rising costs of healthcare plus a 4% pay rise for many health workers, increased spending on mental health and the abolition of charges for dentistry - the NHS will have no trouble spending more money.\n\nBy prioritising the NHS in its plans for recovery from the pandemic, the SNP is aligning itself with the public service that is most popular with and highly valued by Scottish voters.\n\nOn a second referendum, Ms Sturgeon said it was \"vital\" that people who live in Scotland were able to decide the future that they want.\n\nBut she stressed that she was not proposing holding a referendum while the country was still grappling with the Covid crisis.\n\nMs Sturgeon said: \"That would be a dereliction of my duty as first minister to dedicate all of my energies to leading us through the crisis.\n\n\"But it would also be a dereliction of my duty as first minister - my duty to this and future generations - to let Westminster take Scotland so far in the wrong direction that we no longer have the option to change course.\n\n\"So, it is my judgment that the people of Scotland should decide Scotland's future through an independence referendum in the next term of parliament.\"\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\nThe UK government has repeatedly refused to give its backing to a referendum, with Prime Minister Boris Johnson insisting that the vote held in 2014 settled the matter for a generation.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said the SNP wanted to \"put a referendum roadblock in front of Scotland's recovery\".\n\nHe added: \"This is a manifesto to create a new crisis at the earliest opportunity, when we're going to be tackling the health and economic crisis for years to come.\"\n\nScottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme that stopping the SNP winning an overall majority in the election was \"crucial\".\n\nHe said this was because it would force the government to focus entirely on the coronavirus recovery rather than on an independence referendum.\n\nScottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie said the country was still waiting for the SNP to deliver promises they had made in 2007.\n\nMr Rennie said: \"They have a one-track mind for independence that prevents them getting anything else done.\"\n\nThe Scottish Greens, who are the only other major party to have launched their manifesto so far, want to see a referendum held during the next Holyrood term if there is a \"simple majority\" of MSPs in favour of one.\n\nThe party said independence \"is now our route back to EU membership\" and would give Scotland \"the powers and potential to be a leader in the transition to a zero-carbon economy\".", "Immunisation record cards like this could be supplemented with certificates acting as passports to certain events\n\nIntroducing Covid status certificates to help reopen society risks discriminating against some groups, the UK equality watchdog has warned.\n\nThe Equality and Human Rights Commission says certificates to prove who is vaccinated could help to ease restrictions \"in principle\".\n\nBut they could create a \"two-tier society whereby only certain groups are able to fully enjoy their rights\".\n\nBlanket mandatory vaccination policies are \"likely to be unlawful\", it added.\n\nThe independent commission says Covid status certificates - sometimes called Covid passports - could discriminate against marginalised groups where take-up of the vaccine is lower, as well as the small number of people who cannot have the vaccine for medical reasons.\n\nRequiring the certificates for travel, going to work, enjoying social activities or accessing essential services could risk further excluding people from some ethnic minority groups, migrants and people from lower socio-economic groups, the watchdog said.\n\nBaroness Kishwer Falkner, chair of the EHRC, said if the certificates are introduced, they must be time-limited and regularly reviewed by Parliament to ensure they are proportionate. She said those who cannot take the vaccine must have easy access to exemption documentation.\n\n\"We would monitor the rollout to ensure the right balance is struck between protecting the public's health and our individual freedoms,\" she said.\n\nMore than 32m people in the UK have now received a first dose of the vaccine, and more than 8m have received both doses. The government has said it is on course to offer a first dose to all adults by the end of July.\n\nMinisters have suggested that Covid status certificates would be introduced for a limited time only, and that they would allow people to record whether they had been vaccinated, recently tested negative or had natural immunity from a confirmed infection in the last six months.\n\nThe FA Cup final in May is one large-scale event where certification will be trialled.\n\nThe equality watchdog also raised concerns about proposals to make vaccination a condition of employment for some workers.\n\nJust under 79% of care home staff in England have been vaccinated - prompting a proposal to make it compulsory\n\nMandatory vaccination is a \"significant departure from current public health policy\" and it might lead to employers placing contractual requirements on staff to have other vaccinations, such as the flu jab, the EHRC said.\n\nIt said \"a blanket policy requiring workers to be vaccinated, applied inflexibly, is likely to be unlawful\" because there are a small number of people who are not able to be vaccinated.\n\nThey include people with severe allergies to ingredients in the vaccine, while pregnant women cannot routinely be offered Covid vaccines, the EHRC said.\n\nAny policy would also need to reflect the progress of the vaccine rollout, so it does not discriminate against younger people who have not been offered immunisation yet.\n\nThe watchdog said that, with a few exceptions, it is against the law for an employer to ask questions about a job applicant's health - including vaccination status - before making an offer of employment.\n\nA job advert which requires Covid-19 vaccination may be seen as discriminating against pregnant women who cannot be vaccinated, which would also be against the law, the EHRC said.\n\nMinisters are considering a proposal to require care home staff to be vaccinated in order to protect vulnerable residents, as nearly half of all care homes for older adults do not meet the recommended vaccination threshold.\n\nCare home staff who cannot take the vaccine for medical reasons would be exempt from the plan, however.\n\nThe chairman of Pimlico Plumbers, a large plumbing firm employing self-employed contractors in London, has also said the company plans to rewrite its workers' contracts to require them to be vaccinated against Covid-19.\n\nAny mandatory vaccine policy must be \"objectively justified\" and applied in a way that is \"proportionate\", it said.", "Arlene Foster says Dr Christian Jessen's tweet was \"meant to destabilise me\"\n\nDemocratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Arlene Foster is suing TV presenter Dr Christian Jessen for defamation, saying he made an \"attack\" on her marriage.\n\nOn 23 December 2019, Dr Jessen tweeted an allegation that Mrs Foster had been having an extra-marital affair.\n\nThe post remained online until Dr Jessen deleted it on 7 January 2020.\n\nOn Wednesday Mrs Foster told the High Court in Belfast it had been a \"very humiliating\" time for her. Judgement has been reserved in the case.\n\nMrs Foster is a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for Fermanagh and South Tyrone and the first minister of Northern Ireland.\n\nDr Jessen is best known for presenting Channel Four programme Embarrassing Bodies.\n\nThere was no representation on behalf of Dr Jessen in court on Wednesday and the court was told 13 separate approaches by letter and email to Dr Jessen had gone \"unanswered\".\n\nGiving evidence to the court, Mrs Foster said she had initially been made aware of the tweet by her director of communications, who handles her social media accounts.\n\nThe first minister described it as \"an attack on me personally and my marriage, meant to destabilise me at a very critical time\".\n\nAt that time Mrs Foster was heavily involved in talks to restore power-sharing in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe court was told Dr Jessen's tweet was published at about the same time that anonymous Twitter users were claiming that Mrs Foster had been having an affair with one of her security guards.\n\nShe said having to explain to her husband what had happened was \"very upsetting\".\n\n\"It was very humiliating to see that the relationship that's most important to me had been trashed if you like and put out there in the public domain in that fashion,\" she told the court.\n\n\"One of the things that gives me stability is my home relationship - it was almost as if this cut to the very core of my life.\"\n\nThe court heard Dr Jessen had more than 300,000 followers on Twitter in December 2019 and that the tweet had been retweeted more than 500 times.\n\nMrs Foster said \"there wasn't much sleep on the night of the 23rd\" of December when the tweet was posted and that she had to have conversations with her children, husband and mother about what was happening.\n\nShe said her family had attended church together on Christmas Day and that she later found out that a journalist had contacted her church minister to ask how her family \"had appeared\" that day.\n\nThe court was also told Dr Jessen's tweet had referred to Mrs Foster as \"the sanctity of marriage preaching woman\", adding: \"It always comes back to bite them on the arse in the end.\"\n\nIt was in relation to the DUP's opposition to same-sex marriage.\n\nAsked if she believed in the sanctity of marriage, Mrs Foster said she did but rejected accusations that she was homophobic.\n\nThe judge said there was a \"big difference between holding strong religious views on the sanctity of marriage and having an irrational hatred of homosexuals\", and said the DUP leader would have been aware of that.\n\nMrs Foster replied: \"I do get distressed when people call me a homophobe because that's something I am not.\n\n\"I have many friends who are homosexual, they know my views and in any event same-sex marriage is now the law in Northern Ireland and has to be upheld.\n\n\"I have never in my own utterances said anything in relation with people who are homosexual and that's why I do get upset when people call me a homophobe.\"\n\nShe told the court she did not know Dr Jessen and that even when he had removed the tweet there was \"no acknowledgment of wrong-doing\".\n\nMrs Foster's barrister David Ringland QC said a solicitor for the DUP leader had contacted Dr Jessen on Twitter instructing him to remove the post on 24 December but he had refused to do so.\n\nMr Ringland said the tweet was not removed until 7 January, when Dr Jessen responded to follow-up requests in a \"pithy email\".\n\nThe court was told Dr Jessen had said he did not agree with the suggestion his claim gave rise to defamation and that he had removed it without admission of liability.\n\nMr Ringland said there was \"no correction, retraction or apology\" and that Dr Jessen had taken a \"head-in-the-sand approach\".\n\nThe judge reserved judgement but said he would seek to deal with the case as a \"matter of urgency\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Are the Taliban preparing for peace or more war?\n\nDriving to Taliban-controlled territory doesn't take long. Around 30 minutes from the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif, passing large craters left by roadside bombs, we meet our host: Haji Hekmat, the Taliban's shadow mayor in Balkh district.\n\nPerfumed and in a black turban, he's a veteran member of the group, having first joined the militants in the 1990s when they ruled over the majority of the country.\n\nThe Taliban have arranged a display of force for us. Lined up on either side of the street are heavily armed men, one carrying a rocket propelled grenade launcher, another an M4 assault rifle captured from US forces. Balkh was once one of the more stable parts of the country; now it's become one of the most violent.\n\nBaryalai, a local military commander with a ferocious reputation, points down the road, \"the government forces are just there by the main market, but they can't leave their bases. This territory belongs to the mujahideen\".\n\nIt's a similar picture across much of Afghanistan: the government controls the cities and bigger towns, but the Taliban are encircling them, with a presence in large parts of the countryside.\n\nThe militants assert their authority through sporadic checkpoints along key roads. As Taliban members stop and question passing cars, Aamir Sahib Ajmal, the local head of the Taliban's intelligence service, tells us they're searching for people linked to the government.\n\n\"We will arrest them, and take them prisoner,\" he says. \"Then we hand them over to our courts and they decide what will happen next.\"\n\nThe Taliban believe victory is theirs. Sitting over a cup of green tea, Haji Hekmat proclaims, \"we have won the war and America has lost\". The decision by US President Joe Biden to delay the withdrawal of remaining US forces to September, meaning they will remain in the country past the 1 May deadline agreed last year, has sparked a sharp reaction from the Taliban's political leadership. Nonetheless, momentum seems to be with the militants.\n\n\"We are ready for anything,\" says Haji Hekmat. \"We are totally prepared for peace, and we are fully prepared for jihad.\" Sitting next to him, a military commander adds: \"Jihad is an act of worship. Worship is something that, however much of it you do, you don't get tired.\"\n\nHaji Hekmat, the Taliban's shadow mayor in Balkh district, joined the group in the 1990s\n\nFor the past year, there has been an apparent contradiction in the Taliban's \"jihad\". They stopped attacks on international forces following the signing of an agreement with the US, but continued to fight with the Afghan government. Haji Hekmat, though, insists there is no contradiction. \"We want an Islamic government ruled by the Sharia. We will continue our jihad until they accept our demands.\"\n\nOn whether or not the Taliban would be willing to share power with other Afghan political factions, Haji Hekmat defers to the group's political leadership in Qatar. \"Whatever they decide we will accept,\" he repeatedly says.\n\nThe Taliban don't see themselves as a mere rebel group, but as a government-in-waiting. They refer to themselves as the \"Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,\" the name they used when in power from 1996 until being overthrown in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks.\n\nNow, they have a sophisticated \"shadow\" structure, with officials in charge of overseeing everyday services in the areas they control. Haji Hekmat, the Taliban mayor, takes us on a tour.\n\nWe're shown a primary school, filled with young boys and girls scribbling in UN-donated textbooks. While in power in the 1990s, the Taliban banned female education, though they often deny that. Even now, there are reports that in other areas older girls are not allowed to attend classes. But here at least the Taliban say they're actively encouraging it.\n\n\"As long as they wear hijab, it's important for them to study,\" says Mawlawi Salahuddin, in charge of the Taliban's local education commission. In secondary schools, he says, only female teachers are allowed, and the veil is mandatory. \"If they follow the Sharia, there is no problem.\"\n\nSome fear girls will be denied access to education if the Taliban take power again\n\nLocal sources told us the Taliban removed art and citizenship classes from the curriculum, replacing them with Islamic subjects, but otherwise follow the national syllabus.\n\nSo do the Taliban send their own daughters to school? \"My daughter's very young, but when she grows up, I will send her to school and the madrassa, as long as it's implementing the hijab and Sharia,\" says Salahuddin.\n\nThe government pays the salaries of staff, but the Taliban are in charge. It's a hybrid system in place across the country.\n\nAt a nearby health clinic, run by an aid organisation, it's a similar story. The Taliban allow female staff to work, but they must have a male chaperone at night, and the male and female patients have been segregated. Contraception and information about family planning is readily available.\n\nThe Taliban clearly want us to see them in a more positive light. When we drive past a crowd of schoolgirls making their way home, Haji Hekmat gestures excitedly, proud to be contradicting our expectations. Concerns over the Taliban's views on women's rights remain, however. The group has no female representation at all, and in the 1990s prevented women from working outside the home.\n\nWomen are allowed to work at this local health clinic, but have male chaperones at night\n\nDriving through the villages in Balkh district, we do see plenty of women, not all of whom are wearing the all-encompassing burqa, walking around freely. At the local bazaar, however, there are none. Haji Hekmat insists there is no ban on them, though in a conservative society he says they generally wouldn't attend in any case.\n\nWe are accompanied by the Taliban at all times, and the few local residents we speak to all profess their support for the group, and gratitude to them for improving security and decreasing crime. \"When the government were in control, they used to jail our people and demand bribes to free them,\" says one elderly man. \"Our people suffered a lot, now we are happy with the situation.\"\n\nThe Taliban's ultra-conservative values do clash less with those in more rural areas, but many, particularly in the cities, fear they want to resurrect the brutal Islamic Emirate of the 1990s, undercutting freedoms that many young people have grown up with over the past two decades.\n\nOne local resident spoke to us later, on condition of anonymity, and told us the Taliban were far stricter than they admitted in our interviews. He described villagers being slapped or beaten for shaving their beards, or having stereos smashed for listening to music. \"People have no choice but to do what they say,\" he told the BBC, \"even over minor issues they get physical. People are scared.\"\n\nOne resident told the BBC people are frightened into obeying the local Taliban\n\nHaji Hekmat was part of the Taliban in the 1990s. While the younger fighters milling around us are happy snapping photos and selfies, he initially moves to cover his face with his turban when he sees our camera. \"Old habits,\" he says with a grin, before later allowing us to film his face. Under the Taliban's old regime, photography was banned.\n\nDid they make mistakes when in power, I ask him? Would they behave in the same way again now?\n\n\"The Taliban before and the Taliban now are the same. So comparing that time and now - nothing has changed,\" says Haji Hekmat. \"But,\" he adds, \"there are changes in personnel of course. Some people are harsher and some are calmer. That's normal.\"\n\nThe Taliban have appeared to be deliberately vague about what they mean by the \"Islamic government\" they want to create. Some analysts see that as a deliberate attempt to avoid internal frictions between hardline and more moderate elements. Can they both accommodate those with different views and not alienate their own base? Coming into power could prove their biggest test.\n\nAs we eat a lunch of chicken and rice, we hear the rumble of at least four separate airstrikes in the distance. Haji Hekmat is unperturbed. \"It's far away, don't worry,\" he says.\n\nAirpower, particularly that provided by the Americans, has been crucial over the years in holding back the Taliban's advance. The US already drastically cut back its military operations after signing an agreement with the Taliban last year, and many fear that following their withdrawal the Taliban will be placed to launch a military takeover of the country.\n\nHaji Hekmat derides the Afghan government, or \"Kabul administration\" as the Taliban refer to it, as corrupt and un-Islamic. It's hard to see how men like him will reconcile with others in the country, unless it's on their own terms.\n\n\"This is jihad,\" he says, \"it is worship. We don't do it for power but for Allah and His law. To bring Sharia to this country. Whoever stands against us we will fight against them.\"", "The first model will be a mini version of the Tesla Roadster.\n\nMatchbox is launching a series of toy cars based on real-life electric vehicles and making some using recycled materials as part of a global relaunch.\n\nThe first will be a mini version of the Tesla Roadster and will be followed by other models along with scaled-down charging stations.\n\nThe toymaker wants to raise awareness among children of the environmental impact of motoring.\n\nOther firms, including Lego, are also bringing out more sustainable toys.\n\nOther Matchbox cars being launched will be based on electric and hybrid vehicles made by Nissan, Toyota and BMW. The Tesla Roadster will be the first die-cast model made from 99% recycled materials and will go on sale next year.\n\nThe toy car is made from recycled zinc and plastic with just 1% from non-recycled stainless steel. It will come in zero-plastic packaging made from paper and wood fibre.\n\nThe aim of the sets is to raise \"environmental consciousness\" among children, and \"empower the next generation of Matchbox fans to help steer us towards a sustainable future,\" Roberto Stanichi, global head of vehicles at Mattel, told the BBC.\n\n\"Since the inception of the modern-day die-cast car nearly 70 years ago, Matchbox has been using design and innovation to connect kids with the real world around them through play,\" he added.\n\nThe formerly UK-based Matchbox, which is now owned by US toymaker Mattel, was created in 1953 and sells more than 40 million die-cast vehicles each year.\n\nMattel, which also owns the Hot Wheels brand, plans to use 100% recycled, recyclable or bio-based plastic materials in the manufacturing of all its products and packaging by 2030.\n\nLego has said it will start replacing plastic packaging with paper bags this year as the toy brick maker aims to become more sustainable.\n\nThe Danish company said it had been prompted by letters from children asking it to remove the single-use plastic bags.\n\nLego will also be investing up to $400m (£310m) over three years to improve its sustainability efforts.\n\nLego bricks themselves are made of plastic, although the company is exploring alternative materials.\n\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.", "Sir David Attenborough has urged people to remember their impact on the natural world, ahead of his new documentary on the impacts of lockdown on nature.\n\nHe spoke to the BBC's David Shukman about his hopes for the project, the upcoming global climate summit and his young fan base.", "The distinctive \"Jenners\" is normally seen at the top of the department store building\n\nThe owner of Edinburgh's Jenners building has begun an investigation after signs bearing its name were removed from the landmark shop.\n\nWitnesses spotted the distinctive gold-coloured lettering being taken down on Wednesday.\n\nA spokesman for the Danish billionaire Anders Holch Povlsen, who owns the listed building, said they were \"very surprised\" the signs had been removed.\n\nFrasers Group, which operates the store, has been asked for comment.\n\nCity of Edinburgh Council said it was also investigating whether the removal of the signs was a breach of planning rules \"given the historical significance of the building\".\n\n\"We'll take action if appropriate,\" Neil Gardiner, the planning convener added.\n\nThe signs had been removed when this photograph was taken on Thursday\n\nThe Jenners building has occupied a prime location on Princes Street for 183 years.\n\nIt was bought by Mr Povlsen - who is one of Scotland's biggest landowners - in 2017, reportedly for £53m.\n\nThe store is currently operated by the Mike Ashley's Frasers Group, which owns the commercial rights to the Jenners trading name.\n\nIt said it would be quitting the site in May after the two sides were unable to come to an agreement.\n\nAnders Krogh Vogdrup - the director of AAA United, which owns the Jenners building - told BBC Scotland: \"We are very surprised seeing the signage being taken down. We are convinced that the signage is part of the listed building.\n\n\"We have not discussed any such step with Sports Direct, and certainly not given any authorisation to do so. We will look in to this matter, contacting Sports Direct.\n\n\"We can only once again emphasise that the Jenners building of Edinburgh is an institution and, despite the changing face of retail, it is our aspiration that there will continue to be a retail store for as long as we are its stewards.\n\n\"Our involvement in the Jenners building, is first and foremost about helping to preserve a unique historic building in Edinburgh. Already when we acquired the building, we knew that it came with a great deal of responsibility.\n\n\"Jenners is an iconic building in Edinburgh, and we take the responsibility very seriously. \"\n\nThe building owner is currently in advanced talks with a new tenant to move into the department store.", "Police released images of Mohammed Ali Ege while he was in police custody in India in 2013\n\nPolice hunting a fugitive wanted in connection with the 2010 murder of a 17-year-old boy in south Wales are following up new information.\n\nAamir Siddiqi was hacked to death at his home in Cardiff 11 years ago after his killers went to the wrong house.\n\nMohammed Ali Ege, 43, fled to India before detectives in Wales could arrest him in connection with the murder.\n\nSouth Wales Police say he is Wales' most wanted man and released new images of him earlier this week.\n\nMr Ege was arrested in India in 2011 on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder.\n\nBut he escaped custody in 2017 while in a New Delhi railway station toilet as police officers prepared to extradite him back to the UK.\n\nAamir Siddiqi had been offered a place to study law at university and was was described as a \"bright, gentle and courteous boy\"\n\nOfficers said the pictures of Mr Ege, who is from the Riverside area of Cardiff, were taken while he was in custody in 2013 and they were released earlier this week with an appeal for information.\n\nIt comes 11 years after Aamir was murdered in front of his parents as he waited for his Quran teacher at his home in Roath.\n\n\"Information has been received as a result of a recent public appeal and South Wales Police wishes to thank those individuals who have taken the time to make contact,\" South Wales Police said in a statement.\n\nBen Hope and Jason Richards were convicted of murder at Swansea Crown Court\n\nJason Richards and Ben Hope were jailed for a minimum of 40 years in 2013.\n\nThe pair had been paid £1,000 by a businessman, angry over a collapsed property deal, to kill a father-of-four who lived in a neighbouring street.\n\nThe judge in their trial described Aamir as a \"bright, gentle and courteous boy who was much loved by his family\".\n\nFour years after his escape, Mr Ege's current whereabouts remain unknown\n\n\"We continue to work with the National Crime Agency and international law enforcement agencies to trace Mr Ege and return him to the UK,\" the police statement added.\n\nDetectives said Aamir's family continue to be updated and supported by specially-trained officers and anyone with information is asked to contact police, or report it via the police website.", "Rebecca Bostock, from Winchcombe in Gloucestershire, said she was in pain for 16 months\n\nA rare, undiagnosed medical condition left a woman in \"excruciating\" pain for 16 months before an emergency operation saved her life.\n\nRebecca Bostock began to experience stomach swelling and had problems keeping down food in January 2020.\n\nThe mystery complaint was eventually found to be Superior Mesenteric Artery Syndrome (SMAS) when she was rushed into hospital on Good Friday this year.\n\n\"I don't want anyone to go through what I went through,\" she said.\n\nThe 32-year-old underwent an emergency operation after her stomach swelled up so much she was struggling to breathe\n\nMs Bostock, 32, underwent the emergency operation at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital where nurses told her they had only treated three cases of SMAS in 27 years, and that the condition affects fewer than 1% of the population.\n\nShe was told that if she had not been rushed into hospital for treatment on that day, then she may not have survived.\n\n\"My stomach was swollen so much that I couldn't breathe, I was being sick and couldn't keep any medication down,\" she said.\n\n\"I was on a downward spiral. They took me into imaging and diagnosed SMAS and I was taken away for the operation.\n\n\"They said I needed the operation straight away or I wouldn't survive even a couple more hours,\" she said.\n\nRebecca's weight dropped by almost three stone as her body rejected food\n\nBefore the operation, Ms Bostock, from Winchcombe, said she had been in pain for 16 months, with stomach swelling, fever, sickness, diarrhoea and dizziness. She also lost almost three stone in weight.\n\nShe visited GPs and the emergency department several times but was told the pain was likely to be caused by endometriosis or irritable bowel syndrome.\n\n\"I was referred to a gynaecologist around the time of the first lockdown but everything shut down and I didn't see one for months.\n\n\"I was advised to change my diet, which seemed to help at first, but then the symptoms deteriorated again to the point where I struggled to walk and couldn't breathe.\"\n\nMs Bostock was taken to hospital by fiance Chris Turton on Good Friday when her condition worsened significantly\n\nSMAS is a condition affecting the digestive system, which occurs when part of the small intestine is compressed between two arteries, causing a partial or complete blockage.\n\nThe operation involved releasing the blockage to open the pathway, or \"re-plumbing\" the stomach as Ms Bostock was told by her surgeon.\n\nShe is still unable to eat solid foods but hopes to introduce them to her diet soon and wants to raise awareness of the rare condition so that others can learn to spot the signs earlier.\n\nRebecca hopes to use her experience of suffering from the condition to prevent others having to go through what she did\n\n\"I want to tell my story to raise awareness I feel blessed and relieved,\" she said.\n\n\"I'm so thankful to the doctors and nurses who saved my life. I get so emotional thinking about it and I can't thank them enough.\n\n\"It is so rare and even doctors don't know about it, so helping people to spot the signs and be able to rule it out is so important.\"\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 Tennis\n\nBritish number one Dan Evans claimed the biggest win of his career by beating Novak Djokovic in the last 16 of the Monte Carlo Masters.\n\nEvans, who has struggled on clay in recent times, started superbly against the world number one, breaking him in his first two service games.\n\nHe was able to wrap up the opening set before Djokovic fought back at the start of the second.\n\nBut Evans recovered and held his nerve to wrap up a 6-4 7-5 win.\n\nIt was Djokovic's first defeat of 2021 and Evans will face world number 15 David Goffin of Belgium in his first Masters Series quarter-final.\n\n\"He gave away some cheap ones today, which he never normally does. But I'm just really happy,\" said Evans.\n\n\"He kept me waiting a little bit in the changing room at the start of the match. That got me a bit extra fired up.\n\n\"My game plan was to try to bring him forward and have him hit the ball low in the court.\n\n\"It was difficult to get to the net and I felt sometimes I was doing too much running.\n\n\"But I also thought I did a good job to get out of my service games. He had so many break points and didn't take them, so I was a little lucky there.\"\n\nIn the first meeting between the pair, Evans started aggressively and took advantage of some sloppy play from the 18-time Grand Slam winner.\n\nHe led 3-0 before Djokovic made it 3-2, but a lengthy sixth game put Evans 4-2 up.\n\nHis chance in the set looked to have gone when a Djokovic break levelled it at 4-4 but another careless service game from the Serb gave the Briton hope and he held serve to take the set on his third set point.\n\nDjokovic raced into a 3-0 lead in the second set but Evans showed great determination to level it at 3-3.\n\nEvans saved a set point in the 10th game; then a dramatic double fault gave the Briton the chance to serve out for the win and he made no mistake.\n\n\"To be honest, this has been one of the worst matches from my side I can recall in the last few years,\" said Djokovic, who finished with 45 unforced errors.\n\n\"I felt awful on the court overall. Nothing worked. Just one of those days.\n\n\"It was just an awful performance. I can't take any positives away from this match. It definitely leaves a bitter feeling exiting the court this way.\n\n\"He deserved to win. He was a better player. He was just more focused I guess and played with a better quality in the decisive moments.\n\n\"He's really a nice player to watch, not a great player to play against. Lots of talent. He's very unpredictable with his shots. He dismantled my game.\"\n\nDjokovic started and finished very poorly, but this was a sublime clay court performance by a player who had previously won just four clay court matches at tour level in his entire career.\n\nEvans is the first man to beat the world number one and Australian Open champion this year.\n\nHis unpredictable style was underpinned by some fine serving. Djokovic says he has not been feeling great for the past 24 hours, but also conceded Evans \"dismantled his game\".\n\nThe British number one's surprising run in Monte Carlo has come at just the right time, as Evans had lost five of his six matches since winning a first ATP title in Melbourne in February.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None Hard-hitting drama on the epidemic that hit 1980s Los Angeles\n• None Revealing the charismatic man behind the microphone", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Carbon zero push \"for me and my kids\"\n\nMajor industries across south Wales have joined forces to work out how to slash their carbon emissions over the next 20 years.\n\nIt is a \"massive challenge\" that could protect tens of thousands of jobs while creating many more, they say.\n\nThe region is currently the second-largest emitter of greenhouse gases from industry in the UK.\n\nHopes of ending Wales' contribution to global warming by 2050 will partly rely on this effort.\n\nSteelworks, oil refining, cement and chemical firms are among those working alongside energy companies, ports, universities and local councils on the £40m project to create a \"roadmap to net zero\" carbon emissions for industry in south Wales.\n\nIt will allow them to see where resources and infrastructure are needed for businesses to transition to a greener way of working.\n\nIt is likely to lead to more renewable electricity generation and a surge in production of clean hydrogen fuel.\n\nThat will have a knock-on effect for homeowners, who could then also be linked up to hydrogen supplies and start using it for heating.\n\nEngineering studies will also focus on developing carbon capture technologies at sites where it is considered impossible to completely stop generating CO2.\n\nCould waste CO2 one day be shipped offshore and stored beneath the North Sea?\n\nThe project's organisers suggested this could eventually result in the UK's first CO2 shipping industry, with boats transporting the gas from the region's ports to be buried underground in the North Sea.\n\nAs much as it is about helping fight climate change, this hugely complex rewiring of heavy industry is vital if it is to survive.\n\nThe companies involved in the South Wales Industrial Cluster project (SWIC) employ a combined workforce of more than 100,000 people.\n\nOther parts of the UK are also ploughing ahead with decarbonisation plans and the fear is firms could decide to relocate.\n\nChris Williams, head of industrial decarbonisation for Industry Wales and the SWIC project's lead, said its impact could be \"huge\".\n\nChris Williams said, without action, the region risked losing out to areas that developed \"net zero infrastructure\"\n\n\"It's so important for us in south Wales to try and maintain our industries and accelerate as quickly as we can down the decarbonisation route,\" he said.\n\n\"If we're not developing the net-zero infrastructure that these industries are going to need then the risk is we will lose them to the regions that are.\"\n\nEach business faced its own options and challenges for cutting emissions, he said, and this was largely down to where they were located and the resources available nearby.\n\n\"By working as a group we have the ability to more easily help define the regional infrastructure to make sure it can provide what each individual industry needs to decarbonise.\"\n\nMapping out opportunities for more clean power sources using offshore wind, wave and tidal schemes, is one part of the plan.\n\nExcess electricity could then also be used to produce hydrogen fuel for zero-emission heating and transport.\n\nMilford Haven in Pembrokeshire is seen as a potential \"hydrogen gateway\" for the UK, while another \"hydrogen hub\" is already being set up on Anglesey, attached to marine energy projects there.\n\nWind, wave and tidal schemes \"represent an incredible opportunity for sustainable decarbonisation\", says Jessica Hooper\n\nJessica Hooper, programme manager at Marine Energy Wales, said sustainable energy projects could be driven forward quickly if demand from industry was linked up with the renewable energy potential in the Atlantic, reducing reliance on imports of oil and gas.\n\n\"Wind, wave and tidal really represent an incredible opportunity for sustainable decarbonisation - turning our heavy industry into pathfinder projects that could act as an exemplar for the world,\" she said.\n\nOnce hydrogen is being supplied to large industries, nearby homes could be the first to switch to the cleaner fuel too, explained Sarah Williams, director of regulation at Wales & West Utilities, which is in charge of the region's gas network.\n\nA total of 85% of homes currently use natural gas - which creates carbon emissions - for heating and hot water.\n\n\"The really great thing is that if we can deliver hydrogen to industry then we can actually start thinking about getting it to customers' homes too,\" she said, adding that there were \"a really exciting couple of decades ahead\".\n\nWaste CO2 is being harnessed in a pilot project to grow microalgae for use in things like make-up\n\nMeanwhile, at the Vale nickel refinery in Clydach, a pilot project with Swansea University is already under way to try and turn the carbon dioxide produced by the plant into useful products - such as colourings for sweets, medicine tablets and make-up.\n\nLines of 8ft-long (2.5m) tubes, filled with water, have been set up in polytunnels on site.\n\nWaste CO2, that would otherwise be emitted by the refinery, will be pumped through them to grow various types of microalgae that can then be turned into high-value pigments and proteins.\n\n\"It's a really good example of industrial symbiosis,\" said Andrew Price, from consultancy firm CR Plus which is co-ordinating the planning stage of the SWIC project.\n\nAndrew Price said the plan was all about finding ways of \"mopping up\" residual CO2\n\n\"Throughout the plan we'll be developing two real outcomes - how do these sites decarbonise to the fullest extent under their current economic restrictions, and then how do we develop the infrastructure to support the mopping up of residual CO2.\n\n\"It's an absolutely massive challenge and one that nobody has done before.\n\n\"But I think it's one we can rise to by leaning on the experience of all the different sectors.\"\n\nThe project has received match funding from the UK government's Industrial Decarbonisation Challenge fund - and will be expected to report its plan of action within three years.\n\nSimilar clusters have been set up in Merseyside, Teesside, Humberside, Southampton and Grangemouth in Scotland.\n\nSouth Wales' industries and energy generators currently produce about 16 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent a year, placing the area in second place behind Humberside in terms of UK regions with the highest emissions from industry.\n\nBoth the UK and Welsh governments have committed to legally binding net-zero targets by 2050 - effectively a 100% cut in CO2 emissions.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The sneakers are worth an estimated $1m\n\nA pair of shoes designed and worn by musician Kanye West that are going up for auction are the most valuable to appear on the market, the auction house selling them says.\n\nThe Nike Air Yeezy 1 Prototypes have an estimate of $1 million (£726,000).\n\nWest first wore the shoes while performing at the Grammys in 2008.\n\nThey are now being sold by shoe collector Ryan Chang, through Sotheby's auction house, and will be on display in Hong Kong from Friday.\n\nIn recent years, sneakers have gained the same collectable status as wine or jewellery. Sotheby's, a global auction house, held its first ever sale dedicated entirely to sneakers in 2019.\n\nBrahm Wachter, head of streetwear and modern collectibles at Sotheby's, said in a statement that the shoes were \"critical to the development of the Yeezy franchise, which became one of the most important sneaker and lifestyle brands in history\".\n\nThe sneakers are a US size 12, or a UK 11 - West's shoe size.\n\nKanye West wore the sneakers while performing at the 2008 Grammys\n\nThe seven-figure estimate for the Yeezys beats the previous record sale price for sneakers - a pair of 1985 Nike Air Jordan 1s, which were sold by Christie's last year for $615,000 (£446,000).\n\nHowever, there are no records for shoes that have been bought privately.\n\nIt is believed that the most expensive sneakers ever created were designed by Bicion and Mache Custom Kicks in 2016. The shoes, which are embellished with diamonds and sapphires, were estimated at $4 million.\n\nThe Yeezys are being sold as part of a private sale, which means neither the buyer nor the final sale price will be publicised unless the buyer themselves comes forward.\n\nThe sneaker range was developed with Nike between 2007 and 2009. This was the first time Nike had collaborated with someone who wasn't an athlete.\n\nWest wore the Prototypes during an emotional performance of Stronger and Hey Mama at the Grammys in 2008, just a few months after the death of his mother.\n\nThe Air Yeezy 1 was then launched in a limited series in 2009, followed by the Air Yeezy 2 in 2012.\n\nBut in 2013 West ended his partnership with Nike, saying that his share of the revenue from the shoes was insufficient. The following year, he began working with Adidas.\n\nPartnering with Adidas proved to be a lucrative decision. The collaboration generated almost $1.7 billion in 2020, Forbes and Bloomberg report.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The trainers have a blue, white and gold design", "Bill Crothers says he was \"transparent\" about the role he took on with Greensill Capital\n\nA top civil servant joined financial firm Greensill Capital as an adviser while still working for the government, a lobbying watchdog has revealed.\n\nBill Crothers's part-time position had been \"agreed\" to by the Cabinet Office, the Office of the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments added.\n\nIts chairman Lord Pickles complained of a \"lack of transparency\" over the situation.\n\nBut Mr Crothers said he had been taken on by Greensill in a \"transparent\" way.\n\nThe disclosure about Mr Crothers - who had been the government's chief procurement officer prior to being taken on by Greensill - is the latest of several stories involving the now-collapsed financial firm.\n\nIt employed former prime minister David Cameron as an adviser from 2018.\n\nThe Financial Times and the Sunday Times revealed that Mr Cameron had contacted several ministers, including Chancellor Rishi Sunak, to push for greater involvement in government loans schemes for the company.\n\nBoris Johnson has set up an inquiry into lobbying - attempts to persuade governments to change policy - including Greensill's role.\n\nGovernment sources said this would also now look at the situation surrounding Mr Crothers.\n\nLord Pickles is asking for Whitehall \"guidance\" on possible \"conflicts of interest\"\n\nMr Crothers, who had already left his job as chief procurement officer but remained a Civil Service employee, joined Greensill as an adviser to its board in September 2015.\n\nThe letter from Conservative peer Lord Pickles to leading civil servant Alex Chisholm says: \"This was agreed by the Cabinet Office under its internal conflicts-of-interest policy.\"\n\nLord Pickles asks for \"guidance on the conflicts-of-interest process\" undertaken.\n\nThe letter adds: \"The lack of transparency around this part-time employment with Greensill may have left the misleading impression that Mr Crothers had wilfully ignored the obligation to seek advice.\"\n\nMr Crothers left the Civil Service in November 2015, two months after taking up his role at Greensill. He became a director of the firm in late 2016.\n\nA letter from Mr Crothers to Lord Pickles, a former Conservative Party chairman, written earlier this week, has also been published.\n\nIn it, he says: \"I am concerned that there may be a view that I did not follow proper process regarding my role with Greensill Capital.\n\n\"I assure you that I completely respect the required process and your office, took steps to comply, and believe that I did so.\"\n\nHe adds: \"I was transparent about the move to Greensill Capital, and it was well known at the time.\"\n\nThe shadow Cabinet Office minister Rachel Reeves said: \"This is an extraordinary and shocking revelation.\n\n\"The Conservatives have weakened the rules so much they may as well rip them up and start again.\"\n\nThe government inquiry in to lobbying is expected to report by the end of June, but Labour says it does not go far enough.\n\nIt will use an opposition day debate on Wednesday to force a vote on whether to establish a new Commons select committee to investigate the issue.\n\nUnlike regular opposition day votes which are symbolic, this one would be binding if it passes because Parliament would be deciding if it should do something.\n\nA Cabinet Office spokesperson said there would be a response to Mr Pickles's letter \"in due course\".\n\nThey added that the \"review into Greensill Capital and supply-chain finance\" would be \"wide-ranging\".\n\nMr Cameron has said he did not break any codes of conduct or rules on lobbying and that he welcomes the investigation launched by Mr Johnson.", "Darron Coster said the first thing when he got to the scene was shut the City Room doors\n\nA former military police officer who helped the victims of the Manchester Arena attack was a \"hero\", the inquiry into the bombing has heard.\n\nThe Manchester Arena Inquiry was told Darron Coster, who was picking up his son, used his Royal Military Police training to assist in the \"carnage\".\n\nHe said the first thing he did was shut the doors to the blast scene after thinking \"nobody needs to see that\".\n\nInquiry chairman Sir John Saunders said he had done an \"amazing job\".\n\nTwenty-two people were killed and hundreds of others injured when Salman Abedi detonated a bomb at the end of an Ariana Grande concert on 22 May 2017.\n\nMr Coster, who retired in 2008, told the inquiry he had basic first aid training and he had served in Northern Ireland, so was familiar with the aftermath of explosions.\n\nHe said he \"heard a small explosion\" and saw \"a flash of dust and light from above the concourse area\" and pushed his way through the crowd to the City Room foyer.\n\nHe said the scene inside was \"carnage\" and the first thing he did was to shut the doors.\n\n\"I just thought 'nobody needs to see that'.\"\n\nHe said some arena staff were helping, but others were in \"quite a state\".\n\n\"I told them if people were not responding, you should leave them; if they could communicate, stay with them and provide them with reassurance,\" he said.\n\nTwenty-two people died in the attack on 22 May 2017\n\nHe said he made several laps of the room, using a belt and a handbag strap as tourniquets on a couple with leg injuries and helping a man with serious injuries.\n\nHe said he also spoke to the man's mother after his phone rang and to the mother of a injured woman, who also called, telling both women that their children were alive and likely to survive.\n\nHe added that after 35 minutes, he realised he could do no more and left, noticing \"a number\" of ambulances parked outside.\n\nAddressing him, Sir John said he was \"a hero\".\n\n\"You did an amazing job and I'm sure everyone is very grateful for what you did,\" he said.\n\n\"It just goes to show how useful it is for people to have some sort of training.\"\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.", "Lynda and Wayne Rickard are accused of murdering their wealthy landlord\n\nA reclusive millionaire was \"completely in thrall\" to a live-in tenant who starved him to death to steal his fortune, a court has heard.\n\nAnthony Sootheran's body was found at his home, High Havens Farm, near South Newington, Oxfordshire, in March 2014.\n\nThe 59-year-old was \"controlled\" by Lynda Rickard, 62, who allowed his room to become a \"foul, unhygienic cell\", a prosecutor told Reading Crown Court.\n\nShe and her husband Wayne Rickard, 66, both from Banbury, deny murder.\n\nAnthony Sootheran died after being \"deprived of food and drink\", the court previously heard\n\nMrs Rickard admits forging wills in the names of both Mr Sootheran and his mother, Joy, as well as spending tens of thousands of pounds of their money, the jury has been told.\n\nOliver Saxby QC, prosecuting, said the millionaire apparently ate little food in the three weeks before his death.\n\nHe was \"virtually immobile\", allowing a large pressure sore to develop on his back, the prosecutor said.\n\nIn the view of a health expert, Mr Sootheran would have survived if he had been medically treated a week before his death, the jury heard.\n\nHe said a visitor in October 2013, Richard Stubbs, was \"horrified\" by Mr Sootheran's condition and the state of his room.\n\nJoy Sootheran's will was forged by Mrs Rickard\n\n\"The bed linen was stained and looked like it had not been changed in months. A window pane was broken. In the corner, there was a pile of Anthony's hair,\" Mr Saxby said.\n\n\"There was no television in the room. There were no books, or magazines. In short, it was a foul, unhygienic, cell.\"\n\nThe prosecutor said family members, Ian and Deborah Charles, met the millionaire in 2013 to discuss their suspicions about his mother's will.\n\nHe said: \"[Mrs Rickard] kept prompting Anthony with his answers - he seemed to be looking to her for his cue and, in Mrs Charles' eyes, was completely in her thrall.\"\n\nOther visitors were resisted or blocked by Mrs Rickard, who refused to give Mr Sootheran's daughter the code to the farm gates, the prosecutor said.\n\nThe victim died from a lung infection caused by malnutrition either on 18 March 2014 when his body was found or up to three days before, Mr Saxby added.\n\n(Left to right) Denise Neal, Shanda Robinson and Michael Dunkley deny fraudulently signing forged wills\n\nHis forged will left the farm and a third of his £3.5m estate to Mrs Rickard, the jury has been told.\n\nThe Rickards were denied probate, lost a court challenge over the will and were evicted from the farm in 2017, the court heard.\n\nAs alternatives to the murder charge, Mrs Rickard denies gross negligence manslaughter, while her husband denies causing or allowing the death of a vulnerable adult.\n\nThey both deny fraudulently using Ms Sootheran's money to buy a Mitsubishi Shogun car.\n\nThree of Mrs Rickard's friends, Shanda Robinson, 51, and Michael Dunkley, 49, from Banbury, and Denise Neal, 41, from Lower Tysoe, Warwickshire, deny fraudulently signing wills. However, another friend, June Alsford, 78, from Aynho, Northamptonshire, has admitted the charge.\n\nMr Rickard denies perverting the course of justice by attempting to pass off a will as genuine while Ms Robinson denies conspiring to do the same.\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. Footage captures the arrest of a man spotted \"with an axe\" near Buckingham Palace\n\nA man who was allegedly spotted carrying an axe near Buckingham Palace has been charged with three offences.\n\nVladyslav Dryhval, 46, was detained by armed police after being challenged by private security guards on The Mall on Tuesday evening, the Met said.\n\nMr Dryhval, of Lea Bridge Road in Leyton, is accused of two counts of possession of an offensive weapon and one of possession of a bladed article.\n\nHe is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court later.\n\nThe Met previously said there were no reports of any injuries and the matter was not being treated as terror-related.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Queen with Andrew Parker during a visit to MI5 last February\n\nThe Queen has formally appointed the former head of MI5 as Lord Chamberlain ahead of the Duke of Edinburgh's funeral.\n\nThe monarch held an audience with Andrew Parker at Windsor Castle and passed on a wand and office insignia.\n\nLord Parker took over from the Earl Peel as Lord Chamberlain on 1 April.\n\nThe Lord Chamberlain's office is responsible for royal events and ceremonies, including Prince Philip's funeral at Windsor on Saturday.\n\nIt followed the Queen's first royal duty since the duke's death, when she accepted the wand and insignia from the Earl Peel, who has retired, during an audience at Windsor on Tuesday.\n\nMeanwhile, members of the Royal Family released previously unpublished photographs of the duke, and the Princess Royal held her first in-person engagement since her father's death.\n\nA royal official has said members of the family would continue \"to undertake engagements appropriate to the circumstances\" during an official period of mourning.\n\nConfirmation of the Queen's audience with Lord Parker came in the Court Circular, the official record of royal engagements.\n\nIt reported: \"The Lord Parker of Minsmere had an audience of The Queen today, kissed hands upon his appointment as Lord Chamberlain and received from Her Majesty the Wand and Insignia of Office and the Badge of Chancellor of the Royal Victorian Order, when The Queen invested him with the Insignia of a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order.\"\n\nThe Lord Chamberlain's office, led by the Queen's Comptroller Lieutenant Colonel Michael Vernon, is tasked with the practical side of Prince Philip's funeral.\n\nBut in overall charge is Lord Parker, who succeeds the Earl Peel after his retirement following more than 14 years in post.\n\nThe ceremonies at Windsor Castle came after the Queen held a phone call with Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Saturday.\n\nOn Sunday, the Duke of York said the Queen had told her family that Prince Philip's death at the age of 99 \"left a huge void\" in her life.\n\nHe added: \"The Queen, as you would expect, is an incredibly stoic person.\n\n\"She described it as having left a huge void in her life but we, the family, the ones that are close, are rallying round to make sure that we're there to support her.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe funeral, on Saturday at 15:00 BST, will be a much more low-key event due to the pandemic, but Buckingham Palace says the plans reflect Prince Philip's wishes.\n\nHis coffin will be carried in a modified Land Rover, which the duke helped to design, as part of a procession from the State Entrance of Windsor Castle to St George's Chapel.\n\nMembers of the Royal Family will walk behind the coffin, although the Queen will travel separately. Meanwhile, guns will be fired in salute and a bell will toll.\n\nInside the chapel, the Royal Family will wear face masks and keep to social distancing rules. Only 30 people will be able to attend, in line with coronavirus regulations.\n\nThe Duke of Sussex has returned to the UK from his home in the US to attend the funeral, although the Duchess of Sussex will not make the trip on medical advice.", "'There will be new variants' of the virus\n\nPam Cameron is the deputy chair of the health committee and wants to know if there’s been any agreement on a passenger locator form for those travelling to NI from the Republic of Ireland. That’s something that hasn’t yet been resolved, says Arlene Foster. The first minister adds that earlier today, the chief scientific adviser outlined the possible outcomes and spread of the virus in the six months at the executive. “From what we’ve seen there will be new variants unfortunately” of Covid-19, says Mrs Foster. Is the test, trace and protect system able to cope with the “increased burden” that PCR testing of all contacts of a positive case will place on the system, asks DUP MLA Ms Cameron. Michelle O’Neill says the system “needs to be 100% perfect” and “actively finding cases and dealing with them head on”. The deputy first minister adds that “we need to try and avoid” another circuit of lockdown.", "Asda is to axe up to 1,200 jobs at its in-store bakeries as customers shun the traditional loaf in favour of speciality breads, bagels and pancakes.\n\nThe chain currently employs bakers who make bread in store from scratch.\n\nBut now it has said it plans to move to a central bakery and deliver pre-baked breads to its supermarkets.\n\n\"The current in-store bakery model has restricted our ability to respond to changing customer demands,\" said Derek Lawlor, Asda's head of merchandising.\n\nAs a result, he said, the supermarket chain had not been able to offer shoppers \"speciality products and freshly baked goods they want to buy throughout the day\".\n\nAsda said the change would mean it was able to bake fresh products several times a day, rather than once a day in store.\n\nIt will begin a formal consultation with its bakers and bakery managers.\n\n\"If the proposals are enacted, the priority will be to move as many colleagues as possible into alternative roles within Asda, with redundancy the last option,\" the supermarket chain said in a statement.\n\nThe move by Asda follows a similar decision by Tesco last year.\n\nUp to 1,800 were faced with the prospect of redundancy when Tesco said it would do less baking in store, citing a similar shift away from traditional loaves and bread.\n\nUntil last year, Asda was owned by US supermarket giant Walmart, but in December, it was sold to billionaire brothers Mohsin and Zuber Issa, who bought it for £6.8bn.\n\nHowever, the decision to scrap in-store bread ovens was taken independently of the Issa brothers, who are not allowed to exercise influence over the chain until the deal has been examined by the Competition and Markets Authority.", "Pte Towers braved heavy machine gun fire and barbed wire as he raced to the stranded platoon\n\nA Victoria Cross awarded to a World War One soldier who braved enemy fire to deliver orders to a stranded platoon has sold for £248,000 at auction.\n\nPte James Towers received the medal for volunteering to take the orders despite having seen five messengers shot down in Mericourt, France in October 1918.\n\nMore than a decade later, the Broughton farmer told a newspaper he felt he had to help, as \"they were my pals\".\n\nThe medal previously sold for £144,000 in an auction in 2015.\n\nChristopher Mellor-Hill, spokesman for Dix Noonan Webb auctioneers said Pte Towers' \"display of supreme courage and determination [was] a great inspiration to all ranks\".\n\nThe then-21-year-old soldier's actions came as his unit, 2nd Battalion, The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) held a railway embankment at Mericourt on 6 October 1918.\n\nOne platoon became cut off from the rest and did not receive the order to retreat when the soldiers came under heavy attack.\n\nFive volunteers were shot down attempting to take the message to them, before Pte Towers succeeded, braving heavy machine gun fire and barbed wire as he raced to their position.\n\nHe received his medal from King George V on 8 May 1919.\n\nPte Towers was awarded the Victoria Cross (far left) in 1919\n\nPte Towers, who died in 1977, told the newspaper in November 1929 that the \"worst part was that I didn't know just where our chaps were\".\n\n\"I felt then that I had to go to the help of these lads. After all, they were my pals.\n\n\"Five men tried to get through and I was the sixth. I made a dive and got through.\"\n\nThe citation for his Victoria Cross reads: \"His valour, determination, and utter disregard of danger were an inspiring example to all.\"\n\nMr Mellor-Hill said the medal had \"gone to a good home.\"\n\nThe Broughton bypass, which runs close to where what was his dairy farm, was named in his honour in 2017, and a year later, a commemorative plaque was unveiled at Preston Flag Market.\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.", "Benefit Cosmetics has backtracked on a policy that reportedly saw NHS workers turned away for beauty treatments.\n\nA nurse wrote on Facebook that NHS staff were being refused \"on the basis that [they] work with Covid patients.\"\n\nThe beauty brand is now allowing key workers to receive eyebrow and eyelash treatments if they were wearing medical grade PPE when in contact with Covid patients.\n\nA spokeswoman for the firm said it regrets \"any hurt or upset caused\".\n\nResponding to the healthcare worker's post, the firm wrote earlier in the week that it was a \"blanket policy\" to refuse service to anyone who has been in contact \"with anyone suspected of Covid or having its symptoms\".\n\nIt said this was needed to \"protect staff and other customers\".\n\nBut other social media users lashed out on the brand's pages, with some calling for a boycott.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Lynn Miller This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOne doctor commented: \"I have been using benefit products for many years and I will never again spend another penny with your company. Utterly shameful.\"\n\nAnother user wrote: \"Very disappointing that you tried to exclude NHS staff after everything we have been through this past year. I will not be purchasing from this brand again after being a loyal customer for the past decade.\"\n\nCurrent guidance from Public Health England (PHE) states that a healthcare worker wearing the correct personal protective equipment (PPE) does not count as a Covid exposure if they are caring for a suspected or confirmed case of the virus.\n\nOthers pointed out that many key workers also take regular lateral flow tests.\n\nOn Thursday, Benefit Cosmetics announced it had changed its policy.\n\nAll customers will be asked a series of \"screening questions\", which have now been updated, on arrival for their appointments. They include:\n\nNHS workers who have been in contact with Covid patients will be able to receive treatments, providing they were wearing full medical grade PPE and no-one else in their household has recently had coronavirus or shown symptoms.\n\nThe firm, which operates out of its own stores and concessions in John Lewis and Debenhams, was able to reopen its sites in England on Monday as lockdown restrictions eased.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"We have been working on updating our policy in time for our services reopening this week, but it is a new process and we apologise that this has not been rolled out quickly enough.\n\n\"We would like to stress that this is in no way to discriminate against our hard working NHS, who we love dearly. Like all processes in action, ours were being tweaked and have now been updated.\"\n\nShe added: \"We deeply regret any hurt or upset this has caused during this interim and are sorry this was not rolled out sooner.\"\n\nThe firm also said it was important to have policies in place for the protection of customers and staff.\n\nSeveral customers praised the brand after the update and thanked the brand for apologising.", "Marks & Spencer has begun legal action against Aldi, arguing the supermarket's Cuthbert the Caterpillar cake infringes its Colin the Caterpillar trademark.\n\nM&S claims that their similarity leads consumers to believe they are of the same standard and \"rides on the coat-tails\" of M&S's reputation.\n\nIt lodged an intellectual property claim with the High Court this week.\n\nM&S wants Aldi to remove the product from sale and agree not to sell anything similar in the future.\n\nThe retailer has three trademarks relating to Colin, which it believes means Colin has acquired and retains an enhanced distinctive character and reputation.\n\nThe product was launched around 30 years ago. Colin's appearance has been substantially unchanged since around 2004, except for adaptations for events such as Halloween and Christmas, and related products such as Connie the Caterpillar.\n\nA spokesman said: \"Because we know the M&S brand is special to our customers and they expect only the very best from us, love and care goes into every M&S product on our shelves.\n\n\"So we want to protect Colin, Connie and our reputation for freshness, quality, innovation and value.\"\n\nColin is central to M&S's partnership with cancer charity Macmillan, and the retailer has created a Colin product for the annual World's Biggest Coffee Morning fundraising event.\n\nThe cake is a sponge with milk chocolate and buttercream, topped with chocolate sweets and a smiling white chocolate face.\n\nM&S was the first retailer to sell a caterpillar cake, but many supermarkets have since created their own similar products.\n\nOther cakes include Waitrose's Cecil, Sainsbury's Wiggles, Tesco's Curly, and Asda's Clyde the Caterpillar.", "The number of hours ambulances spent waiting to offload patients in parts of England is \"off the scale\", the Royal College of Emergency Medicine says.\n\nData leaked to BBC News shows ambulance waiting times at hospitals in the South East rose by 36% in December compared to the same month in 2019.\n\nPeople are also having to wait longer for ambulances to arrive when called.\n\nAmbulance services say it is taking longer to hand over patients but they are doing all they can to meet demand.\n\nIt comes as the NHS faces unprecedented pressure because of the Covid pandemic.\n\nA paramedic working in London told BBC News he had encountered patients left waiting up to 12 hours for an ambulance in the last week.\n\nOne patient in London with a broken leg had to wait outside at night for six hours before an ambulance arrived to collect him, he said.\n\nOn another occasion, paramedics were called to attend to a young man with Covid-19 whose oxygen levels were \"so low\". He was given oxygen when they arrived - but that was eight hours after the ambulance was called.\n\nIncidents such as these are \"dangerous\" and the service is \"on its knees\", the paramedic added.\n\nThe figures also show that at one point on Monday this week more than 700 patients were left waiting for an ambulance to arrive in London when none was available.\n\nDifferent statistics obtained by BBC News highlight the number of hours spent waiting to offload patients at hospitals half an hour after ambulances arrived at hospitals in the South East.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does it mean if the NHS is overwhelmed?\n\nSouth East Coast Ambulance service lost 7,803 hours queuing outside hospitals, an increase on 5,732 hours in 2019.\n\nKent saw the greatest rise in this period. One of its hospitals, Medway Maritime Hospital, saw a doubling in ambulance waiting times.\n\nThese figures are \"off the scale\", according to Royal College of Emergency Medicine Vice President Adrian Boyle.\n\n\"It is not because more ambulances are being called, it's because the amount of time they're spending outside a hospital has increased,\" he said.\n\nDr Boyle says ambulances left queuing outside hospitals meant crews were not available to respond to other emergencies.\n\nHe says services are facing a \"crisis\" unlike any other he has seen.\n\n\"People may feel they have a winter crisis every year but this is a different order of magnitude\", he added.\n\n\"This is the worst winter crisis I've been through in my 25 years of practising as a doctor.\"\n\nAmbulance services say they are are doing everything they can to meet the demand.\n\nA London Ambulance Service Trust spokesperson said: \"We are continuing to prioritise the most seriously ill and injured patients, and our team of trained clinicians in our control rooms are working hard to monitor and maintain contact with many other patients as needed while they are waiting for ambulance crews to arrive.\"\n\nA South East Coast Ambulance Service Trust spokesperson said: \"We are doing everything we can to increase the number of staff available to meet this demand, including increasing overtime, to ensure crews are as available as possible to respond to patients in the community.\"\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? You can share your experience by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Psychedelic drug psilocybin, found in magic mushrooms, is as good at reducing symptoms of depression as conventional treatment, a small, early-stage study has suggested.\n\nBut when it comes to actively improving people's well-being and ability to feel pleasure, the psychedelic drug may have had a more powerful effect.\n\nPsychedelics are being studied for a range of mental-health conditions.\n\nBut experts caution that this is a small trial with more research needed.\n\nFor the past three decades, since Prozac hit the market, new drugs for depression and anxiety have generally been variations on the same theme.\n\nYet for a considerable chunk of people they cause undesirable side-effects, stop working over time or don't work in the first place.\n\nThe psilocybin trial's leaders said there was appetite for \"novel\" treatments that took a different approach.\n\nThe trial's 59 participants were given either psilocybin or a common antidepressant called a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI).\n\nThe scientists from Imperial College London's Centre for Psychedelic Research measured participants' mood and functioning using a number of different scales.\n\nTheir primary measure scores people's symptoms of depression based on their answers to questions about sleep, energy, appetite, mood and suicidal thoughts.\n\nThese questions are largely negatively focused: they ask whether someone is feeling sad, but not whether they are feeling happy.\n\nBy this measure, psilocybin performed as well as a conventional antidepressant - an SSRI called escitalopram.\n\nAll 59 participants saw comparable reductions in their depressive symptoms.\n\nBut on several other measures - though they weren't the scientists' primary focus - the psychedelic drug performed considerably better.\n\nThat includes measures of work and social functioning, mental well-being and the ability to feel happy.\n\nThe study is among the first to pit the psychedelic head-to-head with a traditional depression treatment - and to open the trial to anyone with moderate-to-severe depression, not just those for whom all other treatments had failed.\n\nAs well as being a small trial, though, this represents a relatively early phase in the research, so more studies will be needed to prove this effect.\n\nThe study is \"not a quantum leap\", according to Guy Goodwin, professor of psychiatry at the University of Oxford.\n\n\"It is under-powered and does not prove that psilocybin is a better treatment than standard treatment with escitalopram for major depression.\n\n\"However, it offers tantalising clues that it may be\".\n\nIt adds to the growing body of research suggesting psychedelics could be a viable alternative treatment for depression, anxiety, substance misuse and other common conditions.\n\nAnd, Prof Goodwin added, the work \"underlines the broader point that research in depression has been too driven by ratings of particular symptoms rather than the return of positive mood and patient well-being\".\n\nSSRIs like fluoxetine (the generic name for Prozac), citalopram, escitalopram and sertraline are the drugs doctors will reach for first when treating depression and anxiety.\n\nThey are thought to work on the brain's stress system, muting responses, which can \"take the edge off\", study author Dr Robin Carhart-Harris explained, making painful emotions easier to bear.\n\nBut they don't necessarily help people \"feel great,\" he said - and for some the drugs blunt all emotions, both positive and negative.\n\nThis emotional blunting can be an unwelcome side-effect.\n\nOn the other hand, psilocybin seems to work on receptors in the brain associated with \"re-ordering\" the way we think about things.\n\nDr Carhart-Harris said that after psychedelic therapy, participants reported feeling \"recalibrated, reset like they haven't for years\" and \"enjoying life\".\n\n\"They get more at the root cause of suffering [rather than] plastering over or muting their symptoms.\"\n\nPeople in the psilocybin treatment group also experienced fewer of the side-effects that often bother people taking SSRIs: drowsiness, sexual dysfunction and dry mouth.\n\nThey did have more of the transient symptoms, such as headaches on the day after receiving the drug, though.\n\nAnd the experience of the \"trip\" itself was not easy, the study's co-author Prof David Nutt explained. \"This is hard, hard work. It's often very challenging.\"\n\nThose being given psilocybin received two relatively high doses of the drug, three weeks apart, while people on the escitalopram arm of the study took that pill every day for six weeks.\n\nBoth groups were given therapy.\n\nProf Nutt said the therapy was \"as important as the drug action\" - the scientists are anxious to warn against people trying to self-medicate.\n\n\"It's not the drug alone. We're not sure the drug alone would have an intrinsic antidepressant effect,\" he said.\n\nIn order to try to \"blind\" people as to which group they were in - to prevent their expectations altering how they responded to the medication - those on the psychedelic arm were given a daily placebo pill and those on the SSRI arm had two guided sessions during which they were given 1mg of psilocybin (not enough to have a real effect).\n\nFor obvious reasons, though, it is quite challenging to \"blind\" people to whether or not they've received a large dose of psychedelics.\n\nBut Dr Carhart-Harris said other studies suggested people continued to feel better for months after psilocybin treatment, making it unlikely to be just the effect of positive expectations.\n\nThe participants in the Imperial study are being followed up for six months after their initial six-week treatment.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nLiverpool's Champions League campaign ended in disappointment as Real Madrid set up a semi-final meeting with Chelsea by keeping Jurgen Klopp's side at bay in a goalless draw at Anfield.\n\nReal arrived at Anfield protecting a 3-1 lead from the first leg and while they eventually went through in relative comfort Liverpool will curse themselves for missing several glorious first-half chances.\n\nMohamed Salah shot straight at Real keeper Thibaut Courtois, who also saved well from James Milner, in the opening moments and shot over when he should have hit the target while Georginio Wijnaldum was also guilty of squandering an opportunity to at least apply pressure to Zinedine Zidane's side.\n\nReal's best chance saw Benzema drive in a shot that was deflected on to the post, while Courtois was in action again to block Roberto Firmino's angled shot after the break.\n\nLiverpool ran out of steam and ideas as the second half wore on, and Real defended with defiance and resilience to seal the win and set up a meeting with another Premier League side in Thomas Tuchel's Chelsea.\n• None Best action and reaction from Liverpool v Real Madrid in the Champions League\n\nLiverpool were always fighting the odds as they trailed from the first leg but Klopp knew an early goal would have revived memories of previous Anfield comebacks in Europe - albeit they were in front of full houses rather than a deserted stadium.\n\nAnd Liverpool have only themselves to blame because they certainly created those chances in the first half, the surprise being it was the normally reliable Salah who was guilty of two bad misses that could have rattled Real's nerves.\n\nAround 400 home fans gathered outside in an attempt to fashion some of the old atmosphere but sadly the only impact they made was to create more negative headlines with a disgraceful attack on the Real Madrid team coach that left the bus damaged. The Spanish giants received an apology from their opponents and Merseyside Police announced an investigation to find those responsible.\n\nLiverpool gave it everything for the 90 minutes but it was the lack of cutting edge that has characterised so many of their Anfield displays this season that removed any hopes they had of turning this tie around and proved their undoing.\n\nAs time went on, Real grew more confident and comfortable, and the introduction of the likes of Diogo Jota and Thiago Alcantara, who was disappointing, could not shift the tie the hosts' way.\n\nKlopp and his players must now lift themselves to chase a place in the Premier League's top four to ensure they return to this competition next season.\n\nThe latest incarnation of Real Madrid under Zinedine Zidane is hardly a vintage version. Indeed for large portions of this Champions League quarter-final second leg they were careless and scrappy.\n\nHowever, they got the job done over two legs by showing their quality and threat at home then discipline and organisation at Anfield.\n\nAnd this is the warning Chelsea must heed in the last four.\n\nReal do not resemble their great predecessors but they still managed to overcome Liverpool - an injury-hit Liverpool it must be said - despite missing the twin defensive rocks Sergio Ramos and Raphael Varane, who they will hope to have back against Chelsea.\n\nAnd as Liverpool became increasingly desperate, so Real's street-wisdom came to the fore to ensure a low-key and comfortable last 20 minutes with barely any serious alarms.\n\nChelsea will be well aware of the class of their former keeper Courtois, who excelled here, the enduring quality of Luka Modric and the battle-hardened, relentless striking ability of veteran Karim Benzema.\n\nThomas Tuchel has no reason to fear Real but they will command his full respect and Zidane's trademark has been finding a way to win the Champions League.\n\nReal Madrid dominant in Europe - the best of the stats\n• None Liverpool are winless in their past five games against Real Madrid in the Champions League (D1 L4).\n• None Real Madrid have qualified for the semi-finals of the European Cup/Champions League for the 30th time, at least 10 more than any other team.\n• None This was Liverpool's ninth two-legged knockout tie in the Champions League under Jurgen Klopp, and only the second time they have failed to win either game in the tie (also versus Atletico Madrid in the last 16 in 2019-20).\n• None Real Madrid have progressed from 11 of their 12 two-legged knockout ties in the Champions League under Zinedine Zidane, with their only elimination coming against Manchester City in last season's last 16.\n• None Liverpool have only won one of their past 11 games against Spanish opponents in the Champions League (D3 L7).\n• None This was Real Madrid's first goalless draw in a Champions League game since April 2016, when they drew 0-0 against Manchester City in the semi-final first leg.\n• None Liverpool attempted 13 shots from inside the box against Real Madrid - their most in a Champions League game at Anfield without scoring since March 2006 v Benfica (20).\n\n'We rode the storm' - what they said\n\nLiverpool boss Jurgen Klopp talking to BT Sport: \"You always need the key moments. We didn't lose the tie tonight, we lost in Madrid. It was uncomfortable for Madrid. We were good, aggressive, had chances. We didn't score and then the experience of Real Madrid played the tie down. That is ourselves this year with the finishing.\n\n\"We know how often Mo Salah finishes these things with closed eyes. Not here. Tonight it was absolutely OK, but we are out.\n\n\"We love this competition and for other reasons it is very important we are back in it. We can now concentrate on the Premier League and we will. We have to work our socks off.\"\n\nReal Madrid boss Zinedine Zidane: \"We were up against it and we knew we had to suffer tonight, but in the end we got what we wanted, which was to go through. I think we handled the game well, we rode the storm and can be proud of our display.\n\n\"We knew they'd start fast and they were really good in the opening 15 minutes, but that's normal. In the quarter-finals of the Champions League you have to dig in and we did that and got through.\"\n• None Attempt saved. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Thiago.\n• None Attempt missed. Karim Benzema (Real Madrid) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Eder Militão with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Nathaniel Phillips (Liverpool) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Andrew Robertson with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Marco Asensio (Real Madrid) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Federico Valverde.\n• None Attempt blocked. Diogo Jota (Liverpool) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is blocked. Assisted by Andrew Robertson.\n• None Attempt blocked. Roberto Firmino (Liverpool) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Andrew Robertson with a headed pass. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Take some time for your wellbeing today\n• None Hear from one of Scotland's top culinary cooks", "The UK is to \"drawdown\" the number of troops in Afghanistan from next month, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has said.\n\nConfirming the planned departure of forces, Mr Wallace also warned any attacks on existing troops would be \"met with a forceful response\".\n\nThe UK military has been in Afghanistan since 2001, with more than 450 British troops dying during the conflict with the Taliban and fighters from al-Qaeda.\n\nThe US has said it will withdraw all forces by 11 September.\n\nAnd Nato confirmed allies would begin withdrawing troops from 1 May.\n\nThe last UK combat troops left in 2014, but about 750 remain as part of the Nato mission to train Afghan forces.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Wallace said: \"The people of Afghanistan deserve a peaceful and stable future.\n\n\"As we drawdown, the security of our people currently serving in Afghanistan remains our priority and we have been clear that attacks on Allied troops will be met with a forceful response.\n\n\"The British public and our Armed Forces community, both serving and veterans, will have lasting memories of our time in Afghanistan.\n\n\"Most importantly we must remember those who paid the ultimate sacrifice, who will never be forgotten.\"\n\nUS President Joe Biden has announced that American troops will leave Afghanistan by 11 September, saying it was \"time to end America's longest war\".\n\nThat would coincide with the 20th anniversary of the terror attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in the US in 2001.\n\nMr Biden said while the US \"will not stay involved in Afghanistan militarily\", its \"diplomatic and humanitarian work\" would continue.\n\n\"We cannot continue the cycle of extending or expanding our military presence in Afghanistan hoping to create the ideal conditions for our withdrawal, expecting a different result,\" he said.\n\nUS Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, speaking to Nato allies in Brussels, said: \"I am here to work closely with our allies, with the (Nato) secretary general, on the principle that we have established from the start: In together, adapt together and out together.\"\n\nHe added that they would work closely in the coming months \"on a safe, deliberate and co-ordinated withdrawal of our forces from Afghanistan\".\n\nThe new deadline is four months later than the Trump administration previously agreed in a deal with the Taliban.\n\nOur defence correspondent Jonathan Beale says the UK, like most Nato allies, relies on the US's infrastructure, logistics and support in Afghanistan.\n\nThe US has some 2,500 troops in the country as part of a 9,600-strong Nato mission.\n\nAt the height of the war, Nato had more than 130,000 troops from 50 nations in Afghanistan. The UK had 9,500 personnel and 137 bases in Helmand province alone.\n\nUS troops training the Afghan security forces in Helmand\n\nThe speaker of the Afghan parliament, Mir Rahman Rahmani, has warned the withdrawal of foreign forces in the current circumstances will lead to civil war.\n\nIn February 2020, the US and the Taliban agreed a deal that would see the US and Nato allies withdraw all troops within 14 months if the Taliban upheld its promises, including not allowing al-Qaeda or other militants to operate in areas it controlled and proceeding with national peace talks.\n\nAlthough the group stopped attacks on international forces as part of the agreement, it has continued to fight the Afghan government.\n\nLast month, the Taliban threatened to resume hostilities against foreign troops still in the country on 1 May.", "Saskia Jones and Jack Merritt were killed during a conference on rehabilitating offenders\n\nA charity office manager has described being repeatedly stabbed during the terror attack at Fishmongers' Hall.\n\nIsobel Rowbotham told the inquest jury that she pleaded with convicted terrorist Usman Khan as he approached her on 29 November, 2019.\n\nShe had just seen Jack Merritt moments after he had been fatally wounded by Khan in the toilets.\n\n\"He was shouting that he'd been stabbed,\" she told the inquest at London's Guildhall.\n\n\"He was holding his stomach. Obviously he'd been injured. There was a lot of blood.\"\n\nMs Rowbotham described Khan as moving towards her \"quite fast\" and \"purposively\".\n\nShe said: \"I was obviously saying 'no Usman, please.' It was quite obvious he wasn't going to stop.\"\n\nCharity office manager Isobel Rowbotham pleaded with Usman Khan not to attack her as he approached with two knives\n\nMs Rowbotham said she hunched down to try to protect herself but was stabbed multiple times.\n\n\"It felt more like punches, I guess,\" she continued. \"His final stabs were in my neck.\n\n\"It felt like he thought they were the final stabs, as if they were intended to finish me.\"\n\nThe court heard she lay on the floor and \"decided to play dead in case he came back again...I tried to slow down my breathing.\"\n\nUsman Khan (left) sat at the same table as Saskia Jones (right)\n\nMs Rowbotham said she wanted to call the police on her mobile but \"there was too much blood to press the screen.\"\n\nSaskia Jones, 23, and 25-year-old Mr Merritt both died after being stabbed by Khan at the prisoner rehabilitation conference being held in Fishmongers' Hall.\n\nThe inquest also heard that Mr Merritt had rebooked a rail ticket for his killer after Khan's train to London was cancelled.\n\nSimon Larmour, a Learning Together research associate, said he received a panicked phone call from Khan on the day of the attack saying his train from Stafford had been cancelled.\n\nJurors heard that one of Khan's knives had a crudely etched Arabic symbol for Allah on it\n\nThe court previously heard that during the journey, Khan strapped a fake suicide bomb to his waist whilst in the train toilet.\n\nKhan was met at Euston station by Mr Larmour and John Crilly - who would later help with attempts to subdue Khan on London Bridge.\n\n\"I saw Usman coming towards Issy (Isobel Rowbotham) and me with two knives,\" Mr Lamour said.\n\n\"He was yelling but I didn't really understand what he was saying.\"\n\nJurors were told that Mr Merritt had had some professional dealings with Khan before the Learning Together event\n\nMr Larmour said he leapt over the table and ran to the reception area where he gave first aid to Mr Merritt.\n\n\"I couldn't see all the places he had been stabbed. I was stunned at that point. I tried to find the nearest material I could to put pressure on the wounds.\n\n\"He passed out quite quickly. He was moaning a little bit. His eyes were glazed over. He was pale.\"\n\nThe inquest also heard from retired judge John Samuels, who saw Ms Jones lying at the foot of a staircase with a \"chalk-white\" face.\n\nHe was attending the conference, having previously run a training course for prisoner rehabilitation organisation Learning Together in 2018\n\nHe told the inquest how he was on the balcony of the building's grand entrance hall as the attack unfolded.\n\n''I heard shouts and screams coming from downstairs and I could not understand what was happening,\" he said.\n\n\"The first sounds were male shouts, the shouts were angry and confused.\"\n\nMr Samuels described how he then saw Ms Jones lying on the floor.\n\n\"I noted particularly her face was chalk-white, she appeared unconscious to me or perhaps even dead,\" he said.\n\nMr Samuels then saw one of the organisers of the event, Dr Amy Ludlow, shouting ''police, ambulance, now'' into her mobile phone.\n\nHaving been told to evacuate, Mr Samuels said he then heard an ''authoritative voice'' outside saying that there was a bomb and he should find shelter.\n\nUsman Khan was jailed in 2012 over a plot to blow up the London Stock Exchange\n\nMr Samuels said he now assumed the voice had been that of a police officer.\n\nThe inquest is scheduled to last nine weeks and is expected to be followed by a separate jury inquest into the death of Khan.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "In public, Prince Philip always took second place\n\nHe outlived nearly everyone who knew him and might explain him.\n\nAnd so we have been left with a two-dimensional portrait of the duke; salt-tongued and short-tempered, a man who told off-colour jokes and made politically incorrect remarks, an eccentric great-uncle who'd been around forever and towards whom most people felt affection - but who rather too often embarrassed himself and others in company.\n\nWith his death will come reassessment. Because Prince Philip was an extraordinary man who lived an extraordinary life; a life intimately connected with the sweeping changes of our turbulent 20th Century, a life of fascinating contrast and contradiction, of service and some degree of solitude. A complex, clever, eternally restless man.\n\nHis mother and father met at the funeral of Queen Victoria in 1901. At a time when all but four of Europe's nations were monarchies, his relatives were scattered through European royalty. Some royal houses were swept away by World War One; but the world into which Philip was born was still one where monarchies were the norm. His grandfather was the King of Greece; his great-aunt Ella was murdered along with the Russian tsar, by the Bolsheviks, at Ekaterinberg; his mother was a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria.\n\nHis four older sisters would all marry Germans. While Philip fought for Britain in the Royal Navy, three of his sisters actively supported the Nazi cause; none would be invited to his wedding.\n\nWhen peace came, and with it eventual economic recovery, Philip would throw himself into the construction of a better Britain, urging the country to adopt scientific methods, embracing the ideas of industrial design, planning, education and training. A decade before Harold Wilson talked of the \"white heat of the technological revolution\", Philip was urging modernity on the nation in speeches and interviews. And as the country and the world became richer and consumed ever more, Philip warned of the impact on the environment, well before it was even vaguely fashionable.\n\nEighteen months after his birth, his family was in exile\n\nHis childhood quickly taught him the values of self-reliance\n\nHe was forged by the turmoil of his first decade and then moulded by his schooling. His early years were spent wandering, as his place of birth ejected him, his family disintegrated and he moved from country to country, none of them ever his own. When he was just a year old, he and his family were scooped up by a British destroyer from his home on the Greek island of Corfu after his father had been condemned to death. They were deposited in Italy. One of Philip's first international journeys was spent crawling around on the floor of the train from an Italian port city, \"the grubby child on the desolate train pulling out of the Brindisi night,\" as his sister Sophia later described it.\n\nIn Paris, he lived in a house borrowed from a relative; but it was not destined to become a home. In just one year, while he was at boarding school in Britain, the mental health of his mother, Princess Alice, deteriorated and she went into an asylum; his father, Prince Andrew, went off to Monte Carlo to live with his mistress; and his four sisters married and went to live in Germany. In the space of 10 years he had gone from a prince of Greece to a wandering, homeless, and virtually penniless boy with no-one to care for him.\n\n\"I don't think anybody thinks I had a father,\" he once said. Andrew would die during the war. Philip went to Monte Carlo to pick up his father's possessions after the Germans had been driven from France; there was almost nothing left, just a couple of clothes brushes and some cuff-links.\n\nBy the time he went to Gordonstoun, a private school on the north coast of Scotland, Philip was tough, independent and able to fend for himself; he'd had to be. Gordonstoun would channel those traits into the school's distinct philosophy of community service, teamwork, responsibility and respect for the individual. And it sparked one of the great passions of Philip's life - his love of the sea.\n\nPhilip adored the school as much as his son Charles would despise it. Not just because the stress it put on physical as well as mental excellence - he was a great sportsman. But because of its ethos, laid down by its founder Kurt Hahn, an exile from Nazi Germany.\n\nPrince Philip became one of the youngest first lieutenants in the Royal Navy\n\nBut he had to give up his career to support the Queen\n\nThe Duke of Edinburgh's children would not bear his name, Mountbatten\n\nThat ethos became a significant, perhaps the significant, part of the way that Philip believed life should be lived. It shines through the speeches he gave later in his life. \"The essence of freedom,\" he would say in Ghana in 1958, \"is discipline and self-control.\" The comforts of the post-war era, he told the British Schools Exploring Society a year earlier, may be important \"but it is much more important that the human spirit should not be stifled by easy living\". And two years before that, he spoke to the boys of Ipswich School of the moral as well as material imperatives of life, with the \"importance of the individual\" as the \"guiding principle of our society\".\n\nAnd at Gordonstoun was born one of the great contradictions of Philip's fascinating life. The importance of the individual was what in Kurt Hahn's eyes differentiated Britain and liberal democracies from the kind of totalitarian dictatorship that he had fled. Philip put that centrality of the individual, and individual agency - the ability we have as humans to make our own moral and ethical decisions - at the heart of his philosophy.\n\nAnd yet he was throughout his life, first in the navy and then in the many decades of life in the Palace, tightly bound by rules of tradition, of precedent, of command and hierarchy. He had little, if anything, in the way of agency. Did he say one thing and do another, as members of the Royal Family are often accused of? Or was his first choice - to serve - by necessity his last?\n\nThe navy ran deep in the Duke of Edinburgh's family. He is pictured sitting at the wheel of the nuclear-powered submarine HMS Churchill\n\nPrince Philip gave between 60 and 80 speeches every year, decade after decade, on topics that reflected his vast range of interests\n\nAt Dartmouth Naval College in 1939, the two great passions of his life would collide. He had learned to sail at Gordonstoun; he would learn to lead at Dartmouth. And his driving desire to achieve, and to win, would shine through. Despite entering the college far later than most other cadets, he would graduate top of his class in 1940. In further training at Portsmouth, he gained the top grade in four out of five sections of the exam. He became one of the youngest first lieutenants in the Royal Navy.\n\nThe navy ran deep in his family. His maternal grandfather had been the First Sea Lord, the commander of the Royal Navy; his uncle, \"Dickie\" Mountbatten, had command of a destroyer while Philip was in training. In war, he showed not only bravery but guile. It was his natural milieu. \"Prince Philip\", wrote Gordonstoun headmaster Kurt Hahn admiringly, \"will make his mark in any profession where he will have to prove himself in a trial of strength\".\n\nOthers had their reservations about the brilliant and ambitious young officer. In peace, once he had his own command, he drove his men hard, much too hard for some. \"If he had a fault, it was a tendency to intolerance,\" wrote one biographer. That kind of comment would recur. Contemporaries were more blunt. \"One of his crew,\" writes another biographer, \"said he would rather die than serve under him again.\"\n\nIn Dartmouth in 1939, as war became ever more certain, the navy was his destiny. He had fallen in love with the sea itself. \"It is an extraordinary master or mistress,\" he would say later, \"it has such extraordinary moods.\" But a rival to the sea would come.\n\nWhen King George VI toured the Naval College, accompanied by Philip's uncle, he brought with him his daughter, Princess Elizabeth. Philip was asked to look after her. He showed off to her, vaulting the nets of the tennis court in the grounds of the college. He was confident, outgoing, strikingly handsome, of royal blood if without a throne. She was beautiful, a little sheltered, a little serious, and very smitten by Philip.\n\nPrince Philip with his uncle, Earl Mountbatten, at the Royal Marines Barracks in 1965\n\nThe Queen, with one of the Royal corgis, chats with polo-playing Prince Philip at Windsor Great Park\n\nTheir engagement was announced in July 1947\n\nDid he know then that this was a collision of two great passions? That he could not have the sea and the beautiful young woman? For a time after their wedding in 1948, he did have both. As young newlyweds in Malta, he had what he so prized - command of a ship - and they had two idyllic years together. But the illness and then early death of King George VI brought it all to an end.\n\nHe knew what it meant, the moment he was told. Up in a lodge in Kenya, touring Africa, with Princess Elizabeth in place of the King, Philip was told first of the monarch's death. He looked, said his equerry Mike Parker, \"as if a tonne of bricks had fallen on him\". For some time he sat, slumped in a chair, a newspaper covering his head and chest. His princess had become the Queen. His world had changed irrevocably.\n\nFor someone who almost never displayed anything close to self-pity, and rarely spoke of his own emotions, he was by his own standards candid about the loss of his naval calling. \"There's never been 'if only',\" he said once, \"except perhaps that I regret not having been able to continue a career in the navy\". Those who knew the man and his passions are blunter. The former First Sea Lord, Admiral Lord West, says Philip did his duty; but of the end of his time in the navy he says, \"I know it was a huge loss to him. I know it.\"\n\nThat moment, when princess became Queen, revealed another great contradiction of Philip's life. He was born and brought up in a world almost entirely run by men. He was a rugged, physical man who was brought up and then worked in an entirely male environment. He celebrated masculinity, telling Mike Parker on the birth of his first son Charles, \"It takes a man to have a boy.\" But literally overnight, and for 65 years to follow, it became his life to support his wife, the Queen.\n\nHe would walk behind her. He would give up his job for her. He would apologise if he came into a room after her. At her coronation he knelt before her, his hands enclosed by hers, and swore to be her \"liege man of life and limb\". His children would not bear his name, Mountbatten. \"I'm nothing but a bloody amoeba,\" he exclaimed at that. But there was nothing to be done. She was the Queen. He was her husband.\n\nPrince Philip talked of the upending of circumstance little. \"Within the house,\" he said of the time before the Queen's accession, \"I suppose I naturally filled the principal position. People used to come and ask me what to do. In 1952 the whole thing changed very, very considerably.\"\n\nPrince Philip had hundreds of patronages and projects with a focus on youth, science, the outdoors and sport\n\nThe transition to life in the Palace was brutal. \"Philip,\" said his equerry, \"was constantly being squashed, snubbed, ticked off, rapped over the knuckles... I felt Philip did not have any friends or helpers.\" Philip may not have helped himself; one biographer writes that in the early years Palace staff felt he was \"difficult to deal with... prickly... arrogant... defensive\". He was looked upon with suspicion by some in the court, as something of an adventurer, as perhaps a fortune hunter. He had German blood, and this was just after the herculean effort of defeating Nazi Germany.\n\nIn response, Philip began what would become a lifetime of near-ceaseless activity; abroad he was at the side of the Queen on the long tours they undertook, sometimes breaking off to pursue interests particular to him - sporting, industrial or research. She nearly always travelled with him as her companion; but he also travelled alone. It was he, not she, that made the farewells to colonial possessions in the 1950s and 1960s.\n\nAt home there were patronages and projects, hundreds upon hundreds of them, with a focus on youth, science, the outdoors and sport. He played cricket, squash, polo; he swam, sailed, rowed and rode horses and carriage drove. He learnt to fly, and developed his own photographs.\n\nWithin the Palace he was a moderniser, striding the corridors, rootling around the cellars, trying to find out what everyone did. He took over the management of the estate at Sandringham and over the years significantly redeveloped it.\n\n\"He believes he has a creative mission,\" wrote an early biographer, \"to present the monarchy as a dynamic, involved and responsive institution that will address itself to some of the problems of contemporary British society.\"\n\nHe was young and very good looking; he smiled and joked and was at ease in front of the cameras. When he visited a boys' club in London in the late 1950s, a photo shows him with a broad smile on his face, looking crisp in a double-breasted pinstripe suit, his hair slicked back with brilliantine, surrounded by the upturned faces of boys and their mothers all shoving and trying to get close to him. There is more than a whiff of Beatlemania to the moment.\n\nIn his study on the first floor of Buckingham Palace, overlooking the gardens and Green Park, surrounded by thousands of books, with a model of his first command HMS Magpie to one side, he would research and write and type out his speeches. (In 1986 he would buy, always the moderniser, what he called a \"splendid gadget\" that he called \"a miniature word processor\".) He gave between 60 and 80 speeches every year, decade after decade, on topics that reflected his vast range of interests.\n\nOut of the speeches comes a picture of the man. For someone who sat through so much of it, he was clearly impatient with ceremony. \"A lot of time and energy,\" he told students and staff at the Chesterfield College of Technology, \"has been spent on arranging for you to listen to me to take a long time to declare open a building which everyone knows is open already.\"\n\nReflecting his dizzying range of interests, there was sometimes a touch of the gentleman-farmer to his thoughts - well-organised arguments that don't really go anywhere, a lot of anecdotal evidence (\"it seems to me...\") garnered from his extensive travels.\n\nDespite modernising instincts, he was a conservative, somewhat suspicious of the machinations of the big city. He spoke of \"urban dwellers\" and of the \"average citizen\" dumping rubbish from their car. He preferred practical solutions to highfalutin theory - \"The enterprise is doomed,\" he told the Commonwealth Conference on Industrial Relations, \"if it is allowed to enter the rarefied atmosphere of theory.\"\n\nHe was an environmentalist before anyone really knew what that was. He warned of the \"greedy and senseless exploitation of nature.\" And in 1982 he brought up a topic that now grips us, but back then was almost never spoken of, \"a hotly-debated issue directly attributable to the development of industry... the build-up of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere,\" which he referred to as the \"greenhouse effect\".\n\nHis relationship with his eldest son improved in later years\n\nAnd he constantly did himself down, shrugging as to why anyone should want to hear him speak: \"I have very little experience of self-government,\" he told one audience, \"I am one of the most governed people you could meet....\" His example of irrational behaviour? - \"making and listening to speeches on important occasions\". Or speaking before the Brussels Expo in 1958 - \"I feel I can claim to be an expert at going round exhibitions.\" He knew most speeches were a dull formality that had to be got through - and he was happy to let his audience have a laugh at his expense.\n\nIt is another contradiction in a life of them; that someone who cared so much about how we live our lives, about how to pursue a good and moral life, about how government and society might try to channel our instincts, should end up being popularly portrayed as a saloon-bar bore, his retirement from public life in 2017 accompanied by lists of his \"gaffes\", off-colour comments and salty jokes.\n\nThat he could be rude, startlingly so at times, there is no doubt. Part of it was impatience, that dynamo whirring away, the desire to get things done double-quick. Part of it may have been deafness, inherited from his almost wholly deaf mother. But part of it was just plain bad manners, a disregard for what others felt and a thoughtlessness that came from position and temperament.\n\nThere was for a long time a fair amount of barking and shouting at those who failed to please him, and not a lot of thanking those that did.\n\nLooking back down the decades, two great contrasts stand out. The first, that between a life led in the public eye, and a really quite private man. The boy shuttling between guardians and schools and countries quickly learnt to seal off his private side from public view. Inside the Palace it became his world view. Most of his biographers' personal queries were met with a shrug, as if to say \"I don't know why you are bothering\". He once said of his son Charles: \"He is a romantic, I am a pragmatist. And because I don't see things as a romantic would, I'm [perceived as] unfeeling.\" There can be little doubt that he was stung by the accusation. But his inner thoughts were not for public consumption.\n\nAnd the second great, related, contrast is that between the near unceasing whirl of his public life, and a degree of solitude in his private. Of course there was family, though all his sisters pre-deceased him. But few, if any, great friendships are recorded, a corollary of his private nature and the pattern of his many decades. \"Life,\" wrote one biographer, \"hasn't enabled him to build up friendships. He is going round the world at such a lick.\" And royalty is its own curious cage, repelling outsiders. \"What the royal family offers you is friendliness,\" said the late James Callaghan, prime minister in the 1970s, \"not friendship.\"\n\nMajor General Charles Stickland of the Royal Marines, of which for 64 years Philip was Captain General, tells of when the duke flew into an exercise in Norway. He was supposed to say a quick hello to the enlisted men and then have lunch with the commanding officer. Instead he \"asked two of the corporals to spoon food into his mess tin, sat on a Bergan [rucksack], told stories and chatted away with my troops when he was supposed to be having a posh lunch and then got back on the helicopter, having inspired a group of young men as to why it was great to be a Royal Marine\".\n\nIt was vintage Philip; no ceremony, hierarchy pushed to one side, the big group over the more intimate gathering.\n\nBecause of his desire for privacy, because of his position, and because nearly all who knew him best have gone, our understanding of him will always be incomplete. But that's also because of what kind of person he was, because of the contradictions and contrasts that emerged over the decades. \"A mercurial man like His Royal Highness,\" said the artist and architect Sir Hugh Casson, \"needs a loose fit portrait.\"\n\nHe was asked once what his life had been about (the sort of question that normally received an incredulous snort). Had it been about supporting the Queen? \"Absolutely, absolutely,\" he replied. He didn't see himself as a leader, though lead he could. And his own achievements he consistently played down. Accepting the Freedom of the City of London in 1948, he spoke for himself and for what he called other \"followers\", with trademark modesty. \"Our only distinction,\" he said, \"was that we did what we were told to do, to the very best of our ability, and kept on doing it.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "David Cameron has said he will \"respond positively\" to any requests from MPs for him to give evidence about Greensill Capital.\n\nThe former prime minister has faced criticism for lobbying on behalf of the finance firm, which recently collapsed.\n\nIt has sparked a wider row over private companies' attempts to influence ministers and officials.\n\nThe government has asked a senior lawyer to conduct a review into the issue and to report by the end of June.\n\nBut on Wednesday the Commons Treasury committee announced plans for its own probe, with other committees reportedly planning to do the same.\n\nA spokesman for Mr Cameron said he would \"respond positively\" to requests to give evidence \"when the terms of reference of each inquiry are clear\".\n\nIt is not yet clear whether the former Tory leader will be asked to appear in person, or to provide a committee with evidence such as documents.\n\nLabour had wanted a \"full\" probe, including public hearings by a cross-party panel of MPs - but the government rejected this, and voted down the plan.\n\nMeanwhile, the head of a watchdog which advises former ministers and officials on outside employment will make a long-planned appearance in front of MPs later on Thursday.\n\nThe Conservative peer Lord Pickles chairs the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (Acoba).\n\nThe Greensill affair has led to renewed focus on the regulator, which has previously been described as \"toothless\" by a committee of MPs.\n\nCurrent rules ban former ministers from lobbying government for two years after they leave office - a rule Mr Cameron appears to have followed.\n\nBut critics of the current system, including former Labour prime minister Gordon Brown, have suggested a longer ban is required.\n\n\"Former prime ministers must never be lobbying for commercial purposes. Current ministers should not be entertaining such lobbying,\" said Mr Brown.\n\nMr Cameron began a role as an adviser to Greensill Capital in August 2018, just over two years after he left Downing Street in July 2016.\n\nThe firm's founder, Australian financier Lex Greensill, had previously worked as an unpaid adviser to Mr Cameron's government.\n\nMr Cameron's work saw him text Chancellor Rishi Sunak on behalf of the firm asking for it to be included in a Covid-related government loan scheme.\n\nAlong with Mr Greensill, he also met Health Secretary Matt Hancock for a \"private drink\" in 2019 to discuss a new payment scheme for NHS staff.\n\nMr Cameron has said he did not break any codes of conduct or rules on lobbying - and welcomes the government's review, to be led by lawyer Nigel Boardman.\n\nSimon Case, head of the civil service, has set a deadline for colleagues to declare second jobs\n\nOn Wednesday, it was also revealed that government departments have been ordered to find out whether senior officials have rule-breaking second jobs.\n\nCabinet Secretary Simon Case has asked colleagues to declare paid roles or outside interests that \"might conflict\" with Civil Service rules by the end of the week.\n\nThe move came after news that Bill Crothers, a former civil servant, joined Greensill as an adviser in 2015 whilst still working for the government.\n\nMr Crothers says his recruitment by the firm was \"transparent\" and had been approved by the Cabinet Office under its internal conflicts of interest policy.\n\nHe later went on to join the company as a director in late 2016, after leaving the Civil Service in November 2015.\n\nBut Lord Pickles has said there had been a \"lack of transparency\" about the process - and has asked the Cabinet Office to provide further details.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, former permanent secretary and Civil Service commissioner for public appointments Sir David Normington said it was \"absolutely baffling\", adding that he had \"never come across anything like it in my 40 years in Whitehall\".\n\nHe said: \"There may be an explanation for this which we don't yet know, but we're not just talking here about any old civil servant.\n\n\"We're talking about someone who was responsible for commercial dealings in government, had oversight of relationships with a large number of major contractors and the handling of lots of public money.\n\n\"It's essential that people like that when they leave the Civil Service are subject to scrutiny and subject to rules which mean that they can't take up appointments immediately.\"\n\nHe added: \"We've heard a lot about was this behaviour within the rules. Well, it's not just about the rules.\n\n\"It's about the principles of standards in public life, what we need is good behaviour in public life not just the following of rules.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson told MPs on Wednesday it was \"not clear\" that \"boundaries have been properly understood\".", "A pub owner has been jailed after admitting responsibility for the death of a seven-year-old boy who was electrocuted in a beer garden.\n\nHarvey Tyrrell suffered a huge electric shock when he touched \"defective\" lighting at the King Harold in Romford, east London, on 11 September 2018.\n\nDavid Bearman, 73, pleaded guilty to Harvey's manslaughter and to stealing electricity from an unmetered supply.\n\nHe was sentenced at Snaresbrook Crown Court to nine years in prison.\n\nThe electrician who installed the lighting, Bearman's brother-in-law Colin Naylor, was jailed for a year after being found guilty of failing to discharge a duty under the Health and Safety at Work Act.\n\nThe 74-year-old, of Hockley Road, Rayleigh, Essex, was previously acquitted of gross negligence manslaughter.\n\nHis trial had heard he had installed the lighting circuit around the garden's perimeter in June 2018, three months before Harvey died.\n\nAn investigation found 12 defects at the King Harold which posed a risk of injury including electric shock\n\nAn investigation into Harvey's death found 12 defects at the pub which posed a risk of injury including electric shock, and 32 potentially dangerous defects, with one expert describing it as \"the most dangerous thing he's ever seen in 40 years\".\n\nBearman, who himself suffered an electric shock in the pub's basement in May 2018, never engaged a \"competent person\" to fix numerous electric defects, the court heard.\n\n\"He [Harvey] was electrocuted as a result of the unsafe installation of a lighting unit in that garden combined with a catalogue of electrical failures,\" prosecutor Duncan Penny QC said.\n\nIn a victim impact statement, Harvey's mother Danielle Jones said she had lost her \"perfect seven-year-old\".\n\n\"We feel like life's just not fair. We can't describe how much we miss our larger-than-life, cheeky, happy, loving son.\n\n\"Our lives will never be the same,\" she said.\n\nNaylor denied any wrongdoing and told police in an interview that he was an electrician with 50 years' experience and believed his work to be \"first class\".\n\nBearman's barrister, Neil Fitzgibbon, said his client's guilty plea was an acceptance of \"full responsibility\" for Harvey's death and he was a \"broken man, consumed with guilt about what happened\".\n\nSentencing the two men, Judge Martyn Zeidman QC said: \"This pub was a disgrace. And as has been said sums it up, in my view, a timebomb waiting to go off.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Government departments have been ordered to find out by the end of the week whether senior officials have rule-breaking second jobs.\n\nCabinet Secretary Simon Case has asked colleagues to declare paid roles or outside interests that \"might conflict\" with Civil Service rules.\n\nThe move comes after it emerged a top official joined a financial firm while still working for the government.\n\nBill Crothers says his recruitment by Greensill Capital was \"transparent\".\n\nLetters to an appointments watchdog published on Tuesday revealed his part-time role as an adviser at the firm had been signed off by the Cabinet Office.\n\nBut Prime Minister Boris Johnson told MPs on Wednesday it was \"not clear\" that \"boundaries have been properly understood\".\n\nLabour has described Mr Crothers' dual employment, which happened in 2015, as \"extraordinary and shocking\".\n\nMr Crothers had been the government's chief procurement officer prior to being taken on by Greensill, which has since collapsed.\n\nRevelations about the firm's attempts to influence government have led to Mr Johnson launching a lawyer-led review into its access to ministers and civil servants.\n\nLabour argues a special House of Commons committee should investigate instead - but the government rejects this, and voted down the plan on Wednesday.\n\nIn a letter to senior officials, seen by the BBC, Mr Case - the UK's top civil servant - said there were issues of \"acute concern\" over recruitment.\n\nHe said the need to give civil servants the chance to gain experience life outside Whitehall has been \"recognised for many decades by successive governments\".\n\n\"But this must only be done in a way which can maintain the integrity and impartiality of the Civil Service,\" he wrote.\n\nHe added: \"In particular, there needs to be transparency and full and proper management of any outside interests.\"\n\nMr Case ordered colleagues to declare by the end of the week if they \"come across\" instances of senior civil servants with second jobs or outside interests \"which might conflict with their obligations under the [Civil Service] Code\".\n\nThis sets outs the rules on \"honesty\", \"integrity\", \"objectivity\" and \"impartiality\".\n\nSimon Case became head of the civil service in September 2020\n\nMr Crothers joined Greensill as an adviser to its board in September 2015, while he remained a Civil Service employee.\n\nLetters to the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (Acoba) watchdog published on Tuesday show the move was approved by the Cabinet Office under its internal conflicts of interest policy.\n\nMr Crothers later went on to join the company as a director in late 2016, after leaving government in November 2015.\n\nIn a letter to Acoba's chairman, Lord Pickles, Mr Crothers wrote: \"I am concerned that there may be a view that I did not follow proper process regarding my role with Greensill Capital.\n\n\"I assure you that I completely respect the required process and your office, took steps to comply, and believe that I did so.\"\n\nHe adds: \"I was transparent about the move to Greensill Capital, and it was well known at the time.\"\n\nBut in a letter to the current head of the Cabinet Office, Lord Pickles said there had been a \"lack of transparency\" about the process - and called for more details.\n\nConcerns about Greensill's access to government were sparked by revelations last month that former Prime Minister David Cameron had lobbied on behalf of the company after leaving office.\n\nHis efforts involved texting Chancellor Rishi Sunak and contacting other ministers about a government-backed Covid loan scheme on behalf of the firm.\n\nAlong with the company's founder, Lex Greensill, Mr Cameron also met Health Secretary Matt Hancock for a \"private drink\" in 2019 to discuss a new payment scheme for NHS staff.\n\nThe former prime minister began working as an adviser to the company in August 2018, two years after leaving Downing Street in July 2016.\n\nMr Cameron has said he did not break any codes of conduct or rules on lobbying, and welcomes the government's review.\n\nOn Wednesday, the Commons Treasury select committee said it planned to launch an inquiry into the \"lessons\" from Greensill Capital's demise.\n\nOther parliamentary committees are reportedly considering bids to invite the former prime minister to give evidence.\n\nA spokesman for Mr Cameron said he would \"respond positively\" to such requests \"when the terms of reference of each inquiry are clear\".", "Sara Tilston, manager of Stockport hospice charity Beechwood Cancer Care, which is only open to shoppers, not droppers, this week.\n\nPeople should call and check before they drop off donations at charity shops, a trade association has warned.\n\nThere are fears the pent-up demand to donate after lockdown could lead to overcrowding in shops, the Charity Retail Association said.\n\nChief executive Robin Osterley said \"we have two asks of the generous public\".\n\n\"Be thoughtful - is this stuff you'd be prepared to buy yourself? And the second is to contact the shop before you roll up with armfuls of goods.\"\n\nThe Salvation Army made record sales on Monday, after non-essential shops reopened in England and Wales.\n\nMeanwhile Oxfam reported a 77% increase in sales compared with 2019, and Cancer Research UK took half a million pounds - more than double what it was expecting.\n\nBut the same big names are encouraging would-be donors to phone and book a slot to drop.\n\nManaging donations has been a Covid learning curve for the sector, as lockdowns have prompted mass clear-outs of unwanted goods.\n\nHowever, charity shops are better prepared this time, Mr Osterley said. Take for example Stockport hospice charity, Beechwood Cancer Care. There's been a queue of customers at its Heald Green precinct. But it is only open to shoppers, not droppers, this week.\n\nIts manager, Sara Tilston, said it had been really busy: \"Yesterday was brilliant, we loved it.\n\n\"People have really struggled for money this year and being able to get extra supplies a lot cheaper is important.\"\n\nShe was turning away donations this week, but said that from next week she would accept donations on Tuesdays and Fridays, from the back door. \"We want to use up to the donations that we've collected through lockdown.\"\n\nThere's extra pressure on these volunteer-run services to be safe and compliant.\n\nIn all the fanfare of the 12 April reopening in England, the return of the humble charity shop was anticipated for a variety of reasons.\n\nThe stores offer valuable employment and volunteering experience to thousands of people, many of whom are likely to be vulnerable or isolated otherwise.\n\nSecond-hand fashion has gained a big following among the environmentally conscious - as well as bargain hunters.\n\nMoreover, for many making a purchase, this is a need not a desire. The pandemic has nudged 3.5 million more people into financial dire straits.\n\nSusanne Burwell's haul of unwanted goods includes a wetsuit - but it isn't destined for the charity shop\n\nBut lockdown has also given many of us yet another chance to have a good old clear out.\n\nTake Susanne Burwell, in Hull, who has a haul of good quality items that stretches across her dining table and all over her sofa.\n\n\"I've got a suitcase full of clothes and all my shoes ready to go,\" she told the BBC. She also has a range of sporting items to pass on - a wetsuit, a bike and badminton rackets.\n\n\"It's become a weight on my mind. I just want to have the space again, but I am quite excited that things might get another life.\"\n\nHowever, she said she wouldn't be taking them to the charity shop this time.\n\n\"I remember last time it was 'please don't bring us any more stuff, we don't have room for it'. I've heard charity shops are quite full again, so I'm booking a car boot.\"\n\nAlthough it has got more difficult to donate, with set days and queues to hand on unwanted items, Robin Osterley said most people were still willing to wait to give their things away, rather than sell them.\n\nHe said there had been a steady stream of donations this week already. He simply wishes his members could have stayed open throughout lockdown, like supermarkets.\n\n\"People have been sitting on piles of clothes for a long time, and we are grateful they have been doing that.\n\n\"For us it's been more frustrating to be classed as non-essential retail. We feel we are very much essential.\"\n\nHis organisation is keen to stress the contribution charity shops make to UK life, listing their presence on struggling high streets, the volunteering skills people can earn, as well as the cash boost to hundreds of good causes.\n\nLast year, a government committee warned that the funding gap left by closing charity shops would create irreparable damage to the sector.\n\nIts survival will rely on the support of shoppers and droppers alike.\n\nMs Tilson, in Stockport, said charity shops weren't just about donations and bargains: \"We also help those who want to come out for a chat, just to see us.\n\n\"It was so good to see regular customers when we opened. Who needs Primark anyway?\"", "Helen Whitelaw can speak again in her own voice, using a computer aid, thanks to clips from the TV show\n\nA Scottish woman who lost her speech after developing motor neurone disease (MND) has had it reconstructed using sounds from her appearance on the ITV gameshow Tipping Point.\n\nHelen Whitelaw appeared on the show in 2019, winning almost £3,000.\n\nShe was diagnosed with MND the following year, after which her speech rapidly deteriorated.\n\nBut engineers took the audio of the 76-year-old's TV appearance and used it to build her voice into a computer aid.\n\nMs Whitelaw of Glasgow has thanked them for \"giving me back my voice\".\n\nTipping Point, which first aired in 2012, finds contestants answering general knowledge questions in order to win counters which they use on a large coin pusher machine.\n\n\"The diagnosis was devastating for the family,\" Ms Whitelaw told STV News. \"I wanted people to know what I was saying and I did not want to sound like a machine.\n\n\"I am extremely grateful to everyone concerned for giving me back my voice.\"\n\nHer daughter Gillian Scott said it was \"just the best\" to be able to hear her mother's voice again.\n\n\"I think we thought all hope was maybe lost, and it's not been,\" she told Tipping Point host Ben Shephard on Good Morning Britain on Thursday.\n\nMs Whitelaw added: \"It is wonderful being able to talk to people and sound normal and not like a machine.\n\n\"My frustration has vanished and I can now have satisfactory conversations with everyone.\"\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\nAlice Smith, from the Edinburgh-based company Speak Unique, which builds synthetic voices for people, said they were \"apprehensive\" at first about using the technology.\n\n\"We were sort of joking that she'd definitely be able to say, 'Drop zone four', as that was such a catchphrase during the show,\" she told STV News.\n\n\"But we were so pleased that we did manage to get it to work with her appearance on Tipping Point.\"\n\nMotor neurone disease is a group of diseases that affect the nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord that tell your muscles what to do.\n\nAlso known as ALS, it causes muscle weakness and stiffness.\n\nEventually people with the disease are unable to move, talk, swallow and finally, breathe.\n\nThere is no cure and the exact causes are unclear - it's been variously linked to genes, exposure to heavy metals and agricultural pollution.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Instagram is popular with young children, even though it has a joining age of 13\n\nA group of public health advocates from around the world wants Facebook to scrap its plans to launch a version of Instagram for children.\n\nA letter from the Campaign for a Commercial-free Childhood, signed by 99 groups and individuals, claims the \"image-obsessed\" platform is dangerous for children's health and privacy.\n\nPlans for an Instagram for under-13s have been mooted in recent weeks.\n\nFacebook, which owns Instagram, said it would be \"managed by parents\".\n\n\"Kids are already online, and want to connect with their family and friends, have fun, and learn. We want to help them do that in a safe and age-appropriate way, and find practical solutions to the ongoing industry problem of kids lying about their age to access apps,\" the social media giant told the BBC.\n\n\"We're working on new age verification methods to keep under-13s off Instagram, and have just started exploring an Instagram experience for kids that is age-appropriate and managed by parents.\n\n\"We agree that any experience we develop must prioritise their safety and privacy, and we will consult with experts in child development, child safety and mental health, and privacy advocates to inform it. We also won't show ads in any Instagram experience we develop for people under the age of 13.\"\n\nIn March, Buzzfeed reported on an internal company post in which executives discussed plans to build a version of the photo-sharing app that could be used by children who are under the legal age to join Instagram.\n\nFacebook, along with other social media platforms, is under growing pressure to find ways to stop the under-13s joining. But children can do so by lying about their age.\n\nIn the letter, the signatories point out that those under the age of 13 already on Instagram are unlikely to \"abandon it for a new site that seems babyish\".\n\n\"The real target of Instagram for kids will be much younger children,\" it said.\n\nJosh Golin, Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood executive director, said: \"Instagram's business model relies on extensive data collection, maximising time on devices, promoting a culture of over-sharing and idolising influencers, as well as a relentless focus on often altered physical appearance. It is certainly not appropriate for seven-year olds.\"\n\nKathryn Montgomery, senior strategist at the US digital rights group Center for Digital Democracy, said: \"Facebook claims that creating an Instagram for kids will help keep them safe on the platform.\n\n\"But the company's real goal is to expand its lucrative and highly profitable Instagram franchise to an even younger demographic, introducing children to a powerful commercialised social media environment that poses serious threats to their privacy, health and wellbeing.\"\n\nThe letter cites research from the The Royal Society for Public Health which rated Instagram as the worst social media platform for youth mental health.\n\nThe report claims Instagram is linked to a increased risk of eating disorders, cyber-bullying and sexual grooming.\n\nJust this week, Instagram was forced to apologise after a \"mistake\" meant diet content was promoted to users with eating disorders.\n\nAnd the father of UK teenager Molly Russell, who took her own life in 2017, said that the platform was partly responsible, because she had viewed material about depression and suicide on it, even though such content is banned.\n\n\"Instagram's focus on photo-sharing and appearance makes the platform particularly unsuitable for children who are in the midst of crucial stages of developing their sense of self,\" the letter reads.\n\n\"Children and teens (especially young girls) have learned to associate overly sexualised, highly edited photos of themselves with more attention on the platform, and popularity among their peers.\"\n\nThere is also unnecessary commercial pressure on children, says the letter, quoting analysis by digital monitoring agency Sprout Social that suggests one in every three Instagram posts is an advert.\n\nYouTube for Kids, which doesn't show adverts, was recently criticised for \"smuggling in\" marketing and advertising with product placements. Instagram has also faced criticism for not making it clear when posts are paid-for ads.\n\nThe letter added that Facebook had \"a long track record of exploiting young people\", citing a design flaw in Messenger Kids which allowed young children to circumvent parental controls.\n\nThe letter, addressed to Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg, is signed by 35 organisations and 64 individual experts, including the Electronic Privacy Information Center, Global Action Plan and Kidscape.\n\nFacebook is not the only platform under fire for the way it treats young people.\n\nDutch privacy group the Foundation for Market Information Research has alleged that TikTok violates children's privacy under GDPR rules. It plans to file a formal complaint.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Thursday evening. We'll have another update for you tomorrow morning.\n\nLatest figures show the number of people waiting for routine operations in England in February reached 4.7 million - the highest total since current records began 14 years ago. Nearly 388,000 people were waiting more than a year for non-urgent surgery, compared with just 1,600 before the pandemic began. Prime Minister Boris Johnson says the government will ensure the NHS in England has the funds it needs to address the backlog.\n\nHospitality businesses in Northern Ireland will be allowed to open earlier than initially proposed, after new indicative dates were agreed by ministers. Unlicensed and licensed premises such as restaurants, beer gardens, coffee shops and cafes can open outdoors on 30 April. Indoor hospitality venues are then set to reopen on 24 May. Proposed dates leaked to the media earlier had suggested outdoor hospitality would have to wait until 10 May, with indoor venues not reopening before 1 June.\n\nBenefit Cosmetics has backtracked on a policy that reportedly saw NHS workers turned away for beauty treatments because of their contact with people with coronavirus. A nurse posted on Facebook about being refused treatment, which prompted a backlash on social media. Responding to the post, the beauty brand said it was a \"blanket policy\" to refuse service to anyone who has been in contact \"with anyone suspected of Covid or having its symptoms\". But it has now announced it is changing its policy and will allow NHS workers to receive treatments if they were wearing medical grade PPE when in contact with Covid patients.\n\nIndia has registered a daily total of more than 200,000 new coronavirus cases for the first time, as it suffers a huge surge in cases and deaths with figures doubling in the past 10 days. Some parts of the country have begun imposing restrictions, including Mumbai and the western state of Maharashtra. However, huge crowds have continued to participate in the Kumbh Mela religious festival, where hundreds of devotees, including nine top saints, tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. ‘A Covid tsunami we had never seen before’\n\nWith lockdown restrictions easing, visits to care homes are now possible for families. Eileen Fuller, who lives in a care home near Sittingbourne, Kent, has not seen the two youngest members of her family for over a year. Watch the moment they are reunited:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nPeople are being encouraged to regularly use rapid coronavirus tests to help stop outbreaks as restrictions are lifted - find out more about how you can get one here.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Most of the original cast reunited after nearly 10 years off our screens in the 2019 Christmas special\n\nThere could be one more special episode of Gavin and Stacey, according to one of the show's lead actors.\n\nRob Brydon, who played character Bryn West on the show, said writers James Corden and Ruth Jones left it \"hanging\" in the BBC One 2019 Christmas special - which had more than 17 million viewers.\n\nThe episode finished with character Nessa proposing to Smithy.\n\nOn his podcast, Brydon &, the actor said \"it would seem so strange\" to not have another episode.\n\nActor and comedian Rob Brydon played loveable uncle Bryn West on the show\n\nThe Gavin and Stacey Christmas special - set in Barry Island - was the UK's most-watched scripted TV programme of the 2010s.\n\nActor and comedian Brydon made the comments while discussing the comedy with Sheridan Smith, who played Smithy's sister Ruth \"Rudi\" Smith in the programme.\n\nHe said: \"Well, I think they might do one more special. But they should crack on if they are going to do it.\"\n\nSheridan Smith said: \"They created this masterpiece sort of one-off Christmas special.\n\n\"Now everyone's asking for more, aren't they?\"\n\nShe said: \"What a cast and everyone was so lovely; the crew, everyone, was brilliant on that job\", adding that Corden and Jones' creation was \"genius\".\n\n\"They wrote it so well and so to just be a small part of it was an honour,\" she said.", "Millions of people watched coverage of the Duke of Edinburgh's death on Friday\n\nThe BBC has confirmed it received 109,741 complaints from the public over its coverage of the Duke of Edinburgh's death.\n\nThe corporation cleared its schedules to cover the news when Prince Philip died on Friday, at the age of 99.\n\nEastEnders and the MasterChef final were replaced by news programmes, while BBC Four was taken off air completely.\n\nThe BBC said it was \"a significant event which generated a lot of interest both nationally and internationally\".\n\nIt added: \"We acknowledge some viewers were unhappy with the level of coverage given, and impact this had on the billed TV and Radio schedules.\n\n\"We do not make such changes without careful consideration and the decisions made reflect the role the BBC plays as the national broadcaster, during moments of national significance.\n\n\"We are grateful for all feedback, and we always listen to the response from our audiences.\"\n\nThe corporation's fortnightly complaints report was published on Thursday.\n\nThe figure makes the coverage of Prince Philip's death the most complained-about piece of programming in BBC history.\n\nBBC One moved the MasterChef final to 14 April, so viewers were then able to find out who had won the amateur cookery series hosted by Gregg Wallace and John Torode.\n\nOther programmes that have previously attracted a high volume of correspondence included the broadcast of Jerry Springer: The Opera, which received 63,000 complaints in 2005; and Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand's prank call to actor Andrew Sachs, which drew 42,000 complaints in 2008.\n\nThe BBC was not alone in adjusting its schedule to reflect Prince Philip's death, with ITV and Channel 4 both broadcasting extended news coverage.\n\nHowever, many viewers turned away as the day wore on, with ITV's Friday night audience declining by 60% in comparison to the previous week, according to overnight figures.\n\nFor a significant number of viewers, replacing the final of MasterChef with programming celebrating the life of Prince Philip was the wrong decision. Quite how many would have complained if the BBC had done the opposite is the unanswered question.\n\nWhat is also interesting is how many older viewers have complained. Traditional \"linear\" TV has been a reliable friend during months of lockdown, and while younger viewers have embraced streaming around 20 million of us are still watching at peak time each evening. Schedules, even in an age of YouTube, iPlayer and Netflix, still matter.\n\nIt is also worth mentioning that, in these days of online complaints forms, it is rather easier to register a complaint than it was in the era of trying to get through to the BBC switchboard. Indeed, some people contacted the BBC to complain that the BBC was making it too easy to complain.\n\nBBC One's audience also dropped six per cent week-on-week during the coverage about Prince Philip, while BBC Two lost two-thirds of its audience, with just 340,000 people tuning in at any time between 7pm and 11pm.\n\nThe most-watched programme on a single channel that evening was Channel 4's Gogglebox, with 4.2 million viewers.\n\nThe BBC put a dedicated form on its website later that evening to allow viewers to complain about the TV coverage, in recognition of the volume of complaints.\n\nThe form was removed the following afternoon, after the number of complaints began to fall, the corporation said.\n\nBroadcaster Andrew Marr has also apologised for a phrase he used about the Duke of Edinburgh while speaking on the BBC News Channel, which angered some viewers.\n\nThe BBC said: \"When reflecting on the life of HRH The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Andrew Marr gave his analysis of Prince Philip's role within the monarchy and relationship with the Queen. While doing this, Andrew made a remark which he accepts was poorly phrased, for which he apologises.\"\n\nThe BBC also said it received complaints from viewers who \"feel it's inappropriate for Prince Andrew to feature in our news coverage\".\n\nThe corporation responded by saying: \"All of Prince Philip's children gave a tribute to their father following his passing, which we have covered in our news programming.\n\n\"We have fully reported on the allegations against Prince Andrew, and we have also made it clear that he has not been charged with any crime. We consider we have appropriately covered his comments.\"\n\nPrince Philip's funeral will be held at St George's Chapel, in the grounds of Windsor Castle, at 15:00 BST on Saturday 17 April. The procession and funeral will be televised and the BBC has published its broadcast plans for its coverage.\n\nIt will devote coverage on BBC One to the funeral between 12:30 BST and 16:20 BST and BBC Two will broadcast a special programme fronted by Huw Edwards at 20:10 GMT.\n\nDuring the day, BBC Two will air alternative programming such as Saturday Kitchen and Football Focus.\n\nBBC One is also carrying news bulletins either side of the programming, as well as a programme on Saturday morning called The Duke: In His Own Words at 11:00 GMT.\n\nOn 16 April, BBC One will show HRH The Duke of Edinburgh Remembered between 19:00 GMT and 20:05 GMT.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lord Pickles: \"I hope this doesn't sound rude, but there doesn't seem to have been any boundaries at all\"\n\nThe rules on ministers and top officials taking jobs with private firms need urgent reform, the government's adviser on them has said.\n\nLord Pickles said there did not appear to be \"any boundaries at all\" between civil servants and the private sector.\n\nIt comes after news a top civil servant worked for Greensill Capital while still on the government payroll.\n\nLabour says things are becoming \"murkier\" and lobbyists have an \"open door\" to government.\n\nGreensill Capital is at the centre of a row about access, influence and lobbying that has engulfed Westminster.\n\nThe government has announced a review of contacts between top officials and ministers, including former prime minister David Cameron, and the now failed finance firm.\n\nIt will be led by Nigel Boardman, a non-executive board member of the department for business.\n\nSpeaking on a visit to Dartmouth College in Devon, Boris Johnson said he agreed with Lord Pickles that reform was needed.\n\nThe PM said: \"I think the most important thing is for us to get to the bottom of it properly and I want all ministers and civil servants to be making the information that needs to be known known to Mr Boardman and let's see what he has to say.\n\n\"We need to understand what's gone on here.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lobbying row: PM Johnson says we must \"get to the bottom of it\"\n\nOn Wednesday, Mr Johnson ordered Conservative MPs to vote down Labour's call for a \"full\" MP-led inquiry into Greensill and lobbying more widely.\n\nTory peer Lord Pickles chairs the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (Acoba) which advises former ministers and civil servants on outside employment.\n\nHe told the Commons public administration committee he had warned of a scandal but \"this is not where I expected it to come from\".\n\nHe added: \"There is nothing wrong with lobbyists. What is wrong is with unregulated lobbying, secret lobbying - people getting an undue advantage.\n\n\"Our entire political careers have been built by lobbying of some sort... it becomes wrong when it is not properly regulated, recorded and transparent.\"\n\nFormer ministers and senior civil servants must seek advice before taking up a new job in the two years after they leave Whitehall\n\nFormer government ministers - and top civil servants - are never short of job offers, but what sort of work should they be allowed to do after leaving the corridors of power?\n\nLord Pickles' Acoba committee is meant to ensure that they don't use their insider knowledge and contacts to enrich themselves for two years after leaving the government.\n\nThe danger is that if they get too cosy with business it could lead to bias and corruption.\n\nThe Acoba committee has long been criticised for being toothless - and Eric Pickles appears to agree. As things stand, he is neither a watchdog nor a regulator, he says.\n\nHis committee is there to offer advice, which is not always sought.\n\nHe appears determined to change this, although he says there is no need for the \"thermonuclear\" option of fines and new laws.\n\nOnly that if you break the rules, there must be \"consequences\".\n\nOn Tuesday it emerged that a former government procurement officer, Bill Crothers, joined Greensill as an adviser in 2015 while still working as a civil servant - after getting the go-ahead from the Cabinet Office.\n\nLord Pickles said that while it was not unusual for civil servants to have second jobs and to share their expertise, Mr Crothers' \"excuse\" when justifying his work with Greensill surprised him.\n\n\"It did seem, talking to other colleagues who had enjoyed being civil servants in the past, that they also shared my surprise - this seems to be a new thing, or a new excuse.\"\n\nBill Crothers says he was \"transparent\" about the role he took on with Greensill Capital\n\nHe said contractors and consultants to the government should have to sign a memorandum of understanding about the restrictions that would be placed on them after completing their public sector work.\n\n\"Simple steps could be taken now\" he said to tighten things up including \"looking carefully at contracts of employment\" and changes could be put in place \"well before the summer\".\n\nHe said the public was \"entitled\" to know the arrangements for second jobs.\n\n\"I mean, if Mr Crothers had decided he wanted to have a milk round or something, I don't think we would be terribly worried.\n\n\"But his particular position, in terms of running procurement and working for a commercial organisation, is something that does require a full and frank and transparent explanation,\" he added.\n\nHe expressed his frustration that Acoba had a \"very limited and defined role,\" but added that most people do follow the rules and it is \"only a tiny minority\" who cause problems.\n\nWhat inquiries are being held?\n\nIt was possible to create a \"robust system\" without spending \"enormous sums\" of money and creating layers of bureaucracy, Lord Pickles told MPs.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said more and stronger lobbying rules are needed because the current system \"is not working\".\n\nHe said ministers were being lobbied for \"massive\" procurement contracts \"involving millions sometimes billions of pounds\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe added: \"Increasingly we're seeing a murkier and murkier picture whether it's the way contracts are handed out, the lack of due process or the lobbying which is not a revolving door, it's an open door now in to government\".\n\nCorrection 27/4/21: Lord Pickles' quote regarding lobbying has been corrected", "Heathrow has said that long queues caused by extensive Covid checks at the airport are becoming \"untenable\".\n\nChris Garton, chief solutions officer at Heathrow, told MPs on the transport committee that some travellers faced waits of up to six hours.\n\nOn more than one occasion police had had to intervene because queuing was \"not something passengers want to do\", he added.\n\nThe Home Office said people shouldn't travel \"unless absolutely necessary\".\n\nA spokesperson said: \"Border Force has ensured it has the right level of resources to check that passengers are compliant with our border health measures, but queues and wait times will currently be longer as we undertake these vital checks to keep us all safe.\"\n\nForeign travel is only permitted for certain reasons at the moment.\n\nMr Garton said that all passengers, regardless of nationality, had to be thoroughly vetted before they left or entered the UK to ensure they complied with coronavirus legislation.\n\nHowever, he said that the queues would become a \"much bigger\" problem if rules on foreign travel are relaxed on 17 May, as the government is planning.\n\nCurrently, he said about 10-15,000 people arrive at the airport each day, and \"certainly more than half are having delays in excess of 2-3 hours each day\".\n\nHe said the current system is a \"tremendous burden on officers at the border\" and that the Home Office had not provided enough officers.\n\n\"We would like to see more resources at the border,\" he told the MPs.\n\nHe said maintaining social distancing was hard as the airport was never built to \"have so many people held up\" in queues.\n\nPeople in England can start thinking about booking foreign holidays again this summer, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said last week.\n\nBut he said the cost of the Covid tests required needed to be driven down, amid criticism from the travel industry.\n\nMr Shapps gave more detail on the traffic light system which will see countries graded on their risk.\n\nPassengers will have to take the tests before leaving and on returning - even from low-risk \"green\" countries.", "TLP supporters throw rocks and bricks at police in Islamabad on Tuesday after the party's leader was detained\n\nFrance has urged all its citizens in Pakistan to leave the country temporarily amid violent anti-French protests across the country.\n\nThe country's embassy in Pakistan warned of \"serious threats to French interests in Pakistan\", saying protests were increasing nationwide.\n\nTwo police officers died this week in renewed clashes with protesters.\n\nThe protests were sparked months ago after France defended the right to show cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.\n\nIn October last year, French President Emmanuel Macron strongly defended freedom of expression after the beheading of a teacher who showed such cartoons during a class discussion.\n\nThis prompted anger in parts of the Muslim world, including Pakistan, where there were calls for a boycott of French goods.\n\nDepictions of the Prophet Muhammad are widely regarded as taboo in Islam, and are considered highly offensive by Muslims.\n\nPolice fired water cannon, rubber bullets and tear gas at the protesters\n\nThe protests escalated this week after the Pakistani government arrested Saad Hussain Rizvi, leader of the hard-line political party Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan (TLP), which has called for the expulsion of the French ambassador.\n\nMr Rizvi's arrest, and a move by the Pakistani authorities to ban the TLP, brought thousands of the party's supporters into the streets in Pakistan to protest. Police fired rubber bullets, tear gas and water cannon at the crowds.\n\nThe TLP has previously gathered huge crowds to protest over blasphemy issues. Under Pakistani law those found guilty of insulting the Prophet Muhammad can face the death penalty.\n\nSpeaking at a news conference on Wednesday, Pakistani Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed said the nation was \"in favour of protecting the Prophet's honour\" but that the TLP's demands \"could have portrayed Pakistan as a radical nation worldwide\".\n\nOn its website, the French embassy in Pakistan said on Thursday: \"Demonstrations are increasing across the country.\n\n\"In this context, and because of the serious threats to French interests in Pakistan, French nationals are recommended to temporarily leave the country via existing commercial airlines.\"\n\nCars were set on fire and two police officers killed in the clashes\n\nIn France, state secularism (laïcité) is central to the country's national identity. Freedom of expression in schools and other public spaces is part of that, and curbing it to protect the feelings of a particular religion is seen as undermining national unity.\n\nThe satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, which was targeted in a deadly jihadist attack in Paris in 2015 over its cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, also mocks other religions.\n\nComments by Mr Macron in October in support of the magazine's right to publish the cartoons triggered anger across the Muslim world, with tens of thousands in Pakistan, neighbouring Iran and other Muslim countries flooding the streets and organising anti-French boycotts.\n\nThe TLP temporarily called off protests in Pakistan in November, claiming that government ministers had agreed to boycott French products.\n\nPakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan criticised Mr Macron, but the government denied it had agreed to a boycott, saying no decision had been made.\n\nThe TLP is the political arm of the Tehreek-e-Labaik Ya Rasool Allah (TLYRA) movement.\n\nLed by Mr Rizvi's father - Khadim Rizvi, who died in November - it came to prominence for its opposition to the hanging of Mumtaz Qadri, a policeman who killed the governor of Punjab province Salman Taseer in 2011 because he had spoken out against the country's blasphemy laws.\n\nYou might also be interested in:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I kept thinking, what is happening to me?\" - Asia Bibi remembers being taken to prison", "A former Nando's worker has become the latest winner of BBC One's amateur cookery series MasterChef.\n\nTom Rhodes was crowned champion after cooking a five-course lunch for lockdown heroes and serving up a dish at renowned restaurant Le Gavroche.\n\nThe 31-year-old from Newcastle saw off competition from fellow finalists Mike Tomkins and Alexina Anatole.\n\nThe final had been postponed following the death of the Duke of Edinburgh on Friday.\n\nThe BBC replaced scheduled programming with news coverage about Prince Philip, with EastEnders among the other programmes affected and BBC Four taken off air completely.\n\nHowever, the scale of content devoted to the 99-year-old duke's death reportedly sparked a large number of complaints.\n\nThe rescheduled show saw the final trio fight to impress hosts Gregg Wallace and John Torode with three signature dishes.\n\nMike Tomkins, Alexina Anatole and Tom Rhodes were the BBC MasterChef finalists 2021\n\nBut it was Rhodes' Japanese-infused starter, main and dessert which proved victorious, making him the long-running programme's 17th winner.\n\nComplimented for \"a style bordering on minimalism\" by Wallace, Rhodes served a trio of oysters for the starter, including a beer-battered oyster with a Japanese sour plum mayonnaise.\n\nFor Torode, it was Rhodes' main of reverse-seared ribeye steak topped with beetroot pickled in a Japanese seaweed and a wasabi leaf that was \"modern\" and \"really very clever indeed\".\n\nHis dessert of a lemon tart topped with black olive meringue also received universal praise from the hosts.\n\n\"What he's absolutely brilliant at is European-style of cookery, with Japanese flavourings,\" Wallace said.\n\nSpeaking after filming ended, Rhodes said he would one day \"love to write a cookbook and have a cookery school\".\n\n\"During the competition, I have realised my love for developing recipes and cooking for other people outside of my friends and family, so would love to do more of this after the show,\" he said.\n\nTom Rhodes' trio of oysters were hailed for their minimalist presentation\n\nFirst broadcast in 1990, MasterChef is one of the BBC's longest-running reality series and has inspired the popular spin-off MasterChef: The Professionals.\n\nThe latest series was produced under coronavirus restrictions, with many of the series' traditional assignments adjusted to allow for social distancing.\n\nWhile viewers found out who won last night, Rhodes has had to keep his victory a secret since the end of last year, when filming concluded.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast on Thursday that the only other people who knew the result were his parents who were sworn to secrecy.\n\n\"You've seen the clip last night where I rang my mum on screen,\" he said. \"They've found it more difficult to keep secret than I have\".\n\nRhodes said taking the trophy was \"a dream come true\" and confirmed his further ambitions to become a food writer and maybe even open his own restaurant one day.\n\nHe said he was able to practise his winning dish two or three times before the final, but has not cooked it again at home since.\n\n\"I'm waiting until I can cook it for somebody and I've got a lot of requests for that so far,\" he grinned.\n\nWhen possible though, he plans to celebrate with \"a really good pizza\" and \"maybe a bottle of red\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Will Beresford took this picture of James and Ally after a morning run up Ben Lomond to celebrate their \"new found freedom\"\n\nMore families and friends have been able to reunite in parks, gardens and beaches across Scotland after months in lockdown.\n\nRestrictions have been eased allowing people to travel between council areas and meet more people outdoors.\n\nMichael Mancini, who runs the Ice Cream Factory at Troon, South Ayrshire, said the beach was \"heaving\" with visitors.\n\n\"We have been absolutely flying today. It has been brilliant, absolutely brilliant,\" he told BBC Radio Scotland.\n\nThe change to the rules means it is now possible to travel out of your local area for non-essential reasons and for six people from up to six households to meet up outdoors.\n\nThe relaxation had not been due to come into force until 26 April but the government said the changes were being made earlier in an effort to boost people's mental health and wellbeing.\n\nPeople cannot stay overnight outside their council area - even in a tent or caravan.\n\nAnd the advice remains to shop within your own council area unless there are no practical alternatives.\n\nWhile six people can meet up outdoors, the guidance is to minimise meetings, maintain 2m distancing and \"use common sense\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSt Andrews' famous West Sands beach was one popular spot for family reunions.\n\nAnn Buchanan, who lives near Stirling, met up with relatives from East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, whom she had not seen since last year.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland: \"We have not been able to meet up for ages, for such a long time, and it is really nice to get together here.\n\n\"This is such a lovely place to come and relax and have a bit of a catch up.\"\n\nMs Buchanan joked: \"This is the furthest I have driven in a year. It's just like passing your driving test again.\"\n\nAnn Buchanan and grandson Jensen were reunited in St Andrews\n\nAndrew McVie, 27, from Glasgow, said he was \"super excited\" to be visiting Millport, on the Isle of Cumbrae, to cycle round the island for the first time in more than two years.\n\nThe clerical assistant said: \"You can do it in about two hours if you don't stop. It's why a lot of people like it.\n\n\"There's great scenery and it's a really nice, friendly, welcoming place and it's a beautiful day.\n\n\"I've missed it so much not being able to go because of the travel restrictions but I'll still be taking precautions.\"\n\nMr McVie added that he plans to visit Edinburgh with friends on on Saturday for the first time in more than a year.\n\nJames Fraser, chairman of The Friends of Loch Lomond and the Trossachs, told BBC Radio Scotland's Drivetime the national park was not as busy as he had anticipated.\n\nMr Fraser put this down to people prioritising meeting up with their loved ones on day one of the travel restrictions being eased.\n\nBut he added: \"I think it will be a lot busier over the weekend if this weather holds up. There is no doubt about that so we would advise people to travel early.\n\n\"I am sure we will get to a stage where all the car parks are full and people will be getting turned away.\"\n\nDouglas Cairns, of Traffic Scotland's control centre, urged people to allow extra time for their journeys.\n\nHe told the programme: \"This is the first relaxation where we are allowed to travel outwith our local authority area so there will be a slight increase in demand and, obviously, that is based around weather as well.\"\n\nFriends enjoying a drink in the sunshine on West Sands Beach in St Andrews\n\nEarlier, Scotland's chief medical officer Dr Gregor Smith told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland that people may be uncertain about using another household's toilet during a meet up - but that \"pragmatism\" was important.\n\nHe said: \"Of course there might be a risk going into someone's house but if people are very, very careful and they make sure they're taking precautions - washing their hands afterwards - nipping in to use someone's toilet is not something I think anyone would frown on.\n\n\"What we don't want to see is people using that as an excuse to nip inside for cup of tea with people and sitting in unventilated areas.\"\n\nHe said the outdoors - with \"free circulating air\" - was much safer than indoors.\n\nThe next significant easing of restrictions on 26 April should see all shops and some hospitality reopen.\n\nAt that point, someone visiting a friend in another part of the country will be able choose to book into a hotel or bed and breakfast for the night.\n\nAll remaining shops and close contact services like nail salons are also due to reopen on 26 April.\n\nPubs, bars, cafés, restaurants and bars will be able to serve people outdoors - in groups of up to six from six households - until 22:00 from that date.\n\nAlcohol will be permitted, and there will be no requirement for food to be served.\n\nTakeaways will be able to resume normal service, with physical distancing and face masks worn in premises\n\nThere will also be a partial resumption of indoor hospitality, with food and non-alcoholic drinks being served until 20:00 for groups of up to four people from no more than two households.", "Bill Crothers says he was \"transparent\" about the role he took on with Greensill Capital\n\nA former senior civil servant embroiled in a row over his job at Greensill Capital took another post without reporting it, it has emerged.\n\nBill Crothers has come under fire for working at the now-failed finance firm while still on the government payroll.\n\nIt has now come to light he took on another trustee role without seeking the advice of the necessary committee.\n\nMr Crothers apologised to the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments for what he called an \"honest mistake\".\n\nBut the chair of the committee, Lord Pickles, said he had breached government rules.\n\nThe news comes after Lord Pickles warned the existing guidelines on ministers and top officials taking jobs with private firms needed urgent reforms as there did not appear to be \"any boundaries at all\" between civil servants and the private sector.\n\nLabour says things are becoming \"murkier\" and lobbyists have an \"open door\" to government.\n\nThe government has announced a review of contacts between top officials and ministers after the row over Greensill Capital, access, influence and lobbying has engulfed Westminster.\n\nThe review will include former prime minister David Cameron's dealing with the firm, as well as Mr Crothers.\n\nIt will be led by Nigel Boardman, a non-executive board member of the department for business.\n\nA number of Commons Select Committees have also announced their own inquiries.\n\nOn Wednesday, Mr Johnson ordered Conservative MPs to vote down Labour's call for a \"full\" MP-led inquiry into Greensill and lobbying more widely.\n\nIt emerged on Tuesday that Mr Crothers - a former government procurement officer - joined Greensill as an adviser in 2015 while still working as a civil servant, after getting the go-ahead from the Cabinet Office.\n\nBut an exchange of letters between him and Lord Pickles, published on Thursday, also revealed he had failed to alert the committee about a different job he took in 2016 as a trustee with the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply\n\nMr Crothers apologised in his letter for what he described an \"honest mistake\", saying he did not think he had to report the role as it was unpaid and with a not-for-profit charity.\n\nBut Lord Pickles said the rules applied to both paid and unpaid jobs and it was therefore a breach of the regulations.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lord Pickles: \"I hope this doesn't sound rude, but there doesn't seem to have been any boundaries at all\"\n\nEarlier, the Tory peer Lord Pickles told the Commons public administration committee he had warned of a scandal but the Greensill lobbying affair was \"not where I expected it to come from\".\n\nHe added: \"There is nothing wrong with lobbyists. What is wrong is with unregulated lobbying, secret lobbying - people getting an undue advantage.\n\n\"Our entire political careers have been built by lobbying of some sort. But where it becomes wrong is where it is not properly regulated and is transparent.\"\n\nSpeaking about Mr Crothers, Lord Pickles said it was not unusual for civil servants to have second jobs and to share their expertise.\n\nBut he said the former civil servant's \"excuse\" when justifying his work with Greensill surprised him.\n\n\"It did seem, talking to other colleagues who had enjoyed being civil servants in the past, that they also shared my surprise - this seems to be a new thing, or a new excuse,\" he said.\n\nHe said contractors and consultants to the government should have to sign a memorandum of understanding about the restrictions that would be placed on them after completing their public sector work.\n\nLord Pickles also expressed his frustration that his committee had a \"very limited and defined role\", but added that most people do follow the rules and it is \"only a tiny minority\" who cause problems.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lobbying row: PM Johnson says we must \"get to the bottom of it\"\n\nSpeaking on a visit to Dartmouth College in Devon, Boris Johnson said he agreed with Lord Pickles that reform was needed.\n\nThe PM said: \"I think the most important thing is for us to get to the bottom of it properly and I want all ministers and civil servants to be making the information that needs to be known known to Mr Boardman and let's see what he has to say.\n\n\"We need to understand what's gone on here.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said more and stronger lobbying rules are needed because the current system \"is not working\".\n\nHe said ministers were being lobbied for \"massive\" procurement contracts \"involving millions sometimes billions of pounds\".\n\nHe added: \"Increasingly we're seeing a murkier and murkier picture whether it's the way contracts are handed out, the lack of due process or the lobbying which is not a revolving door, it's an open door now in to government\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "(From left to right) Headie One, KSI and Meg Thee Stallion\n\nRap music had its most successful year ever in the UK in 2020, according to new figures.\n\nData from the BPI - the UK's association of independent and major labels - shows over a fifth of songs streamed were rap and hip hop.\n\nWhen BPI started recording data like this in the 1990s, rap music only counted for 3.6% of the singles market. In 2020, it was 22%.\n\nHeadie One, Dave and AJ Tracey got up to 50 million plays in the UK each.\n\nThe genre's growth in the album market has gone from 2.7% in 2014 to 12.2% in 2020.\n\nKSI's Dissimulation album was the biggest-selling debut album of the year and reached number two in the charts in May.\n\nRapper Nines got his first number one in September with Crabs in a Bucket.\n\n\"To know how much Black British music has impacted the music industry at large is something I couldn't be more proud of,\" says Joseph 'JP' Patterson, founder of TRENCH Magazine.\n\n\"From the days when Grime and Rap was an afterthought in mainstream spaces, to now being a driving force in the UK's musical landscape.\"\n\n(From left to right) Tion Wayne, Bree Runway and Aitch\n\nAitch, Tion Wayne and DigDat all made Top 10 in the charts and overall, British artists make up a third (33.6%) of all the Rap and Hip hop singles streamed in 2020.\n\nNot to forget international rappers like Pop Smoke whose album Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon got to number one in the UK last year.\n\nThe BPI also names new female artists making an impact in the UK rap scene, like Bree Runway who recently made top 10 on the BBC's Sound of 2021 list, as helping drive streaming figures for UK rap.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "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.\"", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nArsenal secured what manager Mikel Arteta called an \"important win in a crucial moment\" as they impressively swept aside Slavia Prague to reach the Europa League semi-finals.\n\nThe Gunners produced one of their best performances of the campaign to turn a potentially difficult night into a fine away victory.\n\nWith the tie evenly poised at 1-1, they scored three goals in the opening 24 minutes and had another ruled out by the video assistant referee - all-but ending the contest in the opening period.\n\nIt kept alive their hopes winning the competition - and with it their only realistic chance of European football next season.\n\n\"The boys were really at it from the start,\" Arteta said. \"We won in a convincing way, so credit to the players.\"\n\nNicolas Pepe squeezed home at the near post to open the scoring in the 18th minute before Alexandre Lacazette converted a penalty three minutes later following a foul on Bukayo Saka.\n\nSaka coolly swept in the third as Arsenal tore their Czech opponents apart once more.\n\nArteta's side controlled the game expertly thereafter and Lacazette smashed his second low into the net in the latter stages.\n\nThe Gunners will face Villarreal - managed by former Arsenal boss Unai Emery - in the last four.\n\nManchester United meet Roma in the other semi-final after Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's side comfortably saw off Granada.\n\nThis was Arsenal's biggest game remaining this season.\n\nHad they lost, their campaign would have effectively been over. Instead they breathed life into its final two months.\n\nTheir wastefulness in the first leg left the tie in the balance but in Prague, where their hosts had not lost for more than a year, they were supremely clinical.\n\nSpurred on by the guile and energy of Emile Smith Rowe, they scored three goals from five first-half shots - doing so without their captain Pierre Emerick Aubameyang, who revealed shortly before kick-off he has contracted malaria.\n\nSlavia had already knocked Leicester and Rangers out of this year's competition but at half-time they resorted to substituting four key players, seemingly an acceptance the tie was over.\n\nIt is 25 years since Arsenal, currently ninth in the league, failed to qualify for Europe and this win ensured they can extend that run.\n\nA meeting with Emery, who took Arsenal to the Europa League final in 2019 and won the tournament three times as manager of Sevilla, awaits on 29 April.\n\n\"It will be really tough and Unai Emery is probably the most successful manager in this competition,\" Arteta told BT Sport.\n\n\"We started really well and were aggressive in our high press.\n\n\"We looked a threat all the time. I really like the reaction of the team to the goal being disallowed.\"\n\nArsenal's best performance of the season?\n\nIt is little surprise that this performance came with Smith Rowe and Saka - the two shining lights of Arsenal's inconsistent season - reunited in the attacking line.\n\nSmith Rowe, a doubt for the game with an ankle injury that kept him out of the weekend's win over Sheffield United, had put Arsenal ahead in the 14th minute when he turned in the rebound after Saka's rasping shot was turned on to the post but he was narrowly judged to be offside.\n\nIt was the 20-year-old playmaker, however, who showed delightful feet to tee up Pepe for the opener moments later.\n\nHe then played in Saka whose driving run was unfairly halted by the sliding Jakub Hromada, resulting in the second goal from the penalty spot.\n• None Why Saka could be a future Arsenal captain\n\nSaka took the spotlight soon after, driving off his flank once more and finding the bottom corner while Lacazette was clinical with his spot-kick and assured second-half finish.\n\nPepe, too, a player often criticised during his time at Arsenal, impressed on the left. He now has five goals and four assists in this year's competition.\n\nIt will also please Arteta how Arsenal managed the game with a defensive solidity not seen at times this season.\n\n\"It was fantastic from start to finish,\" Saka told BT Sport.\n\n\"It shows everyone how exciting we can be, when we play like this it is so amazing to be involved in.\"\n\nLacazette loving the Europa League - the best stats\n• None Arsenal have reached the semi-finals of European competition for the 10th time (including Fairs Cup), with the Gunners getting to the last four in three of their four Europa League campaigns.\n• None Slavia Prague suffered their first home defeat in their last seven European games (W3 D3), conceding more goals in this game (4) than in the previous six on home soil (3).\n• None Arsenal have scored 3+ goals in four consecutive away games in all competitions for the first time since December 1932 (5 games).\n• None Arsenal kept a clean sheet in a European game for the first time in eight games, since a 3-0 away win over Molde in the Europa League in November 2020.\n• None Nicolas Pepe has been directly involved in nine goals in his 10 starts for Arsenal in the Europa League (4 goals, 5 assists).\n• None Emile Smith Rowe registered his seventh assist in all competitions this season, the joint-most of any Arsenal player in 2020-21 (level with Willian).\n• None Only Radamel Falcao (20) and Kevin Gameiro (19) have scored more Europa League knockout stage goals than Arsenal striker Alexandre Lacazette (18).\n• None Alexandre Lacazette has scored 2+ goals in consecutive games in all competitions for the first time for any club since his last three appearances for Lyon in May 2017.\n• None With four goals to his name, Bukayo Saka is now Arsenal's joint-top teenage scorer in major European competition, level with Charlie George and Ray Kennedy.\n\nArsenal return to Premier League action on Sunday against Fulham at Emirates Stadium (13:30 BST kick-off).\n• None Attempt missed. Gabriel Martinelli (Arsenal) right footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Dani Ceballos.\n• None Attempt blocked. Ondrej Lingr (Slavia Prague) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Gabriel Martinelli (Arsenal) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Goal! Slavia Prague 0, Arsenal 4. Alexandre Lacazette (Arsenal) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Nicolas Pépé.\n• None Offside, Arsenal. Bukayo Saka tries a through ball, but Mohamed Elneny is caught offside. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None One simple thing that could improve your life!\n• None Top tips for taking your cocktails outside", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nScores of people have been injured in clashes in East Jerusalem between far-right Jewish activists, Palestinians and Israeli police.\n\nThe violence erupted as police tried to keep Palestinians and ultra-nationalist Jewish protesters apart.\n\nIt follows nights of confrontations in the Israeli-occupied sector amid rising nationalist and religious tensions.\n\nEast Jerusalem has long been a flashpoint, with an uneasy coexistence there between Jews and Arabs.\n\nIsrael has occupied East Jerusalem since the 1967 Middle East war and considers the entire city its capital, though this is not recognised by the vast majority of the international community. Palestinians claim East Jerusalem as the future capital of a hoped-for independent state.\n\nPolice tried to keep the rival groups apart, detaining a number of protesters\n\nThe worst fighting in days broke out on Thursday night after hundreds of Jewish extremists from the ultra-nationalist Lehava group marched towards the Damascus Gate entrance of Jerusalem's Old City - where large numbers of Palestinians had gathered - chanting \"Death to Arabs\".\n\nStones and bottles were thrown between the two sides, and police used stun grenades, tear gas and water cannon to try to disperse the crowds.\n\nThe Palestinian Red Crescent said at least 100 Palestinians were injured, while police said 20 officers were hurt. More than 50 people were arrested.\n\nTensions in East Jerusalem have escalated since the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan on 13 April. Palestinians have clashed with police, accusing them of erecting barriers to stop them from congregating on steps outside Damascus Gate to break the daytime fast. Police say the measures are intended to help pedestrian flow into the Old City.\n\nJews have also been angered by a spate of TikTok videos showing Palestinians assaulting members of the ultra-Orthodox community, including an attack on two ultra-Orthodox boys on Jerusalem's light rail. The videos were given as a reason by Lehava for its march to Damascus Gate, in what it said would be a show of \"national honour\".\n\nThere have also been a number of attacks by Jews on Arabs in Jerusalem this week, including an incident where Jewish youth chanting anti-Arab slogans assaulted an Arab driver who stopped to remonstrate with them.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why the ancient city of Jerusalem is so important", "Tom Hedges (centre) was one 39 former postmasters celebrating as their convictions were quashed\n\nThirty-nine postmasters who were victims of the UK's most widespread miscarriage of justice have had their names formally cleared. For the men and women involved it marked the end of a long legal battle which took them \"to hell and back\".\n\n\"The first thing I did was cry,\" says David Blakey, from Cleethorpes, after hearing his conviction had been overturned at the Royal Courts of Justice.\n\n\"I am ecstatic at the result, it's just pure joy,\" he says.\n\nThe former postmaster was convicted of theft and false accounting in 2004, one of 39 branded criminals after the Post Office installed a flawed computer system in branches.\n\nHe lost his job, his home and his pension as a result.\n\nIt has taken so long to finally clear the group's names that Mr Blakey says the result \"hasn't really sunk in yet\" but \"it means everything\".\n\nDavid Blakey says he lost his job, his home and his pension\n\nHis sense of delight is shared by Tom Hedges, from Skegness, who received a seven-month suspended sentence for theft and false accounting in 2001.\n\nOpening a bottle of fizz outside the court, he says: \"It's a wonderful afternoon.\n\n\"When I told my mother, who's 93, I was coming to court she said: 'Get yourself down to Aldi and get some prosecco'.\"\n\nMr Hedges says he went to \"hell and back\" as the group \"fought and fought\" to clear their names.\n\nHe is critical of the Post Office describing its behaviour throughout as \"totally despicable the entire time\".\n\n\"It has lifted my soul and I feel wonderful,\" he says of the court ruling.\n\nAlison Hall, from Liversedge, West Yorkshire, says it has been a \"hard 11 years\" since proceedings were first launched against her.\n\nShe eventually agreed to plead guilty to false accounting so a theft charge would be dropped, and was sentenced to community service.\n\n\"I never said a word, I was too embarrassed,\" she says.\n\nAlison Hall said there should be a public inquiry into the whole affair\n\nMs Hall is delighted her conviction was quashed but still wants an apology for her ordeal.\n\n\"Nobody from the Post Office has ever come and apologised to me,\" she says. \"There should be a public inquiry. People need to find out what happened and what they did to us all.\"\n\nThe prosecutions by the Post Office had a huge impact on the lives of those targeted - some were imprisoned, some lost their homes and some struggled to find new work.\n\nChairman Tim Parker has said the company is \"extremely sorry\" to those affected and their families, blaming \"historical failures\".\n\nNeil Hudgell, the solicitor who represented 29 of the postmasters, says his clients were \"honest, hard-working people\" whose reputations and livelihoods had been \"so unfairly destroyed\".\n\nMr Blakey says he was lucky to have the support of his family and friends.\n\n\"Everyone believed in me, everybody trusted me. There are people out there who have lost so much more than I have and I have lost a lot.\"\n\nHe believes he and his wife lost about £400,000 - including their post office business, which they had bought, and their home when they had to declare bankruptcy.\n\n\"We're living in a council house now, we are paying rent every month. I am living on a state pension because I lost my job so I was unable to pay into my private pension,\" he says.\n\nJanet Skinner (centre) said her conviction had affected her employment opportunities\n\nJanet Skinner, from Hull, was imprisoned for nine months in 2007 for false accounting, and says having a conviction hampered her employment opportunities.\n\n\"People look at you and always look down on you,\" she says.\n\nBut, having at last cleared her name, she says justice has finally been served.\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Javell Hall will spend at least 19 years in prison\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 jailed.\n\nDNA matching the profile of 18-year-old Javell Hall was found on the sheath of a knife used to murder Asante Campbell in north London, the Old Bailey heard.\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\nHe was given a life sentence, with a minimum prison term of 19 years.\n\nCo-defendant Kofi Abusah, 19, received the same sentence for the rail worker's murder.\n\nMr Campbell was attacked by a group of males on an estate in Hendon on 29 February 2020. The jury was told that the reason for the stabbing remained a mystery.\n\nThe 24-year-old, who was stabbed through his car window, had been waiting to meet a colleague before setting off for a night shift.\n\nEarlier, he had kissed his fiancée and baby daughter goodnight.\n\nAsante Campbell \"just loved helping people\", his mum said\n\nIn a victim impact statement, Mr Campbell's mother Angela paid tribute to his \"infectious presence\" and charitable nature.\n\nMrs Campbell told the Old Bailey how he stepped in to play football with a lone boy in a park; supported the family of a suicidal girl; and even dropped a total stranger at the airport.\n\nShe said: \"All this was done with a smile on his face, with him often saying: 'I just love helping people.'\"\n\nMr Campbell and his \"childhood sweetheart\" fiancée shared a unique bond, his mother said.\n\nMr Campbell was found with stab wounds in Parson Street, Hendon\n\n\"Her life has been shattered and their exciting plans for the future crushed. Their lives [were] seemingly complete with the birth of their beautiful baby girl just weeks before he was taken - he absolutely doted on her.\"\n\nThe court heard how Hall had evaded arrest until June last year, travelling to Leeds and Manchester.\n\nThe rapper had a previous conviction for being in possession of a large combat knife in September 2016.\n\nAt the time of the murder, he was on court bail over an incident at a supermarket. Others went on to admit affray over what happened.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The cost of measures to support the economy during the coronavirus pandemic has pushed government borrowing to the highest level since the end of World War Two.\n\nGovernment borrowing - the difference between spending and tax income - hit £303.1bn in the year to March, the Office for National Statistics said.\n\nCompared to the previous year, borrowing is nearly £250bn higher.\n\nMeasures such as furlough payments have hit government finances hard.\n\nBorrowing hit £28bn in March alone - a record high for that month.\n\nDespite the record figure, Paul Johnson, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, told the BBC's Today programme the annual borrowing figure was \"slightly better than expected a month ago\".\n\nBut, he added: \"The big story in a sense is they [the borrowing figures] are £250bn more than a year ago.\n\n\"And that, of course, is because of to some extent the recession of the last year but mostly because of the huge amount of additional government spending to support the economy over the last year.\"\n\nGovernment borrowing of £303bn is at the same time, an extraordinary record, but also something a relief.\n\nFor starters it is not £400bn, as anticipated only a few months ago, though this number will go up when some Covid support loans fail to be repaid.\n\nBut its cause has been primarily an active government decision to spend more to support incomes during the pandemic. Of the £250bn difference in borrowing between this year and last, over £200bn comes from extra spending, the rest on a reduction in taxes.\n\nIn the latest reported month, March, taxes were barely down on last year. Whereas VAT, fuel duty and business rates were down, self assessment, PAYE, stamp duty and capital gains taxes were up.\n\nThat is part of a wider trend of the economy riding the second lockdown much more effectively than the first. It is epitomised by this morning's separate retail sales figures showing a boost even ahead of the physical reopening of shops.\n\nThe ONS suggested Britons wanted to look good and deck out their gardens ahead of some restrictions being lifted. Others, less charitable, suggested lockdown excess meant our clothes no longer fit.\n\nThe chancellor's slimming regime for the public finances is a gentle one. Borrowing is predicted to continue at high levels this year, as jobs support continues until the autumn, and massive tax cuts are meant to persuade companies to invest in plant and machinery.\n\nIt is a rebound in growth that will most effectively shrink these record borrowing numbers. That is why amid the sea of red ink, there is some reason for relief.\n\nMeasures to support individuals and businesses during the pandemic contributed to a £203.2bn, or 27.5%, increase in central government day-to-day spending in the year to March, the ONS said.\n\nMeanwhile, tax and National Insurance receipts fell by £34.9bn, down 5% compared with the previous 12 months.\n\nThe ONS also said public borrowing as a percentage of GDP, or national output rose, to 14.5% - also the highest since the end of the second world war when it reached 15.2% in 1946.\n\nThe huge amount of borrowing over the past year has now pushed public sector net debt up to £2.142 trillion, which is 97.7% of GDP - a rate not seen since the early 1960s.\n\nMichal Stelmach, senior economist at KPMG, said: \"Rising debt is largely an unfortunate consequence of the government's focus on shielding the economy as much as possible from the impact of Covid-19.\n\n\"However, doing otherwise could have created long-lasting scars which would be far worse for fiscal sustainability.\"\n\nDespite the record annual figure, the ONS said it was £24.3bn lower than the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), the fiscal watchdog, had forecast in March.\n\nRuth Gregory at Capital Economics said: \"If we are right in thinking the economic recovery will be faster and fuller than the OBR anticipates, borrowing will probably fall more quickly than most expect.\"\n\nSeparate research published on Friday added to hopes of a swift rebound for the economy, as it suggested that the easing of lockdown measures this month has triggered a surge in activity among UK businesses.\n\nA closely watched survey, produced by IHS Markit/CIPS, indicated that the looser pandemic restrictions had led to the fastest UK private sector growth since late 2013.\n\nThe IHS Markit/CIPS Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) rose to 60 in April, according to initial findings, up from 56.4 in March. Any figure above 50 indicates expansion.\n\nThe service sector grew faster than manufacturing for the first time since the Covid pandemic began, the survey found, largely because of the reopening of non-essential shops in England and Wales from mid-April.\n\n\"Companies are reporting a surge in demand for both goods and services as the economy opens up from lockdowns and the encouraging vaccine rollout adds to a brighter outlook,\" said Chris Williamson, chief business economist at IHS Markit.\n\n\"Business activity should continue to grow strongly in May and June as virus restrictions are eased further, setting the scene for a bumper second quarter for the economy.\n\n\"There's also good news for the job market,\" he added. \"Firms have been encouraged to take on extra staff at a rate not seen for over three-and-a-half years.\n\n\"There are some causes for concern, however, as export performance remains relatively lacklustre, often linked to post-Brexit trading conditions, and prices continue to rise sharply.\"", "US President Joe Biden is reportedly set to propose a tax hike on the wealthiest Americans.\n\nThe proposal would raise the top marginal rate and increase taxes on investment gains for the rich.\n\nThe tax rise would help pay for childcare and education, but would not be used for healthcare, according to reports.\n\nThe news triggered a selloff on Wall Street, with major indexes slipping during Thursday's trading session.\n\nThe White House said the American Family Plan, which Mr Biden is expected to lay out in full next week, will not affect any family earning less than $400,000 a year.\n\n\"His view is that that should be on the backs... of the wealthiest Americans who can afford it and corporations and businesses who can afford it,\" said White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki.\n\nThe proposal would increase the top marginal income tax rate to 39.6% from 37%, according to the New York Times and Bloomberg.\n\nThe move would effectively reverse Donald Trump’s 2017 income tax cut for highest income earners.\n\nThe plan would also nearly double taxes on capital gains to 39.6% for people earning more than $1m.\n\nIt’s a dramatic increase from the current rate of 20%.\n\nIn some states which impose their own capital gains tax, the total bill some investors could face might exceed 50%.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. President Biden urged nations to help \"overcome the existential crisis of our time\"\n\nThe plan is widely expected to encounter resistance from Republicans in Congress.\n\nAlthough the Democrats hold a slim majority, they may not support the plan unanimously.\n\nNevertheless, the news was enough to cause a few jitters on Wall Street.\n\nThe Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 420 points before reining in its losses slightly.\n\n\"If it had a chance of passing, we'd be down 2,000 points,\" Thomas Hayes, from Great Hill Capital told Reuters.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The PM queries those who say there's something \"dodgy or rum or weird or sleazy\" about securing more ventilators in a pandemic.\n\nBoris Johnson has said anyone who thinks there was something \"dodgy or rum\" in his dealings with Sir James Dyson is \"out of their mind\".\n\nThe PM was responding to claims by Labour that he was personally involved in \"sleaze\" after texts between the two were revealed by the BBC.\n\nDowning Street declined to comment on \"speculation\" Mr Johnson's former aide Dominic Cummings had leaked the texts.\n\nThe government has launched an internal inquiry into who was responsible.\n\nThe prime minister's spokesman said: \"We don't get into detail of processes in terms of these inquiries, but the Cabinet Office is taking that work forward.\"\n\nThe BBC said it did not discuss the sources of stories.\n\nMr Johnson was speaking on a visit to Derbyshire as allegations of cronyism abound at Westminster.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour leader claims \"sleaze is back\" after allegations over lobbying of the PM and a former PM.\n\nOn Tuesday the BBC published text messages between Mr Johnson and Sir James, in which the prime minister agreed to \"fix\" concerns the businessman had over his employees' tax bills if they moved to the UK to make ventilators at the start of the pandemic.\n\nAsked whether this proved Labour's allegation that friends of the Conservatives were given privileged access, the prime minister said it was \"completely the right thing to do\" to ask manufacturers to help bolster supplies of equipment needed to treat Covid patients.\n\n\"To think that there's anything remotely dodgy or rum or weird or sleazy about trying to secure more ventilators at the time of a national pandemic and doing everything in your power to do that, I think you're out of your mind,\" he added.\n\nBut Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, who was on a visit to Hartlepool, said it was \"increasingly obvious\" the prime minister was involved in \"sleaze\".\n\nAsked if media reports pointing to Mr Cummings as the source of leaks were part of an attempt to distract from lobbying allegations, Sir Keir said: \"Boris Johnson is desperate to try to keep this at arm's length but it's obvious that he can't. This is government by WhatsApp.\n\n\"They are all at it - whether it's access to the prime minister, whether it's the former prime minister accessing ministers and officials, whether it's the health secretary with shares in companies with the contracts with the NHS. The list just grows and grows...\n\n\"Sleaze is back and it's bigger than it was before.\"\n\nShadow Treasury minister Bridget Phillipson tweeted: \"Dominic Cummings is a distraction. Follow the money, not the soap opera.\"\n\nMr Cummings has not accepted invitations to respond to the reports and, so far, no evidence of his involvement in the leaks has been produced.\n\nLabour has called for an urgent investigation into the prime minister's conduct by the Liaison Committee of senior MPs.\n\nIt said the text messages showed Mr Johnson had offered a \"tax break\" to a \"chum\".\n\nThe head of the committee, Conservative MP Sir Bernard Jenkin, turned down the call for an inquiry, saying three other parliamentary committees were already looking at the issues.\n\nHe told Radio 4's Today programme ministers should not be \"locked away in ivory towers\" with people unable to contact them and should be able to carry out conversations about policy in private, as this would \"stifle proper conversation\".\n\n\"What's got to come out of this is obviously a system of managing conflicts of interest, which commands more public confidence, and is more rigorous, but also a balance,\" he added.\n\nThe SNP's Westminster leader, Ian Blackford, has written to the Cabinet Secretary, calling for officials to \"secure and publish\" all Mr Johnson's private correspondence on coronavirus contracts, and not just his texts with Sir James Dyson.\n\nHe said \"such a narrow and limited internal investigation totally and utterly fails to address the scale of the scandal\".", "The solicitor who represented 29 of the postmasters has said it is \"almost impossible to describe the true impact\" that the scandal has had on the lives of those who had their reputations and livlihoods \"so unfairly destroyed\".\n\nSolicitor Neil Hudgell said: \"They are honest, hard-working people who served their communities but have had to live with the stigma of being branded criminals for many years, all the while knowing they have been innocent.\n\n\"Indeed, given its actions, everything the Post Office has sought to do over the last year or so, whether it be by way of apology and offers of redress, or by talking about a cultural change, completely unravelled when our clients' cases where heard.\"\n\nHe added: \"The Post Office failed to offer any sort of explanation as to why wholesale disclosure of evidence was withheld in cases, nor why a proper investigation was not carried out when known problems in the Horizon system started to appear.\"", "The Autopilot feature in Tesla vehicles can be tricked into operating without a driver, an influential consumer magazine in the US has found.\n\nConsumer Reports engineers looked into claims that Autopilot can operate without a driver present.\n\nThey tested the Model Y on a closed track and concluded the system could be \"easily tricked\".\n\nIt comes days after a fatal Tesla crash in Texas. Police believe no one was in the driver's seat.\n\nTesla's Autopilot is an advanced driver assistance system that Tesla says \"enhances safety and convenience behind the wheel\".\n\nThe Consumer Reports team said they successfully - and repeatedly - tricked the car into driving their test track with no one in the driver's seat.\n\n\"In our evaluation, the system not only failed to make sure the driver was paying attention, but it also couldn't tell if there was a driver there at all,\" said Consumer Reports auto testing director Jake Fisher.\n\n\"It was a bit frightening when we realized how easy it was to defeat the safeguards, which we proved were clearly insufficient.\"\n\nTesla's website says the Autopilot system requires a \"fully attentive driver\" and using the system does not make the car autonomous.\n\nSome of the safety requirements for Autopilot mode include: keeping the driver's hands on the steering wheel, buckling the seatbelt and not opening any doors.\n\nOn Saturday, two men were killed after a Tesla car crashed into a tree and caught fire in Texas.\n\nThe victims were found in the front passenger seat and in the back seat of the vehicle, leading police to believe nobody was in the driver's seat.\n\nHowever, Tesla boss Elon Musk said that \"data logs recovered so far show Autopilot was not enabled\".\n\n\"Moreover, standard Autopilot would require lane lines to turn on, which this street did not have,\" Mr Musk tweeted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn Thursday, two Democratic Senators sent a letter to the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) asking them to investigate the fatal Tesla accident in Texas.\n\nSenator Blumenthal and Senator Markey also requested a report outlining ways to prevent future accidents.\n\nThe NHTSA has opened investigations into 28 crashes involving Tesla vehicles.\n\nTesla has not responded to the BBC's request for comment.", "Last updated on .From the section Snooker\n\nCoverage: Watch live on BBC One, BBC Two, BBC Four and Red Button, with uninterrupted coverage on BBC iPlayer, BBC Sport website and BBC Sport app.\n\nDefending champion Ronnie O'Sullivan's hopes of a record-equalling seventh Crucible title ended in round two as Scotland's Anthony McGill resisted a stunning fightback to win 13-12.\n\nThe reigning champion was outclassed in the morning, Scotland's world number 16 winning six of the eight frames.\n\nO'Sullivan rattled off five frames in a row to lead 11-10 and also led 12-11.\n\nBut McGill's stunning break of 136 forced a decider, which he took after O'Sullivan missed a simple red.\n\nMcGill told BBC Sport: \"I'm delighted. I played so well this morning and Ronnie just played like Ronnie tonight and I didn't step up.\n\n\"I had to wipe the slate clean at 10-10 and I managed to stop the rot to get back to 11 each.\n\n\"It's one of my best wins. There's no doubt about that. It's a great achievement to beat Ronnie, but I want to go on and win the next match as well.\"\n• None O'Sullivan could play on 'for 10 years'\n\nO'Sullivan said McGill deserved his victory, adding: \"He was unlucky to lose in the semi-finals last year and if I had lost to anybody else I would be a bit sore but the snooker gods did the right thing today. I have to lick my wounds and come back again.\n\n\"I just want to enjoy my snooker because I haven't really been playing well and I find it hard to enjoy it if I'm not playing well and cueing well.\n\n\"I am pleased I was able to focus and compete. But you can't pot anything and it wasn't meant to be.\"\n\nMcGill, 30, had played near flawless snooker as breaks of 71, 126 and 89 helped him win four consecutive frames in the morning session for an 8-4 lead.\n\nTwo-time ranking event winner McGill repeated the form that saw him reach the Crucible semi-finals last year, dominating the world number two, who nodded approvingly at his opponent's quality and composure.\n\nThe ruthless Glaswegian was in the mood to gobble up the chances O'Sullivan's all-out attacking approach left.\n\nO'Sullivan, 45, stopped a seven-frame burst with a break of 92 to get back to 8-5, but McGill took two of the next three, rattling in scores of 105 and 56, to ensure he kept a four-frame advantage.\n\nHowever, things fell into place for the Englishman when play resumed in front of more than 200 fans on their side of the two-table set up.\n\nHe looked set to complete his comeback from 10-6 which would have been the best since Neil Robertson overturned an 11-5 deficit to beat Martin Gould in 2010.\n\nBreaks of 71, 97, 73 set him on the way to winning the first five frames only for McGill to rediscover his touch in the closing stages.\n\nHis victory sets up a quarter-final meeting with either 2015 champion Stuart Bingham or Welsh qualifier Jamie Jones.\n\nHendry still leads the way\n\nDefeat means six-time champion O'Sullivan still needs one more Crucible title to match Stephen Hendry's modern-era record of seven.\n\nHe also missed the chance to move one ahead of Hendry's record of 20 quarter-final appearances.\n\nAnd by missing out on the £50,000 reward for reaching the last eight, O'Sullivan also missed out on going past a total of £3m in earnings from the World Championship.\n• None The rocky story of Derry City is streaming now\n• None Stephen Lawrence's story and the lessons still being learned", "Family members of a person who died of Covid-19 react during a cremation\n\nIn early March, India's health minister Harsh Vardhan declared the country was \"in the endgame\" of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nMr Vardhan also lauded Prime Minister Narendra Modi's leadership as an \"example to the world in international co-operation\". From January onwards, India had begun shipping doses to foreign countries as part of its much-vaunted \"vaccine diplomacy\".\n\nMr Vardhan's unbridled optimism was based on a sharp drop in reported infections. Since a peak of more than 93,000 cases per day on average in mid-September, infections had steadily declined. By mid-February, India was counting an average of 11,000 cases a day. The seven-day rolling average of daily deaths from the disease had slid to below 100.\n\nThe euphoria at beating the virus had been building since late last year. Politicians, policy makers and parts of the media believed that India was truly out of the woods. In December, central bank officials announced that India was \"bending the Covid infection curve\". There was evidence, they said, in poetic terms, that the economy was \"breaking out amidst winter's lengthening shadows towards a place in sunlight\". Mr Modi was called a \"vaccine guru\".\n\nHospitals are overflowing with patients, often two to a bed\n\nAt the end of February, India's election authorities announced key elections in five states where 186 million people were eligible to vote for 824 seats. Beginning 27 March, the polls would stretch over a month, and in the case of the state of West Bengal, be held in eight phases. Campaigning had begun in full swing, with no safety protocols and social distancing. In mid-March, the cricket board allowed more than 130,000 fans, mostly unmasked, to watch two international cricket games between India and England at the Narendra Modi stadium in Gujarat.\n\nIn less than a month, things began to unravel. India was in the grips of a devastating second wave of the virus and cities were facing fresh lockdowns. By mid-April, the country was averaging more than 100,000 cases a day. On Sunday, India recorded more than 270,000 cases and over 1,600 deaths, both new single-day records. If the runway infection was not checked, India could be recording more than 2,300 deaths every day by first week of June, according to a report by The Lancet Covid-19 Commission.\n\nIndia is in now in the grips of a public health emergency. Social media feeds are full with videos of Covid funerals at crowded cemeteries, wailing relatives of the dead outside hospitals, long queues of ambulances carrying gasping patients, mortuaries overflowing with the dead, and patients, sometimes two to a bed, in corridors and lobbies of hospitals. There are frantic calls for help for beds, medicines, oxygen, essential drugs and tests. Drugs are being sold on the black market, and test results are taking days. \"They didn't tell me for three hours that my child is dead,\" a dazed mother says in one video, sitting outside an ICU. Wails of another person outside the intensive care punctuate the silences.\n\nIndia is facing a shortage of vaccines even as it ramps up its inoculation drive\n\nEven India's mammoth vaccination effort was now struggling. In the beginning, the rollout had been embroiled in a controversy over the efficacy over a home-grown candidate. Even as the country ramped up the drive and administered more than 100 million doses by last week, vaccine shortages were being reported. Serum Institute of India, the country's - and the world's - biggest vaccine maker said it would not be able to ramp up supplies before June because it didn't have enough money to expand capacity. India placed a temporary hold on all exports of the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine, because the doses were needed urgently at home, and allowed imports of foreign vaccines. Even oxygen was likely to be imported now to meet the surge in demand.\n\nMeanwhile, almost in a parallel universe, away from the death and despair, the world's richest cricket tournament was being played behind closed doors every evening, and tens of thousands of people were following their leaders to election rallies and attending the Hindu festival of Kumbh Mela. \"It is beyond surreal, what is happening,\" Shiv Visvanathan, a sociology professor, told me.\n\nExperts believe the government appears to have completely dropped the ball on the second wave of infections that was about to hit India.\n\nRelatives performing funerals of Covid victims in the city of Bhopal\n\nIn mid-February, Tabassum Barnagarwala, a journalist with the Indian Express newspaper, flagged a seven-fold rise in new cases in parts of Maharashtra and reported that samples from the infected had been sent for genome sequencing to look for imported variants.\n\nBy the end of the month, the BBC reported the surge and asked whether India was facing a new Covid wave. \"We really don't know what the cause of the surge is. What is worrying is that entire families are getting infected. This is a completely new trend,\" Dr Shyamsunder Nikam, civil surgeon of an affected district in Maharashtra, said at the time.\n\nExperts now say that crowing about India's exceptionalism in \"beating\" the epidemic - younger population, native immunity, a largely rural population - and declaring victory on the virus turned out to be cruelly premature. \"As is typical in India, official arrogance, hyper-nationalism, populism and an ample dose of bureaucratic incompetence have combined to create a crisis,\" said Mihir Sharma, a columnist for Bloomberg.\n\nIndia's second wave was fuelled by people letting their guard down, attending weddings and social gatherings, and by mixed messaging from the government, allowing political rallies and religious gatherings. With infections declining, fewer people were taking the jabs, slowing down the vaccination drive, which had aimed to inoculate 250 million people by the end of July. In mid-February, Bhramar Mukherjee, a biostatistician at the University of Michigan, tweeted that India needed to \"accelerate the vaccination drive while the case counts are low\". Nobody quite took notice.\n\nDevotees at the Kumbh Mela festival on 14 April, when India recorded more than 184,000 new infections\n\n\"There was a feeling of triumphalism,\" said K Srinath Reddy, the president of the Public Health Foundation of India. \"Some felt we had achieved herd immunity. Everyone wanted to get back to work. This narrative fell on many receptive ears, and the few voices of caution were not heeded to,\" he said.\n\nA second wave may have been inevitable, but India could have \"postponed or delayed it and lessened its impact,\" said Gautam Menon, a professor of physics and biology. Like many other countries, India should have begun careful genomic surveillance in January to detect variants, Mr Menon said. Some of these variants could be driving the surge. \"We learnt of new variants in February from reports from Maharashtra. This was initially denied by authorities,\" Mr Menon added. \"This was a significant turning point.\"\n\nWhat are the lessons of this public health crisis? For one, India should learn not to declare victory over the virus prematurely, and it should put a lid on triumphalism. People should also learn to adapt to short, local lockdowns in the event of the inevitable future spikes of infection. Most epidemiologists predict more waves, given that India is evidently still far away from reaching herd immunity and its vaccination rate remains slow.\n\n\"We cant freeze human life,\" Professor Reddy said. \"If we can't physically distance in the crowded cities, we can at least make sure everyone wears a proper mask. And wear it properly. That's not a big ask.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. India coronavirus: \"A Covid tsunami we had never seen before\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nNew ownership structures at clubs will be assessed as part of a fan-led review into English football.\n\nThe review, brought forward by the UK government due to controversies over the proposed European Super League, will consider ownership, finance and supporter involvement in the game.\n\nIt will also assess if an independent regulator may have beneficial impact.\n\nSports Minister Nigel Huddleston said the fan-led review \"must be a watershed moment in our national game\".\n\nTracey Crouch MP will chair the review and report its recommendations back to the government and Football Association.\n\nShe said it will \"take the necessary steps to retain the game's integrity, competitiveness and, most importantly, the bond that clubs have with its supporters and the local community\".\n\nRecent events - which saw six Premier League clubs sign up and later withdraw from a new European Super League - prompted fans to air frustrations over the power owners have in taking big decisions at clubs.\n\nThe review will consider ownership models including those used in Germany, where the 50+1 rule means clubs cannot play in the Bundesliga if one commercial investor owns more than a 49% stake.\n\nThe Bundesliga says the rule \"protects against reckless owners and safeguards the democratic customs of German clubs\".\n\n\"While foreign ownership has undoubtedly benefited the development of the game, the review will seek to test whether existing oversight is sufficient to protect the interests of the game,\" the UK government said.\n\nWhat else will be considered?\n\nIn addition, the review hopes to scrutinise the Owners' and Directors' Tests currently in place, assess the flow of money through the English football pyramid, and consider if club finances could be scrutinised on a more regular basis.\n\nIn the wake of news breaking on the decision by Liverpool, Manchester United, Chelsea, Manchester City, Tottenham and Arsenal to join a European Super League, former England defender Gary Neville said he felt the game needed an independent regulator.\n\nThe fan-led review will assess how this could work and what relationship it could have with bodies - such as the Football Association - in the game.\n\nTime will also be spent considering possible interventions that could protect club identity, such as historical features like club badges.\n\nAll six clubs intent on a breakaway reversed their decision on Tuesday but many in the game have been left frustrated by their actions.\n\nBrighton chief executive Paul Barber said there was anger among the 14 other Premier League clubs when they met this week and he expects \"more government intervention\" as a result of the controversy.\n\n\"First, we have asked the PL and FA to make sure they conduct a full investigation,\" Barber told BT Sport.\n\n\"The second step must be to ensure it can't happen again.\n\n\"Clearly the one thing we are very clear on is when we work in football, we work within the regulatory framework. We know there are rules we have to abide by and if these rules are breached there will be sanctions. In this situation, where the game has been damaged - this has been a PR catastrophe for the whole game - there have to be some consequences for that.\n\n\"The actions of the last 72 hours proves our framework has not been strong enough. There are so many people concerned by what could happen, we need more stringent control and clear sanctions for what would happen if anyone tried it again. The consequences could have been catastrophic.\"\n• None The rocky story of Derry City is streaming now\n• None Stephen Lawrence's story and the lessons still being learnt", "Richard Glenn got drunk during the school trip to Costa Rica in 2019\n\nAn IT teacher who threatened pupils and took some to a strip club while he was drunk during a school trip has been banned from teaching for three years.\n\nRichard Glenn's behaviour was so \"unacceptable\" he was sent home early during Longridge Towers School's trip to Costa Rica in July 2019, the Teaching Regulation Agency heard.\n\nMr Glenn, 55, admitted gross misconduct and was dismissed in August 2019.\n\nThe Northumberland private school costs up to £4,850 a term for day pupils.\n\nA misconduct panel heard Mr Glenn, who taught computer science and had been head of sixth form since 2007, was one of the leaders of the group of 16 to 18-year-olds that went to Costa Rica on 5 July 2019.\n\nThe panel said pupils were \"relying on him for guidance\" in Costa Rica\n\nHe was supposed to be there until 28 July, but after six days was sent home by the expedition's leader \"due to his behaviour\".\n\nThe panel said his behaviour \"placed one or more pupils in his care at risk\".\n\nIt added there was \"no malice or sexual intent\" in taking the students to the lapdancing club, but Mr Glenn admitted it was \"inappropriate and unprofessional\" for him to fail to control the situation.\n\nHe added he could not remember what happened \"due to his state of intoxication\" but he \"did not dispute the recollection of those present\", the report said.\n\nThe private boarding school near Berwick charges up to £9,800 a term for boarders\n\nThe panel was shown photos of drink tickets bought at the strip club and said it was \"satisfied\" that his conduct \"amounted to misconduct of a serious nature which fell significantly short of the standards expected of the profession\".\n\nThe panel's report said: \"Mr Glenn was, at various times during the school trip, under the influence of alcohol, and therefore not in a position to adequately take decisions or act in loco parentis should the need arise.\n\n\"This was in circumstances where pupils under his care were in an unfamiliar country, far from home, and relying on him for guidance and protection.\n\n\"Mr Glenn was an experienced teacher and pastoral leader who would have been expected to lead an overseas trip safely, and would have been well aware of the conduct expected of him.\"\n\nAfter the three years have elapsed, Mr Glenn will need to apply for the ban to be lifted, the panel said.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The study is the first to demonstrate that DNA damage caused by radiation is 'not passed on to future children'\n\nThere is no \"additional DNA damage\" in children born to parents who were exposed to radiation from the Chernobyl explosion before they were conceived.\n\nThis is according to the first study to screen the genes of children whose parents were enlisted to help in the clean-up after the nuclear accident.\n\nParticipants, all conceived after the disaster and born between 1987 and 2002, had their whole genomes screened.\n\nThe study found no mutations that were associated with a parent's exposure.\n\nThe findings are published in the journal Science.\n\nMany workers, known as liquidators, were enlisted to help in the massive clean-up operation after the 1986 nuclear accident\n\nProf Gerry Thomas, from Imperial College London, has spent decades studying the biology of cancer, particularly tumours that are linked to damage from radiation. She explained that this new study was the first to demonstrate that \"even when people were exposed to relatively high doses of radiation - when compared to background radiation - it had no effect on their future children\".\n\nThe new study was led by Prof Meredith Yeager, at the US National Cancer Institute (NCI), in Maryland. It focused on the children of workers who were enlisted to help clean up the highly-contaminated zone around the nuclear power plant, and the children of evacuees from the abandoned town of Pripyat, and other settlements within the 70km zone around it.\n\nOne of the lead researchers, Dr Stephen Chanock, also from the NCI, explained that the research team recruited whole families, so the scientists could compare the DNA of a mother, a father and a child.\n\n\"Here we're not looking at what happened to those children who were [in the womb] at the time of the accident; we're looking at something called de novo mutations.\"\n\nThese are new mutations in DNA - they occur randomly in an egg or sperm cell. Depending on where in the genetic blueprint of a baby a mutation arises, it could have no impact at all, or could be the cause of a genetic disease.\n\nPripyat was home to 50,000 people before the accident\n\n\"There are about 50-100 of these mutations every generation - and they're random,\" explained Dr Chanock. \"In some ways, they're the building blocks of evolution. This is how new changes are introduced into a population one birth at a time.\n\n\"We looked at the mothers' and the fathers' genomes and then at the child. And we spent an extra nine months looking for any signal - in the number of these mutations - that was associated with a parents' radiation exposure. We couldn't find anything.\"\n\nThis means, the scientists say, that the effect of radiation on a parent's body has no impact on the children they conceive in the future.\n\n\"There are a lot of people who were scared to have children after the atomic bombs [in Nagasaki and Hiroshima],\" Prof Thomas told BBC News. \"And people who were scared to have children after the accident at Fukushima, because they thought their child would be affected by radiation they were exposed to.\n\n\"It's so sad. And if we can show that there's no effect, hopefully we can alleviate that fear.\"\n\nSome elderly \"self-settlers\" still live within the abandoned exclusion zone\n\nProf Thomas was not involved in the genome study. She and her colleagues have carried out another piece of research on the cancers that were linked to Chernobyl. They studied thyroid cancer, because the nuclear accident is known to have caused about 5,000 cases of that specific cancer, the vast majority of which were treated and cured.\n\nThe authorities at the time of the accident failed to prevent contaminated milk from being sold in the region; many who were children at the time drank it, receiving large doses of radioactive iodine - one of the contaminants blasted out of the damaged reactor.\n\n\"Essentially, we found that there is no difference between thyroid cancers caused by Chernobyl radiation and any other thyroid cancers,\" Prof Thomas explained.\n\n\"So there's no 'demon tumour' that comes out of Chernobyl that we won't be able to treat - we can just treat in exactly the same way as we treat other cases.\"\n\nAn area of 4,000 sq km has been abandoned since the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant", "China has now administered 211 million vaccine doses, only eight million fewer doses than the US. There is some expectation by next week, China will have surpassed the US and have administered more vaccine doses than anywhere else in the world.\n\nFour different vaccines have currently been approved in China for public use, all of which have been developed within the country.\n\nHowever, others are on the way; it is possible that another vaccine co-developed by German’s BioNTech may become available within the country “before July”.\n\nAccording to the national Global Times newspaper, “the Fosun Pharma/BioNTech vaccine will be the first foreign-developed Covid-19 vaccine that China will import”.\n\nMeanwhile, Chinese firm CanSino is set to begin vaccine trials next week using an inhaled vaccine candidate. Global Times said last month an inhaled vaccine would “be a less painful and more accessible” alternative to an injection, “especially for children and vulnerable people”.\n\nChina’s main vaccines, Sinopharm and Sinovac also may soon receive authorisation from the World Health Organization to be included in the Covax global vaccine distribution programme.\n\nAccording to the independent South China Morning Post, Chinese vaccines are in the “final stage of the WHO approval process”. Review meetings to discuss both are set for 3 May. They have been hindered to date by insufficient data on the elderly and people with underlying health condition, given that China has prioritised vaccination among people aged 18 to 59.", "It is believed the 14-year-old was stabbed outside Zzetta Pizza on Barking Road\n\nA 14-year-old boy has been stabbed to death in east London.\n\nMet Police officers, who are treating the case as murder, were called to Barking Road in Canning Town, Newham, at about 16:00 BST on Friday.\n\nThe teenager was confirmed dead at the scene and officers are trying to find and tell his family.\n\nA crime scene cordon is in place and there will be an increased police presence in the area, the Met said. No arrests have yet been made.\n\nDespite the efforts of paramedics from the London Ambulance Service and London Air Ambulance, the victim was pronounced dead shortly after 16:30.\n\nDespite the efforts of the London Air Ambulance, the victim was pronounced dead\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan said he was \"deeply saddened\" by the killing, adding: \"I am in touch with the Deputy Met Commissioner and my thoughts are with the victim's family and friends.\"\n\nHe urged witnesses to come forward, saying: \"This appalling incident happened on a busy street in broad daylight, so if you saw or know anything then please don't stay silent.\"\n\nAnyone with information is urged to contact the force on 101.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Robert Chapman posted a picture of himself posing inside the Capitol, the FBI say\n\nA man has been accused of taking part in the US Capitol riots after allegedly boasting about it on a dating app.\n\nRobert Chapman, from New York, told a user he matched with on the dating app Bumble \"I did storm the Capitol\", FBI court filings say.\n\nThey replied \"we are not a match\", and shared a screenshot of the exchange with authorities.\n\nMr Chapman was arrested and charged in New York on Thursday, media reports say.\n\nAccording to the court filings, Mr Chapman, from the town of Carmel in New York State, told his Bumble match: \"I did storm the Capitol... I made it all the way into Statuary Hall!\"\n\nA Bumble user shared a screenshot of their alleged exchange with Mr Chapman to the authorities\n\nThe FBI says police body-camera footage captures Mr Chapman in the Statuary Hall during the 6 January riots at the Capitol building in Washington DC.\n\nA post on Mr Chapman's public Facebook account, using the alias \"Robert Erick\", said he was leaving New York City the day before the riot, the FBI said.\n\nThe next day, the account posted a photo showing him posing within the Capitol, captioned \"INSIDE THE CRAPITOL!!!\".\n\nMr Chapman was arrested and charged with trespassing and disorderly conduct on restricted government property, according to NBC New York.\n\nHe had previously been arrested in New York in 2017, according to New York State Police.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. When a mob stormed the US capitol\n\nThe US justice department has charged more than 400 people with participation in the 6 January attack.\n\nFederal prosecutors expect to charge at least 100 more people for taking part in the riots.", "The defendants said they believed their actions had been \"necessary\" and \"proportionate\"\n\nSix Extinction Rebellion protesters have been cleared of causing criminal damage, despite a jury being told by the judge there was no defence in law for their actions.\n\nActivists targeted Shell's London HQ, claiming the oil firm was directly contributing to climate change.\n\nIt was part of wider demonstrations across the capital on 15 April 2019.\n\nJudge Gregory Perrins said that even if their actions were \"morally justified\", that did not provide a lawful excuse.\n\nSouthwark Crown Court had heard that each of the defendants deliberately sprayed graffiti or smashed windows at the Shell building in Belvedere Road, central London.\n\nThe six acquitted activists were:\n\nWith the exception of Mr Saunders - who claimed he honestly believed Shell's employees and shareholders would have consented to the damage he caused - the judge had told the jury: \"They don't have any defence in law for the charges they face.\"\n\nAfter deliberating for just over seven hours, the jury of seven women and five men cleared the defendants of all charges.\n\nBefore reaching their verdicts, the jurors had asked to see a copy of the oath they took when they were sworn in.\n\nGraffiti was left on Shell's London headquarters in April 2019\n\nThe six, who represented themselves, were also cleared of individual counts of having an article with intent to destroy or damage property.\n\nThey told the court they had targeted the Shell building because the company was directly contributing to climate change, \"thereby causing serious injury and death\".\n\nThey argued their actions were a \"necessary\" and \"proportionate\" response to the harm being caused.\n\nProsecutor Diana Wilson had told the court that while some protesters merely stood outside the building holding banners or speaking through megaphones, \"these defendants went further\".\n\nShe added: \"The seven involved caused significant damage.\"\n\nAt the conclusion of the trial, the judge thanked the jurors for their \"care and attention\", adding: \"This has been an unusual case.\"\n\nA seventh protester, Katerina Hasapopoulous, had previously pleaded guilty to causing criminal damage. The 43-year-old, from Stroud, will be sentenced at a later date.\n\nAfter he was cleared, Extinction Rebellion co-founder Mr Bramwell said she had only pleaded guilty because of childcare issues.", "Police said despite an \"intensive search\" by officers, helicopter and marine units, the boy had not yet been found\n\nA schoolboy is missing after falling off Tower Bridge and into the River Thames, his headmaster has said.\n\nSpecialist officers from City of London Police have been leading the search after the child fell into the river just after 08:00 BST on Tuesday.\n\nThe Year 8 Ark Globe Academy pupil was said to have been travelling with a friend on a bus on Tuesday morning but did not arrive at school.\n\nPolice are treating it as a missing person case.\n\nIn a letter to parents, executive principal Matt Jones said the boy was in full school uniform and got off the bus near the bridge, before his usual stop closest to the school in Elephant and Castle.\n\nHe then fell into the River Thames, Mr Jones said.\n\nCity of London Police confirmed its officers were leading an investigation into a missing person, linked to an incident in which a child fell into the river from Tower Bridge.\n\nThe force said despite an \"intensive search\" by officers, helicopter and marine units, the boy had not been found.\n\nMr Jones added: \"This is obviously distressing news for the young person's family, friends, and the wider Ark Globe Community.\n\n\"As a school community, we are dealing with this sensitively so as not to compromise the integrity of the police investigation and we wish to respect the privacy of the family while the investigation is ongoing.\n\n\"Our hopes and prayers are with the family at this very difficult time.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Biju Mathew flew from Kochi via Mumbai and Frankfurt to beat the Friday deadline\n\nWhen Biju Mathew heard that India was going onto the UK's travel red list, he leapt into action.\n\n\"I couldn't afford to stay away,\" he says. \"I had to get back to work.\"\n\nThe social services manager from Walsall, UK, who was in India visiting family, began ringing local travel agents in an attempt to beat the Friday deadline.\n\nFrom Friday 04:00 BST, most travellers who have been to India in the last 10 days will be refused entry to the UK unless they hold UK passports or residence rights. Those that do will be required to quarantine in hotels on arrival, at significant cost and inconvenience.\n\n\"Eventually, yesterday, a friend in the UK managed to book me a ticket from Mumbai to Manchester,\" says Biju. He had just half an hour's notice to pack and go.\n\n\"I had to stop everything. I didn't get time to say a proper goodbye to my parents.\"\n\nIt also cost him close to £2,000 for the flight and Covid tests required, when a flight from Mumbai is usually well under £1,000.\n\nHe is one of the lucky ones. His flight touched down in Manchester at around 15:00 BST on Thursday to his great relief.\n\nKiran and Saumiya Philip travelled to Kerala in March to get married, but once the wedding was over, they realised India's Covid cases were rising rapidly and they started looking for earlier flights back.\n\n\"I've been trying to get back to the UK since 12 April but there aren't any tickets available,\" says Kiran. \"You get the odd one now and then, but the cost is upwards of £1,200 to travel from Kochi one way.\"\n\nThe new restrictions are in response to the rapid spread of a new strain of coronavirus in India, which is overwhelming the country's medical services.\n\nKiran hopes because he's had the Pfizer vaccine as well as a bout of Covid, and plans to stick to all the testing and quarantine rules, he won't pose much of a threat when he does return.\n\nThe couple have flights booked for 14 May but in the meantime it's nothing like an extended honeymoon. He's working remotely, and there's a curfew at 19:00 local time. They're just waiting and worrying.\n\n\"I would like to get home ASAP just in case India goes into lockdown and all flights to the UK get cancelled. This has happened before,\" says Kiran.\n\nThey need to be back in the UK by early June at the latest to renew Saumiya's visa. And they'll have to dip into their savings, supposed to be for buying a house, to pay the £5,000 cost of the flights and quarantine hotels.\n\n\"All my family and friends are saying 'try to get back as soon as you can',\" says Kiran.\n\nLike Kiran and Saumiya, Pritha Kejriwal and her son Tanish need to get back to the UK before the summer to renew their visas. They're both students and have been in Kolkata since November.\n\nPritha has been checking to make sure they will still be allowed to return and believes there is an exception for students studying in the UK, who should still be allowed to return despite the ban on most non-UK residents.\n\n\"My family were worried and wanted us to come back,\" she says. \"We were just waiting for the right time.\n\n\"We were looking at flights before 23 April. There were only one or two options, which were extraordinarily expensive.\n\n\"My son has exams starting 6 May. He was planning to get back in time for group work. If he doesn't get back, I'm sure he could work online, but it's demoralising and he's uncertain.\"\n\nThe uncertainty is also what is bothering Vick Busa.\n\nHe, his wife, and young daughter went to India in January when his father-in-law fell seriously ill with Covid. They managed to see him before he passed away and stayed to sort out his affairs.\n\nVick, an accountant, and his wife, who works in real estate, have been able to work remotely, although with a four-and-half-hour time difference it isn't ideal. Now, though, they want to get back home to Essex.\n\nThey're UK citizens so they will be allowed back into the country, but Vick is concerned it could be months before India is taken off the red list, meaning the inconvenience and expense of hotel quarantine are unavoidable.\n\nHe did try amongst the \"panic\" to book flights before the deadline but has settled for travelling on 4 May.\n\nIn the meantime, they are taking their responsibility to not bring back the Indian strain of the virus very seriously. They only go out when it is essential. And they'll be particularly careful at the airport, he says.\n\nThere's also the worry that their flight could be cancelled or delayed. He's holding off booking the quarantine hotel for now.\n\n\"It's a double risk,\" he says. \"If I book the quarantine hotel and my flight is cancelled, changing it will incur extra costs.\n\n\"I may incur a penalty, if I fly without it.\" Even without the extra charges the cost of quarantine is unreasonably high, he argues, at £2,400 for the family.\n\nAll of this means \"there's a lot of ambiguity\" to deal with still. He says he won't feel sure that they're really on their way until they finally board the flight at Delhi airport.\n\n\"We cant be like this for too long,\" he says.", "Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison has resisted pressure to set more ambitious carbon emission targets while other major nations vowed deeper reductions to tackle climate change.\n\nAddressing a global climate summit, Mr Morrison said Australia was on a path to net zero emissions.\n\nBut he stopped short of setting a timeline, saying the country would get there \"as soon as possible\".\n\nIt came as the US, Canada and Japan set new commitments for steeper cuts.\n\nUS President Joe Biden, who chaired the virtual summit, pledged to cut carbon emissions by 50-52% below 2005 levels by the year 2030. This new target essentially doubles the previous US promise.\n\nBy contrast, Australia will stick with its existing pledge of cutting carbon emissions by 26%-28% below 2005 levels, by 2030. That's in line with the Paris climate agreement, though Mr Morrison said Australia was on a pathway to net zero emissions.\n\n\"Our goal is to get there as soon as we possibly can, through technology that enables and transforms our industries, not taxes that eliminate them and the jobs and livelihoods they support and create,\" he told the summit.\n\n\"Future generations... will thank us not for what we have promised, but what we deliver.\"\n\nAustralia is one of the world's biggest carbon emitters on a per capita basis. Mr Morrison, who has faced sustained criticism over climate policy, said action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions would focus on technology.\n\nThe prime minister said Australia is deploying renewable energy 10 times faster than the global average per person, and has the highest uptake of rooftop solar panels in the world.\n\nMr Morrison added Australia would invest $20bn ($15.4bn; 11.1bn) \"to achieve ambitious goals that will bring the cost of clean hydrogen, green steel, energy storage and carbon capture to commercial parity\".\n\n\"You can always be sure that the commitments Australia makes to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are bankable.\"\n\nAustralia has seen growing international pressure to step up its efforts to cut emissions and tackle global warming. The country has warmed on average by 1.4 degrees C since national records began in 1910, according to its science and weather agencies. That's led to an increase in the number of extreme heat events, as well as increased fire danger days.\n\nAhead of the summit, President Biden's team urged countries that have been slow to embrace action on climate change to raise their ambition. While many nations heeded the call, big emitters China and India also made no new commitments.\n\n\"Scientists tell us that this is the decisive decade - this is the decade we must make decisions that will avoid the worst consequences of the climate crisis,\" President Biden said at the summit's opening address.\n\nReferring to America's new carbon-cutting pledge, President Biden added: \"The signs are unmistakable, the science is undeniable, and the cost of inaction keeps mounting.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Australian islanders take climate fight to the UN", "The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have released a new picture of Prince Louis to celebrate his third birthday and mark his first day at nursery school.\n\nThe photograph was taken at Kensington Palace by the duchess, shortly before Louis set off for Willcocks Nursery School for the first time on Wednesday.\n\nSmartly dressed in shorts, a shirt and a jumper, he sits on a red Frog bicycle with a rucksack on his back.\n\nPrince William and Catherine were said to be \"delighted\" to share the update.\n\nThe Willcocks Nursery School was also attended by Louis' sister Princess Charlotte - and charges up to £3,400 per term, depending on a child's age and which sessions they attend.\n\nThe nursery, which is situated in the shadow of the Royal Albert Hall, has received positive praise from Ofsted when it was inspected in January 2020 and is rated outstanding.\n\nHis older brother Prince George attended the £33-a-day Westacre Montessori School Nursery in Norfolk, close to the Cambridges' country home at Anmer Hall, Sandringham.\n\nPrince George on his first day at nursery in January 2016\n\nCharlotte, pictured on her first day at nursery, went to Willcocks like Louis\n\nLouis, who is fifth in line to the throne, is the latest member of the Royal Family to attend a private nursery school in a tradition that began with his father.\n\nPrince William went to the Minors Nursery School, minutes from Kensington Palace in Notting Hill Gate, west London, in 1985.\n\nHe was the first prospective heir to the throne to attend a private nursery, in a move reported at the time to have been influenced by his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, who worked at a nursery school before her marriage to the Prince of Wales.\n\nThe Queen was educated at home and relied on her nanny, Crawfie, to take her on educational trips - including a journey on the London tube.\n\nPrince Charles did not go to nursery, instead he was taught by a governess in a palace room containing a blackboard and a desk.\n\nPrince William \"couldn't wait\" to start nursery when he was dropped off by his parents in September 1985, BBC News reported at the time\n\nRoyal mourning in memory of the Duke of Edinburgh will end for the monarchy and its households on Friday.\n\nSince the death of the Queen's husband on 9 April, the Royal Family have only carried out official duties where appropriate and have dressed in black when in public.\n\nThe Queen - who marked her 95th birthday this week - has said the family continues to experience a period of \"great sadness\".", "US health regulators have lifted an 11-day pause on the Johnson & Johnson (J&J) Covid-19 jab, but will add a warning label about the potential for extremely rare blood clots.\n\nA Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) panel earlier approved restarting US rollout of the shot.\n\nFifteen vaccine recipients suffered from a dangerous blood clot out of nearly eight million given the jab.\n\nThis week, Europe's drug regulator also ended restrictions on the J&J vaccine.\n\nEuropean regulators this month also linked similar, highly unusual blood clots to the AstraZeneca Covid-19 shot, but found the benefits of the drug outweighed any risks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOn Friday afternoon, the CDC and Food and Drug Administration swiftly followed the recommendation of the CDC advisory panel after it voted 10-4 to continue rolling out the vaccine for people 18 years of age and older in line with its original authorisation.\n\nThe decision means at least 10 million doses of the J&J vaccine, shipped from the company's factory in the Netherlands, can be deployed across the US immediately.\n\nThe health officials on Friday identified nine more cases of the blood clots, adding to six cases already identified since regulators first approved the jab as safe and effective in February.\n\nAll were women, most under the age of 50. Three died and seven remain in hospital.\n\nAbout a dozen of the cases affected women aged 30-39. Seven of the women were obese, two had high blood pressure, and two were using oral contraceptives, according to health officials.\n\nCDC officials who presented the data on Friday said a few cases of blood clots in men were being reviewed, too.\n\nThe officials also said it was important for women be told about the potential risks of the vaccine so they could decide whether to seek alternatives.\n\nDr Sarah Long, of Drexel University College of Medicine, was among the panel members who voted against the proposal because she thought it did not go far enough in warning women.\n\n\"This is an age group that is most at risk [of the blood clot] that is getting vaccine predominantly to save other peoples' lives and morbidity, not their own,\" she told AP new agency. \"And I think we have a responsibility to be certain that they know this.\"\n\nSymptoms can arise within three weeks of vaccination and include acute headaches, shortness of breath, and leg and abdominal pain.\n\nUS health officials are warning doctors that heparin, a common treatment for blood clots, can worsen the vaccine-linked condition.\n\nThe US paused use of the single-dose shot earlier this month over a few reports of blood clotting in the brain post-vaccine among US women.\n\nFollowing the advice, all federal sites in the US stopped using the vaccine.\n\nIt was not the first setback for J&J in its US coronavirus vaccine rollout. Last month, the ingredients for up to 15 million doses of the pharmaceutical giant's vaccine were ruined at a Baltimore facility.\n\nFederal inspectors this week identified a series of problems at the Emergent BioSolutions plant, including cleanliness and safety issues.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 16 and 23 April.\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\nOarsome view: Allan Donaldson despite it being \"very cold\" watching the sunrise at Knapp's Loch, near Kilmacolm was \"well worth it\".\n\nCowabunga: How cute is this Highland cow calf at Pollok Park? Pic by Iain Taggart.\n\nHad a beak full: A bit of improvisation on the nesting front and a tolerant horse near Melrose. Picture by Linda Ormiston.\n\nWater bird: Anne Edward was delighted to have her camera with her on her walk in Crombie park in Angus so she could capture this \"lovely, adorable cygnet\".\n\nPlant get enough: Victor Tregubov took this picture of early cherry blossom in Dollar.\n\nMini-me: Young moorhens can swim from day one, like this little guy spotted by Arthur Allan at Townhill Loch, Dunfermline.\n\nInflight meal: Alan Cruickshank said he had no idea why a Great Spotted Woodpecker would come to ground to find food \"given how cautious they are\" until he saw this one helping itself to food being left out for Red Squirrels on the Black Isle, north of Inverness.\n\nOutfox: Bill Simpson said he would try to keep this vixen and her cubs in his Edinburgh garden, safe from his boxer dog Duke, who loves to chase foxes.\n\nMeet the family: Brian Hughes snapped this Mallard duck on an outing with her ducklings at Perchy Pond, Wishaw.\n\nNailed it: Claire Buchanan captured the peace of this dusty trail in the Pentland Hills just perfectly.\n\nBetter light than never: David Wilkinson said he spotted the Falkirk Wheel lit up at night this week after new lighting was installed.\n\nSo coot: Alison Brown captured this mother and its baby cootling learning to swim at Queen's Park pond in Glasgow.\n\nFamily tree: David Strudwick said his three sons, Matthew, Samuel and Luke loved their spring morning walk at Seaton Park, Aberdeen.\n\nStoating aboot: Doug Edgar had a rare encounter with a stoat at Lymphoy in Currie, Edinburgh.\n\nSoots you: Sunset looks good on the former Longannet Power Station in Fife.\n\nWhale hello: Helen Perry said she had \"Great fun watching orca gymnastics\" in Aith, Shetland.\n\nLight of passage: Gerry Doherty took this sunset picture from his home town of Dumbarton.\n\nSkin deep: Elsa Critchley was in awe of these friends when she saw them in the sea at Portobello.\n\nTwit twoo: Caroline Loudon said she was \"really lucky\" to get so close to this tawny owl in Edinburgh's Craiglockhart Woods.\n\nFeline happy: Janina Dolny wondered if the street art on this old police box in Edinburgh's Geddes Gardens was inspired by the Maison de Moggy cat cafe across the road.\n\nBranching out: Joyce Blair captured this magnificent tree during a walk in Boden Boo Woods in Erskine.\n\nDo whatever floats your boat: Karolina Sperczynska captured her sons during their first try on a paddle board with their dad at Loch Lomond's Millarochy Bay.\n\nRays and shine: Kirsty Gray's morning run in the Pentland Hills was glorious.\n\nDoe eyed: Deer enjoying the warm sunshine in Linda Cooper's woodland garden by South Loch Ness.\n\nOne of Three Ways: Lewis Milne said \"Queensferry Crossing during sunset as the tide was out, revealing the beautiful shapes in the sand between the pier and the boat dock.\"\n\nQuit while you're a head: Mangela Coia took this picture of a large Roman head near the Antonine wall on Croy Hill in Croy.\n\nJack Sparrow: A male house sparrow plundering the Pampas grass in Sharon Dalgoutt's North Ayrshire garden for lining its nest.\n\nYou light up my life: Stewart Beattie's picture of sunrise at St Abbs Lighthouse looks like a picture from a landscape abroad.\n\nBend over backwards: Tom Kelly spotted this Kingfisher doing his early morning yoga routine on the Water of Leith in Edinburgh.\n\nMount your blessings: Jamie Sillars said he has been enjoying walking in the hills on the Isle of Arran also know as \"Scotland In Miniature\".\n\nThat doesn't look poplar: Lone tree in fields at Portencross, Ayrshire.\n\nMy finest flower: Mangela Coia captured spring in Springburn Park Glasgow this week.\n\nBear necessities: Dunbear in Dunbar is a tribute to John Muir, the pioneering Dunbar-born naturalist and conservationist. Picture by Jean Lowdon.\n\nHigh and dry: Ian Barnes took this picture of a boat at Charlestown harbour at low tide.\n\nSand art: Andrew Christie drew this tribute in the sand for the late Prince Philip before taking an aerial picture using a drone in Aberdeen.\n\nHigh-flyer: Mark Bell took this shot just after the paraglider took off on Ben Lawers.\n\nOn a winning peak: Ian Mulvey and his son said they had the summit to themselves on Ben A'an in The Trossachs.\n\nLife is sheep: Sophie Orr took this picture of a sheep keeping a watchful eye of its lamb at sunset in North Uist in the Western Isles.\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.", "A free trade deal between the UK and Australia will reduce extra costs and taxes on exports and imports between the two countries\n\nThe UK and Australia say they have agreed \"the vast majority\" of a free trade deal.\n\nAfter talks on Friday in London the two said they aim to seal a deal by June.\n\n\"Both countries are confident the remaining issues will be resolved, and will now enter a sprint to agree the outstanding details with the aim of reaching agreement in principle,\" a joint statement said.\n\nIt is estimated a deal could add £500m ($694m) to UK GDP over the long-term.\n\nThe final day of talks between UK International Trade Secretary Liz Truss and Australian Trade Minister Dan Tehan ended in London without a deal but both sides will spend the next few weeks ironing out the outstanding issues standing in the way of an agreement.\n\nMs Truss said the trade deal between the two countries \"will help us emerge stronger from the pandemic, strengthening ties between two democracies who share a fierce belief in freedom, enterprise and fair play\".\n\nIf concluded, the UK-Australia free trade agreement will be one of the first post-Brexit trade deals negotiated by the UK that is not a \"rollover deal\", a replica of a trading arrangement earlier negotiated on the UK's behalf by the European Union.\n\nThe UK inked a trade deal with Japan in October 2020.\n\nA free trade deal aims to encourage trade - usually in goods but occasionally in services - by making it cheaper. This is often achieved by reducing or eliminating tariffs - taxes or charges by governments for trading goods across borders.\n\nTrade agreements also aim to remove quotas - which are limits on the amount of goods which can be traded.\n\nTrade can also be made simpler if countries have the same rules, such as the colour of wires in plugs. The closer the rules are, the less likely that goods need to be checked.", "An officer stands in front of a chart of part the Bali coast, amid the search for the KRI Nanggala\n\nIndonesian rescue teams are fearing the worst as oxygen supplies on a missing Indonesian naval submarine are thought to have run out.\n\nThere are fears the vessel carrying 53 crew may already have sunk to a depth where it might have been crushed.\n\nThe KRI Nanggala 402 disappeared on Wednesday during exercises off the coast of Bali, sparking a frantic search to locate the stricken vessel.\n\nAustralia, India, Malaysia and Singapore have so far sent assistance.\n\nAnd a US Navy P-8 Poseidon aircraft landed in Bali early on Saturday morning.\n\n\"Indonesia is a good friend and strategic partner. We were all deeply saddened to see the reports about their submarine and our thoughts and our prayers are with the Indonesian sailors, the Indonesian navy, and of course all their families,\" said Pentagon spokesman John Kirby.\n\nAn oil slick where it was thought to have submerged suggested damage to a fuel tank may have been a factor.\n\nIndonesia's navy is racing to find the KRI Nanggala-402, pictured here in a file image\n\nThe Indonesian military said late on Thursday night that it had detected signs of an object at a depth of between 50 and 100 metres (165 to 330 feet), and had deployed ships with sonar-tracking equipment in the hope it was the KRI Nanggala 402.\n\nA military spokesman said the submarine would only have enough oxygen to last until around 03:00 local time on Saturday (21:00 GMT on Friday). That deadline has now passed.\n\nAt least six warships, a helicopter and 400 people have since been involved in the search. Singapore and Malaysia have dispatched ships to the area, and Australia, France and Germany have also offered assistance.\n\nThe KRI Nanggala 402 lost contact shortly after requesting permission to dive during live torpedo exercises early on Wednesday morning. The German-built vessel is one of five submarines operated by Indonesia. It was made in the late 1970s, and underwent a two-year refit in South Korea that was completed in 2012.\n\nA navy spokesman told the BBC the incident was the first time Indonesia had lost one of its submarines. But similar incidents have happened elsewhere.\n\nMajor Wisnu Subiyantoro is among the 53 crew missing\n\nIn 2000, the Kursk, a Russian navy sub, sank during manoeuvres in the Barents Sea with the loss of all 118 crew. An inquiry found that one torpedo had exploded, detonating all the others. Most of the Kursk's crew died instantly but some survived for several days before suffocating.\n\nIn 2003, 70 Chinese naval officers and crew were killed in an accident on a Ming-class submarine during exercises.\n\nAnd in 2017, an Argentine military submarine went missing in the southern Atlantic with 44 crew on board. Its wreck was located a year later and officials said the submarine had imploded.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nWembley has been given an extra Euro 2020 last-16 tie - which could involve England - after Dublin lost its four fixtures because of Covid-19 issues.\n\nBilbao's four games have been moved to fellow Spanish city Seville, while Munich will keep the matches it is down to host.\n\nDublin's three group games have gone to St Petersburg and its last-16 knockout match will be at Wembley.\n\nThe last-16 tie will feature the winner of Group D, which includes England.\n\nEngland's group also features Scotland, Croatia and the Czech Republic, and whoever finishes top will play the second-placed Group F team on 29 June.\n\nWembley will now host eight matches - England's three group games, two last-16 ties, both semi-finals and the final.\n\nUefa had told host cities that stadiums must be able to hold at least 25% capacity to be allowed to keep their fixtures.\n\nThe Football Association has confirmed Wembley will have that throughout the group stage and chief executive Mark Bullingham believes 50% capacity (45,000) is a \"realistic\" target for the knockout matches.\n\n\"We have got until 2 June to tell them [Uefa] what our numbers can be for the round of 16, semi-finals and final,\" Bullingham said.\n\n\"From our perspective we think 50% might be more realistic at the moment, but if the situation improves I would love the final to be full. We want as many fans as possible to be able to experience the Euros.\"\n\nEuro 2020, delayed by a year because of the coronavirus pandemic, will take place between 11 June and 11 July.\n\nThe tournament, which was to be hosted by 12 European cities, will - after Dublin's removal - now take place across 11 venues, namely Amsterdam, Baku, Bucharest, Budapest, Copenhagen, Glasgow, London, Munich, Rome, Seville and St Petersburg.\n\nMunich keeps its fixtures after assuring European football's governing body that a minimum of 14,500 fans - 21% capacity - will be allowed at its games at the 70,000-capacity Allianz Arena, which will be known as Football Arena Munich during the tournament.\n\nIreland's Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Catherine Martin, said: \"We were hopeful that we were all set to host a fantastic tournament in Dublin in June.\n\n\"However, despite our commitment to hosting the games, the public health situation has meant we were not able to give Uefa the assurances they required earlier this month in relation to guaranteeing minimum spectator attendance levels.\"\n\nBilbao also could not provide guarantees over the presence of fans amid the coronavirus pandemic, but Uefa says Andalusian regional authorities had stated \"its intention of allowing spectators at 30% of the stadium capacity\" in Seville.\n\n\"We have been working diligently with the host associations and local authorities to ensure a safe and festive environment at the games,\" said Uefa president Aleksander Ceferin.\n\n\"I am really pleased we are able to welcome spectators at all matches for a celebration of national team football across the continent.\"\n• None The rocky story of Derry City is streaming now\n• None Stephen Lawrence's story and the lessons still being learnt", "Navalny was detained in January and later given a jail term of over two and a half years\n\nRussia's main opposition figure Alexei Navalny has announced he is ending his hunger strike after 24 days of refusing food in jail.\n\nHours earlier his private doctors had appealed to him to take food to preserve his life and health.\n\nNavalny began refusing food on 31 March to demand better medical care.\n\nHe said he had twice been seen by civilian doctors and \"given the progress and circumstances, I am ending my hunger strike\".\n\nThe process would be gradual, he added in an Instagram post.\n\nHis doctors had warned at the weekend he could die \"at any minute\". Late on Thursday they warned him that \"further starvation\" could significantly harm him and lead to his death.\n\nPresident Vladimir Putin's foremost critic, he was detained as soon as he returned to Russia in January, after receiving treatment in Berlin for a nerve-gas attack in Siberia that left him in coma and fighting for his life. Russian authorities denied being behind the attack, but last December Navalny tricked an FSB agent into revealing that a Novichok agent had been placed in his underpants.\n\nNavalny was sent to a penal colony in February for over two and a half years, after a court ruled he had broken the terms of a suspended jail term, even though he had been in a coma. Russia rejected a ruling from the European Court of Human Rights that he should be freed because his life was at risk.\n\nThousands of Navalny supporters took to the streets of Russian cities on Wednesday and more than 1,700 were arrested.\n\nThe largest rally was in Moscow on Wednesday where thousands defied police warnings\n\nNavalny has complained of numbness and back pain and said he had not been given proper treatment by prison doctors.\n\nIn his message from the penal colony in Vladimir, east of Moscow, Navalny said he was still determined to be seen by a doctor of his choice. \"I am losing feeling in areas of my arms and legs, and I want to understand what it is and how to treat it,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alexei Navalny: what you need to know\n• None Who is Alexei Navalny? Video, 00:02:26Who is Alexei Navalny?", "A Stormont department took part in a \"clandestine\" process with a firm bidding for deals to resurface NI's roads, a court has ruled.\n\nA judge said the Department for Infrastructure's conduct \"entailed an egregious breach of the principle of transparency\".\n\nHe added that the firm had been \"accorded special treatment\" by the department.\n\nThe proceedings centred on eight contracts awarded in 2015\n\nThe contracts, for work on roads across Northern Ireland, had a total estimated annual value of up to £52m.\n\nThe Court of Appeal dismissed an appeal by the Department for Infrastructure.\n\nIn a statement to the BBC, the Department for Infrastructure said: \"The department notes the judgment from the Court of Appeal and we are considering it with our legal advisors.\"\n\nSenior judges upheld findings that the tendering competition breached the principle of transparency and resulted in a manifest error.\n\nThe procurement exercise sought the most economically advantageous tender for each contract, based on a criteria where price was weighted at 70% and quality 30%.\n\nJohn McQuillan (Contracts) Ltd bid for seven contacts came out on top in six of them.\n\nHowever, the court heard the company duplicated personnel and plant for each competition - but could only provide site engineers for four contracts at most.\n\nA meeting involving civil servants from the Department for Regional Development (DRD) - one of the Department for Infrastructure's predecessors - was held in September 2015, but no minutes were provided.\n\nFollowing subsequent discussions with the department, the firm withdrew two of its six successful tenders.\n\nA decision was then taken to offer it contracts for the other four resurfacing projects.\n\nLord Justice McCloskey said that giving top ranking to an operator for more contracts than it had the resources to carry out \"defies common sense and commercial reality\".\n\nIn July 2020 a High Court judge held that the DRD had wrongly given a mark of excellence in tenders where there were not the necessary resources.\n\nHe also identified a lack of transparency, unequal treatment and breach of the principle of non-discrimination in the circumstances whereby that company was able to select contracts.\n\nRejecting the department's appeal against those findings, Lord Justice McCloskey concluded that the post-tender evaluation and scoring interaction with the operator ranked first for six contract bids, along with resulting award decisions, breached competition and EU legal rules.\n\n\"The department engaged in a secret, bilateral and unrecorded process with one of multiple bidders,\" he said\n\n\"In short, (the successful firm was) accorded special treatment in a clandestine and purely bilateral process and, in consequence, the level playing field was distorted for other bidders.\"\n\nCivil engineering company Northstone (NI) Ltd is suing over the handling of the tendering competition.\n\nNorthstone was ranked first in one of the eight contracts it tendered for, coming second or third in all the rest.", "Protestors gathered outside Parliament during the debate\n\nThe House of Commons has declared for the first time that genocide is taking place against Uyghurs and others in north-west China.\n\nMore than a million people are estimated to have been detained at camps in the region of Xinjiang.\n\nThe motion approved by MPs does not compel the UK to take action, but is a sign of growing discontent towards the Chinese government in Parliament.\n\nIn response, China said the UK should \"immediately right its wrong moves\".\n\nTory Sir Iain Duncan Smith heralded the vote as \"a historic moment\", bringing the UK Parliament in line with Holland, Canada and the United States.\n\nSir Iain was one of five UK parliamentarians sanctioned by China for spreading what it calls \"lies and disinformation\".\n\nSpeaking in the debate, Nus Ghani - another MP to be targeted by China - said genocide meant intent to \"destroy in whole or in part\" a national, ethnic, racial or religious group.\n\n\"All five criteria of genocide are evidenced as taking place in Xinjiang,\" she said.\n\nMs Ghani said detainees were subject to \"brutal torture methods, including beatings with metal prods, electric shocks and whips\".\n\nShe also said women in the Uyghur region were being fitted with birth control devices, adding: \"The Handmaid's Tale is a fairy tale compared to the reproductive rights of Uighur women.\"\n\n\"This abuse is evidenced by the Chinese government's own data - 2014, over 200,000 birth control devices were inserted in women in Xinjiang. By 2018, this had increased by 60%,\" she said.\n\nIn a statement, the Chinese embassy to the UK said: \"The unwarranted accusation by a handful of British MPs that there is 'genocide' in Xinjiang is the most preposterous lie of the century, an outrageous insult and affront to the Chinese people, and a gross breach of international law and the basic norms governing international relations.\n\nLabour's shadow Foreign Office minister Stephen Kinnock said the party supported the motion arguing that \"genocide can never be met with indifference or inaction\".\n\nThe government opposed the motion arguing that deeming an event to be a genocide was a matter for \"competent national and international courts after consideration of all the available evidence\".\n\nDespite government opposition, the motion passed because ministers did not vote against it.\n\nForeign Office Minister Nigel Adams insisted the UK was \"ramping up pressure\" on Beijing through the United Nations.\n\nEarlier this year, Canada, the European Union, the UK and the US imposed sanctions on Chinese officials in protest at rights abuses in the country.\n\nChina has denied allegations of abuse and argued that the camps are a tool to fight terrorism.", "The funeral included a procession in Kettering, with officers deployed and road blocks put in place, Northamptonshire Police said\n\nAn MP has highlighted \"widespread outrage\" over the failure to prosecute anyone over a funeral allegedly attended by up to 150 mourners.\n\nThe event took place at a church in Kettering, Northamptonshire, during the second lockdown in November.\n\nA man was charged with a breach of Covid rules, but the case was this week dropped due to lack of evidence.\n\nSpeaking in Parliament, Kettering MP Philip Hollobone called it \"a clear and flagrant breach\" of regulations.\n\nThe funeral for 47-year-old Joe Rooney, who had died in a crash, was held at a Catholic church in the town centre on 9 November.\n\nIt was described by Northamptonshire Police at the time as showing a \"blatant disregard\" for the 30-person limit, with officers sent to the funeral procession and road blocks put in place.\n\nPolice said they would issue a £10,000 fine, with Chief Constable Nick Adderley commenting that he sympathised but \"no-one is above the law\".\n\nThe man charged appeared at Northampton Magistrates' Court on Monday.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service said it received the case file that morning and \"after careful review\" could not prosecute for any offence due to a lack of evidence from police.\n\nPhilip Hollobone said families who adhered to Covid rules for funerals had \"encountered much distress\"\n\nSpeaking on Thursday, Mr Hollobone said he had contacted the solicitor general about the incident.\n\n\"There is widespread dismay and outrage across the Kettering constituency that the organiser of a huge Irish traveller funeral held right in the middle of Kettering during the Covid lockdown in November, attended by 150 people in clear and flagrant breach of the pandemic regulations, has not been prosecuted,\" he said.\n\n\"Hundreds of local families who have lost loved ones over the last year have respected the rules and encountered much distress in limiting the number of mourners at funerals.\"\n\nHe then asked: \"Can we have a government statement on the fact that once again, it appears there is one rule for gypsies and travellers, and another for everyone else?\"\n\nLeader of the House Jacob Rees-Mogg said he would forward the comments to the attorney general.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service said: \"There was not enough evidence that the individual charged by the police had been responsible, so the case against him was stopped.\"\n\nNorthamptonshire Police said it regretted not being able to provide adequate evidence\n\nA Northamptonshire Police spokeswoman said: \"We completely respect the CPS's decision and regret that we were unable to provide the evidence required for this case to proceed.\n\n\"So many people have made painful sacrifices throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, including limiting the number of people at loved ones' funerals, therefore it is of deep disappointment to us that on this occasion, we have failed to bring anyone to justice in connection with this breach.\"\n\nAbbie Kirkby, of charity Friends, Families and Travellers, said the notion that the law favoured gypsies and travellers was \"frankly bizarre\".\n\n\"Gypsy and traveller people experience stark inequalities that have been further compounded by the pandemic, despite Mr Hollobone's remark,\" she added.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The first case was a four-month-old Ragdoll kitten (stock photo)\n\nScottish scientists have identified two cases where humans are thought to have passed Covid-19 to their cats.\n\nResearchers at the University of Glasgow said both cats developed the virus after their owners.\n\nThey were of different breeds and lived in separate households. One displayed mild symptoms but the other had to be put down.\n\nScientists now want to improve understanding of whether pets can play a role in infecting humans.\n\nThe cases were found as part of a screening programme of the feline population in the UK.\n\nResearchers believe both pets were infected by their owners, who had Covid-19 symptoms before the cats became unwell.\n\nThe study, published in the Veterinary Record, said there is currently no evidence of cat-to-human transmission or that cats, dogs or other domestic animals play any appreciable role in the epidemiology of human Covid infections.\n\nBut the scientists said domestic animals could potentially act as a \"viral reservoir\" allowing continued transmission, and said it was important to improve understanding of whether pets can play a role in infecting humans.\n\nProf Margaret Hosie, from the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research who was lead author of the study, said: \"These two cases of human-to-animal transmission, found in the feline population in the UK, demonstrate why it is important that we improve our understanding of animal Sars-CoV-2 infection.\n\n\"Currently, animal-to-human transmission represents a relatively low risk to public health in areas where human-to-human transmission remains high.\n\n\"However, as human cases decrease, the prospect of transmission among animals becomes increasingly important as a potential source of Sars-CoV-2 reintroduction to humans.\"\n\nShe added: \"It is therefore important to improve our understanding of whether exposed animals could play any role in transmission.\"\n\nThere have been reports of cats from Covid-positive households in countries including Hong Kong, Belgium, the USA, France and Spain\n\nResearchers at the centre worked in partnership with the Veterinary Diagnostic Service (VDS) at the university's School of Veterinary Medicine on the study.\n\nThe first cat was a four-month-old female Ragdoll kitten from a household in which the owner developed symptoms that were consistent with Covid at the end of March 2020, although they were not tested.\n\nThe kitten was taken to a vet with breathing difficulties in April 2020 but its condition deteriorated and it later had to be put down.\n\nPost-mortem lung samples revealed damage consistent with a viral pneumonia and there was evidence of Sars-CoV-2 infection.\n\nThe second cat was a six-year-old female Siamese from a household where one owner tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nThe cat was taken to the vet with nasal discharge and conjunctivitis, but its symptoms remained mild and the cat later recovered.\n\nCovid-19 infection was confirmed in a retrospective survey of swabs submitted to VDS between March and July 2020 for routine pathogen testing.\n\nScientists believe the two cases are likely to be an underestimate of the true frequency of human-to-animal transmission, as animal testing is limited.\n\nThe study was led from the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research\n\nSince the pandemic began there have been reports of cats from Covid-positive households in countries including Hong Kong, Belgium, the USA, France and Spain that tested positive for the virus and were presumed to be infected from their owners.\n\nProf James Wood, head of the Department of Veterinary Medicine at Cambridge University said: \"These are important and interesting findings, adding to the body of evidence that humans can infect their pets, in some cases, as here, leading to clinical disease in the animals.\n\n\"Cats and dogs have been reported to be infected. This is a high quality study, including whole genome sequencing to confirm transmission links.\"\n\nThe study was funded by the Wellcome ISSF Covid Response Fund and supported by the Medical Research Council.", "The general (left) is in Jakarta for a regional summit that is expected to focus on Myanmar\n\nSouth East Asian leaders have urged the head of the Myanmar army, which took power in a coup in February, to end the violent crackdown in the country.\n\nIn his first known foreign trip since the takeover, General Min Aung Hlaing heard calls for the military to stop killing protesters and to release political prisoners.\n\nMore than 700 people have been killed and thousands detained since the coup.\n\nThe talks in Indonesia were the first big effort to address the crisis.\n\nA statement released after the summit said the leaders and foreign ministers from the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) had reached a consensus on five points.\n\nThey included asking for an immediate stop to the violence and opening a dialogue between the military and civilian leaders, with that process overseen by a special Asean envoy who would also visit with a delegation. The group also offered humanitarian assistance.\n\nThe consensus was welcomed by Myanmar's newly formed National Unity Government (NUG), a group made up of opponents of the coup - including pro-democracy figures, representatives of the armed ethnic groups and former members of civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi's former government.\n\nAfter the meeting, which was held in the Indonesian capital Jakarta, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said the general was \"not opposed\" to a visit by as Asean delegation or humanitarian assistance, adding: \"He said he heard us, he would take the points in which he considered helpful.\"\n\nMalaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin also called for unconditional release of political prisoners. Aung San Suu Kyi remains in detention, as well as anti-coup leaders.\n\n\"The deplorable situation in Myanmar must stop immediately,\" he said.\n\nDemonstrators gathered near the venue of the summit, beating pots and pans and holding signs that read \"Restore democracy\" and \"We stand against the military coup\". Protests were also held in Myanmar's main cities but there were no immediate reports of violence.\n\nAsean leaders have been widely criticised for inviting to their meeting the man responsible for overthrowing the elected government in Myanmar, and for unleashing savage violence on those opposed to his coup.\n\nThey may now argue that it was worth it; that by attending, Min Aung Hlaing has accepted the meeting's concluding statement calling for an end to the violence and the start of dialogue with an opposition movement that enjoys substantial popular support. The general was described by his Indonesian hosts only as the armed forces commander and not the head of a legitimate government.\n\nHowever, an appeal for the release of political prisoners was dropped from the final communique. Much detail remains to be hashed out on how dialogue will happen. But, in his first diplomatic encounter since his disastrous coup, Min Aung Hlaing, until now deaf to appeals for restraint, does appear to have agreed that his regime needs to change course. Asean member states fear that unless this happens, they may have a civil war, or even a failed state, on their doorstep.\n\nProtesters across Myanmar are calling for an end to the coup\n\nThis afternoon people across the commercial capital Yangon banged pots and pans to show their defiance of a military junta that has shocked the world by its brutality. Never before has Asean had to deal with a member state whose government faces such entrenched public hostility. It is a challenge the countries of this region, many of them undemocratic, are ill-equipped to meet.\n\nUnited Nation's Secretary-General António Guterres had called for the Asean summit to resolve the crisis and prevent \"possible grave humanitarian implications beyond Myanmar's borders,\" UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said.\n\nThere have been calls for Myanmar, also known as Burma, to be expelled from Asean but the members historically do not get involved in each other's internal affairs.\n\nThe UN special envoy for Myanmar, Christine Schraner Burgener, is in Jakarta for meetings on the sidelines of the summit.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We are in danger of seeing a civil war\"\n\nMass protests have been taking place across Myanmar since the military seized control and declared a year-long state of emergency.\n\nThe armed forces claim there had been widespread fraud during a general election late last year which had returned elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy party (NLD) to power.\n\nThe military promised instead that it would hold \"free and fair\" elections once the state of emergency is over.\n\nMin Aung Hlaing has medals galore, but little public support\n\nIn the past few weeks, the military has been increasing its use of force against protesters. More than 80 people were killed in one incident in the city of Bago earlier this month.", "Scotland's R number has dropped for the first time in four weeks as some sectors prepare to reopen\n\nScotland's Covid R number has fallen for the first time in four weeks.\n\nThe latest reproduction number estimate is between 0.7 and 0.9, down from the previous four weeks where it remained at between 0.8 and 1.\n\nThe R is the number of people that one infected person will pass on a virus to, on average.\n\nThe data was released by the Scottish government in the latest \"State of the Epidemic\" document, published on on Friday.\n\nThe update also reported that 2.7m people in Scotland - about 61% the adult population - have received the first dose of a Covid-19 vaccination, with more than 949,000 having had their second jab.\n\nHospital admission rates are also falling, with 93 patients in hospital with recently confirmed Covid - the lowest level being treated since late September.\n\nRowland Kao, a professor of epidemiology and data science at Edinburgh University, said Scotland was ready to take the next step as some hospitality, gyms, pools and non-essential shops prepare to reopen on Monday.\n\nHe told BBC Radio Scotland's Drivetime programme: \"Things are definitely heading in the right direction. Everybody knows we couldn't maintain the conditions we had in terms of lockdown forever.\n\n\"The time is good for opening up with hospital being relatively in very good shape with regards to the number of patients and deaths being very low.\"\n\nWhile he said the fall in the R number was encouraging, he warned that infection numbers could increase again as restrictions are relaxed.\n\nProf Kao added: \"It will be two to three weeks before any single measure can show any impact in terms of numbers of cases. To be cautious I would say let's see what happens three, four weeks down the line. Look at if things have changed very much and hopefully any increases in transmission will not be great.\"\n\nThe latest State of the Epidemic in Scotland document highlighted progress in fighting the virus using a variety of measures.\n\nIt reported that an average of 220 cases were reported per day in the seven days to 22 April, which is a 12% decrease in reported cases since the week before.\n\nThere were 28 weekly cases per 100,000 in the week to 19 April, a decrease in the previous week and in contrast to 302 weekly cases per 100,000 in the first week of January. The case number has not been that low since 16 September last year.\n\nScotland's average daily deaths per 100,000 people (0.03) are level with England (0.03), and below Northern Ireland (0.06) and Wales (0.04).\n\nClackmannanshire currently has the highest weekly case rate in Scotland reporting 70 cases per 100,000 in the last week, while Argyll and Bute, Midlothian, East Lothian, Dumfries and Galloway, and Scottish Borders reported fewer than 10 weekly cases per 100,000 in the same period.\n\nThe current UK variant of concern - sometimes known as the \"Kent variant\" - remains the dominant strain in Scotland.\n\nThere have been four cases of the so-called \"India variant\", six cases of a variant first identified in Brazil, 32 cases of the \"South Africa\" variant and 26 cases of a variant first found in Nigeria.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tokyo Olympics: The challenges of training in a Covid pandemic\n\nJapan has announced emergency Covid measures in Tokyo and three other areas in a bid to curb rising infections, just three months before the country is set to host the Olympics.\n\nThe government said the state of emergency - set to last for about two weeks - would be \"short and powerful\".\n\nUnder the measures, bars will be required to close and big sporting events will be held without spectators.\n\nThe government has insisted that the Olympics will go ahead in July.\n\nPrime Minister Yoshihide Suga announced the measures on Friday, saying they would begin on Sunday and remain in place until 11 May. In addition to Tokyo, the prefectures of Osaka, Kyoto and Hyogo will be affected.\n\nIt marks the third state of emergency in Japan since the pandemic began.\n\n\"I sincerely apologise for causing trouble for many people again,\" he said. \"It is feared that contagion in major cities will spread across the whole country if we take no measures.\"\n\nUnder the rules, major commercial facilities like department stores will close, as well as restaurants, bars, and karaoke parlours serving alcohol.\n\nRestaurants that do not serve alcohol are being told to close early, and companies are being asked to make arrangements for people to work remotely. Schools will remain open.\n\nIt is the third time a state of emergency has been declared in Tokyo over the pandemic\n\nThe emergency measures coincide with the country's \"Golden Week\" holiday, which runs from late April to the first week of May and is the busiest travel period of the year.\n\nTokyo Governor Yuriko Koike urged residents to start taking precautions immediately. In an effort to discourage people from going out at night, she said illuminations and neon signs would be turned off.\n\nThe coronavirus toll in Japan has been much lower than in many other countries, with about 558,000 cases and fewer than 10,000 deaths, according to figures collated by Johns Hopkins University.\n\nBut there are concerns over the latest rise in infections, with reports of hospital bed shortages in some areas.\n\nTokyo 2020 president Seiko Hashimoto said at a news conference on Friday that organisers were not considering cancelling the event.\n\n\"I hope the coronavirus situation improves with the countermeasures the government, Tokyo, and other regional governments have put into place,\" she said.\n\n\"We, as Tokyo 2020, continue to wish for the swift return to normalcy and will continue to work closely with the relevant parties to make sure a safe and secure Olympics can happen.\"", "The homes of Frank and Christine Lampard, Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha and Tamara Ecclestone and her husband were broken into in December 2019\n\nAn Italian man has been convicted over his role in a £25m raid on model Tamara Ecclestone's luxury west London home.\n\nIn a series of high-end burglaries in December 2019, watches and jewellery belonging to Mrs Ecclestone, Frank Lampard and the late Leicester City chairman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha were among the items taken.\n\nAlessandro Maltese, 45, from Milan, pleaded guilty at Isleworth Crown Court to conspiracy to burgle.\n\nHe will be sentenced at a later date.\n\nThe raid on Ms Ecclestone's Kensington home is one of the biggest domestic burglaries in English legal history, in terms of the value of items stolen.\n\nMaltese was arrested in Italy under a European Arrest Warrant in September and extradited to the UK the following month.\n\nAssisted in court by an Italian interpreter, he admitted to conspiring to burgle dwellings between 30 November 2019 and 18 December 2019.\n\nProsecutor Timothy Cray QC said Maltese had previously denied the charge in March, but had now changed his plea.\n\nThe home of the former Chelsea manager and England international Mr Lampard was the first to be raided on 1 December.\n\nTamara Ecclestone's Kensington mansion was raided on 13 December 2019 as she flew out for a Christmas family holiday\n\nA diamond watch, cufflinks and a clock worth an estimated £60,000 were taken.\n\nThen on 10 December, a Knightsbridge property belonging to the Srivaddhanaprabha family was targeted.\n\nIt was duty-free billionaire Leicester City owner Mr Srivaddhanaprabha's home before his death in a helicopter crash outside the club's King Power Stadium in October 2018.\n\nThis time, 400,000 euros in cash was taken, as well as expensive watches.\n\nThe final burglary, on the palatial home near Kensington Palace that socialite Ms Ecclestone shares with her husband Jay Rutland, resulted in about £25m worth of valuables being stolen.\n\nMs Ecclestone, the daughter of ex-Formula 1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone, was on a Christmas family holiday in Lapland with Mr Rutland, their daughter and their dog at the time.\n\nJudge Karen Holt remanded Maltese in custody ahead of a sentencing hearing next month.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A man in his 40s died at the scene and a second was flown to hospital\n\nA man has died and another has been seriously hurt after a car was driven into them in a supermarket car park.\n\nPolice were called to Church Street in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, at about 14:15 BST following reports of a fight between a group of men.\n\nOne of the men got into his car and is reported to have driven at two people.\n\nA man in his 40s died at the scene and a second was flown to hospital. The owner of the car, a BMW 1 Series, has been arrested on suspicion of murder.\n\nHe is also being held on suspicion of attempted murder.\n\nA cordon was put in place behind Marks and Spencer and the car park was closed.\n\nA cordon is in place behind Marks and Spencer and the car park is closed\n\nPolice said the dead man's family had been informed and the man who was airlifted to hospital is expected to recover.\n\nDet Ch Insp Dave Springett said: \"We understand that a serious incident like this has caused a lot of concern in the local community and we would like to reassure residents that we are doing everything we can to establish what has happened.\n\n\"From our initial inquiries, it appears that an altercation has taken place, leading to a physical confrontation, which then resulted in one of the group getting into his car and driving at two of the other men.\n\n\"Tragically, this has resulted in the death of one man and left another seriously injured and our thoughts are with their family and friends at this extremely difficult time.\"\n\nAnyone who saw the incident or has any mobile phone or dashcam footage has been asked to contact police.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The print was found at Ness of Brodgar\n\nA fingerprint left on a clay vessel made by a potter 5,000 years ago has been found in Orkney.\n\nThe print was discovered on a surviving fragment of the object at the Ness of Brodgar archaeological site.\n\nArchaeologists have been excavating at the complex of ancient buildings in the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site since 2006.\n\nImaging technology was used to reveal the fingerprint left after the potter pressed a finger into wet clay.\n\nNess of Brodgar is the University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI) Archaeology Institute's flagship excavation site.\n\nThe potter's fingerprint was noted by ceramics specialist Roy Towers, who was examining a sherd - a fragment - of pottery from a huge assemblage of clay pieces recovered from the site - the largest collection of late Neolithic Grooved Ware pottery in the UK.\n\nReflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) was used to confirm the suspected print.\n\nThe print was left by a potter pressing a finger into wet clay\n\nThe process involves multiple photographs being taken of a subject, each with a different controlled light source.\n\nThese are combined using computer software to create a highly detailed model of the object that can be lit from all angles and closely examined on screen.\n\nThe resulting images often reveal surface details not visible during normal examination.\n\nIn this case, RTI work by Jan Blatchford confirmed and recorded the only fingerprint encountered at the Ness of Brodgar.\n\nUHI said ancient fingerprints were not uncommon and research had been carried out into them for a number of years.\n\nArchaeologists hope analysis of the Ness of Brodgar fingerprint will reveal the gender and age of the potter.\n\nExcavation director Nick Card said: \"Working on such a high-status site as the Ness of Brodgar, with its beautiful buildings and stunning range of artefacts, it can be all too easy to forget about the people behind this incredible complex.\n\n\"But this discovery really does bring these people back into focus.\n\n\"Although finding the fingerprint impression won't hugely impact our work, it does give us a highly personal, poignant connection to the people of Neolithic Orkney, 5,000 years ago.\"", "US President Joe Biden will visit the UK in June for his first overseas trip since his election victory last year.\n\nThe president will travel to Cornwall for the G7 summit, which takes place between 11 and 13 June.\n\nFrom there, he will travel to Brussels, in Belgium, to participate in the Nato Summit on 14 June.\n\nPresident Biden's trip will focus on \"restoring our alliances\" and \"revitalising the Transatlantic relationship\", the White House said.\n\nDuring his time in the UK, Mr Biden is due to hold bilateral meetings with fellow G7 leaders, including Prime Minister Boris Johnson.\n\n\"This trip will highlight his commitment to restoring our alliances, revitalising the transatlantic relationship, and working in close cooperation with our allies and multilateral partners to address global challenges and better secure America's interests,\" the president's press secretary said.\n\nThe G7 summit is an opportunity to \"reinforce our commitment to multilateralism, work to advance key US policy priorities on public health, economic recovery, and climate change, and demonstrate solidarity and shared values among major democracies,\" they added.\n\nThe UK, US, Germany, France, Canada, Italy and Japan make up the G7, while leaders from Australia, India, South Korea and the EU will also attend the summit as guests.\n\nIt will be held in Carbis Bay, near St Ives.\n\nThe US president's trip to the UK will be his first to any nation since defeating Donald Trump in November's election.\n\nFollowing his victory, Mr Biden also chose to call the UK prime minister before any other European leader.\n\nDuring that call, the two leaders talked about \"the benefits of a potential free trade deal\" between the UK and the US, with Mr Johnson reiterating his intention \"to resolve existing trade issues as soon as possible\", Downing Street said at the time.\n\nMr Johnson raised the benefits of a UK-US trade deal during a phone call with Mr Biden in January\n\nBoth Mr Johnson and Mr Biden have been taking part in a climate action summit - hosted by the US - this week.\n\nThe US has pledged to cut carbon emissions by 50-52% below 2005 levels by the year 2030.\n\nThis new target, which was unveiled at a virtual summit of 40 global leaders, essentially doubles their previous promise.\n\nEarlier in the week, it was revealed that the UK hopes to cut its own carbon emissions by 78% by 2035.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Friday evening. We'll have another update for you tomorrow morning.\n\nThe first people to arrive in the UK from India since the country was placed on the travel \"red list\" have entered hotel quarantine. In a rule change that kicked in at 04:00 BST this morning, only British and Irish nationals and those with UK residency rights can enter the UK - after first isolating in government-approved hotels for 10 days. India has seen a record surge in infections, which has put pressure on hospital beds and drained medical oxygen supplies, leaving some patients untreated. Some returning British Asians have told the BBC of their trauma of witnessing India's Covid crisis. You can read more here.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Scenes outside a hospital in Delhi, where people are dying without getting the treatment they need\n\nAn MP has said there is \"widespread outrage\" about the failure to prosecute anyone over a funeral allegedly attended by up to 150 mourners during lockdown. The event took place at a church in Kettering, Northamptonshire, in November. At the time, Northamptonshire Police said it showed a \"blatant disregard\" for the 30-person limit, with officers sent to the funeral procession and road blocks put in place. A man was charged with a breach of Covid rules, but the case was this week dropped due to lack of evidence. Kettering MP Philip Hollobone told Parliament the funeral was \"a clear and flagrant breach\" of regulations.\n\nBusiness owners have told the BBC of their \"relief\" after Covid restrictions in Northern Ireland eased today, allowing close-contact services, such as hairdressers, to reopen and driving lessons to resume. Outdoor visitor attractions have also reopened, competitive sports involving 100 people can resume; and static band practice and rehearsals are also permitted in agreed outdoor locations. Meanwhile, people in Wales will be able to have a drink inside a pub or restaurant for the first time in more than five months from 17 May, under a planned relaxation of lockdown rules announced by First Minister Mark Drakeford.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Business owners say they're excited about the long-awaited reopening\n\nIn Scotland, police chiefs have urged people not to breach Covid rules by gathering in large groups in public parks to enjoy the weekend sunshine. It comes after about 400 people were refused entry to Glasgow's Kelvingrove Park last weekend in a crackdown on drinking alcohol in public. Nine of the park's 16 gates will be shut on Friday and Saturday. Police Scotland said it had cleared the busiest areas of the park on two occasions due to a lack of social-distancing and it would do the same this weekend if required.\n\nPolice had to disperse a large crowd which gathered previously in Kelvingrove Park\n\nThe nation's footballs fans could be treated to an extra England match on home soil this summer after news that Wembley has been given another last-16 tie in the Euros 2020 tournament. Dublin had been due to host the knockout match - as well as three group games - but issues over Covid and minimum spectator levels have seen the fixtures handed to other cities - with St Petersburg down to host the group games. The last-16 tie at Wembley will feature the winner of Group D, which includes England, Scotland, Croatia and the Czech Republic. The tournament, delayed a year because of Covid, will take place between 11 June and 11 July.\n\nWembley will host both semi-finals on 6 and 7 July, and the final on 11 July\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.", "Former Manchester United player Ryan Giggs is charged with three offences\n\nWales manager and former Manchester United player Ryan Giggs has been charged with assaulting two women.\n\nHe is accused of causing actual bodily harm to a woman in her 30s and common assault of a woman in her 20s at an address in Salford last November.\n\nMr Giggs, of Worsley, is also charged with coercive or controlling behaviour.\n\nHe has been bailed to appear at Manchester and Salford Magistrates' Court on 28 April.\n\nMr Giggs, 47, said in a statement he would plead not guilty to the charges in court.\n\n\"I have full respect for the due process of law and understand the seriousness of the allegations,\" he said.\n\n\"I look forward to clearing my name.\"\n\nGreater Manchester Police said officers were called at 22:05 GMT on 1 November to reports of a disturbance at an address in Worsley.\n\nThe force said a woman in her 30s was treated for minor injuries at the scene.\n\nMr Giggs is also accused of coercive or controlling behaviour between December 2017 and November 2020.\n\nThe Football Association of Wales (FAW) has confirmed assistant manager Robert Page will take charge of Wales at this summer's European Championships.\n\nThe FAW said there would be a board meeting to \"discuss the developments and its impact on the association and the national team\".\n\nIn his statement, Mr Giggs added: \"I would like to wish Robert Page, the coaching staff, the players and the supporters every success at the Euros this summer.\"\n\nThe former Manchester United winger is one of British football's most-decorated footballers following his 24-year career at Old Trafford and was appointed an OBE in 2007 before winning the BBC's Sports Personality of the Year in 2009.\n\nHe also won 64 caps for Wales between 1991 and 2007 and was appointed national manager in January 2018, leading them to qualification for Euro 2020, which has been re-scheduled because of Covid-19.\n\nHe is also co-owner of League Two side Salford City.", "Last updated on .From the section Arsenal\n\nMore than 1,000 Arsenal supporters gathered outside Emirates Stadium before Friday's game against Everton to protest against owner Stan Kroenke's role in the failed European Super League.\n\nThe Gunners were one of the 12 founding members of the competition before withdrawing on Tuesday.\n\nThe protestors called for Kroenke to leave the club.\n\nFireworks could be heard outside the stadium shortly after kick-off.\n\nShortly afterwards the crowds started to disperse.\n\nThe protests follows similar ones by Chelsea fans on Tuesday.\n\nBillionaire businessman Daniel Ek, the co-founder and chief executive of Spotify, tweeted on Friday night that he would be interested in buying Arsenal.\n\nAround 1,000 Blues supporters had gathered outside Chelsea's Stamford Bridge ground before their game against Brighton to protest at their club's involvement.\n\nArsenal apologised in an open letter to their fans following their withdrawal from the Super League and said they had \"made a mistake\", adding they were withdrawing after listening to them and the \"wider football community\".\n\nThe Gunners board said they did not intend to \"cause such distress\" and that they joined the Super League because they \"did not want to be left behind\" and wanted to ensure the club's future.\n\n\"Our aim is always to make the right decisions for this great football club, to protect it for the future and to take us forward,\" they added.\n\n\"We didn't make the right decision here, which we fully accept.\"\n\nAmerican businessman Kroenke was appointed to the Arsenal board of directors in 2008 and became the majority shareholder of the club in 2011.\n• None The rocky story of Derry City is streaming now\n• None Stephen Lawrence's story and the lessons still being learnt", "\"The risk... is that we lose control of the standards that shape our technology,\" Mr Fleming said\n\nThe West is faced with a \"moment of reckoning\" when it comes to technology and security, the head of intelligence agency GCHQ has told the BBC.\n\nJeremy Fleming said there was a risk that key technologies on which we rely will no longer be shaped by the West.\n\n\"We have to keep evolving our approach if we're going to keep up,\" he said of the growing challenge from China.\n\nSo-called smart cities, which will collect large amounts of data, are just one example, he added.\n\n\"The risk is that the technology is implemented in a way in which we can't assure its security,\" he warned.\n\nThe UK is a \"big beast\" when it comes to technology but \"we can't take that for granted\", the GCHQ director warned, saying this was a moment when we had to decide if we were going to continue to evolve and compete with our adversaries.\n\nMr Fleming was speaking ahead of giving this year's Vincent Briscoe Annual Security Lecture at Imperial College, and in the wake of the Integrated Review, which placed science and technology at the centre of future security and defence policy.\n\nThe challenge from China is uppermost in the minds of intelligence chiefs across Western countries, particularly when it comes to technology.\n\n\"The risk, as I see it today, is that we lose control of the standards that shape our technology environment,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"The things that make sure that our liberal Western democratic views are baked into our technology.\"\n\nMr Fleming said there were lessons to be learnt from the debate over the role of Chinese company Huawei in building a new 5G telecoms system. It was initially given a role in the UK, before being excluded following US sanctions.\n\nBut there were concerns that there were few other companies actually able to supply the latest technology.\n\n\"The conversation about 5G was really lost a decade ago, when Western nations decided that they weren't going to invest in the underpinning infrastructures... and the result was we just didn't have the choices,\" he said.\n\nThe imperative was to make sure in the future the UK took the kind of long-range decisions need to ensure it has choice - so there would not be the same concerns over dependency, he said.\n\nThat need to look forward prompted a focus on smart cities.\n\nThese involve a vast number of sensors and cameras built into a city's infrastructure - controlling everything from traffic to utilities such as water and power.\n\nBut it also means vast amounts of data will be collected about people's movement and activity.\n\nDone in the right way, the GCHQ chief argues this presents a \"fantastic opportunity\" to increase efficiency and improve services.\n\nBut he warned it also carries risks around privacy and anonymity.\n\n\"If we don't control the technology, if we don't understand the security required to implement those effectively, then we'll end up with an environment or technology ecosystem where the data is not only used to navigate, but it could be used to track us\".\n\nChina is a leading supplier of smart city technology, with councils in the UK already purchasing cameras from its companies.\n\nMr Fleming said it was vital to ensure all the technologies were not from one place and to understand how data was being processed.\n\nThere were only a relatively small number of areas where the UK would need to completely control a technology, he said, and more broadly working with allies would be essential to shape international standards and to defend itself in cyberspace.\n\nAt home, the UK has to invest in skills and innovation.\n\nThe UK should not be \"fatalistic\", he said, and had a \"very strong track record\" of meeting technology challenges.", "The homes of Frank and Christine Lampard, Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha and Tamara Ecclestone and her husband were broken into in December 2019\n\nAn Italian man has been convicted over his role in one of the biggest domestic burglaries in English legal history.\n\nWatches and jewellery belonging to Frank Lampard, Tamara Ecclestone and the late Leicester City chairman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha were among the items taken during a series of burglaries in December 2019.\n\nAlessandro Donati, 43, from Milan, pleaded guilty at Isleworth Crown Court to conspiracy to burgle.\n\nHe will be sentenced at a later date.\n\nDonati was arrested in Italy under a European Arrest Warrant in October and extradited to the UK the following month.\n\nWith the assistance of an Italian interpreter, he admitted to conspiring to burgle dwellings between 30 November 2019 and 18 December 2019.\n\nThe home of the former Chelsea manager and England international Mr Lampard was the first to be raided on 1 December.\n\nTamara Ecclestone's Kensington mansion was raided on 13 December 2019 as she flew out for a Christmas family holiday\n\nA diamond watch, cufflinks and a clock worth an estimated £60,000 were taken.\n\nThen on 10 December, a Knightsbridge property belonging to the Srivaddhanaprabha family was targeted.\n\nIt was duty free billionaire Leicester City owner Mr Srivaddhanaprabha's home before his death in a helicopter crash outside the King Power Stadium in October 2018.\n\nThis time, 400,000 euros in cash was taken, as well as expensive watches.\n\nThe final burglary, on the palatial home near Kensington Palace that socialite Ms Ecclestone shares with her husband Jay Rutland, saw about £25m worth of valuables stolen.\n\nMs Ecclestone, the daughter of ex-Formula 1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone, was on a Christmas family holiday in Lapland with Mr Rutland, their daughter and their dog at the time.\n\nJudge Martin Edmunds QC remanded Donati in custody ahead of a sentencing date yet to be fixed.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Patients were evacuated from the hospital on Friday morning after the blaze was put out\n\nAt least 13 patients have died after a fire broke out in the intensive care unit of an Indian hospital treating Covid patients near Mumbai.\n\nThe blaze, which took place early on Friday, was extinguished and four survivors have been moved to nearby hospitals, said authorities.\n\nThe incident comes amid a deadly second wave of infections in India.\n\nThe spike has overwhelmed hospitals, creating a critical shortage of oxygen, intensive care beds and ventilators.\n\nOn Friday India recorded 332,730 coronavirus cases, the highest one-day tally anywhere in the world for the second day in a row. Daily deaths from Covid-19 rose by a record 2,263 in the previous 24 hours.\n\nThe fire happened at the Vijay Vallabh hospital in the Virar area of the western state of Maharashtra, which is about 70km (43 miles) north of Mumbai.\n\nIt remains unclear how the blaze started, and Maharashtra's chief minister has ordered an inquiry.\n\nPrime Minister Narendra Modi has offered condolences on Twitter calling the incident \"tragic\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by PMO India This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 rising number of cases has resulted in a deepening healthcare crisis that has gripped several states. Mr Modi is due to hold meetings with chief ministers of the most affected states and oxygen manufacturers on Friday.\n\nIndia's top court has asked the central government for a national plan by Friday, on bolstering supply, oxygen, medicine, treatment and vaccines.\n\nAt least two hospitals in the Indian capital of Delhi are running out of oxygen\n\nThe Supreme Court called the situation a \"national health emergency\" - six high courts across the country are hearing petitions involving medical shortages.\n\nMaharashtra is the worst hit state in the country in terms of cases and faces an oxygen shortfall.\n\nTwo days earlier, 24 Covid patients died in another part of Maharashtra after they lost oxygen flow to their ventilators. A leak interrupted supply as a storage tank was being refilled at the Zakir Hussain hospital in Nashik city.\n\nIn recent days, several other hospitals in Delhi said they had either run out of oxygen or supplies were dwindling rapidly.\n\nA number of people have died while waiting for oxygen, and the majority of intensive care beds in Delhi hospitals are full.\n\nMax Healthcare, which runs 10 private hospitals in the Delhi area, said it had waited more than seven hours for oxygen supplies at two facilities.\n\nThree other Indian states - Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, and Haryana - are also facing a critical shortage of oxygen, while others are seeing depleting supplies.\n\nMedical-grade oxygen is purified and compressed until it is liquid and then delivered to hospital in tankers. The oxygen is then pumped around the hospital in pipes to assist patients whose blood oxygen levels are low.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Scenes outside a hospital in Delhi, where people are dying without getting the treatment they need\n\nMeanwhile a travel ban has taken effect in the UK for visitors from India. British and Irish citizens will still be allowed entry but will have to stay in a government appointed quarantine hotel for 10 days.\n\nCanada and the United Arab Emirates have suspended passenger flights for 30 days and Singapore has tightened restrictions on travellers from India.\n\nAre you affected by Covid-19 in India? Please share 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.", "Four former postmasters from Wales are among 39 to have their convictions for stealing money quashed at the Royal Courts of Justice.\n\nNoel Thomas, Damian Peter Owen, Pamela Lock and Lorraine Williams were among hundreds convicted after a fault with the Post Office's Horizon computer system led to huge discrepancies in the accounts of several post offices.\n\nMr Thomas from Gaerwen, Anglesey, was jailed for nine months in 2006 for false accounting after £48,000 went missing from his accounts.\n\n\"It's been 16 years and it's not been easy. But you find out who your friends are,\" he said after hearing the news.", "Renzo slipped out of his bath seat and drowned in 13cm of water as his mother used her phone\n\nA mother whose baby son drowned in the bath while she was \"distracted\" on her phone has been jailed for 22 months.\n\nSimone Perry's five-month-old son Renzo slipped out of his bath seat when she left the room for five minutes to send a WhatsApp message and make a call.\n\nHer trial had heard she assumed he would be safe. He slipped into 13cm of water and drowned on 27 January 2019.\n\nPerry, 27, was convicted of gross negligence manslaughter by a jury at Northampton Crown Court in March.\n\nPassing sentence at the same court, Judge Adrienne Lucking QC told Perry: \"On discovering Renzo, you immediately called the emergency services and tried to resuscitate Renzo.\n\n\"When the paramedics arrived you told them that you had left your baby for about four minutes... and it was your fault.\"\n\nPerry later told doctors what had happened but \"omitted to tell them about using the phone\", said the judge.\n\n\"I am sure that was because you knew you had allowed yourself to be avoidably distracted,\" she added.\n\nThe court heard Perry initially denied using a phone in a police interview - a lie the judge said was a deliberate attempt to mislead the investigation.\n\nJudge Lucking added: \"I am satisfied that you remain in denial of your responsibility for your son's death and your lies were in part a reflection of the fact that you have not yet accepted that you are responsible for the death of your baby.\n\n\"This is an extremely serious offence resulting in the death of a baby and the consequences were completely avoidable.\n\n\"In my judgement, tragic though your situation is, I would be failing in my public duty if I did not impose an immediate custodial sentence.\n\n\"Babies and young children are at serious risk of death or grave injury if left unsupervised in a bath, and even more so if their carer is avoidably distracted.\"\n\nPerry's barrister said she felt remorse and would have to live with Renzo's death for the rest of her life\n\nPerry's barrister David Nathan QC had argued for a non-custodial sentence, saying his client's \"lapse\" had occurred amid an otherwise satisfactory standard of care.\n\n\"Plainly this is a young woman with significant problems identified in the psychologist's report,\" said Mr Nathan.\n\n\"In a sense she is the victim in this case. I appreciate she caused this child's death but she will live with this for the rest of her life.\n\n\"You know this is not a callous young woman. This is someone who cares very deeply what happened... a woman who feels remorse for what happened to her child.\n\n\"She will bear the loss as much as anybody else in the years to come.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sarah Voss said she hoped other gymnasts would follow the team's example\n\nShe did not break any rules, but Sarah Voss's full-body suit this week at the European Artistic Gymnastics Championships defied convention.\n\nUntil now women and girls have only covered their legs in international competition for religious reasons.\n\nVoss, from Germany, said she was proud of her decision and she was supported by her country's gymnastics federation.\n\nTwo team-mates then did the same on Friday, wearing full-body suits during the women's all-around final.\n\nThe German federation (DTB) said its gymnasts performing in the Swiss city of Basel were taking a stand against \"sexualisation in gymnastics\", adding that the issue had become all the more important to prevent sexual abuse.\n\n\"We hope gymnasts uncomfortable in the usual outfits will feel emboldened to follow our example,\" said Voss.\n\nKim Bui took to the beam in a full-body suit two days after Sarah Voss had done so in Basel\n\nKim Bui had initially performed in a conventional leotard on Wednesday but said they had wanted to set an example as a team. Elisabeth Seitz said earlier that it was one less thing to worry about, as there was no risk of revealing anything by accident.\n\nVoss explained her decision in an interview with public broadcaster ZDF: \"We women all want to feel good in our skin. In the sport of gymnastics it gets harder and harder as you grow out of your child's body. As a little girl I didn't see the tight gym outfits as such a big deal. But when puberty began, when my period came, I began feeling increasingly uncomfortable.\"\n\nThe German federation said sport and gymnastics should be fields where female athletes felt comfortable in their clothing at all times.\n\nIn a message posted on Instagram on Thursday, Voss described the decision as a project \"close to the hearts of our team\". Her performance on the beam had not gone as well as she had hoped, she said, but her message won widespread praise. \"Feeling good and still looking elegant? Why not?\" she wrote.\n\nUnder the rules of the international gymnastics federation (FIG) competitors are allowed to wear a \"one-piece leotard with full-length legs - hip to ankle\", provided it is of elegant design.\n\nSeitz said everyone trained in full-body outfits and then at one point asked themselves why they should not do the same in competition.\n\nDutch Gymnastics has also praised the move. A spokesman told public broadcaster NOS that judges had often deducted points when a competitor had tried to make her leotard more comfortable during their performance.\n\nElizabeth Seitz came fifth on Friday in the women's all-around final\n\nVoss said that while she had never herself been abused, she and her colleagues were role models for younger athletes and wanted to encourage everyone to stand up for themselves.\n\nUS gymnast Simone Biles, who has said she was sexually abused by jailed sports doctor Larry Nassar, said last week that one reason she was competing at the Tokyo Olympics this year was to speak out and give survivors of abuse a voice.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Simone Biles speaks in 2018 about why sharing the abuse story will encourage others to come forward", "The surgical-style mask that may now be ditched in favour of higher grade masks\n\nHealthcare workers have welcomed a change in scientific advice on how to protect them from coronavirus.\n\nA document by the government's scientific advisory group (Sage) says higher grade masks may be needed when caring for Covid patients.\n\nCurrent guidance says that thinner surgical masks are adequate, outside of intensive care units.\n\nThe Department of Health said guidance \"is kept under constant review\" and protecting NHS staff was a priority.\n\nSome doctors described it as a \"crack of light\" after more than a year of campaigning for improvements.\n\nA long list of healthcare unions and professional bodies has been making increasingly desperate appeals for what are called FFP3 respirators.\n\nThese are designed to filter out infectious aerosols that may be lingering in the air, particularly in close proximity to patients.\n\nGrowing evidence of the risks of airborne transmission has led the government to emphasise the importance of ventilation - with the words \"fresh air\" now added to the public messaging.\n\nAnd now a technical document released by Sage concludes that healthcare workers may need higher standards of respiratory protective equipment (RPE).\n\nIt says that where there's \"an unacceptable risk of transmission\", and other measures have already been applied, \"it may be necessary to consider the extended use of appropriate RPE (such as FFP3 masks)\".\n\nDr Matt Butler, a consultant in geriatrics in Cambridge, said: \"This is huge, it's the first time they've acknowledged this, it's a crack of light.\"\n\nHe has long argued that surgical masks don't offer enough protection against aerosols, and that FFP3 masks should instead be issued to all medics caring for confirmed or suspected Covid patients.\n\nAs the guidance stands, they are only worn in intensive care units or where certain \"aerosol generating procedures\" are carried out.\n\nThe new scientific assessment has yet to be adopted by the authorities in charge of the rules on PPE.\n\nBut Dr Butler hopes that will follow, and that the lull in the numbers being admitted to hospital will allow stocks of the devices to be built up and for staff to be fitted for them.\n\n\"We've got a bit of reprieve until the next wave or peak, so now's the time to get ready,\" he said.\n\nAt least 23 hospital trusts have broken with the official guidelines by giving the Covid-facing staff FFP3 masks.\n\nDr Eilir Hughes, a GP in north Wales who helped to set up the FreshAirNHS campaign group, says the shift in scientific advice marks a significant moment.\n\n\"It feels like a door that was locked has now been opened, at least slightly, and it sounds like the science on airborne transmission is starting to be recognised.\"\n\nThe Sage document points out that FFP3 masks are \"intrusive and can be uncomfortable to wear\".\n\nAnd it warns that they need to be properly worn and can give a false sense of security, with a risk of self-contamination as staff touch them or remove them.\n\nThis follows multiple official reviews which have concluded that there is no need to change policy on PPE.\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing's professional lead for infection prevention and control, Rose Gallagher, said: \"This is a step in the right direction.\n\n\"What we need is for the UK's infection prevention and control guidance to reflect this change, so that health and care organisations feel confident they can apply it in line with local circumstances and risks.\n\n\"We have heard many reports from our members that their employers do not feel able to deviate from the letter of national guidance for fear of being criticised.\n\n\"We hope that this change will empower to them to find local solutions that offer a greater level of protection to nurses, midwives and patients.\"\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: \"The safety of NHS and social care staff has always been our top priority and we continue to work round the clock to deliver PPE that helps protect those on the frontline.\n\n\"Guidance on the appropriate levels and standards of PPE is written by experts and agreed by all four UK chief medical officers.\n\n\"Our guidance is kept under constant review based on the latest evidence.\"", "A malaria vaccine has proved to be 77% effective in early trials and could be a major breakthrough against the disease, says the University of Oxford team behind it.\n\nMalaria kills more than 400,000 people a year, mostly children in sub-Saharan Africa.\n\nBut despite many vaccines being trialled over the years, this is the first to meet the required target.\n\nThe researchers say this vaccine could have a major public health impact.\n\nWhen trialled in 450 children in Burkina Faso, the vaccine was found to be safe, and showed \"high-level efficacy\" over 12 months of follow-up.\n\nLarger trials in nearly 5,000 children between the ages of five months and three years will now be carried out across four African countries to confirm the findings.\n\nMalaria is a life-threatening disease caused by parasites that are transmitted to people through mosquito bites. Although preventable and curable, the World Health Organization estimates there were 229 million cases worldwide in 2019 and 409,000 deaths.\n\nThe illness starts with symptoms such as fever, headaches and chills and, without treatment, can progress quickly to severe illness and often death.\n\nStudy author Adrian Hill, director of the Jenner Institute and professor of vaccinology at the University of Oxford, said he believed the vaccine was the first to reach the World Health Organization's goal of at least 75% efficacy.\n\nThe most effective malaria vaccine to date had only shown 55% efficacy in trials on African children.\n\nVaccines against malaria have been rolled out before, such as this one in Ghana\n\nThe trials of this malaria vaccine started in 2019, long before coronavirus appeared - and the Oxford team developed its Covid vaccine (with AstraZeneca) on the strength of its research into malaria, Prof Hill said.\n\nA malaria vaccine has taken much longer to come to fruition because there are thousands of genes in malaria compared to around a dozen in coronavirus, and a very high immune response is needed to fight off the disease.\n\n\"That's a real technical challenge,\" Prof Hill said. \"The vast majority of vaccines haven't worked because it's very difficult.\"\n\nHowever, he said the trial results meant the vaccine was \"very deployable\" and \"has the potential to have a major public health impact\".\n\nIn a pre-print study with The Lancet, the research team - from Oxford, Nanoro in Burkina Faso and the US - reported the trial results of R21/Matrix-M, after testing a low and high dose of the vaccine in children, between May and August, before peak malaria season.\n\nThe vaccine showed 77% efficacy in the higher-dose group and 71% in the lower-dose group.\n\nHalidou Tinto, professor in parasitology and the principal trial investigator at the Clinical Research Unit of Nanoro, Burkina Faso, said the results were \"very exciting\" and showed \"unprecedented efficacy levels\".\n\n\"We look forward to the upcoming 'phase III' trial to demonstrate large-scale safety and efficacy data for a vaccine that is greatly needed in this region.\"\n\nIn Africa, there have been more deaths from malaria than from coronavirus in the past year.\n\nThe Serum Institute of India, which has manufactured the vaccine, says it is confident of delivering more than 200 million doses of the vaccine as soon as it is approved by regulators.\n\nBiotechnology company Novavax provided the adjuvant for the vaccine, an ingredient which is used to create a stronger immune response.\n\nMalaria is one of the leading causes of childhood mortality in Africa and Prof Charlemagne Ouédraogo, minister of health in Burkina Faso, said the new data showed that a new malaria vaccine could be licensed \"in the coming years\".\n\n\"That would be an extremely important new tool for controlling malaria and saving many lives,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The recommendation is to sniff familiar items like garlic, oranges and mint twice a day for several months\n\nResearchers are calling for people struggling to regain their sense of smell after falling ill with Covid-19 to undergo \"smell training\" rather than being treated with steroids.\n\nThis is a process that involves sniffing different odours over a period of months to retrain the brain to recognise different smells.\n\nA group of international experts say smell training is cheap and simple.\n\nAnd unlike steroids, it is free from potential side effects.\n\nA loss of smell is one of the main symptoms of a coronavirus infection, along with a fever and a persistent cough.\n\nIn most cases, loss of smell will return relatively quickly after the illness has passed.\n\nBut around one in five people report they are still having problems eight weeks after falling ill.\n\nOne treatment that has been prescribed by doctors is a course of drugs known as corticosteroids, which lower inflammation in the body and are already used to treat conditions such as asthma.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"The public toilets smell nice\" - Tim Muffett speaks to three women struggling with changing tastes and smells\n\nBut Prof Carl Philpott, from the University of East Anglia's Norwich Medical School, who was part of the team reviewing current evidence, said there was very little to suggest that corticosteroids would help with smell loss.\n\n\"And because they have well-known potential adverse side effects, our advice is that they should not be prescribed as a treatment for post-viral smell loss,\" he said.\n\n\"Luckily most people who experience smell loss as a result of Covid-19 will regain their sense of smell spontaneously.\"\n\nThe steroids' side effects include fluid retention, high blood pressure, and problems with mood swings and behaviour.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Laura Wood still cannot smell or taste, two months on\n\nInstead, in a paper published in the journal International Forum of Allergy & Rhinology, the researchers suggest \"smell training\".\n\nThis involves sniffing four things that have a distinctive, easily identifiable and familiar smell - for example, oranges, mint, garlic or coffee - twice a day for several months.\n\nProf Philpott said research shows that 90% of people fully recover their sense of smell after six months.\n\nIf it doesn't return, he says \"smell training\" helps to retrain the brain's smell pathways to recognise different odours.\n\n\"It aims to help recovery based on neuroplasticity - the brain's ability to reorganise itself to compensate for a change or injury,\" he said.", "Carey Mulligan on screen at the Independent Spirit Awards (left) and Helen McCrory\n\nCarey Mulligan has dedicated an acting award to Helen McCrory, calling the late Peaky Blinders star a \"true independent spirit\".\n\nMulligan won best female lead at Thursday's Independent Spirit Awards - the last film ceremony before the Oscars - for portraying a friend seeking revenge in Promising Young Woman.\n\nShe said McCrory was \"an actress that I have looked up to and will continue to look up to for the rest of my career\".\n\nMulligan added: \"Thank you to her for everything she gave us.\"\n\nFrances McDormand stars in Nomadland, which is among the Oscars frontrunners\n\nThe awards, which recognise films made for less than $22.5m (£16.2m), also saw The Crown and Call the Midwife actress Emerald Fennell win best screenplay for Promising Young Woman, which she also directed.\n\nThe top prize for best feature went to Nomadland, about people living in their vans in the American West, which is tipped to win best picture at the Oscars on Sunday.\n\nNomadland's Chloe Zhao also won the Independent Spirit awards for best director and best editing, and the film won best cinematography.\n\nRiz Ahmed was named best male lead for Sound of Metal, for playing a US heavy metal drummer who is going deaf. His co-star Paul Raci won best supporting male, and the film's director and producers won best first feature.\n\nVeteran South Korean actress Yuh-Jung Youn won best supporting female for playing a grandmother in Minari, a drama about a family who move from California to Arkansas in the 1980s.\n\nMichaela Coel stars in, wrote and co-directed I May Destroy You\n\nIn the TV categories, Britain's Michaela Coel picked up the prize for best new scripted series for I May Destroy You, the acclaimed drama she created and starred in.\n\nThe show, about protagonist Arabella trying to piece her life back together after being sexually assaulted on a night out, also won best ensemble cast.\n\nUnorthodox, a drama about a young ultra-Orthodox Jewish woman who flees her arranged marriage and religious community to start a new life abroad, also won two awards.\n\nShira Haas won best female performance in a scripted series, while Amit Rahav took the award in the male category.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A text-message scam that infects Android phones is spreading across the UK, experts have warned.\n\nThe message - which pretends to be from a package delivery firm, prompts users to install a tracking app - but is actually a malicious piece of spyware.\n\nCalled Flubot, it can take over devices and spy on phones to gather sensitive data, including online banking details.\n\nNetwork operator Vodafone said millions of the text messages were already being sent, across all networks.\n\n\"We believe this current wave of Flubot malware SMS attacks will gain serious traction very quickly, and it's something that needs awareness to stop the spread,\" a spokesman said.\n\nCustomers should \"be especially vigilant with this particular piece of malware\", he said, and be very careful about clicking on any links in a text message.\n\nOther networks, including EE and Three, followed with warnings of their own.\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 National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) later issued guidance about the threat, including advice on what to do if you have already downloaded the attacker's application by mistake.\n\n\"If users have clicked a malicious link it's important not to panic - there are actionable steps they can take to protect their devices and their accounts,\" the NCSC said in a statement.\n\nThe malware also has the ability to send more text messages to an infected user's contacts, helping it spread.\n\n\"The seriousness of these malicious text messages is underlined by Vodafone making the decision to alert its customers,\" said Ben Wood, chief analyst at CCS Insight.\n\n\"This has the potential to become a denial-of-service attack on mobile networks, given the clear risk that a rogue application can be installed on users' smartphones and start spewing out endless text messages.\n\n\"The broader risk for users is a loss of highly sensitive personal data from their phones,\" he added.\n\nWhile text message scams claiming to be about a package delivery firm are common, they have mostly focused on phishing - trying to trick the user into filling in a form with bank details and other information.\n\nThis newest wave differs because it tries to install malicious software on the phone itself - and because of the scale of its spread.\n\nOne version of the scam reported online pretends to be a text message from DHL, with a link to a website for parcel tracking.\n\nIf someone using an Android phone clicks on the link, they will be taken to a page \"explaining\" how to install the parcel tracking app using something called an APK.\n\nAPK files are a way of installing Android apps outside of the secure Google Play store. By default, such applications will be blocked for security reasons, but the scam page includes instructions on how to allow the installation.\n\nThat can be confusing, as there are some niche genuine cases for installing those kind of apps - such as downloading the Fortnite video game, which was removed from the official app store amid a major legal row between its owner and Google.\n\nApple iPhone users are not affected as those phones cannot install Android APKs.\n\nIn a blog post detailing the scam, security researcher Paul Morrison wrote that he expects the \"success rate would be low\" due to the hurdles involved.\n\nBut he said: \"With the number of SMS being sent out, just a 0.1% success rate could be very profitable.\"\n\nThe Flubot malware has also spread in other countries in recent months - notably Spain, Germany and Poland.\n\nKate Bevan, computing editor at consumer magazine Which? said people have to be \"wary\" of texts.\n\n\"If you're not sure, contact the delivery company's official customer service helpline,\" she said.\n\n\"As ever, it's important to make sure that your mobile phone is up to date with security patches. Consider also installing mobile security software from a trusted brand.\"\n\nIndustry body Mobile UK said users who receive a suspicious message should forward it to 7726 to report it, a spokesman said - and then delete the message.", "The first people to arrive in the UK from India since the country was placed on the travel \"red list\" have entered hotel quarantine.\n\nBritish and Irish nationals and those with residency rights must isolate in approved accommodation for 10 days after rules changed overnight.\n\nIndia has seen a second wave of infections, with shortages of medical oxygen leaving some patients untreated.\n\nSome British Asians have spoken of the trauma of witnessing India's surge.\n\nMeeta Joshi, from Guildford, Surrey, described how she has lost nine close relatives and friends in India in the past week - four due to Covid.\n\n\"One was an aunt I have known since I was born… I was in communication with her regularly through mobile calls,\" she said.\n\n\"Life is so fragile and there is no guarantee. Until February, everything was looking fine in India.\"\n\nMeeta Joshi is coping with the loss of nine close relatives or friends in the past week - four of whom died with Covid\n\nAshree Singh described \"a state of mental agony\" as relatives and friends sent worsening updates from the country on messaging apps.\n\nThe NHS worker who lives in London said she had a \"feeling of worthlessness and helplessness when you're seeing your family, relatives and friends suffering and dying\".\n\nOn Friday, India reported 332,730 new cases of coronavirus, setting a world record for a second day running. Deaths were numbered at 2,263 in 24 hours as crematoriums organise mass funeral pyres.\n\nAshree Singh is working for the NHS in London but is receiving concerning updates from relatives in India\n\nPassengers from one of the first scheduled commercial flights to land in the UK from India since the red list changed were seen being escorted to government-approved hotels at London's Heathrow Airport on Friday afternoon.\n\nTV chef Romy Gill returned from India before the travel rules changed on Thursday and is isolating in a hotel in Bristol. She praised the UK government's handling of the rules for those returning from the country.\n\n\"I was in India last November and what has been done now is completely different,\" she said. \"I think the [UK] government is doing what they should have done ages ago.\"\n\nBut some have spoken of their struggle to leave India amid restrictions on travel and widespread flight cancellations.\n\nMukti Mulligan, from London but currently in Goa, told BBC Asian Network's Big Debate he lost out on tickets to return to the UK because his mandatory Covid test did not return within the time limit.\n\nMukti Mulligan is visiting Goa and has described how Covid appears to affect \"pretty much everyone\" in India\n\nHe said the situation in India was \"very worrying\" - though Goa seemed calmer than elsewhere - and he expressed surprise at how visible Covid was among his friends in their 20s and 30s.\n\n\"Even now a number of my friends are isolating, stuck in bed, most of them are not tested,\" he said. \"Almost certainly a vast majority have got Covid.\n\n\"We're talking about under 40s, mostly in their 20s and 30s. Pretty much everyone is affected in some way or another.\"\n\nDeepa Bajaj, an IT consultant living in London, travelled back to India in early March to visit her elderly parents in Mumbai.\n\nWhen the red list change was announced, she secured a seat on a return flight back to the UK - but her mandatory pre-departure Covid tests returned positive results.\n\nDeepa Bajaj is isolating at a relative's home in India after her pre-departure Covid tests came back positive\n\n\"It was a bit shocking because I had no symptoms, I was being super careful, I don't even remember having gone out for the past five or six days,\" she told Asian Network.\n\nThe 53-year-old is now experiencing Covid symptoms including a sore throat and fever but hopes to return to the UK once her she recovers from the virus.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the UK stands \"ready to support our friends in India with whatever we can\".\n\n\"We are actively engaged with how we can support from where we are,\" he said.\n\nFriday's travel rule change means direct flights from India are still permitted, but UK and Irish nationals, as well as those with residency rights, must isolate in government-approved hotels - at their own cost - for 10 days.\n\nTravel to the UK is banned for all others who have been in red list countries in the past 10 days.\n\nThere are 40 countries on the government's red list across the Middle East, Africa, Asia and South America. Countries can be added to the list with just a few hours' notice.\n\nThere are specific rules for people arriving in each UK nation, including England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales.\n\nPublic Health England (PHE) confirmed on Thursday that a further 55 cases of the virus variant first identified in India - known as B.1.617 - were found in the UK in the latest week to 14 April.\n\nPHE experts are currently unsure whether any of the mutations mean the variant can be transmitted more easily, is more deadly or can evade the effectiveness of vaccines or natural immunity.\n\nMeanwhile, scientific advisers to the UK government are increasingly optimistic that Covid restrictions will continue to lift in line with the roadmap in England - with hints this could include ditching the requirement for face coverings in many indoor settings during the summer.\n\nBut there is an expectation that some of the precautions such as masks and social distancing, if eased over the summer, may have to be brought back in the autumn to prevent further surges of cases.\n\nThe latest R number range for England was estimated to be 0.8 to 1.0, with a growth rate indicating the number of new infections is shrinking by between 1% and 5% every day.\n\nThe UK reported a further 2,678 coronavirus cases on Friday. Another 40 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were recorded, a slight rise on recent days.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues in this story? Please share 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.", "The musician was known for his slick productions and comical alter-egos\n\nShock G, the frontman of pioneering hip-hop group Digital Underground and co-producer of 2Pac's debut album, has died at the age of 57.\n\nBorn Gregory Jacobs, he was known for his witty lyrics and comical alter-egos, but also played a crucial role in introducing 1970s funk to 90s hip-hop.\n\nHis biggest hit was The Humpty Dance, a feel-good party anthem based on his goofy character, Humpty Hump.\n\nChuck D, Snoop Dogg and Busta Rhymes have all paid tribute to the star.\n\n\"What a tough loss at such a precarious time,\" wrote Public Enemy's Chuck D on Twitter. \"Brilliant beyond... such a beautiful free mind, Brother. #RestinBeats my man.\"\n\nSnoop Dogg, whose early hits were inspired by Digital Underground, simply posted a photo of Humpty Hump's jewel-encrusted Groucho Marx glasses.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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Long live shock G Aka Humpty Hump and Rest In Peace my Brotha Greg Jacobs!!!\"\n\nDigital Underground's security manager, Nzazi Malonga, told the Associated Press that Jacobs, who had struggled with drug addiction, had been found unresponsive in a hotel room in Tampa, Florida.\n\nThe star's family later issued a statement saying the musician \"suddenly passed away\" on Thursday.\n\n\"The cause of death is currently unknown,\" they added. \"We truly, truly appreciate all the out-pouring of love and concern. Please keep us in your prayers at this very difficult time.\"\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 Tommy Boy This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nBorn in Brooklyn, New York, Jacobs dropped out of high school in the late 1970s and had a brief career as a radio DJ, before finishing his degree and going to college to study music.\n\nAfter relocating to San Francisco's Bay Area in the 1980s, he started working in a local music shop - which was where he met Chopmaster J and formed Digital Underground.\n\nInfluenced by free-thinking musicians like George Clinton, Jimi Hendrix and Herbie Hancock, the band's approach was playful and experimental - making them something of an anomaly during the ascendance of groups like Public Enemy and NWA.\n\n\"Sometimes we'll combine any two, three or more styles and sometimes we'll stick to just one,\" Jacobs said in 1989. \"It depends on whoever is getting involved in the track.\n\n\"There's often plenty of different things happening in our songs, but that doesn't mean we're not into the idea of doing a simple rap over a basic beat. We like doing real straight stuff, real hardcore stuff too.\"\n\nAfter several false starts, the band made waves with the independently-released Underwater Rimes - which became a surprise hit in the Netherlands and landed Digital Underground a deal with Tommy Boy Records, the iconic hip-hop label that was home to De La Soul, Afrika Bambaataa and Naughty By Nature.\n\nTheir debut album, Sex Packets, was released in 1990 and quickly went platinum thanks to singles such as Doowutchyalike and The Humpty Dance.\n\n\"The Humpty Dance spoke to all the people that were like him,\" said Malonga. \"The fat people, the unattractive people. If you moved like him, you could be whatever you want.\"\n\nThe song, which earned Digital Underground a Grammy nomination, was actually a last-minute addition to the album after another track, Underground System, was pulled over sample clearance issues.\n\nThe Humpty Dance became an MTV staple thanks, in part, to the character of Humpty - voiced by Jacobs as a flamboyant, pimp-like character with a blubbery, stuttering voice. He was often played on stage by Kent Racker, leaving many fans unaware that Shock and Humpty were the same person.\n\nWhile the song marked the band's commercial peak, they remained a powerful force in hip-hop, releasing six albums before winding down in 2008.\n\nTheir 1991 single Same Song boasts one of 2Pac's first appearances on a commercial recording. Jacobs had mentored the rapper at the start of his career, giving him work as a roadie while shopping his demo tape to record labels.\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 Tommy Boy 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\nHe later produced and rapped on 2Pac's first top 10 single I Get Around, as well as 1995's So Many Tears - but he never took credit for the star's success.\n\n\"It's a lucky thing in the other direction,\" he told Rolling Stone in 2017. \"Pac discovered us, man, we didn't discover his ass. No way.\"\n\nAmong his other credits, Jacob co-wrote LL Cool J's 1991 hit Mama Said Knock You Out, mixed Prince's single Love Sign, and appeared on a remix of Luniz's I Got 5 On It.\n\nHe also toured and performed with George Clinton and P-Funk, including a set at Woodstock 1999.\n\nShock G with George Clinton, whose music he introduced to a new audience in the 1990s\n\n\"Oh no, not Shock G,\" tweeted Parliament-Funkadelic bassist Bootsy Collins. \"He helped keep P Funk Alive! Prayers to family & friends. Dang.\"\n\nAnd 2Pac's official page shared a 1995 quote from the rapper, which read: \"I look back [on my times with Shock G] with the greatest fondness. Those were like some of the best times of my life.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "David Cameron resigned as prime minister in 2016, following the Brexit referendum\n\nThe Treasury has published 40 pages of messages relating to its contact with David Cameron and Greensill Capital.\n\nThe former PM is embroiled in a row over attempts to lobby top officials on behalf of the financial firm.\n\nIt had already come to light that Mr Cameron contacted the chancellor and two other ministers about Greensill.\n\nBut the emails also revealed former Cabinet Secretary Sir Mark Sedwill \"connected\" Lex Greensill with the Treasury in March 2020.\n\nOther emails and texts - released as a result of a Freedom of Information request - showed contact between senior civil servants in the department and the former PM and financier.\n\nThey also showed the rejection letters for Greensill's appeal for access to government-backed loans during the pandemic.\n\nEarlier, the Bank of England said Mr Cameron had contacted it multiple times last year as the finance firm sought access to a Covid loan scheme.\n\nThe Treasury's top civil servant, Sir Tom Scholar, also told MPs Mr Cameron had called and texted him on his official phone.\n\nBut he added that Greensill's proposals were ultimately rejected.\n\nThree MP-led inquiries and a lawyer-led government review are looking at Mr Cameron's work for the company, which collapsed in March.\n\nThe former Conservative leader, who began working for Greensill as an adviser two years after leaving Downing Street, has insisted he broke no lobbying rules but accepted he should have contacted ministers using more formal channels.\n\nBut Labour's shadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds said the correspondence showed the firm \"was carrying the begging bowl from the Bank of England to the Treasury and back\".\n\n\"We need to understand why Greensill Capital was given so much time and access to the Treasury, and why so much public money was put at risk.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, the Bank of England released details of contacts between Mr Cameron and its officials, in response to Freedom of Information requests.\n\nThey show the ex-PM contacted Bank officials before and after the firm applied to join a government scheme to support lending to businesses.\n\nAlongside the Treasury, the Bank had been running the Covid Corporate Financing Facility (CCFF), set up in the early stages of the pandemic.\n\nGreensill had wanted the terms of the CCFF changed so it could take part - a request the Treasury went on to reject, after concluding the firm's proposals were not suitable.\n\nThe published correspondence from the Bank of England includes email exchanges with Sir Jon Cunliffe, the Bank's deputy governor.\n\nIn one email from early April, Mr Cameron told Sir Jon that Greensill had \"failed to get anywhere\" with its proposals, despite \"numerous conversations\" with the Treasury.\n\nIn another email to him later in the month, the ex-PM said Greensill's inability to access the scheme had proved \"incredibly frustrating\".\n\nRecords show a phone call later took place between Sir Jon and Lex Greensill, the firm's Australian founder, to discuss the firm's ideas further.\n\nThey show Sir Jon telling Mr Greensill his firm fell outside the \"boundaries of the scheme\" - and changing these would be a decision for the Treasury.\n\nThe Bank of England was involved in the government's CCFF loans scheme\n\nEarlier on Wednesday, Sir Tom - the Treasury's permanent secretary - said Greensill Capital had \"persistently\" approached his department about being involved.\n\nGiving evidence to MPs on the the Public Accounts Committee, he added: \"We listened to what they said. We analysed it, we tested it and in the end, despite them submitting a series of successive proposals, we decided to reject them all.\"\n\nSir Tom, who previously worked for the former PM as a Europe adviser, told them Mr Cameron had rung him directly in April 2020, although the call did not include \"substantive discussion\" of Greensill's proposals.\n\n\"It was simply a call to draw it to my attention,\" he said, adding that Mr Cameron had his work phone number \"because I used to work with him\".\n\nAsked if he would have taken a call from a lobbyist if they hadn't been a former prime minister, Sir Tom said: \"I've also from time-to-time had calls from other senior people, maybe private sector people who I've previously worked with in another capacity.\"\n\nHe added: \"I think it's natural when somebody that you know asks to speak to you... it's quite natural to take that.\"\n\nThe second most senior official at the Treasury, Charles Roxburgh, told the committee he had met Mr Cameron and Mr Greensill at nine meetings spread out over four months from March to June 2020.\n\nMr Roxburgh told the committee civil servants would not have consulted on their proposals \"if we didn't think there was some potential - turns out there wasn't\".", "Last updated on .From the section Wales\n\nRobert Page will take charge of Wales at Euro 2020 this summer after national manager Ryan Giggs was charged on Friday with assaulting two women.\n\nPage has deputised for Giggs in the last two international windows.\n\nThe Football Association of Wales (FAW) said: \"The FAW can confirm that Robert Page will assume the role of manager for this summer's Euro 2020 tournament.\"\n\nThe FAW also said Albert Stuivenberg will continue as Page's assistant.\n\nThe governing body added: \"An FAW board meeting will be convened to discuss these developments and its impact on the Association and the national team.\n\n\"The FAW will not be making any further comment at this current time.\"\n\nGiggs has been charged with causing actual bodily harm to a woman in her 30s and common assault of a woman in her 20s at an address in Salford on 1 November, while the 47-year-old is also charged with coercive or controlling behaviour between December 2017 and November 2020.\n\nAfter he was charged Giggs said in a statement: \"I have full respect for the due process of law and understand the seriousness of the allegations. I will plead not guilty in court and look forward to clearing my name.\n\n\"I would like to wish Robert Page, the coaching staff, the players and the supporters every success at the Euros this summer.\"\n\nGiggs, capped 64 times by Wales before retiring in 2007, became Wales boss in January 2018, helping them qualify for the delayed Euro 2020 finals.\n\nEarlier in April, FAW president Kieran O'Connor told BBC Sport the governing body had a plan in place involving Page if Giggs could not take charge of the Wales team at Euro 2020.\n\nFormer Wales captain Page has been Giggs' assistant since August 2019, but deputised as manager in November 2020 - leading Wales to top spot in their Nations League group.\n\nHe continued to deputise for Giggs in March 2021 as Wales kicked off their 2022 World Cup qualifying campaign with a defeat away to Group E favourites Belgium and a home win over the Czech Republic.", "Barry Island was popular with visitors when the first lockdown was lifted last summer Image caption: Barry Island was popular with visitors when the first lockdown was lifted last summer\n\nWales is in for a \"better summer\" this year than in 2020, the first minister has forecast.\n\nMark Drakeford was not talking about any potential for a heatwave, but about us being able to do more in our daily lives due to less tight lockdown measures.\n\n\"I remember saying some months ago, when I was being asked to look forward and my ambitions for dealing with coronavirus, I said what I hoped we will be able to do would be to lift restrictions earlier in the year than we were able to do last year, and for them to last longer over the summer,\" he said at today's press conference.\n\n\"Some of the things that I have announced today - indoor hospitality, the reopening of the whole of tourism accommodation and so on - we were doing that well into the summer last year, and we will be doing it in May, I hope, this year.\n\n\"So we are certainly further ahead than we were 12 months ago.\"", "When police recovered Paris she was found to be fit and well, but was now pregnant\n\nA family has been reunited with their lost chihuahua, Paris, more than 18 months after she was stolen.\n\nParis was taken from Lisa Lockey's home in Gorse Hill, Swindon, during a burglary in October 2019.\n\nIn April, Ms Lockey was contacted by pet database Petlog to tell her that a person in Buckinghamshire was trying to change ownership of Paris.\n\nMs Lockey called the police who were able to reunite the chihuahua with her family.\n\nParis is now safely back with her owner after 18 months\n\nMs Lockey said that during the burglary, her other dog Princess was badly beaten by the intruders.\n\n\"We came home to find our hall covered in blood, Princess was in a bad way and Paris was missing,\" she added.\n\n\"Princess had obviously tried to protect Paris and our home. Happily, she made a full recovery.\"\n\nBut in April, she was tracked down after her microchip was identified.\n\nHer new owners had purchased Paris from a pet shop in London in December 2019, not knowing that she had been stolen.\n\nWhen Paris was recovered by police she was found to be fit and well - but was now pregnant.\n\nPolice urged anyone buying a dog or puppy to do their research beforehand\n\nInsp Gill Hughes said he \"would urge anyone buying a dog or puppy to do their research beforehand\".\n\nHe added that it paid for owners to microchip and register their pets: \"Without that, I doubt we would have ever found the animal.\"\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.", "Ms Maxwell appeared in court in New York on Friday\n\nGhislaine Maxwell has appeared in court on new charges of sex-trafficking, her first appearance since her arrest last summer.\n\nShe attended the New York court in person on Friday for arraignment on new charges against her filed last month.\n\nMs Maxwell, 59, pleaded not guilty to the new counts.\n\nThe British socialite is accused of helping convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein recruit, groom and sexually abuse girls.\n\nMs Maxwell, the daughter of media mogul Robert Maxwell, was in a relationship with Epstein in the 1990s. She allegedly introduced him to wealthy and powerful figures including Prince Andrew of the British Royal Family and Bill Clinton.\n\nShe now faces six counts including sex-trafficking of a minor and sex-trafficking conspiracy. She also faces a further two charges relating to allegations of perjury in 2016.\n\nThe two new charges relate to allegations that Maxwell recruited a 14-year-old girl to provide Epstein with sexualised massages between 2001 and 2004. The girl was then paid hundreds of dollars in cash in return and was encouraged to recruit other young women.\n\nThe entire proceeding on Friday lasted less than 10 minutes. Maxwell only spoke three times in order to answer the judge's question about whether or not she had received a copy of the indictment.\n\nJury selection is set for 12 July but the judge is considering a request to delay the trial.\n\nMs Maxwell has previously denied all of the charges. If convicted on all charges, she faces up to 80 years in prison.\n\nEpstein killed himself in 2019 as he awaited trial on sex trafficking charges, more than a decade after he was convicted for soliciting prostitution from a minor.", "The chances of becoming infected by Covid fell sharply after a first dose of either the AstraZeneca or Pfizer vaccines, a UK study has found.\n\nThe vaccines worked just as well in the over-75s and those with underlying health conditions, as other people.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics (ONS) and University of Oxford research also found a strong antibody response in all age groups from either jab.\n\nEveryone showed some response to both vaccines, they said.\n\nThe research, contained in two studies which have not yet been peer-reviewed or published, is based on virus tests from 370,000 people in the general UK population - one of the largest to date.\n\nIt provides further real-world evidence that the vaccines being used in the UK to protect against Covid-19 are effective at protecting people against coronavirus infections.\n\nIn the first study, people who had been vaccinated with a single dose of either the Oxford-AstraZeneca or Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines were 65% less likely to get a new Covid infection.\n\nThree weeks after their jab, given between December 2020 and early April 2021, infections with symptoms fell by 74%, while infections with no reported symptoms fell by 57%.\n\nThose who had received a second vaccine dose of Pfizer were 90% less likely to be infected. The same calculation could not be made for AZ, because too few people in the study had received a second dose as its rollout started later.\n\nThe study showed both vaccines were effective against the Kent variant (B117) which was circulating at the time.\n\nDr Koen Pouwels, senior researcher in University of Oxford's Nuffield Department of Population Health, said the data backed up the decision to extend the gap between doses.\n\n\"The protection from new infections gained from a single dose supports the decision to extend the time between first and second doses to 12 weeks to maximise initial vaccination coverage, and reduce hospitalisations and deaths,\" he said.\n\nHowever, he said the figures showed there was still a chance vaccinated people could acquire Covid again and pass it to others, emphasising the need for social distancing and masks.\n\nThe second study, in nearly 46,000 adults who had been vaccinated with one dose, found strong antibody responses - a sign that the vaccines are stimulating the body's defence system to protect against the virus - in all age groups.\n\nThese antibody responses were \"broadly sustained out to 10 weeks afterwards\", the researchers said.\n\nAlthough antibody levels rose more slowly and to a lower level with a single dose of Oxford-AstraZeneca, they dropped more quickly after one Pfizer dose, particularly in older age groups.\n\nThere was a better response in younger adults compared with older adults over 60 with both jabs, but after two doses of Pfizer antibody levels were high across all ages, the study said.\n\nOne finding that surprised researchers was the amount by which the immune response shot up in the over-80s after a second dose - far more than in younger age groups.\n\nThe findings highlight the importance of people getting their second vaccine dose for increased protection, the researchers said.\n\nBut it is still not clear what the build-up of antibodies after a Covid vaccine actually means.\n\nProf Sarah Walker, chief investigator on the studies, from the University of Oxford, said: \"We don't yet know exactly how much of an antibody response, and for how long, is needed to protect people against getting Covid-19 in the long term - but over the next year, information from the survey should help us to answer these questions.\"\n\nBoth studies are based on data from the Covid-19 Infection Survey, a partnership between the University of Oxford, the ONS and the Department for Health and Social Care.", "Tomasz Waga had travelled to Cardiff from the Dagenham area on the day of his death\n\nA third man has appeared in court charged with the murder of a 23-year-old man who died after being found in a Cardiff street.\n\nTomasz Waga, from Poland but living in Essex, was found unconscious by a dog walker in Westville Road, Penylan, on 28 January at about 23:30 GMT.\n\nA 25-year-old from Tottenham in London appeared before Cardiff magistrates on Friday.\n\nTwo other men have already been charged in connection with Mr Waga's death.\n\nThey have both been remanded in custody and are awaiting trial.", "Dominic Cummings has launched a blistering attack on his old boss Boris Johnson, questioning his \"competence and integrity\".\n\nThe former top adviser denied leaking text messages sent between Mr Johnson and businessman Sir James Dyson.\n\nAnd he claimed Mr Johnson once had a \"possibly illegal\" plan for donors to pay for renovations of the Downing Street flat.\n\nNo 10 said ministers had always obeyed codes of conduct and electoral law.\n\nMr Cummings was forced out of his Downing Street role at the end of last year, following an internal power struggle.\n\nOn Friday, in his first blog post since leaving that role, he also denied leaking details of the second Covid lockdown in England.\n\nThis is an explosive intervention from a man Boris Johnson used to count on as one of his closest allies.\n\nAnd if you're tempted to roll your eyes and think it's just sour grapes from a jilted adviser, think again.\n\nDominic Cummings' blog is proof that he is willing to lift the lid on his time at the heart of Downing Street, regardless of how it reflects on the prime minister.\n\nBeyond his denial of leaking text messages, he has also given his version of events relating to two potential political weak spots for Boris Johnson.\n\nThey are the questions over the financing of the renovation of the Downing Street flat and the leaking of a plan to impose a lockdown.\n\nThe level of detail shows that Mr Cummings is willing to expose others while defending himself and lay bare the inner workings of No 10.\n\nSeveral newspapers ran front page stories suggesting Mr Cummings was the source of leaked messages between Mr Johnson and Sir James Dyson, first reported this week by the BBC.\n\nThe BBC - whose political editor Laura Kuenssberg first reported on the text messages on Tuesday - said it did not discuss the sources of stories.\n\nAsked whether he had blamed his former adviser for it, Mr Johnson said: \"I don't think people give a monkey's, to be frank, about who is briefing what to who.\"\n\nNo 10 has launched an inquiry into who leaked the text messages.\n\nThe text exchange between Mr Johnson and Sir James happened in March last year, after the government asked companies to help build thousands of ventilators needed to deal with very ill patients.\n\nIn it, the prime minister agreed to \"fix\" concerns the businessman had about tax bills for his Singapore-based staff if they moved to the UK to do this.\n\nWriting on his blog, Mr Cummings said: \"I was not directly or indirectly a/the source for the BBC/Kuenssberg story on the PM/Dyson texts.\"\n\nHe adds: \"I am happy to meet with the cabinet secretary and for him to search my phone for Dyson messages.\"\n\nMr Cummings continues that he is \"happy for No 10 to publish every email I received and sent July 2019-November 2020\".\n\nHe also calls for an \"urgent parliamentary inquiry into the government's conduct over the Covid crisis\", adding that he thinks Mr Johnson has fallen \"far below\" the standards of \"competence\" the \"country deserves\".\n\nMr Cummings promises to answer questions about \"any\" issues when he appears before a parliamentary inquiry into the government's pandemic response on 26 May.\n\nIn his blog, Mr Cummings also claimed the prime minister once planned to have donors \"secretly pay\" for renovation of his official Downing street flat.\n\nLike several of his recent predecessors, the PM is living in the flat above No 11 Downing Street, which is larger than the one above No 10.\n\nHe adds that Mr Johnson \"stopped speaking to me about the matter in 2020\", as he told him the renovation plans were \"unethical, foolish, possibly illegal and almost certainly broke the rules on proper disclosure of political donations if conducted in the way he intended\".\n\nMr Cummings says he would be \"happy to tell the cabinet secretary or Electoral Commission\" what he knew about the matter but that his knowledge is \"limited\".\n\nIn response to Mr Cummings's claims, a No 10 spokesperson said: \"At all times, the government and ministers have acted in accordance with the appropriate codes of conduct and electoral law.\n\n\"Cabinet Office officials have been engaged and informed throughout and official advice has been followed.\n\n\"All reportable donations are transparently declared and published - either by the Electoral Commission or the House of Commons registrar, in line with the requirements set out in electoral law.\n\n\"Gifts and benefits received in a ministerial capacity are, and will continue to be, declared in transparency returns.\"\n\nEarlier on Friday, the government said that \"costs of wider refurbishment in this year have been met by the Prime Minister personally.\"\n\nLabour's shadow Cabinet Office minister Rachel Reeves said the issue needed \"investigating in full\".\n\nDenying being the source of a leak last year ahead of the second Covid lockdown in November, Mr Cummings says an inquiry at the time found that neither he nor the then-Downing Street director of communications, Lee Cain, had been responsible.\n\nHe adds that the events around that inquiry \"contributed to [his] decision to stick to [his] plan to leave No 10 by 18 December\", which he says were \"communicated to the prime minister in July\".\n\nIn his blog, Mr Cummings also claimed Mr Johnson had considered stopping the inquiry.\n\nHe wrote that he recalled a meeting between Mr Johnson and the cabinet secretary at the time, after an inquiry had been launched, at which the cabinet secretary allegedly said \"all the evidence definitely leads to Henry Newman and others in that office\".\n\nAt the time, Mr Newman was a special adviser at the Cabinet Office. He took up a role in Downing Street earlier this year.\n\nMr Cummings claims that, in a conversation he had with the PM afterwards, Boris Johnson said: \"If Newman is confirmed as the leaker then I will have to fire him, and this will cause me very serious problems with Carrie [Symonds - the PM's fiancee] as they're best friends… [pause] perhaps we could get the cabinet secretary to stop the leak inquiry?\"\n\nIn response to Mr Cummings' claims, a Downing Street statement said: \"The prime minister has never interfered in a government leak inquiry.\"\n\nAnd a senior government official said: \"The allegations against Henry Newman are entirely false. He wouldn't be working in Downing Street if he was suspected of leaking information.\"\n\nEarlier, Downing Street declined to comment on \"speculation\" that Mr Cummings - who quit his government job last November after a row over his role as the PM's chief adviser - had leaked the texts.\n\nOn a visit to Derbyshire, Mr Johnson said anyone who thought there was something \"dodgy or rum\" in his dealings with Sir James Dyson was \"out of their mind\".", "The device was found at the officer's home on Monday morning\n\nTwo men have been arrested by police investigating a bomb which was left near a policewoman's car at her home near Dungiven, County Londonderry, on Monday.\n\nA 26-year-old man was arrested in the Creggan area of Londonderry on Friday.\n\nPolice also detained a 36-year-old man in Lettershandoney, close to Derry.\n\nDetectives believe the New IRA was responsible for what it described as an attempt to kill the officer and her young daughter.\n\nDet Supt Richard Campbell, the head of the Police Service of Northern Ireland's (PSNI) terrorism investigation unit, said the men were arrested under the Terrorism Act.\n\nBoth men have been taken to Musgrave Police Station in Belfast for questioning.\n\nThe explosive device was found attached to a container of flammable liquid close to the officer's car.\n\nACC Mark McEwan said it was \"designed to cause a fireball which would have engulfed the victim's car and anyone in it or close by\".", "Streamvale Open Farm welcomed its first visitors for months as restrictions eased on Friday\n\nClose-contact services such as hairdressers reopened and driving lessons resumed on Friday as Northern Ireland's Covid restrictions ease.\n\nOutdoor visitor attractions opened their doors for the first time since lockdown was imposed after Christmas.\n\nCompetitive sports involving 100 people can also resume after Stormont ministers agreed reopening dates earlier this month.\n\nOutdoor hospitality businesses and non-essential shops will open next Friday.\n\nNorthern Ireland has eased its coronavirus restrictions at a slower pace than other parts of the UK, with Stormont ministers and officials stressing differences in the rate of transmission of the virus.\n\nThe current reproduction (R) number in Northern Ireland, which measures how quickly the virus is spreading, is estimated to be between 0.7 and 1.05, down from 0.95-1.4 the previous week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Months of frustration turned to a day of joy as people could finally get to the hairdresser or visit outdoor attractions\n\nAs of Friday 23 April, static band practice and rehearsals are also permitted in agreed outdoor locations.\n\nNew Covid-19 regulations released on Thursday state that people must book appointments in order to get a haircut or attend a beauty salon.\n\nGillian Herron, the owner of the Hair Lounge in Bangor, said reopening was \"a big change\".\n\n\"We are quite a large salon so we are very, very lucky in that we're able to space our clients out,\" she told BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme.\n\n\"So we haven't had to put screens up as such.\n\n\"We have a massive backlog of clients trying to get in, so there are an awful lot of disappointed clients having to wait longer than we'd want to.\"\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said on Thursday the Northern Ireland Executive will \"keep looking\" to see if Covid restrictions can be eased faster.\n\nBut she added the effect of easing restrictions needed to be monitored.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann said easing restrictions had been hard-earned, but that did not mean we can \"ease up in our attitude towards the virus\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Business owners said they were excited about the long-awaited reopening\n\n\"We must not jeopardise the important progress made to date or do anything that could impede our pathway towards a better summer,\" he said.\n\nHe warned that nobody should think the threat from the virus was going \"to simply fade away\".\n\nThe average daily number of new cases being confirmed in Northern Ireland has risen slightly.\n\nThe seven-day rolling average of new positive cases is 41 per 100,000 people, up from 38 the previous week.\n\nBellaire Hair and Beauty Salon in Belfast is gearing up for a busy time from Friday\n\nThis \"modest increase\" is particularly in the 0-11 age group and appears to be stabilising, health officials say, adding that this may be partly due to the return of school and the rollout of testing for close contacts.\n\nNorthern Ireland took gradual steps out of lockdown earlier this month, when all pupils returned to school for the first time since Christmas.\n\nIt was the last part of the UK to lift its stay-at-home rule, which came into effect in January, in a bid to suppress a large rise in cases of coronavirus.\n\nFrom 30 April, further restrictions are expected to ease, including the reopening of non-essential retail and the reopening of licensed and unlicensed premises outdoors.\n\nThe Driver and Vehicle Agency (DVA) said all efforts were being made to clear the backlog of driving tests once the system reopens on Friday.\n\nJeremy Logan, DVA chief executive, said there was no question demand would be high.\n\nThe Driver and Vehicle Agency said all efforts are being made to clear the backlog of driving tests once the system reopens\n\nEconomy Minister Diane Dodds said the easing of measures allowed people \"to hope again that we can actually recover after the terrible time we have had with the pandemic\".\n\nMrs Dodds said this next stage would bring \"a bit of normality back on our high street\".\n\n\"No matter what we can give them in terms of grants to sustain them, it is nothing compared to being open and thriving and people coming in and out of the retail setting.\"\n\nMrs Dodds said she would soon reveal plans for a high street voucher scheme, costing £140m.\n\nThe minister said it would be released at the \"optimum\" time to act as a stimulus after an expected period of \"pent-up demand\".\n\nStaff at Sailor's Grave Tattoo Studio in Belfast have been busy preparing for Friday's reopening\n\nGeraldine Duggan, Belfast City Centre Manager, said the long-awaited reopening of businesses was \"a game changer\".\n\n\"Seeing close-contact services opening and now next week as well, retail and hospitality, it's going to be a big difference,\" she said.\n\nTaoiseach (Irish prime minister) Micheál Martin has said the easing of lockdown restrictions in the Republic of Ireland would not be perfectly aligned with Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Irish government is not due to announce relaxations until next month.\n\n\"I don't see perfect alignment or anything in the next number of weeks. There will be some gaps,\" Mr Martin told Northern Ireland business leaders on Thursday.", "A woman has called for a traffic light system to be introduced which displays how environmentally-friendly products are.\n\nLisa Condron wants everyday products to feature a red, amber or green colour, indicating its environmental harm.\n\nThis would better educate people about their impact on the planet, she said.\n\nLisa, from Tonypandy, Rhondda Cynon Taf, said: \"I hear a lot of talk about it, but don't actually see anything happening.\"\n\nLockdown prompted Lisa to begin thinking about the impact she had on the planet.\n\nShe later discovered none of her clothes were made in the UK - which led her to wonder how much CO2 was emitted transporting them from east Asia to Wales.\n\nHad all these items featured traffic light-style warnings - similar to the ones on food products which indicate their levels of fat, sugar and salt - she said she would have been able to make more educated decisions.\n\nA traffic-light system indicating what food products contain has existed for years\n\nAsked what she would if she was leader of Wales for a day, she said: \"I think it's time that we made some action on climate change and our environment.\n\n\"So my idea was to have a traffic light system as you do on food. Everyone's familiar with them because they've been on food for years now.\n\n\"We can see from the traffic light system the impact of fats, sugars and saturates and salt.\n\n\"If this was on all sorts of products that you buy, you would know whether one product was better for the environment than another.\n\n\"I just want to switch over to being more environmentally friendly. But I don't know what is environmentally friendly and what is not.\n\n\"So I just thought of a traffic light system - where if there's a range of products on the shelves and I can see them.\n\n\"(If) one was red for the environment and the other one was green then I would go for the green.\"\n\nSpeaking at the time, Environment Minister Lesley Griffiths said she hoped the declaration would trigger \"a wave of action\" as she declared an intention to achieve a \"carbon neutral public sector by 2030\".\n\nLike the rest of the UK - Wales aims to become totally carbon neutral by 2050.\n\nLast month, the Senedd approved the goal and set a number of interim targets which include a commitment to reduce net emissions by:\n\nShould Wales adopt the measure, Lisa believes it can \"really lead in green manufacturing\".\n\n\"My message to the politicians will be: Please can we stop talking and start doing something.\"\n\nLisa believes that setting up the system would be good \"for Wales, for the economy and for everybody that lives here\".\n\nRichard Walker, managing director of Iceland, which has its head offices in Deeside, Flintshire, said he \"loved the idea\", but warned it needed to be \"clear and simple\" for shoppers.\n\n\"It needs to be easier for consumers to navigate how environmentally-friendly or unfriendly products are,\" he added.\n\n\"The problem comes from the already complicated labelling. We already have to put high fat, salt and sugar labelling on.\n\n\"People are calling for a carbon tax (too). So whatever we need to do needs to be clear and simple.\"", "India has joined the UK's travel red list - effectively banning travel - as a deadly second wave of infections sweeps the country.\n\nBritish and Irish nationals can travel to the UK from India, but they must now isolate in a government-approved hotel.\n\nIndia has seen soaring infection rates, a rapidly rising death toll and the discovery of a new virus variant.\n\nThe spike has overwhelmed hospitals, creating a critical shortage of oxygen, intensive care beds and ventilators.\n\nOn Friday, India recorded 332,730 coronavirus cases, the highest one-day tally anywhere in the world for the second day in a row. Daily deaths from Covid-19 rose by a record 2,263 in the previous 24 hours.\n\nAt least two hospitals in the Indian capital Delhi are running out of oxygen, and at least 13 patients have died after a fire broke out in the intensive care unit of a hospital set up to treat Covid patients near Mumbai.\n\nThe rising number of cases has resulted in a deepening healthcare crisis that has gripped several states, and India's top court has asked the central government for a national plan by Friday on bolstering supply, oxygen, medicine, treatment and vaccines.\n\nNayan Gangyan is facing a 10-day hotel quarantine when he flies back to London from northern India on Saturday. He travelled to Chandigarh a few weeks ago, when his parents both contracted coronavirus.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast he was left feeling \"helpless\" in the UK when his father's oxygen levels dropped, there were no beds available in hospital and his mother started to panic.\n\n\"It was at that point that I decided 'my family needs help and I need to go back come what may',\" he says.\n\nHe says the situation in India is \"really bad\", with the government healthcare system \"completely overrun\". But they eventually managed to get his father admitted to a hospital where he had previously undergone a liver transplant, and he is doing \"much better now\".\n\nNow Nayan is preparing to return home to London. \"The flight as of now, it's running. I really hope that it does take off,\" he says.\n\n\"I've already booked my quarantine hotel so I'll be going straight there. I'll be landing [then] straight to the hotel and 10 days in the room.\"\n\nHis wife Vani, who has been watching from a distance from their London home, says it has been difficult \"not to be able to control or influence\" events.\n\nOn India's red list status, she says: \"We got just over three days' notice so very little time for us to actually affect the outcome or do anything.\n\n\"We're just in the position where we have to be okay. After Nayan's ordeal in India he has to go through another ordeal.\"\n\nTina Patel and her husband arrived back in the UK on Thursday from Pune, Maharashtra, after travelling to India in March to visit her father-in-law, who was ill due to old age and later died.\n\nShe told the BBC people in the city were \"desperate\" - trying to find hospital beds or a slot in the crematoriums. \"We left a city with ambulances wailing away day and night,\" she said.\n\n\"I left broken-hearted as there was nothing we could do but catch the BA flight last night and all we could do was to be thankful that we finally got home.\"\n\nFriday's travel rule change means direct flights from India are still permitted, but UK and Irish nationals, as well as those with residency rights, must isolate in government-approved hotels - at their own cost - for 10 days.\n\nTravel to the UK is banned for all others who have been in red-list countries in the past 10 days.\n\nThere are 40 countries on the government's red list across the Middle East, Africa, Asia and South America. Countries can be added to the list with just a few hours' notice.\n\nThere are specific rules for people arriving in each UK nation, including England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales.\n\nPublic Health England (PHE) confirmed on Thursday that a further 55 cases of the virus variant first identified in India - known as B.1.617 - were found in the UK in the latest week to 14 April.\n\nPHE experts are currently unsure whether any of the mutations mean the variant can be transmitted more easily, is more deadly or can evade the effectiveness of vaccines or natural immunity.\n\nThe final scheduled commercial flight ahead of the rule change - Vistara flight VTI017 - landed at London's Heathrow Airport at 18:48 on Thursday, according to FlightRadar24.\n\nFour airlines asked for a total of eight extra flights to arrive at the west London airport before the 04:00 deadline but were refused permission by airport authorities.\n\nHeathrow bosses are believed to have declined the requests to ensure pressures at the border, reported in recent weeks, were not exacerbated.\n\nLater scheduled arrivals from Delhi and Mumbai to Heathrow, and Delhi to Gatwick Airport, were cancelled on Thursday, airport data showed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Travellers returning from India: \"Oh my goodness, feeling so relieved\"\n\nSome of those who arrived before the red list change told the BBC they \"couldn't afford to stay away\" and \"had to get back to work\".\n\n\"Eventually, yesterday, a friend in the UK managed to book me a ticket from Mumbai to Manchester,\" Biju Mathew, a social services manager from Walsall, said.\n\nDemand for flights from India to the UK quickly became overwhelming after the government's red list announcement, according to Suresh Kumar, chairman of specialist travel agents Indra Travel.\n\n\"A lot of people were hoping that the [UK] government would have made arrangements for people trying to get back,\" he said. \"They were disappointed.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Scenes outside a hospital in Delhi, where people are dying without getting the treatment they need\n\nSpeaking on Tuesday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson - who cancelled an official visit to India due to take place next Monday - said the addition to the red list was a \"purely precautionary\" step over a new coronavirus variant.\n\nHe said: \"What we're seeing in India is a result of a variant under investigation, it hasn't yet been deemed a variant of concern - I think that was why there has been the delay.\"\n\nThe B.1.617 variant was first noted internationally in October and first identified in the UK on 22 February.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues in this story? Please share 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.", "The NI Executive will \"keep looking\" to see if Covid restrictions can be eased faster, First Minister Arlene Foster has said.\n\nBut she added the effect of restrictions due to be eased will need to be monitored.\n\nFrom Friday, close contact services such as hairdressers are to reopen and driving tests will resume.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said the issue will be kept under review.\n\nMrs Foster and Ms O'Neill were speaking together at the Mid Ulster Sports Arena in Cookstown on Thursday.\n\nCompetitive outdoor sport organised by a club or individuals can also resume without spectators and with no more than 100 people participating from Friday.\n\n\"Most people in Northern Ireland have been very careful,\" Mrs Foster said.\n\n\"They recognise what has been happening throughout this pandemic and I think they know that we have to take things in stages, but they do need hope. And of course we'll keep looking to see if we can move faster.\"\n\nBut she added transmission rates across Northern Ireland had to be monitored.\n\nMs O'Neill said there needs to be a \"cautious, steady as you go\" approach.\n\n\"I think there are better days ahead but we just need people to be careful and cautious,\" she said.\n\n\"We've always said we'll keep things under review and as soon as we can lift things we will and that remains the case.\n\nA day before some sectors re-open and the weather is reflecting the public's mood.\n\nBut while we are upbeat, even excited, health officials are appealing for caution.\n\nAs Arlene Foster advised this day last week - \"step out but step out carefully\".\n\nCoronavirus is still out there and wants to meddle. The vaccine doesn't mean normality - just yet.\n\nIn fact two patients who have been vaccinated are in ICU with symptoms. One has had one jab, the other their second dose.\n\nI understand that at least one of them has underlying health conditions and clinicians believe the vaccine has prevented their condition from deteriorating.\n\nAnd it's worth noting, that that is just two patients out of the nearly 900,000 people who have had one dose of the vaccine and the more than 300,000 who have had both - so it is working.\n\nAs shutters are pulled up in communities, inside hospitals and heads are down preparing for a possible fourth wave in the autumn.\n\nLaboratories are at the ready, braced for screening a continuing increase in Covid cases - alarm bells will ring if the Indian or potentially other variants are detected.\n\nBut on top of that hospitals are also preparing for a resurgence of flu.\n\nDoctors reckon we are in for a \"bad flu season.\" A double whammy where flu and Covid patients could be sitting side by side.\n\nCan we prevent flu and Covid-19 from taking hold? Probably not, but continuing to socially distance, wear masks and wash hands and getting vaccinated can determine just how severe outcomes might be.\n\nThe current Reproduction (R) number in Northern Ireland, which measures how quickly the virus is spreading, is estimated to be between 0.7 and 1.05, down from 0.95-1.4 the previous week.\n\nBut the average daily number of new cases being confirmed has risen slightly.\n\nThe seven-day rolling average of new positive cases is 41 per 100,000 people, up from 38 the previous week.\n\nThe report says the \"modest increase\" is particularly in the 0-11 age group, and appears to be stabilising.\n\nIt adds that it may be partly due to the return of school and the rollout of testing for close contacts.\n\nTaoiseach Micheál Martin told NI business leaders he was in regular contact with Stormont's first and deputy ministers about the pace of reopening\n\nEarlier, Taoiseach Micheál Martin said the easing of lockdown restrictions in NI and the Republic of Ireland will not be perfectly aligned.\n\nThe Irish government is not due to announce relaxations until next month.\n\nMr Martin told NI business leaders he was in regular contact with Stormont's first and deputy ministers about the pace of reopening.\n\n\"We keep each other informed,\" he said.\n\n\"But I don't see perfect alignment or anything in the next number of weeks. There will be some gaps.\"\n\nHe said this was primarily down to the differences in the speed of vaccination programmes in the two jurisdictions.\n\n\"We are moving at pace now, and hopefully both north and south can look forward to reopening in a cautious and phased way with restrictions, so long as numbers remain as they are now,\" he added.\n\nOutdoor visitor attractions in Northern Ireland will also be able to open their doors on Friday for the first time since lockdown was imposed after Christmas.\n\nStormont ministers agreed to the reopening dates earlier this month.\n\nOutdoor hospitality businesses and non-essential retail can open on 30 April.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Prison Service announced on Thursday that in-person visits will re-commence from 4 May. In-person visits have been suspended since just after Christmas.\n\n\"We will of course remain vigilant to the risk of the virus and this decision will be kept under review,\" said Northern Ireland Prison Service director general Ronnie Armour.\n\n\"However, I know this decision will be welcome news to the people in our care and their families.\"\n\nRobin Swann said was still concerned that his department was not getting full data from Passenger Locator Forms completed in the Republic of Ireland\n\nMeanwhile, Health Minister Robin Swann said there were still difficulties in getting information about flight passengers who are crossing the border into Northern Ireland.\n\nHe said he was still concerned that his department was not getting full data from Passenger Locator Forms completed in the Republic of Ireland.\n\n\"Progress has been made, but there is still difficulties in regards to data sharing processes is what I think the minister of foreign affairs referred to recently in a joint meeting with the secretary of state,\" the minister told the health committee.\n\n\"One of our protections actually is the small number of indirect or direct international flights that we're currently having to manage, so that is keeping us in a pretty secure place in regards to that.\"\n\nMrs Foster expressed frustration at the delay, and also revealed that Mr Swann only found out that the so-called Indian variant of the virus was in the Republic of Ireland from media reports.", "A Northern Ireland Executive and assembly could be retained in a united Ireland, the taoiseach has said.\n\nMicheál Martin said support would be provided from Dublin in \"external matters\", with British government input also.\n\nHe said it would be a three-way relationship.\n\nMeanwhile, a poll suggests a majority on both sides of the border want an NHS-style health system in a united Ireland.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, 82% of people agreed that Ireland should adopt a British-style health care system with no charges for prescriptions or A&E and GP visits.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, 70% of people agreed with the proposition.\n\nThe poll was commissioned by BBC NI's Spotlight programme and these results were revealed on The View on Thursday night.\n\nTaoiseach Micheál Martin said a united Ireland could see a NI Assembly and Executive retained\n\nThe poll also suggests that:\n\nView the full, detailed results for Northern Ireland here and the Republic of Ireland here.\n\nYou can watch Spotlight - A Contested Centenary and The View on the BBC iPlayer.\n\nIn an interview with former BBC News NI political editor Mark Devenport for Spotlight, Mr Martin said he believed the latter point could be a possibility.\n\n\"You could have still a northern assembly and the northern executive, potentially, with the fulcrum towards Dublin, in terms of external matters and so on,\" Mr Martin said.\n\n\"But the British government would still be involved.\"\n\nHe added that the \"three sets of relationships have to be at the cornerstone\".\n\nFindings of the same poll released earlier this week found that a majority of people on both sides of the Irish border believes Northern Ireland will have left the UK within 25 years.\n\nMost respondents said they thought NI would still be part of the UK in 10 years time, but not in 25 years.\n\nThe poll was carried out by the NI Pollsters LucidTalk and the Irish polling firm Ireland Thinks.\n\nThe margin of error is +/- 2.5%.", "Nicola Sturgeon believes a simple majority is the way the SNP will make progress on Scottish independence\n\nThe leader of the SNP has insisted her party was \"not divided\".\n\nSpeaking on BBC Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme, Nicola Sturgeon said her aim at May's Holyrood election was winning a \"simple majority\".\n\nShe rejected Alex Salmond's idea of creating a \"super majority\" by encouraging voters to back his newly-formed Alba Party on the regional list.\n\nThe former first minister said he wanted to work with an SNP government to advance the cause of independence.\n\nHe told the BBC's Today programme that that cause was \"much, much bigger than personalities\".\n\nMs Sturgeon denied that the SNP was suffering from internal issues and said support had \"never been higher\".\n\nShe explained: \"I know I lead a party that has a growing membership just now and has a commanding position in the opinion polls.\n\n\"The breakdown of opinion polls that tests the views and attitudes of SNP voters show the SNP is actually the most united of all the parties in Scotland.\"\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\nMs Sturgeon went to say that she was concentrating on winning a \"simple majority\" and if people wanted an SNP government, and her as first minister, then voting for the nationalists was the only way to bring that about.\n\nShe said: \"You only have to cast your mind back to the days when Alex Salmond was leader of the SNP and he didn't say what he is saying now.\n\n\"What he said then, and he was right then, is that the only way to make sure you get the government you want is to vote for the party that will be that government.\n\n\"Anything else is trying to gamble with the system, game the system, take a chance on the outcome of the election.\n\n\"If you want to see an SNP government elected that then has the ability to deliver an independence referendum, you don't get that by voting for somebody else.\"\n\nNicola Sturgeon insists that there is no split within the independence movement.\n\nBut it is inescapable that at the same moment she was being interviewed on Radio Scotland, her predecessor Alex Salmond was speaking on Radio 4 as the leader of a rival party.\n\nThe two were once an inseparable double act atop the SNP, which took Scotland to the brink of independence. But he has now formed his own breakaway group, populated with defectors from the SNP including two sitting MPs.\n\nThe fact that many of these defectors have left the SNP over various policy differences means there is sure to be friction between their manifesto pledges too.\n\nSo, Mr Salmond's very presence in the race raises questions for Ms Sturgeon - even over her core objective of independence, which her party can no longer own as home turf. She now has to spend precious time talking about his vision, instead of her own.\n\nBoth leaders may insist that their campaigns will be positive and do not pose a threat to the cause they share, but in many ways Holyrood is no longer big enough for the both of them.\n\nMs Sturgeon told listeners that two things were required to win independence - a majority in the Scottish Parliament to bring about a referendum and, \"crucially\", winning majority support among the Scottish population.\n\nShe said: \"Anybody who tries to suggest there's a shortcut to that, or that we can somehow game or trick our way to independence, frankly, is misleading people. It's got to be through a process that is not just legitimate but seen to be legitimate so that it can command respect and authority at home and internationally as well.\"\n\nOn SNP politicians leaving the party to stand at the Holyrood election for the Alba Party she said she was \"not sure it is as many as Mr Salmond might have been hoping for\".\n\nShe added: \"I also don't think this is a friendly gesture on Mr Salmond's part towards the SNP.\"\n\nMr Salmond said he wanted to work with an SNP government to advance the cause of independence\n\nLast week, former SNP leader Mr Salmond announced the creation of a new pro-independence party.\n\nHe said the Alba Party would not field candidates in any of the 73 constituency seats - but the party will field four candidates in each of the eight regional lists.\n\nSpeaking on Today, Mr Salmond said that securing a \"super majority\" of pro-independence parties at Holyrood would \"strengthen immeasurably Scotland's hand in negotiating with a Tory PM\".\n\nHe added: \"From 2007 to 2011 I was first minister and I was negotiated first with Gordon Brown.\n\n\"No Tory PM will want to be to trying to face down an entire parliament and an entire people.\"\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said Ms Sturgeon's comments were \"the clearest sign yet that the SNP will put another referendum before Scotland's recovery.\"\n\nHe added: \"The Institute for Fiscal Studies demonstrated this week that higher levels of public spending in Scotland is possible because we're part of the United Kingdom.\n\n\"The UK furlough scheme is still protecting Scottish jobs and people are still getting Covid jags in their arms - but Nicola Sturgeon thinks risking all of that is what's best for Scotland?\"\n\nThe Scottish Liberal Democrats said Ms Sturgeon had \"once again made it very clear that her only priority this election is another independence referendum\".\n\nThe party's campaign chairman, Alistair Carmichael, said: \"This is not what Scotland needs.\n\n\"Scotland needs a needle-sharp focus on green and secure jobs, a plan to help education bounce back and supporting the NHS and mental health.\"\n\nScottish Labour has said the focus of the next parliament should be on recovering from the pandemic and rebuilding the country's economy and health service rather than arguing about the constitution.\n\nBut the Scottish Greens believe a referendum is needed within the next five years because \"decisions about Scotland should be made by the Scottish people.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAn investigation by BBC Africa Eye has uncovered evidence that a massacre in northern Ethiopia was carried out by members of the Ethiopian military. It also reveals the precise location of the atrocity, in which at least 15 men were killed.\n\nIn early March, a series of five video clips surfaced on social media showing armed, uniformed men leading a group of unarmed men to the edge of a cliff, shooting some at point blank range, and pushing dead bodies over the cliff.\n\nUnarmed men in civilian clothes seen on the ground shortly before the massacre began\n\nThe BBC has confirmed that the massacre took place close to the town of Mahbere Dego in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region, where the Ethiopian army is fighting the forces of the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), previously the region's ruling party.\n\nThe fighting began last November when the government launched a military offensive against the TPLF, which Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed accused of attacking a government military base. The TPLF is opposed to efforts by Mr Abiy to increase the power of the federal government, and has said it is committed to \"extended resistance\".\n\nThe conflict has so far displaced more than two million people, according to Tigray's interim administration, and left more than four million people in need of aid.\n\nThe BBC Africa Eye investigations team, working together with analysts from the media outlets Bellingcat and Newsy, set out to establish where the massacre took place.\n\nThe first people to post the clips to social media claimed they were filmed near Mahbere Dego. Africa Eye analysed geographical features seen in the videos, including a dirt road, a plateau, and an escarpment with a distinctive profile, and compared them with satellite imagery of the area around the town.\n\nAn escarpment with a distinctive profile was used to compare the footage with satellite imagery\n\nThe direction and length of shadows cast by the armed men helped to pinpoint the likely time of day and showed that the escarpment was oriented north-south, allowing Africa Eye to identify a likely location.\n\nA ridgeline in the video footage was then overlaid on a topographical map of the location to confirm it was an exact match. A dry riverbed, band of vegetation, and pattern of trees further confirmed the match.\n\nFootage from one of the video clips was overlaid on a 3D rendering of the terrain to find a match\n\nVegetation seen in the footage was matched against the 3D satellite model\n\nThe BBC spoke by phone to a resident of Mahbere Dego, who said the Ethiopian army took away 73 men from the town and surrounding area in January this year, including three of his relatives. He said none of them had been heard from since.\n\nThe BBC also spoke to a resident in a neighbouring village who said that his brother was among those killed in this massacre. He said that the killings took place in Mahbere Dego, and gave the same month: January 2021 - the government had declared victory in the conflict in November.\n\n\"They killed them at the cliff,\" he said.\n\nAfrica Eye was not able to confirm the identities of the armed men seen in the video footage, but the details of their uniforms - including the camouflage pattern and arm badge in the colour of the Ethiopian flag - appear to match those worn by the Ethiopian National Defence Force (ENDF).\n\nOther features also match the ENDF uniform, including the cut and style of the pockets. One of the armed men wears a green beret bearing an insignia that appears to closely match the colour and insignia of the ENDF beret.\n\nBadges in the colour of the Ethiopian flag and the specific camouflage patterns seen on the armed men in the footage (right) match those worn by ENDF soldiers (left).\n\nThe armed men are speaking Amharic, the main official language of Ethiopia. In the first of the five video clips, they can be heard speaking to one another as they stand around the group of unarmed men, who are seated on the floor.\n\n\"We should not free these people. Not even one of them should be spared,\" says a voice off camera.\n\n\"We have to get this on video, how these people die,\" says another voice.\n\nMore about the conflict in Tigray:\n\nThe next four clips show the unarmed men being led at gunpoint towards the cliff edge, and capture the armed men killing several prisoners and pushing the bodies of the dead over the cliff.\n\nIn some sections of the footage, the gunmen can be seen firing bullets from close range into the bodies. In others they can be heard insulting and mocking the dead.\n\n\"I wish we could pour gas over them and burn them,\" says a voice off camera in one clip.\n\n\"It would have been great if there was gas to burn these people,\" replies a second voice. \"Burn their bodies like the Indians do.\"\n\nThe identity of the victims, who are seen wearing civilian clothes, is not known. They can be heard speaking Tigrinya, the language of the Tigray region. In the footage, the killers appear to suggest they believe the victims belong to the TPLF.\n\n\"This is the end of woyane,\" says a voice of one of the armed men, using a slang term for the TPLF.\n\nDisplaced people at a temporary shelter in Tigray last month\n\nLaetitia Bader, the Horn of Africa director for Human Rights Watch, told the BBC that observers had seen \"a whole magnitude of very serious abuses\" in the region in recent months, but that this footage was \"obviously particularly alarming\".\n\n\"We see what appear to be unarmed detained men, who are being executed,\" she said. \"This is absolutely an incident that requires further investigation, because what we are seeing here in these videos could amount to war crimes.\"\n\nThe BBC put the evidence it had gathered to the Ethiopian government, which said in a statement that \"social media posts and claims cannot be taken as evidence\", adding that the Tigray region was \"open for independent investigations to be undertaken\".", "About one in five people have symptoms of long Covid five weeks after an initial infection and one in seven after 12 weeks, an Office for National Statistics (ONS) survey suggests.\n\nIt estimates that 1.1 million people were affected in the UK in the four weeks from 6 February.\n\nAbout 20% of people said ongoing symptoms limited their day-to-day activities a lot.\n\nPeople were asked to report their own symptoms.\n\nThe ONS survey asked people if they faced issues such as fatigue lasting more than four weeks after a Covid infection that could not be explained by anything else. The most common ongoing problems included fatigue, coughs, headaches and muscle pain.\n\nA separate ONS study estimates coronavirus infections fell slightly in England and Scotland, rose in Northern Ireland and stayed roughly the same in Wales in the week to 27 March.\n\nDespite a slight uptick in infections in children of secondary school age in the week to 20 March, there was no indication of that trend continuing in the latest figures.\n\nAmong people aged 50-69, the study suggests a decrease in the percentage testing positive, which may be a result of this age group being offered vaccinations against Covid-19 in recent weeks.\n\nThere is no universally agreed definition of long Covid, but it covers a broad range of symptoms.\n\nMeanwhile, in the latest daily figures, the government said that a further 4,479 people had tested positive for coronavirus and another 51 people had died within 28 days of a positive test. Although that latter figure is slightly up on the previous day, it is lower than the 63 announced last Thursday.\n\nAnd after Tuesday saw more second vaccinations than first jabs, that accelerated dramatically in Wednesday figures that have just been released. While there were 241,906 making their first trip to the vaccine clinic, there were 404,922 getting their follow-up dose.\n\nLong Covid is an emerging phenomenon that is not yet fully understood, and the estimates from the ONS are preliminary.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dr Natalie MacDermott, 38: \"I used to run, now I can walk 200 metres\"\n\nMost people who get coronavirus feel better in a few days or weeks, and the majority will make a full recovery within 12 weeks. But for some people, symptoms can last longer.\n\nPeople who had mild symptoms at first can still have long-term problems.\n\nNHS England has invested £10m in specialist long Covid clinics. Health officials say anyone who is worried about symptoms a month after getting the virus should speak to their GP.\n\nWhat has been your experience of the pandemic? Have you had Long Covid? Have you been shielding? 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.", "Wales' opposition parties have responded to the Welsh Government's plans for the latest easing of lockdown restrictions.\n\nWelsh Conservative Senedd leader Andrew RT Davies said it was “good to see” Mr Drakeford “had bought into the idea of a roadmap”.\n\n“Although it's very late in the day,” he told Wales Today.\n\nHe said it was “unfortunate” that further funding had not been made available to the hospitality sector.\n\n“What’s really dumbfounding is that despite his mental health ministers' assurances that gyms will be one of the first facilities to open, they are now not going to open until May.”\n\nHe said outdoor hospitality should be opening on 12 April - in line with plans in England.\n\nPlaid Cymru’s Adam Price said the government should move faster with easing restrictions.\n\n“We've also been calling for a much more accelerated timetable in terms of reopening gyms, because of their importance in terms of mental and physical well-being.\n\n\"So, I think it's disappointing to see that being delayed until May the 10th,” he told Wales Today.\n\n“There are dangers of course in moving too fast but there’s an equal danger of being over cautious”.\n\nRodney Berman, of the Welsh Liberal Democrats, said: “I think we are broadly satisfied with the pace.”\n\nHe welcomed the planned move to alert level three.\n\n“The fact that we've got a bit of a roadmap here, that we've got a bit more clarity for various sectors - hospitality, gyms, I think, is to be welcomed.\n\n“[But] you’ll be able to go into a beer garden before you'll be able to take part in even an outdoor exercise class.\n\n“The important thing is that we do now have a roadmap for when different things are going to open up, but we maybe do need to look at the level of financial support to businesses that aren't quite able to open yet.”", "The formation of the NHS after World War Two should serve as a template for how healthcare is delivered post-Covid, the head of the NHS has said.\n\nSir Simon Stevens says the demands of dealing with the coronavirus pandemic led the NHS to change rapidly and find new ways of working.\n\n\"People have said this was the biggest health challenge since World War Two,\" he said.\n\n\"It was in preparation for the Blitz in 1939 that hospitals started working together in the embryonic emergency service and that became the embryonic NHS.\n\n\"You could argue that over the last 12 months the way the NHS has mobilised for the vaccination programme, and also the way hospitals worked together to ensure patients got the intensive care they needed, with better working with community services and local government - that sets the blueprint for the next phase of what our NHS needs to be.\"\n\nSir Simon argues that the vaccination programme is a particular example of how different parts of the NHS came together with community organisations, and successfully targeted the groups in the population to offer jabs.\n\nIt's already happening in schemes including the Healthy Hearts project in Skipton, Yorkshire.\n\nThe scheme was designed to identify people at risk of heart and circulatory disease, but who have not been having regular blood pressure checks. They are invited to come in for monitoring and assessments of appropriate medication and advice on whether their lifestyles could be changed.\n\nOne of those who has been helped by the team is Ray Bartlett, 77, who has diabetes and was overweight. He used to struggle to walk for more than 15 minutes.\n\nHis high blood pressure was noted, and he then got a letter from the GP practice asking if he wanted to join a course including advice on healthy eating. As a result he lost three-and-a-half stone and 10 inches from his waistline.\n\n\"I thought drinking lots of orange juice was good for you, but I learned it was going straight into my kidney and that's having a bad effect,\" Ray said.\n\n\"It was chips with everything, but now we have cut out potatoes completely.\"\n\nRay's medication has been cut from 10 to two tablets for diabetes and related problems under the programme.\n\n\"I feel vastly fitter, usually walking for one to two hours a day. It's changed my life,\" he said.\n\n\"When the whole of the NHS comes together we can make a major difference,\" Sir Simon says. \"The vaccination campaign is succeeding - the health service has got to take some of the things which have worked so well in the vaccination programme and apply them to cancer screening, heart disease and other ways of helping prevent illness,\"\n\nSkipton GP Dr James Thomas says it's all about proactive intervention, and identifying people who might need help to reduce the risk of heart disease. He says Ray's example is \"wonderful\".\n\n\"It's not only the weight loss and his blood pressure is better controlled, his diabetes is better controlled, he's not breathless any more, not in pain with his knees and basically his wellbeing is a lot better.\"\n\nThe Healthy Hearts programme was instigated by the West Yorkshire and Harrogate Integrated Care System - and ICSs are now in place across England.\n\nThe idea is to bring together hospital, community, mental health trusts, and GPs with local authorities and other care providers in each region to encourage a joined-up approach to dealing with the health needs of the local population.", "People gathered at the Castlefield Bowl in Manchester\n\nHundreds of people who ignored Covid rules to attend an illegal rave in a city centre have been condemned as \"selfish and dangerous\".\n\nPeople were seen singing and dancing along to a DJ set at the Castlefield Bowl outdoor arena in Manchester on Wednesday evening.\n\nGreater Manchester Police (GMP) said officers were trying to find out who organised the gathering.\n\nCouncillor Pat Karney said the people were \"letting Manchester down\".\n\n\"If you play live music at any of these gatherings your equipment will be seized,\" said the Labour councillor, who is an associate member of the Manchester City Council executive.\n\nCastlefield Bowl is used for outdoor concerts or gatherings such as a live screenings of football matches.\n\nOn Tuesday, Heath Secretary Matt Hancock tweeted to say \"don't blow it\" as thousands gathered to enjoy the weather in outdoor spaces, prompting social distancing concerns.\n\nGMP said officers spent all of Wednesday patrolling the Castlefield Bowl area and \"were continually monitoring and engaging with groups of individuals to engage, explain and encourage compliance with the Covid rules and regulations\".\n\nThe force said music equipment was set up as numbers increased in the evening.\n\n\"As officers attempted to engage with a group at the scene they were met with hostility causing them to withdraw,\" a spokesman said.\n\nGMP said the gathering was \"swiftly dispersed\" when reinforcements arrived.\n\nNo fixed penalty notices were issued \"but inquiries are ongoing to locate the organiser\", the force added.\n\n\"I accept it has been hard but rules are rules,\" he said.\n\nThe gathering has been described as \"selfish and dangerous\"\n\nInsp Jonathan Shilvock said the gathering was a \"clear breach\" of coronavirus rules and regulations.\n\n\"We appreciate that people will want to socialise due to the warm weather and the recent relaxation of the rules, but I want to remind people that this pandemic is not over and we all share a collective responsibility in complying with the rules and keeping infection rates down,\" he said.\n\nCouncillor Rabnawaz Akbar, executive member for neighbourhoods, said the easing of lockdown restrictions did not allow for public spaces to be left in \"disgraceful state\" by \"selfishness pure and simple\".\n\nBy Thursday morning, volunteers and council contractors had removed 58 bags of waste.\n\nMr Akbar urged people to \"be considerate and to either put rubbish in the bin, or take it home with you\".\n\n\"It was encouraging to see so many people come out to help clear up, it is frustrating they had to do this in the first place,\" he said.\n\nGary Rumens said seeing the area used for the rave was upsetting\n\nGary Rumens, from Castlefield Litter Pickers which helped with the clean up, said residents were \"disappointed and angry\".\n\n\"We're got a tight-knit community and to see such an open space like this being used like this is upsetting,\" he said.\n\nLynne Cade, who lives nearby on a boat, said she was \"extremely tired\" and \"very tearful\" after the illegal rave and was planning to move out of the area.\n\n\"My boat is my home and my sanctuary and I'm extremely anxious now,\" the university lecturer said.\n\nResident Lynne Cade said she was planning to move from the area\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Officials have identified the gunman in a shooting inside an office building in southern California that left four people dead, including a nine-year-old boy.\n\nThe child died while being embraced by another victim, police said.\n\nThe Wednesday attack in Orange, 30 miles south of Los Angeles, ended when officers shot and wounded the suspect.\n\nPolice said he had \"a business and personal relationship\" with his victims, but did not confirm a motive.\n\nThe suspect, Aminadab Gaxiola Gonzalez, 44, is in hospital and there is no current threat to the public, they said.\n\nAccording to police, a fifth victim is also in hospital. None of the victims will be identified until next of kin have been informed.\n\nPolice were called to the scene by multiple reports of shots fired inside the courtyard of the two-storey building on Lincoln Avenue.\n\nAt a news conference Thursday, officials said they had to use bolt cutters to enter the premises because the doors were locked.\n\nOrange Police spokeswoman Lt Jennifer Amat described the city as \"very safe\" and \"usually quiet\".\n\nWednesday's shooting is the deadliest in Orange since 1997, Ms Amat said.\n\n\"Our hearts are with the families impacted by this terrible tragedy tonight,\" he said on Twitter.\n\nThe attack is the third mass shooting in the US in just over two weeks. Eight people were killed inside spas in Atlanta, Georgia, on 16 March. Ten people were shot dead in a Boulder, Colorado, grocery store on 22 March.\n\nPresident Joe Biden has vowed to take \"common-sense steps\" to crackdown on firearms, renewing his call to ban assault weapons and urging Congress to pass bills that would end loopholes in background checks.", "Mr Trump frequently used social media to bypass the mainstream media during his presidency\n\nFacebook has removed a video of former US President Donald Trump from the page of his daughter-in-law Lara Trump.\n\nThe social media giant banned Mr Trump from its platform in January following riots by his supporters on the Capitol building in Washington.\n\nLara Trump, a new Fox News contributor, posted a video of herself interviewing Mr Trump on a range of issues.\n\nShe later posted a screenshot of an email she received from Facebook warning her of the ban.\n\n\"In line with the block we placed on Donald Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts, further content posted in the voice of Donald Trump will be removed and result in additional limitations on the account,\" an email from \"Katelyn\" read.\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 laraleatrump 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\nLara Trump, who is married to Mr Trump's son Eric, instead posted the interview for her own online show The Right View on the video platform Rumble and linked to it from her Facebook page.\n\n\"And just like that, we are one step closer to Orwell's 1984. Wow,\" she commented on her Instagram account.\n\nLong-time Trump supporter and Fox News TV host Sean Hannity described the move as \"extreme censorship\" in a tweet.\n\nFacebook's suspension of Mr Trump's account on 7 January - a day after the Capitol riots - is being reviewed by its new Oversight Board, which was set up to rule on controversial moderation decisions.\n\nDefending the ban at the time, Facebook chief Mark Zuckerburg said: \"We believe the risks of allowing the president to continue to use our service during this period are simply too great.\"\n\nDonald Trump was also banned from Twitter and YouTube.", "Crime victims are to be told when an offender leaves prison as part of a new code that has come into force in England and Wales.\n\nThe Victims' Code ensures access to extra information and support, such as enabling victims of rape to choose the gender of their police interviewer.\n\nJustice Secretary Robert Buckland said it gave victims a \"simplified and stronger set of rights\".\n\nA consultation on a new victims' law will take place later this year.\n\nUnder the new code, which brings together 12 \"overarching rights\", victims will be told what to expect at every stage of the justice system - regardless of whether they choose to report the crime or not, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) said.\n\nAmong the changes, it will ensure:\n\nAs part of the code, victims will also be given the right to be informed of the reasons why a suspect is not being prosecuted. If unhappy, they will be able to ask the police or Crown Prosecution Service to review this decision.\n\nThe MoJ said the code paved the way for a new victims' law, on which ministers will consult this summer.\n\nThis would seek to underpin victims' rights in legislation and ensure justice agencies are held to account for delivering them, the MoJ said.\n\nJustice Secretary Robert Buckland said: \"Having worked for over 25 years as a criminal barrister, I know how daunting the justice system can be for victims, which is why the information and support they receive is so vital.\n\n\"Our new code provides victims with a simplified and stronger set of rights, making clear their entitlements at every step of the way as they recover from crime.\n\n\"But we are not stopping here and will consult on strengthening these rights even further through a Victims' Law as we continue to build back confidence in the justice system.\"\n\nIt comes amid a record backlog of cases in the Crown Court, with some cases being timetabled for 2023.\n\nThe Victims' Commissioner for England and Wales, Dame Vera Baird QC, has previously warned of mounting evidence of a loss of confidence in criminal justice.\n\nDame Vera said: \"This new, simplified Victims' Code represents a positive step forward for victims. These 12 rights are well set out and should provide some much-needed clarity for victims and victims' services.\"\n\nShe also welcomed the government's promise to consult on victims' legislation in the summer, having previously called for this.\n\nAndreana De Vecchis, a sexual violence adviser at the charity Victim Support, is to help ensure victims get access to the support outlined in the code.\n\nShe said: \"Working with victims of rape I know the prospect of reporting a crime to the police, and attending court can put a huge emotional strain on people.\n\n\"It is my job to take survivors through every step of the process, explaining the rights they have under the Victims' Code and making sure they receive them.\n\n\"At every step my priority is the victim and empowering them to get the support they need from the justice system - whether they choose to report crimes or not.\"\n• None New Victims’ Code comes into force The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pfizer says its vaccine is preventing 91% of coronavirus cases in the six months after people are immunised.\n\nAnd a separate study shows even people in their 80s and 90s are producing impressive levels of antibodies after receiving both doses of the vaccine.\n\nOnly 63% of them, however, also produce the T-cells that help maintain those antibodies in the longer term.\n\nAnd the crucial question of how long the protection from the vaccine lasts remains unanswered.\n\nPfizer analysed data from 46,000 people on the original clinical trial, exactly six months after their second dose.\n\nIt also looked at 800 trial participants in South Africa and concluded the vaccine was equally effective against the variant identified there - despite laboratory studies suggesting people's antibodies were less effective at attacking this variant.\n\n\"The high vaccine efficacy observed through up to six months following a second dose and against the variant prevalent in South Africa provides further confidence in our vaccine's overall effectiveness,\" chairman and chief executive officer Albert Bourla said.\n\nSimilar, long-term studies are taking place for all the vaccines including Oxford-AstraZeneca, but Pfizer has been the first to report.\n\nSeparate research by the University of Birmingham looked at what happened to the immune systems of 100 80- to and 96-year-olds.\n\nBlood samples showed high levels of antibodies able to effectively neutralise the original coronavirus.\n\nAgainst the variant identified Brazil, however, they were 14 times less effective.\n\nAlthough, the researchers were confident those who had received the Pfizer vaccine would still be protected against the Brazil variant because their levels of antibodies were so high.\n\nHowever, only 63% of people in this age group produced a detectable T-cell response.\n\n\"It is not clear what that means for clinical protection in the longer term,\" one of the researchers, Dr Helen Parry, said.\n\nT-cells can kill the cells in the body that have been hijacked and turned into coronavirus factories.\n\nBut they also help maintain levels of antibodies over time.\n\n\"That's something we'll keep an eye on very closely,\" researcher Prof Paul Moss said.", "Witnesses to the arrest of George Floyd have given emotional testimony about being at the scene of Mr Floyd's arrest.\n\nMr Floyd's girlfriend, the teenager who filmed the viral video from the scene and a city fire-fighter who begged police to check Mr Floyd's pulse are among those who have testified they watched Mr Floyd under the knee of ex-police officer Derek Chauvin.\n\nThe former officer denies charges of murder and manslaughter, and his defence team heard from a police officer who responded to the scene of Mr Floyd's arrest, a use-of-force expert and a forensic pathologist.\n\nMr Chauvin has decided not to testify, invoking his Fifth Amendment right under the constitution to stay silent and avoid self-incrimination.\n\nHere's what we've heard so far.\n\n'I had lost a lot of faith in God when I met George'\n\nMr Floyd's girlfriend of the last three years, Courteney Ross, provided some of the most emotional testimony of the trial. She is, to date, the only witness to take the stand who personally knew Mr Floyd.\n\nShe described their first meeting in the lobby of a Salvation Army homeless shelter, where Mr Floyd worked as a security guard.\n\nMs Ross was waiting to see the father of her son, and she said Mr Floyd asked her to pray with him, a memorable and \"sweet\" gesture at a time when she \"had lost a lot of faith in God\".\n\nShe said it was \"one of my favourite stories to tell\". The couple shared their first kiss that night, she said.\n\nMs Ross also told the court they both suffered from chronic pain, which led to an off and on struggle with opioid addiction.\n\n\"We got addicted and tried really hard to break that addiction many times,\" she testified.\n\nShe did not specifically address whether Mr Floyd was using opioids on the day he died.\n\n'If I would have just not taken the bill, this could have been avoided'\n\nThe teenage store clerk who says he believes that Mr Floyd unknowingly paid for cigarettes with a fake $20 bill told the court he was grappling with feelings of guilt over Mr Floyd's death.\n\nMr Martin, 19, said he had also been living in the building above Cup Foods, but moved after the incident and stopped working at the store.\n\nHe said Mr Floyd \"appeared to be high\" that day because he struggled to respond to a simple question, but that he was lucid enough to hold a conversation. He described Mr Floyd as \"friendly and approachable\".\n\nMr Martin, who witnessed the arrest, said he felt \"disbelief and guilt\" because \"if I'd have just not taken the bill, this could have been avoided\".\n\n'I did call the police on the police'\n\nAmong those to testify was a security guard and former wrestler trained in mixed martial arts who was heard in the viral video of Mr Floyd's arrest calling the officers \"punks\" and \"murderers\".\n\nMr Williams, 33, had gone fishing with his son earlier that day, and had gone to Cup Foods to get a drink.\n\n\"I did call the police on the police. I believe I witnessed a murder. I felt the need to call the police on the police,\" he testified.\n\n\"That was bogus, what they just did,\" he told the 911 dispatcher, according to a recording of the call played in court.\n\nMr Williams alleged he witnessed Mr Chauvin use a \"blood choke\" to cut off the airway, and a \"shimmy\" hold to keep up the pressure on Mr Floyd.\n\nHe said he watched Mr Floyd's life \"fade away, like a fish in a bag\".\n\nUnder cross-examination, he took issue with the notion that he and the crowd were growing \"angrier and angrier\".\n\nHe said his words \"grew more and more pleading for life\", as Mr Floyd fell unconscious.\n\nWhen defence lawyer Eric Nelson repeated the question, Mr Williams again objected.\n\n\"I grew professional and professional,\" he said. \"I stayed in my body. You can't paint me out to be angry.\"\n\n'It's not part of our training and it's certainly not part of our ethics or values'\n\nThe Minneapolis police chief, who oversees around 800 officers in the city, was one of the most high profile witnesses for the prosecution.\n\nChief Arradondo, the city's first African-American police chief, fired Mr Chauvin one day after the arrest and previously condemned his actions as \"murder\".\n\nDuring the trial, he testified that Mr Chauvin violated police procedures.\n\nHe said that Mr Chauvin had shown some \"initial reasonableness\" when he used force on Mr Floyd as he resisting getting in the back of the police car.\n\nBut when Mr Floyd had stopped resisting and \"clearly when Mr Floyd was no longer responsive and even motionless, to continue to apply that level of force to a person prone out, hands cuffed behind their back - that in no way, shape or form is anything that is by policy,\" Chief Arradondo said.\n\n\"It's not part of our training and it's certainly not part of our ethics or values.\"\n\n'My instincts were telling me something is wrong'\n\nThe first witness called to testify was a 911 dispatcher who had sent police to Cup Foods, where Mr Floyd had allegedly bought cigarettes with a counterfeit bill.\n\nMs Scurry watched the arrest unfold on a live CCTV feed on a camera across the street from the shop, and thought that the video had \"frozen\" due to how long the three officers remained on top of Mr Floyd.\n\n\"They were still on the ground. That whole situation was still the same,\" she said, noting that she was also being distracted by other work matters at the time.\n\n\"My instincts were telling me something is wrong, something is not right. I don't know what, but something was not right,\" she said. \"It was an extended period of time.\"\n\nShe called a supervisory sergeant to report what she saw. \"Call me a snitch if you want to,\" she said according to audio of the call, adding \"all of them sat on this man\".\n\n'We're lucky it was video-taped'\n\nThe off-duty Minneapolis city fire-fighter was hoping to have \"a peaceful day\" and went for a walk, she testified.\n\nShe noticed the lights of the police car, and wondered if her co-workers were responding to a fire.\n\n\"As I got closer there was a woman across the street screaming that they were killing him,\" said Ms Hansen, 27, who is also a trained emergency medical technician (EMT).\n\n\"I was concerned to see a handcuffed man who was not moving with officers with their whole body weight on his back and a crowd who was stressed out,\" she said.\n\nMs Hansen described pleading with the officers to check Mr Floyd's pulse and to begin CPR. One officer, she said, told her that \"if you really are a Minneapolis fire-fighter you would know better than to get involved\".\n\nThere were several heated moments during Ms Hansen's cross-examination by the defence.\n\nWhen Mr Chauvin's attorney asked her if the crowd had been \"upset or angry\", she replied: \"I don't know if you've seen anybody be killed, but it's upsetting.\"\n\nIn another testy response after she was challenged over her recollection of the incident, she said: \"We're lucky it was video taped.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe first bystander on the scene of George Floyd's arrest was 61-year-old Charles McMillian, a self-described \"nosy\" resident.\n\nHe pled repeatedly with Mr Floyd to \"get up and get in the car\" and told him \"you can't win\". He also said the officers looked like they were trying to \"hogtie\" him.\n\nWhile viewing graphic footage of the arrest in court, Mr McMillian broke down in tears and was unable to continue his testimony for a while. In the video, the court heard him tell Mr Chauvin: \"Your knee on his neck - that's wrong man.\"\n\nHe described feeling \"helpless\" seeing the incident unfold.\n\nMr McMillian said that he confronted officer Derek Chauvin after Mr Floyd was taken away in an ambulance because \"what I watched was wrong\".\n\n\"I think I said to him: 'Five days ago I told you at the end of the day go home to your family safe, and that the next person go home to their family safe, but today I gotta look at you as a maggot,'\" he said.\n\n'I stay up apologising and apologising to George Floyd'\n\n\"When I look at George Floyd, I look at my dad. I look at my brothers, I look at my cousins, my uncles. Because they are all black,\" said the 18-year-old that filmed the viral video of the arrest.\n\n\"I look at that and I look at how that could have been one of them,\" said Darnella, the first of four witnesses who the judge permitted to speak off-camera because they were minors at the time of the incident.\n\n\"It's been nights I stay up apologising and apologising to George Floyd for not doing more and not physically interacting and not saving his life,\" she continued.\n\n\"But it's not what I should have done. It's what he should have done,\" she said in a reference to Mr Chauvin.\n\nDarnella's nine-year-old cousin testified that Mr Chauvin did not take his knee off Mr Floyd's neck even after ambulance workers had told him to.\n\n\"I was sad and kind of mad, and it felt like it was stopping his breathing and it was hurting him,\" she replied when asked how the event made her feel.\n\n\"It sounded like he was hurting,\" she added.\n\n'I was failing to do anything'\n\nAnother teenager present that day said she felt powerless to help as she saw Mr Chauvin work to maintain pressure on Mr Floyd.\n\n\"I kind of saw him move his knee down more,\" said the 18-year-old, \"down onto Mr Floyd's neck.\"\n\n\"I felt like there wasn't really anything I could do,\" Alyssa continued. \"As a bystander I was powerless there, and I was failing to do anything.\"\n\nAsked why she shouted to Mr Chauvin to release Mr Floyd, she said: \"I knew time was running out or it had already... That he was going to die.\"\n\n\"He was like digging his knee into George Floyd's neck,\" testified the 17-year-old.\n\nShe added that Mr Chauvin \"did grab his Mace and started shaking it at us... I didn't know what was going to happen.\"\n\n\"I was scared of Chauvin,\" she added.\n\n'Derek Chauvin was justified and acting with objective reasonableness'\n\nThe use-of-force expert, called by the Chauvin defence team, said \"the imminent threat\" posed by Mr Floyd was a major factor in his detention.\n\n\"I felt that Derek Chauvin was justified and acting with objective reasonableness following Minneapolis police department policy and current standards of law enforcement in his interaction with George Floyd,\" he said.\n\n\"From a police officer's standpoint, you don't have to wait for it to happen. You just have to have a reasonable fear that somebody is going to strike you, stab you, shoot you.\"\n\nMr Brodd added: \"It's easy to sit in an office and judge an officer's conduct. It's more of a challenge to put yourself in the officer's shoes, to try to make an evaluation through what they are feeling, what they're sensing, the fear they have, and then make a determination.\"\n\nDefence lawyer Eric Nelson asked Mr Brodd: \"Was this a deadly use of force?\"\n\n\"No, it was not,\" Mr Brodd replied.\n\nCross-examining Mr Brodd, the prosecution maintained that the dangers of positional asphyxia - not being able to breathe in a certain position - were well known.\n\n\"Would you agree that that's something commonly understood in law enforcement?\" prosecutor Steve Schleicher asked.\n\n\"Yes,\" Mr Brodd replied, confirming it was not new information.\n\n'So many conflicting different potential mechanisms'\n\nThe forensic pathologist who was chief medical examiner for the state of Maryland until his retirement in 2019 said the cause of Mr Floyd's death was not clear.\n\nHe was questioned about the findings of the Hennepin County medical examiner, who ruled Mr Floyd's death a homicide.\n\n\"I would fall back to undetermined, in this particular case,\" Dr Fowler testified.\n\nHe said, in his opinion, the cause of death was not clear because there were \"so many conflicting different potential mechanisms\". These complicating factors, he said, could be considered homicide in some cases, and accidental in others.\n\nMr Floyd's consumption of fentanyl and methamphetamine, and his possible exposure to carbon monoxide poisoning from the police car's exhaust, were among the complicating factors cited by Dr Fowler.\n\nAsked about the cause of death, Dr Fowler said he believed Mr Floyd suffered \"a sudden cardiac arrest\" while struggling with the officers.\n\nDr Fowler said Mr Floyd's health problems contributed to an erratic beating of his heart, known as sudden cardiac arrhythmia.\n\nThe Minneapolis Park Police officer responded to the scene of Mr Floyd's arrest and said the crowd of bystanders was \"very aggressive to the officers\".\n\n\"Did that cause you any concern?\" Defence lawyer Eric Nelson asked him.\n\n\"Concern for the officers' safety, yes,\" Mr Chang replied.", "Hannam in police uniform - he had appeared in a neo-Nazi propaganda video two days before he applied to join\n\nMetropolitan Police officer Ben Hannam has been convicted of membership of the banned neo-Nazi group National Action.\n\nThe deception was as easy as ticking a box.\n\nIn 2017, on his application form to join the Metropolitan Police, Ben Hannam was asked if he had ever been in the far-right British National Party or any organisations whose aims \"may contradict the duty to promote race equality\".\n\nOnce accepted, he spent two years in the force, working among communities in north London, even interviewing suspects on his own.\n\nBut, just two days before he applied to join the force, he had appeared in a neo-Nazi propaganda video.\n\nHannam in a NS131 propaganda video made the same month he applied to join the police\n\nAt school he had a girlfriend of Mauritian and Muslim heritage, as well as friends from various ethnic backgrounds.\n\nSeveral gave evidence at his trial, saying he never showed any prejudice towards them.\n\nOne grandparent is gay. Another step-grandparent is Jewish.\n\nYet Hannam spent his weekends with neo-Nazis and collected a library of fascist literature.\n\nHis beliefs were noticed by some.\n\nA teacher told the trial she had been unable to mark one essay submitted by Hannam - the first time this had happened in 20 years of teaching - because of \"concerning content\" and his \"intolerance\" towards Islam.\n\nHe was also spoken to after students at his diverse school reacted to \"anti-immigration\" views he espoused during a debate.\n\nThe Met never took a reference from the school.\n\nAfter he was charged, three experts agreed Hannam was autistic and that this was relevant to his interest in fascism, an ideology historically associated with order and structure.\n\nOne said Hannam was well aware of what National Action stood for. The others said his autism meant it took him some time to realise the group was \"morally bad\".\n\nProsecutors said his diagnosis did not excuse his conduct or explain why he sought friends in a neo-Nazi group.\n\nHannam had joined National Action (NA) in early 2016 while studying for his A-levels.\n\nHe was active online, including on the image board 4Chan, and was attracted to NA after watching videos of co-founders Alex Davies and Ben Raymond.\n\nAfter writing to the group, Hannam was invited to meet older members in London and was soon travelling north to attend an annual conference in Liverpool, where he posed for a photo next to a man doing a Nazi salute which featured in a film of the event.\n\nUsing an alias, he joined a neo-Nazi web forum called Iron March, which spawned several extremist groups around the world.\n\nIn one forum thread started by Hannam, entitled \"Muslim shoots white man in London\", he asked for \"thoughts and advice\".\n\nWhen one user replied by discussing how to get a firearm, Hannam wrote: \"Care to help me out in this topic then? I don't know where to start with obtaining one besides a shotgun, and I don't think they'd be of much use\".\n\nHe also used the website to help another student apply to NA.\n\nHe suggested the teenager tone down his application, as otherwise \"you'll get the police knocking at your door\".\n\nDuring his trial, Hannam claimed \"there are no pictures of me doing a Nazi salute\".\n\nBut the BBC has identified him at a fight training event, filmed for an NA propaganda video, which he arranged to attend in August 2016 with the other teenager.\n\nThe film shows Hannam boxing with leading member Mark Jones, their faces blurred, with the whole group then saluting together for the camera.\n\nThe BBC has identified Hannam (circled) saluting in a 2016 NA propaganda video\n\nThat summer, NA - founded as a youth movement three years earlier - used social media to glorify the murder of the Labour MP Jo Cox by a neo-Nazi.\n\nBy the end of the year it was outlawed in the UK as a terrorist organisation, making it illegal to remain a member.\n\nIn 2017 the organisation re-emerged under new aliases, including NS131.\n\nHannam continued to meet other members, pose for propaganda images to promote the new brand, and attend fight training. Another event, not attended by Hannam, saw members practise knife combat in a forest.\n\nCounter-terror police seized clear, raw footage of these events in September that year, when they arrested Mark Jones and the NA co-founder Alex Davies.\n\nBut, despite the small numbers at each gathering, Hannam was not identified.\n\nHannam (in white) boxing with Oskar Dunn-Koczorowski, watched by National Action co-founder Alex Davies (L) in spring 2017\n\nDifferent counter-terror teams around the UK had responsibility for different group members, but some people - who may have appeared peripheral - were not a focus.\n\nInvestigations had already revealed several soldiers were members of an NA chat group.\n\nOne soldier, Mikko Vehvilainen, was stockpiling weapons and would later be convicted of membership\n\nDuring exchanges with other senior figures, Vehvilainen said members should focus on gaining \"military and key civil positions\".\n\nHannam was only caught after anti-fascists leaked data online from the Iron March forum.\n\nDetectives reviewed IP addresses for British forum users, tracing the account used by Hannam to his north London home.\n\nThe police investigation found no evidence he had been involved with NA after July 2017.\n\nHowever, there are hints that he did not break all contact with his past.\n\nHannam at his passing out parade being reviewed by the Met Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick\n\nEven before his arrest, people involved in the group knew that one of their former members had joined the police, the BBC has established.\n\nHannam also continued to access and save disturbing content, including an image glorifying the perpetrator of New Zealand's Christchurch massacre.\n\nIn November 2018, he saved a photo to his phone of NA associate Oskar Dunn-Koczorowski, who was arrested for terrorism offences the following month, but whose image was not yet public.\n\nIn court, Hannam claimed he simply chanced across it online, but how it actually came into his possession is unclear.\n\nCommander Richard Smith, head of the Met's counter terrorism command, said he was \"hugely concerned\" that a serving officer had been a member of a banned group, but that he was identified at the \"earliest\" opportunity and officers then moved quickly to make an arrest.", "Fewer than one in five people request a Covid-19 test if they have symptoms, while the number who follow full self-isolation rules is low, a large study of the test-and-trace system has found.\n\nThe report, published in the British Medical Journal, also found only half of people knew the main Covid symptoms.\n\nThese include a cough, high temperature and loss of taste or smell.\n\nExperts said the findings suggested the impact of the £37bn NHS Test and Trace system was \"limited\".\n\nThe Department for Health and Social Care said test-and-trace had saved \"countless lives\", adding that the latest ONS data found the \"overwhelming majority\" self-isolated when asked to.\n\nThe findings are based on 74,697 responses to online surveys from 53,880 people aged 16 or older living in the UK.\n\nIn total, 37 survey waves were carried out from 2 March last year to 27 January this year, with about 2,000 participants in each wave.\n\nExperts involved in the study, including from Public Health England's behavioural science team, found that just 18% of those with coronavirus symptoms said they had requested a test, while 43% with symptoms in the previous seven days adhered to full self-isolation.\n\nMen, younger people and those with young children were less likely to self-isolate, as were those from more working-class backgrounds, people experiencing greater financial hardship, and those working in key sectors.\n\nCommon reasons for not fully self-isolating included needing to go to the shops or work, for a medical need other than Covid-19, to care for a vulnerable person, to exercise or meet others, or because symptoms were only mild or got better.\n\nTest-and-trace, or contact tracing, is a system for identifying people who have been in close contact with someone who has caught Covid.\n\nThose people are then asked to self-isolate for 10 days - even if they have no symptoms - to prevent the chance of passing the virus on, if they do have it.\n\nEach UK nation has its own contact tracing service:\n\nThe report's authors, who also included experts from King's College London, said: \"With such low rates for symptom recognition, testing, and full self-isolation, the effectiveness of the current form of the UK's test, trace, and isolate system is limited.\"\n\nHowever, the team did acknowledge that while adherence to test, trace and isolate rules had been low, \"some improvement has occurred over time\".\n\nAcross all waves, 43% of people adhered to rules around self-isolation, though this improved in January to 52%.\n\nAccording to the latest Office for National Statistics data, 90% of people told they must self-isolate by NHS Test and Trace after being in contact with a positive Covid case did so.\n\nThe authors said greater practical and financial support was likely to improve adherence to the rules, adding that targeted messaging and policies for men, younger age groups and key workers might also be necessary.\n\nLast month, the Commons Public Accounts Committee said the impact of NHS Test and Trace was still unclear, despite the government setting aside £37bn for it over two years.\n\nMPs said the spending was \"unimaginable\" and warned the taxpayer could not be treated like an \"ATM machine\".\n\nAnd in December, the National Audit Office also criticised the scheme, saying it had not yet achieved its objectives.\n\nPaulette Hamilton, vice chairwoman of the Local Government Association's community wellbeing board, said the findings of the latest study were \"concerning\".\n\nShe said: \"Although the rollout of the vaccine is providing us with hope of a return to our normal way of life, the responsibility on us all to get ourselves tested when necessary and share our contacts on request will be needed for some time to come, in order to keep case rates as low as possible.\n\n\"It is also critical that everyone does the right thing and self-isolates when required. Key to this is making sure people understand what self-isolation means, feel able to comply and are supported to do so if necessary.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the head of the NHS has urged anyone who is eligible for a Covid-19 vaccine to book one immediately - and for people to turn up for second doses when called.\n\nNHS chief executive Sir Simon Stevens said: \"We're well on track to meet our 15 April goal of offering NHS Covid vaccination to everyone aged 50 and over, as well as other high risk groups.\n\n\"In just the past two weeks, we've now jabbed nearly 85% of people aged 50-54, and over three million of the highest risk people have also now had their top-up second dose.\"\n\nThe call comes as Wednesday's daily coronavirus figures showed continued falls in deaths, hospital admissions and infections.\n\nThere were 43 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test, 268 patients admitted into hospital and 4,052 new cases recorded, with the seven-day averages down by 39.9%, 22.6% and 11.5% respectively.\n\nA Department for Health and Social Care spokesman said: \"Since last May, NHS Test and Trace has contacted 3.2 million people who tested positive, and another 6.4 million of their contacts.\n\n\"Behind these numbers are countless lives saved and the latest ONS figures show that when people are asked to self-isolate, the overwhelming majority do so.\n\n\"It is vital that people continue to do their bit by isolating when they are asked to.\n\n\"As the prevalence of coronavirus falls, our testing and tracing system becomes more important in identifying and suppressing local outbreaks while also responding rapidly to the threat of new variants.\"", "John Le Carré was \"English to the core\" but was disillusioned after Brexit, his son says\n\nHe served as a British diplomat and an MI5 secret agent, but espionage writer John le Carré died an Irishman, his youngest son has said.\n\nNicholas Cornwell said his father, best known for his intricately plotted Cold War thrillers, gained Irish citizenship before his death in December.\n\nMr Cornwell told the BBC Le Carré was \"furious\" and disillusioned after Brexit.\n\nTowards the end of his life he began to research his Irish roots.\n\nThe author of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and The Spy Who Came in From the Cold discovered he was entitled to an Irish passport through his grandmother, Olive Wolfe, who was born in County Cork.\n\nHis application for citizenship was successful.\n\nJohn Le Carré's Irish connection became hugely important to him\n\nIn a new BBC Radio 4 documentary, A Writer and His County, Mr Cornwell said he gave his father an Irish flag for his last birthday.\n\n\"One of the last photographs I have of him is him sitting wrapped in an Irish flag, grinning his head off,\" he said.\n\nMr Cornwell said his father's Irish connection became hugely important to him.\n\n\"When the archivist who was helping him to research his roots in Skibbereen said 'welcome home', it was vastly moving for him, a huge emotional shift, an awareness of history and self which had genuinely eluded him his whole life,\" he said.\n\nLe Carré, who was born David Cornwell in 1931, entered a career in undercover intelligence after studying at Oxford.\n\nHe joined the Foreign Office, initially based at the British Embassy in Bonn, where he worked in the intelligence records department, a role which gave an insight into the workings of the secret service.\n\nHis first novel, Call For The Dead, was published in 1961.\n\nThe need for a pseudonym arose as Foreign Office officials were not allowed to publish books under their own name.\n\nHis career as a spy came to an end in 1964 after his name was one of many given to the Soviet Union by a double agent, an incident which inspired a plot line in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.\n\nDescribing himself as \"English to the core\", Le Carré deplored what he saw as the aggressive nationalistic sentiment behind Brexit.\n\nBefore his death he told CBS News' 60 Minutes: \"My England would be the one that recognises its place in the EU.\n\n\"The jingoistic England that is trying to march us out of the EU, that is an England I don't want to know.\"\n\nA Writer and His Country is broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Saturday evening.", "Rules to increase the minimum cost of single-use carrier bags in Scotland to 10p have come into force.\n\nMSPs backed a move to double the 5p price earlier this year but it was delayed by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe Scottish government has said it is important to increase the charge periodically to encourage the use of reusable options instead.\n\nThe 5p charge was introduced in 2014, with plastic bag usage dropping by 80% by the following year.\n\nThe price increase has been backed by environmental groups.\n\nFriends of the Earth Scotland's Sarah Moyes said: \"The huge success of the charge so far in cutting plastic waste shows the importance of targeted government action in protecting the environment.\n\n\"The plastic industry opposed these moves but time has once again shown them to have been in the wrong.\n\n\"In order to fully tackle Scotland's plastic crisis, we need the Scottish government to move quickly to bring forward further action including the forthcoming ban on environmentally harmful single-use items like plastic straws, plates and cutlery.\"\n\nEnvironment Secretary Roseanna Cunningham previously told MSPs that charging \"had already affected a massive change in the use of these carrier bags\".\n\nShe said: \"We know there are very significant benefits, we have seen them already, and I would imagine we will go on seeing them.\"", "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.", "Several witnesses gave emotional testimony on day three of Derek Chauvin's murder trial, and prosecutors released new arrest footage.\n\nMr Chauvin was fired as a police officer in Minneapolis after a viral video showed him with his knee on the neck of George Floyd for more than nine minutes. He denies the charges.", "The use of so-called vaccine passports to decide whether people can enter pubs would go against the \"British instinct\", Sir Keir Starmer has said.\n\nThe Labour leader told the Daily Telegraph it would be \"wrong in principle\" to ask landlords to check customers' Covid jab certificates.\n\nA government review is looking at whether this system could help to reopen the economy in England.\n\nDiscussions have been taking place across the devolved nations.\n\nUnder the government's four-step plan to ease England's lockdown, legal limits on social contact could be lifted by 21 June, if strict conditions are met.\n\nBut the prime minister has suggested pub-goers could be asked to provide a vaccine certificate, after all adults have been offered a jab by the end of July.\n\nCurrently, anyone who gets an injection receives a vaccination card and the details go on to their medical records.\n\nThe \"passport\" could mean the information being added to the NHS app, allowing mobile phone users to prove to publicans that they have received their injections.\n\nBut Sir Keir said: \"My instinct is that… [if] we get the virus properly under control, the death rates are near zero, hospital admissions very, very low, that the British instinct in those circumstances will be against vaccine passports.\n\n\"I think that this idea that we sort of outsource this to individual landlords is just wrong in principle.\"\n\nHe added that \"this is really difficult and I'm not going to pretend there's a clear black and white, yes-no easy answer on this\".\n\nBut Labour would look at any government proposals before deciding whether to oppose them, he said.\n\nPubs around the UK are currently closed\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said the government seemed \"utterly incapable of making its mind up on Covid certificates\", adding: \"This latest wheeze is the worst of all worlds.\"\n\n\"As well as burdening struggling pubs with extra cost, the idea that businesses can voluntarily bar certain customers, who may not even have been offered a vaccine, is deeply illiberal,\" he said.\n\nPub industry representatives accused the government of \"backsliding\" over plans to allow venues to reopen.\n\nIn a joint statement, UK Hospitality, the British Beer and Pub Association and the British Institute of Innkeeping warned that vaccine passports could prevent \"millions\" of young people who have not received their jabs visiting the pub \"for months\".\n\nDowning Street said an ongoing review was looking at how testing or vaccination could be used to play a role in opening the economy, and would consider the ethical, privacy, legal and operational aspects.\n\nThe prime minister will give an update on the Covid situation on Monday.", "No injuries were reported, Sussex Police said\n\nA car has smashed into a house, creating a gaping hole in the wall of the property.\n\nThe vehicle, which appeared to be a Seat Leon TDI, ploughed into the house in West Sussex after crashing into a lamppost and driving across a lawn.\n\nDebris was strewn near to the house in Temple Grove, Burgess Hill, which was struck at about 20:20 BST on Wednesday.\n\nA 45-year-old local woman was arrested on suspicion of drink-driving and criminal damage, Sussex Police said.\n\nAmanda Duffy, who was in the house at the time, said she was lucky not to have been killed.\n\n\"This car came slap bang into the middle of my living room,\" she said.\n\n\"There were just bricks everywhere. I was absolutely scared to death.\"\n\n\"She nearly cost myself and my son Ashley our lives. It's by the grace of God we're here.\"\n\nThere had been no reports of any injuries, police added.\n\nThe arrested woman was taken to hospital as a precaution and later discharged. Any witnesses are asked to contact police.\n\nA woman was arrested on suspicion of drink-driving and criminal damage, Sussex Police said\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Reverend Richard Coles announced the death of his civil partner, David, on Twitter in 2019\n\nThe Reverend Richard Coles has said his late partner's alcoholism was as if he was being \"seized by a demon\".\n\nThe Reverend David Coles died in December 2019 at Kettering General Hospital after what was initially described as \"a long illness\".\n\nRichard Coles, a vicar in Northamptonshire, has now said it was alcohol that killed his partner.\n\nThe BBC broadcaster said: \"Anyone who has loved an addict and lived with an addict will know how tough it is.\"\n\nThe couple, both priests, lived together at their vicarage in the village of Finedon.\n\nRichard Coles was the keyboard player in the 1980s band The Communards before becoming a priest and a presenter of shows including BBC Radio Four's Saturday Live.\n\nThe Reverend Richard Coles (right) has written a book about the death of his partner David (left)\n\nThe couple met in 2007, and Richard said David was \"probably\" already an alcoholic, but neither of them was aware of it.\n\nIn an interview with BBC Radio Northampton, Richard said David had \"always had an enthusiastic fondness for alcohol\".\n\n\"An enthusiastic fondness for alcohol when you're 20 or 25 is one thing, when you're 35 or 40 it's another thing and his drinking just got out of control,\" he said.\n\nThe 59-year-old said David used alcohol as \"an anaesthetic for when life was tough and then it just kind of rampaged\".\n\n\"People used to talk about the 'demon drink' which sounds like a rather melodramatic way to describe it, but it is like someone is seized by a demon and when David was at his worst he was really difficult and it was very tough,\" he said.\n\nRichard said he had not spoken about David's alcoholism previously because his partner was \"deeply ashamed about it when he was in its grip\".\n\nHe said he had been able to join a Al-Anon group for people whose life had been affected by someone else's alcoholism.\n\n\"That was a lifesaver, because I just sat with people who were going through the same thing I was going through and that made a huge difference,\" he said.\n\nRichard Coles was a contestant on Strictly Come Dancing in 2017 and also regularly appears on shows such as Have I Got News For You and QI.\n\nRichard Coles (on keyboards) hit number one with The Communards' version of Don't Leave Me This Way in 1986\n\nHe said the response when he announced David's death was \"overwhelming\" and he received \"a tsunami of good wishes\".\n\n\"I was really touched that people cared about David and cared about me,\" he said.\n\n\"Horrible letters came, but actually they were like paper darts because the real pain was that David was no longer there.\"\n\nIf you or someone you know is struggling with issues raised by this story, find support through the BBC Action Line.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Golf\n\nThe details of what caused Tiger Woods' car crash will only be released if the 15-time major winner gives permission for police to share their findings.\n\nA cause has been determined and the investigation is concluded, said Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva.\n\nWoods, 45, needed surgery after suffering a fractured leg and shattered ankle in the crash on 23 February.\n\n\"We have the contents of the black box, everything completed, signed, sealed and delivered,\" said Villanueva.\n\n\"But we cannot release it without the permission of the people involved in the collision.\"\n\nWoods returned to his Florida home from hospital earlier this month, saying he would work on \"getting stronger every day\".\n\nThe American former world number one, who was recovering from back surgery at the time of his accident, was found unconscious and with his face and chin covered in blood at the scene.\n\nLos Angeles police said there was no evidence Woods had been impaired by drugs or alcohol at the time of the crash.\n\nFollowing the crash, Villanueva said Woods survived \"what would otherwise have been a fatal crash\" because the interior of his vehicle had remained largely intact.\n\nWhen confirming on Wednesday that the investigation had been concluded, he added: \"We have reached out to Tiger Woods and his personnel and there are some privacy issues on releasing information on the investigation.\n\n\"We are going to ask them if they can waive the privacy, and then we will be able to do a full release on all the information regarding the accident.\"\n• None Listen to reactions and predictions as the series unfolds\n• None Diego Maradona's ability to delight and despair is debated on the show", "Italian authorities have approved a ban on cruise ships entering the historic centre of Venice.\n\nThe country's culture minister said on Wednesday that the decision came in response to a request from UN cultural body Unesco.\n\nLarge ships will now have to dock at the city's industrial port until a permanent solution is found.\n\nCritics argue the ships cause pollution and erode the foundations of the city, which suffers from regular flooding.\n\nOn Wednesday, Italian ministers agreed that large cruise and container ships would no longer be able to enter the city's Giudecca canal, which leads to the historic St Mark's Square.\n\nCulture Minister Dario Franceschini hailed the move, which he described as \"a correct decision, awaited for years\".\n\nThe government will hold a \"call for ideas\" for an alternative cruise terminal in the city.\n\nCruise ships are currently unable to enter Venice due to coronavirus restrictions but their absence since has been credited with improving water quality in the lagoons.\n\nPressure to pass a ban on large vessels mounted in 2019 after a cruise ship crashed into a harbour in the city, injuring five people. However, no permanent solution was found.\n\nPrevious initiatives to stop cruise ship traffic have also failed. In 2013, the government banned ships weighing more than 96,000 tonnes from the Giudecca canal, but the legislation was later overturned.\n\nOther plans to divert cruise ships from the centre of Venice were announced in 2017 but were never fully implemented.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Venetians are trying to find solutions to stop the exodus from their city (from 2018)", "BBC journalist Jennifer Meierhans, left, and friend Lucy Burn discovered the problem pricing when they happened to buy the same coat from different stores\n\nOnline retailer Boohoo is investigating why the same items of clothing were sold for higher prices across a number of its fashion labels.\n\nThe BBC discovered that Dorothy Perkins and Coast, which are both owned by Boohoo, sold exactly the same coat but it cost £34 more at Coast.\n\nThere are price disparities across a range of Boohoo brands, which also include Oasis and Warehouse.\n\nBoohoo said the \"miscommunication was not intentional\".\n\n\"All Boohoo group brands work independently, and so this miscommunication was not intentional as teams are not privy to what's being bought and sold across the other group brands,\" a spokeswoman for Boohoo said.\n\n\"Our internal investigation continues and we will be re-pricing all the crossover stock to be aligned.\"\n\nThe price disparity was revealed after reporter Jennifer Meierhans bought a coat from Coast - as a friend happened to buy the exact same coat from Dorothy Perkins.\n\nThe care label in the coat sold by Coast appears to have had the branding cut off\n\nThe Dorothy Perkins branding appeared to have been cut from the care label in the coat sold by Coast.\n\nBoohoo said the coat was first sold by Coast and has now been re-priced at £17 on both brands' websites.\n\nCatherine Erdly, founder of The Resilient Retail Club consultancy, and a former senior merchandiser at Coast, said: \"If all Boohoo are going to do is buy the same stuff and slap different prices on it then it's destroying that brand's identity.\"\n\nShe said that while each brand will have its own \"architecture\" for setting prices, it is likely Coast and Dorothy Perkins had benefited from some kind of trading \"opportunity\", where a supplier had stock and both companies needed coats.\n\n\"But if they're going to do things like that, they didn't do it in a clever way,\" Ms Erdly said. \"The customer will sense that it's just trying to get as much as possible out of them.\"\n\nShe added: \"There's no way a Coast garment could have sold at £17 without losing money, a garment made for the Coast brand would cost more than that to make.\"\n\nThere are a number of instances where the same item of clothing is priced differently across Boohoo's brands.\n\nA long \"luxe\" padded coat in the colour mushroom was originally sold for £89 at Oasis and £65 at Dorothy Perkins.\n\nThe same coat in khaki was in the sale for £30 in Warehouse and £66.75 in Coast until the BBC brought the matter to Boohoo's attention. They are now both priced at £18.\n\nNatalie Hitchins, head of home products and services at consumer watchdog Which?, said loyal customers of these brands will be \"shocked and disappointed to see these stark price differences between seemingly identical items of clothing\".\n\nShe said: \"People choose brands and stay loyal by expecting quality to match the prices they pay.\n\n\"Brands that offer a first-class customer experience and can be trusted are the ones that come out on top in our retailer surveys. This practice from Boohoo could risk undermining trust with customers.\"\n\nBoohoo operates a number of different brands after buying up businesses when their owners fell into administration.\n\nBoohoo bought Coast's online business in 2019 along with sister brand Karen Millen. While in February, it acquired Dorothy Perkins, together with Wallis and Burton, from failed retail group Arcadia for £25.2m\n\nBoohoo said: \"Stock of the item in question was purchased and live on site by Coast prior to The Boohoo Group's acquisition of the Dorothy Perkins brand.\"\n\nHave you bought clothes from a Boohoo brand, only to see it priced cheaper under another Boohoo-owned business? What did you do? 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.", "Coronavirus Catch-up: What are your questions on the vaccine rollout in NI?\n\nThere's plenty still to come from the BBC News NI team this evening. In about half-an-hour Coronavirus Catch-up will be coming live from Belfast's SSE Arena - Northern Ireland's new mass Covid-19 vaccination centre. Presenter Jordan Kenny will be joined by senior GP Dr Alan Stout to bring you the latest developments and the answers to your Covid-related questions. Watch Coronavirus Catch-up live at 19:00 BST. Tune in on the BBC News NI website, the BBC iPlayer and the BBC News NI Facebook page.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sanjeev Gupta: \"UK steel plants will not close on my watch\"\n\nLiberty Steel owner Sanjeev Gupta has claimed that none of its plants will shut \"under my watch\" as he races to refinance his business after the collapse of financial backer Greensill.\n\nHe said taking on the UK plants had been a \"tough journey\" and a \"labour of love\", but he would not walk away.\n\nMr Gupta was rebuffed by the UK government after asking for £170m.\n\nSome investors have also begun legal action to have parts of his metals group wound up.\n\nBut Mr Gupta said he and GFG Alliance, Liberty Steel's parent company, were \"not waiting for anybody\" and were \"doing what we can to help our businesses\".\n\n\"Our overall global operations are profitable, we have refinancing offers, we will refinance, and we will support our UK business also,\" Mr Gupta told the BBC.\n\n\"None of my steel plants under my watch will be shut down,\" he said.\n\nLiberty Steel has about 3,000 workers at sites including Rotherham, Motherwell and Newport. A further 2,000 work for GFG Alliance in other UK metals and engineering businesses.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said he was \"very hopeful\" that the plants could be saved and that Britain needed a strong steel industry..\n\nHe said that Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng was in \"daily contact\" with GFG.\n\n\"I think British steel is a very important national asset. I think the fact that we make steel in this country is of strategic long-term importance,\" he said.\n\n\"We have learned during the pandemic that it is not a good idea to be excessively reliant in times of trouble on imports of critical things,\" he added.\n\n\"It would be crazy if we were not to use this post-Brexit moment not to use the flexibility we have to buy British steel. So that's want we want to do.\"\n\nThe GMB union said Mr Gupta's comments were \"very welcome\" but making guarantees without showing financial backing \"just raises further questions\".\n\n\"To be able to give these guarantees with such confidence you have to assume he's found the financing required to keep the company going,\" said Ross Murdoch, GMB national officer.\n\n\"If that's the case he needs to let people know and stop workers worrying about their jobs.\"\n\nThe collapse of his main source of finance, Greensill Capital, leaves him dangerously exposed and in a race to find new sources of cash.\n\nGFG Alliance, the group of companies he runs, owes Greensill about $5bn, according to GFG's own evidence to court when Greensill was put into administration in February.\n\nGFG also told the court that Greensill's collapse would put it at risk of insolvency. Since then, it has been something of a phoney war, with little sign of the Greensill debacle causing greater damage.\n\nNow, however, winding-up petitions have been lodged against some of Mr Gupta's UK companies.\n\nThe investors that gave money to Greensill want their money back and Mr Gupta's business empire is firmly in their sights.\n\nOn the Today programme on Thursday, Mr Gupta said his companies were ready to defend their position in court and they were confident their loan deal with Greensill was a long-term arrangement that could not suddenly be terminated.\n\nHe must now hold off the winding-off threats for long enough - or defeat them - while he finds sources of finance to replace Greensill.\n\nThis might mean the sale of assets, or new borrowing, although the process is complicated by much of the Gupta business empire already being pledged as collateral against the loans advanced by Greensill.\n\nIt will be a complicated and time-consuming business - and Mr Gupta may not be given much time.\n\nMr Gupta said steel prices were at a 13-year peak, while aluminium prices were also high.\n\nHe said GFG had been streamlining the business and had a \"huge amount of interest from new financiers who are willing to back us\" and refinance the group.\n\nHe said it would take time to sort things out, but a short-term solution was an initiative called \"Project Athena\" which required each plant to make daily reports on how they were conserving cash.\n\nOn Wednesday, Citigroup, acting on behalf of the investment bank Credit Suisse, began legal action in London's insolvency court to recoup unpaid debts from Mr Gupta's GFG Alliance.\n\nMr Gupta said it was \"natural to some degree that lenders want to protect their own position\", but that GFG's position was that it had agreed debts with Greensill for three years and they were not due.\n\nHe said GFG was having \"positive discussions\" with Grant Thornton, the administrators for Greensill.\n\n\"It makes no sense for them, or any of the creditors, to destroy jobs, but more importantly to destroy value, because that is the value which will give them their recovery,\" Mr Gupta said.\n\nMr Gupta said former Prime Minister David Cameron had not lobbied on GFG's behalf\n\nMr Gupta's business model centred on buying up failing or mothballed steel and aluminium plants around the world and starting production again, with the help of his main backer Greensill.\n\nIn 2015, production restarted at the Liberty Steel plant in Newport, and in 2016 Liberty reopened and the Dalzell steel mill in Scotland. In 2017, Liberty acquired Tata's speciality steels business and expanded into Australia. In the following year it expanded into the US.\n\nMr Gupta said: \"The UK has been a tough journey. It's because the UK steel industry has been decimated for decades. So that journey definitely has been a labour of love.\"\n\n\"But I'm committed to my UK steel plants. I started them, I believe in them, they have a great future. We've saved thousands of jobs here. We've shown that economically those businesses can work,\" he said.\n\nMr Gupta added that former Prime Minister David Cameron, who acted as an advisor for Greensill, had not made representations on behalf of GFG Alliance.\n\n\"I've not spoken to him, I think, since he was Prime Minister,\" Mr Gupta said.\n\nMr Cameron was cleared by a watchdog last week which looked at whether he had followed lobbying rules.", "France is one of the most vaccine-sceptical countries in the world - fertile ground for hard-line anti-vaccine activists spreading online misinformation, writes the BBC's specialist disinformation reporter Marianna Spring.\n\nIn his spare time, Gilles loves to watch sci-fi films and read bandes dessinées - French comic books.\n\nHe also helps run a conspiracy-themed French-language Facebook group with 50,000 members, many of whom spread falsehoods about coronavirus.\n\nHe became a member just after the start of the pandemic, almost a year ago.\n\n\"I felt in my gut that this whole thing was overrated and wrong,\" Gilles says. He doesn't deny - like some others in the group - that Covid-19 is real. Instead he harbours vague suspicions about the disease, potential cures, and alleged cover-ups.\n\nAnd he doesn't want a Covid vaccine, because of posts he's seeing on the group.\n\nHe fears, despite the weight of scientific evidence, that jabs have been developed too quickly to be safe. And Gilles' story is part of a bigger picture.\n\nThe Facebook group that Gilles helps to run is just one example of a larger trend - an increase in French-language anti-vaccine content on social media over the past year.\n\nResearch from BBC Monitoring found that the number of followers of pages sharing extreme anti-vaccine content in French grew in 2020, from 3.2m to nearly 4.1m likes.\n\nThese pages aren't about asking legitimate medical questions - they're miles away from the scientific and political discussions currently under way in Europe and elsewhere.\n\nInstead, they're run by people who've firmly made up their minds against vaccinations, and who spread wild false rumours about vaccines killing millions, containing tracking devices, or altering our DNA.\n\nAnti-vaccine pages in French also tend to mix in anti-establishment posts. Many of the discussions centre around concerns that Covid jabs could be made compulsory, with anti-establishment and protest communities fearing that French democracy will be replaced with a so-called \"sanitary dictatorship\".\n\nCovid-19 vaccination is not currently mandatory in France, though children are legally required to be vaccinated against some diseases.\n\nFacebook says it is investigating the groups and pages flagged by the BBC's research, and that it has removed 12 million pieces of harmful misinformation about Covid-19 and approved vaccines.\n\n\"Last week we announced further measures to curb the spread of harmful misinformation in groups,\" a company spokesperson said, \"including by restricting the reach of those who break our rules.\"\n\nThe Anti-Vax Files: A new series from BBC Trending, on the World Service from 05:30 GMT Saturday - or listen online\n\nIn the group run by Gilles, outlandish false conspiracy theories appear alongside posts expressing more moderate views, like opposition to making vaccines mandatory.\n\nHe doesn't agree with the extreme content, but Gilles says he struggles to delete all of the offending posts.\n\nBut there are others trying their best to fight the wave of anti-vaccine conspiracies. They create their own Facebook pages, infiltrating the spaces on social media where falsehoods thrive.\n\nMarie - not her real name - runs a group of volunteers pushing pro-vaccine messages online. She wants to remain anonymous because she fears for her safety.\n\n\"We had a lot of death threats,\" she explains, a little shaken as she speaks from her home in Paris, \"[from] people on social media who read our page and don't like what they see on it.\"\n\nI asked her why she continues in the face of abuse.\n\n\"I love science,\" she says, \"and I hate fake news.\"\n\nHer Facebook page arms followers with accurate information about vaccines, asks them to debate people and even to try to persuade them to get vaccinated.\n\nThe pro-science activists use memes like this one to rally support\n\nThis battle for the truth is raging all over the world, but it's particularly fierce in France.\n\nAccording to a survey by Ipsos late last year, just 40% of French people intended to receive a Covid-19 vaccine - although a more recent study indicated that number has increased to more than half.\n\nBut Tristan Mendes France, a university lecturer who helps run a site called Conspiracy Watch, is still worried about the figures. Fifteen years ago, he says, polls indicated that only about a tenth of France's population were sceptical about vaccines.\n\n\"It's important to differentiate between those who are sceptical about the vaccine and those who are absolutely anti-vaccine,\" he says.\n\nIn his view, the online anti-vaccine movement has thrived in France in particular because it plays on pre-existing scepticism of authority and pharmaceutical companies.\n\nOpposition to vaccines in France has risen dramatically in recent years\n\nIt's not just about online conspiracy theories. According to Mendes France and other experts, vaccine scepticism has deeper and more complicated roots - a combination of deep distrust in the state, a passion for personal liberty, and historical failings.\n\nThe country experienced a genuine vaccine scandal in 2009. The French government bought enough doses of the vaccine against the H1N1 \"swine flu\" virus to vaccinate its entire population.\n\nIt cost more than 600m euros (more than $700m or £500m), but with only a few hundred swine flu deaths in the country, many didn't want the jab. It was seen as huge waste of money.\n\nIn recent weeks, France was one of several European countries to suspend use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine over concerns about blood clots.\n\nThe UK and EU Medicine regulators have concluded that there is no evidence the vaccine causes clots, and that the jab safe and effective.\n\nBut it's another news story that has been used by French-speaking anti-vaccine activists to promote conspiracy narratives.\n\nThen there's the so-called \"Didier Raoult effect\".\n\nRaoult is a doctor who's a household name in France - famed for his intellect and his outspokeness.\n\nDr Didier Raoult is something of a celebrity in France\n\n\"If you just start to be clever, it's a crime in our country. It's very hard for me not to be clever. I'm sorry,\" he chuckles, speaking from his research institute in Marseille.\n\nDespite a once-stellar reputation for scientific research, Dr Raoult caused controversy when he advocated the use of a drug called hydroxychloroquine to treat coronavirus.\n\nHis claims were repeated by Donald Trump, but lacked scientific evidence. The incident resulted in a formal complaint from his peers in the medical community.\n\nAside from the controversy over the drug, Dr Raoult has become - through no choice of his own - a hero for hard-core activists pushing anti-vaccine conspiracies. Fictitious quotes falsely attributed to the doctor have been circulated on social media.\n\nWhile these posts are false, he still has some controversial opinions about vaccines. He says he isn't sure people under age 65 should get a Covid-19 vaccine. That's despite the benefits that public health experts point out: younger people can be seriously affected by the virus, and mass vaccination can limit harmful virus mutations.\n\nDr Raoult's approach appears to be part of a more general outlook in French-speaking Europe. At the extreme end, it sometimes spills over to conspiratorial thinking.\n\nGilles, the sci-fi fan, is sure he doesn't want a Covid-19 vaccine. He's blasé about catching the disease.\n\n\"I don't think that anything could happen,\" he says, \"Maybe [I would] get symptoms of flu, but that's very unlikely.\"\n\nCovid-19 has a higher mortality rate than flu in all age groups, except perhaps children under the age of 12. The long term effects of coronavirus can also be severe - and it's more infectious than flu.\n\nBut his lingering suspicion leaves Gilles - and others like him - vulnerable to all sorts of misinformation.\n\nHear The Anti-Vax Files from BBC Trending, on the World Service from 05:30 GMT Saturday - or listen online", "Last updated on .From the section Yeovil\n\nYeovil Town captain Lee Collins has died at the age of 32.\n\nCollins began his career at Wolverhampton Wanderers and spent time at Port Vale, Barnsley, Northampton Town, Mansfield Town and Forest Green Rovers before joining Yeovil in 2019.\n\nHe played his last game for the club on 6 February against Stockport.\n\nA spokesperson for Avon and Somerset Police said Collins' \"sudden\" death was not being treated as suspicious and had been referred to the coroner.\n\nYeovil were due to play Altrincham in the National League on Friday but the game has been postponed.\n\n\"All at Yeovil Town Football Club are mourning the loss of club captain Lee Collins,\" a club statement read.\n\n\"Lee sadly passed away yesterday and our thoughts and prayers go out to his family and friends.\n\n\"We ask everyone to respect the family's privacy at this time.\"\n\nBBC Radio Somerset's Yeovil Town commentator Sheridan Robins told BBC Sport: \"The main thing that everyone will be feeling is a deep sense of shock.\n\n\"He was a real winner. I remember when he first joined the club we were at rock bottom having been relegated to the National League.\n\n\"In his interview he was said he wasn't there to make friends, he wanted to win.\n\n\"He wore his heart on his sleeve on the pitch and was known for his leadership, he was the epitome of a captain, he did everything he could in that 90 minutes to win the three points.\"\n\nCollins had been out with injury for large parts of the season, but returned to the bench last week in the 3-1 win over Barnet.\n\n\"After the game I spoke to Yeovil manager Darren Sarll and he told me how pleased he was to have Lee back,\" added Robins.\n\n\"He was an old fashioned centre-half and we've not seen him play a lot this season because of injury.\"\n\nMansfield Town owner John Radford - for whom Collins played from 2015 to 2017 - tweeted he was \"shocked and saddened\" to learn of Collins' death.\n\n\"A no-nonsense, battling braveheart on the field and a gentleman off it. A man who always gave his all in Stags' colours,\" Radford added.\n\nBarnsley said they would pay tribute to Collins at Friday's home Championship game against Reading.\n\nCollins was part of the Wolves side, which included Wales keeper Wayne Hennessey and former Bolton midfielder Mark Davies, that reached the semi-finals of the FA Youth Cup in 2005, losing on penalties to a Southampton team featuring Theo Walcott.", "Genevieve Hansen was off-duty when she came across George Floyd's arrest. On the second day of the trial, she testified that she noticed Mr Floyd needed medical attention and told that to officers at the scene.", "Protesters held a \"silent strike\" in Yangon after a seven year old was shot dead in Mandalay\n\nAt least 43 children have been killed by armed forces in Myanmar since February's military coup, according to rights organisation Save the Children.\n\nThe group said the South East Asian country was in a \"nightmare situation\", with the youngest known victim just six years old.\n\nA local monitoring group puts the overall death toll at 536.\n\nMeanwhile, ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been charged with violating the country's official secrets act.\n\nMs Suu Kyi, along with four of her allies, were charged last week, but the alleged crime - which carries a prison term of up to 14 years - has only now come to light.\n\nThe new charge against Ms Suu Kyi is in addition to earlier charges of possessing illegal walkie-talkies, violating Covid-19 restrictions during last year's election campaign, and publishing information that may \"cause fear or alarm\".\n\nThe UN's envoy to Myanmar has warned of the risk of an \"imminent bloodbath\" as the crackdown against pro-democracy protests in the country intensifies.\n\nThe warning follows a flare-up in fighting between the army and ethnic minority militia in border areas.\n\nThe UN has become the latest organisation to urge the families of its workers to leave, but has said that some staff will remain in the country.\n\nThe unrest in Myanmar began two months ago, when the military seized control of the country after an election which Ms Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) party won by a landslide.\n\nWhen tens of thousands of people took to the streets nationwide to protest against the coup, the military used water cannon to attempt to disperse them. After a week, the response escalated, and rubber bullets and live ammunition were used.\n\nThe deadliest day of the conflict so far came on Saturday, when more than 100 people were killed.\n\nWitnesses say the armed forces have attacked people at random on the streets, and some people have even been killed in their own homes.\n\nThe family of six-year-old girl Khin Myo Chit told the BBC she was killed by police while she ran towards her father during a raid on their home in the city of Mandalay at the end of March.\n\n\"They kicked the door to open it,\" her sister, May Thu Sumaya, 25, said. \"When the door was open, they asked my father whether there were any other people in the house.\"\n\nWhen he said no, they accused him of lying and began searching the house, she said.\n\nThat was the moment when Khin Myo Chit ran over to their father. \"Then they shot and hit her,\" May Thu Sumaya said.\n\nMourners at the funeral of teenager Tun Tun Aung, who was killed in Mandalay\n\nAlso among the dead are a 14-year-old boy who is believed to have been shot while inside - or close to - his home in Mandalay, and a 13-year-old who was shot in Yangon while playing in the street.\n\nSave the Children has warned that the number of children injured in clashes is also likely to be significant, citing the case of a one-year-old baby who was reportedly shot in the eye with a rubber bullet.\n\nThe rights group warned that the violence was having an effect on children's mental health as they suffer fear, grief and stress.\n\n\"Children have witnessed violence and horror,\" it said in a statement. \"It is clear that Myanmar is no longer a safe place for children.\"\n\nLawyers representing Ms Suu Kyi said on Thursday that it was unclear whether their client was aware of how events were unfolding across the country.\n\n\"We couldn't say whether [Ms Suu Kyi] knows about outside situations or not - she may or may not know,\" lawyer Min Min Soe told Reuters news agency, adding that the ousted leader \"seems to be in good health\".\n\nThe violence has sparked an international outcry, with various countries - including the US and UK - announcing sanctions against the coup leaders and military-linked companies.\n\nOn Thursday, the UK announced further measures against the Myanmar Economic Corporation (MEC), a conglomerate that has provided funds to the Myanmar military.\n\n\"The Myanmar military has sunk to a new low with the wanton killing of innocent people, including children,\" Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said. \"The UK's latest actions target one of the military's key funding streams and impose a further cost on them for their violations of human rights.\"\n\nWhen Ms Suu Kyi was ousted, military commander-in-chief Min Aung Hlaing took power.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Myanmar coup: How did we get here?", "Sinn Féin has been accused of showing arrogance, self-entitlement and privilege over its actions in relation to the funeral of Bobby Storey.\n\nMLAs passed a motion censuring party ministers after it was announced there would be no prosecutions.\n\nThe funeral in June attracted 2,000 mourners at a time when Covid restrictions were in place.\n\nThe actions of 24 Sinn Féin politicians were examined, including Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill.\n\nThe BBC understands Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary is to examine the Police Service of Northern Ireland's (PSNI) role in the funeral. An announcement is expected later.\n\nMr Storey, 64, was a senior republican figure and had formerly been the head of intelligence for the IRA in the 1990s.\n\nThe attendance of many senior Sinn Féin politicians at his funeral in west Belfast, at a time when strict limits on gatherings were in place, caused a political furore.\n\nThe decision by the Public Prosecution Service (PPS) not to prosecute anyone in relation to the funeral led to First Minister Arlene Foster on Tuesday calling for the resignation of Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) Chief Constable Simon Byrne.\n\nMrs Foster said he had lost the confidence of the unionist community, but he has rejected calls to step down.\n\nOn Wednesday, the PPS announced a review of its decision.\n\nIn the assembly on Thursday, the deputy first minister apologised \"for the hurt that has been caused to so many families who have lost a loved one\".\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill apologised in the assembly on Thursday for the hurt caused\n\n\"I am truly sorry that my actions have contributed to the grief or heartache that has been felt and experienced by many people who have lost a loved one during this pandemic. That was never my attention,\" Ms O'Neill said.\n\n\"For that, I offer my heartfelt and unreserved apology to those families who have lost a loved one.\"\n\nSinn Féin Finance Minister Conor Murphy, who also attended the funeral, said he regrets the political division it caused.\n\n\"I want to say sorry to the wider community and more particularly to apologise fully and unreservedly to those families who were hurt by my actions.\"\n\nBut First Minister Arlene Foster said the wake and funeral procession were clear acts of \"premeditated breaches of the Covid regulations\".\n\n\"The message from Sinn Féin was clear: ourselves alone, ourselves first regardless of the cost of undermining the public health messaging,\" Mrs Foster said.\n\n\"The prioritisation of Roselawn (cemetery) over other grieving families was hurtful, ignorant and callous in the extreme, acts of arrogance, acts of self entitlement, acts of privilege.\n\n\"Sinn Féin calls for equality, respect and integrity, but actually demonstrates the opposite.\"\n\nMrs Foster said the police had \"abdicated\" their responsibility.\n\nThe motion, proposed by the SDLP, passed unanimously on an oral vote, but has no binding consequences.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster accused Sinn Féin of acts of arrogance\n\nThe first speaker in the debate, Infrastructure Minister Nichola Mallon of the SDLP, said Sinn Féin made the choice \"not to stand with the people but put themselves above them\".\n\n\"This is no longer about a funeral. It is now an issue of why Sinn Féin believes they are above the restrictions, above the law, above the public health advice,\" Ms Mallon said.\n\n\"We are here today, to hear Sinn Féin account for their actions, to answer the question countless citizens across the north are asking - why is it one rule for the political elite in Sinn Féin and one rule for the rest of us?\"\n\nA large number of mourners turned out for the funeral of Bobby Storey\n\nUlster Unionist Party (UUP) MLA Doug Beattie said Sinn Féin had spoken for just four minutes in a two-hour debate.\n\n\"Not good enough. We needed to hear more, and we heard nothing. It was doubling down on the position you were in before we came here today.\n\n\"Policing and justice has been damaged. We cannot lay the blame on the rank and file police officer who gets a set of regulations that we write, interprets them, and then on the sharp end of justice, he has to deliver and he will make mistakes.\"\n\nJustice Minister Naomi Long appealed for Sinn Fein to \"step up\", make a fulsome apology and give \"some comfort at this late stage to the families affected\".\n\n\"There are many wrongs in this world that cannot be prosecuted in court, but we can still apologise for those wrongs,\" Ms Long said.\n\nThe motion, which recalled the assembly early from its Easter recess, called for assembly members (MLAs) to \"condemn\" Ms O'Neill and Mr Murphy, who attended the funeral, for \"their actions which have caused immense hurt and undermined the executive's public health message\".\n\nThe recall motion had the support of the DUP, Ulster Unionists (UUP), Alliance and the Green Party.\n\nOpening the debate, assembly Chair Alex Maskey, of Sinn Féin, said he was professional, competent and well within his abilities to preside over the debate, after a point of order raised by DUP MLA Jonathan Buckley.\n\nWe've had some heated and passionate exchanges in the chamber, not least from those MLAs who've lost loved ones and friends during the pandemic and were unable to attend their funerals.\n\nThey had pointed remarks for both Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill and Conor Murphy, both of whom attended Bobby Storey's funeral last year.\n\nEven before the debate started, Sinn Féin MLA and Speaker Alex Maskey was challenged for his impartiality, and that set the tone.\n\nMs O'Neill was challenged several times across the chamber floor to apologise for her attendance at the funeral.\n\nShe didn't do that, but she did say sorry for the hurt caused.\n\nThis is a non-binding debate which means there is a vote in the chamber, but there will be no effect on Sinn Féin because this simply registers other MLAs' anger at what happened.\n\nIn the absence of a court case, it's another chance for MLAs to deliver their verdicts.\n\nAhead of the debate, SDLP MLA Matthew O'Toole said the recall would provide a \"forum for accountability\".\n\nThe South Belfast MLA said the motion, which does not have any binding consequences, was not \"political game play\" but was about holding Sinn Féin ministers to account.\n\nHe said people who make the laws \"should be held to the same rules as the rest of society\".\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Byrne addressed a meeting of the Policing Board on Thursday afternoon, at which he expressed surprise at the conclusions of the PPS.\n\nOn Wednesday, Mrs Foster stopped short of saying whether DUP members of the board would step down, but did not rule it out.", "Sir Ian McKellen is set to play the role of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, a role typically played by an actor around 50 years younger.\n\nFamous for his classical roles, as well as playing Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings, McKellan is now set to star in a staging of the work that will be one of the first major new productions to open when UK lockdown restrictions on theatres are eased in June.\n\nBBC Arts Editor Will Gompertz met Sir Ian at the start of rehearsals at the Theatre Royal Windsor to talk about the challenges of playing the young Prince of Denmark at 81.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNike has won its lawsuit against Brooklyn art collective MSCHF over their controversial 'Satan Shoes' that contain a drop of real human blood in the soles.\n\nThe $1,018 (£740) trainers are modified Nike Air Max 97s that feature an inverted cross, a pentagram and the words \"Luke 10:18\".\n\nMSCHF produced the shoes in collaboration with rapper Lil Nas X.\n\nIt said only 666 pairs were made and all but one have already been shipped.\n\nNike claimed trademark infringement, asking a federal court in New York to stop MSCHF from selling the shoes and prevent them from using its famous Swoosh.\n\n\"MSCHF and its unauthorised Satan Shoes are likely to cause confusion and dilution and create an erroneous association between MSCHF's products and Nike,\" the sports shoe giant said in the lawsuit.\n\nLawyers for MSCHF countered that the 666 pairs it created were \"not typical sneakers, but rather individually-numbered works of art that were sold to collectors for $1,018 each\".\n\nThe impact of the ruling remains unclear as MSCHF had indicated it has no plans to produce any more pairs of the shoe.\n\nMSCHF \"dropped\" the black and red shoes on Monday, coinciding with the launch of Lil Nas X's latest song Montero (Call Me By Your Name), which debuted on YouTube last Friday.\n\nThe song features the rapper, who came out as gay in 2019, celebrating his sexuality and rejecting attempts to shame him.\n\nIn a heavily stylised music video, he slides down a pole from heaven to hell before dancing provocatively with Satan, then snaps his neck and steals his horns.\n\nThe imagery and the shoes both reference the Bible verse Luke 10:18 - \"So He told them, 'I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven'.\"\n\nEach shoe also features a signature Nike air bubble cushioning sole, containing 60 cubic centimetres (2.03 fluid ounces) of red ink and a single drop of human blood, donated by members of the MSCHF art collective.\n\nLil Nas X and MSCHF's Satan Shoes sold out in less than a minute on Monday\n\nIn its filing with the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Nike said it did not approve or authorise the customised Satan Shoes.\n\n\"There is already evidence of significant confusion and dilution occurring in the marketplace, including calls to boycott Nike in response to the launch of MSCHF's Satan Shoes, based on the mistaken belief that Nike has authorised or approved this product,\" it said.\n\nThe lawsuit cited a tweet by popular shoe influencer @Saint from last Friday, which teased the upcoming release of the shoes and drummed up publicity over the weekend on social media and in the media in the US.\n\nSome conservatives, including South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, and some religious followers, took offence at the controversial design of the shoes and criticised Lil Nas X and MSCHF on Twitter.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLil Nas X hit back at the governor and other critics on Twitter, tweeting several memes on his profile in response to the Nike lawsuit.\n\nJoseph Rasch of Tennessee, who paid $1,080 for the trainers, says he is worried the conflict means his money will be lost.\n\n\"I'm hoping I'll receive them since I paid for them,\" he told BBC OS on World Service radio, adding that he made the purchase not because he definitely planned to wear them but as a political statement.\n\n\"I wanted to support a black gay man who is attempting to show a different narrative in a majority Christian country that currently is dealing with a lot of issues with black people. So what better way to do that than to buy shoes that this person has collaborated with?\" he said.\n\nBuyer McKenzi Norris of South Carolina, a longtime follower of the MSCHF art collective, said Nike's lawsuit had disrupted his plans to resell the trainers for $2,500 on eBay, which removed his listing.\n\n\"In general I think Nike's lawsuit and their intervention is pretty ridiculous considering how much damage it can cause to everyday people like me who just like to customise and resell their products legally,\" he said.", "Deni has started a petition asking for these final assessments to be scrapped.\n\nPupils and teachers have told BBC Scotland that assessments some senior pupils will be sitting in the coming weeks are \"exams by another name\".\n\nThis year's National 5s, Highers and Advanced Highers were cancelled because of disruption caused by the pandemic.\n\nGrades are to be given on \"teacher judgement\" but that needs to be backed up by evidence gathered in tests.\n\nSome schools are setting these tests in conditions which are very similar to exams but with much less preparation.\n\nThe approach across schools varies with some spreading the tests over several class lesson times but others doing them all in one go, with invigilators on hand to make sure strict exam conditions are met.\n\nThe system is being described as unfair by pupils and parents.\n\nSixteen-year-old Deni, who is doing her Highers, has started a petition asking for these final assessments to be scrapped.\n\nThe petition says that after being in school for just four months and then having to learn remotely since the New Year she is now being told there will be a \"final assessment\" after the Easter holidays on which her grade will be primarily based.\n\n\"Why not just call it an exam?\" she says.\n\nThis is the second year without senior students sitting final exams.\n\nLast year, the decision to scrap them was made in a rush and with no warning.\n\nThis year it was made with more foresight in a bid to tackle \"unfairness\" caused by repeated periods of Covid-related isolation for some students and not others.\n\nHowever, the perception of unfairness might be one which is hard to shake.\n\nTeachers have been given guidance on how to come up with pupils' estimated grades, but they have also been given some flexibility.\n\nIt means that the experiences of young people in schools across the country could be totally different, the very situation everyone was hoping to avoid.\n\nThe authorities will say that \"quality assurance checks\" will make up for this.\n\nDeni, from Dundee, says students now need to try to revise a whole year's work for courses that most have not yet finished and which, for much of it, they have had to teach themselves.\n\nA Dundee City Council spokesman said Deni's school had not indicated to pupils that their grades would \"only\" be based around one assessment.\n\nHe said: \"We are working closely with young people and families during this hugely challenging time and will be re-assuring them directly over how assessments will be made.\"\n\nDylan is taking his Highers but when final end of year exams were cancelled he was told grades would be based on an overall teacher judgement of coursework and class tests.\n\nDylan says he has been told his grades will mainly be based on assessments\n\nNow Dylan, who is at school in Bathgate, says he has been told his grades will mainly be based on assessments he will sit in the coming weeks.\n\n\"I'm really worried because normally we have at least nine months in advance knowing when our exams are going to be and I only got told this morning that I have got one in three weeks,\" Dylan says.\n\n\"It does not feel great. It's quite worrying, especially since we have to be in class the rest of the time as well.\"\n\nWhen this year's exams were cancelled, guidance was given to schools advising them the most robust way to gather evidence for grades was through class tests based on questions provided by the Scottish Qualifications Authority.\n\nIt has led to schools doing this in different ways - with some planning to do these tests spread over different class times while others are setting them up much closer to an exam style - but without study leave.\n\nBBC Scotland has also spoken to teachers who think the system is unfair.\n\nGeography teacher Brian Donlin says it can't be denied that some children are sitting exams\n\nBrian Donlin, who teaches geography, says the way schools are carrying out these assessments is wildly different.\n\n\"How can we turn around and say that that we are ensuring consistency across a national level?,\" he says. \"We can't fundamentally, you just can't.\n\n\"Let's not kid ourselves on, there are some kids across Scotland who are sitting exams this year.\"\n\nSeamus Searson, general secretary of the Scottish Secondary Teachers' Association (SSTA), told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme that there was a lot of confusion because exams were cancelled prior to Christmas and everyone assumed it would be coursework and continuous assessment.\n\nMr Searson said schools were now trying to gather evidence for awarding grades and were falling back on the question papers provided by the SQA (Scottish Qualifications Authority).\n\nHe said: \"Our view is if youngsters do any assessments, they should be broken up, and used between now and the end of term.\n\n\"At the moment, the government guidance is that when pupils go back to school after Easter, it should be for teaching and learning. Assessments should come towards the end of the session.\n\n\"That is the mistake schools are making.\"\n\nMr Searson said schools are probably concerned there may be another lockdown and are trying to put these assessments in early so they have some evidence just in case.\n\nHe said: \"There are a lot of children who won't have been engaging during lockdown who will be totally disadvantaged by the systems these schools are trying to bring in.\n\n\"The system put in place at the moment looks straightforward but it's actually micro-managing teachers' decisions. This is where the panic is starting to come in. Teachers are now looking for pieces of evidence to prove to the SQA their grades are correct.\"\n\nThe Scottish Qualifications Authority said it had \"made it clear that there is no requirement to replicate a full formal exam or prelim diet\".\n\nIt said it had provided detailed guidance to schools and there was flexibility on how assessment evidence was gathered.\n\n\"Schools and colleges know their learners best, so it is appropriate that they deliver assessments which suit their circumstances this year,\" the SQA said.\n\n\"Evidence requirements have been significantly reduced - it is about quality, not quantity.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPharmaceutical firms manufacturing the Covid-19 vaccine should make enough for everyone in the world or voluntarily hand their technology to developing countries, says the new WTO head.\n\nDr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said it was \"not acceptable\" to leave poorer countries at the \"end of the queue\" for vaccines.\n\nShe pointed to AstraZeneca's deal to transfer its know-how to a mass vaccine manufacturer in India.\n\nSuch \"voluntary licensing... could save many more people,\" she said.\n\n\"There is some capacity in developing countries unused now. Let's have the same kind of arrangement that AstraZeneca has with the Serum Institute of India,\" she told the BBC's Economics Editor Faisal Islam.\n\n\"Novovax, J& J and all the others should follow suit,\" she said, referring to other vaccine manufacturers.\n\nDr Okonjo-Iweala, who became director general of the World Trade Organization earlier this month, acknowledged that members were split on the issue of relaxing WTO rules on intellectual property so that more drug manufacturers can make the jabs.\n\nThe issue has been pushed by India, South Africa and dozens of poorer countries who want to freely replicate the vaccines.\n\nWealthier countries have resisted such a move although the Biden administration in the US has signalled it is considering the plans.\n\nSouth Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa this week described the hoarding of vaccines and refusal to freely share vaccine-making blueprints as \"vaccine apartheid\".\n\nBut Dr Okonjo-Iweala said the issue, known as the Trips waiver, is for the next pandemic and all efforts now must be focused on increasing manufacturing capacity.\n\nShe said the world must avoid the decade-long wait many developing countries faced to get anti-HIV drugs.\n\n\"I'm very concerned,\" she said. \"The kind of inequities we see in vaccine access are really not acceptable, you can't have a situation in which, you know, 10 countries have administered 70% of vaccine doses in the world, and there are countries that don't have one single dose\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Long Covid: 'It's like someone has piled sandbags on top of me'\n\nUntil the end of last year Dr Okonjo-Iweala, Nigeria's former finance minister, chaired the global vaccine alliance, Gavi, which aims to increase access to vaccines around the world.\n\nMany nations in the developed world, which began their own vaccinations months ago, have faced criticism for buying or ordering more vaccines than they need.\n\nThe World Health Organization said in January that over 39 million vaccines had been given in 49 wealthier countries, while one poorer nation had just 25 doses.\n\nBut many of the wealthier countries placed orders for doses with pharmaceutical companies before knowing whether the vaccine in development would be effective. They were hedging their bets - placing multiple orders in the hope that at least some of them would work out.\n\nThe UK, which has ordered 400 million vaccine doses and will have many left over, has said it will donate most of its surplus vaccine supply to poorer countries.", "New rules to help pubs, cafes and restaurants reopen outdoors safely in England on 12 April have sparked anger from industry groups.\n\nAll customers will have to sign in on entry, not just one member of the group like before. It is also unclear whether payment at the bar will be permitted.\n\nUK Hospitality said it would burden struggling pubs and staff and risk customers deciding not to go out.\n\nThe government said it was providing as much flexibility as possible to venues.\n\nIt also said it had removed other unpopular requirements such as drinking curfews.\n\nUnder the new guidance, every customer aged 16 and over will have to check in to NHS test and trace before entering a venue, or give their contact details to staff.\n\nPubs and restaurants must take \"reasonable steps\" to stop people who won't comply from coming in, or they could face a £1,000 fine.\n\nCarl Ford does not like the new rules\n\nCarl Ford, an accountant based in Tamworth, told the BBC he was frustrated and confused by the rules.\n\n\"I feel like it's almost like going back to school where I have to sign in and out,\" he said.\n\n\"I don't understand why I have to do this in a restaurant or pub, but I don't need to do this in a supermarket where you have a free for all. People don't have to sign in and they can pick up fruit with their hands.\"\n\nOthers were supportive of the idea, however, saying it could reduce transmission.\n\nIn a joint statement, UK Hospitality, the British Beer & Pub Association and the British Institute of Innkeeping said the rules would add \"more confusion and inconvenience for customers and staff\".\n\nThey also warned if indoors payments were not permitted from 12 April, then some pubs, particularly in rural areas with poor broadband, would be unable to take payments at all.\n\nWith the government also considering whether \"proof of immunity\" should be a requirement for entry, the groups warned that \"millions\" of people could be put off going to pubs and venues at a time when the hospitality industry is struggling.\n\n\"Pubs will already be trading at a loss when they reopen with all the existing restrictions and Covid-secure measures in place,\" they said.\n\n\"Adding further disproportionate and discriminatory measures threatens the very survival of thousands of businesses.\"\n\nHospitality businesses have been hit particularly hard by lockdown closures and restrictions.\n\nIn the year to February, 368,000 payroll jobs were lost in the accommodation and food service sectors. The next worst hit sector was retail where 123,000 jobs were lost.\n\nA government spokeswoman said: \"Public health rules are kept under constant review and we are providing as much flexibility for pubs and other hospitality businesses as possible.\n\n\"The roadmap [to reopening] set out that hospitality would open from step two, and removed any requirements for curfews or a substantial meal for customers.\"\n\nShe said no final decisions had been taken on whether Covid-status certification could play a role in reopening the economy.\n\nShe added that the government continued to support the hospitality sector through the pandemic with its new £5bn Restart Grant scheme, the VAT cut, business rates relief, and by extending furlough.", "Not all energy marketed as green comes from renewable sources\n\nEnergy suppliers offering environment-friendly tariffs are not always as green as they sound, experts say.\n\nMany \"100% renewable\" electricity tariffs use energy generated by fossil fuels, which is then \"offset\" for a small price.\n\nSustainable energy think tank Regen complains of \"loose language and loose marketing\" around green energy tariffs.\n\nBut industry body Energy UK says all renewable tariffs help to transform the grid for a low-carbon future.\n\nThe vast majority of energy suppliers now offer green tariffs and many promise 100% renewable electricity as standard.\n\nHowever, some energy companies accuse others of \"greenwashing\" - using marketing spin to make \"dirty\" electricity seem clean.\n\n\"The sale of green tariffs increased remarkably in the period since 2015. In fact, it doubled between 2017 and 2018,\" says Rob Gross, the director of the UK Energy Research Centre.\n\nFor many consumers, electricity which is environmentally friendly plays a role in which supplier they choose.\n\nThat was the case for Su in Gainsborough, who told the Jeremy Vine Show on BBC Radio 2: \"The tariff we're on at the moment has 100% renewable electricity, so they source all their energy from renewables. So wind, solar, hydro.\"\n\nWe explained to Su that the supplier she was with sources the majority of its electricity from the wholesale market, which includes energy generated by gas and coal.\n\nThen it purchases cheap renewable energy certificates called REGOs to effectively \"offset\" this. That allows her supplier to legally call the electricity \"100% renewable\".\n\nIn response, Su said: \"I'm not very impressed with that at all. To claim that all your energy is sourced renewably and then to do that is very misleading.\n\n\"That's not giving consumers an informed choice about where they're getting their electric from.\"\n\nJohnny Gowdy is a director at Regen, a not-for-profit organisation supporting the transition to a net-zero energy future.\n\nHe says: \"The good news is, there's a lot of demand for green energy products and that's why the industry is responding to that.\n\n\"So there's a success story here which has been muddied somewhat by loose language and loose marketing around green energy tariffs.\"\n\nREGO stands for Renewable Energy Guarantees of Origin. When an renewable unit of electricity is generated - for example, by a wind turbine - the regulator Ofgem issues a REGO to prove that this energy is green.\n\nThe person who owns that wind turbine is now allowed to sell the electricity and the REGO separately.\n\nIt means there is a marketplace where leftover REGOs are traded, and there are enough of them \"going spare\" that energy suppliers are able to purchase enough to cover the proportion of fossil fuels they sell to customers.\n\nSome industry experts are supportive of REGOs and many agree that they have a role to play in expanding and supporting the renewable energy market.\n\nThe problem is how much they cost. They are cheap.\n\nAn energy supplier can make electricity from the wholesale market, which includes fossil fuels, look entirely green for just £1 or £2 per customer per year. The majority of UK energy suppliers are doing this to some extent.\n\nThe Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy says: \"We will be reviewing the REGO scheme this year. This will include ensuring people can make informed decisions over their energy supplier's green credentials.\"\n\nFor environmentally-conscious consumers, finding a truly \"green\" tariff is confusing.\n\nMany suppliers have contracts to buy electricity directly from renewable electricity generators and some invest directly in renewable energy infrastructure. These are arguably \"greener\", but tend to cost more.\n\nThe regulator, Ofgem, acknowledged this when it exempted three suppliers from the UK-wide energy price cap.\n\nEcotricity, Good Energy and Green Energy UK are allowed to charge more than their competitors because their electricity costs more to supply.\n\nEnergy UK, the trade body representing all suppliers, says that the bigger picture is very promising.\n\nIts chief executive, Emma Pinchbeck, says: \"All renewable tariffs, including those with REGOs, are supporting renewables in some way. Over a third of our power now comes from renewables.\n\n\"The reason we're having this debate is everyone's so enthused about a low-carbon world and that's so exciting for us in the industry.\"", "Mr Okorogheye was in the first year of a business and IT degree at Oxford Brookes when he disappeared\n\nThe search for a west London university student who has been missing for more than a week has been extended to Essex, the Met Police said.\n\nRichard Okorogheye has not been seen by his family since 22 March when he left their home in the Ladbroke Grove area.\n\nIn an update, detectives said the 19-year-old took a taxi to Loughton, Essex, in the early hours of 23 March.\n\nDet Ch Insp Nikki Beecher said the Met was \"working extremely hard to piece together the facts\".\n\nMr Okorogheye, who has sickle cell disease, did not take his medication or any money when he left home.\n\nHe was last seen boarding the 23 bus southbound in Ladbroke Grove, Kensington, at about 20:45 GMT on 22 March.\n\nThe 19-year-old left home without his medication\n\nCCTV footage showed the Oxford Brookes student was wearing all black and had a black satchel bag with a white Adidas logo worn across his lower back.\n\nHe is now known to have taken a taxi from west London to Loughton.\n\nMr Okorogheye was then captured on CCTV walking alone on Smarts Lane towards Epping Forest at 00:39 GMT on 23 March.\n\nHis mother, Evidence Joel, said her family needed to know he was safe and have appealed for him to come home.\n\nMs Joel, a nurse, said she returned home from work at about 21:00 GMT and assumed her son, who had only been leaving the house for regular blood transfusions, was in his bedroom.\n\nRichard was last seen on CCTV at 20:44 GMT in the Ladbroke Grove area\n\nShe previously claimed that when his disappearance was first reported, police \"did nothing\" and initially told her he was an adult, who could go out and come back whenever he wanted.\n\nShe said she told officers he had \"no jacket, no money, so I'm worried, I'm concerned about his wellbeing\" but the \"response was 'sorry'\".\n\nMs Joel added that it was only on Sunday and Monday that she \"felt like they were doing something\".\n\nMr Okorogheye has been known to visit the Westminster and Hammersmith and Fulham areas\n\nDet Ch Insp Beecher said specialist search officers from across the Met had been brought in to help with the search.\n\nShe added: \"It has now been nine days since Richard was last seen in person and we remain as committed as ever to locating him and bringing him home to his family.\n\nSickle cell disease, a condition that causes blood cells to change shape, is a potentially life-threatening disorder which mainly affects those with African or Caribbean heritage.\n\nFor more information about the condition go to the Sickle Cell Society website.\n• None Mother calls for help to find missing son\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Wales is set to become the first UK nation to have offered a first Covid-19 jab to over-50s and at-risk adults with long-term health conditions, the Welsh government has said.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said everyone in the top nine priority groups would be offered a first jab by Sunday.\n\nAll four UK governments had promised to reach the milestone by mid-April.\n\nHe paid tribute to front-line staff for helping to reach the target early.\n\n\"This is a truly remarkable effort and is down to the hard work of thousands of people who are working tirelessly on the NHS front line across Wales to make this happen,\" he said.\n\n\"I want to thank each and every one of them.\n\n\"And it is because of those efforts that I am able to say today that we will meet our next vaccine milestone early.\n\n\"By Sunday we will have offered a vaccine to everyone in the first nine priority groups - that's everyone over 50; all adults with an underlying health condition and a great many unpaid carers.\n\n\"By Sunday, a minimum of 75% of those in each priority group will have received a first vaccination.\"\n\nData on vaccinations will not be published by Public Health Wales on Easter Sunday.\n\nThe news comes as Mr Drakeford announced a series of lockdown easing measures, including plans for pubs, restaurants and hotels to reopen indoors in time for the Spring Bank Holiday at the end of May.\n\nEarlier on Thursday, he told Claire Summers on BBC Radio Wales Breakfast: \"The presence of the virus in Wales is the lowest in the United Kingdom, the rate of vaccination in Wales is the highest in the United Kingdom.\"\n\nThe announcement follows concern about a slow-down in vaccine supplies and people not attending appointments.\n\nOn Monday the Welsh Government's Chief Pharmacist said second Covid-19 vaccine doses will be prioritised during the expected supply slowdown of the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab with Wales receiving 250,000 fewer Oxford-AstraZeneca jab doses than expected.\n\nBut Andrew Evans insisted the shipping delay not affect Wales hitting its targets.\n\nThe NHS has also been urging people to attend vaccine appointment after hundreds failed to show up for their jabs.\n\nIn the Swansea Bay area almost 500 people did not attend on Monday.\n\nAt a mass vaccination centre in Bangor in Gwynedd, almost 200 people failed to show up over a three-day period.\n\nIn February it was announced that Wales became the first UK nation to offer a first dose to the top 4 priority groups.\n\nThe next target is to offer at least a first jab to every adult by the end of July.\n\nThe Welsh Liberal Democrats' health spokeswoman Jo Watkins said: \"This is good news and our thanks go out to everyone working on this programme and those who will be working over the Easter break.\n\n\"We must continue this rollout to ensure everyone in Wales is vaccinated as quickly and safely as possible.\"\n\nWelsh Conservative health spokeswoman Angela Burns said: \"The milestone that is expected to be met in Wales on Sunday has been made possible because of the strength of our United Kingdom, where the UK government made the swift decision to place orders for vaccines, and the superb work of NHS staff, volunteers and all others involved in the rollout of the programme in Wales.\"", "Neurosurgeon Henry Marsh is supporting calls for an inquiry into assisted dying\n\nOne of the UK's leading brain surgeons, who has advanced prostate cancer, has said an inquiry into assisted dying is \"absolutely essential\".\n\nHenry Marsh, a retired neurosurgeon and bestselling author, received his diagnosis six months ago.\n\nHe has supported a call by politicians for the government to hold an inquiry.\n\nThe Care Not Killing alliance, which opposes assisted dying, said the law protected the vulnerable \"from being pressured into ending their lives\".\n\nMr Marsh is backing a group of more than 50 MPs and peers who have written a joint letter to Justice Secretary Robert Buckland, arguing the UK's laws on assisted dying have fallen behind the rest of the world.\n\nCurrently, assisting a suicide is a crime in England and Wales and is punishable by up to 14 years in jail.\n\nIntentionally helping another person to kill themselves is known as assisted suicide - this can include buying someone a ticket to Switzerland - where assisted suicide is legal - to end their life.\n\nSignatories of the letter include politicians who previously voted against changing the law.\n\nThe letter was organised by Humanists UK, which Mr Marsh is an advocate of, and campaign group My Death, My Decision, of which he is a patron.\n\nSpeaking publicly for the first time about his own cancer diagnosis, Mr Marsh said he felt \"deeply shocked and terribly frightened and upset\" as it \"gradually dawned on him how serious the situation was\".\n\nThe surgeon said in the past he had in \"theory\" been an advocate of assisted dying in \"one form or another\" but said he hadn't thought it might one day apply to him.\n\n\"It is extraordinarily difficult to think about your own death,\" he said.\n\nThe 71-year-old, who is due to start radiotherapy treatment in a few months' time, believes \"something should be done to change the law in this country\".\n\n\"My own suspicion as to why the opponents to assisted dying oppose a public inquiry is they fear that actually the evidence is so strong that their hypothetical arguments against it don't hold water, that they will lose the debate,\" he said.\n\nHumanists UK's chief executive Andrew Copson said he was \"deeply sorry\" to hear about Mr Marsh's diagnosis.\n\n\"The ability to choose how, where, and when we die is a fundamental freedom, which cuts across party political and ideological lines,\" he added.\n\n\"In coming together to demand an inquiry, Henry and the lawmakers who have signed this letter have put the voices of the terminally ill and incurably suffering at the centre of the debate.\"\n\nJean Farrer's sister-in-law, Anne Vickers, 75, travelled to Dignitas in Switzerland in 2015 after being diagnosed with mesothelioma, a cancer which couldn't be treated.\n\nMs Farrer said her sister-in-law was an \"active, independent, funny, joyful person\" who decided to end her life when she felt the quality wasn't good enough any more.\n\nAnne Vickers, 75, travelled to Dignitas in Switzerland in 2015 after being diagnosed with mesothelioma, a cancer which couldn't be treated\n\nSupporting calls for a public inquiry, Ms Farrer said she understood it was a \"complex area\" with many safeguarding issues, but said her family had been caused so much pain and distress because it was not legal.\n\n\"There were so many other things we could have been doing in the last 12 months with her to make her year the best it could have been,\" she said.\n\nDr Gordon Macdonald, chief executive of Care Not Killing, said he was disappointed there was another \"push\" to legalise assisted suicide and euthanasia in the midst of the Covid pandemic.\n\n\"Our current laws protect the most vulnerable in our society, the elderly, the sick and disabled from feeling pressured into ending their lives, exactly as we see in the handful of places around the world that allow assisted suicide or euthanasia.\n\nHe added: \"At a time when we have seen how fragile our NHS is, how underfunding puts pressure on services, and when up to one in four Brits who would benefit from palliative care, but does not currently receive it, to be pushing this ideological policy, seems out of touch, dangerous and desperate.\"\n\nA Ministry of Justice spokesperson said: \"Any change to the law in an area of such sensitivity and importance must be for individual MPs to consider rather than a decision for government.\"", "Many students are still waiting to find out what will happen about their courses this summer\n\nUniversity leaders are lobbying for a return to campuses this month for all students in England - from 12 April rather than suggestions of 17 May.\n\nMany students \"feel they have been forgotten by government\", said Tim Bradshaw, chief executive of the Russell Group of universities.\n\nAbout a million students are still only studying online.\n\nThe Department for Education says return dates will be reviewed \"by the end of the Easter holidays\".\n\nThis timetable is understood to mean by the end of next week.\n\nBut students have been promised at least a week's notice, which would mean a decision for a return from 12 April would have to be announced over the Easter weekend.\n\nUniversities UK says \"concerns are growing that the next stage of student returns will be delayed until 17 May at the earliest\".\n\nThat would mean that many students, paying full fees and in some cases rent, would see their summer term on campus shrinking to a few weeks, before ending in June.\n\nIt would add pressure to calls for students to be given refunds after a second year of disruption.\n\nWhile schools and colleges had a big back-to-school return in March, much of university teaching has remained off-campus and online, with no date for a return.\n\nStudents on practical courses have already been able to return\n\nSome practical courses, requiring hands-on training, have returned, with Universities UK estimating that half of 2.1 million students do not have any indication of when they might go back.\n\nIn some universities, teaching is going to remain online for the rest of the academic year.\n\n\"There are university students across the country on courses such as business, maths and languages who are still waiting to find when - or even if - they will be able to return to in-person teaching this year,\" says Dr Bradshaw, head of the Russell Group of 24 leading research universities.\n\n\"We are particularly concerned about the impact on student mental health,\" he says.\n\nDr Bradshaw urged ministers to allow students to go back for in-person teaching from 12 April - arguing that there was little evidence that it would threaten a significant increase in infections.\n\nA survey from the Higher Education Policy Institute found that two-thirds of students have been staying in their term-time accommodation, even if studying online, suggesting there would be less of a mass migration than at the start of the academic year.\n\n\"We have shared comprehensive evidence with the government on the clear benefits of a 12 April return to in-person activities for students' mental health and wellbeing,\" said a Universities UK spokeswoman.\n\nDebra Humphris, chair of the University Alliance group of universities, said an earlier return would be particularly important for those students graduating this year - who want the \"face-to-face employability support\" before entering an \"uncertain job market\".\n\nBut the UCU lecturers' union has rejected calls for a campus return this month - saying it \"smacks of self-interest and risks the safety of staff, students and the wider public\".\n\nJo Grady, the union's general secretary, said \"vice-chancellors lured students to university with the promise of a relatively normal campus experience, only for them to be left facing long periods in lockdown.\n\n\"Universities should not now be asking hundreds of thousands of students to return for in-person teaching after Easter when most courses will only have revision classes and exams left,\" said Dr Grady.\n\nA Department for Education spokeswoman said: \"We will be reviewing options for the timing of the return of all remaining students by the end of the Easter holidays.\n\n\"Decisions will take into account the need to protect progress across the wider roadmap out of the pandemic, including the spread of the virus in communities and pressures on the NHS.\"", "Green Man Festival's organisers say they are hopeful the event will go ahead this summer\n\nUp to 1,000 people could be allowed to attend outdoor sporting and cultural events as coronavirus restrictions continue to ease.\n\nTheatres have been closed and music and arts festivals were axed at the start of the first lockdown in March 2020.\n\nNow the Welsh government hopes to put on a series of outdoor \"cultural and sporting events\" in the summer, for between 200 and 1,000 people.\n\nThe pilot could include fans returning to a stadium for an event.\n\nNo details have yet been announced of which sports, or cultural events could be included in the pilot, and they will not happen before 12 April.\n\nUnder the current alert level four, mass gatherings in Wales are banned, with only six people from two households currently able to meet outside.\n\nThere have been concerns for the future of the arts industry with venues closed since March 2020\n\nThere have been repeated calls from the arts sector, including theatres, for a date to reopen buildings and allow audiences back in, with fears many will not survive after being closed for over a year.\n\nNumerous mass-participation events, which raise millions of pounds for charities, including marathons and triathlons, were cancelled or postponed because of the pandemic, while festivals and concerts were also put on hold.\n\nWhile the Welsh government has signalled some organised outdoor sports - such as running clubs - will be allowed to resume from 3 May, these will be limited to 30 people. No date has yet been suggested for when large sporting events may be allowed to restart.\n\nThe Welsh government has said it was working towards \"safe reopening\", but no date has been given for reopening theatres or venues in the latest lockdown easing plan.\n\nA spokesperson said changes may be considered by the next administration at the next review of restrictions due on 14 May, after the Senedd election.\n\nSome of Wales' largest events, such as the Hay Festival, have already been called off this summer.\n\nNow the Welsh Government has announced it wants to hold a series of pilot events across Wales after 12 April, adding this could include a \"stadia event\".\n\nIn England, up to 10,000 fans could be back in stadiums by mid-May as part of the government's plans to move out of lockdown.\n\nAnnouncing a new timetable for easing restrictions, First Minister Mark Drakeford said the pilot events for sport and arts would build on pilots held in September, including outdoor performances at Theatr Clwyd, in Flintshire.\n\nThe Football Association of Wales and Glamorgan Cricket have both volunteered to stage pilot events.\n\nThe Welsh Rugby Union welcomed the plan for pilot events, adding the safe return of fans \"cannot come soon enough\".", "Mr Young was found by officers attending reports of three men fighting\n\nA man has been stabbed to death at a vigil being held to remember the victim of another knife attack.\n\nThe Met Police said 23-year-old Reece Young was killed on Alpha Road in Croydon at about 21:10 BST on Tuesday.\n\nTwo men who later arrived at a hospital with stab wounds were subsequently arrested on suspicion of murder.\n\nOne of them attacked officers and NHS staff before forcing his way out of the building, but was later caught and returned to custody.\n\nAppealing for information, Det Ch Insp Richard Vandenberghhe said Mr Young had been found by officers responding to reports of three men fighting and it was believed the stabbing had been \"witnessed by a number of people\".\n\nHe said: \"They had gathered for a small vigil in remembrance of another recent fatal stabbing victim when an altercation began.\n\n\"Some of those people have already spoken to police, but I believe there are others who captured images and video of what happened.\n\n\"The information they have could prove vital in establishing the chain of events that has led to a young man losing his life.\"\n\nMr Young's family have been informed and are being supported by specialist officers.\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\nWithin days of the second warmest March day on record, a swing in temperatures could see a cold Easter Bank Holiday weekend with gales and even snow.\n\nAccording to the Met Office, by Easter Monday temperatures will struggle to reach double digits and the colder weather will last throughout next week.\n\nAnd a \"white Easter Monday\" is likely, with snowfall in some higher areas in Scotland and northern England.\n\nForecaster Nicola Maxey said the UK was heading for \"an Arctic trough\".\n\nBut she said that, for this time of year, the recent warmer weather was more unusual than the upcoming cold temperatures.\n\nThis week's warm temperatures - including a high of 24.5C (76.1F) at Kew Gardens in London on Tuesday - will last longest in the south of England, said Ms Maxey.\n\nBut by early next week the whole of the UK will struggle to get above single figures.\n\nFor Easter Monday, the daily high forecast for London is 7C (44.6F) and 6C (42.8F) in Leeds and Manchester. Edinburgh's maximum is expected to be 5C (41F) while Cardiff's is 7C and Belfast 5C.\n\nOvernight temperatures are expected to fall to as low as 0C (32F) - and below freezing in some areas.\n\nThe shift in temperatures has already begun, with BBC Weather saying parts of the central England have seen temperatures fall by 15C in 24 hours.\n\nIn an average year, snow is actually more likely to fall at Easter than at Christmas. The coldest Easter Sunday morning on record was in 2013, with -12.5C at the village of Braemar in Aberdeenshire.\n\nEaster 2018 saw areas hit with snowfall - like Overwater in Cumbria - as well as heavy rain and flooding\n\n\"It's not unusual to see these big swings in spring - it's a transition period between winter and summer,\" said Ms Maxey.\n\nShe said: \"There are some blustery winds around, particularly along the east coast, as we go through the weekend.\"\n\n\"It's a marked change from what we saw on Wednesday,\" she said - and on Sunday and into Monday an \"Arctic trough\" will arrive.\n\nPolice officers monitored people enjoying the warm weather on Wednesday at the Forest Recreation Ground in Nottingham\n\nThe small strip of sand at Chalkwell beach, Southend, appeared busy on Wednesday\n\n\"It turns windy in the north from Sunday with gales possible in northern areas locally, and across northern isles, Scotland,\" Ms Maxey said.\n\n\"We're looking at possible gale force winds across the northern half and the west side of the UK.\"\n\nShe added: \"The cold will be with us for much of next week, and with any showers you could see the possibility of snow falling over high ground in northern areas - the Pennines, Cumbria, Scotland.\"\n\nThe RAC said it anticipated a \"sharp rise in breakdowns\" as a result of the colder weather returning, and urged people to check their vehicles ahead of travelling.\n\nTuesday was the hottest March day since 1968 as temperatures topped 24.5C, leading to many people gathering in parks and on beaches. Wednesday was also warm in some areas.\n\nThe warmer weather came just a few days after coronavirus rules were relaxed in England and Wales - and parks and beaches were busy.\n\nTwo parks in Nottingham were closed after large crowds failed to socially distance and left rubbish behind.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPublic Health England medical director Dr Yvonne Doyle said: \"As restrictions lift and the weather improves, we cannot drop our guard. We're not out of the woods quite yet.\"\n\nHeath Secretary Matt Hancock also tweeted to say \"don't blow it\" - urging people to enjoy the warm weather safely.", "Boris Johnson with Jennifer Arcuri at an event in 2014\n\nThe Conservative Party helped Boris Johnson pay his legal bills when he fought allegations that he had used his position to \"benefit and reward\" a US businesswoman while London mayor.\n\nThe police complaints watchdog found \"no evidence\" Mr Johnson had influenced payments to Jennifer Arcuri and did not start a criminal investigation.\n\nA Tory spokesperson said the party had given the PM \"financial support\".\n\nThis was because Labour had made the issue \"party-political\", they added.\n\nThe London Assembly's monitoring officer referred Mr Johnson to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) in September 2019 over allegations \"from the media and elsewhere\" of misconduct in a public office.\n\nThe investigation began after the Sunday Times reported that Ms Arcuri had joined trade missions he led, and that she had received thousands of pounds in sponsorship grants.\n\nIt also followed demands from Labour for a \"full account\" of what it called \"grave and most serious allegations\" against Mr Johnson.\n\nThe IOPC later found there was \"some evidence\" Mr Johnson and Ms Arcuri had had an \"intimate relationship\".\n\nBut the watchdog discovered \"no evidence that Mr Johnson influenced the payment of sponsorship monies or participation in trade missions\".\n\nMs Arcuri, a technology entrepreneur, has since claimed she and Mr Johnson had a four-year romantic relationship while he was London mayor.\n\nA Conservative Party spokesperson said of the IOPC investigation: \"This was a party-political matter, given this was a politically vexatious and motivated exercise by Labour politicians.\n\n\"Financial legal support was funded by the Conservative Party, as the matter was clearly a party political attack.\"\n\nThey added that the IOPC had thrown out the \"spurious complaint\", adding: \"The House of Commons registrar was consulted [about the payment to the prime minister], and all appropriate rules were followed.\"\n\nThe Greater London Assembly's Oversight Committee is separately investigating \"claims into preferential treatment\" for Ms Arcuri while Mr Johnson was mayor.\n\nMr Johnson, who became prime minister in 2019, has always denied any wrongdoing.\n\nOn Monday, his spokeswoman, Allegra Stratton, said he had acted with \"honesty and integrity\" as London mayor.\n\nShe added that the prime minister would \"engage\" with the GLA's investigation but had \"no case to answer\" following the IOPC's findings.", "About two million of the UK's lowest-paid workers will get a pay rise from Thursday as the minimum wage goes up.\n\nThe National Living Wage will rise 2.2% to £8.91, the equivalent of more than £345 a year for a full-time employee.\n\nIt will also be given to 23 and 24-year-olds for the first time, not just those aged 25 and over.\n\nStatutory rates for apprentices and those aged between 18 and 22 will also rise, along with the voluntary \"Real Living Wage\".\n\nHowever, hundreds of thousands of low-paid workers on furlough will see no uplift at all after they were excluded.\n\nMinisters said the increases to minimum wages would particularly benefit workers in sectors such as retail, hospitality, cleaning and maintenance.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said it would be \"a welcome boost to families right across the UK\".\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng urged \"all workers\" to check their pay packets to ensure they were \"getting what they are entitled to, and remind employers of their duty to pay the correct wage\".\n\nThe voluntary Real Living Wage will rise to £10.85 an hour in London and £9.50 outside the capital, but only a small minority of employers have signed up to pay it.\n\nThe foundation promoting it warned there was still a \"substantial gap\" between the statutory rates and one based on the actual cost of living.\n\nMuch of the UK's retail and hospitality industries remain closed because of Covid, meaning many of the lowest-paid workers are on furlough and will miss out on a pay rise.\n\nThey will continue to get 80% of their usual income, based on pre-pandemic rates for the minimum wage.\n\nAbout 800,000 of the lowest-paid workers were on furlough in February, according to the House of Commons Library.\n\nThe government said furloughed workers who returned to work after 1 April would move on to the new minimum wage rates for hours worked.\n\nBut shadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds hit out at the \"pay freeze\" for furloughed workers.\n\n\"Hitting Britain's families in their pockets isn't just wrong - it's economically illiterate. If families have less money to spend, then businesses will suffer and the recovery will take longer,\" she said.\n\nFrances O'Grady, general secretary of the Trades Union Congress, also said nobody should be expected to get by on less than the minimum wage.\n\n\"Low-paid workers on furlough have bills to pay like everyone else,\" she said.\n\n\"The government should guarantee that everybody will get at least the full rate of the minimum wage. And it should give all minimum wage workers a decent pay rise.\"\n\nMike Hawking of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation described the boost to the minimum wage as \"necessary\", but said that the pandemic had revealed the urgency of taking further steps to tackle in-work poverty.\n\n\"As we start to recover from the impact of the last year, too many workers are finding that minimum wage increases are being wiped out due to inadequate social security, insufficient hours available to them, and high housing costs.\"\n\nBryan Sanderson, chairman of the Low Pay Commission, which recommends the level at which the minimum wage should be set, said: \"This week's increase is our first step towards the government's target of two-thirds of median earnings.\n\n\"It is a real-terms increase, meaning that an hour's work can buy more than it could last year at the start of the pandemic. The level of the new rate, however, also reflects the need to protect workers from job losses.\"\n\nThe commission said its best estimate for the National Living Wage rate in 2022 was £9.42, but this is subject to more uncertainty than usual and is likely to change.\n\nThis rise in the legal minimum wage will be welcome news, particularly as most households across the UK are also seeing their bills going up from the start of April. Planned price rises kick in for gas and electricity, council tax, water charges, the licence fee, TV and broadband rates, and NHS prescription charges in England. It'll be a stretch for many.\n\nFor those minimum wage staff who are on furlough at the moment, the news is even harder. Pay for those who would normally be working in bars, restaurants, hairdressers and hotels will continue to be based on 80% of their pre-Covid earnings.\n\nThey won't get the new pay rise until they start back to work again, but given the timetable on easing restrictions, many may be heading back to full employment soon.", "Last updated on .From the section England\n\nHarry Maguire's late winner made it a maximum nine points from three World Cup 2022 qualifiers for England as they overcame Poland at Wembley.\n\nPoland presented a much sterner test than the formalities against San Marino and Albania and it looked like England would have to settle for a point until Maguire struck five minutes from time.\n\nEngland's impressive first half brought a deserved lead when Harry Kane scored his 34th international goal from the penalty spot in the 19th minute, following Michal Helik's challenge on Raheem Sterling.\n\nAnd yet England almost paid the price for a largely average performance after the break as Poland, who were without injured world-class striker Robert Lewandowski, equalised when a dreadful error by Manchester City's John Stones saw him concede possession on the edge of the area and Jakub Moder beat Nick Pope emphatically.\n\nIt was the first goal Pope had conceded in seven England appearances and looked like being costly until Stones made amends by showing superb athleticism to head Phil Foden's corner into the path of Maguire, who lashed a powerful drive high past Wojciech Szczesny to keep manager Gareth Southgate's perfect record in these World Cup qualifiers intact.\n• None England still have a lot of work to do - Southgate\n• None 'Rice indispensable - but areas of concern remain for England'\n• None Listen to reaction on the Football Daily podcast\n\nEngland's performance can be divided up into the two halves and ultimately they were very grateful for Maguire's late intervention.\n\nIn the opening 45 minutes they were controlled and composed after a slow start, cutting through Poland at will although they did not create too many clear-cut chances.\n\nEngland dominated in midfield, were barely threatened at the back, and the combination of Sterling and Mason Mount looked hugely promising on the left side.\n\nAnd at the heart of it all was West Ham United's Declan Rice, knitting play together in midfield, not merely breaking up attacks but showing a willingness to start them as well. The 22-year-old looks the complete operator, growing in stature with every game.\n\nRice is a certain starter when England open their Euro 2020 campaign against Croatia at Wembley on 13 June and he demonstrated once more what a crucial figure he will be in manager Southgate's plans.\n\nKane, too, proved how important he will be as England again showed that they have the ability to grind out wins when not at their best.\n\nIn the second half, however, England were average and lost all of the fluency that allowed them to dominate in the first period.\n\nPoland will be disappointed not to get a point after showing real spirit to fight their way back into contention, especially when they were without the stellar talent of Lewandowski.\n\nIn contrast to England, Poland's players did not take the knee at kick-off but very clearly pointed to the \"Uefa Respect\" inscription on the left sleeve of their jersey, which refers to the European federation's campaign against racism, xenophobia and intolerance.\n\nFor England, Maguire's decisive late contribution made it a satisfactory start to their qualifying campaign.\n\nEngland were not put to the test by master marksman Lewandowski, but even without him this match revived the fears that a potentially vulnerable defence will not get its first serious test until their Euro 2020 campaign begins.\n\nAnd the warning signs were posted just before the hour when Stones received a pass from Pope, hesitated on the ball then faltered, allowing Poland to rob him of possession for Moder's leveller.\n\nStones has been immaculate for Manchester City this season but this was a little like old times in an England shirt, the defender having been punished for carelessness before at this level.\n\nIn Stones' defence he did brilliantly to create Maguire's winner, but doubts about England's defence remain. Lewandowski may have opened the cracks even wider had he been available.\n\nEngland manager Gareth Southgate to ITV Sport: \"We were very good in the first half, we were in control of the game and to concede a goal like we did can hit the team. They stuck at it, they recovered their composure and got an important set-play winner.\n\n\"John Stones managed to compose himself for the rest of the game and had a part in the winning goal which was important - you can fold in those moments and he didn't.\"\n\nEngland defender Harry Maguire to ITV Sport: \"It is a big win. We are playing to play at a World Cup. We started the game well but in the second half we didn't. John [Stones] has been brilliant this year. Defenders make mistakes and when we do we get scrutinised. He made up for it with a great header at the back post.\"\n\nKane from the spot - the best of the stats\n• None England have now won each of their last 20 home qualifying matches for the European Championship/World Cup - a run stretching back to October 2012.\n• None Poland lost for only the third time in their last 26 qualifying matches for the Euros/World Cup (W19, D4).\n• None England have only lost one of their 20 international matches against Poland (W12, D7) and are unbeaten in their last 17 against them.\n• None Kane became England's all-time leading penalty scorer, netting his 10th penalty and overtaking Frank Lampard, who scored nine.\n• None Stones registered only his third assist in his 324 senior matches for club and country.\n• None Kane has been directly involved in 30 goals in 21 Euros/World Cup qualifying matches (22 goals, 8 assists), scoring at least once in each of his last 12 such appearances, stretching back to October 2017.\n• None Attempt missed. Rafal Augustyniak (Poland) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Jan Bednarek with a headed pass.\n• None Offside, England. Jesse Lingard tries a through ball, but Dominic Calvert-Lewin is caught offside.\n• None Goal! England 2, Poland 1. Harry Maguire (England) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by John Stones with a headed pass following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Mason Mount (England) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Belfast's biggest boxing promoter that no-one saw coming\n• None Must-make TikTok recipes to inspire your cooking this week", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The concert was announced on social media as an April Fools' Day prank\n\nPolice in Belgium have used tear gas and water cannon to break up a crowd of people who had gathered for a fake concert that was announced on social media as an April Fools' Day joke.\n\nAbout 2,000 people attended the event in Brussels' Bois de la Cambre park, in defiance of the country's Covid-19 measures.\n\nWhen police arrived, on foot and on horseback, some in the crowd shouted \"Freedom!\" and threw projectiles.\n\nPolice said four people were arrested.\n\nThree police officers were injured in clashes, according to officials. Reuters news agency reported that at least two other people were injured.\n\nThe announcement for the concert was posted on Facebook in March, promising a host of famous DJs.\n\nOrganisers said the invitation was a hoax, but many people still showed up.\n\n\"We are all depressed. I'll be 18 in two weeks, we want to take advantage of our youth,\" one student who attended the gathering told Reuters. \"We came not to annoy the police, but to show that we also have a life and want to enjoy it.\"\n\nUnder coronavirus restrictions in Belgium, outdoor gatherings are limited to four people.\n\nProsecutors say they have started an investigation to find out who was behind the Facebook post.\n\nBrussels Mayor Philippe Close said he could understand people wanting to go outside in the spring weather, but such gatherings would not be tolerated.\n\nBelgium, with a population of 11.5 million, has recorded more than 882,000 coronavirus cases and 23,000 deaths.\n\nIt is one of a number of European countries to increase restrictions amid a rise in cases.", "George Floyd repeatedly told the police officers who detained him that he could not breathe\n\nThe US has been convulsed by nationwide protests over the death of an African-American man in police custody.\n\nGeorge Floyd, 46, died after being arrested by police outside a shop in Minneapolis, Minnesota.\n\nFootage of the arrest on 25 May shows a white police officer, Derek Chauvin, kneeling on Mr Floyd's neck while he was pinned to the floor.\n\nMr Chauvin, 44, has since been charged with murder.\n\nTranscripts of police bodycam footage show Mr Floyd said more than 20 times he could not breathe as he was restrained by the officers.\n\nThe key events that led to Mr Floyd's death happened within just 30 minutes. Based on accounts from witnesses, video footage and official statements, here's what we know so far.\n\nIt began with a report of a fake $20 (£16.20) bill.\n\nA report was made on the evening of 25 May, when Mr Floyd bought a pack of cigarettes from Cup Foods, a grocery store.\n\nBelieving the $20 bill he used to be counterfeit, a store employee reported it to police.\n\nMr Floyd had been living in Minneapolis for several years after moving there from his native Houston, Texas. He had recently been working as a bouncer in the city but, like millions of other Americans, was left jobless by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMr Floyd was a regular at Cup Foods. He was a friendly face, a pleasant customer who never caused any trouble, the store owner Mike Abumayyaleh told NBC.\n\nBut Mr Abumayyaleh was not at work on the day of the incident. In reporting the suspicious bill, his teenage employee was just following protocol.\n\nIn a call to 911, made at 20:01, the employee told the operator he had demanded the cigarettes back but \"he [Floyd] doesn't want to do that\", according to a transcript released by authorities.\n\nThe employee said the man appeared \"drunk\" and \"not in control of himself\", the transcript says.\n\nShortly after the call, at around 20:08, two police officers arrived. Mr Floyd was sitting with two other people in a car parked around the corner.\n\nAfter approaching the car, one of the officers, Thomas Lane, pulled out his gun and ordered Mr Floyd to show his hands. In an account of the incident, prosecutors do not explain why Mr Lane thought it necessary to draw his gun.\n\nMr Lane, prosecutors said, \"put his hands on Mr Floyd, and pulled him out of the car\". Then Mr Floyd \"actively resisted being handcuffed\".\n\nOnce handcuffed, though, Mr Floyd became compliant while Mr Lane explained he was being arrested for \"passing counterfeit currency\".\n\nCourt transcripts from police body cameras show Mr Floyd appears co-operative at the beginning of the arrest, repeatedly apologising to the officers after they approach his parked car.\n\nMr Lane asks Mr Floyd to show his hands at least 10 times before ordering him to get out of the vehicle.\n\nIt was when officers tried to put Mr Floyd in their squad car that a struggle ensued.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Minnesota governor on George Floyd death: 'Thank God a young person had a camera to video it'\n\nAt about 20:14, Mr Floyd \"stiffened up, fell to the ground, and told the officers he was claustrophobic\", according to the report.\n\nMr Chauvin arrived at the scene. He and other officers were involved in a further attempt to put Mr Floyd in the police car.\n\nDuring this attempt, at 20:19, Mr Chauvin pulled Mr Floyd away from the passenger side, causing him to fall to the ground, the report said.\n\nHe lay there, face down, still in handcuffs.\n\nThat's when witnesses started to film Mr Floyd, who appeared to be in a distressed state. These moments, captured on multiple mobile phones and shared widely on social media, would prove to be Mr Floyd's last.\n\nMr Floyd was restrained by officers, while Mr Chauvin placed his left knee between his head and neck.\n\nFor more than nine minutes, Mr Chauvin kept his knee on Mr Floyd's neck, the prosecutors say. The duration was initially given as eight minutes and 46 seconds but Minnesota prosecutors have since revised the time.\n\nThe transcripts of bodycam footage from officers Lane and J Alexander Kueng show Mr Floyd said more than 20 times he could not breathe as he was restrained. He was also pleading for his mother and begging \"please, please, please\".\n\nAt one point, Mr Floyd gasps: \"You're going to kill me, man.\"\n\nDerek Chauvin is charged with second degree murder\n\nOfficer Chauvin replies: \"Then stop talking, stop yelling. It takes heck of a lot of oxygen to talk.\"\n\nMr Floyd says: \"Can't believe this, man. Mom, love you. Love you. Tell my kids I love them. I'm dead.\"\n\nA female bystander told the police: \"His nose is bleeding, come on now.\"\n\nAbout six minutes into that period, Mr Floyd became non-responsive. In videos of the incident, this was when Mr Floyd fell silent, as bystanders urged the officers to check his pulse.\n\nOfficer Kueng did just that, checking Mr Floyd's right wrist, but \"couldn't find one\". Yet the other officers did not move.\n\nAt 20:27, Mr Chauvin removed his knee from Mr Floyd's neck. Motionless, Mr Floyd was rolled on to a gurney and taken to the Hennepin County Medical Center in an ambulance.\n\nHe was pronounced dead about an hour later.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In June Panorama spoke to local people to piece together the moments leading up to George Floyd's death\n\nOn the night before his death, Mr Floyd had spoken to one of his closest friends, Christopher Harris. He had advised Mr Floyd to contact a temporary jobs agency.\n\nForgery, he said, was out of character for Mr Floyd.\n\n\"The way he died was senseless,\" Harris said. \"He begged for his life. He pleaded for his life. When you try so hard to put faith in this system, a system that you know isn't designed for you, when you constantly seek justice by lawful means and you can't get it, you begin to take the law into your own hands.\"\n\nGeorge Floyd dies after being arrested by police outside a shop in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Footage shows a white officer, Derek Chauvin, kneeling on Mr Floyd’s neck for several minutes while he is pinned to the floor. Mr Floyd is heard repeatedly saying \"I can’t breathe\". He is pronounced dead later in hospital. Four officers involved in the arrest of George Floyd are fired. Protests begin as the video of the arrest is shared widely on social media. Hundreds of demonstrators take to the streets of Minneapolis and vandalise police cars and the police station with graffiti. Protesters lie on the streets in Portland, Oregon Protests spread to other cities including Memphis and Los Angeles. In some places, like Portland, Oregon, protesters lie in the road, chanting \"I can’t breathe\". Demonstrators again gather around the police station in Minneapolis where the officers involved in George Floyd’s arrest were based and set fire to it. The building is evacuated and police retreat. President Trump blames the violence on a lack of leadership in Minneapolis and threatens to send in the National Guard in a tweet. He follows it up in a second tweet with a warning \"when the looting starts, the shooting starts\". The second tweet is hidden by Twitter for \"glorifying violence\". Members of a CNN crew are arrested at a protest A CNN reporter, Omar Jimenez, is arrested while covering the Minneapolis protest. Mr Jimenez was reporting live when police officers handcuffed him. A few minutes later several of his colleagues are also arrested. They are all later released once they are confirmed to be members of the media. Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin after being charged over the death of George Floyd Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, 44, is charged with murder and manslaughter. The charges carry a combined maximum 35-year sentence. Demonstrators set fire to rubbish in New York Violence spreads across the US on the sixth night of protests. A total of at least five people are reported killed in protests from Indianapolis to Chicago. More than 75 cities have seen protests. At least 4,400 people have been arrested. Curfews are imposed across the US to try to stem the unrest. President Trump threatens to send in the military to quell growing civil unrest. He says if cities and states fail to control the protests and \"defend their residents\" he will deploy the army and \"quickly solve the problem for them\". Mr Trump poses in front of a damaged church shortly after police used tear gas to disperse peaceful protesters nearby. Tens of thousands of protesters again take to the streets. One of the biggest protests is in George Floyd’s hometown of Houston, Texas. Many defy curfews in several cities, but the demonstrations are largely peaceful. A memorial service for George Floyd is held in Minneapolis. Those gathered in tribute stand in silence for eight minutes, 46 seconds, the amount of time Mr Floyd is alleged to have been on the ground under arrest. Hundreds attended the service, which heard a eulogy from civil rights activist Rev Al Sharpton. As the US saw another weekend of protests, with tens of thousands marching in Washington DC, anti-racism demonstrations were held around the world. In Australia, there were major protests in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane that focused on the treatment of indigenous Australians. There were also demonstrations in France, Germany, Spain and the UK. In Bristol, protesters tore down the statue of a 17th century slave trader and threw it into the harbour. Pallbearers bring the coffin into the church A funeral service for George Floyd is held in Houston, Mr Floyd’s home town. Just over two weeks after his death in Minneapolis and worldwide anti-racism protests, about 500 guests invited by the Floyd family are in attendance at the Fountain of Praise Church. Many more gather outside to show their support.\n• None Why is a US city in flames?", "Philip Mawer worked in Mozambique overseeing the building of camps for workers\n\nThe family of a British man missing in Mozambique after an attack by Islamist militants have said a body has been found.\n\nPhilip Mawer, 58, was working in Palma, in the north of the country, when it was stormed by militants last week.\n\nHis family said it appeared he died while trying to escape the siege.\n\nIn a statement, they called him an \"outgoing character\" with a wonderful sense of humour and \"who had something of the lovable rogue about him\".\n\nThe body has yet to be formally identified, the family said.\n\nDozens of people were killed following the attack in Palma, as hundreds of militants targeted shops, banks and a military barracks, and more than 5,000 people have fled from the town.\n\nMilitants linked to the Islamic State (IS) group are behind the conflict.\n\nEyewitnesses reported seeing Mr Mawer at the Amarula Palma Hotel last week, when the offensive began.\n\nOn Friday, he joined dozens of others who crammed themselves into vehicles and tried to flee the town but they were ambushed and that was the last time Mr Mawer was seen alive.\n\nMr Mawer's employer - RA International, where he managed the building of camps for workers involved in a natural gas project - said he was one of seven people missing following the attempt to escape.\n\nA statement issued by RA International on behalf of his family said he was a \"much-loved son, brother, uncle, and friend\".\n\n\"Although formal identification has yet to be completed, we have now been made aware that the body of a man matching Philip's description has been found,\" they said.\n\n\"Philip was an ebullient, outgoing character who had something of the lovable rogue about him. He had a wonderful sense of humour and could be relied on to find a humorous take on the most difficult of situations.\n\n\"The family is devastated by the loss and he will be sadly missed.\"\n\nThe statement said Mr Mawer had been in Mozambique for 18 months and he had previously worked in Somalia, Sierra Leone, Algeria, Afghanistan, and Yemen.\n\n\"It was the nature of his chosen line of work to be in the more dangerous corners of the world,\" they said. \"His ability to get things done in the most hostile of environments made him a valued colleague.\n\n\"Earlier in his life, Philip overcame a period of compulsive gambling and went on to write the book Overcoming Problem Gambling: A Guide for Problem and Compulsive Gamblers, using his personal experience to help others to overcome this destructive addiction. He would often receive letters of thanks from people helped by the book.\"\n\nFollowing the attack in Palma, hundreds of people have taken refuge at a nearby natural gas facility operated by the French company Total - according to the medical charity Médicins Sans Frontières.\n\nMany have shown up injured including a baby who had been shot and a mother who had just given birth.\n\nThe fighting in the region has left more than 2,500 people dead and 700,000 displaced since the insurgency began in 2017.", "Lorraine Cox, 32, was described as the \"heartbeat\" of her family\n\nA man followed and murdered a woman on a night out and later disposed of her body in an alleyway and woodland.\n\nLorraine Cox, 32, was killed in Exeter on 1 September.\n\nAzam Mangori, 24, of Dartmouth Road, Stoke-on-Trent was found guilty of murder, having previously admitted preventing a lawful burial.\n\nHe left Ms Cox's body for a week in his flat before he \"panicked\" and dismembered her, jurors at Exeter Crown Court heard.\n\nSpeaking for the first time since her death, Ms Cox's family described her as \"the most kind-hearted, loving, generous girl\", adding she was \"the heartbeat of our family\".\n\n\"We hope and pray that no other woman or family has to go through what our beautiful girl suffered, or that any other family suffers the brutal, distressing experience we have all been through,\" their statement said.\n\nThey added the trial had been \"mentally and emotionally exhausting\", but thanked people for their help searching for Ms Cox last year.\n\nCommenting after the verdicts, police said Mangori had committed a \"deeply disturbing\" and \"horrendous\" crime.\n\nHe followed Ms Cox through the streets and persuaded her to go to his flat above a kebab shop.\n\nParts of her body were later found in an alley next to the flat and in woodland at Newton St Cyres, about six miles (9km) away.\n\nMangori, an Iraqi Kurd who was denied asylum in December 2018, told the court he had panicked because he feared being deported.\n\nHe said Ms Cox drank spirits and smoked a mystery drug in his room before losing consciousness and dying.\n\nThe 24-year-old said he had dismembered her body because he did not know how to get rid of it after it started to decompose.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Azam Mangori is shown crossing the road as he follows Lorraine Cox in Exeter\n\nBut prosecutor Simon Laws QC called Mangori a \"fluent and determined liar\" and said he had smothered her with a T-shirt.\n\nThe court heard after Ms Cox was killed, Mangori used a SIM card from her phone to send messages to her family, partner and friends in an attempt to show she was still alive.\n\nHe also looked at amputation videos in the days before her disappearance, jurors were told.\n\nMangori was caught on camera in shops buying supplies to help him dispose of her body, including bin bags, tape, a suitcase and an air purifier to hide the smell.\n\nHe also purchased items, including a trowel, after viewing a website entitled: \"How to dig a grave by hand.\"\n\nIn court Mangori described the days following her death as \"a living hell\".\n\nJudge Justice Garnham said Mangori, who has been remanded in custody, would be sentenced for both offences on 7 April.\n\nAfter the trial Det Sgt Samantha Wenham, of Devon and Cornwall Police, said Mangori had \"tried his hardest to manipulate those closest to her and provide misinformation and misdirection in order to get away with these horrendous crimes\".\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Jim Colwell called the murder \"callous and brutal\" and said the way Mangori \"exploited Lorraine's vulnerability before murdering her and dismembering her body is a deeply disturbing crime\".\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Samuel Kasumu said he feared for the Conservative Party's future\n\nBoris Johnson's senior adviser on ethnic minorities resigned complaining of \"unbearable\" tension within Downing Street - but then decided to stay on.\n\nIn a letter to the prime minister, seen by the BBC, Samuel Kasumu accused the Conservative Party of pursuing \"a politics steeped in division\".\n\nBut he retracted his resignation on Thursday night after talks with vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi.\n\nNo 10 said the government was the most ethnically diverse in UK history.\n\nMr Kasumu, an entrepreneur who has worked for the government since 2019, said in his letter that he wanted to step down as an adviser by May.\n\nHe argued that black and Asian voters were now less likely to choose the Conservatives than they had been under former Prime Minister David Cameron.\n\nMr Kasumu also suggested Equalities Minister Kemi Badenoch may have broken the ministerial code when she publicly criticised a HuffPost journalist last week for asking why she had not appeared in a social media video featuring black MPs encouraging take-up of vaccines.\n\nAnd he criticised the government's response to Ms Badenoch's actions, saying: \"It was not OK or justifiable, but somehow nothing was said. I waited, and waited, for something from the senior leadership team to even point to an expected standard, but it did not materialise.\"\n\nThe Cabinet Office has been considering whether Ms Badenoch had broken the rules, but it is thought officials did not consider her behaviour to be a breach, and no official investigation has been set up.\n\nFor Labour, shadow equalities minister Marsha de Cordova said: \"It is disgraceful that the equalities minister has not been held to account for her behaviour last week. The prime minister must condemn her actions.\"\n\nIn his letter, Mr Kasumu said the Conservatives had built a coalition of voters to win a majority at the last general election, but added: \"I fear for what may become of the party in the future by choosing to pursue a politics steeped in division.\"\n\nHe claimed the government's culture was not \"conducive\" to \"empathy\" and \"the damage that is often caused by our actions is not much considered\".\n\n\"As someone that has spent his whole adult life serving others, that tension has been at times unbearable,\" he said.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman declined to comment on individual staff members, but said: \"This government is committed to inclusion and bringing communities together and is the most ethnically diverse in this country's history.\"\n\nThe government had set up a Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities to tackle inequality and discrimination and it is due to report shortly, they added.", "Samuel Kasumu has worked for the government since 2019\n\nBoris Johnson's senior adviser on ethnic minorities is to stand down, amid a row over a government-commissioned report on race.\n\nSamuel Kasumu is known to have been unhappy with the government's stance on racial issues.\n\nHe has not commented on the report, which said the UK \"no longer\" had a system rigged against minorities.\n\nThe PM said the report was \"original and stimulating\" but he did not agree with \"absolutely everything\" in it.\n\nEquality campaigners have criticised it for downplaying the extent of racism in British society and institutions.\n\nFormer equality and human rights commissioner Lord Simon Woolley said there was a \"crisis at No 10 when it comes to acknowledging and dealing with persistent race inequality\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: The government \"won't agree with every word\" in report\n\nLabour's shadow equalities secretary Marsha de Cordova called the report \"divisive,\" adding it was \"no wonder\" the government was \"losing the expertise from their team\".\n\n\"To have your most senior advisor on ethnic minorities quit as you publish a so-called landmark report on race in the UK is telling of how far removed the Tories are from the everyday lived experiences of Black, Asian and ethnic minority people,\" she added.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman insisted Mr Kasumu had been planning \"for several months\" to leave government in May.\n\n\"Any suggestion that this decision has been made this week or that this is linked to the [commission's] report is completely inaccurate,\" he added.\n\nSamuel Kasumu may not be a name you're familiar with; even one minister awkwardly said they'd never heard of him this morning.\n\nBut his resignation is a difficult moment for the government on the sensitive, divisive topic of race.\n\nDowning street has denied any suggestion his departure is linked to Wednesday's report.\n\nWithout Samuel Kasumu's version of events, it's hard to know why and when he chose to resign - having changed his mind about quitting earlier in the year.\n\nBut his departure leaves questions about the confidence some in government, let alone the public, have about the prime minister's approach to tackling racial inequality.\n\nLast year Boris Johnson said he wanted to \"change the narrative\" on this subject - but this is unlikely to be what he had in mind.\n\nMr Johnson said he had \"worked closely\" with Mr Kasumu - who will leave his role next month - and he had \"done some great stuff and I thank him very much\".\n\nThe adviser had previously handed in a resignation letter in February, accusing the Conservatives of a \"politics steeped in division\".\n\nHe had asked to keep working on a project to combat disinformation on Covid vaccines, with \"the view to leaving at the end of May\".\n\nBut Mr Kasumu went on to retract this letter, following talks with vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi.\n\nMr Kasumu has declined to comment, but sources told the BBC there has been an \"awkward silence\" hanging over Downing Street, with little discussion or movement since he first threatened to resign.\n\nThe Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities (CRED) was launched last summer in the wake of anti-racism Black Lives Matter protests last summer.\n\nIn its report published on Wednesday, it concluded the UK was not yet a \"post-racial country,\" but family structure and social class had a bigger impact than race on people's life chances.\n\nIt argued that racial discrimination has often been misapplied to \"account for every observed disparity\" between ethnic groups.\n\nAnd it said references to racism in the UK being \"institutional\" or \"structural\" had sometimes been used without sufficient evidence.\n\nDr Maggie Aderin-Pocock, a member of the commission, said the report was not denying institutional racism existed, but said they had not discovered evidence of it in the areas they had looked.\n\nThe commission made 24 recommendations, including urging more research into school performance and for organisations to ditch unconscious bias training.\n\nThe report was commissioned in the aftermath of Black Lives Matter protests in the UK\n\nSpeaking on Thursday, Mr Johnson said the commission had suggested several \"interesting ideas\" and the government would respond in \"due course\".\n\n\"I don't say the government is going to agree with absolutely everything in it, but it has some original and stimulating work in it that I think people need to read and to consider,\" Mr Johnson added.\n\n\"There are very serious issues that our society faces to do with racism that we need to address.\n\n\"We've got to do more to fix it, we need to understand the severity of the problem, and we're going to be looking at all the ideas that they have put forward\".\n\nThe commission's chairman Tony Sewell, an education consultant and ex-charity boss, has meanwhile defended himself from criticism over comments he made in the report about how the British Empire should be taught in schools.\n\nIn his foreword to the report, he wrote: \"There is a new story about the Caribbean experience which speaks to the slave period not only being about profit and suffering but how culturally African people transformed themselves into a re-modelled African/Britain\".\n\nHalima Begum, chief executive of race equality think tank the Runnymede Trust, said his comments were \"out of kilter with where British society is\" - and Labour's Ms de Cordova accused him of \"putting a positive spin on slavery\".\n\nBut in a statement on Thursday, Dr Sewell said it was \"absurd to suggest that the commission is trying to downplay the evil of the slave trade\".\n\n\"The report merely says that, in the face of the inhumanity of slavery, African people preserved their humanity and culture,\" he added.", "The Metropolitan Police is investigating allegations that a serving officer raped two of his female colleagues.\n\nThe officer was not charged and has not been suspended but faces a misconduct hearing more than three years after the allegations were reported.\n\nThe women were awarded compensation but one of them says \"we were just cast aside and not cared for\".\n\nThe Met says it takes \"all allegations of domestic abuse extremely seriously\".\n\nA BBC investigation with the Bureau of Investigative Journalism found that the Met is also investigating whether details of the women's allegations were leaked to the accused officer.\n\nThe BBC has changed the women's names to protect their anonymity and is not naming the male suspect.\n\n\"Holly\" was a junior police officer when she started a relationship with an older, more senior colleague. She says that after a few months he became controlling and violent.\n\nAfter a night out with friends in 2013, she says he dragged her by the hair and \"threw me into the dining room table and was going crazy at me\".\n\n\"I was saying, 'please stop, you're hurting me'.\"\n\nShe says he then hurled her against the arm of a sofa, cracking her ribs. \"It was an unbelievable amount of pain. I couldn't get my breath,\" she says.\n\nNeighbours called the police but Holly was too afraid to report the assault.\n\nOn another occasion she says she was raped.\n\nThe male officer also had a relationship and moved in with another colleague, \"Kate\", who says that over three years she was also raped and assaulted.\n\nThis included being \"beaten up in my car\" while it was parked on police premises.\n\n\"He started abusing me after four months of being together,\" she says. \"It progressed and progressed... he tried to kill me. He threw me against a chest of drawers in the bedroom.\"\n\nShe says he then \"ran\" at her and \"pinned me to the bed and strangled me\".\n\nSoon after that Kate ended the relationship. She was put in touch with Holly by a mutual friend and quickly realised their experiences were a \"carbon copy\" of each other.\n\nIn 2017, they both reported allegations of physical and sexual assault. The male officer denied them and after an investigation by Essex Police, the Crown Prosecution Service decided in 2019 there was not enough evidence to prosecute.\n\n\"It was a really bad investigation,\" marred by a lack of evidence gathering, according to Holly. She claims Essex Police \"didn't even finish taking all my allegations\" and didn't arrest the suspect.\n\nEssex Police said it carried out lengthy investigations but accepts \"there were areas for improvement in the management of these investigations\".\n\nAsked why the male officer was not arrested, the force said: \"There was no immediate safeguarding concern due to the non-recent nature of the allegations and the lack of contact between suspect and victims.\"\n\nThe male officer has not responded to our request for comment.\n\nHolly says she still lives in fear of meeting him at work.\n\nIn 2020, the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA) awarded her £17,100, saying \"police evidence indicates that you were a victim of sexual abuse\".\n\nCICA paid £11,600 to Kate, saying she had been raped and subjected to \"serious physical abuse\".\n\nCICA is part of the Ministry of Justice and awards compensation to victims of violent crime, sexual assault and abuse - but it does not need the same standard of proof as a criminal court.\n\nThe Met decided last month, a year after CICA's findings, that the officer accused of rape would face a misconduct hearing. They have not set a date.\n\nIn a statement, the force said: \"We take all allegations of domestic abuse extremely seriously and it is right and proper that the full circumstances of this case should be considered at a hearing. We continue to offer welfare support and assistance to the victims in this case.\"\n\nThe Met confirmed the male officer had been taken off public-facing duties. Asked why he had never been suspended, it said a criminal investigation did not guarantee an officer would be suspended.\n\nBut the way the Met handled her experience at a local level was horrendous, Holly said.\n\n\"There was very little support, (it was) very poorly managed,\" she said. \"He massively controlled everything. He had his friends. He was looked after, whereas we were just cast aside and not cared for.\"\n\nAt an early stage, the male officer was leaked details of the investigation. Internal police documents seen by the BBC showed this allowed him to prepare his defence.\n\nSolicitor Siobhan Crawford said the steps taken by the Met had been \"completely inadequate\"\n\nSolicitor Siobhan Crawford, who works on abuse cases, said: \"The investigation and the steps taken thereafter by the Met have been completely inadequate, woeful, and let these women down.\"\n\n\"It has taken just so long for the Met to take any action whatsoever against this person,\" she added. \"And I think what that says to other victims of domestic violence is, 'we say we'll protect you but actually it will take years and it may all come to nothing'.\"\n\nHolly still loves being a police officer but said she was \"quite bitter about it\".\n\n\"But I want to try and change it because I don't want anyone else to go through what I've been through… It makes you feel like you're going crazy because you think, 'why are you treating me this badly?'\"\n\nKate said: \"I have no trust in the service I work for.\"", "Benjamin Hannam was found to have remained in the National Action group after it was outlawed\n\nA Met Police officer has been convicted of being a member of a banned neo-Nazi terrorist organisation.\n\nBenjamin Hannam, of Enfield, north London, was found guilty of membership of the banned right-wing extremist group National Action (NA).\n\nHe was also convicted of lying on his Met Police application and having terror documents detailing knife combat and making explosive devices.\n\nHannam is the first British officer to be convicted of a terrorism offence.\n\nHe was released on conditional bail ahead of sentencing on 23 April.\n\nAt the Old Bailey, Judge Anthony Leonard QC lifted a ban on reporting the case after the 22-year-old admitted possessing an indecent image of a child, which was to have been the subject of a separate trial.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Daniel Sandford: \"Why did you join a terrorist organisation and then join the police?\"\n\nThe PC had been working as a probationary officer for the Met for nearly two years before he was found on a leaked database of users of extreme right-wing forum Iron March.\n\nHe had signed up to the forum when he joined the London branch of neo-Nazi group NA in March 2016.\n\nJurors were shown a video of the PC spraying the group's symbol on a derelict building in 2017\n\nFollowing his arrest in March last year, officers discovered a NA business card and badges, as well as writings about his involvement with the group.\n\nJurors were told that on the day the group was banned in December 2016, Hannam had transferred the knife-fighting manual from his computer to folder named \"NA\" on a memory stick along with other extremist texts.\n\nDetectives also found he was in possession of multiple prohibited images including \"pseudo images\" of young boys and girls.\n\nHannam was filmed taking part in a boxing session for members of the banned group\n\nJurors convicted him of remaining in NA for several months after it was banned in December 2016, as well as two counts of fraud for lying about his far-right past in a Met application form.\n\nProsecutor Dan Pawson-Pounds said the fraud was \"intimately connected\" to Hannam's membership of the outlawed group.\n\nHannam had denied all the offences, telling the court he had never been a member of NA despite regularly attending group meetings.\n\nHe claimed that he was interested by the \"look and aesthetic of fascism\", but that he was not a racist and had actually challenged group members when they expressed such views.\n\nThe officer said he had been \"desperate to impress\" an older NA organiser and his association with the group ended before he began working for the Met.\n\nThe court heard that Hannam was part of a successor version of the extremist group called NS131 - which was itself outlawed in September 2017 - and that he appeared in its online videos spray-painting neo-Nazi logos.\n\nHe had joined the Met in 2018 and during his training was actually shown videos relating to NA.\n\nHe passed out early in 2019 but was identified on the neo-Nazi web forum by detectives.\n\nIt can now be reported that, soon after he joined the Met, Hannam was found to have committed gross misconduct after he was found using a young relative's travel card to use public transport for free.\n\nScotland Yard said it had reviewed Hannam's time in the Met and found no evidence his actions had been influenced by any extremist ideology.\n\nHe is currently suspended from duty.\n\nThe 22-year-old had denied all the offences\n\nAfter the jury returned their verdict, the judge said Hannam had been \"convicted of serious offences\" and was being bailed as a \"courtesy\".\n\nJenny Hopkins, from the Crown Prosecution Service, said Hannam's \"lies have caught up with him and he's been exposed as an individual with deeply racist beliefs\".\n\n\"Benjamin Hannam would not have got a job as a probationary police constable if he'd told the truth about his membership of a banned, far-right group,\" she added.\n\nCdr Richard Smith, of the Met's Counter Terrorism Command, said \"the public expect police officers to carry out their duties with the very highest levels of honesty and integrity.\n\n\"Sadly, PC Hannam showed none of these qualities.\"\n• None The neo-Nazi who joined the Metropolitan Police\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A government-commissioned report which found that the UK \"no longer\" had a system rigged against minorities has been accused of ignoring black and ethnic minority people's concerns.\n\nThe Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities said family structure and social class had a bigger impact than race on how people's lives turned out.\n\nCampaigners said it laid the blame for inequality on individuals and families.\n\nAnd Labour has accused the government of downplaying institutional racism.\n\nThe commission was set up after Black Lives Matter (BLM) anti-racism protests across the country last summer - triggered by the killing of George Floyd in the US. But its report has been was met with criticism from campaigners.\n\nJabeer Butt, chief executive of the Race Equality Foundation, said: \"The report seems to go out of its way to deny that there's anything that's been the result of policies we've put in place and instead puts the blame at individuals' decisions or at family's doors.\"\n\nThe GMB's national officer Rehana Azam said it \"feels like a deeply cynical report\", calling it \"completely irresponsible and immoral\" and accusing it of ignoring black and ethnic minority workers' concerns.\n\nBoris Johnson said the government would consider the implications of the report's recommendations for future policy and remained \"fully committed to building a fairer Britain\".\n\nThe commission's 258-page report concluded that the UK is not yet a \"post-racial country\" - but its success in removing race-based disparity in education and, to a lesser extent, the economy, \"should be regarded as a model for other white-majority countries\".\n\nIn his foreword to the report chairman Tony Sewell, an education consultant and ex-charity boss, said while the \"impediments and disparities do exist\", it continued, they were \"varied and ironically very few of them are directly to do with racism\".\n\nBlack Lives Matter UK tweeted that it was \"disappointed\" that the report overlooked disproportionality in the criminal justice system.\n\nBlack people in England and Wales are nine times more likely to be imprisoned than their white peers, it said.\n\nThe report thanked the \"mainly young people\" behind the BLM movement for putting the focus on race but said progress could not be achieved by \"cleaving to a fatalistic account that insists nothing has changed\".\n\nAmong the main findings of the report were:\n\nLabour's shadow women and equalities secretary Marsha de Cordova labelled the report a \"divisive polemic\" that downplayed institutional racism.\n\nHer colleague David Lammy, who led a review on racial bias in the justice system, tweeted that Britain's black community was being \"gaslighted\" and said he was \"tired of the endless debate about whether structural racism exists with little desire to actually address it\".\n\nInstitutional racism was defined in the Macpherson report, commissioned after Stephen Lawrence's murder, as \"the collective failure of an organisation to provide the appropriate and professional service to people because of their colour, culture or ethnic origin\".\n\nCommission member Samir Shah, chief executive of a TV production company, said the commission did not believe there was no institutional racism in Britain but said the term had become \"divisive\".\n\nRacism was only one of the factors which caused disparities between ethnic groups, he told BBC Radio 4's PM programme. \"People do have choices, they do have agency, it's not always that they're just victims of some miasmic racism that's in the air,\" he said.\n\nWhen setting up the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities during the Black Lives Matter protests last summer, Boris Johnson said he wanted to \"change the narrative, so we stop the sense of victimisation and discrimination\".\n\nBut reaching a settled view on the question of racism in the UK was always going to be a struggle.\n\nCritics were concerned by the prime minister's assertion that he wanted \"to look very carefully at the real racism and discrimination that people face\".\n\nThere was further unease among anti-racism groups at the reported involvement of Number 10 policy advisor Munira Mirza, because she had previously written of how institutional racism was \"a perception more than a reality\".\n\nThe appointment of Tony Sewell to lead the inquiry once again disappointed anti-racism activists.\n\nOne London-based organisation, Monitoring Group, considered seeking a judicial review to prevent his selection on the grounds that he had \"a longstanding record of public statements rejecting or minimising\" the impact of institutional racism in Britain.\n\nThe accusation that this report is the result of a hand-picked committee, designed to say what ministers wanted to hear, will have some traction, whatever the commission and the government insist about its independence.\n\nRead more from Mark here.\n\nThe commission said unemployment differences between ethnic groups had declined and the pay gap between ethnic minority workers and white workers was also falling and at its lowest level for almost a decade.\n\nBut TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady said \"institutional and structural racism exists in the UK, in both the labour market and wider society\", and said black and minority ethnic workers were far more likely \"to be in low-paid, insecure jobs\" compared to white workers.\n\nProf Kehinde Andrews, a professor of black studies at Birmingham City University told BBC news the report was \"not a genuine attempt to understand racism in Britain\" or \"make a substantive change\".\n\nHe said the fact there was a discussion over whether institutional racism existed was the problem, \"because it does exist, it clearly exists and the question should be 'how do we address this'\".\n\nLiberal Democrat equalities spokeswoman Wera Hobhouse said the report must not be used as an excuse to continue \"shameful inaction\" on issues of racial injustice.\n\nShe called for an end to \"hostile environment\" immigration policies and the \"disproportionate\" use of police stop and search tactics.\n\nThe commission found not enough information was given to the public about why police used stop and search, saying the focus was on drugs rather than knife offences.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Institutional racism has become a 'catch-all phrase', Tony Sewell says\n\nIn its recommendations, the commission also called for the term BAME, which stands for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, to be dropped, calling it \"unhelpful\" and \"imprecise and often misleading\".\n\nDr Maggie Aderin-Pocock, a member of the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities, said the report was not denying institutional racism existed but said the commission had not discovered evidence of it in the areas it had looked.\n\nEqualities minister Kemi Badenoch said she \"warmly welcomed\" the report and was impressed by the analysis within the report, but added she was \"looking forward to understanding fully\" the issues that had been raised and \"what can be done\" to address them.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said progress had been made to tackle racism. \"That's not to say there aren't instances of racism that of course exist in this country,\" he told ITV.\n\n\"But if I think about the things that happened to me when I was a kid, I can't imagine those things happening to me now.\"", "England's chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty has been speaking to a Royal Society of Medicine webinar about the coronavirus.\n\nIn a wide-ranging discussion, Whitty has said those without Covid antibodies may still be protected from severe disease - and the slow easing of England's restrictions reflects how difficult the pandemic has been.\n\nHe said: \"I certainly don't think you should assume that if you have lower or no antibodies that means there is no protection.\n\n\"It probably does mean you're more likely to get infected and it may mean you're more likely to be infectious, but doesn't necessarily mean you won't have protection from going into hospital, or having severe disease or mortality.\"\n\nAnd he said caution around reopening was needed \"because we've got such a difficult situation to go through at the moment\".\n\n\"What we don't want to be is in a situation where we look back in six months and say 'If we'd only just been a bit more cautious for a month or two,\" he added.\n\nWhitty also predicted there could be a \"very wide portfolio of vaccines\" in around two years and that technology can \"turn around a vaccine to a new variant incredibly fast, compared to how historically we've been able to do it\".", "Sharp divisions between the major global emitters have emerged at a series of meetings designed to make progress on climate change.\n\nIndia lambasted the richer world's carbon cutting plans, calling long term net zero targets, \"pie in the sky.\"\n\nTheir energy minister said poor nations want to continue using fossil fuels and the rich countries \"can't stop it\".\n\nChina meanwhile declined to attend a different climate event organised by the UK.\n\nTrying to lead 197 countries forward on the critical global issue of climate change is not a job for the faint hearted, as the UK is currently finding out.\n\nAs president of COP26, this year's crucial climate meeting due to take place in Glasgow in November, Britain is charged with ensuring a successful summit of world leaders and their negotiators.\n\nTo that end, the UK team have embarked on a series of meetings to find the building blocks of agreement, so that the world keeps the temperature targets agreed in Paris in 2015 within reach.\n\nTo have a decent chance of keeping the increase in global temperature under 1.5C - which is now considered as the gateway to dangerous warming - carbon emissions need to reach net zero by 2050.\n\nNet zero refers to balancing out any greenhouse gas emissions produced by industry, transport or other sources by removing an equivalent amount from the atmosphere.\n\nA range of major carbon-producing countries, including the US, the UK, Japan and the EU, have signed up to the idea. Last September, China said it would get there by 2060.\n\nIndia, the world's fourth largest emitter, doesn't seem keen to join the club.\n\n\"2060 sounds good, but it is just that, it sounds good,\" Raj Kumar Singh, India's minister for power, told a meeting organised by the International Energy Agency (IEA).\n\n\"I would call it, and I'm sorry to say this, but it is just a pie in the sky.\"\n\nTo the discomfort of his fellow panellists, Mr Singh singled out developed countries where per capita emissions are much higher than in India.\n\n\"You have countries whose per capita emissions are four or five or 12 times the world average. The question is when are they going to come down?\"\n\n\"What we hear is that by 2050 or 2060 we will become carbon neutral, 2060 is far away and if the people emit at the rate they are emitting the world won't survive, so what are you going to do in the next five years that's what the world wants to know.\"\n\nMr Singh pointed out that while it was the richer countries who had burned most of the fossil fuels that have caused the problems, they now wanted developing countries to stop - that was unfair, he said.\n\n\"The developed world has occupied almost 80% of the carbon space already, you have 800 million people who don't have access to electricity. You can't say that they have to go to net zero, they have the right to develop, they want to build skyscrapers and have a higher standard of living, you can't stop it,\" he told the meeting.\n\nChina's minister Zhang Jianhua told the IEA virtual event that his country wanted \"increased mutual understanding and mutual trust to work as one\", on the issue of climate change.\n\nHowever, that desire to work as one didn't stretch as far as the UK, with China declining an invitation to take part in a key climate and development ministerial meeting for vulnerable countries.\n\nIndia has made significant progress in solar and wind energy installations\n\nThere was a feeling among officials that diplomatic arguments with China over human rights were spilling over into the climate arena.\n\nUS special envoy on climate change, John Kerry, went out of his way to pour oil on troubled waters when speaking at the IEA event.\n\nBoth India and China see themselves as developing economies and want to retain some sense that richer Western nations have to take the lead on climate.\n\nThe former secretary of state was keen to say that there wouldn't be just the same carbon-cutting plan for every country, but everyone would have to do more.\n\n\"We can't just willy-nilly ignore the next 10 years because the scientists tell us that if we don't do enough in the next 10 years we cannot keep the Earth's temperature at 1.5C, we cannot even get on a roadmap to net zero by 2050,\" he said.\n\n\"So my plea is to avoid the 'happy talk' and recognise that this challenge is global and never has there been a challenge that requires the unity of countries all across the planet than now.\"", "US authorities have released a video showing two children being dropped over a 14ft (4.2 m) wall by alleged smugglers at the US-Mexico border in New Mexico.\n\nThe children, siblings from Ecuador, were taken to hospital by border patrol agents and are now in the care of the US authorities.\n\nEl Paso Sector Chief Patrol Agent Gloria I. Chavez said she was “appalled by the way these smugglers viciously dropped innocent children from a 14-foot border barrier last night.”\n\nUS authorities are now working with law enforcement in Mexico to identify the people seen dropping the children.", "Mr Okorogheye was in the first year of a business and IT degree at Oxford Brookes University when he disappeared\n\nA student with sickle cell disease who has been missing for more than a week has not made any calls on his phone, the Met Police said.\n\nRichard Okorogheye has not been seen by his family since 22 March when he left their home in the Ladbroke Grove area.\n\nThe 19-year-old, who has sickle cell disease, later took a taxi to Loughton, Essex, where he was spotted on CCTV.\n\nSince then there has been \"no activity on his phone that we are aware of,\" Det Supt Danny Gosling said.\n\nOfficers are still investigating whether there has been any financial activity under Mr Okorogheye's name and the teenager's laptop and computer are being examined at a police lab for clues, Mr Gosling added.\n\nThe 19-year-old left home without his medication\n\nMr Okorogheye did not take his medication or any money when he left home.\n\nHe was seen boarding the number 23 bus southbound in Ladbroke Grove, Kensington, at about 20:45 GMT on 22 March.\n\nCCTV footage showed the Oxford Brookes student was dressed all in black and had a black satchel bag with a white Adidas logo across his lower back.\n\nHe is now known to have taken a taxi from west London to Loughton where he was then captured on CCTV, walking alone on Smarts Lane towards Epping Forest at 00:39 GMT on 23 March.\n\n\"A large number of special search officers are focusing on the Epping Forest area,\" Mr Gosling said.\n\nCCTV images show Richard Okorogheye at about 00:30 BST in Loughton, in the Epping Forest\n\nMr Okorogheye's mother, Evidence Joel, previously claimed that when his disappearance was first reported, police \"did nothing\" and initially told her he was an adult, who could go out and come back whenever he wanted.\n\nShe said she told officers he had \"no jacket, no money, so I'm worried, I'm concerned about his wellbeing\" but that it was only on the Sunday and Monday following his disappearance that she \"felt like they were doing something\".\n\nFor more information about sickle cell disease go to the Sickle Cell Society website.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The usually low-profile Denise Coates was appointed CBE for services to the community and business in 2012\n\nThe boss of the gambling firm Bet365 has been awarded one of the biggest pay packets in UK corporate history.\n\nThe highest paid director of Bet365 Group - believed to be founder and majority shareholder Denise Coates CBE - earned a salary of £421m in the year ending 29 March.\n\nShe also earned £48m in dividends, taking her total pay to £469m.\n\nThe company said the arrangements were \"appropriate and fair\", despite sales falling at the firm last year.\n\nBut campaign group the High Pay Centre said it was \"appallingly inefficient for single individuals to hoard wealth in this way\".\n\nMs Coates, who founded the Bet365 website 20 years ago in Stoke-on-Trent, has been the UK's highest paid boss for several years.\n\nShe is also one of Britain's wealthiest women and a major philanthropist, donating millions through the Denise Coates Foundation.\n\nHer salary in the year to March was more than 50% higher than the £277m received in 2019 and meant she earned almost £1.2m every day last year.\n\nThat was more than the bosses of every FTSE 100 company combined, according to the High Pay Centre.\n\nIt came as sales at Bet365 fell 8% to £2.8bn as international sporting events were cancelled due to the pandemic. Profits slumped 74% to £194.7m.\n\nHowever, the company said it had not cut staff pay or laid off employees as a result of the crisis. It also did not make use of the furlough scheme.\n\nThe company also paid £85m to Ms Coates's charitable foundation.\n\nMs Coates and her brother John took over the gambling business 20 years ago, which was run by their father. Ms Coates now owns about half of the company.\n\nShe has previously been described as one of the UK's \"most successful women\".\n\nMs Coates achieved a first-class degree in econometrics and later trained as an accountant within the family firm, building further on the knowledge of the then small chain that she picked up while working part-time during high school.\n\nThe chief executive's annual pay packet is likely to be the biggest in UK history. Earlier this month, hedge fund tycoon Sir Chris Hohn staked a claim to that title after paying himself £343m last year.\n• None How Bet365's Denise Coates hit her own jackpot", "As news of Prince Philip's death spread, people made their way to Buckingham Palace to pay tribute and reflect on the duke's life - and the Queen's loss.\n\nSome teenagers on hired bikes pull up next to a police officer asking for directions to Oxford Circus.\n\nBefore cycling off, one calls out: \"Is there any way you can say 'hello' to the Queen for us?\"\n\nNo matter young or old, there doesn't seem to be a soul outside the palace on the day of Prince Philip's death who doesn't feel deep sympathy and sorrow for the Queen.\n\n\"I don't think you have to be a rampant royalist to just feel really sad for the Queen,\" says 56-year-old Louise Simester, from Bedfordshire.\n\nShe took her teenage daughters on a diversion from a trip to the Covid memorial wall to Buckingham Palace, via an unsuccessful hunt to buy flowers, to round off what's been a day of reflection for her family.\n\nDaisy, her 17-year-old daughter, who says she's \"no royalist\", has been surprised by just how shocked she was by the news.\n\n\"All my friends were quite shocked,\" she says. \"I've never experienced a royal death.\"\n\nThe Simester family visited the palace to pay their respects\n\nFor mum Louise, being outside the palace brought memories of Princess Diana's death in 1997 flooding back.\n\n\"I brought flowers for Diana. I remember it like it was yesterday. I remember people sobbing - I was crying myself,\" she recalls, clutching her hand to her chest.\n\nAs we talk, a steady flow of families, friends, children, even a woman on roller blades, line up in the spring sunshine to lay white roses, yellow tulips and unopened lilies beside the gleaming black and gold palace fence.\n\nFor every bouquet laid, the moment is captured by a vast bank of photographers, camera crews and bystanders with their own mobile phones straining against a thick cordon erected by police officers.\n\nAttached to the flowers are messages of gratitude for the duke's decades of service: \"You'll be missed by an entire nation. You were one of a kind,\" says one. Another acknowledges the sacrifices the duke made. \"Farewell Prince Philip - I have a huge amount of respect for a man that can swallow his pride to dedicate his life to supporting the Queen.\"\n\nThe Royal Family did ask people to consider making a charity donation instead of leaving flowers and the government has urged people not to gather at the palace in breach of coronavirus regulations. However, that message had not reached everyone on Friday afternoon.\n\nRhea Varma, from Pimlico, pulls up on her bike to lay a bouquet alongside a note saying \"Rest in Peace Duke, love the Varma family\".\n\n\"It's just super sad,\" she says. To her, the duke represented \"the kind of stability that's so old-fashioned, it's difficult to comprehend.\n\n\"He was a rock who brought integrity,\" she adds.\n\nKalenza Jennings, 43, from Belsize Park, has brought white roses and carnations on behalf of her family after her husband texted her with the news.\n\nShe's here with her best friend, who's also from Thailand. Prince Philip is their hero, they say. \"He's a good man and a faithful man,\" says Kalenza, a personal shopper at Heathrow. \"We love the Queen, and we want to say we're sorry she's lost the man she loves.\"\n\nPeter Chan, a student from Hong Kong, was exercising around Buckingham Palace when he heard the news.\n\n\"I really feel Prince Philip was a nice man and he saved the country,\" he says, after laying a bunch of white flowers bearing a note in his mother tongue together with an English translation: \"To commemorate Prince Philip's life on behalf of Hong Kong people in the UK.\"\n\nPeter Chan wanted to commemorate the duke's life for himself and on behalf of Hong Kong, where he's from\n\nHe reflects the last few months will have been especially hard for the Queen, with Prince Philip going into hospital and living through the pandemic.\n\nWith a hand on his heart, the 26-year-old says from behind his face mask: \"I'm very sympathetic to the Queen. It's really hard to say how I feel, it's really from the heart.\"\n\nAdam Wharton-Ward, 36, was similarly affected and felt moved to \"rally round\" for the Queen's sake.\n\n\"He's been with her for 73 years. If it wasn't for him, who knows if she would have got through it,\" he says, moments after propping a bunch of lilies by the palace gates.\n\nThe duke's appeal, he says, is he was \"almost normal... with his gaffes\". \"Now that normality has gone.\"\n\nDoes he think the duke's death might signal change for the Royal Family's place in British life? \"I think it could be almost the other way. They don't need change,\" says Adam.\n\nRhea Varma thinks otherwise: \"I think it might be the beginning of big change in our country. Without him, the Queen might not reign much longer.\"\n\nBut an older woman, who's rushing past after paying her respects, says the duke's death is \"the beginning of the changing of the guard\" - but a change she's not happy to see any time soon.\n\nAnd, as the Sun begins to duck behind the cloud and crowds make their way to the Tube stations, they'll be more moments to reflect.\n\nWhere adverts for shoes and banks stood only yesterday in London Underground stations, there are now poster-sized portraits of a younger duke in military uniform beside the dates 1921-2021.", "Poppy and Lily Myers, 13, were last seen in Twickenham on 3 April but were both found safe and well six days later\n\nPolice have found 13-year-old twin sisters who went missing from their home in west London nearly a week ago.\n\nPoppy and Lily Myers were last seen on Egerton Road, Twickenham at about 14:00 BST on Saturday, 3 April and were reported missing later the same day.\n\nThe twins were believed to have links with the Northwood area of Hillingdon.\n\nThe Met's South West Area Command Safeguarding Unit led the search for the sisters, who are said to be \"safe and well\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The US has blacklisted seven Chinese groups it accuses of building supercomputers to help its military.\n\nIt is the first move by the Biden administration to make it harder for China to obtain US technology\n\nOn Thursday, three companies and four branches of China's National Supercomputing Center were added to the US blacklist.\n\nThis bars American companies from exporting technology to the groups without proper approval.\n\nThe US commerce department said the groups were involved in building supercomputers used by Chinese \"military actors\" and facilitating programmes to develop weapons of mass destruction.\n\nThe sanctioned groups are leading China's supercomputing development and are key players in Beijing's plan for chip self-sufficiency.\n\nUS Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said the Biden administration would use \"the full extent of its authorities to prevent China from leveraging US technologies to support these destabilising military modernisation efforts\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Trump administration had also targeted dozens of Chinese companies it suspected of using American technology for military uses, including phonemaker Huawei.\n\nMr Biden's move on Thursday requires the seven Chinese groups to obtain licences to access American technologies, including chip infrastructures designed by Intel and other U.S chipmakers.\n\nWhile the blacklist bars US-based companies from providing services and products to the Chinese firms, it doesn't bar those that are produced in facilities outside of the US.\n\nOne such company is TSMC, the Taiwan-based company that has become the world's most advanced semiconductor manufacturer.\n\nSupercomputers have a considerably higher level of performance compared to a general-purpose computer and can make billions of calculations per second.\n\nSupercomputers are made up of thousands of connected processors and are used for functions like forecasting weather and climate trends, simulating nuclear tests and for pharmaceutical research.\n\nThey are also necessary for the development of advanced weapons such as hypersonic missiles.\n\n\"Supercomputing capabilities are vital for the development of many - perhaps almost all - modern weapons and national security systems, such as nuclear weapons and hypersonic weapons,\" Ms Raimondo added.\n\nThe US is worried about China gaining access to American technology that helps its army close the gap with the US military.\n\nThe Biden administration is currently reviewing dozens of China-related actions that Donald Trump took, including an order that prohibits Americans from investing in Chinese companies believed to be linked to the military.\n\n\"Do you think China is waiting around to invest in its digital infrastructure or research and development? I promise you, they are not waiting,\" Mr Biden said in a speech on Wednesday.\n\nMr Biden said China and the rest of the world \"are racing ahead of us in the investments they have in the future\".", "Hashem Abedi (left) and Ahmed Hassan are both being held at Frankland Prison, County Durham\n\nThe brother of the Manchester Arena bomber has said in court he regards a prison officer he is accused of assaulting as a \"filthy pig\".\n\nHashem Abedi appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court accused of assaulting Paul Edwards last May.\n\nMr Edwards received cuts to his head and bruising during the attack at HMP Belmarsh on 11 May 2020.\n\nMuhammed Saeed, 23, and failed Parsons Green bomber Ahmed Hassan are also both accused of the same attack.\n\nProsecutor Nicholas Alexander said Abedi, 24, Hassan, 21, and Saeed, who appeared in court on Wednesday, attacked Mr Edwards in an office in the prison.\n\nThe court heard that Mr Edwards suffered a laceration to the top of the scalp and that a blow to his ear had caused permanent sensory loss.\n\nWhen asked to give his name at the hearing on Thursday, addressing the Chief Magistrate, Hassan said: \"I want you to know that I hate you very much because you are a judge, judging by other than the law of Allah.\n\n\"You will be destined for hellfire unless you repent and submit yourself to the law of Allah.\"\n\nHe also complained he had not had the case papers and evidence disclosed to him.\n\nHe then pleaded not guilty to assaulting Mr Edwards causing him actual bodily harm.\n\nWhen Abedi, appearing via videolink from HMP Frankland in County Durham, where he is serving life in prison for his involvement in the Manchester attack, was asked to enter a plea to the same charge, he described Mr Edwards as a \"filthy pig\".\n\nChief magistrate Paul Goldspring said a plea of not guilty should be entered.\n\nDuring the 15-minute hearing, Abedi also refused to enter a plea to a charge of assaulting a second member of staff, Nick Barnett. Again the chief magistrate said a plea of not guilty should be entered.\n\nAbedi, Hassan and Saeed are next due to appear at Woolwich Crown Court on 5 May.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Buckingham Palace has asked the public to refrain from leaving floral tributes to the Duke of Edinburgh at royal residences.\n\nDozens of bouquets were laid outside Buckingham Palace after Prince Philip's death was announced at midday.\n\nRoyal household staff placed a framed notice announcing the duke's death on the front gates of the Palace.\n\nBut it was removed after an hour to avoid gatherings amid ongoing Covid pandemic restrictions.\n\nThe Royal Family asked members of the public to consider making a donation to charity instead of leaving floral tributes in memory of Prince Philip.\n\nThe government has urged people not to gather at Buckingham Palace or Windsor Castle in breach of coronavirus regulations.\n\nThe Palace launched an online book of condolence on its official website where it encouraged people to leave messages, a selection of which will be passed to members of the Royal Family.\n\nMore than 100 floral tributes - ranging from bunches of daffodils to fuller bouquets, many with notes attached - and two union jacks were placed at the gates by mourners.\n\nStewards attempted to form an orderly queuing system but encouraged people not to form a large crowd.\n\nMounted police reminded those gathered to adhere to social-distancing guidelines and remain two-metres apart from other groups.\n\nMany of those gathered outside the Palace on Friday afternoon brought flowers\n\nRhea Varma, from nearby Pimlico, pulled up on her bike to lay flowers and a note saying \"Rest in Peace Duke\".\n\nShe told BBC News the duke was \"the kind of stability that's so old-fashioned it's difficult to comprehend. He was a rock who brought integrity\".\n\nAdam Wharton-Ward, 36, left a bunch of lilies by the Palace gates. Visiting London from his home in France, he said he was so moved by the news he wanted to \"rally round\" for the Queen's sake.\n\n\"It's so sad. He's been with her for 73 years. If it wasn't for him who knows if she would have got through it,\" he said.\n\nThe official notice of the death of the Duke of Edinburgh was placed outside Buckingham Palace for an hour\n\nMembers of the public gathered to read the Palace's official notice and pay tribute to Prince Philip\n\nThe official notice read: \"It is with deep sorrow that Her Majesty The Queen announces the death of her beloved husband.\"\n\nIt confirmed Prince Philip \"passed away peacefully this morning at Windsor Castle\".\n\n\"Further announcements will be made in due course,\" it added. \"The Royal Family join with people around the world in mourning his loss.\"\n\nA similar announcement was also displayed outside the Palace of Holyroodhouse, the official residence of Queen Elizabeth II in Scotland, in Edinburgh.\n\nThe Palace's flag was flown at half-mast.\n\nTraditionally, Royal Family announcements are made by displaying a framed notice at Buckingham Palace.\n\nIn recent years, birth announcements have been made in this way, with these notices mounted on a golden easel.\n\nBut the coronavirus pandemic has prompted changes to many of the traditions across the Royal households.\n\nThe Changing of the Guard ceremonies at Buckingham Palace, St James' Palace and Windsor Castle - seen by millions each year before the pandemic - were postponed in March 2020 to avoid mass gatherings.\n\nOne card attached to flowers at the Palace carried tributes from colleagues at a nearby Marks & Spencer store", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nThe sporting world has been paying tribute to Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, who has died aged 99.\n\nPeriods of silence were held before football matches, including Fulham's Premier League match against Wolves and England women's friendly in France.\n\nA two-minute silence was held at Aintree and during county cricket fixtures earlier on Friday.\n\nFlags were flown at half-mast at a number of venues, including Wembley and all nine county cricket grounds.\n\nThere will be a minute's silence before all Premier League matches this weekend and players will wear black armbands. All Scottish Professional Football League clubs will also observe a minute's silence this weekend.\n\nA moment of silence will be observed before all Cymru Premier and Welsh Premier Women's League matches this weekend, while the Northern Ireland Football League said a decision on tributes would be made by the clubs, with some set to observe a minute's silence before kick-off and others flying their stadium flag at half mast.\n\nBuckingham Palace said the Duke of Edinburgh had \"passed away peacefully\" at Windsor Castle on Friday morning.\n\nThe Duke was an honorary member of the Jockey Club and a former president of the Marylebone Cricket Club.\n\nThe Grand National will go ahead at Aintree on Saturday, with a two-minute silence to be held at the course.\n\nThe Football Association said it had sent its \"deepest condolences\" to the Queen and the Duke of Cambridge, the FA's president.\n\nPrince Philip was FA president from 1955-57, and accompanied the Queen to Wembley when England won the World Cup in 1966.\n\nNorthern Ireland's Women's Euro 2022 play-off first leg against Ukraine in Kovalivka went ahead as planned, with the visitors winning 2-1.\n\nA minute's silence was also held before Wales' 3-0 friendly defeat against Canada.\n\nThe English Football League said there will be a two-minute silence before each fixture this weekend and players, coaches and match officials will wear black armbands.\n\nThe Rugby Football League paid tribute to the Duke, stating: \"As a sport, we will stand in tribute and reflection at our Challenge Cup matches this weekend to mark the life of the Duke of Edinburgh, whose life was a model of dedication to public service.\"\n\nTottenham manager Jose Mourinho, who was told of the Duke's death during a news conference, also expressed his condolences.\n\n\"I have the utmost respect for the royal family,\" the Portuguese said.\n\n\"I believe that it is not just this country that is going to be sharing these feelings, because I'm not English and I know that many like myself, we have the utmost respect.\"\n\nA number of football clubs also paid tribute to the Duke of Edinburgh, as did the Lawn Tennis Association .\n\nThe All England Lawn Tennis Club said: \"We were honoured to welcome the Duke to the Championships, Wimbledon, on six occasions, most recently in 1977 during the Centenary Championships.\n\n\"His Royal Highness also graciously accepted the invitation to present the gentlemen's singles trophy on Centre Court to Lew Hoad in 1957 and Neale Fraser in 1960.\n\n\"The Duke's commitment to a life of service which lasted more than six decades is an extraordinary legacy. We hope that during this time of sadness, Her Majesty will take comfort in the high esteem and deep respect in which the Duke was held.\"\n\nBritish Rowing athletes will wear black ribbons at the ongoing European Championships, while there was a minute's silence at Friday night's session at the British Para-swimming International Meet in Sheffield.\n\nSir Hugh Robertson, chair of the British Olympic Association, of which the Princess Royal - the Duke's daughter - is president, said it was with \"great sadness\" that the \"British Olympic family\" learned of his passing.\n\n\"I would like to offer our sincere condolences to Her Majesty the Queen and the Royal Family, and especially to our President HRH The Princess Royal,\" said Sir Hugh.\n\n\"The thoughts of the nation are with them all at this time.\"", "This video has been removed for rights reasons.\n\nThe four children of Prince Philip reflect on the life of their father.\n\nIn a programme filmed for the BBC, Princess Anne and Princes Charles, Andrew and Edward spoke about how they will remember the duke, who has died aged 99.\n\nThe Prince of Wales said that his father would \"probably want to be remembered as an individual in his own right\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNike says the art collective which made \"Satan Shoes\" that purportedly contain a drop of human blood in the soles has agreed to issue a voluntary recall as part of a legal settlement.\n\nThe $1,018 (£740) trainers are modified Nike Air Max 97s. Only 666 pairs were made and all but one have been shipped.\n\nThe collective MSCHF will offer full refunds to customers in order to remove the shoes from circulation, Nike said.\n\nThe controversial shoes were produced by the Brooklyn collective in collaboration with rapper Lil Nas X, who held the last pair so he could choose the recipient. MSCHF said it would keep the final pair of shoes.\n\nNo further details were made public about the settlement, which includes the Jesus Shoes produced by MSCHF in 2019 also using the Air Max 97 as a base.\n\n\"MSCHF altered these shoes without Nike's authorisation. Nike had nothing to do with the Satan Shoes or the Jesus Shoes,\" Nike said in a statement.\n\nLimited edition shoes can fetch higher prices among collectors so it is not clear how many - if any - customers will return the products.\n\nNike sued MSCHF last week claiming the \"Satan Shoes [were] likely to cause confusion and dilution and create an erroneous association\" between MSCHF's products and the company. But MSCHF said the shoes were \"individually-numbered works of art\" and did not sow confusion.\n\nLil Nas X and MSCHF's Satan Shoes sold out in less than a minute\n\nDavid Bernstein, from the intellectual property litigation group at Debevoise & Plimpton and a representative for MSCHF, said the artistic messages the collective hoped to convey were \"dramatically amplified\" by the lawsuit.\n\n\"MSCHF intended to comment on the absurdity of the collaboration culture practiced by some brands, and about the perniciousness of intolerance,\" he said in a statement as news of the settlement emerged, adding that MSCHF was \"pleased to have resolved the lawsuit\".\n\nMSCHF sold the black and red shoes in less than a minute last week. It coincided with the launch of Lil Nas X's latest song Montero (Call Me By Your Name), which had debuted on YouTube days earlier.\n\nThe song features the rapper, who came out as gay in 2019, celebrating his sexuality and rejecting attempts to shame him. In a heavily stylised music video, he slides down a pole from heaven to hell before dancing provocatively with Satan, then snaps his neck and steals his horns.\n\nThe imagery and the shoes both reference the Bible verse Luke 10:18 - \"So He told them, 'I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven'.\"", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has paid tribute to Prince Philip outside 10 Downing Street.\n\nHe said: \"We remember the duke... above all for his steadfast support for Her Majesty the Queen.\"", "Prince Philip's close association with Scotland started in his school days and lasted more than 80 years.\n\nAccording to his headmaster's report, the prince was universally trusted and liked at Gordonstoun school in the north east of Scotland.\n\nThe future Duke of Edinburgh attended the boarding school in Moray until 1939.\n\nIn the early 1930s, Prince Philip of Greece, as he then was, had attended Salem School in Germany.\n\nIt was founded by Dr Kurt Hahn, a German Jew who was a famous educational innovator. The school focused on military discipline and physical education, as well as academia.\n\nHowever, Dr Hahn fled Germany after he was arrested for speaking out against Hitler. He established Gordonstoun as the British version of Salem - and Prince Philip followed him there two terms later.\n\nPrince Philip in costume for a production of Macbeth at Gordonstoun in July 1935\n\n\"The school played an enormous part in both his early life, and also his way of life,\" said James Thomas, from Gordonstoun.\n\n\"His enthusiasm for the school came through. When he came through Gordonstoun's gates, people generally said he had a spring in his step and he was delighted to get back and visit old haunts.\n\n\"He was always entirely relaxed whenever he came.\"\n\nPrince Philip loved his time at Gordonstoun. He excelled at sport, captaining the hockey and cricket teams, and also served as head of school.\n\nIn fact, he found the regime so invigorating that he later sent his three sons - although Prince Charles did not share his father's enthusiasm for the austere establishment, describing it as \"absolute hell\".\n\nA young Prince Charles arrives for his first term at Gordonstoun school in 1962, accompanied by his father Prince Philip (left) and Captain Iain Tennant of the school's board of governors\n\nPrince Philip became the Duke of Edinburgh on the eve of his wedding to Princess Elizabeth, on 20 November 1947. It is a title which had been conferred upon members of the British royal family only four times since its creation in 1726.\n\nThe future Queen Elizabeth was known as the Duchess of Edinburgh until she became queen in 1952.\n\nThe Balmoral estate in Royal Deeside provided a haven for the Queen and her consort through the decades, and the family holidayed there every summer.\n\nThe Queen is said to have described it as \"my dear paradise in the Highlands\".\n\nQueen Elizabeth and Prince Philip in a field with some Highland cattle at Balmoral in 1972\n\nIn 1956, not long after the royal couple married, Prince Philip launched the Duke of Edinburgh's Award, inspired by the Moray Badge which he had worked for while a pupil at Gordonstoun.\n\nDr Hahn had started the scheme, aimed at giving post-war youngsters in Britain a sense of achievement, and he approached one of his first and most famous Gordonstoun pupils for help in rolling it out across the country.\n\nTogether he and Prince Philip drew up an outline of what would become the Duke of Edinburgh's Award, which more than four million people from some 60 countries have taken part in since its inception.\n\nJanet Shepherd, the former head of the award scheme in Scotland, said the Prince's presentations to thousands of Scottish youngsters were an annual ritual at the Palace of Holyrood in Edinburgh.\n\n\"I would often spend the whole day with him,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duke of Edinburgh’s enduring connection with Scotland\n\n\"You always were a bit nervous on the day, no matter how many times you did it. But he soon put you at ease. I never found him difficult or awkward.\n\n\"He was always very interested in what the young people were doing. There was always laughter and a tremendous warmth.\"\n\nPrince Philip had a close involvement with the city whose title he bears. He spent 57 years as Chancellor of Edinburgh University, a role he only retired from in 2010.\n\nThe university's former principal, Prof Timothy O'Shea, said the prince was an unforgettable character who made a tremendous contribution.\n\n\"He was very actively involved in the university,\" he said.\n\n\"He presided at special graduation ceremonies, he would help me induct the new professors, he came along for senior staff getting long service awards. He even came to the installation of the rector by the students.\"\n\nQueen Elizabeth and Prince Philip watch competitors at the Braemar Gathering in 2003\n\nProf O'Shea said Prince Philip liked \"a certain amount of student wildness\".\n\n\"He was reminiscing with me about riotous installations of the rector, with students throwing flour and doing all sorts of things,\" he recalled.\n\n\"He asked me when the next one was and I said I would let him know. The administration and other colleagues said you mustn't tell him, but I felt honour-bound to.\n\n\"He immediately, despite attempts from the Special Branch, insisted he came along for some uproar.\n\n\"In the event it was quite mild. And he remonstrated with me afterwards, that I'd made it too orderly.\"\n\nThe Queen and the prince at the Order of the Thistle ceremony at St Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh in 2006\n\nProf O'Shea said the prince was very straight-talking, humorous and would often tease him.\n\nIt was a trait for which he was well known, having famously asked a driving instructor in Oban how he \"managed to keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test\".\n\nThe principal said he would be greatly missed by the university community and by the city as a whole.\n\n\"When I started he explained to me that he'd been the chancellor for more than 50 years and if I had any problems I should tell him.\n\n\"He was a part of the city's life in the way the Lord Provost is part of the city's life.\n\n\"He was very jolly - meals with the chancellor were always great fun. He was a visible, positive presence.\"", "Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, won widespread respect for his steadfast and constant support of the Queen.\n\nIt was a desperately difficult role for anyone, let alone a man who had been used to naval command and who held strong views on a wide range of subjects.\n\nYet it was that very strength of character that enabled him to discharge his responsibilities so effectively, and provide such wholehearted support to his wife in her role as Queen.\n\nAs male consort to a female sovereign, Prince Philip had no constitutional position. But no-one was closer to the monarchy, or of greater importance to the monarch, than he was.\n\nPrince Philip of Greece was born on 10 June 1921 on the island of Corfu. His birth certificate shows the date as 28 May 1921, as Greece had not then adopted the Gregorian calendar.\n\nHis father was Prince Andrew of Greece, a younger son of King George I of the Hellenes. His mother, Princess Alice of Battenberg, was the eldest child of Prince Louis of Battenberg and sister of Earl Mountbatten of Burma.\n\nAfter a coup d'etat in 1922, his father was banished from Greece by a revolutionary court.\n\nA British warship sent by his second cousin, King George V, took the family to Italy. Baby Philip spent much of the voyage in a crib made from an orange box.\n\nHis mother, Princess Alice, was a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria\n\nHe was the youngest child, the only boy in a family of sisters - and his early childhood was spent in a loving atmosphere.\n\nThe prince began his education in France but, at the age of seven, came to live with his Mountbatten relatives in England, where he attended a prep school in Surrey.\n\nBy this time his mother had been diagnosed with schizophrenia and been placed in an asylum. The young prince would have little contact with her.\n\nIn 1933, he was sent to Schule Schloss Salem in southern Germany, which was run by educational pioneer Kurt Hahn. But within months, Hahn, who was Jewish, was forced to flee Nazi persecution.\n\nHahn moved to Scotland where he founded Gordonstoun school, to which the prince transferred after only two terms in Germany.\n\nGordonstoun's Spartan regime, with its emphasis on self-reliance, was the ideal environment for a teenage boy who, separated from his parents, felt very much on his own.\n\nWith war looming, Prince Philip decided on a military career. He wanted to join the Royal Air Force but his mother's family had a seafaring tradition and he became a cadet at the Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth.\n\nWhile there he was delegated to escort the two young princesses, Elizabeth and Margaret, while King George VI and Queen Elizabeth toured the college.\n\nAccording to witnesses, Prince Philip showed off a great deal. But the meeting made a deep impression on the 13-year-old Princess Elizabeth.\n\nPhilip quickly proved himself an outstanding prospect, passing out at the top of his class in January 1940 and seeing military action for the first time in the Indian Ocean.\n\nPhilip (seated) thrived at Gordonstoun where he enjoyed amateur dramatics\n\nHe transferred to the battleship HMS Valiant in the Mediterranean Fleet, where he was mentioned in dispatches for his part in the Battle of Cape Matapan in 1941.\n\nAs the officer in charge of the ship's searchlights, he played a crucial role in this decisive night action.\n\n\"I found another ship and it lit up the middle part of it, whereupon it practically disappeared instantly under a salvo of 15in shells at point-blank range,\" he told BBC Radio 4 in 2014.\n\nBy October 1942, he was one of the youngest first lieutenants in the Royal Navy, serving on board the destroyer HMS Wallace.\n\nThroughout this period, he and the young Princess Elizabeth had been exchanging letters, and he was invited to stay with the Royal Family on a number of occasions.\n\nIt was after one of these visits, over Christmas 1943, that Elizabeth placed a photograph of Philip, in naval uniform, on her dressing table.\n\nTheir relationship developed in peacetime, although there was opposition to it from some courtiers - one of whom described Prince Philip as \"rough and ill-mannered\".\n\nBut the young princess was very much in love and, in the summer of 1946, her suitor asked the King for his daughter's hand in marriage.\n\nHowever, before an engagement could be announced, the prince needed a new nationality and a family name. He renounced his Greek title, became a British citizen and took his mother's anglicised name, Mountbatten.\n\nThe day before the marriage ceremony, King George VI bestowed the title of His Royal Highness on Philip and on the morning of the wedding day he was created Duke of Edinburgh, Earl of Merioneth and Baron Greenwich.\n\nThe wedding took place in Westminster Abbey on 20 November 1947. It was, as Winston Churchill put it, a \"flash of colour\" in a grey post-war Britain.\n\nThe duke returned to his naval career and was posted to Malta where, for a while at least, the couple could live the life of any other service family.\n\nTheir son, Prince Charles, was born at Buckingham Palace in 1948, and a daughter, Princess Anne, arrived in 1950. They were later joined by Prince Andrew (1960) and Prince Edward (1964).\n\nOn 2 September 1950, he achieved the ambition of every naval officer when he was appointed to his own command, the sloop HMS Magpie.\n\nBut his naval career was about to be curtailed. The worsening health of George VI meant his daughter had to take on more royal duties and needed her husband by her side.\n\nHis wedding to Princess Elizabeth was described as \"a flash of colour in a grey post-war Britain\"\n\nPhilip took leave from the Royal Navy in July 1951. He never returned in an active role.\n\nThe duke was not a man to carry regrets, but he did say in later life that he was sorry he had been unable to continue his career in the navy.\n\nContemporaries have said that he could, on his own merit, have risen to become first sea lord.\n\nIn 1952, the royal couple set off on a tour of the Commonwealth originally planned to be undertaken by the King and Queen.\n\nIt was while they were staying at a game lodge in Kenya in February that word came through the King had died. He had suffered a coronary thrombosis - a fatal heart blood clot.\n\nIt fell to the prince to break the news to his wife that she was now Queen.\n\nA friend later described Prince Philip as looking as if \"half the world\" had dropped on him.\n\nPhilip was the first to pay homage to the Queen at her coronation\n\nDeprived of his naval career, he had to create a new role for himself, and Elizabeth's accession to the throne raised the whole question of what that was to be.\n\nAs the coronation approached, a Royal Warrant proclaimed that Prince Philip would have precedence after the Queen on all occasions, yet he was never to have any constitutional position.\n\nThe duke was full of ideas about how best to modernise and streamline the monarchy but became increasingly disillusioned by the entrenched opposition from a number of the palace old guard.\n\nHe channelled some of his energies into an active social life. He and a group of male friends met every week in rooms above a restaurant in Soho, central London.\n\nThere were long, convivial lunches and visits to nightclubs and he was often photographed with glamorous companions.\n\nOne area in which the duke was given free rein to exercise his authority was in the family, although he lost the battle over the name his children would carry.\n\nHe had to adapt to life as a royal consort\n\nThe Queen's decision that the family would carry the name of Windsor, rather than his own family name of Mountbatten, was a bitter blow.\n\n\"I am the only man in the country not allowed to give his name to his children,\" he complained to friends. \"I'm nothing but a bloody amoeba.\"\n\nAs a parent, Prince Philip could appear brusque and insensitive.\n\nAccording to Prince Charles's biographer, Jonathan Dimbleby, Charles was reduced to tears in his youth by public reprimands from his father and the relationship between father and eldest son was never easy.\n\nPhilip insisted that Prince Charles go to his old school, Gordonstoun, in the well-intentioned belief that its regime would help counter his son's somewhat retiring nature.\n\nIn the event the young prince hated the school, where he suffered homesickness and was often the target of bullies.\n\nThe duke's attitudes reflected the difficult nature of his own, sometimes lonely, childhood.\n\nHe was forced from an early age to develop self-reliance and found it difficult to understand that not everyone shared his strength of character.\n\nHis insistence that Prince Charles attend Gordonstoun caused a rift between father and son\n\nOne of Prince Philip's main concerns was for the welfare of young people, and in 1956 that interest sparked the launch of his phenomenally successful Duke of Edinburgh's Award.\n\nOver the years it enabled some six million 15-to-25-year-olds - many with disabilities - the world over to challenge themselves physically, mentally and emotionally in a range of outdoor activities designed to promote teamwork, resourcefulness and a respect for nature.\n\n\"If you can get young people to succeed in any area of activity,\" he told the BBC, \"that sensation of success will spread over into a lot of others.\"\n\nThroughout his life the duke continued to devote much time to the scheme, attending various functions and involving himself in its day-to-day running.\n\nHe was also a passionate advocate for wildlife and the environment, although his decision to shoot a tiger while on a trip to India in 1961 caused a furore.\n\nThe publication of a photograph, in which the tiger was displayed as a trophy, only made matters worse.\n\nHowever, he threw his considerable influence and energy behind the World Wildlife Fund, later to become the World Wide Fund for Nature, and seemed a natural choice as its first president.\n\nThe Duke of Edinburgh threw himself into his conservation efforts with typical energy and enthusiasm\n\n\"I think it's marvellous we have such a fantastic variety of life on this planet, all interdependent,\" he told a BBC interviewer.\n\n\"I think also that if we humans have the power of life or death - or extinction or survival - we ought to exercise it with some sort of moral sense. Why make something extinct if you don't have to?\"\n\nHe upset some conservationists when he defended grouse shooting.\n\n\"If you have a game species, you want it to survive because you want to have some next year - exactly like a farmer. You want to crop it, you don't want to exterminate it.\"\n\nBut he was widely praised for his commitment to preserving the world's forests and campaigning against overfishing in the oceans.\n\nPrince Philip also took a keen interest in industry, visiting factories and becoming patron of the Industrial Society, now known as the Work Foundation.\n\nIt was to a group of industrialists in 1961 that the duke displayed characteristic bluntness when he told them: \"Gentlemen, it's time we pulled our fingers out.\"\n\nHe took a keen interest in British industry\n\nThis tendency to be forthright was interpreted by some as boorishness and sometimes got him into trouble. He certainly gained a reputation for misjudging situations, particularly when he was abroad.\n\nHe made one of his most controversial comments while accompanying the Queen on a state visit to China in 1986. He made what he thought was a private remark about \"slitty eyes\".\n\nThe tabloids went into a frenzy, although it seemed to cause little concern in China.\n\nOn a visit to Australia in 2002, he asked an Aboriginal businessman whether \"you still throw spears at each other\".\n\nWhile he was heavily criticised in some quarters for such remarks, others saw them as reflecting someone who was his own man and who had refused to become bound by political correctness.\n\nIndeed, many saw his so-called \"gaffes\" as nothing more than an attempt to lighten the atmosphere and put people at their ease.\n\nThroughout his life, Prince Philip maintained an enthusiasm for sport. He sailed, played cricket and polo, excelled at carriage driving and was president of the International Equestrian Federation for many years.\n\nHe had a particular passion for polo\n\nThe tensions with his eldest son resurfaced with the publication of Jonathan Dimbleby's biography of Prince Charles.\n\nThe Duke of Edinburgh, it was said, had pushed Charles into his marriage to Lady Diana Spencer.\n\nYet the duke was more solicitous than many critics would allow during the difficult years when his children's marriages were disintegrating.\n\nHe took the lead in attempting to understand the problems, prompted perhaps by his own memories of the difficulties of marrying into the Royal Family.\n\nPrince Philip was greatly saddened by the ending of the marriages of three of his four children - Princess Anne and Prince Andrew, as well as Prince Charles.\n\nBut he always refused to talk about personal matters, telling a newspaper in 1994 that he had not done so before and was not going to start then.\n\nAdvancing years barely slowed the pace of his life. He continued to travel extensively, both for the World Wide Fund for Nature and with the Queen on state visits abroad.\n\nCarriage driving was one of the duke's many sporting interests\n\nAnd he made a personal pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 1994 to visit the tomb of his mother. Her wish to be buried there had been fulfilled.\n\nThere was another poignant moment for him during the 50th anniversary of VJ Day in 1995.\n\nPrince Philip had been on a British destroyer in Tokyo Bay when the Japanese surrendered and, on the anniversary, he joined other veterans of the Far East campaign in marching past the Queen on The Mall.\n\nHe also expressed sympathy for those former prisoners of the Japanese who had found it hard, or indeed impossible, to forgive what had been done to them.\n\nHis brusqueness mellowed a little in later years, prompted by the public's sometimes hostile attitude to the Royal Family after the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.\n\nHe was a source of great support to Diana, Princess of Wales\n\nIn 2007, letters between the duke and the princess were published in an attempt to refute claims that he had been hostile to his daughter-in-law.\n\nDubbed the Dearest Pa letters, they showed he had been a source of great support to Diana, a fact underlined by the warm tones in which she wrote to him.\n\nMohamed Al Fayed, the father of Diana's last companion, Dodi, even suggested at the inquest into her death that she had been murdered on Prince Philip's orders - an allegation the coroner strongly rejected.\n\nPrince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, was a strong-willed and independent man who found himself at the centre of British society.\n\nHe was a natural leader whose role forced him always to take second place; a man with a combative temperament that frequently sat uneasily with the sensitivities of his position.\n\n\"I've just done what I think was my best,\" he once told the BBC. \"I can't suddenly change my whole way of doing things, I can't change my interests or the way I react to things. That's just my style.\"\n\nThe Queen referred to him as her 'strength and stay'\n\nThe duke retired from public life in August 2017 after decades supporting the Queen and attending events for his own charities and organisations.\n\nBuckingham Palace calculated he had completed 22,219 solo engagements since 1952, and Theresa May, the then prime minister, thanked him for a \"remarkable life of public service\".\n\nPhilip celebrated his 70th wedding anniversary later that year.\n\nA hip replacement operation did not stop him driving his carriages around the grounds of Windsor Castle, and he survived a serious car accident while driving near Sandringham in January 2019.\n\nTwo women in the other car were injured, and the duke voluntarily surrendered his driver's licence.\n\nDuring the coronavirus pandemic, Philip and the Queen moved to Windsor Castle, and were given a vaccine in January 2021.\n\nPhilip was successful in using his position to make a huge contribution to British life and played his part in helping the monarchy come to terms with changing social attitudes over the years.\n\nBut his greatest achievement was undoubtedly the constancy and strength of his support for the Queen in the long years of her reign.\n\nHe believed his job was, as he told his biographer, \"to ensure the Queen can reign\".\n\nAt a speech given at a celebration to mark the couple's golden wedding anniversary, the Queen paid tribute to her husband, the longest-serving royal consort in British history.\n\n\"He is someone who doesn't take easily to compliments, but he has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years. And I, and his whole family, and this and many other countries, owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim or we shall ever know.\"", "Islamic scholars and NHS leaders are urging Muslims not to let fasting over Ramadan stop them getting a Covid jab.\n\nDuring Ramadan many Muslims abstain from food and drink in daylight hours.\n\nIslamic teaching says Muslims should refrain \"from anything entering the body\" between sunrise and sunset.\n\nBut Qari Asim, an imam in Leeds, said that because the vaccine goes into the muscle rather than the bloodstream and is not nutritious, it does not amount to breaking the fast.\n\n\"The majority of the Islamic scholars are of the view that taking the vaccine during Ramadan will not invalidate the fast,\" Mr Asim, who chairs the Mosques and Imams National Advisory Board, told the BBC.\n\nHe said his message to the Muslim community was: \"If you are eligible for the vaccine and have received your invite, you need to ask yourself: do you take the vaccine which has proven to be effective or do you risk catching Covid, which can make you quite ill, and you may potentially miss the whole of Ramadan and possibly end up in hospital?\"\n\nSome NHS vaccine sites in Nottingham and Brighton are extending their opening hours so Muslims can come after they have broken their fast.\n\nBut Dr Farzana Hussain, a senior GP from The Surgery Project in east London, said there was no need to avoid daylight hours.\n\n\"We know that a lot of Muslims are a bit concerned about having their Covid vaccination during Ramadan. Many people believe that having an injection actually breaks the fast,\" she said. \"But it doesn't at all because it's not considered nutrition.\"\n\nShe added: \"The Quran says saving your life is the most important thing: 'To save one life is to save the whole of humanity.' It's a responsibility of a practising Muslim to take their vaccine.\"\n\nSome mosques are being used as vaccination centres in an effort to boost take up among minority communities.\n\nPolling from Ipsos Mori suggests a dramatic increase in ethnic minority Britons who say they have had, or are likely to have, the vaccine - from 77% in January to 92% in March.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRamadan, which is expected to begin on Monday evening after the sighting of the Moon over Mecca, is traditionally marked by regular communal prayers in mosques and shared meals - or Iftars - to break the fast after sunset.\n\nAlthough communal worship is allowed across the UK, social distancing must be enforced and different households cannot mix indoors.\n\nThe British Islamic Medical Association (BIMA) has issued guidance for mosques during Ramadan. They recommend keeping Taraweeh - the main evening prayers - short, increasing ventilation, and say imams should wear \"properly fitted double masks to protect congregants\".\n\nDr Shehla Imtiaz-Umer urged people to get vaccinated to protect future Ramadans\n\nDr Shehla Imtiaz-Umer, a GP in Derby and representative of the BIMA, told the BBC: \"We've seen a lot of devastation in our communities because of the Covid pandemic and we want to try and make sure that our future Ramadans are not affected to this extent.\n\n\"Unfortunately it's been affected last year and this year. But if we carry on taking our vaccines and making sure that we're all protected, we can ensure that next Ramadan we do return to some normality.\"", "Nikolai Glushkov was granted political asylum in the UK in 2010\n\nA Russian exile was strangled in his own home by a third party, a coroner has ruled.\n\nBusinessman Nikolai Glushkov, who was critical of Russian President Vladimir Putin, was found dead in New Malden in south-west London in March 2018.\n\nWest London Coroner's Court heard there was evidence to suggest his death was made to look like a suicide and there had been \"third-party involvement\".\n\nMr Glushkov fled Russia after being accused of fraud during his time as deputy director of the Aeroflot airline, and was granted political asylum in the UK in 2010.\n\nIn 2017, during a trial in absentia, he was sentenced to eight years by a Russian court after being convicted of stealing £87m from the airline.\n\nMr Glushkov, 68, had been due to attend the Commercial Court in London to defend himself on 12 March, the day his body was discovered by his daughter, Natalia.\n\nHis death came a week after the Novichok poisoning in Salisbury of the Russian former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia.\n\nParamedic Dominic Biel told the inquest the scene of Mr Glushkov's death was \"suspicious\" and recalled how his partner Denis Trushin said: \"Don't touch anything until the police come here - someone's killed him.\"\n\nA pathology report summarised to the court said the injuries \"could be consistent with a neck-hold, applied from behind, and the assailant being behind the victim\".\n\nIt added: \"There is a lack of injuries to suggest prolonged grappling or restraint with the third party, and a lack of injuries of a defensive nature to the upper limbs.\"\n\nRecording his verdict, the coroner said: \"From all the documentation, all the evidence gathered, Nikolai Glushkov died from an unlawful killing.\"\n\nDetectives are renewing an appeal for witnesses who were in the New Malden area on 11 and 12 March 2018\n\nThe inquest coincided with a renewed appeal by the Met Police's counter-terrorism unit for more information about the death.\n\nCommander Richard Smith said over 1,800 witnesses had been contacted and more than 420 statements taken.\n\nNo arrests have been made and a motive is yet to be established, the Met said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage captured on the night before Mr Glushkov's body was found\n\nMr Glushkov was a close friend of oligarch Boris Berezovsky, a vocal critic of Mr Putin, who was found hanged at his Berkshire home in 2013.\n\nAn inquest into Mr Berezovsky's death recorded an open verdict.\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 prime minister said international travel from 17 May was \"hopeful\"\n\nLeading travel industry figures have reacted with dismay to Boris Johnson's latest comments on the lockdown roadmap, saying they need more clarity.\n\nThe prime minister said he was \"hopeful\" that foreign travel could begin again on 17 May.\n\nBut he said more data was needed before a firm decision could be taken.\n\nThe Business Travel Association said the announcement was \"beyond disappointing\" and called for \"a clear pathway to international travel and trade\".\n\nIts chief executive, Clive Wratten, said moves to open borders had \"once again been kicked down the road\".\n\n\"The business travel industry continues to be crippled by today's lack of movement,\" he added.\n\nIn a Downing Street briefing on Monday, Mr Johnson said he did not want to see coronavirus re-imported from abroad and urged people to await a report from the Global Travel Taskforce on 12 April.\n\nMr Wratten called on the government to be \"confident in its roadmap\", adding: \"This is our last resort.\"\n\nOther travel industry bodies expressed similar discontent as they await further details of a risk-based \"traffic light\" system for foreign travel, due to be published later this week.\n\nUnder the system, no isolation would be necessary on return to the UK from \"green\" countries - although pre-departure and post-arrival tests would be required.\n\nTim Alderslade, chief executive of Airlines UK, said: \"Whilst we support the establishment of a framework for restarting international travel and welcome the removal of self-isolation for arrivals from 'green countries', today's announcement does not provide the clarity we were seeking on the roadmap back towards normality.\n\n\"We await further details, but the measures indicated, including the potential for multiple tests for travellers even from 'green countries', will prevent meaningful travel even to low-risk destinations.\"\n\nMark Tanzer, chief executive of the Abta travel association, welcomed the traffic light system, but said: \"We need to see the details in the Global Travel Taskforce report before this can be assessed fully.\"\n\nHe added: \"It is vital that the government clarifies how the transition between green, amber and red levels will work, both to help travel businesses plan ahead and to provide reassurance for travellers.\n\n\"Destinations should not be suddenly closed off unless variants of concern dictate that this must happen.\"\n\nThe chief executive of the Airport Operators Association, Karen Dee, said she was \"disappointed\" that the prime minister \"continues to suggest significant barriers to international travel and may push back the date of restart beyond 17 May\".\n\nShe said a \"risk-based, proportionate system\" could \"open up aviation without quarantine and with affordable, rapid testing\".", "Friends Nathan (left) and James were often in trouble with police before they signed up to do their bronze award\n\nWhat does the Duke of Edinburgh's Award mean to you? For many it will conjure memories of hauling a badly-packed rucksack across rainy British countryside in the hope of adding some sparkle to their CV. Yet for some of the millions of young people who have taken on the self-improvement challenge, it has brought truly life-changing opportunities.\n\nWithout the award, James says he'd \"probably be in jail\". At the age of 15, James and his friend Nathan, then 16, had had more run-ins with the police than they care to remember. As bored mates growing up in Darlington, north-east England, they felt they had \"nothing else to do\" but to cause mischief.\n\nIllegally riding motorbikes for a bit of fun in their early teenage years turned into a succession of petty crimes - theft, anti-social behaviour, criminal damage. James describes his behaviour as \"causing mayhem\". Nathan adds: \"Wherever I was, I was causing trouble.\"\n\nAfter being caught for separate offences, in 2018 the friends were both ordered to do hours of community service, or \"reparations\". The stint the pair enjoyed the most was being taught how to fix bikes by youth offending officer Dave Kirton, for a community project.\n\nDave, who is also a Duke of Edinburgh leader, arranged with those on the reparations panel to strike a deal with the boys: if they did their Duke of Edinburgh Bronze Award, they'd get five hours taken off their community service orders.\n\n\"It was a little bit of a reward, a carrot incentive,\" Dave says. \"Both the lads were a bit reluctant at first, but they agreed and two or three weeks in they realised the opportunity they had - and they got stuck right into it.\"\n\nIt takes about six months for most participants to complete the four sections of the bronze award: volunteering, a physical challenge, developing a skill and taking part in an expedition, which usually consists of two days of walking and a night of camping. The silver and gold awards are more challenging and take longer to complete.\n\nPrince Philip, pictured at a gold award presentation in 2017, believed the awards showed young people \"what can be achieved through determination and persistence\"\n\nJames says the commitment needed for his bronze award - the first of three achievement levels - forced a change in his behaviour: \"It just stopped me being naughty.\" Nathan says learning expedition skills such as navigation made him realise how quick he was at picking up new things.\n\n\"There's potential that you don't know you've got until you actually try it,\" he says.\n\nNathan's realisation is exactly the kind of boost Prince Philip wanted to give young people when he first established the Duke of Edinburgh's Award for Boys in 1956. The idea, as expressed by the duke himself, was simple: \"If you can get a young person to succeed in any one activity, then that feeling of success will spread over into many others.\"\n\nThe roots of this idea lay in the self-reliance that helped Philip through his sometimes troubled childhood, and the experience of his time at school. Gordonstoun, the school both Prince Philip and Prince Charles attended, had a tough physical regime with an emphasis on self-development - as depicted in the Netflix series The Crown.\n\nGordonstoun schoolboys on an obstacle course in 1956 - the same year the Duke of Edinburgh set up his award programme\n\nIn the beginning the duke's award was confined to boys, with 7,000 signing up in the first year. Girls were allowed to take part from 1958, but to begin with their programme had more emphasis on domestic skills and community service.\n\nThe programme was made the same for girls and boys in 1980 - a move towards equality that helped one girl to overcome part of her traumatic childhood.\n\nLauren (not her real name), was abused by her parents as a child. She says they used to dangle her from a balcony - an abusive pastime that left her terrified of heights.\n\nDuring Lauren's bronze award expedition in 2018, when she was 14, she was given the opportunity to take part in a high ropes course as an extra activity. \"I had a friend there that I'd met, and they were egging me on,\" she says. \"I finally did it and I felt so relieved.\"\n\nThat day on the high ropes, Lauren's fear of heights disappeared. \"I can do anything now,\" she says.\n\nLauren says the friends she made through the scheme have helped her gain the social skills needed to pursue a future career in social work. She says her aim is to help others who have had difficult childhoods.\n\nThose who complete the gold award get to experience a high of a different kind - being invited to a presentation ceremony at a royal residence. Several are held each year, either at St James's Palace or in Buckingham Palace gardens, in London, at the Palace of Holyroodhouse, in Edinburgh, or at Hillsborough Castle, in County Down.\n\nPrince Philip attended more than 500 of gold award presentations himself - and other Royal Family members stood in if he was absent. He remained a patron of the organisation until his death.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A look at the history of the programme as Prince Philip attends the 500th Gold Award presentation\n\nMohammed Leily says he was \"thrilled\" to meet \"the man himself\" at one of Philip's final presentation events before he retired from royal duties in 2017.\n\n\"He went around and had a chat with each group,\" says Mohammed, who is still in touch with the friends he made through the programme. \"I remember he told us to make sure we are as active as we could possibly be, and to make sure we made use of our youth now while we have the energy.\"\n\nMohammed arrived to the UK from Syria as a refugee in 2013, aged 17, and decided to sign up for the bronze award as a way of meeting new people and improving his English. He revelled in the opportunity to volunteer for the Red Cross and help other refugees and asylum seekers settle into new homes.\n\nHe credits his gold award with helping him to get a place to study medicine at the University of Southampton - and says he still can't believe he got to meet Prince Philip. \"When I left Syria I would never have imagined I'd do that, or see him.\"\n\nOne of the best things for Mohammed Leily was volunteering for the Red Cross, where he helped other refugees\n\nAs of early 2021, more than 3.1 million Duke of Edinburgh's Awards had been achieved by people like Mohammed, Lauren, James and Nathan. The international arm of the scheme means more than a million people more are currently taking part in programmes in more than 130 countries.\n\nBut if the numbers have grown dramatically, the ideas remain simple. \"One of the perpetual problems about human life is that young people of every generation have to discover for themselves what life is all about,\" the duke said in 2010.\n\n\"These experiences teach more general lessons and serve as a practical demonstration of what can be achieved through determination and persistence.\"\n\nBack in Darlington, those lessons have certainly been learned by James and Nathan. Neither has reoffended since completing their bronze award. \"It makes you happy knowing you're pal's all right and doing well for himself,\" says Nathan. \"And it makes us happy knowing that we've both changed together.\"\n\nDid you take part in the Duke of Edinburgh's Award scheme? Did you meet Prince Philip? 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• None The man who taught Prince Philip to think\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "\"I never realised how much I wanted to live until I thought I was going to die,\" said Tracey Emin\n\nArtist Tracey Emin has said her cancer has \"gone\" after a series of major surgeries.\n\nThe 57-year-old told BBC Newsnight she reached a \"big, big milestone\" last week when her three-monthly scans were \"all clear\".\n\nEmin was diagnosed with a \"really rapid, really aggressive\" bladder cancer last year.\n\n\"I'm not painting because I'm using my willpower to stay alive. That's what I'm doing,\" she told the programme.\n\nBut she said that over the coming years she hoped to put her energy back into painting, as well as \"being happy, smiling more, just enjoying life\".\n\n\"I never realised how much I wanted to live until I thought I was going to die,\" she said.\n\nEmin, who is known for her frank, confessional art, said she had her bladder removed, a full hysterectomy, her urethra removed, her lymph nodes removed, \"half of my vagina removed\", and part of her intestine removed to stop the spread of the cancer.\n\nShe now has a urostomy bag, which replaces the bladder and urinary system. It is a \"major disability\" because it needs to be emptied as frequently as every 20 minutes, she said.\n\n\"You never know when it's going to happen,\" she said.\n\nThe extensive surgery meant her bladder cancer \"couldn't actually latch on to anything else\". Following the clear three-monthly scan, she will now move to annual scans, she said.\n\nBest known for such installations as her unmade bed and the tent Everyone I Have Ever Slept With, Emin was speaking ahead of the re-opening of a joint exhibition of her work with paintings by Edvard Munch on 18 May, which had been closed by England's lockdown this winter.\n\nThe Margate-based artist said when she began working on the Royal Academy of Arts exhibition four years ago she had \"no idea that there was a possibility that I was never going to see this show\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tracey Emin: \"People would have come to this show and I would have been dead. It would have been so Tracey.\"\n\nEmin said she resisted suggestions to cancel the show before the lockdown because \"if something happens to me, what else have I got? I've just got to do this\".\n\nThe government made a \"big mistake\" in categorising museums and galleries alongside nightclubs when it comes to reopening, she said, describing the decision as \"absolutely ridiculous\".\n\n\"I think it's because the majority of the government at the moment have never probably been to museums or art galleries,\" she said.\n\n\"If they had and if they knew and if they knew the soulful benefits of looking at art, they would have kept them open or found some system to make it work.\"\n\nThe full interview with Tracey Emin will be shown on Newsnight on Friday 9 April from 22:45 GMT and afterwards on BBC iPlayer.", "The Duke of Edinburgh visited India on a number of occasions, and had a close friendship with the royal family in Jaipur in the state of Rajasthan.\n\nThe Maharaja of Jaipur, His Highness, Sawai Padmanabh Singh, says he is saddened by the passing of the Duke of Edinburgh.\n\n\"This is truly the end of an era,\" he says.\n\nMaharaja Sawai Man Singh II pictured with the Duke of Edinburgh Image caption: Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II pictured with the Duke of Edinburgh\n\n\"The Royal House of Jaipur has been close to the Royal Family of Britain for generations. One of my ancestors, the late Maharaja Sawai Madho Singh II of Jaipur, was among the few princes from India invited to attend the coronation of King Edward VII in 1902,\" he writes.\n\nThe Queen and Prince Philip continued the friendship through the generations and were close to Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II and his third wife Maharani Gayatri Devi - a glamorous royal couple, described as India's answer to John and Jackie Kennedy - visiting them all on their trips to India.\n\n“When Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip made a State visit to India in 1961, they asked to include Jaipur on their itinerary because of their personal equation.”\n\nSo warm was the friendship, Maharani Gayatri Devi sent the duke a box of alfonso mangoes for his birthday every year, those close to the family have said.\n\nThe close ties between the two families extended to the polo ground too: “HRH Prince Philip was a talented polo player, who has played on the Rambagh Polo Ground of Jaipur, just as our family has in England each summer.\"\n\nThe Maharani presented Prince Philip with the trophy when his polo team Windsor Park won the Victoria Cup in 1960 Image caption: The Maharani presented Prince Philip with the trophy when his polo team Windsor Park won the Victoria Cup in 1960", "Kate Garraway and Derek Draper, a former political adviser, married in 2005\n\nKate Garraway's husband has returned home after more than a year in hospital being treated for Covid-19.\n\nFormer political adviser Derek Draper, 53, was admitted in March last year with coronavirus symptoms, before having to be put into a coma.\n\nITV presenter Garraway said on Friday that he \"absolutely knew he was home\" but had not yet regained his speech and will require round-the-clock care.\n\nShe and her young family all \"burst into tears\" when he arrived home.\n\n\"As we pulled up, I could see two little faces, Darcey and Billy [their children] looking out the window, and I could literally see them go, 'He's here,'\" she told her Good Morning Britain colleagues.\n\n\"And they sort of ran out and ran forward, opened the door, and he immediately burst into tears.\n\n\"There was a lot of hugging and we got him inside. He absolutely knew he was home, he is responding all the time - what he's not able to do is to talk...\"\n\nKate Garraway is an ITV presenter, broadcaster and journalist\n\nMr Draper has been been taken off all support machines and breathing apparatus but will receive 24-hour care at their newly adapted north London home.\n\nHis recovery from his \"unique\" condition will involve working with physiotherapists and speech therapists. \"It does feel a little bit like the hospital has come home with me at the moment,\" Garraway said, referring to the new team of healthcare professionals now in her house.\n\n\"He can't really move,\" she said. \"We do need a lot of help. And it's not just help with looking after him, because it is 24-hour care, and I haven't really slept as you can probably tell.\n\n\"I will ease off, I'm just very aware at the moment and it's a whole new team. So he's probably got a little bit used to the people in hospital and so it's a new team now that are working with him and helping him to come through.\n\n\"It's going to take a lot of adjustment.\"\n\nShe added that even though the news was \"amazing\", she was also \"trying to balance the emotions of the next stage\".\n\nLast month ITV broadcast Finding Derek, a documentary exploring Draper's illness and its effect on their two children - daughter Darcey, 15, and 11-year-old son Billy.\n\nOne scene saw her recall being told by her husband's doctors that he was the most seriously ill person they had seen who remained alive.\n\nThe Telegraph's Michael Hogan called the hour-long film \"powerful, poignant and admirably candid\".\n\nThe broadcaster and journalist noted how \"there have been improvements\" in the former Labour Party political advisor's condition since the documentary was filmed.\n\nShe said the family had \"constructed a version\" of their dinner table, so he could re-join them.\n\n\"He's using more words, and there are more things that he can do now,\" she explained.\n\n\"He's got some more movement in his hands, he can show emotion. But it felt as though everything had stalled medically and if anything was going slightly back.\n\n\"Obviously within the very necessary Covid restrictions that are in place, I couldn't visit, family couldn't visit, even some of the therapeutic things we would want to do to help him move forward couldn't happen, so taking all that into account, they said, 'Right let's give this a go, let's get him home safely'.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Good Morning Britain This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGarraway is also publishing a book, entitled The Power Of Hope, detailing \"the raw and emotional story\" of her husband's illness.\n\n\"I think anybody whose husband or loved one has been in hospital for a long time, what you want is for them to be home - that's what you're absolutely campaigning [for] and wanting to happen,\" she added.\n\n\"But it's been a lot discussions, even before Christmas, about what is the best way to go because it's kind of balancing… it's a very unique situation, Derek's situation.\n\n\"While the doctors made it very clear they wouldn't have allowed him home if there was any risk to his health, I said: \"I'm not pushing you to something that's not right [am I]?' And [the doctor] said, 'Kate, you can't push me'.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Jacqueline Grant, 54, was found dead in her home on Tuesday\n\nA woman who was found murdered in her Glasgow flat was subjected to a \"brutal attack\", police have said.\n\nThe body of Jacqueline Grant, 54, was discovered in her home in Cumlodden Drive, in the Maryhill area of the city, at about 17:25 on Tuesday.\n\nPolice Scotland confirmed the death was now being treated as murder following a post-mortem examination.\n\nForensic experts and officers are continuing to carry out a detailed search of her home and the local area.\n\nDet Ch Insp Stuart Grainger said: \"Jacqueline died as a result of a brutal attack in her home and her family are devastated by what has happened.\"\n\nHe added that officers have also been checking CCTV in and around the flats and in nearby streets, as well as have been speaking to neighbours, local residents and businesses.\n\nPolice are keen to speak to anyone who was in the area from Monday evening through to Tuesday morning and have urged anyone with information to get in touch.\n• None Death of woman in flat treated as suspicious\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Frontline health workers from overseas will be given a free one-year UK visa extension, the Home Office says.\n\nThe move applies to eligible workers whose visas are due to run out before 1 October 2021 and their dependants.\n\nThe list of professions covered includes doctors, nurses, paramedics and midwives, with 14,000 people expected to benefit.\n\nBut Unison said the move should be extended to care workers who had \"been overlooked again\".\n\nThe Home Office first granted free automatic visa extensions to health workers in March 2020 as the coronavirus pandemic hit the UK.\n\nThe offer was initially limited to NHS doctors, nurses and paramedics whose visas ran out between 31 March 2020 and 1 October 2020, but it was later extended to include more professions.\n\nThe department said more than 10,000 had received the extension last year, but this latest announcement would affect a further 14,000 workers.\n\nA health and care worker visa normally costs £232 per person for up to three years or £464 per person for three to five years. It must be extended after five years, or if the worker changes jobs.\n\nThe visa is £55 cheaper if the applicant is from one of the eligible European countries.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said: \"The dedication and skill of overseas health and care workers who are leading the UK's fight against coronavirus is truly extraordinary.\"\n\nShe said they were now helping with the vaccine roll-out, and the visa extension \"shows how our country values the contributions of these heroes\".\n\nWorkers need to fill out an online form to verify their identity, but there will be no fees to pay.\n\nThe visa extensions will also apply to their partners and any children aged under 18.\n\nBut while the announcement has been welcomed, some have questioned why care workers are not included on the list of professions.\n\nUnison general secretary Christina McAnea said thousands of NHS workers would be \"relieved\" by the news.\n\n\"Many have faced huge stresses and pushed themselves to the limit to treat and look after us all,\" she added. \"It's only right the government looks after them and makes their lives a little easier by granting free visas.\"\n\nBut she criticised care workers being \"overlooked\", saying the scheme \"should extend to all employees in health and care, particularly the lowest paid who need this help the most\".", "Amazon has fiercely opposed efforts by the RWDSU to unionise workers at its warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama\n\nAmazon appears likely to be headed to victory over activists hoping to establish the company's first unionised warehouse in the US.\n\nVotes against the effort held a more than 2 to 1 lead, in an early tally of almost half the ballots on Thursday.\n\nThe National Labor Relations Board will continue the count on Friday.\n\nThe contest is seen as a key test for the e-commerce giant, which has faced global criticism for its treatment of workers during the pandemic.\n\nLast month, US President Joe Biden called the vote by workers at the warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama a \"vitally important choice\".\n\nCelebrities and national Democratic politicians have travelled to the state to support the union campaign, which even drew some Republican backing.\n\nA total of 3,125 ballots were cast in the election, according to the Retail Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU), which was behind the unionisation effort.\n\nThat was a higher turnout than organisers had anticipated, representing just over half of the nearly 6,000 people employed at the warehouse.\n\nHundreds of the votes were challenged by Amazon and union representatives, but an incomplete count of uncontested ballots conducted by labour officials on Thursday showed that at least 1,100 workers voted against the union effort, compared to less than 500 votes in favour of unionising.\n\nRWDSU leaders had hoped that a victory would set a new standard for the firm's hundreds of thousands of workers across the country.\n\nIf successful, the union drive would mean Amazon, the second largest employer in the US, would have to negotiate a contract with union officials on issues such as work rules and pay.\n\nBut analysts had warned that the union faced an uphill battle in the election.\n\nUnion membership has steadily dwindled in America in recent decades - just 6% of private sector workers belonged to a trade union in 2020.\n\nSuspicion of organised labour runs especially deep in conservative states like Alabama.\n\nIn Bessemer, a city with a population of 27,000 outside Birmingham, the opening of the Amazon plant last year was hailed as a welcome jobs creator, for a town hit hard by the closure of manufacturing plants in the 1980s.\n\nThe union fight in Bessemer has drawn national attention from politicians such as Senator Bernie Sanders\n\nAmazon had also fiercely opposed the unionisation drive. At mandatory staff meetings, in text messages and online, the e-commerce giant argued that it offered competitive pay and benefits.\n\nIt said the union would charge members hundreds of dollars in dues, without being able to make meaningful change.\n\nIn a statement on Thursday, RWDSU president Stuart Appelbaum said the union would call on the labour board \"to hold Amazon accountable for its illegal and egregious behaviour during the campaign\".\n\n\"Our system is broken, Amazon took full advantage of that,\" he said. \"But make no mistake about it - this still represents an important moment for working people and their voices will be heard.\"\n\nIn media interviews prior to the vote, pro-union workers had said the company frequently denied staff breaks, changed schedules unexpectedly and intrusively monitored their activities.\n\nUnion organisers had also tied the fight at the warehouse - where the majority of workers are black - to broader issues of civil rights and racial justice.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Five things to know about Amazon boss Jeff Bezos", "David Cameron sent texts to Conservative ministers about access to loans for a firm he advised\n\nDavid Cameron now believes it might have been better to approach the Treasury formally over access to loans for a firm he worked for, a friend has said.\n\nA row over lobbying erupted after it came to light the former Conservative PM had sent texts to Chancellor Rishi Sunak and two other ministers appealing for help for Greensill Capital.\n\nAs reported in the Financial Times, a friend of Mr Cameron said he now thinks a formal letter would have been better.\n\nMr Cameron has yet to respond himself.\n\nOn Thursday, the chancellor published two of his text replies to Mr Cameron, saying the request he had made would \"require a change\" to the system in place - but that he had \"pushed the team to explore an alternative\".\n\nA source close to Mr Sunak said the former prime minister had messaged the chancellor \"multiple times\" on his personal phone, and that he had chosen to publish the messages \"in order to reassure beyond doubt that there was no wrongdoing and that he acted with integrity and propriety\".\n\nMr Cameron's texts have not been published.\n\nBut Labour's shadow chancellor, Anneliese Dodds, said the messages \"raise very serious questions about whether the chancellor may have broken the ministerial code\" as they suggested the firm \"got accelerated treatment and access to officials\".\n\nThe party has called for a \"full, transparent and thorough investigation\", while the SNP has demanded Mr Sunak make a statement to Parliament.\n\nAfter leaving office, Mr Cameron got a job as an adviser to Greensill Capital.\n\nThe company - which has now gone bust - was run by financier Lex Greensill, who worked as unpaid adviser to Mr Cameron during his time in No 10.\n\nWhen working for Greensill in 2020, Mr Cameron texted Conservative ministers within the Treasury to appeal for access to emergency government-backed loans amidst the height of the pandemic.\n\nBut the requests were eventually rejected by Treasury officials.\n\nMr Cameron was investigated by a watchdog over whether he broke rules by not registering as a lobbyist for his work at Greensill - but he was cleared in March.\n\nBut critics have continued to question his access to ministers - and Labour has raised questions about the access Mr Greensill had when he worked as a government adviser.\n\nHowever, the friend of Mr Cameron said he and Mr Greensill met twice at most when Mr Cameron was PM.\n\nIn the latest development in the row, a friend of Mr Cameron's said he now believed it may have been better to formally approach the chancellor through a letter, rather than sending text messages to his personal phone.\n\nThe friend said Mr Cameron approached Mr Sunak at a time of national crisis - when the Treasury was actively seeking ideas.\n\nAnd they said that no rules had been broken by the former prime minister.\n\nMr Greensill, the Australian founder of Greensill Capital, has yet to comment on the row.", "Petrol bombs, fireworks and stones have been thrown at police during another night of violence in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt follows rioting on Wednesday night which police said was on a scale not seen in Northern Ireland in years.\n\nCrowds rioted on both sides of an interface between loyalist and nationalist areas in west Belfast.\n\nPolice deployed water cannon in a bid to stop the violence - the first time in six years they have done so in a riot situation.\n\nThey urged people to avoid the Springfield Road area of the city.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson and Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin have spoken over the phone and called for a calming of tensions.\n\nThe US has also appealed for calm, with the White House saying it was concerned by the violence.\n\nStones and fireworks were among the objects thrown\n\nPolice had warned people to \"disperse immediately or the water cannon will be used\"\n\nNorthern Ireland Justice Minister Naomi Long said it was \"utterly reckless and depressing to see more violence at interface areas\" on Thursday night.\n\n\"Violence achieves nothing. It brings fear and worry to the doors of local residents who deserve so much better. This needs to stop,\" she said.\n\nIn a tweet, the Alliance Party leader said that the violence \"needs to stop before lives are lost\".\n\n\"My heart goes out to those living in the area who are living with this fear and disturbance,\" added Mrs Long.\n\nThe Green Party has called for a special meeting of Belfast City Council to discuss \"the serious violence which has occurred in our city over recent days\".\n\nMeanwhile, Ulster Unionist Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) Doug Beattie said that \"the sad thing is that we will all just become immune to this disgraceful, shameful behaviour\".\n\nHe added that \"the momentum will be hard to stop if we don't stop it now\".\n\nA heavy police presence was in operation on Thursday night\n\nColum Eastwood MP, leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), said: \"This needs to stop now. There is absolutely no justification for destroying your community. Violence has never solved anything. Go home.\"\n\nEarlier, Mary Lou McDonald, president of Sinn Féin, urged young people \"to please leave the area and for parents to contact their children\".\n\n\"There can be no repeat of last night's event, the people of our community deserve better.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kelly Bonner This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDuring several hours of violence on Wednesday night, police officers were attacked, petrol bombs were thrown and a bus was burnt.\n\nIn recent days, more than 50 police officers have been injured.\n\nOn Thursday an emergency meeting of the Northern Ireland Assembly was held to discuss the ongoing disorder.\n\nNorthern Ireland's executive has said it is \"united behind law and order\" after consecutive nights of \"deplorable\" violence.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Maria McCann This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn Thursday evening, a spokesperson for US President Joe Biden called for calm.\n\n\"We are concerned by the violence in Northern Ireland and we join the British, Irish and Northern Irish leaders in their calls for calm,\" said press secretary Jen Psaki.\n\n\"We remain steadfast supporters of a secure and prosperous Northern Ireland in which all communities have a voice and enjoy the gains of the hard-won peace.\n\n\"We welcome the provisions in both the EU and UK trade and co-operation agreement and the Northern Ireland Protocol which helped protect the gains of the Belfast, Good Friday Agreement.\"\n\nPetrol bombs and police officers attacked in west Belfast on Wednesday night\n\nEarlier, Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Micheál Martin confirmed that he had spoken with Prime Minister Boris Johnson about the ongoing violence.\n\n\"The way forward is through dialogue and working the institutions of the Good Friday Agreement,\" Mr Martin said in a statement.\n\nDid you witness the violence? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Sir Richard Sutton and his family's wealth was valued at £301m in the 2020 Sunday Times Rich List\n\nA man arrested on suspicion of murder after one of the UK's richest men was found stabbed to death remains in hospital with injuries, police said.\n\nSir Richard Sutton, 83, was pronounced dead at his mansion near Gillingham, Dorset, at 21:15 BST on Wednesday.\n\nA woman, in her 60s and believed to be his wife, was also stabbed and remains in a critical condition.\n\nSir Richard and his family's wealth was valued at £301m in the 2020 Sunday Times Rich List.\n\nDorset Police said a 34-year-old man who was arrested following the stabbing was continuing to receive hospital treatment for injuries that are not believed to be life-threatening.\n\nThe suspect, from Gillingham, and the victims were known to each other. He was arrested after being stopped in a vehicle in Hammersmith, London, and was taken to hospital.\n\nA cordon remains in place at Sir Richard's Dorset property and police have appealed for information.\n\nDorset Police said the victim and the arrested man were known to each other\n\nSir Richard, who was number 435 in last year's Sunday Times Rich List, owned several top hotels and had a large property and farming portfolio.\n\nHe owned the freehold of the Sheraton Grand London Park Lane and the Athenaeum Hotel in Mayfair.\n\nA statement from the businessman's company, Sir Richard Sutton Limited, said staff were \"deeply saddened and devastated by the sudden death\".\n\n\"Sir Richard was a caring, generous and warm family man, who genuinely regarded those who worked for him as part of his extended family,\" it said.\n\nA police cordon is still in place at the country estate in Gillingham\n\nNorth Dorset Conservative MP Simon Hoare, who was a friend of Sir Richard, said he had received a briefing from Dorset Police and described the death as \"deeply awful\".\n\nHe said: \"He was a charming man, he had a very good sense of humour, he was politically astute and genial.\n\n\"It is a huge loss for his family in what is clearly deeply awful circumstances.\"\n\nDorset Police said it received a report at 19:30 on Wednesday raising concerns about the welfare of the occupants of an address in Higher Langham.\n\nDet Insp Simon Huxter, of Dorset Police's Major Crime Investigation Team (MCIT), said the force is appealing for anyone to come forward who saw or heard anything suspicious.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n• None One of UK's richest men stabbed to death\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The ancient city was found near some of Egypt's best-known monuments\n\nThe discovery of a 3,000-year-old city that was lost to the sands of Egypt has been hailed as one of the most important archaeological finds since Tutankhamun's tomb.\n\nFamed Egyptologist Zahi Hawass announced the discovery of the \"lost golden city\" near Luxor on Thursday.\n\nHe said the find was the largest ancient city, known as Aten, ever uncovered in Egypt.\n\nIt was unearthed within weeks of the excavation starting in September 2020.\n\nThe city dates to the reign of Amenhotep III, one of Egypt's most powerful pharaohs, who ruled from 1391 to 1353 BC.\n\nThe city continued to be used by pharaohs Ay and Tutankhamun, whose nearly intact tomb was discovered in the Valley of the Kings by British archaeologist Howard Carter in 1922.\n\n\"The discovery of this lost city is the second most important archaeological discovery since the tomb of Tutankhamun,\" Betsy Brian, professor of Egyptology at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, US, said.\n\nShe said the city would \"give us a rare glimpse into the life of the ancient Egyptians\" at the time when the empire was at its wealthiest.\n\nPrecious artefacts were found on the site, near the Valley of the Kings\n\nThe city is believed to have been founded by Amenhotep III, one of ancient Egypt's most powerful rulers\n\nThe dig revealed a large number of valuable archaeological finds, such as jewellery, coloured pottery, scarab beetle amulets and mud bricks bearing seals of Amenhotep III.\n\nThe team began excavations on the west bank of Luxor near the Valley of the Kings, some 500 km (300 miles) south of the capital Cairo.\n\n\"Within weeks, to the team's great surprise, formations of mud bricks began to appear in all directions,\" Dr Hawass said in his statement.\n\n\"What they unearthed was the site of a large city in a good condition of preservation, with almost complete walls, and with rooms filled with tools of daily life.\"\n\nDr Hawass, pictured here looking at the sarcophagus of Tutankhamun, is a former antiquities minister\n\nNow, seven months after the dig started, several areas or neighbourhoods have been uncovered, including a bakery, an administrative district and a residential area.\n\n\"Many foreign missions searched for this city and never found it,\" said Dr Hawass, a former antiquities minister.\n\nHe said further archaeological work was under way at the site and his team \"expects to uncover untouched tombs filled with treasures\".\n\nThe archaeologists found a large number of decorative and ritual items, including scarabs and amulets\n\nEgypt is seeking to promote its ancient heritage to revive its tourism sector, which has been flagging after years of political turbulence and disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nLast week, Egypt carried the remains of their country's ancient rulers through Cairo in a historic procession.\n\nThe lavish spectacle saw 22 mummies - 18 kings and four queens - transported from the neo-classical Egyptian Museum to the new National Museum of Egyptian Civilisation about 5 km away.\n\nAmenhotep III and his wife Queen Tiye were among the mummies transferred to the new resting place.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch as 18 kings and four queens were carefully moved to a new museum in Cairo in a dazzling parade", "US rapper and actor DMX has died at the age of 50, five days after suffering a heart attack.\n\nThe performer, whose real name was Earl Simmons, had been placed on life support and died with his family by his side.\n\nIn a statement, his family said he was \"a warrior who fought till the very end\".\n\n\"Earl's music inspired countless fans across the world and his iconic legacy will live on forever,\" they said.\n\nDMX, aka Dark Man X, was a leading hip-hop performer who collaborated with such artists as JAY-Z, Ja Rule and LL Cool J.\n\nHe took his moniker from the name of a drum machine used in rap tracks.\n\nThe chart-topping artist's songs included Party Up (Up in Here) and X Gon' Give It To Ya.\n\nHe also acted on screen, appearing in such films as Cradle 2 the Grave, Romeo Must Die and Exit Wounds.\n\nThe rapper was remembered as a man who \"loved his family with all of his heart\"\n\nBorn in Mount Vernon, New York in 1970, DMX publicly battled substance abuse for years and spent several periods in rehab.\n\nA father of 15, he served jail sentences on charges including animal cruelty, reckless driving, drug possession and weapons possession.\n\nAccording to his family, DMX died on Friday at White Plains Hospital in White Plains, New York.\n\n\"He loved his family with all of his heart and we cherish the times we spent with him,\" their statement continued.\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\"We appreciate all of the love and support during this incredibly difficult time.\n\n\"Please respect our privacy as we grieve the loss of our brother, father, uncle and the man the world knew as DMX.\"\n\nHis manager Steve Rifkind also paid his respects, writing on Instagram: \"The team is going to finish what we started and your legacy will never go away.\n\nTributes were paid throughout Friday, with a host of stars expressing their admiration for the musician and offering sympathies to his family.\n\n\"His gift meant so much to so many,\" tweeted actress Halle Berry.\n\nRappers Ice Cube, Soulja Boy and Chance the Rapper also tweeted their condolences.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ice Cube This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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\"RIP DMX. I pray for the comfort of your children and loved ones,\" the Oscar-winning actress Viola Davis wrote on Twitter.\n\n\"You TOUCHED so many through your MUSIC\", the American rapper and singer Missy Elliott said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Missy Elliott This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOther musicians, including Burna Boy, Chance the Rapper and Charlie Puth, also shared tributes to the artist, along with basketball stars LeBron James and Shaquille O'Neal.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 LeBron James This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCongressman Jamaal Bowman, who represents the rapper's home town in New York, tweeted that he was \"sending love, strength, and healing to DMX's family\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Twelve months later, the prince had appeared to be in good health when he accompanied the Queen on the royal barge, the Spirit of Chartwell, which formed part of the rain-drenched Diamond Jubilee river pageant on 3 June 2012. He and the Queen stood for most of the 80-minute journey, as they were accompanied by 1,000 boats travelling seven miles down the River Thames to Tower Bridge. However, the duke was admitted to hospital with a bladder infection before the Diamond Jubilee concert on 4 June.", "Buckingham Palace announced the death of Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth II's husband, at Windsor Castle on Friday.\n\nThe duke, aged 99, was the longest-serving consort in British history.\n\nHe had returned to Windsor Castle on 16 March after spending a month in hospital.\n\nHere are pictures from the day of the announcement.\n\nIn a statement shortly after midday, the palace said: \"His Royal Highness passed away peacefully this morning at Windsor Castle.\"\n\nA notice was posted on the gates of Buckingham Palace following the announcement.\n\nThe flag at Buckingham Palace was lowered to half-mast.\n\nPeople placed flowers outside the palace with messages of condolence.\n\nThe government urged the public not to gather or leave tributes at royal residences amid the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe Royal Family has asked people to consider making a donation to a charity instead of leaving flowers in memory of the duke.\n\nAn online book of condolence has been launched on the official Royal Family website for those who wish to send messages.\n\nIn further tribute to the duke, Westminster Abbey rang its tenor bell once every 60 seconds, 99 times, from 18:00 BST on Friday evening.\n\nFlowers were also placed outside Windsor Castle, where the duke spent his last weeks after being discharged from hospital.\n\nIn Edinburgh, the flag at the Palace of Holyroodhouse was lowered to half-mast, as flowers began to be placed outside.\n\nA notice announcing the death of Prince Philip was attached to the gates.\n\nRacegoers and riders observed a two-minute silence for Prince Philip at Aintree Racecourse in Liverpool.\n\nPlayers and staff at Lord's Cricket Ground in London also held a two-minute silence, with flags lowered to half-mast.\n\nIn London, a tribute was displayed on the screen at Piccadilly Circus.\n\nThe palace said further announcements would be made \"in due course\".\n\nAll pictures are subject to copyright.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PM Boris Johnson: \"We remember the duke... above all for his steadfast support for Her Majesty the Queen\"\n\nPoliticians across the UK were united in mourning after the announcement of the Duke of Edinburgh's death, aged 99.\n\nBoris Johnson led the tributes from the steps of Downing Street, praising Prince Philip's \"extraordinary life\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the UK had \"lost an extraordinary public servant\", while Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon sent her condolences to the Royal Family.\n\nParties have suspended their election campaigning as a mark of respect.\n\nElections are due to take place for the Scottish and Welsh parliaments, English councils, city mayors and police and crime commissioners on Thursday, 6 May.\n\nEarlier, cabinet ministers met to pay tribute to the duke, who had known 16 prime ministers during his time by the Queen's side.\n\nA statement released after the virtual meeting said they had \"shared recollections of meeting Prince Philip and praised his work, including as an environmentalist and for the Duke of Edinburgh's Award\".\n\nParliament will return a day early from recess on Monday so MPs can share their condolences in the Commons - led by the prime minister and Sir Keir.\n\nPeers - who were due to return to the House of Lords on Monday - will also start their proceedings with a humble address of condolence to the Queen.\n\nThe Scottish Parliament, the Northern Ireland Assembly and the Welsh Senedd will also be recalled on Monday for tributes.\n\nThe Speaker of the House of Commons, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, told the BBC Prince Philip was a \"magnificent man\" and an \"institution\".\n\nIn a statement, he added: \"Today we must pause to honour him and to offer our sincerest thanks for the prince's devout faithfulness to our country - and all the nations shall miss him greatly.\"\n\nThe death of Prince Philip, who was married to the Queen for more than 70 years, was announced by Buckingham Palace on Friday.\n\nThe statement said he had \"passed away peacefully this morning at Windsor Castle\".\n\nThe government has issued guidance for all official flags on all UK government buildings, including the union jack, to be flown at half-mast in tribute to the duke until 08:00 BST on the day following his funeral.\n\nGiving a speech outside No 10, Mr Johnson said the duke had \"earned the affection of generations here in the United Kingdom, across the Commonwealth and around the world\".\n\nThe prime minister praised Prince Philip's service and \"bravery\" in World War Two, as well as his contributions after - from being a \"champion of the natural world\" through to having \"shaped and inspired the lives of countless young people\" through the Duke of Edinburgh award.\n\n\"We remember the duke for all of this and above all for his steadfast support for Her Majesty the Queen,\" he added.\n\n\"We offer our condolences to her and to all her family and we give thanks, as a nation and a kingdom, for the extraordinary life and work of Prince Philip.\"\n\nThe union jack flying over the Houses of Parliament was lowered to half-mast on Friday as a mark of respect\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the Duke of Edinburgh had \"dedicated his life to our country\", but he would be \"remembered most of all for his extraordinary commitment and devotion to the Queen\".\n\nIn a statement, Sir Keir said it had been \"a partnership that inspired millions in Britain and beyond\".\n\nHe added: \"Their marriage has been a symbol of strength, stability and hope, even as the world around them changed - most recently during the pandemic.\n\n\"My thoughts are with the Queen, the Royal Family and the British people as our nation comes together to mourn and remember the life of Prince Philip.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer: \"The UK has lost an extraordinary public servant in Prince Philip\"\n\nOther political leaders also paid their respects to the duke - including the SNP's Nicola Sturgeon, who said she was \"saddened by the news\".\n\nShe added: \"I send my personal and deepest condolences - and those of [the Scottish government] and the people of Scotland - to Her Majesty the Queen and her family.\"\n\nNorthern Ireland's First Minister Arlene Foster offered her \"deepest sympathies\" to the Royal Family, while Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill extended her \"sincere condolences\".\n\nWelsh First Minister Mark Drakeford said Prince Philip had \"served the crown with selfless devotion and will be sorely missed by the people of Wales and the many organisations he supported\".\n\nThe leader of the Liberal Democrats, Sir Ed Davey, said the duke was \"a much-loved husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather\", adding: \"We will always be grateful for his amazing service.\"\n\nFormer leaders also expressed their sadness at the death of the Duke of Edinburgh.\n\nTheresa May, who stood down as prime minister in 2019, said her \"thoughts and prayers\" were with the Queen and her family.\n\nShe told the BBC that Prince Philip had \"a dry sense of humour\" and was \"a man of so many different interests\", adding: \"I will remember him... as somebody who put those talents to the committed and selfless service of the Queen and her country.\"\n\nHer predecessor and fellow Conservative, David Cameron, called it \"desperately sad news\", adding: \"It was an honour and a privilege as prime minister to see up close what a powerful advocate the duke was for the causes he believed in.\"\n\nPrince Philip met many prime ministers in his time - pictured here with David Cameron and Theresa May in 2014\n\nFormer Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown said he was \"personally fortunate to benefit from the duke's wisdom on many occasions\", adding that his \"commitment to the United Kingdom and to the Commonwealth will never be forgotten\".\n\nAnd his predecessor in No 10, former Labour PM Tony Blair, said Prince Philip was \"a man of foresight, determination and courage\" who was \"often way ahead of his time\", on issues such as the environment and \"reconciliation between religious faiths\".\n\nFormer Conservative PM Sir John Major also released a statement, saying: \"Modest to the core, and hating any kind of fuss or bother, [Prince Philip] epitomised the British spirit and remained true to himself right up to the very end.\"", "Pope Francis told a climate summit in December: \"Let us not rob future generations of the hope for a better future\"\n\nScotland's Catholic bishops say they would \"warmly welcome\" a visit from Pope Francis to the COP26 summit.\n\nIt follows claims in The Times that the pontiff was \"considering\" attending the UN climate conference, due to be held in Glasgow in November.\n\nPope Francis has said it is time to \"change course\" on the environment and has committed the Vatican to reaching net zero emissions by 2050.\n\nIf agreed, it would be the first Papal visit to Scotland since 2010.\n\nIn a statement the Bishops' Conference of Scotland, which represents the country's eight dioceses, said: \"While the decision on whether or not the Pope attends the UN climate summit in Glasgow will be a matter entirely for the Holy See, Scotland's Catholic bishops would warmly welcome his presence, however briefly, in this country.\"\n\nThe COP26 UN summit was originally due to take place in November last year but was postponed due to the Covid pandemic.\n\nIt will now be held at the Scottish Events Campus in Glasgow from November 1-12.\n\nThe Scottish Events Campus in Glasgow will host the COP26 conference in November\n\nThe climate talks are expected to bring together the largest gathering of heads of state ever hosted in the UK.\n\nAny visit by the Pope would be the first since Pope Benedict XVI's visit in 2010 when about 70,000 people attended an open-air Mass in Glasgow's Bellahouston Park.\n\nThe same venue also hosted the late John Paul II during the previous Papal Visit in 1982.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Covid-19 has caused longterm lung damage in many patients (file image from the Jacques Cartier hospital in France)\n\nA woman in Japan has become the world's first Covid patient to receive a living donor lung transplant.\n\nThe patient received lung segments from her son and husband after her organs failed because of damage caused by the coronavirus.\n\nDoctors in Kyoto hope she will make a complete recovery within months.\n\nWaiting lists for full lung transplants - where the organ is provided by donors who have died - are very long in Japan and elsewhere.\n\nThe procedure at Kyoto University Hospital took around 11 hours to perform. Both donors and patient are in a stable condition, doctors said.\n\nDozens of lung transplants to treat coronavirus infections have been carried out in China, Europe and the United States by using the lungs of organ donors who have passed away, but the waiting list can be years-long in Japan, the hospital said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Radiologist Dr Sam Hare uses a plastic cup to demonstrate how Covid-19 can leave lung damage\n\nWhen it became clear that the patient - who had no underlying health conditions - would need a lung transplant in order to survive, her son and husband decided to donate part of their lungs. They were warned of health risks due to decreased lung capacity.\n\nProfessor Hiroshi Date, a thoracic surgeon who was in charge of the operation, told Kyodo News: \"I think there is a lot of hope for this treatment in the sense that it creates a new option.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chris Gentile said his coach company is one of many choosing to delay foreign trips\n\nSome coach companies have said they will not run international trips this year, even if lockdown rules change to allow it.\n\nVoel Coaches, based in Denbighshire, normally offers them but said it had already decided to cancel.\n\nIt said other coach operators across the UK it had spoken to were making the same decision.\n\nUnder current lockdown restrictions it is illegal to travel abroad from anywhere in the UK for a holiday.\n\nThere is currently no date for when people in Wales will be able to travel abroad for leisure.\n\nThe Denbighshire-based company does not plan to run trips abroad until 2022\n\nVoel has a fleet of 38 coaches and during the summer season around half of the holidays it offers would involve trips abroad.\n\nMarketing manager Chris Gentile said: \"No matter what happens at this time, we will not be changing our mind\" and that \"if the government had been very clear, in their guidance, from day one, things could have been different\".\n\nHe said that if the company did take customers overseas and there were rule changes, then it \"would open us up to some great risks\" having to get a coach full of passengers back to Wales.\n\nWhen Covid first hit last year one of its coaches was in Spain and \"had literally hours to get across the border\", he said.\n\nHe said he had been in contact with a number of other coach tour operators throughout the UK and many of them had made a similar decision not to run foreign holidays this year because \"there's too much of a risk\".\n\n\"We're an industry that's been affected really bad and I don't think the risks really add up to even attempting that - I don't think it's the right thing to do.\"\n\nMr Gentile said it would be March next year before the company looked at offering holidays overseas again, which means it will also be missing out on taking passengers abroad for the next ski season.\n\nAnn Jones says Covid restrictions may bring younger people back to traditional travel agents\n\nOne travel agent said many people were being cautious when it comes to booking holidays abroad in the summer months.\n\nAnn Jones from Teithiau Menai Travel in Caernarfon said booking inquiries had been \"fluctuating\" in recent months and many customers were looking beyond this summer for a trip abroad.\n\nShe said she had been rescheduling holidays \"sometimes for a third time\" and it was \"very complicated\" because of uncertainty caused by Covid restrictions.\n\n\"It's a lot of hard work and especially when you have no income coming in for it because we in travel don't get a penny for working until people actually go on their holidays,\" she said.\n\nBut she believed the complications involved in trying to arrange overseas travel could be a boost to bring customers back to traditional travel agents - particularly for younger people who would normally book online.\n\n\"They've found that they haven't been able to contact anyone, speak to anyone, talk about the refunds or moving their holidays,\" she said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Princess Elizabeth married her third cousin, the Duke of Edinburgh, in November 1947. It was, said Winston Churchill, a flash of colour in the grey post-war Britain.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"A heck of a guy\": US President Joe Biden, NZ PM Jacinda Ardern and other world leaders pay tribute to Prince Philip\n\nMonarchs, heads of state and prime ministers across the world have sent heartfelt tributes following the death of Prince Philip at the age of 99.\n\nEurope's royal households and Commonwealth leaders alike praised the Duke of Edinburgh's public service.\n\nJoe Biden described the duke as a \"heck of a guy\", and all living former US presidents also sent tributes.\n\nMeanwhile, commemorative church services and remembrance ceremonies are taking place on Sunday.\n\nAustralia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison attended a service at Sydney's St Andrews Cathedral which included prayers for the Royal Family and a naval hymn in honour of Prince Philip..\n\nHe earlier described the duke as \"a man who was steadfast, who could be relied upon, who always [stood] by his Queen\".\n\nSpecial church services - such as this one in Sydney - are taking place around the world on Sunday\n\n\"On Prince Philip's many visits to Australia, we have come to know him as a man of compassion and service, personal warmth, intellectual curiosity and generous spirit,\" Reverend Kanishka de Silva Raffel said at the service.\n\nIn neighbouring New Zealand, a ceremony took place on Sunday in the country's capital, Wellington, featuring a 41-gun salute.\n\nBarack Obama said Philip was a \"remarkable man... who helped provide steady leadership and guiding wisdom\"\n\nOn Saturday, Pope Francis paid tribute to the duke's \"devotion to his marriage and family\".\n\nThe leader of the Roman Catholic Church also noted the prince's \"commitment to the education and advancement of future generations\".\n\nThe spiritual leader of Tibet, the Dalai Lama, wrote to the Queen and Prince Charles, saying Prince Philip would be remembered for having lived a meaningful life.\n\nPresident Xi Jinping of China also sent his condolences.\n\nThe duke, whose death was announced by Buckingham Palace on Friday, accompanied the Queen during hundreds of overseas visits.\n\nPrince Philip had blood ties with a number of former or current European royal households, and many of their members sent condolences.\n\nThe telegram from King Felipe and Queen Letizia of Spain was particularly poignant, sending \"all our love and affection\" to Aunt Lilibet (the affectionate name used by the duke for his wife) and Dear Uncle Philip.\n\n\"We shall never forget the moments that we shared with him,\" they told the Queen.\n\nPrince Philip rides in a carriage with Spain's Queen Letizia in London in 2017\n\nSweden's King Carl Gustaf said the duke had been \"a great friend of our family for many years, a relation we have deeply valued\".\n\nSwedish royal family spokeswoman Margareta Thorgren told the BBC the king and the duke had sailed together in England, adding: \"That was the start of a great friendship between them.\"\n\nThe Dutch royal family said they remembered Prince Philip with great respect, adding: \"His lively personality made an indelible impression.\"\n\nBelgium's King Philippe said he and Queen Mathilde would \"always cherish the memories of our warm encounters\".\n\nTributes came in too from the Commonwealth - 54 nations, most with roots in the British Empire and home to 2.4 billion people.\n\nAustralian flags were flown at half-mast on the Sydney Harbour Bridge in tribute to the duke\n\nFlags were lowered to half-mast at Australia's Parliament House in Canberra, where a 41-gun salute took place on Saturday, and at the Sydney Harbour Bridge, where in 1954 Prince Philip arrived alongside the newly crowned Queen Elizabeth on the first visit by a reigning monarch to the country.\n\nNew Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern noted that thousands of young people had \"completed life-changing challenges\" through the duke's Hillary Award.\n\nA 41-gun salute is fired to commemorate the death of Prince Philip at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia\n\nCanada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the duke had \"contributed so much to the social fabric of our country - and the world\".\n\nPakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan said Philip had been a \"wise leader\" and his \"role in promoting Pakistan-UK relations will always be remembered\".\n\nAnd Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was another to praise a lifetime of dedication to \"many community service initiatives\".\n\nKenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta said the duke had been a \"towering symbol of family values and the unity of the British people as well as the entire global community\".\n\nOther warm condolences from Africa included Zimbabwe - which has had a rocky relationship with the UK and is no longer in the Commonwealth - and the president of Tanzania, which only recently lost its leader John Pombe Magufuli amid Covid-19 rumours.\n\nOther tributes came from nations deeply linked to the duke and his family.\n\nMalta's Prime Minister Robert Abela wrote: \"Truly saddened by the loss of Prince Philip, who made Malta his home and returned here so often. Our people will always treasure his memory.\"\n\nPhilip and Elizabeth spent two idyllic years on Malta, where he was stationed in the Navy, before King George VI died in 1952.\n\nIsrael's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the duke had been \"the consummate public servant\" and would be much missed.\n\nThe duke's mother, Princess Alice of Battenberg, who died in 1969, is buried at the Church of Mary Magdalene in Jerusalem.\n\nThe Duke of Edinburgh with his mother Princess Alice Of Battenberg\n\nThe Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, sent his \"sincere condolences and sympathies\" to the Queen, the Royal Family and the British people.\n\nIn a personal tribute, Barack Obama, one of the 18 US presidents in the duke's lifetime, said Philip had immediately put him and Michelle at ease, and that he was \"kind and warm, with a sharp wit and unfailing good humour\".\n\nDonald Trump said Prince Philip had \"defined British dignity and grace. He personified the quiet reserve, stern fortitude and unbending integrity of the United Kingdom...\"\n\nIn a telegram to the Queen, Russian President Vladimir Putin said the duke had \"rightfully enjoyed respect\" both at home and internationally.\n\nAnd Chancellor Angela Merkel said the duke's \"friendship with Germany, his straightforward nature and his sense of duty\" would be remembered.\n\nFrance's Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian called the duke a man of \"great style\", saying: \"France joins in the sorrow of its friends across the Channel and salutes the life of a man who was a witness to a century of trials and hopes for our continent.\"\n\nItalian President Sergio Mattarella said he would \"cherish\" the memories of Prince Philip's \"deep admiration for Italy's artistic and cultural heritage\". He said the duke had accompanied the\" evolution of his country with an open and innovative spirit\".\n\nIrish President Michael D Higgins praised Prince Philip's ability to bring \"an air of informality to otherwise formal occasions\".\n\n\"His distinctive presence and unique sense of humour put participants at ease and always engaged those who encountered him,\" he said.\n\nEuropean Commission President Ursula von der Leyen expressed her sympathy to the royal family and \"the people of the United Kingdom on this very sad day\".", "His Royal Highness Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, lived most of his long life in the public eye.\n\nBorn a European prince, he became the husband and vital support to one of the most famous women in the world.\n\nIn the process he carved a leading role of his own in Britain and the world.", "Matt Smith (L) and Tobias Menzies (R) both played Prince Philip in The Crown\n\nThat, according to actor Matt Smith, was apparently the Duke of Edinburgh's terse response when asked whether he had ever watched The Crown.\n\nSmith relayed the anecdote during a 2017 interview with the Guardian, as he reflected on his time playing the duke in the hugely successful Netflix drama.\n\nThe series portrays the inner life of Britain's modern-day Royal Family, from the abdication of Edward VIII in 1936 to the break-up of Prince Charles's marriage to Diana, Princess of Wales, in the early 1990s. The drama is set to continue in a new season in 2022.\n\nClaire Foy and Matt Smith as the royal couple in their early years\n\nIt has been showered with praise for its lavish sets, immense budget, compelling script and accomplished cast, and the awards have followed. More controversial though has been its relationship with the truth.\n\nThe royals are notoriously guarded about their private lives.\n\nEven the duke's supposed stinging rebuke when asked whether he had watched the series is a matter of debate.\n\n\"Whether it's true or not, I don't know, but I just think he's a bit of a cool cat,\" said Smith, after relating the second-hand anecdote.\n\n\"And that's what I love about him: he's done what he wants, when he wants, how he wants, with whom he wants. He hasn't asked permission. And his wife's the Queen.\"\n\nThe former Doctor Who star played the dashing, young Philip Mountbatten, who wooed Princess Elizabeth and became her royal consort.\n\nYet there were, in reality, limits to how much the duke really did what he wanted. Smith's portrayal of Philip takes in many of the compromises the prince was forced to make - giving up his title as Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, resigning his career in the navy and, ultimately, swearing allegiance to the Queen.\n\nWhen Elizabeth was crowned in 1953, Philip is depicted in the show asking her if he can be excused from kneeling to pay homage to her during the ceremony.\n\nPrince Philip (Matt Smith) knelt before the Queen (Claire Foy) during her 1953 coronation\n\nSo what did his role teach Smith about the man himself?\n\n\"In this day and age, with all the conversations we're having about being a man and maleness, and what it is to be empowered and respected as a woman - I just found that thrilling,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs.\n\n\"And also, I kind of sided with him, which is controversial. I felt, 'Yeah, I wouldn't really want to kneel to my wife'.\"\n\nHis enthusiasm for the character continued into season two when Smith said he saw the duke as a \"roguish, brilliant man\", adding: \"I just found a lot to celebrate in Philip.\"\n\nThe actor, who was Emmy-nominated in 2018 for playing the role, told Variety that year: \"I sort of loved Philip, and there was a lot that I could identify with: the competitiveness, the sporting nature, the battle, the defiance and the maleness.\n\n\"One of the interesting challenges for me was that I felt there was a sort of a misconception and a preconception about him, which reduced him a bit.\n\n\"And actually all the research I did found him to be brilliantly funny, very clever, very popular. In the royal house he's the most popular of all of them. If you've talked to any of the staff, Philip's the one they all love really. I think more than a lot of them, he's a bit more of a man of the people.\"\n\nSmith was no less complimentary when reacting to news of the duke's death. \"Prince Philip was the man. And he knew it. 99 and out, but what an innings. And what style,\" he said. \"Thank you for your service old chap - it won't be the same without you.\"\n\nSmith portrayed just a few of Prince Philip's 22,219 royal engagements\n\nThe role of Philip was passed to Tobias Menzies in season three, when the middle-aged duke played opposite Olivia Colman. Speaking in the immediate aftermath of the duke's death on Friday, Menzies was the essence of modesty.\n\n\"If I know anything about the Duke of Edinburgh I'm fairly sure he wouldn't want some actor who has portrayed him on television giving their opinion on his life,\" he said, going on to quote the character of Orlando in Shakespeare's As You Like It.\n\n\"O good old man! how well in thee appears\n\n\"The constant service of the antique world...\"\n\nTobias Menzies and Olivia Colman play an older version of the royal couple\n\nBut some time before that, Menzies, who bleached his eyebrows for the role of the duke, was asked by the LA Times if he knew whether Prince Philip had watched his portrayal.\n\n\"'The crown doesn't comment.' I think that's the motto,\" he replied.\n\nHe played the prince in seasons three and four, covering 1964 to 1990, and said that by this stage in his life, he \"has acclimatised\" and \"seems to be chafing at the bit less... and seems to have found his feet\".\n\nThe Outlander actor told the New York Times that for Philip, season three was \"a continuation of themes in the first seasons: being second to his wife, sacrificing his own life and career to some extent\".\n\nMenzies told the LA Times it was a challenge playing the duke.\n\n\"They're quite guarded, both him and the Queen. Having watched a lot of footage of Philip and having read about him a lot, I find him quite a hard man to pin down. That makes him interesting to play.\"\n\nThe actor, who was nominated for a Golden Globe last year for his role in the show, told Screen Daily playing the royal was \"primarily a technical challenge... But it's a subtle thing to pitch - you don't want it to be pastiche or caricature\".\n\nEmma Corrin and Tobias Menzies playing Lady Diana Spencer and the duke during a stag hunt at Balmoral\n\nSeason four's storylines featuring Prince Philip include a depiction of the early relationship between Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer.\n\nThe show suggests Prince Philip and Diana shared an affinity with each other.\n\nSpeaking to Vanity Fair, Menzies said: \"Someone in production managed to get hold of copies of some letters between him and Diana.\n\n\"I was really struck by the kind of balanced, calm, quite tender kind of atmosphere to those letters. He clearly, behind the scenes, worked quite hard to mend that relationship. And if those letters are anything to go by, he does seem to have been a keen supporter of hers.\"\n\nJonathan Pryce will play the Duke of Edinburgh in the 1990s and early 2000s\n\nThe final actor to play Prince Philip in the series will be Oscar, Bafta and Golden Globe-nominated Jonathan Pryce, who starred in The Two Popes with Sir Anthony Hopkins in 2019.\n\nHe said playing the duke was a \"daunting prospect\" but added doing it with the Crown's creator Peter Morgan, along with Imelda Staunton playing the Queen, and Lesley Manville as Princess Margaret, would be \"a joy\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's announcement of the death of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh\n\nA statement issued by the palace just after midday spoke of the Queen's \"deep sorrow\" following his death at Windsor Castle on Friday morning.\n\nThe Duke of Edinburgh, the longest-serving royal consort in British history, was at the Queen's side for more than her six decades of reign.\n\nBoris Johnson said he \"inspired the lives of countless young people\".\n\n\"It is with deep sorrow that Her Majesty The Queen announces the death of her beloved husband,\" the Palace said.\n\n\"The Royal Family join with people around the world in mourning his loss.\"\n\nIt is understood that the Prince of Wales travelled from his home in Gloucestershire to visit his mother at Windsor Castle on Friday afternoon.\n\nSpeaking at Downing Street, the prime minister said that the duke had \"earned the affection of generations here in the United Kingdom, across the Commonwealth, and around the world\".\n\nMeanwhile, Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, said he \"consistently put the interests of others ahead of his own and, in so doing, provided an outstanding example of Christian service\".\n\nIn tribute to the duke, Westminster Abbey began tolling its tenor bell once every 60 seconds at 18:00 BST. It rang out 99 times to honour each year of his life.\n\nEarlier, the flag at Buckingham Palace was lowered to half-mast and a notice was posted on the gates to mark the duke's death.\n\nPeople placed floral tributes outside the palace, while hundreds visited Windsor Castle to pay their respects.\n\nHowever, the government urged the public not to gather or leave tributes at royal residences amid the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe Royal Family has asked people to consider making a donation to a charity instead of leaving flowers in memory of the duke, and an online book of condolence has been launched on the official royal website for those who wish to send messages.\n\nA message on the website of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's non-profit organisation Archewell paid tribute to the \"loving memory\" of the Duke of Edinburgh, saying: \"Thank you for your service... you will be greatly missed.\"\n\nFrom midday on Saturday, a 41-gun salute will take place for Prince Philip in cities including London, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast, as well as in Gibraltar and at sea from Royal Navy warships, the Ministry of Defence said. They will be broadcast online and on television for the public to watch from home.\n\nThe BBC's royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell said it was \"a moment of sadness\" for the country and \"most particularly, for the Queen losing her husband of 73 years - a bigger span of years than most of us can imagine\".\n\nHe said Prince Philip had made \"a huge contribution to the success of the Queen's reign\", describing the duke as \"utterly loyal in his belief in the importance of the role that the Queen was fulfilling - and in his duty to support her\".\n\n\"It was the importance of the solidity of that relationship, of their marriage, that was so crucial to the success of her reign,\" he added.\n\nMourners gathered outside Buckingham Palace following the announcement\n\nA bank of photographers and cameramen were lined up around the growing number of tributes at Buckingham Palace on Friday afternoon, said BBC News reporter Marie Jackson.\n\nRhea Varma, from Pimlico, pulled up to the gates on her bike to lay flowers and a note saying Rest in Peace Duke.\n\nShe said the news was \"super sad\". To her, the duke was \"the kind of stability that's so old-fashioned it's difficult to comprehend. He was a rock who brought integrity.\"\n\nAdam Wharton-Ward, 36, also arrived to leave lilies by the palace gates. He is visiting London from his home in France but was so moved by the news, he wanted to \"rally round\" for the Queen's sake.\n\n\"It's so sad. He's been with her for 73 years. If it wasn't for him who knows if she would have got through it,\" he said.\n\nThe duke's appeal, he added, was that he was \"almost normal with his gaffes\".\n\n\"Now that normality has gone,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe prince married Princess Elizabeth in 1947, five years before she became Queen.\n\nIn March, the duke left King Edward VII's hospital in central London after a month-long stay for treatment.\n\nHe was admitted on 16 February after feeling unwell, and later underwent a procedure for a pre-existing heart condition at another London hospital - St Bartholomew's.\n\nThis is a town that's seen many royal events over the years, both happy and sad.\n\nToday, it is one of quiet reflection.\n\nThe sun has been shining down on Windsor Castle this afternoon, but the mood outside is understandably sombre.\n\nAs locals heard of the duke's death they turned up to leave flowers outside the entrance.\n\nOne young boy, Oscar, came with his mother to lay flowers. He left a card which read: \"Your Majesty, so sorry about hearing about your amazing husband.\"\n\n\"It's really sad,\" another woman told us. \"I just wanted him to get to 100,\" she said.\n\nThe flag here hasn't been lowered to half-mast. That's because it's the Royal Standard which means the Queen is in residence. It's the one flag which remains at full mast.\n\nIt was here that the duke spent his last weeks after being discharged from hospital.\n\nInside the castle the Queen, now a widow, is in mourning for her husband who has always been by her side.\n\nPrince Philip's funeral will take place at St George's Chapel, Windsor - but the arrangements have been amended in light of the coronavirus pandemic, the College of Arms said in a statement.\n\nIt added that the funeral will not be a state funeral, and the duke will not lie in state.\n\nThe duke will, however, lie at rest in Windsor Castle ahead of a funeral, the College of Arms said, \"in line with custom and with His Royal Highness's wishes\".\n\nThe statement said: \"The funeral arrangements have been revised in view of the prevailing circumstances arising from the Covid-19 pandemic and it is regretfully requested that members of the public do not attempt to attend or participate in any of the events that make up the funeral.\"\n\nBuckingham Palace will confirm the detailed arrangements for the funeral on the Royal website, it added.\n\nAll UK government buildings have been told to fly an official flags at half-mast in tribute to the duke until 08:00 BST on the day after the funeral.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPrince Philip and the Queen had four children, eight grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.\n\nTheir first son, the Prince of Wales, Prince Charles, was born in 1948, followed by his sister, the Princess Royal, Princess Anne, in 1950, the Duke of York, Prince Andrew, in 1960 and the Earl of Wessex, Prince Edward, in 1964.\n\nPrince Philip was born on the Greek island of Corfu on 10 June 1921.\n\nHis father was Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark, a younger son of King George I of the Hellenes.\n\nHis mother, Princess Alice, was a daughter of Prince Louis of Battenberg and a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria.\n\nThe Duke of Edinburgh and the Queen celebrated their Diamond Wedding Anniversary on 20 November 2007\n\nPoliticians across the UK were united in mourning following the announcement of the duke's death.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the UK had \"lost an extraordinary public servant\", while Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said his \"long contribution to public life in Scotland will leave a profound mark on its people\".\n\nWales' First Minister Mark Drakeford said the duke \"served the crown with selfless devotion and generosity of spirit\".\n\nParliament will honour the duke on Monday, with the House of Commons sitting at 14:30 BST for tributes following his death.\n\nParties have also suspended their campaigning elections on 6 May, which will see voters head to the polls for council and mayoral positions in England, the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Parliament.\n\nMeanwhile, Commonwealth leaders led international reaction to the duke's death.\n\nAustralian Prime Minister Scott Morrison tweeted that the duke \"embodied a generation that we will never see again\", while Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau described Philip as a \"man of great purpose and conviction\".\n\nAnd Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi recalled the duke for his \"distinguished career in the military\" and work \"at the forefront of many community service initiatives\".\n\nUS President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden joined other world leaders in sending their \"deepest condolences\" to the Queen, the Royal Family and the people of the UK.\n\nIn a statement, they said the duke \"gladly dedicated himself to the people of the UK, the Commonwealth, and to his family\".\n\n\"His legacy will live on, not only through his family, but in all the charitable endeavours he shipped,\" it said.\n\nThe palace said further announcements would be made \"in due course\".", "The renewed tension in Northern Ireland could have far-reaching implications for the future of the United Kingdom - and post-Brexit relations with the EU.\n\nThe violence that has erupted this week on the streets of Belfast and other towns and cities in Northern Ireland has many causes.\n\nBut anger about post-Brexit trading rules that came into force in February is a factor.\n\nThe section of the Brexit deal known as the \"protocol\" was designed to protect the peace process by avoiding the need for checks on the border with Ireland.\n\nBut it also means that some European laws continue to apply in Northern Ireland.\n\nAnd that has reinforced long-held feelings among Unionists that they are being cut off from the rest of the UK - and that they've been misled by the UK government and that the EU is not listening.\n\nMuch of the focus in talks with Brussels on the UK's departure from the EU was on ensuring that trade from Northern Ireland to Great Britain could continue freely - to be \"unfettered\".\n\nThat's what Prime Minister Boris Johnson meant when, in the run up to the 2019 general election, he famously told traders they would have his permission to throw away any new paperwork.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"There will not be checks on goods going from NI to GB,\" Boris Johnson tells Conservative supporters\n\nIt also gave many the impression that trade in the other direction - from Great Britain to Northern Ireland - would be just as smooth. This was despite warnings from the EU, and UK civil servants, that the new rules would inevitably lead to more friction.\n\nThe past few months have provided real-world examples as the Protocol kicked in:\n\nSome of the problems were temporary and have gone away. Others are on the way to being solved with workarounds, or with money or support schemes.\n\nSome have been booted into the long grass, with \"grace periods\" before the rules are fully applied.\n\nOne European diplomat, who helped to write the Brexit deal, told me it was unlikely that any of these issues had inspired teenagers to throw missiles at the police this week.\n\nBut each one is a reminder that Northern Ireland is being treated differently from the rest of the UK because of a treaty agreed by the UK government.\n\nAnd the rhetoric of Unionist politicians suggests it is unlikely that the differences can ever be minimised in a way that satisfies them.\n\nThey would prefer the Protocol was suspended - which would be allowed if there was a serious threat to security or the economy - or permanently junked.\n\nThat will be the DUP's pitch at the elections for the Northern Ireland assembly next May.\n\nAnd again when Stormont votes on the continuation of the Protocol in 2024.\n\nWhich means the instability around the Brexit deal in Northern Ireland is likely to continue for years.\n\nAnd it could get even worse. I recently spoke to one of the UK's Brexit negotiators, who asked: How will Northern Irish Leave voters feel if the European Court of Justice is ever asked to rule on how the Protocol is being applied?\n\nBritish observers also fear that DUP leader Arlene Foster is being forced into increasingly extreme positions - by her own party and by voters demanding an even stronger brand of unionism.\n\nOne government advisor also suggested to me that Unionist leaders were whipping up their supporters, risking a \"self-fulfilling prophecy\" where politicians use inflammatory language, which winds up the public, which then demands an ever-tougher response.\n\nArlene Foster has called for an end to the violence\n\nThat makes it more difficult for the DUP to share power with Sinn Fein, which threatens devolved government and the peace process.\n\nIt also makes it harder for the Northern Irish government to build inspection posts at ports and other things it is meant to implement under the terms of the protocol, potentially undermining the Brexit deal itself.\n\nBoris Johnson is also under pressure from some of his own Conservative MPs, who are still pressing for alternative solutions to the Irish border issue, even though these solutions were rejected by the EU many times during the Brexit negotiations.\n\nThe British government accuses them of being deaf to the needs of Unionists and of putting the interests of those who care more about Northern Ireland's relationship with Ireland ahead of those who care about its relationship with Great Britain.\n\nUK ministers say the EU gave Unionists another reason to be upset by almost accidentally suspending the Protocol in January when it was designing a mechanism to screen exports of Coronavirus vaccines.\n\nThe EU quickly corrected its mistake and apologised. Officials in Brussels say privately that the problems in Northern Ireland are because the UK was not honest about the changes that were coming and acted too late to minimise their impact.\n\nThe biggest question of all is the degree to which the implementation of the Brexit deal affects the number of Northern Irish citizens saying they would like to be part of Ireland.\n\nBritish law compels the Northern Ireland Secretary to hold a referendum - a border poll - if there is evidence that a majority of the population wants reunification.\n\nOpinion polls suggest a small but growing minority in favour but the law is silent about what evidence should be considered or how a vote would work.\n\nThis potential break-up of the UK is why the technical details of the Brexit deal matter to politicians in London, Belfast, Dublin and Brussels.\n\nAnd to people on the streets in Newtownabbey, Carrickfergus, Ballymena and Londonderry.", "In public, Prince Philip always took second place\n\nHe outlived nearly everyone who knew him and might explain him.\n\nAnd so we have been left with a two-dimensional portrait of the duke; salt-tongued and short-tempered, a man who told off-colour jokes and made politically incorrect remarks, an eccentric great-uncle who'd been around forever and towards whom most people felt affection - but who rather too often embarrassed himself and others in company.\n\nWith his death will come reassessment. Because Prince Philip was an extraordinary man who lived an extraordinary life; a life intimately connected with the sweeping changes of our turbulent 20th Century, a life of fascinating contrast and contradiction, of service and some degree of solitude. A complex, clever, eternally restless man.\n\nHis mother and father met at the funeral of Queen Victoria in 1901. At a time when all but four of Europe's nations were monarchies, his relatives were scattered through European royalty. Some royal houses were swept away by World War One; but the world into which Philip was born was still one where monarchies were the norm. His grandfather was the King of Greece; his great-aunt Ella was murdered along with the Russian tsar, by the Bolsheviks, at Ekaterinberg; his mother was a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria.\n\nHis four older sisters would all marry Germans. While Philip fought for Britain in the Royal Navy, three of his sisters actively supported the Nazi cause; none would be invited to his wedding.\n\nWhen peace came, and with it eventual economic recovery, Philip would throw himself into the construction of a better Britain, urging the country to adopt scientific methods, embracing the ideas of industrial design, planning, education and training. A decade before Harold Wilson talked of the \"white heat of the technological revolution\", Philip was urging modernity on the nation in speeches and interviews. And as the country and the world became richer and consumed ever more, Philip warned of the impact on the environment, well before it was even vaguely fashionable.\n\nEighteen months after his birth, his family was in exile\n\nHis childhood quickly taught him the values of self-reliance\n\nHe was forged by the turmoil of his first decade and then moulded by his schooling. His early years were spent wandering, as his place of birth ejected him, his family disintegrated and he moved from country to country, none of them ever his own. When he was just a year old, he and his family were scooped up by a British destroyer from his home on the Greek island of Corfu after his father had been condemned to death. They were deposited in Italy. One of Philip's first international journeys was spent crawling around on the floor of the train from an Italian port city, \"the grubby child on the desolate train pulling out of the Brindisi night,\" as his sister Sophia later described it.\n\nIn Paris, he lived in a house borrowed from a relative; but it was not destined to become a home. In just one year, while he was at boarding school in Britain, the mental health of his mother, Princess Alice, deteriorated and she went into an asylum; his father, Prince Andrew, went off to Monte Carlo to live with his mistress; and his four sisters married and went to live in Germany. In the space of 10 years he had gone from a prince of Greece to a wandering, homeless, and virtually penniless boy with no-one to care for him.\n\n\"I don't think anybody thinks I had a father,\" he once said. Andrew would die during the war. Philip went to Monte Carlo to pick up his father's possessions after the Germans had been driven from France; there was almost nothing left, just a couple of clothes brushes and some cuff-links.\n\nBy the time he went to Gordonstoun, a private school on the north coast of Scotland, Philip was tough, independent and able to fend for himself; he'd had to be. Gordonstoun would channel those traits into the school's distinct philosophy of community service, teamwork, responsibility and respect for the individual. And it sparked one of the great passions of Philip's life - his love of the sea.\n\nPhilip adored the school as much as his son Charles would despise it. Not just because the stress it put on physical as well as mental excellence - he was a great sportsman. But because of its ethos, laid down by its founder Kurt Hahn, an exile from Nazi Germany.\n\nPrince Philip became one of the youngest first lieutenants in the Royal Navy\n\nBut he had to give up his career to support the Queen\n\nThe Duke of Edinburgh's children would not bear his name, Mountbatten\n\nThat ethos became a significant, perhaps the significant, part of the way that Philip believed life should be lived. It shines through the speeches he gave later in his life. \"The essence of freedom,\" he would say in Ghana in 1958, \"is discipline and self-control.\" The comforts of the post-war era, he told the British Schools Exploring Society a year earlier, may be important \"but it is much more important that the human spirit should not be stifled by easy living\". And two years before that, he spoke to the boys of Ipswich School of the moral as well as material imperatives of life, with the \"importance of the individual\" as the \"guiding principle of our society\".\n\nAnd at Gordonstoun was born one of the great contradictions of Philip's fascinating life. The importance of the individual was what in Kurt Hahn's eyes differentiated Britain and liberal democracies from the kind of totalitarian dictatorship that he had fled. Philip put that centrality of the individual, and individual agency - the ability we have as humans to make our own moral and ethical decisions - at the heart of his philosophy.\n\nAnd yet he was throughout his life, first in the navy and then in the many decades of life in the Palace, tightly bound by rules of tradition, of precedent, of command and hierarchy. He had little, if anything, in the way of agency. Did he say one thing and do another, as members of the Royal Family are often accused of? Or was his first choice - to serve - by necessity his last?\n\nThe navy ran deep in the Duke of Edinburgh's family. He is pictured sitting at the wheel of the nuclear-powered submarine HMS Churchill\n\nPrince Philip gave between 60 and 80 speeches every year, decade after decade, on topics that reflected his vast range of interests\n\nAt Dartmouth Naval College in 1939, the two great passions of his life would collide. He had learned to sail at Gordonstoun; he would learn to lead at Dartmouth. And his driving desire to achieve, and to win, would shine through. Despite entering the college far later than most other cadets, he would graduate top of his class in 1940. In further training at Portsmouth, he gained the top grade in four out of five sections of the exam. He became one of the youngest first lieutenants in the Royal Navy.\n\nThe navy ran deep in his family. His maternal grandfather had been the First Sea Lord, the commander of the Royal Navy; his uncle, \"Dickie\" Mountbatten, had command of a destroyer while Philip was in training. In war, he showed not only bravery but guile. It was his natural milieu. \"Prince Philip\", wrote Gordonstoun headmaster Kurt Hahn admiringly, \"will make his mark in any profession where he will have to prove himself in a trial of strength\".\n\nOthers had their reservations about the brilliant and ambitious young officer. In peace, once he had his own command, he drove his men hard, much too hard for some. \"If he had a fault, it was a tendency to intolerance,\" wrote one biographer. That kind of comment would recur. Contemporaries were more blunt. \"One of his crew,\" writes another biographer, \"said he would rather die than serve under him again.\"\n\nIn Dartmouth in 1939, as war became ever more certain, the navy was his destiny. He had fallen in love with the sea itself. \"It is an extraordinary master or mistress,\" he would say later, \"it has such extraordinary moods.\" But a rival to the sea would come.\n\nWhen King George VI toured the Naval College, accompanied by Philip's uncle, he brought with him his daughter, Princess Elizabeth. Philip was asked to look after her. He showed off to her, vaulting the nets of the tennis court in the grounds of the college. He was confident, outgoing, strikingly handsome, of royal blood if without a throne. She was beautiful, a little sheltered, a little serious, and very smitten by Philip.\n\nPrince Philip with his uncle, Earl Mountbatten, at the Royal Marines Barracks in 1965\n\nThe Queen, with one of the Royal corgis, chats with polo-playing Prince Philip at Windsor Great Park\n\nTheir engagement was announced in July 1947\n\nDid he know then that this was a collision of two great passions? That he could not have the sea and the beautiful young woman? For a time after their wedding in 1948, he did have both. As young newlyweds in Malta, he had what he so prized - command of a ship - and they had two idyllic years together. But the illness and then early death of King George VI brought it all to an end.\n\nHe knew what it meant, the moment he was told. Up in a lodge in Kenya, touring Africa, with Princess Elizabeth in place of the King, Philip was told first of the monarch's death. He looked, said his equerry Mike Parker, \"as if a tonne of bricks had fallen on him\". For some time he sat, slumped in a chair, a newspaper covering his head and chest. His princess had become the Queen. His world had changed irrevocably.\n\nFor someone who almost never displayed anything close to self-pity, and rarely spoke of his own emotions, he was by his own standards candid about the loss of his naval calling. \"There's never been 'if only',\" he said once, \"except perhaps that I regret not having been able to continue a career in the navy\". Those who knew the man and his passions are blunter. The former First Sea Lord, Admiral Lord West, says Philip did his duty; but of the end of his time in the navy he says, \"I know it was a huge loss to him. I know it.\"\n\nThat moment, when princess became Queen, revealed another great contradiction of Philip's life. He was born and brought up in a world almost entirely run by men. He was a rugged, physical man who was brought up and then worked in an entirely male environment. He celebrated masculinity, telling Mike Parker on the birth of his first son Charles, \"It takes a man to have a boy.\" But literally overnight, and for 65 years to follow, it became his life to support his wife, the Queen.\n\nHe would walk behind her. He would give up his job for her. He would apologise if he came into a room after her. At her coronation he knelt before her, his hands enclosed by hers, and swore to be her \"liege man of life and limb\". His children would not bear his name, Mountbatten. \"I'm nothing but a bloody amoeba,\" he exclaimed at that. But there was nothing to be done. She was the Queen. He was her husband.\n\nPrince Philip talked of the upending of circumstance little. \"Within the house,\" he said of the time before the Queen's accession, \"I suppose I naturally filled the principal position. People used to come and ask me what to do. In 1952 the whole thing changed very, very considerably.\"\n\nPrince Philip had hundreds of patronages and projects with a focus on youth, science, the outdoors and sport\n\nThe transition to life in the Palace was brutal. \"Philip,\" said his equerry, \"was constantly being squashed, snubbed, ticked off, rapped over the knuckles... I felt Philip did not have any friends or helpers.\" Philip may not have helped himself; one biographer writes that in the early years Palace staff felt he was \"difficult to deal with... prickly... arrogant... defensive\". He was looked upon with suspicion by some in the court, as something of an adventurer, as perhaps a fortune hunter. He had German blood, and this was just after the herculean effort of defeating Nazi Germany.\n\nIn response, Philip began what would become a lifetime of near-ceaseless activity; abroad he was at the side of the Queen on the long tours they undertook, sometimes breaking off to pursue interests particular to him - sporting, industrial or research. She nearly always travelled with him as her companion; but he also travelled alone. It was he, not she, that made the farewells to colonial possessions in the 1950s and 1960s.\n\nAt home there were patronages and projects, hundreds upon hundreds of them, with a focus on youth, science, the outdoors and sport. He played cricket, squash, polo; he swam, sailed, rowed and rode horses and carriage drove. He learnt to fly, and developed his own photographs.\n\nWithin the Palace he was a moderniser, striding the corridors, rootling around the cellars, trying to find out what everyone did. He took over the management of the estate at Sandringham and over the years significantly redeveloped it.\n\n\"He believes he has a creative mission,\" wrote an early biographer, \"to present the monarchy as a dynamic, involved and responsive institution that will address itself to some of the problems of contemporary British society.\"\n\nHe was young and very good looking; he smiled and joked and was at ease in front of the cameras. When he visited a boys' club in London in the late 1950s, a photo shows him with a broad smile on his face, looking crisp in a double-breasted pinstripe suit, his hair slicked back with brilliantine, surrounded by the upturned faces of boys and their mothers all shoving and trying to get close to him. There is more than a whiff of Beatlemania to the moment.\n\nIn his study on the first floor of Buckingham Palace, overlooking the gardens and Green Park, surrounded by thousands of books, with a model of his first command HMS Magpie to one side, he would research and write and type out his speeches. (In 1986 he would buy, always the moderniser, what he called a \"splendid gadget\" that he called \"a miniature word processor\".) He gave between 60 and 80 speeches every year, decade after decade, on topics that reflected his vast range of interests.\n\nOut of the speeches comes a picture of the man. For someone who sat through so much of it, he was clearly impatient with ceremony. \"A lot of time and energy,\" he told students and staff at the Chesterfield College of Technology, \"has been spent on arranging for you to listen to me to take a long time to declare open a building which everyone knows is open already.\"\n\nReflecting his dizzying range of interests, there was sometimes a touch of the gentleman-farmer to his thoughts - well-organised arguments that don't really go anywhere, a lot of anecdotal evidence (\"it seems to me...\") garnered from his extensive travels.\n\nDespite modernising instincts, he was a conservative, somewhat suspicious of the machinations of the big city. He spoke of \"urban dwellers\" and of the \"average citizen\" dumping rubbish from their car. He preferred practical solutions to highfalutin theory - \"The enterprise is doomed,\" he told the Commonwealth Conference on Industrial Relations, \"if it is allowed to enter the rarefied atmosphere of theory.\"\n\nHe was an environmentalist before anyone really knew what that was. He warned of the \"greedy and senseless exploitation of nature.\" And in 1982 he brought up a topic that now grips us, but back then was almost never spoken of, \"a hotly-debated issue directly attributable to the development of industry... the build-up of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere,\" which he referred to as the \"greenhouse effect\".\n\nHis relationship with his eldest son improved in later years\n\nAnd he constantly did himself down, shrugging as to why anyone should want to hear him speak: \"I have very little experience of self-government,\" he told one audience, \"I am one of the most governed people you could meet....\" His example of irrational behaviour? - \"making and listening to speeches on important occasions\". Or speaking before the Brussels Expo in 1958 - \"I feel I can claim to be an expert at going round exhibitions.\" He knew most speeches were a dull formality that had to be got through - and he was happy to let his audience have a laugh at his expense.\n\nIt is another contradiction in a life of them; that someone who cared so much about how we live our lives, about how to pursue a good and moral life, about how government and society might try to channel our instincts, should end up being popularly portrayed as a saloon-bar bore, his retirement from public life in 2017 accompanied by lists of his \"gaffes\", off-colour comments and salty jokes.\n\nThat he could be rude, startlingly so at times, there is no doubt. Part of it was impatience, that dynamo whirring away, the desire to get things done double-quick. Part of it may have been deafness, inherited from his almost wholly deaf mother. But part of it was just plain bad manners, a disregard for what others felt and a thoughtlessness that came from position and temperament.\n\nThere was for a long time a fair amount of barking and shouting at those who failed to please him, and not a lot of thanking those that did.\n\nLooking back down the decades, two great contrasts stand out. The first, that between a life led in the public eye, and a really quite private man. The boy shuttling between guardians and schools and countries quickly learnt to seal off his private side from public view. Inside the Palace it became his world view. Most of his biographers' personal queries were met with a shrug, as if to say \"I don't know why you are bothering\". He once said of his son Charles: \"He is a romantic, I am a pragmatist. And because I don't see things as a romantic would, I'm [perceived as] unfeeling.\" There can be little doubt that he was stung by the accusation. But his inner thoughts were not for public consumption.\n\nAnd the second great, related, contrast is that between the near unceasing whirl of his public life, and a degree of solitude in his private. Of course there was family, though all his sisters pre-deceased him. But few, if any, great friendships are recorded, a corollary of his private nature and the pattern of his many decades. \"Life,\" wrote one biographer, \"hasn't enabled him to build up friendships. He is going round the world at such a lick.\" And royalty is its own curious cage, repelling outsiders. \"What the royal family offers you is friendliness,\" said the late James Callaghan, prime minister in the 1970s, \"not friendship.\"\n\nMajor General Charles Stickland of the Royal Marines, of which for 64 years Philip was Captain General, tells of when the duke flew into an exercise in Norway. He was supposed to say a quick hello to the enlisted men and then have lunch with the commanding officer. Instead he \"asked two of the corporals to spoon food into his mess tin, sat on a Bergan [rucksack], told stories and chatted away with my troops when he was supposed to be having a posh lunch and then got back on the helicopter, having inspired a group of young men as to why it was great to be a Royal Marine\".\n\nIt was vintage Philip; no ceremony, hierarchy pushed to one side, the big group over the more intimate gathering.\n\nBecause of his desire for privacy, because of his position, and because nearly all who knew him best have gone, our understanding of him will always be incomplete. But that's also because of what kind of person he was, because of the contradictions and contrasts that emerged over the decades. \"A mercurial man like His Royal Highness,\" said the artist and architect Sir Hugh Casson, \"needs a loose fit portrait.\"\n\nHe was asked once what his life had been about (the sort of question that normally received an incredulous snort). Had it been about supporting the Queen? \"Absolutely, absolutely,\" he replied. He didn't see himself as a leader, though lead he could. And his own achievements he consistently played down. Accepting the Freedom of the City of London in 1948, he spoke for himself and for what he called other \"followers\", with trademark modesty. \"Our only distinction,\" he said, \"was that we did what we were told to do, to the very best of our ability, and kept on doing it.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Scotland's health secretary has said the government failed to properly understand the needs of social care during the pandemic.\n\nJeane Freeman said the right precautions had not been taken when elderly people were being discharged from hospital to care homes.\n\nMs Freeman told the BBC podcast, Political Thinking with Nick Robinson, that it had been a \"mistake\".\n\nThere have been more than 10,000 Covid-related deaths in Scotland.\n\nOf that number, a third occurred in care homes.\n\nIn the first wave of the pandemic, more than 1,300 elderly people were discharged from hospitals to care homes in Scotland before a testing regime was in place.\n\nThe Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said the Scottish government's mistakes had \"cost lives\".\n\nDr Donald MacAskill, of the care home industry body Scottish Care, said there had been so much emphasis on protecting the NHS in the early stages of the pandemic that not enough was done to protect those in social care.\n\nMs Freeman, who is retiring from Holyrood at next month's election, said: \"I think our failures were not understanding the social care sector well enough.\n\n\"So we didn't respond quickly enough to what was needed in our care homes, but also in social care in the community.\"\n\nJeane Freeman said the right precautions had not been taken\n\nMr Robinson put it to her that the UK's highest death rate in care homes was in Scotland after many people were sent into care homes from hospital with the virus.\n\nHe added: \"Thousands of words have been written about this but if there's one thing you think 'that's what we got wrong' - how would summarise it?\"\n\nMs Freeman replied: \"We wanted people who didn't need to stay in hospital any longer, because they'd been treated and they were clinically well, to be discharged as quickly as possible so we freed up those beds for Covid patients.\n\n\"Remember, the early predictions about the number of people going into hospital were terrifying actually.\n\n\"But we didn't take the right precautions to make sure that older people leaving hospital going into care homes were as safe as they could be and that was a mistake.\n\n\"Now, I might argue we couldn't do anything other than we did and all the rest of it. But it still created a real problem for those older people and for the others who lived in care homes and for the staff who worked in care homes.\"\n\nIn January, BBC Scotland revealed a special Crown Office unit set up to probe Covid-linked deaths is investigating cases at 474 care homes in Scotland.\n\nThe unit was set up in May last year to gather information on the circumstances of all deaths in care homes.\n\nProsecutors will eventually decide if the deaths should be the subject of a fatal accident inquiry or prosecution.\n\nBut care homes say the investigation is \"disproportionate\" and is placing a huge burden on overstretched staff.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said grieving families have been left without answers about what happened to their loved ones for almost a year.\n\nHe said: \"It's a disgrace that the SNP covered up their mistake for so long.\n\n\"Their report on care home deaths was delayed and when it was finally published, they tried to spin it.\"\n\nHe also accused the health secretary of trying to hide the \"grave error\" from the public.\n\nMr Ross added: \"People will be left wondering - why is Jeane Freeman only willing to admit such a huge mistake was made now?\"\n\nMore than 1,300 elderly patients were discharged into care homes in the early stages of the pandemic\n\nScottish Labour's deputy leader and health spokeswoman Jackie Baillie said: \"These admissions will offer no comfort to the families of those who needlessly lost loved ones due to the Scottish government's errors.\"\n\nShe claimed the crisis could have been averted had the SNP backed Labour's calls for a national care service more than a decade ago after Scotland's worst Clostridium difficile (C. diff) outbreak in West Dunbartonshire.\n\nMs Baillie added: \"Lessons that could have been learned were ignored. The time for reflection was when it could have saved lives, not now on podcasts.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the Scottish Greens said it was \"an absolute tragedy that so many people were fatally let down\".\n\nShe added: \"That so many families have lost a loved one due to systematic policy failures is an appalling reflection on the handling of this crisis.\n\n\"It's good that the Scottish government now seems to recognise that the way it handled this issue exacerbated the problem. But it has still failed to satisfactorily explain why it allowed so many potentially infectious people to be discharged to care homes.\"\n\nLiberal Democrats health spokesman Alex Cole-Hamilton said Ms Freeman's comments were the closest that Scottish government ministers have come to \"admitting their decisions had tragic consequences\".\n\n\"The situation in care homes was an unimaginably sad one. My sympathies are with all the families who lost loved ones and those who could not be by their relative's side at the very end,\" he said.\n\nMr Cole-Hamilton added that he hoped the ongoing inquiry into care home deaths would provide some answers for families.\n\nAn SNP spokesperson said the government had already acknowledged that mistakes were made.\n\nThey added: \"The Scottish government commissioned extensive work to review the links between hospital discharges and the impact of Covid in our care homes.\n\n\"The first minister has committed to establishing a public inquiry into the handling of Covid, in which the voices of families would be heard, by the end of the year.\n\n\"We hope other governments across the UK will come together to support such an inquiry on a four-nations basis\"", "Germany has sparked controversy by launching talks over the Russian vaccine without waiting for coordinated EU action Image caption: Germany has sparked controversy by launching talks over the Russian vaccine without waiting for coordinated EU action\n\nRussia has asked Slovakia to return 200,000 doses of its Sputnik V vaccine which have sat in storage since they were delivered on 1 March. Former Slovak Prime Minister Igor Matovic got hold of the doses secretly but then lost his job last week over the controversy. Now Slovakia’s drug regulator says the doses are different to those reviewed positively by the Lancet.\n\nGermany has started talks on buying the Sputnik drug, according to Russia’s sovereign wealth fund. The EU’s medical agency EMA hasn’t yet approved the vaccine and Germany’s health minister says purchase will be conditional on its approval.\n\nFor the first time in eight days the number of Covid patients in intensive care in France has fallen, by 24 cases, to 5,705. A big surge of infections was reported on Thursday, but that includes figures from several days. Meanwhile, France has recorded its10 millionth Covid vaccination and a record 437,000 were inoculated yesterday alone. Germany’s case numbers have risen above 25,000 in the past 24 hours.\n\nThe Netherlands and Portugal have joined several other countries in limiting the Oxford-AstraZeneca drug to over-60s after the EMA advised of a possible causal link with very rare blood clots. The agency is clear that the benefits outweigh the risks. Meanwhile France’s health minister says anyone under 55 who has already had the first AZ dose will be offered another vaccine for the second.\n\nIceland is revising a new rule requiring anyone arriving from a high-risk country to stay in a special quarantine hotel for five days or submit a second negative test. The courts have ruled that the mandatory hotel stay is illegal. The health minister says travellers won’t have to pay for the hotel and will be allowed outdoors.", "Older age groups which received the vaccine first have seen the steepest falls in deaths\n\nWeekly deaths involving coronavirus in England and Wales have dropped 92% since the peak of the second wave in January, according to official figures.\n\nMeanwhile, the total number of deaths registered in the UK over one week is 5% below the five-year average.\n\nIt comes amid continued efforts to reassure the public over the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine's possible link to rare blood clots.\n\nHe urged those who had received one dose to take up their second and said the UK was on track to vaccinate all adults by 31 July.\n\nFigures from the Office of National Statistics showed there were 712 deaths involving Covid in the week ending 19 March, down from 8,945 in late January.\n\nThe largest falls were seen among the oldest age groups, with deaths falling 92.9% among those aged 80 and over and 93.4% for the 75 to 79 age group, compared to 83.7% for those aged 60 to 64.\n\nSeparate figures showed the number of deaths registered in the UK in the week ending 26 March was 11,439, which was 5% below the five-year average. Last week, deaths were 8% below the 5-year average.\n\nSome 799 of these deaths involved coronavirus.\n\nAdults aged over 80 were the second priority group for vaccination, followed by over-75s and over 70s. The government says everyone in these groups was offered a jab by mid-February.\n\nFigures on Thursday showed the UK's vaccination programme had recovered after a lull over Easter, with an extra 408,396 second doses administered and 99,530 first doses. The number of people fully vaccinated is now over six million, while 31.8 million have received just one dose.\n\nAnother 3,030 confirmed cases were reported, along with 53 further deaths within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nSeeking to reassure people who have received a first dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab, Mr Hancock said there was \"no evidence\" of the rare blood clots after the second dose of the vaccine.\n\nThe UK changed policy on Wednesday to offer under-30s an alternative to the AstraZeneca vaccine, after weighing the benefits of vaccination compared to a potential very rare risk of blood clots.\n\nThere had been 79 incidents of the clots and 19 deaths among the 20 million Oxford-AstraZeneca doses administered, the UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) said. That equates to a one-in-a-million risk of a fatal side effect.\n\nIt said there was no proof the vaccine had caused the clots but the link was getting firmer. Both the MHRA and the European Medicines Agency (EMA) said the benefits of the jab outweigh the risks, however.\n\nMr Hancock said people should have confidence in the safety system for vaccines because it was \"able to spot this extremely rare event\".\n\nThe risk was about the same as taking a long-haul flight, he said.\n\nAnd he said there was \"more than enough\" doses of vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna due to arrive to offer an alternative to the 8.5 million UK adults under 30 yet to be vaccinated.\n\nThe UK has ordered 40 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine and 17 million of the Moderna jab and also has agreements with several other companies for jabs that are still waiting for approval, including 100 million doses from Valneva and 30 million from Janssen.\n\nA government scientific adviser said communication of the benefits and side-effects was \"critical\" to avoiding a loss of confidence in the vaccines.\n\nProf Stephen Reicher told BBC Radio 4's World at One that having a Covid jab is \"actually one of the safer things you do in the day\".\n\n\"Something like 30 or 40 people drown in the bath every year, something like 1,000 people die falling down the stairs, something like 200 die from choking on their breakfast, and that's many, many more deaths than we get from these vaccines,\" he said.", "Boris Johnson says any testing regime for international travel should be easy and cheap, after the boss of EasyJet criticised new government plans.\n\nThe prime minister also said vaccine passports would be a \"fact of life\" for people travelling internationally in future.\n\nThe government hopes to reopen international travel on 17 May, but is yet to make a final decision.\n\nHowever, the prime minister said he had \"not given up\" on the idea.\n\nUnder plans outlined on Sunday, destinations would be classed as green, amber or red based on their Covid infection rates and vaccination coverage.\n\nNo isolation would be necessary on return to the UK from green countries, but pre-departure and post-arrival tests would be required, potentially costing up to £200 each.\n\nBut earlier on Tuesday, EasyJet boss Johan Lundgren told the BBC this would make travel too expensive, with the tests costing as much or more than a flight in some cases.\n\nAsked about the comments, and whether cheaper lateral flow tests could replace PCR tests in the plans, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"I do think we want to make things as easy as we possibly can.\n\n\"The boss of EasyJet is right to focus on this issue, we're going to see what we can do to make things as flexible and as affordable as possible.\"\n\nMr Lundgren told the BBC that if costs were not reduced, the government \"wouldn't open up international travel for everyone, but only those who can afford it.\n\n\"If you are ticking all of those boxes to become a green destination… [multiple tests] don't make sense to me and it would add to cost and complexities.\"\n\nScientists and ministers recently warned that holidays to destinations such as France, where Covid cases are rising, are \"unlikely\". But Mr Johnson said he \"had not given up\" on the idea that non-essential foreign travel could begin again on 17 May.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How one airline is keeping its aircraft and staff ready to fly\n\nHowever, other travel industry figures called for clarity following the prime minister's latest announcement on lockdown restrictions easing.\n\nThe Business Travel Association said the announcement was \"beyond disappointing\" and called for \"a clear pathway to international travel and trade\".\n\nIts chief executive, Clive Wratten, said moves to open borders had \"once again been kicked down the road\".\n\n\"The business travel industry continues to be crippled by today's lack of movement,\" he added.\n\nThe boss of travel firm Thomas Cook, Alan French, also told the BBC's Wake Up to Money that a lack of clarity around what type of tests might be required for passengers and when they would need to be taken was a let-down.\n\nHe said that overall, there were \"glimmers of good news\", in that the earliest date for travel resuming on 17 May was not pushed back. \"But actually, the details were missing and that was disappointing,\" he said.\n\nOn Monday, Mr Johnson said he did not want to see coronavirus re-imported from abroad and urged people to wait for a report from the Global Travel Taskforce on 12 April.\n\nBut Gemma Antrobus, owner of independent travel company Haslemere Travel, warned that business owners like herself faced a difficult path.\n\n\"Disappointed is putting it mildly. Where we hoped confidence would start to pick up, and more people would be interested in booking holidays… that just won't come this week.\"\n\nShe added that some customers had now moved bookings for holidays five times amid changing restrictions.\n\n\"Every week we don't have that confidence from consumers, business owners like myself just wonder what lies ahead.\"", "Coronavirus cases are down to less than a sixth of the January peak, according to data from the Office for National Statistics.\n\nThe ONS said infections were \"likely level\" in England and Northern Ireland in the week up to 3 April, but decreasing in Scotland and Wales.\n\nOverall just under 0.3% of the population - one in 350 people - tested positive.\n\nThe R number for England is now estimated to be between 0.8-1.\n\nOn Friday, the UK reported the largest number of second vaccine doses in a single day at 449,269 - with 96,242 first doses also administered.\n\nThere were a further 3,150 confirmed cases in the past 24 hours, and another 60 deaths within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nThe government's scientific advisers, Sage, said they were not producing a UK-wide estimate of R because of the \"increasingly localised approaches\" meant UK-level estimates \"may not accurately reflect the current picture of the epidemic\".\n\nThe ONS suggests that in England, about one person in 340 tested positive in the week to 3 April.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, it was one in 300, in Scotland one in 410 and in Wales one in 800.\n\nAcross the UK as a whole, the study suggests that levels are similar to those seen in late September last year.\n\nThe REACT study, which also swabs people selected at random, suggested earlier this week that infections were levelling off, but suggested that the vaccination program is breaking the link between Covid-19 cases and deaths.\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average:\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection are required to view this interactive. How many cases and deaths in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sir Richard Sutton and his family's wealth was valued at £301m in the 2020 Sunday Times Rich List\n\nOne of the UK's richest men has been stabbed to death.\n\nSir Richard Sutton, 83, was pronounced dead at a his mansion near Gillingham, Dorset, at 21:15 BST on Wednesday. A woman, in her 60s and believed to be his partner, was also stabbed and remains in a critical condition.\n\nThe businessman and his family's wealth was valued at £301m in the 2020 Sunday Times Rich List.\n\nA 34-year-old man, from Gillingham, has been arrested on suspicion of murder.\n\nHe was stopped in a vehicle in the Hammersmith area of London and taken to hospital with injuries that were not believed to be life-threatening.\n\nDorset Police said the arrested man and the victims were known to each other.\n\nSir Richard, who was number 435 in last year's Sunday Times Rich List, owned a string of top hotels.\n\nThe baronet had an extensive property and farming portfolio, including owning the freehold of the Sheraton Grand London Park Lane and the Athenaeum Hotel in Mayfair.\n\nDorset Police said the victim and the arrested man were known to each other\n\nA statement from the businessman's company, Sir Richard Sutton Limited, said staff were \"deeply saddened and devastated by the sudden death\".\n\n\"Sir Richard was a caring, generous and warm family man, who genuinely regarded those who worked for him as part of his extended family,\" it said.\n\nIt added he was \"passionately devoted to both his company and its people, setting the highest standards for quality in the hotel, farming and property interests within the group\".\n\nDescribing him as an an \"incredible individual\", the firm said Sir Richard's loss \"will be felt by everyone within the company\".\n\nA cordon is in place at the property and police have appealed for information.\n\nA police cordon is still in place at the country estate in Gillingham\n\nNorth Dorset Conservative MP Simon Hoare, who was a friend of Sir Richard, said he had received a briefing from Dorset Police and described the death as \"deeply awful\".\n\n\"I knew him, strangely enough I knew him before I was an MP as my company did a lot of work for his estate many years ago,\" he said.\n\n\"He was a charming man, he had a very good sense of humour, he was politically astute and genial.\n\n\"If you wanted to conjure up a picture of a country gentleman then that was him.\n\n\"It is a huge loss for his family in what is clearly deeply awful circumstances.\"\n\nThe MP added the incident was rare for his constituency and there was \"no cause or reason for alarm\" based on the police briefing.\n\nDorset Police said it received a report at 19:30 on Wednesday raising concerns about the welfare of the occupants of an address in Higher Langham.\n\nDet Insp Simon Huxter, of Dorset Police's Major Crime Investigation Team (MCIT), said the force is appealing for anyone to come forward who saw or heard anything suspicious.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with the family of the man who sadly died and the injured woman at this extremely difficult time and they are being supported by specially-trained officers,\" he said.\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.", "Police deployed water cannon for the first time in six years during Thursday's disorder\n\nNineteen officers were injured on Thursday night, bringing the number hurt in a week of violence across Northern Ireland to 74.\n\nPolice deployed water cannon for the first time in six years after coming under attack again in Belfast.\n\nCrowds rioted on both sides of gates that separate a loyalist area and a nationalist area in west Belfast.\n\nPetrol bombs, fireworks and stones were again used to attack police, who have faced rising disorder since 29 March.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. NI riots PSNI use water cannon on seventh night of violence\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Jonathan Roberts said that on Thursday night there was \"sustained violence directed towards police officers on both sides of the interface over a period of hours\".\n\nHe said the majority of injuries to officers were to hearing due to fireworks being detonated close to them, one female officer suffered a broken bone in her foot.\n\nTwo men, aged 24 and 32, have been charged with riot, in connection with disorder in Lanark Way in west Belfast on Thursday.\n\nThey are due to appear at Belfast Magistrates' Court on Saturday.\n\nThe 32-year-old man was also charged with possession of a petrol bomb in suspicious circumstances.\n\nNI Secretary Brandon Lewis has met political leaders at Stormont to discuss the latest night of disorder and violence in Belfast.\n\nThe five main party leaders were on the call, along with Simon Byrne, the chief constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland.\n\nBBC News NI understands all politicians reiterated their support for the police and agreed to hold further discussions about bringing the trouble to an end.\n\nSome of the parties are also holding separate meetings with the Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney on Friday.\n\nKerbs and bollards were ripped up, their remnants turned into weapons.\n\nPolice responded by regularly firing their water cannon, but the soaking didn't seem to stop many of the rioters.\n\nOn the nationalist Springfield Road side, police Land Rovers moved up towards the rioters, weaving their way through traffic which was basically stuck in the road for a couple of hours.\n\nPolice came under attack too in the Shankill Road area from petrol bombs and stone throwers.\n\nWe asked a few people from the community to speak, but they were reluctant.\n\nAfter midnight the streets were largely clear, but many people are feeling a fresh and familiar sense of worry that there could be renewed potential for more disorder, more disruption and more destruction.\n\nThe recent disorder began with petrol bombs and sporadic attacks in a number of mainly loyalist areas, but the unrest spread to a Belfast interface.\n\nOn Wednesday night, the fighting escalated into sectarian clashes over a so-called peace wall in west Belfast.\n\nCrowds attacked police and each other at the junctions of Lanark Way, off the mainly loyalist Shankill Road, and the mainly nationalist Springfield Road.\n\nThe peace wall divides predominantly Protestant loyalists - who are in favour of keeping Northern Ireland as part of the United Kingdom - from predominantly Catholic nationalists who want to see a united Ireland.\n\nA gate that divides the two communities was smashed open and, during several hours of disorder, police officers and a press photographer were attacked and a bus was hijacked and burned.\n\nThe group which represents loyalist paramilitary groups has said none of them has been involved \"directly or indirectly\" in any of the recent street disorder in parts of Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Loyalist Communities Council, whose membership includes the UDA and UVF, says people have a right to protest against the Brexit Irish Sea border, but it should be \"entirely peaceful\".\n\nIt also urged people not to get drawn into violent confrontations.\n\nIn a statement, it said it is seeking an end to all violence and to solve concerns about the Brexit deal.\n\nOn Thursday night, SDLP councillor Paul Doherty joined a number of political, community and youth representatives on the Springfield Road after crowds of youths gathered in the area.\n\n\"We stood at the main interface area creating a barrier almost between these youths and the gate at Lanark Way,\" he told Good Morning Ulster.\n\n\"They attempted to breach the gate several times, but when it was clear that they weren't going to gain access to this area they proceeded to attack police further up the Springfield Road.\"\n\nHe added: \"From being on the ground last night and trying to engage with these young people, I'm also noticing that they're coming from all over Belfast, really, to be involved in these acts of violence.\"\n\nSinn Féin councillor Claire Canavan said it was \"the actions of the previous night that brought the young people out onto the street on the Springfield Road\".\n\n\"I would appeal for calm going forward into the weekend.\"\n\nOfficers were attacked as crowds rioted close to a Belfast interface on Thursday night\n\nBilly Hutchison, a Progressive Unionist Party councillor for the Greater Shankill area, said fewer people were involved in the disturbances on Thursday night, compared to Wednesday.\n\n\"I think a lot of things that have been said over the last five or six days have been around for a long time,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\n\"We need to start thinking about the language we use, we need to start thinking about the information we give out in our communities and we need to support the communities.\n\n\"I'm hoping that we're over it and I'm hoping that people will see sense. It [violence] doesn't further the unionist cause, it doesn't further our neighbourhoods.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson and Irish Taoiseach (prime minister) Micheál Martin have spoken over the phone and called for a calming of tensions.\n\nThe US has also appealed for calm, with the White House saying it was concerned by the violence.\n\nSecretary of State Brandon Lewis arrived in Northern Ireland on Thursday\n\nThe violence in Carrickfergus and Newtownabbey over the Easter weekend was linked to police operations targeting the South East Antrim UDA, a paramilitary group involved in organised crime.\n\nSpeaking on Friday following two nights of violence at the west Belfast interface, ACC Roberts said of the hundreds who took part some were \"operating independently\", while some would be close to or involved in paramilitary organisations.\n\n\"It is not our overall assessment that those organisations as a group are directing young people to get involved or orchestrating the disorder,\" he added.\n\nMr Lewis, who travelled to Belfast on Thursday, has denied that the UK government has abandoned unionists through the new Brexit arrangements.\n\nIreland's Foreign Affairs Minister, Simon Coveney, said Dublin and Westminster will support Stormont parties in stabilising the unrest.\n\nIn a tweet on Thursday night, Justice Minister Naomi Long said it was \"utterly reckless and depressing to see more violence at interface areas tonight\".\n\n\"My heart goes out to those living in the area who are living with this fear and disturbance.\"\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\nWriting on social media, Labour's shadow Northern Ireland Secretary Louise Haigh called on Prime Minister Boris Johnson to \"urgently rebuild trust that he has squandered in Northern Ireland\".", "Sir Richard Sutton and his family's wealth was valued at £301m in the 2020 Sunday Times Rich List\n\nA man arrested on suspicion of murder, after one of the UK's richest men was found stabbed to death, has been released from hospital.\n\nSir Richard Sutton, 83, died at his mansion near Gillingham, Dorset, on Wednesday night.\n\nA woman, in her 60s and believed to be his partner, was also stabbed and remains in a critical condition.\n\nPolice arrested a 34-year-old man in London who was taken to hospital with injuries.\n\nHe was arrested after being stopped in a vehicle in Hammersmith.\n\nHe was taken to hospital for treatment to injuries that were not believed to be life-threatening and was subsequently taken into police custody on his release from hospital.\n\nDorset Police said on Friday evening the arrested man, from Gillingham and who was known to the couple, had been released from hospital and was helping detectives with their inquiries.\n\nDet Insp Simon Huxter, of Dorset Police's Major Crime Investigation Team (MCIT), said: \"Our thoughts remain with the family of the man who sadly died and the injured woman, who will continue to be updated with developments.\n\n\"A detailed and thorough investigation continues in an effort to establish the full circumstances of this utterly tragic event.\"\n\nSir Richard owned the freehold of the Sheraton Grand London Park Lane\n\nSir Richard and his family's wealth was valued at £301m in the 2020 Sunday Times Rich List.\n\nHe was number 435 in last year's Sunday Times Rich List and owned several top hotels and had a large property and farming portfolio.\n\nHe owned the freehold of the Sheraton Grand London Park Lane and the Athenaeum Hotel in Mayfair.\n\nA statement from the businessman's company, Sir Richard Sutton Limited, said staff were \"deeply saddened and devastated by the sudden death\".\n\nA police cordon is still in place at the country estate in Gillingham\n\nNorth Dorset Conservative MP Simon Hoare, who was a friend of Sir Richard, described the death as \"deeply awful\".\n\nDorset Police said it received a report at 19:30 on Wednesday raising concerns about the welfare of the occupants of an address in Higher Langham.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n• None One of UK's richest men stabbed to death\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. Greta Thunberg: \"I don't think I'll be going to COP\"\n\nGreta Thunberg has told the BBC she does not plan to attend the UN climate conference due to be held in Glasgow this November.\n\nThe 18-year-old Swedish climate campaigner is concerned about the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on attendance at COP26.\n\nShe believes the summit should be postponed.\n\nShe says the UK government, which is hosting the summit, should wait until global vaccination rates have risen.\n\nThe summit will bring together world leaders with the aim of agreeing a plan to tackle climate change.\n\nMs Thunberg's decision is likely to be a significant blow for the UK government.\n\nThe activist has attended every major climate conference since her first protest outside the Swedish parliament two and a half years ago.\n\nMs Thunberg spoke at COP25 in Madrid in 2019\n\nShe said: \"This needs to happen in the right way. Of course, the the best thing to do would be to get everyone vaccinated as soon as possible so that everyone could take part on the same terms.\"\n\nThe UN meeting has already been delayed once, from November 2020, and there have been rumours that it may be postponed again.\n\nThe last two Conference of the Parties (COP) summits have had more than 20,000 attendees and the UK is understood to have been working on the basis that as many as 30,000 people could attend in Glasgow.\n\nAt the end of last month, sources in Downing Street and Holyrood were adamant that no decision had been made on a further delay to the conference.\n\nHowever, the BBC was told a final decision on whether to delay or move ahead with the summit was likely to be taken shortly after Easter.\n\nCOP stands for Conference of the Parties, and it is attended by countries that signed the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) - a treaty agreed in 1994. The 2021 meeting will be the 26th meeting, so it has been named COP26.\n\nCOP25 was held in Madrid, Spain, in November 2019 and featured a headline speech from Greta Thunberg. It ended with many unresolved issues, but an agreement was made about cutting carbon dioxide - a gas that causes global warming.\n\nEach nation agreed to devise a plan to cut their carbon emissions by the next conference in Glasgow.\n\nCOP26 will bring parties together to accelerate action towards the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.\n\nIt will be the biggest summit the UK has ever hosted. It is being described as the most significant climate event since the 2015 Paris Agreement.\n\nPresidents and prime ministers from around the world will be reporting back on progress since the Paris Agreement and, potentially make new decisions on how to cut carbon emissions.\n\nGreta Thunberg would not play a formal role at the conference but her decision not to attend is a significant symbolic moment for the conference.\n\nSince she began her first school strike alone outside the Swedish parliament two and a half years ago she has come to symbolise the demands of many young people that world leaders take climate change more seriously.\n\n\"How dare you\", she told world leaders at a UN climate summit in New York in September 2019, as she accused them of failing to act on climate change.\n\n\"You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words\", she told them.\n\nSpeaking to BBC News ahead of a new documentary series \"Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World\", she was clear what she thought the COP26 team should do, saying she thought the summit should be postponed again.\n\nThe Scottish Events Campus in Glasgow will host the COP26 conference in November\n\nShe said the summit was not the only way to go about affecting change.\n\n\"To be frank, the changes need to come from people demanding climate action,\" she said.\n\n\"Yes, these COP meetings are crucial and they are incredibly important. But we can have as many of these meetings and conferences as we want but as long as we are not really treating the climate crisis as a crisis, we won't see any real changes coming from them.\"\n\nShe also criticised the UK for holding a climate conference when the opening of a new coal mine is being considered.\n\n\"It really shows the true face of the so-called net zero emissions by 2050,\" she added.\n\n\"If you can commit yourself to something like that while at the same time that includes the possibility of opening new coal mines, and so on, it really doesn't mean that much.\"\n\nShe said she was \"surprised\" people had been listening to her for so long, but added that as long as people were listening she would use that opportunity to communicate her message as much as she could.\n\nMark Carney, the former Bank of England governor who is now finance advisor for COP26, would not be drawn on whether he thought the conference would happen in person when asked in an interview for the BBC podcast, Newscast.\n\n\"I think if we've learned anything in the last 13 months, it's that's it's not wise to make bold predictions about what's going to happen three, six months ahead in terms of logistics, so the honest answer is I don't know\", Mr Carney told presenter Adam Fleming.\n\nAny decision on the future of the summit would be made in conjunction with the United Nations, as well as the Scottish government.\n\nAt the end of last month it was reported that Prime Minister Boris Johnson was battling to ensure the flagship conference was held face-to-face by ensuring participants were vaccinated and subjected to a robust testing regime.\n\nBut the global rollout of vaccinations has been disappointing.\n\nLast year, the decision to delay the meeting - because of Covid - was taken in May.\n\nGreta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World begins on BBC One at 21:00 on 12 April and will be available on the BBC iPlayer", "The UK's leading sports bodies are backing the use of 'vaccine passports' and Covid testing as a \"credible\" means of allowing full capacities at venues.\n\nIn a joint letter to the leaders of the major political parties, the group said it could \"see the benefit\" of a certification process \"in getting more fans safely back as quickly as possible\".\n\n\"We know that our stadia can only be fully filled with an assurance process,\" it added.\n\n\"This process must ensure that everyone can access stadia and must include arrangements that would verify a negative Covid test or an antibody test or vaccination certification.\"\n\nHowever, the group also warned that \"the final approach must not be discriminatory, should protect privacy, and have clear exit criteria\".\n\nSignatories to the letter, which has been seen by the BBC, include the Football Association, the Premier League, the England and Wales Cricket Board, the Rugby Football Union, the All England Tennis Club at Wimbledon and the Silverstone motor-racing circuit.\n\nAll of them are suffering an unprecedented financial crisis as a result of being forced to stage events behind closed doors for almost all of the past year.\n\n\"The alternative [to certification] is not freedom,\" Premier League executive director Bill Bush told BBC Radio 4's Today Programme.\n\n\"The alternative is social distancing, tiny crowds, major restrictions on people's movement and ability to eat, drink, travel. Away fans banned, for example.\n\n\"So to end those restrictions of freedom, we believe that something like this is an acceptable burden to give fans the freedom to attend.\"\n\nAs part of the government's reopening roadmap, from 17 May in England larger outdoor sports venues will be allowed to operate at up to 25% capacity, with a maximum of 10,000 spectators.\n\nRestrictions will be eased further from 21 June, but with all adults not expected to be offered at least their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine until the end of July, full venues at major sports events are understood to be unlikely until late summer at the earliest.\n\nWembley will only have a maximum of 50% capacity for the latter stages of the Euro 2020 matches in July.\n\nUnder current plans in Scotland, large-scale events could also resume from 17 May, though the Euro 2020 matches at Hampden in June that could see 12,000 supporters attend are the first confirmation of fans returning to stadia in Scotland.\n\nThe Welsh government hopes to put on a series of outdoor cultural and sporting pilot events in the summer, for between 200 and 1,000 people.\n\nSupporters will not be able to return to matches in Northern Ireland until phase four of the Stormont executive's lockdown exit plan, with no date yet set and the next review due on 15 April.\n\nThe extent to which all social distancing can end from 21 June to allow for larger crowds at sport, arts and hospitality venues is being examined by the Events Research Programme (ERP) at a number of forthcoming pilots, including a semi-final and the final of the FA Cup at Wembley.\n\nPasses that would show if a person had been vaccinated, had a recent negative test, or natural immunity are among a number of measures to be trialled.\n\nIn their letter to the Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the leaders of the main opposition parties, the group of sports bodies - which also includes the English Football League, Lawn Tennis Association and the Rugby Football League - warn that the 25% cap on crowds \"will be insufficient to end sport's Covid financial crisis.\"\n\nThey appeal for \"certainty as soon as possible\" over the plans to lift social distancing after 21 June, \"so we can plan efficiently and effectively with many big sporting events scheduled for late June and onwards.\n\n\"There are many issues to be addressed including how [Covid certification] technology would work and its ease of use at major events, for both the attendees and the organisers,\" the group added.\n\nOn Wednesday, EFL chief executive Trevor Birch said Covid passports \"had to be embraced because without Covid certification, we may not be able to get full fans back in stadiums, which will have a dramatic financial effect.\"\n\nEFL clubs have suffered £250m of losses caused by more than a season with almost no fans at matches.\n\nHowever, the use of such measures in wider society has sparked opposition from politicians and civil liberties campaigners, and some figures in sport have also expressed their concern before a parliamentary vote on the issue.\n\nFormer Wolves goalkeeper Carl Ikeme urged the FA not to use Covid passes, describing them as a \"form of discrimination\" against people from ethnic minorities.\n\n\"We know black and ethnic minorities are more hesitant to have vaccines,\" Ikeme told the i newspaper.\n\n\"It will create a bigger divide. I don't believe communities who have their own personal choice not to have a vaccine should be discriminated against even further than they have been throughout the years.\n\n\"Having these Covid passes is either going to force people to have a jab they don't want or is going to force people not to take part in society the way we're all used to. Football players have been bending the knee all year against discrimination and this will affect ethnic communities even more.\"\n\nThe group of sports bodies supporting certification say that \"the final approach must not be discriminatory, should protect privacy… [and] should not be a requirement for any form of participation in grassroots sport.\n\n\"Based on these principles, we support the review of the use of Covid certification for major events,\" it added.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"We welcome the constructive approach from major British sports as we explore how testing Covid certification and other steps can help get more fans back into stadiums and other large events safely.\n\n\"We want as many fans as possible to be able to enjoy a great British summer of sport, safely.\"\n• None Watch as Louis Theroux revisits the now famous Joe Exotic\n• None Step inside the fast-paced, fabulous lives of the Khans", "The BBC's Dan Johnson has been testing the rides at Blackpool Pleasure Beach ahead of its re-opening on Monday.\n\nAlthough it remained open throughout the two world wars, the Covid-19 pandemic forced it to shut.\n\nMonday's reopening will be especially poignant since it marks 125 years since the theme park was founded.", "Police have come under attack in north Belfast\n\nPolice have appealed for calm after more attacks on officers during another night of disorder in Northern Ireland.\n\nThere was trouble in neighbouring loyalist and nationalist areas of north Belfast on Friday night.\n\nA burning car was rammed against a police Land Rover and missiles have been thrown in the loyalist Tiger's Bay area, with bins also set alight.\n\nPetrol bombs, bottles and masonry have been thrown at police in the nationalist New Lodge area.\n\nMore police officers have been injured in the 12th consecutive night of violence in Northern Ireland.\n\nOn Thursday night, police deployed a water cannon for the first time in six years after coming under attack again in Belfast.\n\nNineteen officers were injured during disorder on Thursday night, bringing the number of officers hurt in a week of violence across Northern Ireland to 74.\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\nPolice Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) Ch Supt Muir Clark said: \"We would appeal for calm in the area and ask anyone who has any influence in communities please, use that influence to ensure young people do not get caught up in criminality and that they are kept safe and away from harm tonight.\"\n\nHe urged people to avoid the Tiger's Bay area.\n\nSDLP Councillor Paul McCusker tweeted on Friday night that \"enough is enough\".\n\n\"Those involved need to go home and leave the residents to live in peace,\" he said.\n\n\"They don't deserve this and anyone not from the area should also go home.\n\n\"For once, think of the residents.\"\n\nMeanwhile in the Ballysally estate in Coleraine, County Londonderry, a road blockage was set up and set on fire on Friday night.\n\nEarlier in the day, some signs were erected in Belfast calling for loyalist protests, planned for Friday night, to be called off as a mark of respect to the Duke of Edinburgh, who died at the age of 99.", "Buckingham Palace has lowered its flag to half-mast as a mark of respect to Prince Philip.\n\nA sign was also displayed on the palace gates announcing the Duke of Edinburgh's death.", "National Records of Scotland said the rate of new Covid deaths was falling\n\nScotland has now recorded more than 10,000 deaths linked to Covid-19 since the outbreak began last March.\n\nFigures from the National Records of Scotland (NRS) show that 9,997 death certificates mentioned Covid up until Sunday 4 April.\n\nSince then, a further six Covid deaths have been registered within 28 days of a positive test for the virus.\n\nThe NRS also warned last week's total was likely to rise as most registration offices were closed on Good Friday.\n\nThe bank holiday meant that fewer deaths were registered last week than would be expected.\n\nThirty-eight deaths linked to Covid were registered between 29 March and 4 April, a decrease of 24 from the previous week.\n\nMost of the deaths occurred in hospitals, where 29 were recorded. There were also five deaths at home or in non-institutional settings, and four deaths in care homes.\n\nAlmost half the deaths were of people aged 75 or over.\n\nPete Whitehouse, the NRS's director of statistical services, said: \"We are seeing an encouraging reduction in the number of deaths involving Covid-19 but I am very conscious that these figures represent painful losses for families across Scotland.\n\n\"While registered deaths continue to fall, care should be taken when interpreting this week's figures.\n\n\"These have been affected by the recent public holiday as there may have been a delay in registering some deaths.\"\n\n\"He was an inspiration and a hardy soul who kept going no matter what life threw at him.\"\n\nFriends and families have paid tribute to the people who have died in Scotland during the pandemic.\n\nSix of last week's Covid deaths were in Glasgow, while Edinburgh, East Dunbartonshire, North Lanarkshire, South Ayrshire and West Dunbartonshire all recorded three deaths.\n\nScotland's first two Covid deaths were on 12 March 2020.\n\nThe daily rate of new deaths rose sharply for four weeks before levelling off and then declining significantly over last summer.\n\nJust over 4,200 death certificates mentioned Covid-19 in Scotland's first wave of the pandemic - meaning many more people have died in the second wave.\n\nHowever, the rate of new deaths during the second wave has decreased significantly since the end of January, when more than 400 deaths a week were being recorded.\n\nOver the course of the whole pandemic, more than 70% of Covid-related deaths have been of people aged 75 or over.\n\nScotland's youngest Covid death was of a baby girl in December, while two children aged between one and 14 have also died.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's announcement of the death of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh\n\nPolitical leaders, members of the public and well-wishers around the world have paid tribute to Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth II's husband, after his death at the age of 99.\n\nA statement issued by Buckingham Palace just after midday spoke of the Queen's \"deep sorrow\" following his death at Windsor Castle on Friday morning.\n\nHe was the longest-serving royal consort in British history.\n\nPrince Charles said his father's life was an \"astonishing achievement\".\n\nReflecting on Prince Philip's life for a BBC programme, Prince Charles said: \"His energy was astonishing in supporting my mama [the Queen] - and doing it for such a long time, and, in some extraordinary way, being able to go on doing it for so long.\n\n\"What he has done has amounted to an astonishing achievement, I think.\"\n\nPrincess Anne said the duke \"treated everyone as an individual, and gave them the respect he felt they were due as individuals\".\n\nAnnouncing the duke's death, the Palace said: \"It is with deep sorrow that Her Majesty The Queen announces the death of her beloved husband.\n\n\"The Royal Family join with people around the world in mourning his loss.\"\n\nIt is understood that the Prince of Wales travelled to Windsor Castle to visit his mother on Friday afternoon.\n\nSpeaking at Downing Street, prime minister Boris Johnson added that the duke had \"earned the affection of generations here in the United Kingdom, across the Commonwealth, and around the world\".\n\nMeanwhile, Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, said he \"consistently put the interests of others ahead of his own and, in so doing, provided an outstanding example of Christian service\".\n\nIn tribute to the duke, Westminster Abbey tolled its tenor bell once every 60 seconds for 99 times from 18:00 BST - to honour each year of his life.\n\nEarlier, the flag at Buckingham Palace was lowered to half-mast and a notice was posted on the gates to mark the duke's death.\n\nPeople placed floral tributes outside the central London landmark, while hundreds visited Windsor Castle to pay their respects.\n\nHowever, the government urged the public not to gather or leave tributes at royal residences amid the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nBunches of flowers were laid at the gates of Buckingham Palace\n\nThere were similar scenes outside Windsor Castle\n\nThe Royal Family has asked people to consider making a donation to a charity instead of leaving flowers in memory of the duke, and an online book of condolence has been launched on the official royal website for those who wish to send messages.\n\nA message on the website of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's non-profit organisation Archewell paid tribute to the \"loving memory\" of the Duke of Edinburgh, saying: \"Thank you for your service... you will be greatly missed.\"\n\nFrom midday on Saturday, a 41-gun salute will take place for Prince Philip in cities including London, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast, as well as in Gibraltar and at sea from Royal Navy warships, the Ministry of Defence said. They will be broadcast online and on television for the public to watch from home.\n\nAll UK government buildings have been told to fly official flags at half-mast in tribute to the duke until 08:00 BST on the day after the duke's funeral.\n\nPrince Philip's funeral will take place at St George's Chapel, Windsor - but the arrangements have been amended in light of the coronavirus pandemic, the College of Arms said in a statement.\n\nThe duke will not have a state funeral and there will be no lying-in-state, in line with his wishes, it added.\n\nThe college said the duke will, however, lie at rest in Windsor Castle before a royal ceremonial funeral, which means his death will be marked in the same way as the Queen Mother.\n\nThe public are \"regretfully\" requested not to attend due to the pandemic, and it is understood the Queen is considering modified funeral and ceremonial arrangements.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPoliticians across the UK were united in mourning following the announcement of the duke's death.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the UK had \"lost an extraordinary public servant\", while Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said his \"long contribution to public life in Scotland will leave a profound mark on its people\".\n\nWales' First Minister Mark Drakeford said the duke \"served the crown with selfless devotion and generosity of spirit\", and Northern Ireland's First Minister Arlene Foster said he was \"widely respected for his active and dedicated service to the country\".\n\nParliament will honour the duke on Monday, with the House of Commons sitting at 14:30 BST for tributes following his death.\n\nParties have also suspended their campaigning for elections on 6 May, which will see voters head to the polls for council and mayoral positions in England, the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Parliament.\n\nMeanwhile, Commonwealth leaders led international reaction to the duke's death.\n\nAustralian Prime Minister Scott Morrison tweeted that the duke \"embodied a generation that we will never see again\", while Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau described Philip as a \"man of great purpose and conviction\".\n\nAnd Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi recalled the duke for his \"distinguished career in the military\" and work \"at the forefront of many community service initiatives\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"A loss to us all\" read one of the tributes to Prince Philip\n\nUS President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden joined other world leaders in sending their \"deepest condolences\" to the Queen, the Royal Family and the people of the UK.\n\nIn a statement, they said the duke \"gladly dedicated himself to the people of the UK, the Commonwealth, and to his family\".\n\n\"His legacy will live on, not only through his family, but in all the charitable endeavours he shaped,\" it said.\n\nThe Duke of Edinburgh and the Queen celebrated their Diamond Wedding Anniversary on 20 November 2007\n\nPrince Philip and the Queen had four children, eight grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.\n\nTheir first son, the Prince of Wales, Prince Charles, was born in 1948, followed by his sister, the Princess Royal, Princess Anne, in 1950, the Duke of York, Prince Andrew, in 1960 and the Earl of Wessex, Prince Edward, in 1964.\n\nPrince Philip was born on the Greek island of Corfu on 10 June 1921.\n\nHis father was Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark, a younger son of King George I of the Hellenes.\n\nHis mother, Princess Alice, was a daughter of Prince Louis of Battenberg and a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. After being refused treatment because of her BMI, Victoria told the BBC her disorder got worse and worse\n\nVictoria Spence says she fell into a \"deep, dark hole\" about her own body image as a teenager, leading to her developing an eating disorder.\n\nFrom staring at pictures of \"girls with thigh gaps\" on social media to having her weight shared during a science class, she eventually hit rock bottom, telling her mum that she had begun to hate herself.\n\nBut when Victoria's parents tried to seek help, her doctor told her that her Body Mass Index (BMI) wasn't low enough for treatment.\n\n\"I came away and just got worse and worse and worse, because I saw what the doctor said to me as 'you are not thin enough yet, there is still more to go, you should still lose weight',\" the 26-year-old from Manchester told the BBC.\n\nAfter seeking private treatment and her parents being warned she could die, Victoria is on the road to recovery and shares her story on Instagram with over 100,000 followers, offering support to others.\n\nShe is now backing the findings of an inquiry by MPs calling for BMI to be scrapped.\n\nThe report from the Women and Equalities Committee has also branded the government's obesity strategy \"dangerous\", saying some of the measures - such as calorie labels on menus - could affect those with, or at risk of developing, eating disorders.\n\nThe government says NHS England does not support the use of \"BMI thresholds\" and that its approach is \"guided by the latest research and emerging evidence\".\n\nBMI is calculated by dividing an adult's weight by the square of their height.\n\nIt gives a number that then fits on a scale, concluding whether someone is underweight, a healthy weight, overweight or obese.\n\nBut while it is a simple tool, a number of scientists have questioned its validity as a measure of a person's health, saying other factors are not included and it is based on the physique of a European man.\n\nDuring its inquiry into body image, the committee looked into BMI and concluded it \"inspires weight stigma\".\n\nIts report said for those with higher BMIs, serious medical issues were being disregarded as simply the patient being \"overweight\" and patients were being made to feel \"shamed\" into losing weight.\n\nIt also pointed to stories like Victoria's, saying some GPs had \"an over-reliance on BMI, particularly when diagnosing eating disorders\".\n\nCommittee chair Caroline Nokes said the measure needed to be scrapped and replaced with a \"health at every size\" approach instead.\n\nThe Tory MP added: \"We know BMI is an absolutely lousy measure of good health in an individual. It works as an average across populations, but for individuals, it really doesn't help at all.\n\n\"We have seen instances of people who have been refused treatments because their BMI is too high or they have been refused access to eating disorder services because their BMI isn't low enough - and what a dreadful target that is to set anyone with an eating disorder.\n\n\"We want young people to be enjoying their childhood, we want them to be healthy and active, not obsessing over numbers like BMI.\"\n\nTory MP and chair of the committee Caroline Nokes is calling for \"urgent action\" from the government\n\nThe call was backed by eating disorder charity Beat, which said BMI \"should never be used as the sole factor in diagnosing eating disorders, or for determining who is 'unwell enough' to access treatment\".\n\nIts director of external affairs, Tom Quinn, said: \"This can lead to potentially dangerous delays, and can drive people deeper into eating disorders in order to be taken seriously.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Social Care said that NHS England \"had been clear it does not support the use of BMI thresholds\".\n\nHealth Minister Nadine Dorries also acknowledged to the committee that there was \"good and bad\" in the use of BMI - although she said doctors needed to gauge whether a person is a healthy weight or not.\n\nThe report also criticised the government's obesity strategy, saying it was \"at best ineffective and at worst perpetuating unhealthy behaviours\".\n\nBoris Johnson unveiled his plan in July 2020 amid the pandemic, saying it would \"reduce our health risks and protect ourselves against coronavirus\".\n\nIt included banning \"buy one get one free\" deals on unhealthy food, as well as restrictions on where those foods can be promoted in-store, and new rules for displaying calories on menus.\n\nBut the committee said there had been no reviews of the effectiveness of the current or previous obesity strategies before the plan was published, and called for an urgent review to examine the evidence behind the measures.\n\nOther conclusions of the report included:\n\nMs Nokes said: \"The government must ensure its policies are not contributing to body image pressures.\"\n\nResponding to the committee's report, a Department of Health and Social Care spokeswoman said the government's approach was \"guided by the latest research and emerging evidence\".\n\nShe added: \"We know poor body image can be a factor in disordered eating for both men and women and we are committed to improving outcomes for those with eating disorders and related mental health issues - with record funding to expand dedicated services in the community.\"\n\nBut, she added: \"With over six in 10 adults overweight or living with obesity, it is important that we take action to help people live healthier lives.\"\n\nIf you need support with an eating disorder, visit the BBC Action Line website for details of organisations that can help.", "The government has said there are no plans to postpone a crucial climate change summit, despite reports it could be delayed for a second time.\n\nThe UN meeting in Glasgow was due to take place in 2020, but was rescheduled for November this year.\n\nSky News reported that concerns over the worsening Covid pandemic in parts of the world could force organisers to delay or radically change it.\n\nThe event could be pushed back to 2022, the channel said.\n\nSources in Downing Street and the Scottish administration were adamant that no decision had been made on a further delay to the conference.\n\nHowever, the BBC understands that a final decision on whether to delay or move ahead with the summit will be taken within the next few weeks - though not before this weekend.\n\n\"We are working all-out on the basis that this will be an 'in-person' conference,\" one source insisted.\n\nThe BBC's Political Correspondent, Jessica Parker, says she has been told contingencies for COP26 could include scaling down the event or going partly virtual.\n\nShe says sources stressed these are strictly contingencies however rather than active plans.\n\nShe says one source said that there have been no discussions about delaying the summit.\n\nAny decision on the future of the summit would be made in conjunction with the United Nations, as well as the Scottish government.\n\nSky News reported that Prime Minister Boris Johnson was battling to ensure the flagship conference was held face-to-face by ensuring participants are vaccinated and subjected to a robust testing regime.\n\nBut the global roll-out of vaccinations has been disappointing.\n\nLast year, the decision to delay the meeting - because of Covid - was taken in May.\n\nA senior figure within the team preparing for the meeting said the current expectation was the majority of the participants would come in person.\n\nTory MP Alok Sharma, who is the president of the climate summit, has told MPs he believed the summit needed to be a primarily physical event with delegates sitting around the table.\n\nHowever, these conferences attract huge numbers of people.\n\nThe last two Conference of the Parties (COP) summits have had more than 20,000 attendees and the UK is understood to have been working on the basis that as many as 30,000 people could attend in Glasgow.\n\nThe Glasgow COP meeting, known as COP26, will bring together world leaders with the aim of agreeing a plan to tackle climate change.\n\nThe government recently decided to abandon plans to hold the G7 finance ministers meeting in person in Cornwall in late spring.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak will now host that event virtually.", "In a marriage that lasted more than seven decades, Prince Philip was the Queen's support in public at significant national moments - and in private the person who knew her best.\n\nAs one private secretary once put it: \"Prince Philip is the only man in the world who treats the Queen simply as another human being. He's the only man who can.\"\n\nIt was a marriage based on love. They chose one another.\n\nAlthough it wasn't the first time their paths had crossed, the photographs from their meeting at Dartmouth Naval College in 1939 reveal the beginning of their life together.\n\nHe was the dashing 18-year-old cadet who caught 13-year-old Princess Elizabeth's eye, larking about playing croquet and tennis.\n\nWhat started as a teenage crush developed over the years into friendship with letters exchanged and occasional visits during the war years. While he was away serving with the Royal Navy, the young princess kept a picture of him in her room.\n\nPrincess Elizabeth (third from left) was photographed with her parents at the chapel at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth in July 1939 along with naval cadet Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark (standing second from right)\n\nHis childhood had been nomadic - born a prince of Greece but then exiled, he found himself bounced around Europe, the royal equivalent of sofa-surfing.\n\nHe had to be fiercely independent, a self-starter and emotionally strong. She had grown up largely behind palace walls, sheltered from the real world. Her character was reserved, shy and thoughtful. They complemented each other.\n\nTheir grandson Prince William would later sum up their connection, saying: \"He makes her laugh because some of the things he says and does and the way he looks at life is obviously slightly different than her, so together they're a great couple.\"\n\nAlthough he had made his intentions known a year earlier, it wasn't until 1947, after Elizabeth's 21st birthday, that the public announcement of their engagement was made.\n\nPrince Philip helped to design the platinum and diamond engagement ring using stones from a tiara belonging to his mother, Princess Alice of Greece.\n\nShortly before their wedding, Prince Philip wrote to the Queen Mother saying he had \"fallen in love completely and unreservedly\".\n\nThe royal couple at Buckingham Palace after their wedding\n\nThe couple were married in front of 2,000 guests in Westminster Abbey. Just two years after the end of World War Two and with the country still reeling from the conflict, their wedding was a rare moment of celebration, Winston Churchill calling it \"a flash of colour on the hard road we travel\".\n\nThe following year, their eldest son Charles was born, and then their daughter Anne. Prince Philip was progressing rapidly through the ranks of the navy and the young family spent time living in Malta while he served on HMS Chequers.\n\nThey were able to live a relatively normal life and film footage from the time shows a young couple, relaxed in each other's company, enjoying life in a warm climate away from palaces and duty.\n\nAll that was to change on 6 February 1952, with the premature death of King George VI. Queen Elizabeth was just 25 years old and Prince Philip aged 30. They always knew the princess was destined to become Queen but had expected a few more years to live their own lives.\n\nFor the duke, her accession meant giving up any ambitions he might have had within the Royal Navy. For a man used to commanding ships, to suddenly be relegated to a supporting role cannot have been easy.\n\nAnd let's not forget this was the 1950s when it was extremely rare for a husband to be outranked by his wife. For the Queen, also a young mother, the role she was born to fulfil had to come first.\n\nIf their relationship suffered due to the shifting of their positions, it did so behind closed doors.\n\nPrince Philip took some time to define his role as his wife's consort - often battling courtiers in the process.\n\nIn 1956, he spent four months travelling around distant Commonwealth nations which led some to question his commitment to his wife. But once the pair had settled into a rhythm, the pattern was set for the decades to come.\n\nWith President John F Kennedy and his wife Jackie at Buckingham Palace\n\nThe duke enabled the Queen to perform her role as head of state while he took on the role of head of the family. To the outside world she was the boss - in private the roles were reversed. Prince Philip was in charge of the barbecue while she did the washing up - as seen in the 1960s documentary about the Royal Family.\n\nHe would accompany her at big national moments - state visits, the state opening of Parliament, Remembrance events, anniversaries and thanksgiving services. Watch the footage - you will often a see a little glance between them, a small smile. Private moments in the most public of forums.\n\nThe duke would often be the one at engagements chatting animatedly to crowds or guests, paving the way or breaking the ice for the Queen's arrival. It was a double act which worked.\n\nBut the relationship also worked because they spent time apart. As the duke himself once said: \"It's the secret of a happy marriage to have different interests.\"\n\nThe annual Trooping the Colour parade in 2009\n\nThe Queen famously loves dogs and horses and spends a considerable amount of her free time keeping up with her race trainers and breeders. Prince Philip was a prolific sportsman throughout his life, took a keen interest in the running of the family estates and, in his later years, could often be seen carriage riding around Windsor Great Park or Sandringham.\n\nIn 2012, Prince Harry said: \"Regardless of whether my grandfather seems to be doing his own thing, sort of wandering off like a fish down the river - the fact that he's there, personally, I don't think she could do it without him.\"\n\nFinally deciding he had \"done his bit\" after years of service, Prince Philip retired from public life in 2017. It meant we became used to seeing the Queen either on her own, or supported by another member of the family when carrying out her official duties. Up until March 2020, the duke could most usually be found in Wood Farm on the Sandringham estate in Norfolk.\n\nHe was a man who famously did not like a fuss, and after years of having to get dressed up, make small talk and shake hands, there's little doubt he enjoyed the time simply reading, writing and painting. The downside being that the Queen's role necessitated she stay largely in London and Windsor. No doubt they were in touch regularly, but physically, they were separated.\n\nHowever, when the Covid-19 pandemic hit, it was decided the two of them should shield together at Windsor Castle looked after by a small, dedicated staff which became known as HMS Bubble.\n\nFrom March 2020, in the final months of their marriage, because of the pandemic they spent more time together than they otherwise might have done. Within the confines of the castle, they would have had endless hours to reflect on the extraordinary things they had seen and experienced together.\n\nFor more than 70 years they have been the one constant in each other's lives and the Queen will feel Prince Philip's loss deeply and profoundly.\n\nNever showy or openly demonstrative - theirs will be remembered as an enduring royal love story.\n• None An extraordinary man who led an extraordinary life", "\"His energy was astonishing,\" Prince Charles said of his father in his support of the Queen\n\nThe Duke of Edinburgh's children have shared their reflections on their father's life, his \"astonishing achievement\" and his legacy.\n\nThe Prince of Wales told the BBC \"his energy was astonishing in supporting my mama, and doing it for such a long time\".\n\n\"He's always been there as that rock in the Queen's life,\" said the Earl of Wessex.\n\nThe Princess Royal praised the \"double act\" he created with the monarch.\n\nAnd the Duke of York fondly recalled Prince Philip as a father spending time with his family.\n\n\"Like any other family at the time, your parents went out to work during the day but in the evening - just the same as any other family - we would get together, we would sit on the sofa as a group and he would read to us,\" Prince Andrew said.\n\nThe royals were speaking in interviews to mark the Duke of Edinburgh's death as part of a BBC special programme billed as a tribute \"from those who knew him best\".\n\nPrince Charles told the programme: \"I think he'll probably want to be remembered as an individual in his own right.\"\n\nPrincess Anne reflected on the \"incredible challenge\" of moving from a career in the Royal Navy to royal consort\n\nReflecting on his father's difficult upbringing after his family was exiled, he said: \"It can't have been easy and life was uncertain and everyone had to rely on other people to help - and presumably he had to fall back on himself.\"\n\nThis uncertain upbringing left him with the \"extraordinary ability\" to be positive and move on from adversity, said Princess Anne.\n\nPrince Charles spoke of the \"huge value\" his father found in his education at Gordonstoun under its founder Kurt Hahn, an unconventional figure who emphasised self-reliance and risking - and who partly inspired the creation of the Duke of Edinburgh's award.\n\nMoving from a career in the Royal Navy to become royal consort was \"an incredible challenge\", Princess Anne said. \"In the Royal Navy he was in charge of ships, he was making all the decisions. In his next life, he was making very few.\"\n\nBut Prince Andrew, who served in the navy during the Falklands War, said he had never had any discussions with his father about whether he would have stayed on in the service. \"He saw his role as supporting the Queen,\" the prince said.\n\nPrincess Anne spoke of how his appreciation of how he could help the Queen \"always seemed to be present\" and was vital because she succeeded to the throne so young.\n\n\"They needed to be a double act for a lot of that time to allow her to take on that role,\" she said.\n\nPrince Edward recalled a \"lovely moment\" when his mother was able to pay tribute to his father at the 50th anniversary of the Duke of Edinburgh's Award, by giving the organisation a Royal Charter.\n\n\"It probably meant more to my mother anyway. My father is far too modest to be remotely interested in all that sort of thing, he would brush it off,\" the prince said.\n\nHe said the award was a result of Prince Philip's belief \"that if you could tap into what a young person's passion was, that would drive them forward in terms of their life and their success\".\n\nPrince Edward said he was \"a great source of support and encouragement and guidance all the way through\" while Princess Anne added: \"I think I will best remember him as always being there and a person you could bounce off ideas, but if you were having problems you could always go to him.\"\n\nPrince Philip's legendary \"directness\" was inherited from his mother, Prince Charles explained with an anecdote.\n\nThe duke took on his role with \"extraordinary tact and diplomacy\", said Prince Edward\n\nHis mother, Princess Alice of Battenberg, was buried in Jerusalem, where she is also honoured at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial as \"Righteous Among the Nations\" for protecting Jews at her house in Athens during World War Two.\n\n\"My father said, but hang on, how are we ever going to visit your grave?\" the Prince of Wales recalled. \"She said, don't be so silly, there's a very good bus service from Athens.\"\n\nThe Duke of Edinburgh \"did not suffer fools gladly\", Prince Charles said, which \"made one choose your words carefully\".\n\nPrince Edward said had taken on a challenging role \"with the most extraordinary flair, and the most extraordinary tact and diplomacy - he's never, ever tried to overshadow the Queen in any way, shape or form.\n\n\"He's always been there as that rock in the Queen's life. Certainly within his family that was exactly the same.\"\n\n\"His energy was astonishing, in supporting my mama, and doing it for such a long time,\" said Prince Charles. \"What he's done has amounted to an astonishing achievement, I think.\"", "A man stands on top of a police Land Rover in Belfast on 2 April\n\nNorthern Ireland has seen 12 days of sporadic violence, with crowds of predominantly young people rioting in towns and cities almost nightly since the end of March.\n\nArmed with bricks, bars, fireworks and petrol bombs, people as young as 12 have attacked police in Londonderry, Belfast, Carrickfergus, Ballymena and Newtownabbey.\n\nBBC News NI charts how the violence has unfolded.\n\nA petrol bomb is thrown at a police vehicle while officers attempt to disperse a crowd of about 40 people in Londonderry.\n\nA number of items, including wooden planks and iron bars, are seized at the gathering at the Tullymore Road area of the city.\n\nPolice are attacked outside a shop while on patrol at about 22:00 BST\n\nPetrol bombs are thrown at police in the Tullyally area of Derry.\n\nA police vehicle is struck with a petrol bomb and has to be recovered from the scene.\n\nYouths also reportedly throw masonry and start a small fire on the road during the disturbances.\n\nFor a third night, petrol bombs and masonry are thrown at police in the Tullyally area.\n\nOne officer is hit by thrown masonry but is able to carry on working.\n\nFifteen petrol bombs are seized during the disturbance.\n\nA 17-year-old boy is arrested on suspicion of riotous behaviour.\n\nPetrol bombs are thrown at both police and fire crews during a fourth night of unrest in Derry.\n\nA parked digger is set alight, along with wooden pallets in the Rossdowney Road area.\n\n12 police officers are injured in further trouble.\n\nPetrol bombs, fireworks and masonry are thrown with officers sustaining head, leg and foot wounds.\n\nA care home in Nelson Drive also comes under attack, causing what police call \"untold fear and distress\" to residents.\n\nPolice come under attack as a riot breaks out in Belfast\n\nAs many as 100 people gather in Belfast's Shaftesbury Square area for a loyalist protest.\n\nA riot breaks out with petrol bombs, bricks and bottles thrown at police in Sandy Row.\n\nEight officers are injured and seven people arrested.\n\nA small crowd of protestors gather at the Larne Road Link, which is closed by police along with the Crebilly Road.\n\nPolice attacked with petrol bombs and fireworks at the Cloughfern roundabout in Newtownabbey's O'Neill Road area\n\nSome 30 petrol bombs are thrown at police and three vehicles are hijacked and set alight during rioting in Newtownabbey, on the outskirts of Belfast.\n\nA crowd of up to 30 people block the roundabout with two burning cars.\n\nThe crowd consists of young people and older men, some of whom are wearing masks.\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\nBurnt-out cars and debris remain the morning after a night of violence in Newtownabbey\n\nBricks and bottles are thrown at police and a bin set alight in another night of violence at the Cloughfern roundabout.\n\nSome 20 to 30 people in masks set bins on fire and, when officers move in to the area, four petrol bombs are thrown at them.\n\nA 47-year-old man is charged with riot and throwing a petrol bomb following trouble in the area on Saturday night.\n\nA scorched section of the Dungiven road remains where pallets were set alight the night before\n\nPetrol bombs and masonry are thrown at police in the loyalist Waterside in Derry.\n\nAbout 40 youths are involved in the incident and the Dungiven Road is temporarily closed after pallets are set alight.\n\nNo officers are injured, but a senior officer says children as young as 12 were involved in the disorder.\n\nUp to 20 petrol bombs are thrown at police in Carrickfergus\n\nPetrol bombs are thrown at police on the North Road in Carrickfergus, County Antrim.\n\nA crowd of up to 50 people gather and 20 petrol bombs are thrown.\n\nFour officers are injured after being struck by masonry, sustaining leg, foot and neck injuries.\n\nAn 18-year-old man is later arrested for alleged involvement in the violence.\n\nCars are set alight and surrounding roads blocked with fires in Derry's Waterside area\n\nPetrol bombs are thrown at police and vehicles set alight during further disorder in the Waterside in Derry.\n\nSome 40 to 50 people with petrol bombs are involved.\n\nPetrol bombs are also thrown at police during a security alert in the Templemore area of the city.\n\nTwo vehicles are set alight by youths in the Nelson Drive area, which escalates to bins being set on fire on the Limavady Road and a digger also being set alight.\n\nThere are reports of a brick being thrown at a taxi, which is carrying a passenger, on the same road at about 23:30.\n\nNine police officers are injured after trying to engage with people attending an \"unnotified procession\" in the Crebilly Road area.\n\nA stretch of the M2 motorway is closed to allow debris, including a wheelie bin, to be cleared from the road following the disorder.\n\nMeanwhile, about 300 people march through the Ballykeel estate in a reported \"show of support for loyalist culture\".\n\nPolice officers are at the scene but no unrest or arrests are reported.\n\nThere is also an un-notified loyalist parade in the Jervis Street area of Portadown.\n\nNo reports of serious disorder but police maintain a presence in many areas.\n\nA bus was hijacked in west Belfast and left to freewheel along a road before being set on fire\n\nPolice officers are attacked, petrol bombs thrown and a bus hijacked and burned in Belfast.\n\nThe rioting is \"on a scale not seen in Northern Ireland for years\", say police.\n\nEight officers are injured at an interface between loyalist and nationalist areas in west Belfast.\n\nSeveral hundred people gather on each side of the peace wall separating the loyalist Shankill Road and the nationalist Springfield Road in west Belfast.\n\nPetrol bombs are thrown in both directions and police officers say they fired six baton rounds to quell the disturbances after facing a \"potential imminent loss of life\".\n\nPolice deployed water cannon for the first time in six years during disorder on 8 April\n\nRioting breaks out on both sides of a west Belfast interface for the second night in a row.\n\nFor the first time in six years, the Police Service of Northern Ireland deploy water cannon in a bid to disperse rioters.\n\nOfficers come under attack from both loyalists and nationalists near gates which separate the mainly loyalist Lanark Way (off the Shankill Road) from the mainly nationalist Springfield Road.\n\nDozens of youths, watched by hundreds of onlookers, throw petrol bombs, bricks and fireworks towards the peace line, but when police move between the rioters, they become the focus of attack.\n\nBBC reporters on the ground say community workers tried to dissuade youths from violence.\n\nThe disorder continues for about four hours and while police face sustained attacks, the rioting does not reach the same level as the night before.\n\nFollowing the death of the Duke of Edinburgh, loyalist groups call for protests to be halted as a mark of respect.\n\nHowever, there is rioting in north Belfast's neighbouring loyalist Tiger's Bay and nationalist New Lodge areas.\n\nIn Tiger's Bay, police are attacked over several hours with petrol bombs, stones and other missiles.\n\nA burning car is rammed against a police Land Rover and bins are set alight.\n\nOfficers are also attacked in the New Lodge. There is a lull, but attacks on police lines intensify shortly before midnight.\n\nIn all, police say 14 more officers are injured in the city. No-one is seriously hurt but one officer is knocked unconscious and is treated in hospital.\n\nAbout 40 people, many of them masked teenagers, build a road block and set it on fire.\n\nPetrol bombs are thrown at police and some of their vehicles are damaged. No officers are hurt.\n\nIt is the first night without major incident since Tuesday 6 April.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAn \"explosive\" volcanic eruption has blanketed the Caribbean island of St Vincent in ash and smoke and forced thousands of people out of their homes.\n\nLa Soufrière, which has been dormant for decades, first started showing volcanic activity in December, but that increased this week.\n\nOn Thursday, Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves urged more than 16,000 residents in \"red zones\" to evacuate.\n\nThe volcano has since spewed dark ash plumes 6 km (3.7 miles) into the air.\n\nAsh fall has been recorded as far from the volcano as Argyle International Airport some 20 km away, St Vincent's National Emergency Management Organisation (Nemo) said.\n\nThe volcano had been dormant since 1979, but in December it started spewing steam and smoke, and making rumbling noises.\n\nThousands of people have been evacuated from the surrounding area\n\nThe first sign that an eruption was imminent came on Thursday evening, when a lava dome became visible on La Soufrière.\n\nThat same night, Mr Gonsalves ordered an urgent evacuation of the surrounding area.\n\nThen just before 09:00 on Friday (13:00 GMT), seismologists from the University of the West Indies confirmed that an \"explosive eruption\" was under way.\n\nEvacuees were taken to cruise ships and safer parts of the island.\n\nOne resident, Zen Punnett, told AFP news agency that he saw \"a huge ball of smoke\", and that there was panic when people were first ordered to evacuate.\n\n\"I can feel and hear rumbling here in the green safe zone... keeping calm as much as possible and praying,\" he added.\n\nA second explosion was recorded, causing a large vertical column of ash\n\nLavern King, a volunteer at shelters on the island, told Reuters news agency: \"People are still being evacuated from the red zone, it started yesterday evening and into last night. The place in general is in a frenzy.\"\n\nInhabitants of the red zone constitute more than 10% of the country's population.\n\nLater on Friday another explosion was recorded, the UWI Seismic Research Centre tweeted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by UWISeismic Research This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 evacuation procedures were hindered by the heavy ash fall, which had made visibility \"extremely poor\", Nemo said.\n\n\"Now that the La Soufrière volcano has begun erupting explosively, ash falls will soon overwhelm us,\" the organisation wrote on Facebook, adding: \"Be sure to get rid of or clean up the ash, soon after it falls. If rain falls, the ash could harden and pose a danger to you.\"\n\nMost of the Lesser Antilles islands are part of a long volcanic arc in the Eastern Caribbean.\n\nThe last eruption, in 1979, caused more than $100m (£73m) of damage on the island.\n\nThe worst eruption on record, in 1902, killed more than 1,000 people.\n\nLocal media have also reported increased activity from Mount Pelee on the island of Martinique, north of St Vincent.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nDiego Llorente scored a late equaliser for Leeds to deny Liverpool a place in the top four of the Premier League - as uncertainty reigns over what that would mean following the announcement of the European Super League.\n\nThe Reds are one of 12 clubs to agree to join a breakaway ESL to \"commence as soon as practicable\". Even if it does not start next season, Uefa has said it could ban the clubs - including six English sides - from European competition for their defection.\n\nThere was a strange mood around the first game involving any of the 12 teams since Sunday night's announcement, with protests inside and outside the ground.\n\nFans of Leeds and other clubs gathered outside Elland Road to stage a protest - during which a Liverpool shirt was burned - and a plane flew over the stadium displaying an anti-Super League message.\n\nInside the stadium Leeds players wore T-shirts saying 'Earn it' next to the Champions League logo and 'Football is for the fans'. A banner behind one goal had the same message.\n\nLeeds left the shirts in Liverpool's dressing room too, in case they wanted to protest - a move that annoyed Reds boss Jurgen Klopp, who said he does not like the idea of the ESL but that he and his players had no say in it.\n\nLiverpool dominated the first half and went ahead when Trent Alexander-Arnold latched on to Diogo Jota's fine pass and squared it to Sadio Mane to slot into an empty net after Illan Meslier had rushed out of goal.\n\nThat was his first Premier League goal since January, a run of 10 games.\n\nLeeds improved after the break and Patrick Bamford hit the crossbar before Llorente headed in his first goal for the club.\n\nLiverpool stay sixth after this result. Were they to occupy that position at the end of the season, they would not even finish in a European place, unless one of the domestic cup winners also finish in the top five.\n\nBut if the Super League does happen, the Reds would no longer need to worry about such things.\n\nLiverpool were the dominant force in the first half especially, with Thiago Alcantara forcing a save from distance and Roberto Firmino shooting straight at Meslier before the goal.\n\nLeeds battled back in the second half but Liverpool had two great chances to win it - shortly before the equaliser when substitute Mohamed Salah dragged a shot wide and then in the final minute when Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain was denied by Meslier.\n\nLiverpool's immediate future, though, is more likely to be decided off the pitch, rather than in a game at Elland Road against an English side not in the 'big six'.\n\nLeeds followed up last weekend's victory over champions-elect Manchester City with a dramatic draw against the title holders. Next up is old rivals Manchester United as they navigate a sequence of testing fixtures.\n\nThe hosts were not at their busy best in the first half - although Bamford was denied by Alisson after some poor goalkeeping - but they dramatically improved after the break.\n\nBamford clipped a clever first-time shot over Alisson that came off the crossbar, and Jack Harrison was denied by the goalkeeper at his near post.\n\nLeeds got the goal they deserved when Llorente nodded in Harrison's corner for a first goal in English football.\n\nUnited sit 10th in the Premier League, eight points behind the automatic European places. Although if six teams above them suddenly became ineligible, they would be in the Champions League spots.\n• None Leeds have won just one of their last 12 home games against Liverpool in all competitions (D4 L7).\n• None Liverpool have dropped 13 points from winning positions in the Premier League this season, two more than they had over the last two campaigns combined.\n• None Leeds have both scored and conceded 50 goals in the Premier League this season (32 games), with only Tottenham in 2007-08 doing so in fewer matches in a campaign in the competition (30).\n• None Liverpool's possession figure of 38.8% was their lowest in a Premier League game since November 2018 (38.2% vs Arsenal) - a game that also finished 1-1.\n• None Some 75% of Sadio Mane's Premier League goals this season have come away from home (6/8).\n• None Eight of Trent Alexander-Arnold's 31 Premier League assists for Liverpool have been for Mane, at least three more than he has provided for any other player.\n• None Diego Llorente's equaliser was his first goal in his 10th Premier League game for Leeds, and his first goal overall since July 2020 for Real Sociedad at Villarreal.\n• None With two attempts, Liverpool's Mohamed Salah became the second player to record 100 shots in the Premier League this season (101 in total), after Harry Kane (117).\n\nLiverpool host Newcastle in the early Saturday game (12:30 BST), while Leeds' tough run continues with a home game against Manchester United at 14:00 the following day.\n• None Ian Poveda-Ocampo (Leeds United) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt saved. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Roberto Firmino.\n• None Goal! Leeds United 1, Liverpool 1. Diego Llorente (Leeds United) header from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Jack Harrison with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Thiago with a through ball.\n• None Attempt missed. James Milner (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is too high following a corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Diogo Jota (Liverpool) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Ozan Kabak.\n• None Attempt blocked. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Big Narstie explores the impact of the Brixton Riots\n• None Find out on the Bad People podcast", "A US police officer who died after January's Capitol riot had two strokes and died from natural causes, the chief medical examiner for Washington DC has ruled.\n\nTwo men are accused of using a type of pepper spray on Officer Brian Sicknick.\n\nHowever, the ruling means they are now unlikely to be charged with homicide.\n\nThe autopsy found no evidence of an allergic reaction to chemicals, nor of internal or external injuries, Dr Francisco Diaz said.\n\nOfficer Sicknick, 42, was defending the Capitol building from supporters of then President Donald Trump who stormed it on 6 January. He collapsed after returning to his office during the siege, and died the next day in hospital.\n\nIn his ruling, Dr Diaz found Officer Sicknick died of a medical condition which was not brought on by an injury.\n\nDue to privacy laws, Dr Diaz is unable to say whether the officer had any pre-existing medical conditions. However, he did acknowledge the policeman's role in the events, telling the Washington Post: \"All that transpired played a role in his condition.\"\n\nSpeculation over Officer Sicknick's death was the source of widespread misinformation after the New York Times reported erroneously that protesters had bludgeoned him with a fire extinguisher - a claim the newspaper later retracted.\n\nFour other people died in the Capitol riot - all pro-Trump protesters: unarmed Ashli Babbitt was shot at point blank range by a Capitol Police officer; two others died of heart failure and one from an amphetamine overdose.\n\nOfficer Sicknick lay in honour in the Capitol Rotunda in January - a rare distinction reserved for those who are not government or military officials\n\nJulian Elie Khater, 32, and George Pierre Tanios, 39, were arrested in March accused of assaulting Officer Sicknick with a chemical spray. The pair, who reportedly grew up together in New Jersey, were \"working in concert and had a plan to use the toxic spray against law enforcement\", according to court documents.\n\nThe documents allege that Mr Khater was recorded on video asking Mr Tanios for the spray - known as bear spray - near the Lower West Terrace of the Capitol, where Officer Sicknick and other police were standing guard.\n\nMinutes later, Mr Khater is seen on video discharging a canister of the spray into the faces of three officers, who were were temporarily blinded and incapacitated for more than 20 minutes, according to investigators.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. When a mob stormed the US capitol\n\nThe men have been charged with nine counts and face up to 20 years in prison. Their lawyers had no comment on the chief medical examiner's ruling, AP reports.\n\nMore than 540 suspects have been identified, and investigators have charged some 400 people in connection with the Capitol siege so far, which led to Mr Trump's second impeachment.\n\nExactly 100 days after the riot, prosecutors got their first guilty plea, as Jon Schaffer, 53, a member of the Oath Keepers militia group and a heavy metal guitarist admitted to two charges - obstructing an official proceeding and entering a restricted building with a dangerous weapon.", "Millions of children across England are being asked to contribute to a survey about their hopes for the future.\n\nChildren's Commissioner for England Dame Rachel de Souza says the results will inform a review aimed at tackling \"generational problems that have held back too many children for decades\".\n\nThe Big Ask is aiming to be the largest consultation with children undertaken in England.\n\nIt will be introduced with an online assembly by footballer Marcus Rashford.\n\nFrom Monday, the month-long anonymous survey will be made available to schools, youth groups, charities and other children's organisations and services with questions tailored to different age groups.\n\nChildren will be asked how happy they are about aspects of their lives, and what they think stops children achieving what they want to achieve when they grow up.\n\nThere will be focus groups for children with special educational needs, disabilities or other complex needs, and focus groups to ensure the experience of babies and pre-school children is captured.\n\nManchester United and England striker Marcus Rashford will introduce the survey in an online assembly\n\nInspired by the 1942 Beveridge Report, which laid the foundations of the welfare state, Dame Rachel says the results will inform a review - titled the Childhood Commission - which will propose solutions to barriers facing children and set targets to monitor improvements.\n\nThe 1940s report, written by Liberal economist Sir William Beveridge, was commissioned by the wartime coalition government to examine how Britain should be rebuilt after World War Two and paved the way for major reforms including the creation of the NHS.\n\nChildren's responses will be at the heart of the \"'Beveridge-style' blueprint for government\", Dame Rachel says\n\nDame Rachel will visit schools across the country to hear first-hand from children about their experiences of the coronavirus pandemic and hopes for the future.\n\nShe said she wanted to \"better understand what children want from the people in power and those who make decisions about their lives\".\n\nDame Rachel said children's responses would be at the heart of her \"'Beveridge-style' blueprint for government\".\n\nShe said: \"It is time to give something back to children after the huge sacrifices they have made during the Covid pandemic.\n\n\"The Big Ask will ask millions of children in England to tell us what life is like for them, what their hopes and ambitions are, and what is holding them back.\"", "High Street lenders are now starting to offer mortgages to borrowers offering a deposit of just 5% under a new government guarantee scheme.\n\nThe policy, announced in the Budget, is designed to help more first-time buyers secure a home.\n\nBut the launch comes as average house prices in the UK continue to rise to record levels.\n\nAnalysts also suggest that cheaper deals are available for those able to stretch to a 10% deposit.\n\nThe scheme is similar to policies previously used to boost the housing market and the economy, as well as offering support to those buying a home for the first time.\n\nThe new scheme will be available to anyone buying a home costing up to £600,000, unless they are buy-to-let or second homes.\n\nThe government is offering a partial guarantee, generally of 15%, to compensate lenders if the borrower defaults on repayments.\n\nKaren Wright, 41, runs a beauty salon in Cheshire, while her husband Christopher, 33, is a joiner.\n\nAs self-employed people, they have both been hit hard by the pandemic, with Karen's salon closed for five months out of the past year.\n\nThat's made it all the more difficult to save for a deposit for their dream home.\n\n\"We've been renting since 2010,\" says Karen, \"but we want something that's a 'forever' home for us.\n\n\"Trying to save up 20% is very difficult, but with this scheme, we might be able to pay down more than we thought we could and be able to come within the budget of what we currently pay in the rental market.\"\n\nThe couple are keen to find a three-bedroom house in the Wirral, so their two children can each have a room of their own.\n\n\"It's not the cheapest area, but we're looking for something we can maybe do up, utilising my husband's skills.\"\n\nThe guarantee is designed to give lenders the confidence to offer 95% loan-to-value mortgages - many of which were withdrawn during the Covid crisis.\n\nLloyds, Santander, Barclays, HSBC and NatWest are starting to offer products this week and Virgin Money will do so next month.\n\nHowever, some lenders such as Halifax, which is part of Lloyds Banking Group, and Barclays have said that these products will not be available for new-build properties.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said: \"Every new homeowner and mover supports jobs right across the housing sector, but saving for a big enough deposit can be hard, especially for first-time buyers.\n\n\"By giving lenders the option of a government guarantee on 95% mortgages, many more products will become available, boosting the sector, creating new jobs and helping people achieve their dream of owning their own home.\"\n\nHowever, lenders will still carry out affordability checks. Anyone who has lost a job, or whose income has been sporadic owing to the pandemic's effect on employment may find it difficult to secure a mortgage.\n\nHouse prices have been rising - partly because of government stimulus, and there are concerns too about the potential for some to fall into negative equity if this is followed by sharp falls in property values.\n\nSome of the new mortgage rates are close to 4% for a two-year fixed rate deal. For example, rates on NatWest's new 95% mortgages will start at 3.9%.\n\nLloyd Cochran, head of mortgages at NatWest, told the BBC's Today programme: \"It reflects the extra risk the bank is taking on. I think over the long term that is a pretty competitive rate for customers.\n\n\"One of the things we do is ensure that the customer can afford that rate. We also ensure... the customer can afford that loan if interest rates were to rise.\"\n\nHowever, analysts say rates could be cut significantly, by as much as 0.75 of a percentage point, for borrowers able to stretch to a 10% deposit.\n\n\"With more lenders poised to launch deals for this sector of the market, [borrowers] level of choice should hopefully increase even further,\" said Eleanor Williams, from financial information service Moneyfacts.\n\n\"Increased competition within the higher loan-to-value tiers will hopefully translate to more competitive rates for these borrowers.\"", "Noel Quinn said his return to an open plan office would enable him to \"reconnect with colleagues and friends\".\n\nBanking giant HSBC has confirmed that top managers in its Canary Wharf HQ have lost their offices and will have to hot-desk on an open-plan floor.\n\nIt comes as HSBC pursues plans to shrink its office space by 40% in a post-pandemic shake-up.\n\nBoss Noel Quinn said the whole bank was embracing \"hybrid working\" and he would no longer come in five days a week.\n\n\"My leadership team and I have moved to a fully open-plan floor with no designated desks,\" he said on Linkedin.\n\nUp to now, senior managers have been based on the 42nd floor of the building in east London in their own private offices.\n\nBut in future, they will be jostling for workspaces two floors down, while their old offices have been transformed into client meeting rooms and other communal spaces.\n\nMr Quinn told the FT that the old arrangement had been \"a waste of real estate\", adding: \"Our offices were empty half the time because we were travelling around the world.\"\n\nIn a separate post on LinkedIn he said that after more than a year working from home, being based in an open plan office would allow him to \"reconnect with colleagues and friends [and] be able to speak to them informally\".\n\nHe added that most staff at the bank would be able to work part-time from home in future.\n\n\"A minority of roles can be done wholly remotely. We estimate, though, that most of our roles could be done in a hybrid way - and that includes myself and the executive team of the bank.\"\n\nAt the same time, HSBC is pushing ahead with one of the banking industry's most drastic responses to the pandemic, including cost-cutting plans that will reduce its workforce by about 35,000.\n\nOther firms in the sector have announced plans to embrace hybrid working as employees signal their desire to commute less.\n\nOne big UK employer, the 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\nIt said about two-thirds of its 18,000 employees had been working from home for the past year.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There has been a sharp rise in cases in India\n\nHealth officials are investigating whether a Covid variant first found in India spreads more easily and evades vaccines.\n\nThere is not yet enough data to classify it as a \"variant of concern\", a leading scientist has said.\n\nBut Dr Susan Hopkins of Public Health England said cases had been found in the UK that were not linked to travel, with their origin being investigated.\n\nMore than 70 cases have been identified in England and Scotland.\n\nIt is also too soon to decide if India should be put on the government's travel \"red list\", Dr Hopkins said.\n\nOn Sunday the UK recorded 1,882 new coronavirus cases and 10 deaths within 28 days of a positive test, according to the latest government figures. The number of deaths recorded at weekends tends to be lower because of reporting delays.\n\nMeanwhile, more than 32.8 million people have had their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, while more than 9.9 million people have had their second dose.\n\nDr Hopkins, chief medical adviser for NHS Test and Trace, told the Andrew Marr Show: \"We have seen a couple of cases [of the Indian variant] that haven't arisen from travel but we're still trying to undergo the investigations to look in great detail at where they might have acquired it from.\n\n\"To escalate it up the ranking we need to know that it is increased transmissibility, increased severity or vaccine evading, and we just don't have that yet.\"\n\nPublic Health England says 73 cases of the variant first identified in India have been found in England, and four in Scotland.\n\nEpidemiologist Dr Mike Tildesley said work needed to be done urgently on finding out more about the variant.\n\nHe said: \"I would always say when these new variants do emerge it is a concern and it's really important that we get as much information as we can as quickly as possible.\n\n\"What's concerning about the Indian variant is there appear to be two mutations which... may make the vaccines less effective, and may make the virus more transmissible.\n\n\"The key thing here is 'may'. We are still trying to gather evidence about this.\"\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\nAsked if India should be added to the government's \"red list\" of banned countries, Environment Secretary George Eustice said: \"We're allowing people in from India provided they have had a pre-departure test, provided they then quarantine - albeit not in a hotel or a designated facility, but quarantine at home - and then have a test at two and eight days.\n\n\"So there are quite a lot of robust tests and checks for anybody coming into the country.\"\n\nHe said the matter was kept \"under regular review\" and the government was taking scientific advice - adding that he believed the prime minister's trip to India should still go ahead later this month.\n\nBoris Johnson has already scaled down his trip due to the rising number of cases - India has reported more than 150,000 Covid cases a day for the past three weeks.\n\nMr Eustice also told Sky's Sophy Ridge on Sunday that business needed to continue \"with the right precautions\" in place.\n\nLabour shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds accused the government of not doing enough to keep variants out of the UK.\n\n\"Large numbers of cases of two deeply worrying variants, first discovered in South Africa and India, have been discovered in the UK,\" he said.\n\n\"We are at a critical moment in the fight against the pandemic, as the sacrifices of the British people and the vaccine give us hope of reopening large parts of life.\"\n\nIn early February, Labour criticised the government for being too slow in implementing a hotel quarantine scheme and called for it to be extended to arrivals returning from all countries - not just those on a red list.\n\n\"Now we are seeing the results of a disastrous policy that has let thousands of people enter the UK without a proper quarantine system,\" Mr Thomas-Symonds said.\n\nSpeaking about other variants, Dr Hopkins also told the BBC the current vaccines were \"not as good against the South African variant as they are against our own (variant) B117 at preventing infection and transmission\" and that caution was still required.\n\nBut she said it was highly likely they would still be effective in reducing deaths and hospitalisations.", "The American space agency, Nasa, has successfully flown a small helicopter on Mars.\n\nThe drone, called Ingenuity, was airborne for less than a minute, but Nasa is celebrating what represents the first powered, controlled flight by an aircraft on another world.\n\nThis was the moment the data came through that proved its flight was a success.", "India's capital, Delhi, has announced a week-long lockdown after a record spike in cases overwhelmed the city's healthcare system.\n\nGovernment offices and essential services, such as hospitals, pharmacies and grocers, will be open during the lockdown, which starts on Monday night.\n\nThe city had imposed a weekend curfew, but reported its highest single-day spike so far on Sunday - 24,462 cases.\n\nIndia has been reeling from a deadly second wave since the start of April.\n\nDelhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said the city had almost run out of beds at hospital intensive care units (ICUs) and that oxygen was in short supply.\n\n\"I have always been against lockdowns, but this one will help us amplify the number of hospital beds in Delhi,\" he told a virtual press conference on Monday.\n\nHe also appealed to the city's migrant workers not to leave - last year's national lockdown saw millions of them heading back to their villages after they found themselves unemployed and running out of money.\n\n\"This was a difficult decision to take but we had no other option left,\" Mr Kejriwal said. \"I know when lockdowns are announced, daily-wage workers suffer and lose their jobs. But I appeal to them to not leave Delhi. It's a short lockdown and we will take care of you.\"\n\nThe city's crematoriums are struggling to keep up\n\nCrematoriums in the area are also overwhelmed, reports the BBC's Rajini Vaidyanathan in Delhi. Distressing images showed bodies being burnt on the pavement, outside one on the outskirts of the capital.\n\nOne in three people in Delhi is testing positive.\n\nIndia's health ministry has announced it will open its Covid-19 vaccination drive to all adults from 1 May.\n\n\"In a meeting chaired by [Prime Minister] Narendra Modi, an important decision of allowing vaccination to everyone above the age of 18 from 1 May has been taken,\" it said in a statement quoted by the AFP news agency.\n\nMore than 273,000 cases of coronavirus have been reported across India - with more than 1,600 deaths - in the last 24 hours.\n\nIndia has been reporting more than 200,000 cases daily since 15 April - well past its peak last year, when it was averaging around 93,000 cases a day.\n\nOn Monday, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson cancelled a planned trip to India in view of the situation. Mr Johnson and Mr Modi will speak later this month to \"launch ambitious plans for the future partnership\", a statement said.\n\nUK Health Secretary Matt Hancock also announced on Monday afternoon that India had been placed on the country's travel red list, which means people who have been in India in the last 10 days cannot enter the UK.\n\nFormer Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has been admitted to hospital after testing positive for the virus, Indian media report.\n\nLines are building up even at testing centres as cases surge\n\nMaharashtra, which has India's financial hub Mumbai as its capital, remains the worst-hit state, accounting for nearly a third of India's more than 1.9 million active cases.\n\nBut Delhi is the worst-hit city, confirming more cases daily than Mumbai in recent days.\n\nHospitals are struggling to accommodate Covid-positive patients in Delhi and other badly hit cities such as Mumbai, Lucknow and Ahmedabad. Several states have been reporting an acute shortage of beds in Covid wards and ICUs.\n\nEven test results are being delayed because of overwhelming demand, which, doctors say, is leading to people not getting diagnosed and treated in time.\n\nExperts say the Indian government ignored warnings of a second wave and did little to prevent it or even contain it - they point to cricket matches attended by unmasked crowds, massive election rallies that appeared to flout basic Covid safety rules, and a huge Hindu festival where millions congregated on the banks of the Ganges river earlier this month to take a holy dip.\n\nBuoyed by a sharp dip in case numbers and the start of the vaccination drive, India began the year on what appeared to be a normal note. But things soon took a turn for the worse as people began leaving home more, wearing masks less and socialising in larger groups. The entry of variants and a lag in the vaccination drive only drove up infections further, experts say.\n\nWithin weeks, India shot to the top of the world's Covid chart, recording more cases daily than any other country.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. India coronavirus: \"A Covid tsunami we had never seen before\"", "The Labour leader is told he has \"failed this country\" for not opposing government lockdown policies.\n\nSir Keir Starmer was confronted by pub landlord Rod Humphris who angrily ordered him off the premises.\n\nSir Keir said he “profoundly disagreed” with Mr Humphris, who then got in to an altercation with a security guard as he told Sir Keir: \"Get out of my pub\".\n\nSir Keir later said “nobody wants a lockdown, but it was necessary”.", "Jurgen Klopp is determined to remain Liverpool boss and \"help sort it\" after reiterating his opposition to the European Super League.\n\nThe Reds are one of 12 clubs to agree to join the breakaway competition.\n\nIn 2019 Klopp said he hoped there would never be a Super League and before the 1-1 Premier League draw with Leeds he confirmed his opinion had not changed.\n\n\"I heard I will resign. If times get tough it makes me even more sticky that I will stay,\" he said after the game.\n\nReds vice-captain James Milner was even more critical of the new tournament - which has threatened to cause a schism in football.\n\n\"I don't like it one bit and hopefully it doesn't happen,\" he told BBC Sport.\n\n\"It [the current system] has worked well for a long time. What has made it special, what we have done over the last few years, is we have earned the right to win the Champions League and the Premier League. The product we have currently is very good.\n\n\"It is difficult. Coming into the game today Leeds fans were making their feelings shown. As players we don't really have a say so it feels a bit unjust.\"\n\nFormer England captain Alan Shearer said it was unfair for Klopp to have to address the ESL and end up in an awkward situation.\n\n\"He doesn't want what his owners want and that is a really powerful voice,\" Shearer told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"Where are these owners? Why don't they come out and tell us why they want a closed shop that no-one else can get into?\"\n\nLeeds players wore T-shirts saying 'Earn it' next to the Champions League logo and 'Football is for the fans' and left the shirts in Liverpool's dressing room in case they wanted to join the protest. That angered Klopp.\n\n\"We were not involved in the process,\" he said after the game. \"We are the team, we wear the shirts with pride. Somebody has made a decision with the owners in world football that we don't know exactly why.\n\n\"We are here, we are the face of the club and arrived here and Leeds fans shouted at us as though we made the decision but we didn't.\n\n\"Gary Neville was talking about 'You'll Never Walk Alone'. This already should be forbidden. It's our anthem. We have the right to sing our anthem. He doesn't understand it anyway so I don't want this because it's not fair.\n\n\"I don't like this [Super League] either, but I don't talk about the other clubs...\n\n\"I wish Gary Neville would be in a hot seat somewhere and not where the most money is.\n\n\"He was at Manchester United where the most money was and now he's at Sky where the most money is. Don't forget that we have nothing to do with this. We are in the same situation like you all. We got the information yesterday and we still have to play football.\n\n\"'Damn them to hell?' Did he write that today? These things are really not OK.\"\n• None European Super League Q&A - What happens next?\n• None 'Bonfire of greed' - How Europe has reacted\n• None Ministers will do 'whatever it takes' to block breakaway\n\nNeville responded by arguing that he and Klopp were actually in agreement, but defended his own comments.\n\n\"I've handed out enough insults over the years to Liverpool, but yesterday was nothing to do with insulting Liverpool,\" he said. \"I don't know why I'm living in his head. I don't know what's spiked him.\n\n\"Yesterday was an impassioned plea from me about protecting football in this country.\n\n\"My biggest disappointment was with Manchester United and Liverpool. I think I've equally distributed enough criticism to both clubs in the last 24 hours so I don't know what the problem is.\"\n\nFans of several clubs protested outside Elland Road - including burning a Liverpool shirt - while Reds fans displayed banners opposing the move at Anfield.\n\nA plane flew over Leeds' ground saying 'No to Super League'.\n\nUefa president Aleksander Ceferin has said clubs and players involved with the ESL could be banned \"as soon as possible\" from all Uefa competitions - and the World Cup.\n\nKlopp told BBC Radio 5 Live: \"If you thought, what could make the year worse? All that happened, the pandemic, all the injuries, other stuff and then that came up. Another challenge... but we'll get through somehow.\"\n\nPrince William, the Football Association president, was among those to voice their opposition to the plan.\n\nLeeds boss Marcelo Bielsa was also critical of the Super League proposal.\n\n\"It shouldn't surprise us,\" he told the BBC. \"In all walks of life the powerful look after their own and don't worry about the rest of us.\n\n\"The big teams are also created due to the opposition of the other teams. In the search for higher economic earnings they forget about the rest. The powerful are more rich and the weak are poorer. It doesn't do good to football in general.\"\n\nBielsa's striker Patrick Bamford also said \"it is wrong\".\n\n\"Playing in a league you can't get relegated or promoted... it is not football,\" he said.\n\nFulham chairman Shahid Khan said via the club website: \"The concept will not serve the game or our most important stakeholders - the generations of football fans here in England and throughout Europe who have been as loyal to their domestic leagues, and the opportunities they offer, as they are faithful to their favourite team.\"\n\nPFA chief executive Gordon Taylor said the Super League idea had been mooted for some time but was \"the last thing the game needs\".\n\n\"It is a little bit of a ticking time bomb that we have,\" Taylor told BBC Sport. \"You have renegade members who run riot. That causes a massive problem for the vast majority of clubs or you look to try and control it.\n\n\"It is a real test for Uefa, Fifa and our Football Association and also it is something you need to be able to win over, because we are an entertainment industry, the players are important as are the fans and you can't just have a cavalier attitude and ignore it, or it will come back and bite you.\"\n• None A dozen clubs - including Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham - agree to form a new midweek competition\n• None in all and run alongside domestic leagues such as the Premier League\n• None Founding clubs are being enticed with a share of a €3.5bn (£3bn) grant provided by the investment bank JP Morgan\n• None UK government says it is prepared \"to put everything on the table to prevent this from happening\"\n• None France's president, Uefa, the Premier League, Europe's major leagues, players' unions and former players all strongly criticise the move\n• None Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp says he does not agree with the move and that the club's players were not consulted\n• None A YouGov poll of 1,730 football fans found 79% opposed the idea of a Super League\n• None The 14 Premier League clubs not involved in the ESL move will meet on Tuesday\n• None Fans air frustrations on social media and some visit grounds to unfurl banners in protest\n\nFormer Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher said on Sky Sports he felt the ESL move may collapse if one Premier League club can be convinced to withdraw, while ex-Manchester United defender Neville said he wants football to unite in the fight against the concept.\n\n\"If they get this through, it will change football in this country forever. We have to mobilise, organise. Everyone has to be behind this. Forget allegiances, this is an attack on everything that has been important in this country and they are trying to take it away from us.\"\n\nCarragher said: \"The owners, these are the people to blame for it. They are burning the history of what these clubs are about. The only reason Liverpool have a chance of being in this is because of all the European titles in their history. They have only won once with FSG.\n\n\"I think these clubs think it is a done deal. I don't think it is, I think supporters can stop this. We have tribalism and rivalry but football fans get together, all of us, to stop this and it can be stopped - I am convinced. This can not be allowed to happen.\"\n\nSky say they were not involved in the discussions.\n\nFormer Manchester City defender Micah Richards told BBC Radio 5 Live that despite holding a position as an ambassador at the club \"the first word that came to me was disgrace\".\n\n\"From where Manchester City have come from, from Division Two [what is now League One] all the way to the Premier League and they earned that the right way through hard work, great support and not doing things the easy way and went all the way to winning the Premier League.\n\n\"Now, having the audacity to believe they should be better than everyone else - I was flabbergasted.\"\n\nEx-Arsenal striker Ian Wright said he could not believe his former club was one of those involved in the ESL move. \"This is the same Arsenal that only a couple of weeks ago was commended for the tribute to David Rocastle,\" Wright said in a video on Twitter.\n\n\"God, the man would be turning in his grave knowing what is going on now. Is this how far we have fallen?\n\n\"That we are getting into competitions because we are not good enough to get into them, so at the detriment of the English game we are getting a seat at the table we have no right to be at.\"\n\nFormer Blackburn and Chelsea striker Chris Sutton added on 5 Live: \"It's deeply unfair for the players at Liverpool and on Jurgen Klopp as a manager and all the other clubs.\n\n\"The owners have made their beds and have to come out and explain and front up to the fans and they have not done that - it's shocking. This is going to turn very ugly.\n\n\"These clubs have an obligation to their country. I love the league format, if clubs leave the English league it will kill the game as a spectacle.\n\n\"The Champions League will be watered down. It's going to be a Champions League B competition. What will happen to the Merseyside derby? Liverpool have just crushed Everton. They're killing the game.\"\n\nFormer England captain David Beckham posted on Instagram that football was \"nothing without the fans\" and that the game should be \"for everyone\" and competitions \"based on merit\".\n• None Big Narstie explores the impact of the Brixton Riots\n• None Find out on the Bad People podcast", "The Morrissey-esque character, Quilloughby, was voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch\n\nMorrissey appears to have taken offence at The Simpsons after being sent up in the animation's latest episode.\n\nIn the show, titled Panic On The Streets of Springfield, Lisa Simpson becomes obsessed with the militantly vegan singer of a 1980s indie band.\n\nBut her dreams are shattered when it transpires her idol, voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch, had become a bitter, overweight, anti-immigrant meat-eater.\n\nA statement on Morrissey's Facebook called the show \"hurtful and racist\".\n\n\"Surprising what a 'turn for the worst' the writing for The Simpson's TV show has taken in recent years,\" said the statement, which was posted by the star's manager, Peter Katsis.\n\n\"Poking fun at subjects is one thing,\" it continued, \"but when a show stoops so low to use harshly hateful tactics like showing the Morrissey character with his belly hanging out of his shirt (when he has never looked like that at any point in his career) makes you wonder who the real hurtful, racist group is here.\n\n\"Even worse - calling the Morrissey character out for being a racist, without pointing out any specific instances, offers nothing. It only serves to insult the artist.\"\n\nMorrissey's Facebook page had previously promoted the show with this image\n\nThe statement went on to accuse The Simpsons of hypocrisy, noting that white actor Hank Azaria had recently bowed to criticism and agreed to stop voicing the Indian character Apu Nahasapeemapetilon.\n\n\"Hank Azaria's recent apology to the whole country of India for his role in upholding 'structural racism' says it all,\" the message said.\n\nPrior to the episode airing, Morrisey's official Facebook page had promoted the show by posting a still image from the animation.\n\nThe show said it would not be commenting on the star's latest statement.\n\nHowever, the episode's writer previously insisted that the character was not solely based on Morrissey.\n\n\"I'm sticking by that,\" Tim Long told Variety magazine, adding: \"The character is definitely Morrissey-esque, with maybe a small dash of Robert Smith from the Cure, Ian Curtis from Joy Division, and a bunch of other people\".\n\nCalled Quilloughby, the character was said to be the lead singer of a band called The Snuffs - a stand-in for The Smiths.\n\nThe episode also featured music by Flight Of The Conchords and The Muppets' songwriter, Bret McKenzie; and included parodies of The Smiths song titles, such as How Late Is Then, Hamburger Is Homicide, and Everyone Is Horrid Except Me (And Possibly You).\n\nLong said the episode had been inspired by his love of British indie bands during the 1980s, recalling how seeing The Smiths on their The Queen Is Dead tour had \"changed my life\".\n\n\"I've seen Moz [Morrissey] many times since then, most recently at the Hollywood Bowl in 2018,\" he explained to Variety.\n\n\"Executive producer Matt Selman was also at that show, and we got to talking about how much music meant to us as weird, alienated teenagers - and also how being a big fan of someone is like having a lifelong relationship with them, with all the ups and down that implies. This show grew out of that discussion.\"\n\nMorrissey's latest album, I Am Not A Dog On A Chain, was released last March\n\nIn recent years, Morrissey has been criticised for his outspoken and controversial views.\n\nHe has called halal meat \"evil\", accused London Mayor Sadiq Khan of being unable to \"talk properly\" and appeared to defend actor Kevin Spacey over allegations of sexual abuse.\n\nThe singer has also expressed support for the far-right For Britain party, wearing a badge with its logo on during a US TV performance.\n\nHe has consistently denied being a racist.\n\nPanic On The Streets Of Springfield has yet to be broadcast in the UK, but is expected to premiere on Sky One next month.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Hank Azaria apologises for Apu in The Simpsons", "Romeo was able to attend his parents' wedding at the hospital chapel\n\nA couple held their wedding in hospital so their two-year-old son, who needs a heart transplant, could be with them.\n\nJimmy Francis and Suzie Small had planned to marry near their home in Basingstoke but their son Romeo is unable to leave Southampton Children's Hospital due to his heart condition.\n\nMrs Francis said: \"We weren't bothered where we got married, just as long as he was there.\"\n\nHospital chaplain Sue Pitkin said staff had \"gone above and beyond\".\n\nRomeo was diagnosed with a rare heart condition, restrictive cardiomyopathy, at 10 months old, has suffered cardiac arrest and went through open heart surgery.\n\nHe is being treated at the paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) as the family awaits a heart transplant.\n\nMrs Francis said hospital staff did an \"amazing job\" in organising the wedding\n\n\"The nurses did an amazing job and took away the stress of arranging a wedding. We can't thank them enough,\" said Mrs Francis.\n\nMs Pitkin said it was the first time she had officiated at a wedding in hospital and it had been \"a huge responsibility as well as a delight\".\n\nA special licence had to be issued by the Archbishop of Canterbury's office to allow her to marry the couple.\n\n\"On the day everyone in PICU, staff and the Friends of PICU charity, pulled out all the stops to make the chapel look beautiful and to enable Romeo to enjoy his parents' wedding.\n\n\"What an amazing and joyful occasion, a day that I will never forget.\"\n\nHis parents have been documenting his story on their Romeo's Broken Heart blog to raise awareness around the importance of organ donation.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock says putting India on the \"red list\" for travel was a \"difficult but vital decision\"\n\nIndia has been added to a “red list” of countries from which most travel to the UK is banned, over fears of a new Covid variant, the health secretary has said.\n\nFrom 04:00 BST on Friday 23 April, most people who have travelled from India in the last 10 days will be refused entry.\n\nBritish or Irish passport holders, or people with UK residence rights, will be allowed in but must quarantine in a government-approved hotel for 10 days.\n\nMatt Hancock said there had been 103 UK cases of the India variant.\n\nIn a statement to the House of Commons on Monday, the health secretary said the vast majority of the cases of the new variant - officially known as B.1.617 - had been linked to international travel.\n\nHe said test samples had been analysed to see if the new variant had any \"concerning characteristics\" such as greater transmissibility or resistance to treatments and vaccines.\n\nHe told MPs: \"After studying the data, and on a precautionary basis, we've made the difficult but vital decision to add India to the red list.\"\n\nHealth officials say this new variant, first identified in India, has some worrying genetic changes that need exploring.\n\nIt's still too soon to say if it is more contagious, deadly and will evade vaccines - and whether it should join the Variant of Concern list that the South Africa, Kent and Brazil variants belong to.\n\nAssessments are ongoing, and in the meantime the government is looking to stop more cases arriving and spreading in the country.\n\nThat's why the government is also stepping up surge testing to quickly find any new cases in the UK and is introducing a speedy new type of lab test that can show within hours if someone is positive for Covid - and if the infection they have is one of the known variants, including this new one from India.\n\nIt should mean people can isolate faster to prevent giving it to their friends, families, neighbours and colleagues.\n\nYou can read more from Michelle here.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps tweeted the move was made to ensure the UK did not lose its \"hard-won progress on the vaccine rollout\".\n\nA briefing document drawn up by officials at Public Health England shows that between 25 March and 7 April, 3,345 arrivals from India were registered in UK border travel data. Of those 161 - or 4.8% - tested positive for Covid-19 after a PCR test.\n\nThe new travel rule applies to England and Scotland. There are currently no direct international flights into Wales or Northern Ireland.\n\nScotland's Transport Secretary Michael Matheson said: \"International travel will continue to remain a significant risk, requiring a cautious approach, on a four-nation basis.\"\n\nMr Hancock said there had also been 557 cases of the South Africa variant found in the UK since December, with a \"cluster\" of cases in south London and isolated cases in Barnet, Birmingham and Sandwell over the last week.\n\nWhile around two-thirds were related to international travel, there had been a \"small amount\" of community transmission, he added.\n\nHe said the government was \"ramping up\" plans for a booster shot to ensure vaccines stayed \"ahead of the virus\".\n\nIt was less than four months ago that India banned flights from the UK to stop the spread of the UK variant.\n\nNow, as the so-called 'Indian variant' is investigated, and case numbers there climb, it's the UK that is putting the brakes on the number of passengers coming in the opposite direction.\n\nIt shows how quickly dynamics between countries can change.\n\nWhen the Westminster government last added countries to the red list, including Bangladesh and Pakistan, at the start of April, it gave a week's notice. This time it's just over three days.\n\nDirect flights to and from India are already limited - a decision made by the Indian government in January - to 30 a week, meaning that many will now be rushing to book the last few seats before Friday.\n\nThe travel industry is still hoping that international travel from England will restart on 17 May, but today's announcement underlines that it will be a while until the world is open to us.\n\nThe list of countries on the red list is getting longer rather than shorter.\n\nResponding to a question from shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth, Mr Hancock said that surge Covid testing would happen in areas where cases of the India variant had been identified.\n\nLabour's Yvette Cooper, chairwoman of the Home Affairs Committee, questioned why India was not put on the red list sooner, adding: \"Hong Kong this week have identified 47 Covid cases just on a single Delhi flight and we have still 16 more direct flights, many more indirect flights from India to here, before Friday alone.\"\n\nMr Hancock responded by saying that decisions on each country were \"kept under constant review\".\n\nThe announcement came after Prime Minister Boris Johnson cancelled a planned trip to India, which had been due to take place on 26 April, amid rising cases there.\n\nIndia has been reporting more than 200,000 cases daily since 15 April. Its capital Delhi has announced a week-long lockdown after a record spike in cases overwhelmed the city's healthcare system.\n\nIt comes as the UK recorded four deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test, according to the latest government figures.\n\nIt is the lowest daily figure since 7 September, although the number of deaths recorded on Monday and over the weekend tend to be lower because of reporting delays.\n\nThe data also showed there were also 2,963 new infections. Meanwhile, more than 10m people in the UK received a second dose of a Covid-19 vaccine, and nearly 33 million people have had their first dose.\n\nAll travellers returning to the UK must fill out a passenger locator form in advance, including details of their departure country and UK address.\n\nThey must also show proof of a negative Covid test taken within 72 hours before travelling to be allowed entry to the UK.\n\nIn England, a stay in a quarantine hotel costs £1,750 per passenger travelling alone to cover transport, tests, food and accommodation.\n\nEvery additional adult, or child over 12, must pay £650, while children aged five to 12 pay £325.\n\nReturning travellers must take a Covid test on days two and eight of quarantine, at a cost of £210.\n\nA negative test result does not mean they can shorten their time in quarantine, but if they test positive, they must self-isolate for a further 10 days.\n\nNeither will they be able to end it early through the Test to Release scheme, where travellers from non-red list countries can leave home isolation after a negative test on day five.\n\nRule-breakers face strict penalties - including prison sentences of up to 10 years.\n\nAre you trying to travel to India from the UK? Or are you in India trying to reach the UK? Get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "AJ Tracey says he didn't expect so many fans to turn up to the event in Manchester\n\nOrganisers of an AJ Tracey gig, cancelled shortly before it was due to take place on Sunday in Manchester, have been fined £10,000 for breaching Covid rules.\n\nThe rapper says he didn't expect so many people to turn up at Platt Fields Park, in the south of the city.\n\nThe event was axed before he performed because so many people turned up.\n\nAJ Tracey was forced to cancel a trip to Bristol which he was set to make after his Manchester visit.\n\nGreater Manchester Police has warned \"not to flout the lifting of restrictions\" as lockdown rules ease.\n\nCurrent coronavirus restrictions in England mean only six people, or two different households of any size, can gather outside.\n\nIn a video posted online, AJ Tracey thanked fans for coming out.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by aj This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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'd planned to visit three cities and had already appeared in Birmingham.\n\n\"Big love Manny and Brum. Thank you for coming out,\" he told his followers..\n\n\"It's not gonna be safe for me to come to Bristol. I didn't expect that many people to turn up in Manny and genuinely it's just not OK for me to go ahead.\"\n\nWhile thanking fans for their support, AJ Tracey said he'll come back and do shows when it's safe to do so.\n\nPhotos and videos on social media show crowds of people gathering in Platt Fields Park on Sunday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 North West This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAJ Tracey is currently promoting his new album, Flu Game.\n\nOn Saturday he told fans online he'd be keen to visit some cities, asking them where he should go.\n\nThe video was met with some criticism by those who for felt it was irresponsible for him to perform given current guidance.\n\nIn a statement, Greater Manchester Police say that at around 2.50pm on Sunday, they were called to reports of a large gathering at Platts Field Park.\n\nThey told Newsbeat, \"enquiries established that a music event was being held\" and the organiser of the gathering was given a Fixed Penalty Notice of £10,000.\n\nSuperintendent Caroline Hemingway said: \"We are still very much in the midst of a public health crisis and it remains as important as ever to abide by the COVID-19 legislation.\"\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. Boris Johnson postpones his trip to India, saying it was \"only sensible\" with its rising coronavirus cases.\n\nBoris Johnson has said it was \"only sensible\" to cancel his trip to India, due to take place next Monday.\n\nIndia has been reporting more than 200,000 cases daily and has been added to the UK's \"red list\", meaning people returning from there must quarantine in a hotel for 10 days.\n\nThe PM said he would instead speak to his counterpart Narendra Modi online.\n\nThe trip - aimed at boosting trade and investment ties - had originally been due to take place in January.\n\nBut it was called off because of the UK lockdown.\n\nThe second cancellation comes as a Covid variant is spreading in India, with its government confirming 1,620 deaths from the virus on Sunday.\n\nThe capital Delhi has been put into lockdown.\n\nUK health officials are investigating whether the variant, first found in India, spreads more easily and is able to resist the vaccine.\n\nPublic Health England says 103 cases have been detected in England, with four more recorded in Scotland.\n\nSpeaking on a visit to Bath, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said: \"You can see around the world that the virus is still going up in a number of places. We need to be very careful about that.\"\n\nAsked about his cancelled India visit, the prime minister said it was \"frustrating\" but \"Narendra Modi and I have basically come to the conclusion that, very sadly, I won't be able to go ahead with the trip.\n\n\"I do think it's only sensible to postpone, given what's happened in India, the shape of the pandemic there.\"\n\nThe prime minister added that countries around the world had \"a massive amount of sympathy with India, what they're going through\", and that the UK's relationship with India was of \"huge importance\".\n\nThe trip - billed as Mr Johnson's first major overseas visit since entering Downing Street - had been set up to move the two countries nearer to a post-Brexit trade agreement.\n\nTo cancel one prime ministerial trip to India is unfortunate. To cancel twice is…\n\nThe government wants a trade deal with Delhi. Or to start talks about a trade deal with Delhi, at the very least.\n\nThat could become a little bit harder now that Boris Johnson's tour has been cancelled for a second time.\n\nHence why the prime minister wants to keep up the contact with his counterpart Narendra Modi virtually, and is flagging other opportunities for them to meet face to face, such as this summer's G7 summit in Cornwall.\n\nBut is that meeting now in doubt, as coronavirus interrupts the travel plans of world leaders just as much as the rest of us?\n\nAnd some observers say that the logistics of dealing with India is the easy part, and negotiating a trade deal will be significantly harder.\n\nLast week, Downing Street said it would be scaled down - with the bulk of the meetings taking place on Monday 26 April, rather than across four days as originally planned.\n\nBut Labour argued the trip should be cancelled entirely and that the two prime ministers should talk via Zoom.\n\nOne senior Conservative also told the BBC it would have been \"absurd\" for the trip go ahead.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said there was not \"one single factor\" behind the cancellation, but the situation in India was \"challenging\" and that it was \"not the right time for a visit.\"\n\nHe added that Mr Johnson and Mr Modi would meet in person later this year.", "The supermarket giant was given the penalty at Birmingham Magistrates' Court on Monday\n\nTesco has been fined £7.56m for selling out-of-date food at three stores in Birmingham.\n\nOffending items were found at two Tesco Express stores, in the city centre and Bournville, and a Tesco Metro in Bristol Road South.\n\nThe fine was handed down after Tesco Stores Ltd admitted 22 breaches of the Food Safety and Hygiene Regulations, which happened between 2016 and 2017.\n\nTesco said it took \"immediate action\" to rectify problems.\n\nThe grocery company was given the penalty at Birmingham Magistrates' Court on Monday and further ordered to pay prosecution costs of £95,500, the city council said.\n\nThe prosecution by its environmental health department came after complaints were received by the local authority about food being sold past its use-by date, triggering an investigation.\n\nFood inspectors visited three of the company's food retail premises in Birmingham\n\nFood inspectors visited three of the company's city food retail premises. The Tesco Metro in Bristol Road South has since been re-branded under Tesco's discount chain, Jack's.\n\nDate-checking for the firm is now externally approved by Hertfordshire County Council because the company's Welwyn Garden City head office is located in that local authority's area.\n\nA Tesco spokesman said: \"We're disappointed that a small number of out-of-date products were found on sale in three stores in 2016/17.\n\n\"The safety of our customers is always our priority and these incidents are not representative of the high standards of safety and quality we expect in Tesco stores.\n\n\"We took immediate action to address this at the time and we want to reassure our customers that we have robust procedures in place to make sure that this doesn't happen.\"\n\nThe grocery company was also ordered to pay a £170 victim surcharge.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Tottenham\n\nJose Mourinho has been sacked by Tottenham after just 17 months in charge.\n\nThe Portuguese replaced Mauricio Pochettino as Spurs manager in November 2019 and guided the club to sixth in the Premier League last season.\n\nThey are currently seventh, having picked up two points from their past three league games, and were knocked out of the Europa League in March.\n\nSpurs face Manchester City in the Carabao Cup final on 25 April.\n\nOn Sunday, Tottenham were one of six Premier League clubs to announce they were joining a new European Super League, but it is not related to Mourinho's sacking.\n\nMourinho's coaching staff of Joao Sacramento, Nuno Santos, Carlos Lalin and Giovanni Cerra have also been sacked.\n\n\"Jose and his coaching staff have been with us through some of our most challenging times as a club,\" said Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy. \"Jose is a true professional who showed enormous resilience during the pandemic.\n\n\"On a personal level I have enjoyed working with him and regret that things have not worked out as we both had envisaged.\n\n\"He will always be welcome here and we should like to thank him and his coaching staff for their contribution.\"\n• None Is this the end of the Mourinho era in the Premier League?'\n• None Is it time for Harry Kane to leave Spurs?\n\nThis season, Mourinho - who previously managed Manchester United, Chelsea, Real Madrid, Inter Milan and Porto - suffered 10 league defeats in a single campaign for the first time in his managerial career.\n\nNo Premier League side has lost more points from winning positions this season than Spurs, who have dropped 20.\n\nMourinho's last game in charge was a 2-2 league draw at Everton on Friday.\n\nFormer Spurs midfielder Ryan Mason, who has been working with the club's academy, will take first-team training on Monday.\n\nMourinho was not the most popular appointment, but his standing among Spurs fans soared with his performances on Amazon documentary 'All or Nothing', which charted the club's 2019-20 season. And he became somewhat of a social media star with hisInstagram posts.\n\nAfter re-signing Gareth Bale on loan, Spurs had enjoyed a promising start to the current season, including a 6-1 win against Mourinho's former club Manchester United at Old Trafford.\n\nA 2-0 home win over north London rivals Arsenal in early December saw them go top of the Premier League, as Mourinho - a three-time Premier League and two-time Champions League winner - became only the second Spurs manager in history to win his first two north London derbies.\n\nThey weren't top for long, dropping back to second later that month with defeat by Liverpool.\n\nSince then, Spurs have won seven of 19 league games, losing eight of them.\n\nIn February, they were knocked out of the FA Cup in a 5-4 quarter-final defeat by Everton, marking the first time a Mourinho side had conceded five goals since 2010.\n\nThey were beaten 2-1 at Arsenal on 14 March and four days later were eliminated from the Europa League, losing 3-2 on aggregate to Dinamo Zagreb having won the first leg 2-0.\n\nTwo weeks ago, Mourinho - who has earned a reputation as a master tactician and defensive-minded coach and is a former Fifa world coach of the year - refused to accept the blame for Spurs' dropped points.\n\n\"Same coach, different players,\" he said when it was pointed out to him how good his teams usually are at defending leads.\n• None Jose Mourinho won just 51% of his games in charge at Tottenham in all competitions (44/86). Only with Leiria (45%) has he posted a lower win ratio with a single club during his managerial career.\n• None Tottenham have lost 13 games in all competitions this season, which is the highest number of defeats Jose Mourinho has suffered in a single campaign as a manager.\n• None During Mourinho's time at Tottenham, only Man City (130), Liverpool (117) and Manchester United (116) picked up more Premier League points than Spurs (95).\n• None Only during the 2015-16 season with Chelsea (0.9) and 2018-19 with Man Utd (1.5) has a Mourinho side averaged fewer points per game in a league season than Spurs in 2020-21 (1.6).\n• None Only Brighton (31) and Southampton (30) dropped more points from winning positions in the Premier League during the period Mourinho was in charge at Tottenham (27).\n• None Eleven of the 20 points dropped from winning positions this season have come from goals conceded in the final 10 minutes of matches.\n• None Mourinho leaves Spurs with a record of 27 wins, 14 draws and 17 defeats from 58 Premier League games.\n• None Of all managers to take charge of 10 or more matches for Tottenham in the Premier League, only Tim Sherwood (1.91), Mauricio Pochettino (1.89), Andre Villas-Boas (1.83) and Harry Redknapp (1.74) have averaged more points per game than Mourinho (1.64).\n• None Big Narstie explores the impact of the Brixton Riots\n• None Find out on the Bad People podcast", "A selfie of the Ingenuity helicopter and the Perseverance rover\n\nNasa is set to make history as it attempts to launch a helicopter from the surface of Mars.\n\nIf successful, it would be the first powered, controlled flight on another planet.\n\nThe demonstration should see the Mars-copter - called Ingenuity - rise to about 3m, hover for roughly 30 seconds, swivel and then land.\n\nBut with never-tried-before technology and challenging flying conditions, the flight will be difficult to pull off.\n\n\"It feels absolutely nuts,” says Farah Alibay, a systems engineer at Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).\n\n\"We've been flying on Earth for just over 100 years, and now we're like, 'yeah, we're gonna go to another planet and fly'. It's crazy. But that's the beauty of exploration. That's the beauty of engineering.”\n\nIngenuity is scheduled for lift-off at 07:30 GMT (08:30 BST) on Monday. The first data revealing whether the chopper experiment worked should start arriving back at Earth some three hours later.\n\nThis information has to be relayed through Nasa's Perseverance rover and a satellite at Mars that will beam it to JPL.\n\nThis 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\nWhere will the flight take place?\n\nThe Perseverance Rover landed in a region of the Red Planet called Jezero Crater. The robot carried the helicopter beneath it as it made the perilous descent to Mars' surface in February.\n\nPerseverance then drove to an \"airstrip\" about 20m away from its landing site, lowering Ingenuity to the ground and taking a selfie of the two of them.\n\nThe helicopter was dropped onto the ground from underneath the rover\n\nEngineers say the helicopter looks in good shape for its test flight. A software patch to take care of a technical glitch was installed and tested in recent days, but everything should now be ready for the big moment.\n\n\"We have fully confirmed that Ingenuity has enough energy and power to perform this flight at Mars,\" said MiMi Aung, Ingenuity project manager, at a pre-flight press briefing.\n\nIf the flight works, a further four flights will be attempted over the coming days, each one taking the helicopter further afield.\n\nThe flight zone is very close to where Perseverance landed in February\n\nWhat makes flying on Mars so hard?\n\nThe atmosphere on Mars is extremely thin - about 1% of the density here on Earth - and this doesn't give the helicopter much air to \"bite\" into.\n\nThe pull of gravity on the Red Planet is less, which helps - but even so engineers have had to build their chopper very light. It has a mass of just 1.8kg (4lb).\n\nThe two 1.2m-long rotors spin in opposite directions at up to 2,500rpm. This is extremely fast - indeed, the rotor tips will be moving at about two-thirds of the speed of sound on Mars. This should provide the lift Ingenuity needs.\n\nNasa has been keeping an eye on the winds in Jezero. These could measure up to 20m per second - faster than what was tested on Earth. But the team believes the helicopter will cope.\n\nA black-and-white camera that points down to the ground, which is used for navigation, and a high-resolution colour camera that looks out to the horizon.\n\nThe rover will also be snapping away from a distance of about 65m. It will be using its zoom cameras to try to get some close-ups of the action. With luck we should also get to see some video.\n\nAll this has its complications as well. Both the rover and helicopter function autonomously and carry separate clocks. The timing devices will need to be in sync for the photography to work.\n\nKey frames have already been selected for priority return in the data downlink on Monday. We'll just have to wait to see if these were lucky choices.\n\n\"We have practised it, so we hope everything will go well… But we know there'll be surprises,\" said Elsa Jensen, uplink operations lead.\n\nThe flight could transform how we explore other worlds\n\nWhy is this flight so important?\n\nThe US space agency says the flight will be a \"Wright Brothers moment\" - a reference to the first powered, controlled aircraft flight here on Earth in 1903.\n\nTo mark the connection, a postage stamp-sized piece of fabric from a wing of the brothers' plane was taped to Ingenuity before it left Earth. It's worth noting that the Wright Brothers' first flight lasted just 12 seconds. Great things start with small steps.\n\nThe Wright Brothers fabric is taped just under Ingenuity's solar panel\n\nThe hope is this small technology demonstration could eventually transform how we explore some distant worlds.\n\n\"You can traverse places without being hindered by the terrain in the same way as a land-based vehicle is,” explains Havard Grip, Ingenuity’s chief pilot.\n\n\"It could do scouting missions for future rovers, perhaps, or even for astronauts, and then we're also thinking about it in terms of the potential for carrying its own science instruments to places that are very hard to access.\"\n\nNasa has already approved a helicopter mission to Titan, the big moon of Saturn. This has a very thick atmosphere. Dragonfly, as the mission is known, should arrive at Titan in the mid-2030s.\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. Eyewitnesses said the north Wales cliff fall was up to 40m (131ft) wide\n\nA major landslide at a beach in north Wales has prompted warnings for people to stay away.\n\nThe cliff fall, which eyewitnesses say is up to 40m (131ft) wide, happened on Nefyn's coastline in Gwynedd.\n\nChristian Pilling, who works nearby, said he was on a walk in the area and \"had the shock of our lives\" when they saw what had happened.\n\nCoastguard crews were alerted to the fall at about 12:30 BST, the Maritime and Coastguard Agency said.\n\nEmergency services and utility companies are securing the area after the landslide, which saw parts of some gardens on the cliffs above tumble onto the beach below.\n\nThe landslide happened in front of homes at Nefyn beach\n\nGwynedd Council said: \"A significant landslide has affected the beach in Nefyn with a large part of the cliff having fallen on the beach earlier today.\"\n\nIt said council officers were on site, adding: \"Arrangements have been made for an initial investigation of the cliff to be carried out.\"\n\nIn a tweet, North Wales Police also said: \"We are aware of people gathering to take photographs - the public are advised to avoid the area until further notice.\"\n\nMr Pilling, a hairdresser from nearby Morfa Nefyn, said: \"We'd just gone down for a walk and turned round and had the shock of our lives.\n\n\"I don't think anyone was on the beach. We'd gone down there about half an hour after it happened.\n\n\"It's a good 40m wide, but it's hard to tell.\"\n\nNeighbours say the house that lost a large part of its garden is a second home\n\nJoan Coppin, who lives near the beach, said: \"It's taken land from the bottom of holiday homes on Rhodfar Mor - we have got local people to the right of those and they are in quite a precarious place, I would say.\n\n\"I live at the back of the beach. I'm so glad it's today it happened - I seriously hope no-one is missing. If it happened yesterday, there were people around, it was sunny.\n\n\"Us locals don't go there when the tide is coming in. The whole of the area - about two-and-a-half miles - has coastal erosion. We have had big landslides before.\"\n\nThe landslide was reported to police on Monday afternoon\n\nIn 2001, Shirley Race, 58, died and her husband Donald, 63, was seriously injured in Nefyn when a landslide engulfed their car, sweeping it over a cliff and into the sea.\n\nThe British Geological Survey (BGS) lists Nefyn as being in a \"subsidence hazard zone\".\n\nThe coastal area has a surface geology of weak, superficial drift deposits of clay, silt, sand and gravel.\n\nOne house has lost a large area of its garden\n\nThe BGS has said there was \"a variety of landslide types within Nefyn Bay including rotational failures, flows, falls and debris slides.\n\n\"The slopes are covered in weathered debris and this is particularly susceptible to shallow landsliding, especially when saturated by water.\"\n\nWhen asked if people living in Nefyn should be worried, engineering geologist for the BGS Ashley Patton said: \"I wouldn't want to scare anyone but of course, when you see events like this and of this scale, you can't help but think 'is that area of the cliff next'?\n\n\"Of course that happens all along that coastline, so there is the potential anywhere could go.\"\n\nEmergency services and utility companies are securing the scene", "Dr Henry stood down as the Church's race-relations adviser last year\n\nStaff complaining of racism in the Church of England have been paid off to \"buy their silence\", the BBC's Panorama programme has been told.\n\nFormer Church race-relations adviser Dr Elizabeth Henry says some had to sign non-disclosure agreements.\n\nThe Church is set to publish plans promising to address racism.\n\nThe Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev Justin Welby, admitted last year the Church had failed to tackle racism in its own ranks.\n\nAfter seven years in her job, Dr Henry retired last year feeling disillusioned.\n\n\"I felt frustrated by the lack of progress with issues of racism,\" she tells Panorama.\n\n\"A really shocking incident was a young black man who received a picture of a banana but that banana had his head superimposed upon it and underneath it said, 'Bananaman'.\n\n\"That is a deeply offensive and deeply racist image.\n\n\"He took it to HR [human resources department] and he did file a grievance - and the decision was that it was not racist.\n\n\"That person left and he received a very small compensation - however, he was forced to sign a non-disclosure agreement.\"\n\nThe Church told Panorama it could not comment on individual cases but \"any [racist] behaviour of the sort described by Dr Henry is unacceptable\".\n\nIt added confidentiality agreements were used only \"in exceptional circumstances\" where open processes \"may not have reached resolution\".\n\nPeterson Feital had high hopes for his career when he moved to London, in 2011\n\nBrazilian-born Peterson Feital was a trainee vicar when he was hired by a church in London with a mainly white middle-class congregation.\n\nHis task was to reach out to diverse communities who do not normally attend church - and for a couple of years, Peterson thrived.\n\nBut when the vicar who hired him left, Peterson says, his life became very difficult.\n\n\"People of my kind, of my colour, are just not clever enough,\" he says.\n\nHe says his new manager told him: \"Your English is not very good, I don't like your preaching, and you are too Brazilian in your compassion -you're not very coherent.\n\n\"Peterson, you've got to find a job with people of your kind.\n\n\"If the London diocese is going to give you a job, it's going to be for a diversity show.\n\n\"They're going to give you for a short period of time and they're going to drop you like we always do.\"\n\nFor seven years, Peterson says, he repeatedly complained to senior staff at the Diocese of London about the racism and bullying he experienced but was told to \"keep his head down\".\n\n\"No-one is going to be able to prove there's any racism,\" he says he was told.\n\nAnd if he created a problem, \"you're not going to get a job anywhere\".\n\nIn March 2021, after 10 years in the Church, Peterson's contract was not renewed.\n\nHe was given a £2,000 redundancy payment and is now out of work and claiming benefits.\n\nThe Diocese of London said: \"We are appalled at what Peterson has experienced.\n\n\"We have spoken with Peterson regarding the process for bringing formal complaints against those involved.\"\n\nMichelle Delves enrolled at Cranmer Hall in Durham in 2016\n\nOne in 25 of the Church's serving clergy belongs to an ethnic minority.\n\nHartlepool curate Michelle Delves, of mixed heritage, enrolled at Durham Bible college Cranmer Hall in 2016.\n\n\"When I got there, I've just never felt as black and poor - I felt like I'd landed on an alien planet,\" she says.\n\nShe was frequently ignored and treated differently, Michelle says, and when she complained, felt no-one was listening.\n\n\"The thing that really scares the pants off me about this institutional racism is that you don't know it's happening to you,\" she says.\n\nEventually, Michelle wrote to the Archbishop of Canterbury.\n\nIn response, his office described the \"anger\" of hearing about her experiences, adding: \"Much more needs to be done about institutional racism in the Church.\"\n\nCranmer Hall told Panorama the college was \"deeply sorry and saddened\" to hear Michelle's story.\n\nIt had been unable to investigate while Michelle had been enrolled because she had not made a formal complaint but if she was willing to talk to the college authorities now, they would \"explore her concerns thoroughly\".\n\nOver the past 35 years, there have been 20 reports examining racism in the Church, between them making more than 160 recommendations.\n\nSome changes have been made but there is still a lot more to do, the Archbishop of York, the Most Rev Stephen Cottrell, says\n\n\"It is simply the case that ethnic-minority people are under-represented and disadvantaged in many of the structures and systems of our Church,\" he says.\n\n\"That has a terrible knock-on for our mission in the wider communities we serve.\"\n\nBut for Dr Henry, that admission is insufficient.\n\n\"It's almost like, 'OK, so the job is done,' but the confession, it is not a new phenomenon or a new awakening or a new enlightenment in the Church,\" she says.\n\n\"Based on the racial reckoning of the Church, I'm afraid they've abysmally failed - and it's not fit for purpose.\"", "More than 10 million people in the UK have received a second dose of a Covid-19 vaccine, according to the latest government figures.\n\nIt means more than 19% of UK adults are now fully vaccinated, while nearly 33 million people have had their first dose.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson described the news as a \"remarkable milestone\".\n\nAlso hailing the \"terrific milestone\", the health secretary urged people to get the jab \"as soon as possible\".\n\n\"Second doses are crucial to maximising the strength and duration of your protection from Covid-19,\" he added.\n\nSir Simon Stevens, chief executive of NHS England, said: \"The success of the NHS vaccination programme is not a happy accident. It is down to careful planning coupled with the sheer hard work and determination of doctors, nurses and countless other staff ably assisted by volunteers and many others.\"\n\nIt comes as the UK recorded four deaths within 28 days of a positive test - the lowest daily figure since 7 September, although the number of deaths recorded on Mondays and over the weekend tend to be lower because of reporting delays.\n\nThere were also 2,963 new cases, according to the latest government figures.\n\nMr Hancock told the Commons the government was \"on track\" to offer a first dose to all adults in the UK by the end of July and uptake had been \"astonishingly high\", at 94% for over-50s.\n\nHowever, he said the vaccination rate for care home staff was currently below 80% in more than half of all local authority areas. As a result, he said, the government had launched a consultation into whether care home providers for older adults should only deploy workers who have received their Covid jab, unless they have a medical exemption.\n\nPeople aged 45 and over are now being offered the vaccine in England and Scotland. In some areas of Wales 40-49 year-olds are being invited, while in Northern Ireland vaccine appointments are now being made available to a limited number of 35-39 year olds.\n\nThe rollout will continue to prioritise groups by age, according to advice from the Joint Committee of Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI).\n\nThe 10 million mark for second doses is a great milestone.\n\nBut the rapid acceleration in second doses has come at a cost to first doses - and this spells trouble for the government's ambition to offer every adult in the UK a jab by the end of July.\n\nCurrently the UK is doing just over 100,000 first doses a day on average, that is down from 500,000 a month ago.\n\nThere was always going to be some drop-off. But on that trajectory just over half of under-50s will get a first dose by the end of July.\n\nTake-up is predicted to be lower in the younger age groups than it has been in the older ones so that shortfall may not be as bad as it first looks.\n\nWhat is more, there is the hope vaccine supplies will increase. More doses of Moderna may become available, while there is hope the Novavax jab, which is being made in the UK, could come into play in May.\n\nNonetheless, it is another reminder that the vaccine programme still has many hurdles to cross.\n\nIt comes after the government said all over-50s and those in high-risk groups in the UK had been offered a first dose.\n\nEarlier this month the UK began to roll out the Moderna vaccine, alongside the Oxford-AstraZeneca and Pfizer-BioNTech jabs.\n\nAll under-30s in the UK will be offered an alternative to the AstraZeneca jab due to evidence linking it to rare blood clots.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Hancock announced that India would be added to the travel red list from 04:00 BST on Friday. It means anybody who is not a UK or Irish resident or British citizen cannot enter the UK if they have been in India in the last 10 days and any other arrivals will need to quarantine in a hotel for 10 days.\n\nEarlier, the prime minister cancelled a trip to India, which had been due to take place on 26 April, amid rising cases there.\n\nHealth officials in the UK are investigating whether a variant first found in India spreads more easily or is resistant to treatments or vaccines.\n\nMr Hancock said there had now been 103 cases of this variant detected in the UK, with the vast majority linked to international travel.\n\nHe said there had also been 557 cases of the variant first found in South Africa detected in the UK since December.\n\nThe health secretary said the government was \"ramping up\" plans for a booster shot to ensure vaccines stayed \"ahead of the virus\".\n\n\"We will be working with our current vaccine suppliers and new suppliers, like the CureVac partnership, to work out which vaccines will be effective as a booster shot and to design new vaccines specifically targeted at the variants of concern,\" he added.", "Many job centre workers currently do not feel safe about returning to the office due to continued concerns about the coronavirus, a union has claimed.\n\nThe Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union surveyed 1,299 members and found that three in five workers feel unsafe about going back.\n\nIt says \"a majority\" of in-person interviews to discuss benefits claims should be done remotely over the phone.\n\nThe issue could result in industrial action, the union has warned.\n\nPCS found that only 21% of staff surveyed could say for certain that they \"felt safe\" dealing with face-to-face claimant appointments in job centres across the UK.\n\nThe union says the vast bulk of the in-person interviews for Universal Credit and other benefits should be done remotely.\n\nFrom 12 April onwards, the numbers of in-person interviews at job centres, particularly in the 18-24 age group, will be increasing.\n\nThe BBC understands there are concerns that the government wants more people to visit job centres in person so they can be assessed for \"conditionality\".\n\nThe implication is that some people could see their benefits taken away from them, if they fail to meet certain behavioural conditions.\n\n\"These results reflect the anger and frustration our members feel every day,\" said PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka.\n\n\"Thousands of Department for Work & Pensions (DWP) staff have been providing support to claimants safely from home throughout the pandemic - the only logical reason they would insist on fully reopening is because management's obsession with sanctioning vulnerable claimants.\"\n\nHe added that the statistics collected by the union \"should send a strong signal to ministers\" that they needed to meet with staff soon \"to avoid potential industrial action\".\n\nA DWP spokesman said: \"Throughout this pandemic, jobcentres have remained open to ensure we can continue to provide vital support to the most vulnerable. Our return to full opening hours will enable us to provide even more help and support to those who need us.\"\n\nHe added that the health and safety of colleagues was taken \"extremely seriously\".\n\n\"[We] are absolutely committed to ensuring all our sites remain Covid secure in line with PHE and government guidance to keep colleagues and customers safe.\"\n\nAre you hoping to use the low deposit mortgage scheme? Get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Former minister and Labour peer Frank Judd has died aged 86, the party has said.\n\nLord Judd served as an MP in Portsmouth from 1966 to 1979 and was a minister in the Wilson and Callaghan governments.\n\nHe was also a former director of Oxfam before being appointed a life peer in 1991.\n\nThe party's leader Sir Keir Starmer described him as \"a great Labour internationalist who fought for peace, human rights and social justice\".\n\n\"He will be missed by us all,\" he said on Twitter.\n\nLord Judd served as minister for the Royal Navy and overseas development as well as in the Foreign Office.\n\nBaroness Angela Smith, Labour's leader in the House of Lords, said he was a \"man of extraordinary personal generosity\".\n\n\"Frank Judd was special. Whether as an MP, minister, peer or director of Oxfam, he never lost his passion for politics as a force for good,\" she said.\n\n\"His Labour Lords' colleagues both admired and had enormous affection for Frank, and we valued his friendship.\"\n\nThe chairman of the Labour Peers Group, Lord Toby Harris of Haringey, said Lord Judd was \"much-loved and respected\".\n\n\"He was indefatigable, participating vigorously on the issues that mattered to him right up until the last few days,\" he said.\n\n\"He was passionate about social justice and international development, both as someone who headed up aid agencies and as minister for overseas development.\"\n\n\"He was always supportive and kind. He will be sorely missed,\" he added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch Ingenuity climb to 3m, hover and then set down\n\nThe American space agency has successfully flown a small helicopter on Mars.\n\nThe drone, called Ingenuity, was airborne for less than a minute, but Nasa is celebrating what represents the first powered, controlled flight by an aircraft on another world.\n\nConfirmation came via a satellite at Mars which relayed the chopper's data back to Earth.\n\nThe space agency is promising more adventurous flights in the days ahead.\n\nIngenuity will be commanded to fly higher and further as engineers seek to test the limits of the technology.\n\nThe rotorcraft was carried to Mars in the belly of Nasa's Perseverance Rover, which touched down in Jezero Crater on the Red Planet in February.\n\n\"We can now say that human beings have flown a rotorcraft on another planet,\" said a delighted MiMi Aung, project manager for Ingenuity at Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California.\n\n\"We've been talking for so long about our 'Wright Brothers moment' on Mars, and here it is.\"\n\nThis is a reference to Wilbur and Orville Wright who conducted the first powered, controlled aircraft flight here on Earth in 1903.\n\nIngenuity even carries a small swatch of fabric from one of the wings of Flyer 1, the aircraft that made that historic flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, more than 117 years ago.\n\nThe chopper saw its own shadow in its navigation images\n\nThis navigation image was acquired with the chopper's feet just off the surface\n\nThere were cheers in the JPL control centre as the first photos of the flight arrived back on Earth. In the background, MiMi Aung could be heard saying: \"It's real!\"\n\nTo claps from her colleagues, she tore up the contingency speech to have been used in the event of failure.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe demonstration saw the Mars-copter rise to just over 3m, hover, swivel 96 degrees, hover some more, and then set down. In all, it managed almost 40 seconds of flight, from take-off to landing.\n\nGetting airborne on the Red Planet is not easy. The atmosphere is very thin, just 1% of the density here at Earth. This gives the blades on a rotorcraft very little to bite into to gain lift.\n\nThere's help from the lower gravity at Mars, but still - it takes a lot of work to get up off the ground.\n\nThis 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\nIngenuity was therefore made extremely light and given the power (a peak power of 350 watts) to turn those blades extremely fast - at over 2,500 revolutions per minute for this particular flight.\n\nControl was autonomous. The distance to Mars - currently just under 300 million km - means radio signals take minutes to traverse the intervening space. Flying by joystick is simply out of the question.\n\nAsked whether she was surprised the flight had worked, MiMi Aung said: \"No, I'm not. We really had nailed the equations, the models and the verification here on Earth in our laboratory tests. So, it then became a question of: have we chosen the right materials to build Ingenuity, to survive the space environment, to survive the Mars environment?\n\n\"We've gone from 'theory says you can' to really now having done it. It's a major first for the human race,\" she told BBC News.\n\nIngenuity has two cameras onboard. A black-and-white camera that points down to the ground, which is used for navigation, and a high-resolution colour camera that looks out to the horizon.\n\nSample navigation images sent back to Earth revealed the helicopter's shadow on the floor of the crater as it came back in to land.\n\nThe Perseverance rover was watching and snapping away from a distance of 65m. Its full-sequence video can be seen at the top of this page.\n\nA selfie of the Ingenuity helicopter and the Perseverance rover\n\nNasa has announced that the \"airstrip\" in Jezero where Perseverance dropped off Ingenuity for its demonstration will henceforth be known as the \"Wright Brothers Field\".\n\nThe International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) - the United Nations' civil aviation agency - has also presented Nasa and the US Federal Aviation Administration with an official ICAO designator: IGY.\n\n\"India Golf Yankee, with the call sign 'Ingenuity', and those details will be officially included in the next edition of ICAO's designators for aircraft, operating agencies, aeronautical authorities and services,\" explained Håvard Grip, the Mars helicopter's chief pilot at JPL.\n\nMonday's successful maiden outing means that a further four flights will be attempted over the coming days, with the first of these occurring as early as Thursday. Each succeeding flight will build on what has gone before.\n\n\"What we're talking about here is going higher, going further, going faster, stretching the capabilities of the helicopter in those ways,\" Dr Grip explained.\n\n\"We're putting the pedal down and going for it,\" added Dr Thomas Zurbuchen, the head of science at Nasa.\n\nThe hope is this initial demonstration could eventually transform how we explore some distant worlds.\n\nDrones might be used to scout ahead for future rovers, and even astronauts once they eventually get to Mars.\n\nMichael Watkins, JPL director, said: \"What the Ingenuity team has done is given us the third dimension; they've freed us from the surface now forever in planetary exploration, so that we can now make a combination of driving on the surface and sampling the surface, doing reconnaissance, and even scientific experimentation on inaccessible places for a rover. This is exactly the way we build the future.\"\n\nBob Balaram, Ingenuity's chief engineer, said ideas for larger helicopters were already being discussed.\n\n\"We are thinking of things in the 25-30kg class of vehicles, and those vehicles would carry maybe about 4kg of science instruments,\" he told reporters.\n\nNasa has already approved a helicopter mission to Titan, the big moon of Saturn. Dragonfly, as the mission is known, should arrive at Titan in the mid-2030s. It will be easier to fly on this moon given its very thick atmosphere.", "Under the scheme, individuals could receive between £75 and £100 to spend on high streets\n\nGood progress is being made on a high street voucher scheme, the Department for the Economy has said.\n\nThe initiative was announced last year to support retailers hit by Covid-19.\n\nIndividuals could receive between £75-£100 each to spend in town and city centres, with £145m of funding ring-fenced for its rollout.\n\nNon-essential retail in Northern Ireland is set to reopen on 30 April as part of the lockdown-easing measures announced by the executive.\n\nThe pre-paid cards will not be issued imminently, it is understood.\n\nThere is an expectation of a surge in spending at shops\n\nThe scheme is under development by officials and \"good progress is being made to bring it to fruition\", according to the department.\n\nOfficials want to ensure it is safe to do so and the time is right to stimulate demand and encourage the public to visit the high street.\n\nThere is an expectation of a surge in spending at shops due to pent up demand, BBC News NI understands.\n\nTherefore its rollout would be more effective when spending levels off or begins to fall.\n\nRetail NI chief executive, Glyn Roberts said he would like to see July as a target date for implementing the scheme.\n\n\"At that point the retail and hospitality sectors will be reopened and more people will be staycationing this year, so July would be ideal time for maximum benefit,\" he said.\n\n\"We've been strongly lobbying for this as an aid to recovery and to promote spending so we want to see it targeted at independent retailers and local hospitality businesses.\n\n\"It's part of a wider reopening plan to get people away from their laptops and iPads and back into the town centre and the voucher scheme is one way to do that.\n\n\"There is a lot more work we need to do to get people out again and feel safe to come back to our high streets\"\n\nThe voucher is a key part of Minister Diane Dodds' Economic Recovery Action Plan.\n\nThe department is also working on a tourism voucher for use at local attractions to boost the struggling sector.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Football is meant to be on merit' - fans react to European Super League proposals\n\nThe government has said it will do \"whatever it takes\" to prevent a breakaway European Super League involving six leading English clubs.\n\nBoris Johnson said ministers would be working to make sure the league did not go ahead in the way being proposed.\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge also said he shared fans' concerns about \"the damage it risks causing to the game we love\".\n\nBut the president of Real Madrid told a Spanish TV show: \"We are doing this to save football at this critical moment.\"\n\nFlorentino Perez, president of Real Madrid, said the decision to create the new league was in part taken because \"young people are no longer interested\" in the game.\n\nSpeaking for the first time since the league was announced, Mr Perez said: \"Audiences are decreasing and rights are decreasing and something had to be done. We are all ruined. Television has to change so we can adapt.\"\n\nThe 12 founding members of the league, which includes Real Madrid plus three yet to join - would be permanent and never face relegation.\n\nSix English clubs - Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham - have signed up to the league\n\nThey would join Spanish sides Atletico Madrid, Real Madrid and Barcelona and Italian clubs AC Milan, Juventus and Inter Milan.\n\nThe competition would have 20 teams and another five sides would have to qualify each year for the competition.\n\nMatches would take place midweek and rival the existing Champions League.\n\nBut the president of European football's governing body Uefa, Aleksander Ceferin, warned players who play for teams in the ESL would be \"banned from the World Cup and the Euros\".\n\nAs opposition to the plans gathered momentum, Prince William, President of the Football Association, said in a tweet: \"Now, more than ever, we must protect the entire football community - from the top level to the grassroots - and the values of competition and fairness at its core.\"\n\nAnd broadcaster Sky Sports said: \"We have not been involved in any discussions with the proposed breakaway European Super League.\"\n\n\"We are completely focused on supporting our long term football partners in the UK and in Europe, already providing fans with the best live action from the best football competitions in the world,\" the company added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We will do whatever it takes to protect our national game\" – Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden\n\nIn a statement to MPs in the House of Commons, Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden criticised the so-called \"big six\" English clubs for going \"against the very spirit of the game\".\n\nHe added club owners \"should remember that they are only temporary custodians of these clubs and that they forget fans at their peril\".\n\nMr Dowden said he had spoken to Uefa and the Football Association, who both oppose the move by the 12 clubs, adding that, \"if they can't act, we will\".\n\n\"We will put everything on the table to prevent this from happening,\" he told MPs.\n\n\"We are examining every option from governance reform to competition law and mechanisms that allow football to take place.\n\n\"We will be reviewing everything Government does to support these clubs to play. We will do whatever it takes to protect our national game.\"\n\nA fan-led review, due to take place after the pandemic, has been brought forward because of the ESL announcement, Mr Dowden said.\n\nIt will be led by former sports minister Tracey Crouch and consider how fans can have an even greater say in the oversight of the game.\n\nThe review will also look at the finances of the men's and women's game, its governance and whether an independent football regulator should be set up.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEarlier, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the government was \"going to look at everything that we can do with the football authorities to make sure that this (plan) doesn't go ahead in the way that it's currently being proposed\".\n\nDowning Street said ministers were looking at a \"range of options\", including a German-style system of fan ownership of clubs and clawing back coronavirus support loans.\n\nBut Labour urged ministers to do more, with shadow culture secretary Jo Stevens saying it was \"time for the government to get off the subs bench and show some leadership on the pitch because we need reform of football\".\n\nShe added: \"It's not as if there's been a blockage here in Parliament preventing the government from taking action to sort the problems out.\"\n\nAbout 700 fans gathered outside the ground and then dispersed before kick-off\n\nFans and pundits have expressed revulsion at what they claim would be an unfair competition that would lock many teams out of top European football.\n\nMatch of the Day host and former England footballer Gary Lineker said it was \"a time of great concern\", adding that if the ESL went ahead as planned, it would have \"massive ramifications\" on the domestic game.\n\n\"It will wreck the pyramid system (of leagues, promotion and relegation) that has been so important to local football clubs, communities and teams, and it takes out the competition.\"\n\nAround 68% of football fans strongly oppose the creation of the ESL, while only 14% support it, according to a YouGov survey of 1,730 fans.\n\nSome 700 football supporters gathered outside Leeds United's Elland Road ground ahead of the club's Premier League game against Liverpool to protest against the proposed new league.\n\nA Liverpool shirt was burned and a plane flew over the stadium displaying an anti-Super League message.\n\nInside the stadium Leeds players wore T-shirts saying 'Earn it' next to the Champions League logo and 'Football is for the fans'. A banner behind one goal had the same message.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Manchester United fan Natalie Burrell said she was 'disgusted' by the plans\n\nLaunching their plan, the 12 founding members of the ESL said the pandemic had \"accelerated the instability in the existing European football economic model\".\n\nThey said there was a \"need to provide higher-quality matches and additional financial resources for the overall football pyramid\".\n\nBBC's Sports Editor Dan Roan said leading figures were insisting the Super League would generate much more money, not just for the clubs involved, but for the rest of the \"football family\".\n\nHe added they seemed \"very confident\" they were on a strong legal footing when it came to blocking any punishments threatened by bodies such as Uefa.\n\nEarlier, Manchester United's shares rose within minutes of the opening bell on the New York Stock Exchange, where they are traded.\n\nFifteen minutes after the trading day began, they were up around 8.5%.\n\nMeanwhile, Juventus's share price jumped by more than 14% on Monday morning.\n\nBut Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has said he remained opposed to the idea of the league - despite his club agreeing to join it.\n\n\"I like the competitive aspect of football. I like that West Ham might play in the Champions League,\" he said, adding that he and his players did not know about the move before it happened.", "A Scottish restaurant owner has described new draft hospitality Covid guidance as a \"bombshell\".\n\nThe sector had expected that 1m (3ft) social distancing would apply between tables when it reopens next Monday.\n\nBut the new proposals state people from different households will now have to observe social distancing at tables.\n\nThe government said it had worked with industry and unions to ensure its guidance was \"evidence-based, fair and ethical, clear and realistic\".\n\nWhen Scotland moves to level three next Monday the hospitality sector will be able to sell alcohol outdoors to a maximum group of six people from six households.\n\nThe sale of alcohol indoors will not be permitted, however, a maximum of six people from two households will be able to meet indoors and premises will close at 20:00.\n\nCarina Contini, co-owner of Cantini restaurants in Edinburgh, said she was feeling \"really optimistic\" until the new guidance was published at 18:00 on Friday.\n\nShe told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"They have thrown us an absolute bombshell, an absolutely impossibility in terms of reopening.\n\n\"The bookings that we have already got we will have to phone up and say 'I'm sorry we can't honour your booking because we can't host this level of capacity'.\"\n\nMs Contini said she would also have to let down suppliers and her staff.\n\nShe added: \"It is absolutely going to be crippling for the sector.\"\n\nShe said the rules were completely impractical.\n\n\"If I was catering for six people at a table, I would have to have a table that is 3.5m (11ft) long,\" she said.\n\n\"There is not a restaurant supplier in the country that makes tables that are 3.5m long.\n\n\"Elderly couples who may be hard of hearing are going to have to FaceTime themselves over lunch because the distance is so far away.\"\n\nMs Contini also criticised the short notice, ahead of the sector's planned reopening next Monday, and urged the Scottish government to reconsider.\n\nShe added: \"These regulations are now more harmful, more dangerous to our business than Covid itself.\"\n\nThe hospitality industry has been hit hard by the pandemic\n\nLinda Bauld, professor of public health at the University of Edinburgh, emphasised that the guidance was draft.\n\nShe told Good Morning Scotland: \"It is extremely important that the sector have the opportunity to comment, to express their concerns and to see what is feasible for them.\n\n\"I imagine the reason the 1m requirement between different household members is in place is to provide additional protection but the government has to balance up additional harms at the moment.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the Night Time Industries Association (NTIA) has warned of an \"impending unemployment tsunami\" and said a majority of businesses had run out of money to pay furlough contributions and fixed costs.\n\nIt also highlighted a recent survey of its members which found the average Covid-related debt was £150,000 or more per premises.\n\nNTIA spokesman Gavin Stevenson said: \"Many of our members have been closed for over a year now, and virtually all have suffered crippling financial losses.\n\n\"In short, the money going out every month has been far greater than the money coming in, and government support has typically covered less than a quarter of this deficit.\"\n\n\"To add insult to injury government support has now ended while there is no end date to forced closure and other restrictions.\"\n\nHe called on the Scottish government to provide \"substantial and immediate\" additional support for as long as businesses remain closed and operate under \"unviable\" restrictions.\n\nAlternatively, he said his members needed a \"clear route map\" with target dates for the end of all legal restrictions on capacity, activity and opening hours.\n\nApril 12 2021: Pubgoers gathered at outdoor bars in Old Compton Street in London's Soho\n\nThe Scottish government said the draft guidance \"may be amended subject to comments received to take into account engagement with stakeholders.\"\n\nA spokesman added: \"The requirement to physical distance has been established for some time and businesses are already following existing sectoral advice on this. The draft guidance builds on that but does not introduce significant change.\"\n\nHe added that it would help businesses due to open next week do so \"as safely as possible\" and provided guidance on how business owners could calculate maximum capacity on their premises.\n\nLast week hospitality and tourism leaders in Scotland criticised the Covid restrictions which prevent the sector from reopening.\n\nAnd they warned that waiting two weeks before reopening would come at a cost to Scotland's economy of £20m.\n\nThey were speaking as England's lockdown rules eased further, with pub gardens and restaurants among the places able to reopen.\n\nSouth of the border people can now visit bars and restaurants outdoors but must either follow the rule of six, or be in a group of any size with no more than two households present. Tables must be socially distanced.\n\nThe First Minister is set to confirm what she's been signalling for some time - hospitality will re-open in Scotland next Monday, April 26.\n\nThere will be restrictions on the industry, and one measure that many owners find frustrating is one metre social distancing.\n\nThis is the same rule that was in place last year. It means there should be one metre between any customers who are not part of the same household, even if they are at the same table.\n\nIt's not hard to work out why this isn't popular with some industry figures - social distancing (even at one metre) means fewer customers can fit in.\n\nBut the virus is still circulating, and measures like this are designed to lower transmission risk.\n\nOther changes scheduled for April 26 should go ahead as planned. Gyms and shops will re-open, and travel between Scotland, England and Wales should be possible. But it's unlikely further changes will be accelerated.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Facebook's plans to roll out encryption across its messaging services could jeopardise ongoing work to combat child abuse, the Home Secretary has warned.\n\nSuch encryption means only the sender and recipient can read messages.\n\n\"We cannot allow a situation where law enforcement's ability to tackle abhorrent criminal acts and protect victims is severely hampered,\" Priti Patel told a charity-hosted event.\n\nFacebook says its plans for wider encryption protects users' privacy.\n\nThe National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC), which invited Ms Patel to speak, has claimed that private messaging \"is the frontline of child sexual abuse\".\n\nEncrypting messages by default could lead to the easier spread of child abuse imagery or online grooming, it has said.\n\nIn her speech, the Home Secretary said that Facebook must take into account public safety when it makes changes to its platform - and in particular seriously consider the effect on children.\n\n\"Sadly, at a time when we need to be taking more action... Facebook is still pursuing end-to-end encryption plans that place the good work and the progress that has already been made at jeopardy,\" she said.\n\n\"Offending is continuing, and will continue - these images of children being abused just continue to proliferate, even right now while we are speaking. But the company intends to blind itself to this problem through end-to-end encryption which prevents all access to messaging content.\"\n\n\"My view is that this is simply not acceptable,\" she added.\n\nFacebook, however, said that \"end-to-end encryption is already the leading security technology used by many services to keep people safe from hackers and criminals\". Safety features are already a part of its plans, it added.\n\nEnd-to-end encryption guarantees privacy by making sure only the sender or recipient can read the messages.\n\nWhile it travels, it is scrambled to be unreadable, including by law enforcement. The only way to read the message is usually to get physical access to an unlocked device receiving it.\n\nCurrently, only one of Facebook's major messaging platforms - WhatsApp - uses end-to-end encryption by default. The company has plans to make the privacy feature the norm on Facebook Messenger and Instagram - but has not yet done so.\n\nWhen messaging platforms are not end-to-end encrypted, tech giants such as Facebook can use automatic scanning of their users' posts to identify the sharing of known child abuse images and detect questionable use of private messaging - such as an older person chatting to underage users they do not already know.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe NSPCC argues that rolling out the encryption as planned would \"render these [scanning] tools useless\", and is calling on Facebook to reconsider. An estimate from the US National Center for Missing and Exploited children suggests as many as 70% of child abuse reports around the world could be lost if it goes ahead.\n\nThe NPSCC unveiled research at the event that suggests social media users are keen to see some guarantee that children's safety will be protected.\n\nThe charity is demanding a \"reset\" of the debate, arguing that it has become stuck as an \"either/or\" debate between personal privacy and child safety.\n\nInstead, it is calling for a \"balanced\" solution that protects both.\n\nMs Patel echoed that sentiment, saying: \"I want to make it clear that the government does support encryption, where of course companies can protect users' privacy, and there are many areas where this is important.\"\n\n\"We believe that it is possible to implement end-to-end encryption, the service, in a way in which is also consistent with public protection and child safety,\" she said.\n\nBut she did not say what that would look like. Some possible solutions, such as on-device software that scans messages before they are sent, have their own privacy concerns.\n\nGaining access to the content of encrypted messages has long been a topic of debate in government.\n\nOne of Ms Patel's predecessors, Amber Rudd, argued in the wake of the 2017 Westminster attack that \"we need to make sure that our intelligence services have the ability to get into... encrypted WhatsApp\".\n\nAnd former Prime Minister David Cameron, in the wake of the 2015 Paris attacks, declared that there should be no \"means of communication\" which \"we cannot read\".\n\nDespite such concerns, encrypted messaging remains a sensitive topic with much public support.\n\nJim Killock, executive director of the Open Rights Group, said: \"Encryption is popular and growing because users want security and protection from fraud, scams and abuse of their data.\"\n\n\"It would be completely unreasonable to ban or limit everyday security for one set of people over the other.\n\n\"It is absolutely necessary to deal with child abuse images, but solutions must be compatible with people's right to keep themselves safe from other kinds of criminality, so should move away from endlessly debating how to stop the use of encryption.\"\n\nBut Sir Peter Wanless, NSPCC chief executive, argued that view risked \"leaving children unprotected where there is most harm\".\n\n\"It's in firms' interests to find a fix that allows them to continue to use tech to disrupt abuse in an end-to-end encrypted world,\" he added.\n\nAnd he said that if the tech giants failed to do so, \"ultimately government must be the guardrail\" to protect children.\n\nFacebook has long defended its plans to introduce end-to-end encryption as essential to user privacy.\n\nIn a statement reacting to the Home Secretary's remarks, a company spokesman said: \"Child exploitation has no place on our platforms and Facebook will continue to lead the industry in developing new ways to prevent, detect and respond to abuse.\n\n\"Its full rollout on our messaging services is a long-term project and we are building strong safety measures into our plans.\"", "Vaccine appointments for a limited number of people aged between 35 and 39-years-old are being made available from Monday.\n\nThe Department of Health said it is the latest phase of the vaccine roll out.\n\nIt said bookings will open to the entire 35-39 age group by the end of April.\n\nThe slots are mainly for the SSE Arena vaccine centre in Belfast and can be booked on a first come first served basis from 14:00 BST.\n\nAppointments in community pharmacies will be made available to 35-39 year olds later this month depending on vaccine supplies.\n\nPatricia Donnelly, who heads up Northern Ireland's vaccine programme, told the BBC's Evening Extra programme that vaccine wastage across Northern Ireland is less than 1%.\n\nAt the start, the aim was for about 10%. She said across pharmacies it had been a \"military operation\".\n\nHowever she said vaccine supply had been more limited in April than expected or wished.\n\n\"We have had to adjust our programme accordingly,\" she said.\n\nThe over-35s are being offered the vaccine because of uptake among the over-40s.\n\n\"We know we have vaccinated many of them - over 120,000 - but what we have always found is that the enthusiasts come through pretty immediately, hovering over the booking line and others take a bit longer so we know those tend to be strung out over the number of weeks,\" she said.\n\nShe said each cohort had had a similar pattern.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann said: \"I have always been clear that we would move through the vaccine programme as quickly as vaccine deliveries and capacity allows as recommended by JCVI (Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation).\n\n\"I recently announced that we successfully administered over one million vaccines across Northern Ireland to the highest priority groups.\n\n\"This figure is expected to rise exponentially as the Trust vaccine centres and GP practices continue to deliver second doses while the vaccine centre at the SSE Arena and the community pharmacists push ahead to deliver first doses.\n\n\"Opening up to 35-39 year olds earlier than expected is a testament to the hard work and dedication of all staff who are delivering the vaccination programme in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"I encourage those who are eligible to seize this opportunity and take up the offer of vaccination.\"\n\nThe minister has also urged those aged between 40 and 45, who were recently added to the eligibility list, to book their vaccine appointment.\n\nHe added: \"Getting the vaccine not only protects you but also those close to you.\n\n\"I would also strongly encourage anyone aged 40 years or over who hasn't booked themselves a vaccination appointment yet to do so as soon as possible.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the Department of Health also said that in line with recent advice from the JCVI, people living in the same house as someone who is severely immunosuppressed will be able to access the vaccine programme shortly, once their household has received a letter from their GP.\n\nAppointments at this stage are limited and the department is asking for patience.", "James Nash was described as a \"kind-hearted individual and a proactive parish councillor\"\n\nA man with a long history of mental illness shot a children's author after becoming wrongly convinced he was part of a Russian plot to spread Covid-19, an inquest has heard.\n\nJames Nash, 42, was attacked in his garden in Upper Enham, Hampshire, on 5 August and died three days later.\n\nThe gunman, Alex Sartain, died in a motorbike crash while being pursued by police on the same day.\n\nThe coroner recorded a conclusion that Mr Nash was unlawfully killed.\n\nHampshire Coroner's Court was told Mr Sartain's mental health problems dated back to 2008 and his father had tried to raise concerns with a GP in June last year but \"only got as far as the receptionist\".\n\nAlex Sartain used a homemade shotgun during the attack\n\nJohn Sartain said his son had become paranoid that Mr Nash, his next-door neighbour, was trying to control him.\n\nThe inquest was told Mr Sartain, 34, had been heard \"muttering\" in the days before the attack about Mr Nash working for Russian president Vladimir Putin and being involved in a conspiracy to \"spread Covid\".\n\nThe hearing was told that Mr Sartain also believed he was being tracked by the \"CIA, MI6 and SO19\".\n\nOn the day of the attack, Mr Nash was working in his front garden when raised voices were heard by his wife Sarah Nash - who had been on a video call indoors - followed by a bang.\n\n\"As soon as I opened the front door I could see a man in full black leathers stamping on the face of my husband who was flat out on his back,\" Mrs Nash said.\n\nThe author had managed to deflect the gunshot with his hand but died from head injuries, the inquest heard.\n\nParts of Upper Enham were cordoned off following the shooting\n\nMr Sartain had previously been sectioned under the Mental Health Act and was under the care of a community mental health team until April last year, it was heard.\n\nCoroner Jason Pegg said a letter discharging him into the care of a GP was sent by the community mental health team to the Adelaide Medical Centre in Andover.\n\n\"That discharge letter... was never seen by the GP. Instead the letter was received by the administration staff at the practice and never passed on as perhaps it should have been,\" he added.\n\nThe coroner added that it \"cannot be ascertained\" whether Mr Sartain would have been detained in June if his father's concerns had been passed on by the GP's receptionist.\n\nHe said he would not be taking the matter further as a new partnership was now running the surgery and practices had changed.\n\nAn inquest into the death of Mr Sartain will be held on Wednesday.\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.", "Radical new climate change commitments will set the UK on course to cut carbon emissions by 78% by 2035, the UK government has announced.\n\nHitting the targets would require more electric cars, low-carbon heating, renewable electricity and, for many, cutting down on meat and dairy.\n\nFor the first time, climate law will be extended to cover international aviation and shipping.\n\nBut Labour said the government had to match \"rhetoric with reality\".\n\nIt urged Boris Johnson to treat \"the climate emergency as the emergency it is\" and show \"greater ambition\".\n\nThe prime minister's commitments, which are to become law, bring forward the current target for reducing carbon emissions by 15 years. This would be a world-leading position.\n\nHomes will need to be much better insulated, and people will be encouraged to drive less and walk and cycle more. Aviation is likely to become more expensive for frequent fliers.\n\nThe government has accepted the advice of its independent Climate Change Committee (CCC) to adopt the emissions cut, which is based on 1990 levels.\n\nThe International Energy Agency (IEA) has predicted a major surge in CO2 emissions from energy this year, as the world rebounds from the pandemic.\n\nThe UK's new commitments come as US President Joe Biden prepares to stage a climate summit from Washington DC.\n\nEnvironmentalists welcomed the government's move, but warned that ministers had consistently failed to achieve previous CCC-set targets.\n\nAnd they insisted that Chancellor Rishi Sunak must show clearly how the transition is to be funded.\n\nTom Burke, who chairs the environmental think tank E3G, explained what policy changes were needed to achieve the goal: \"The most important thing, I think, is for [the prime minister] to focus his policy around energy efficiency, around wind and solar, and around storage of electricity and the management of the grid,\" he said.\n\nHowever, he told the BBC's Today programme: \"At the moment, it's... a bit of a Boris blunderbuss and is a huge range of marginal things instead of a concentration of effort on those things that will deliver the most emissions reductions in the fastest time.\"\n\nLeo Murray of the climate charity Possible called the announcement \"fantastic\", but added: \"We're not on track to meet previous climate commitments and in many ways the government is still failing.\"\n\nMr Murray said ministers were \"facing both directions at the same time\", as they had scrapped the Green Homes Grant for insulating homes, had not stopped airport expansion and were \"still pushing a £27bn roads budget\".\n\nThe CCC report accepted by the government says low-carbon investment must scale up to £50bn a year in the UK. But it adds that in time fuel savings from more efficient equipment will cancel out investment costs.\n\nThe CCC believes around 1% of GDP - national wealth - would need to be spent on shifting away from fossil fuels over 30 years.\n\nIts chairman, Lord Deben, said previously: \"The implication of this path is clear: the utmost focus is required from government over the next 10 years.\n\n\"If policy is not scaled up across every sector, if business is not encouraged to invest, if the people of the UK are not engaged in this challenge - the UK will not deliver net zero by 2050. The 2020s must be the decisive decade of progress and action.\"\n\nEd Matthew, campaigns director of E3G, said: \"Setting an ambitious emission reduction target would boost the UK's diplomatic drive to persuade other countries to set out ambitious targets of their own.\"\n\nHe added: \"The UK now has the opportunity to spark a global green industrial revolution, but ultimately its credibility will rest on action.\"\n\nNet zero means cutting emissions as far as possible, then balancing out any remaining releases by, for example, tree planting.\n\nThe government has adopted the new 2035 deadline for a 78% emissions cut because scientists say this is needed to keep the rise in global temperatures close to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels.\n\nFor Labour, shadow business secretary Ed Miliband said: \"The character of this government on climate change is now clear: targets without delivery.\n\n\"So while any strengthening of our targets is the right thing to do, the government can't be trusted to match rhetoric with reality.\"\n\nHe added: \"We need a government that treats the climate emergency as the emergency it is. That means greater ambition than this government matched with much more decisive action.\"\n\nGreen Party MP Caroline Lucas commented: \"The most glaring problem [with the plan] is the government's failure to address what's driving the climate crisis: an outdated and exploitative economic system that treats our planet and natural world as peripheral to our lives and, worse, expendable.\n\n\"The Prime Minister needs to accompany stronger climate targets with an economic reset to put the health and well-being of people and planet above short-term profit and growth.\"", "Voters in England, Scotland and Wales have until the end of Monday to register for May's elections.\n\nThey are being urged to do so, amid a warning that up to 9.4 million eligible adults have not.\n\nMore contests than usual are taking place, with many elections having been delayed from last year due to Covid.\n\nVoters will choose between candidates for the Welsh and Scottish parliaments, English councils, city mayoralties and police and crime commissioners.\n\nAround 48 million people live in areas where elections are being held.\n\nThe Electoral Reform Society (ERS) has called for a system of automatic registration to drive up voter participation.\n\n\"It's a scandal that nine million people are missing from the roll - and it hits young people, renters and some BAME groups particularly hard.\" said Jess Garland, the campaign group's policy director.\n\nThe ERS suggests trialling a system that would allow voters to register themselves on polling day itself, rather than in advance.\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\nAt the English local elections in 2018, the last for which data is available, voter turnout was just under 35%, according to the Electoral Commission.\n\nA Cabinet Office spokesman said there were \"no plans\" to introduce automatic voter registration.\n\nElection campaigning has been muted this year, thanks to pandemic restrictions and a pause following the death of the Duke of Edinburgh.", "Jack Merritt and Saskia Jones were killed during a conference to rehabilitate offenders\n\nA witness to the Fishmongers' Hall terror attack thought killer Usman Khan was 'play-fighting' as he launched his assault, an inquest has heard.\n\nKhan, 28, fatally wounded Jack Merritt, 25, and Saskia Jones, 23, at a prisoner education event on 29 November 2019.\n\nMarc Conway told the inquest he thought people were \"messing about\" before noticing Khan's knives.\n\nHe stamped on Khan's hands when the incident moved outside before the attacker was shot dead by police.\n\nGiving evidence at London's Guildhall, Mr Conway said: \"Before I realised it was serious, I said to people 'they're messing about in there, we've been invited to this nice building and you're playing up'.\n\n\"Then I realised, and I said 'he's got a knife, two big knives'. It became apparent something serious was happening.\"\n\nMarc Conway said bystanders sought to hit Khan with various items, including a wooden chair, in a bid to stop him\n\nMr Conway, a policy officer with the Prison Reform Trust, said bystanders sought to hit Khan with various items, including a wooden chair, in a bid to stop him.\n\nBut he said: \"He (Khan) wasn't reacting in a way I think someone hit with a chair would react.\n\n\"There was some added motivation or strength there that I hadn't seen before.\"\n\nHe phoned 999 and saw Khan burst out of Fishmongers' Hall, making his way on to London Bridge, before turning to face those in pursuit, appearing to cross the knives in front of his face as he did so.\n\nMr Conway, who knew Mr Merritt, then ran across the bridge to try to help wrestle the knives from Khan, before realising that he had what appeared to be an explosive belt strapped to him.\n\nKhan was tackled by members of the public with a decorative pike, narwhal tusk and fire extinguisher, and was then shot dead by police on London Bridge.\n\n\"I just wanted to help. When someone said he's got a bomb, and you realise that he's got a belt round him, you felt like you was fighting for your life,\" said Mr Conway.\n\n\"I stamped on his hands, I may have put a few kicks in.\n\n\"One of the knives we managed to get rid of quite quickly, but the other was quite difficult to get off him.\"\n\nOne witness described how Usman Khan stabbed Saskia Jones (pictured) in the neck\n\nThe inquest also heard from waitress Sandra Bufano, who had helped serve brunch at the event and was covering the cloakroom for a colleague when the attack began.\n\nShe heard screaming coming from the nearby men's toilet, where Khan stabbed Mr Merritt, before he emerged and locked eyes with her.\n\n\"He was not doing anything, but just staring at me,\" Ms Bufano said, describing the look as \"very intense\".\n\nKhan then stepped towards Ms Jones, who was about to leave belongings in the cloakroom, and stabbed her in the neck.\n\nPrison officer Adam Roberts described how he tried to stem Ms Jones' bleeding with a jacket, while Former HMP Grendon inmate Gareth Evans held her in his arms as she lay dying.\n\n\"I was trying to make sure she felt comfortable and safe,\" Mr Evans said. \"I said she was loved and she was beautiful.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Two men were killed after a Tesla car crashed into a tree and caught fire in Texas, and police believe there was nobody present in the driver's seat at the time of the accident.\n\nThe 2019 Tesla Model S was travelling at a high speed when it failed to negotiate a curve on a winding road.\n\nThe victims, both in their 50s, were found in the front passenger seat and in the back of the vehicle.\n\nTesla's chief said data recovered so far showed Autopilot was not enabled.\n\nMark Herman, Harris County Precinct 4 constable said that “no-one was driving the vehicle at the time of impact”, adding that the case was still under investigation.\n\nHowever, the car-maker's chief executive, Elon Musk, tweeted: \"Data logs recovered so far show Autopilot was not enabled... moreover, standard Autopilot would require lane lines to turn on, which this street did not have.\"\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\nTesla's Autopilot is an advanced driver assistance system that Tesla says \"enhances safety and convenience behind the wheel\".\n\nMr Musk has previously laid out his vision for “fully self-driving” cars to be made available this year.\n\nBut last month, the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration opened investigations into 27 crashes involving Tesla vehicles.\n\nIn a related incident this Monday, a Tesla owner climbed on top of a car at the Shanghai Auto Show to protest that the \"brake lost control\", Bloomberg reported.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Global Times This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA series of fires have also taken place involving the Model S.\n\nIn 2018, a Tesla car driven by British TV director Michael Morris burst into flames, following another such incident involving a Model S model in France in 2016.\n\nSeveral fires related to Tesla Model S cars took place in 2013.", "An NHS trust has admitted failing to provide safe care and treatment for a mother and her baby boy, who died seven days after an emergency delivery.\n\nMother Sarah Richford said it brought \"some level of justice\" for baby Harry's death in 2017.\n\nLawyers for the East Kent Hospitals Trust pleaded guilty to the charge at Folkestone Magistrates Court.\n\nThe trust said it had made \"significant changes\" and would \"do everything we can to learn from this tragedy\".\n\nMrs Richford said: \"Although Harry's life was short, hopefully it's made a difference and that other babies won't die\".\n\nShe added: \"If somebody had done this before Harry was born he may be alive today.\"\n\nThe prosecution by the Care Quality Commission followed an inquest in 2020, which found Harry's death was wholly avoidable and contributed to by neglect at Margate's Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital.\n\nThe inquest found more than a dozen areas of concern in the care of Harry and his mother, including failings in the way an \"inexperienced\" doctor carried out the delivery, followed by delays in resuscitation.\n\nCoroner Christopher Sutton-Mattocks criticised the trust for initially saying the death was \"expected\", adding that an inquest was only ordered due to the family's persistence.\n\nHarry Richford died a week after he was born at Margate's Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital in 2017\n\nThe rate of neonatal deaths and still births at the trust had both fallen since 2020, Harry's family said in a statement.\n\n\"This proves that with the right level of focus, leadership and attention, babies' lives can be saved,\" they said.\n\n\"Harry's life and our sacrifice has made a significant difference here in East Kent and it must be maintained.\"\n\nAn independent review of maternity services at the trust is ongoing after a series of failings led to the deaths of up to 15 babies.\n\nFather Tom Richford said the family had to \"fight and fight and fight and eventually we've now got the inquests, and the inquiries and the investigations that really mean that change should hopefully be more systemic and sustainable\".\n\nWhen you meet the Richford family you realise that they have spent the last three and a half years simply trying to find answers to what happened to baby Harry.\n\nThere have been some key moments in their relentless pursuit of those answers.\n\nThe trust's own investigation threw up more questions than answers, a Royal College report highlighted serious concerns with the maternity department two years before Harry died, while the coroner's inquest found his death was wholly avoidable.\n\nThe family have always maintained they wanted to see improvements in the maternity departments in Margate and Ashford and they tell me they take comfort from the fact that some improvements do appear to have taken place in recent months.\n\nThe trust admitted one count of failing to provide safe care and treatment resulting in avoidable harm to Harry and Sarah Richford.\n\nIt will be sentenced on 18 June.\n\nDistrict Judge Justin Barron explained to the family \"this can only be dealt with by way of a fine,\" adding: \"I do have an unlimited fine available to me.\"\n\nChief executive Susan Acott said: \"We are deeply sorry that we failed Harry, Sarah and the Richford family and apologise unreservedly for our failures in their care.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nArsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham are among 12 clubs who have agreed to join a new European Super League (ESL).\n\nIn a seismic move for European football, the Premier League clubs will join AC Milan, Atletico Madrid, Barcelona, Inter Milan, Juventus and Real Madrid.\n\nThe ESL said the founding clubs had agreed to establish a \"new midweek competition\" with teams continuing to \"compete in their respective national leagues\".\n• None 'A bonfire of greed' - how Europe reacted to the Super League\n\nIt said the inaugural season was \"intended to commence as soon as practicable\" and \"anticipated that a further three clubs\" would join the breakaway.\n\nThe ESL said it also planned to launch a women's competition as soon as possible after the men's tournament starts.\n\nUK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Uefa and the Premier League condemned the move when the news broke on Sunday.\n\nAnd speaking on Monday, he said the government was \"going to look at everything that we can do with the football authorities to make sure that this doesn't go ahead in the way that it's currently being proposed\".\n\nSpeaking to broadcasters on a visit to Gloucestershire, he said: \"I don't think that it is good news for fans, I don't think it's good news for football in this country.\"\n\nThe 14 Premier League clubs not signed up to the ESL will meet on Tuesday to assess the proposals and consider a response.\n\nCritics say the move is being driven purely by money, would destroy domestic leagues and is against the integrity of the sport.\n\nUnlike the Champions League, which teams must qualify for, the ESL would include the same 15 teams every year, with the remaining five qualifying annually.\n\nWorld governing body Fifa had previously said it would not recognise such a competition, and any players involved could be denied the chance to play at a World Cup.\n\nUefa, Europe's governing body, reiterated that warning on Sunday when it said players involved would be banned from all other competitions at domestic, European or world level and could be prevented from representing their national teams.\n\nAfter the ESL was announced, Fifa expressed its \"disapproval\" of the proposed competition and called on \"all parties involved in heated discussions to engage in calm, constructive and balanced dialogue for the good of the game\".\n\nThe ESL has sent a letter to Fifa president Gianni Infantino and Uefa boss Aleksander Ceferin issuing notice of legal proceedings in European courts designed to block any sanctions the two governing bodies may try enforce over the formation of the ESL.\n\nIn a statement, the ESL said: \"Going forward, the founding clubs look forward to holding discussions with Uefa and Fifa to work together in partnership to deliver the best outcomes for the new league and for football as a whole.\"\n\nThere were talks in October, involving Wall Street bank JP Morgan, over a new £4.6bn competition that would replace the Champions League.\n\nUefa had hoped the plans for a new 36-team Champions League - with reforms confirmed on Monday - would head off the formation of a Super League.\n\nHowever, the 12 sides involved in the Super League do not think the reforms go far enough.\n\nThey said the global pandemic had \"accelerated the instability in the existing European football economic model\".\n\n\"In recent months, extensive dialogue has taken place with football stakeholders regarding the future format of European competitions,\" they added.\n\n\"The founding clubs believe the solutions proposed following these talks do not solve fundamental issues, including the need to provide higher-quality matches and additional financial resources for the overall football pyramid.\"\n• None Super League: Why are football's biggest clubs starting a new tournament?\n• Tell us your thoughts on the proposals. Email\n\nWhat is the proposed format?\n\nThe league will have 20 teams - the 12 founding members plus the three unnamed clubs they expect to join soon, and five sides who qualify annually according to their domestic achievements.\n\nUnder the proposals, the ESL campaign would start in August each year, with midweek fixtures, and the clubs would be split into two groups of 10, playing each other home and away.\n\nThe top three in each group would qualify for the quarter-finals, with the teams in fourth and fifth playing a two-legged play-off for the two remaining spots.\n\nFrom then on, it would have the same two-leg knockout format used in the Champions League before a single-leg final in May at a neutral venue.\n\nThe ESL said it would generate more money than the Champions League and would result in a greater distribution of revenue throughout the game.\n\nWhat do the Super League leaders say?\n\nReal Madrid president Florentino Perez, the first chairman of the ESL, said the new competition would \"help football at every level\".\n\n\"Football is the only global sport in the world with more than four billion fans and our responsibility as big clubs is to respond to their desires,\" he added.\n\nJuventus chairman Andrea Agnelli has resigned from the Uefa executive committee and as chairman of the European Club Association (ECA), which had pushed the planned Champions League reforms.\n\nHe said the 12 clubs had \"come together at this critical moment, enabling European competition to be transformed, putting the game we love on a sustainable footing for the long-term future\".\n\nIt is understood all 12 clubs have resigned from the ECA and their respective representatives from the ECA board.\n\nManchester United executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward and Manchester City chief executive Ferran Soriano have also stood down from their roles at Uefa.\n\nManchester United co-chairman Joel Glazer will be a vice-chairman of the Super League.\n\nHe said: \"By bringing together the world's greatest clubs and players to play each other throughout the season, the Super League will open a new chapter for European football, ensuring world-class competition and facilities, and increased financial support for the wider football pyramid.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Borussia Dortmund have said they will not be joining and are committed to the ECA, along with fellow German side Bayern Munich.\n\nWhat has been the reaction?\n\nEssentially, widespread condemnation from anyone not involved in the proposed league.\n\nJohnson said the plans would be \"very damaging for football\".\n\nHe said: \"These clubs are not just great global brands - of course they're great global brands - they're also clubs that have originated historically from their towns, from their cities, from their local communities, they should have a link with those fans, and with the fan base in their community.\n\n\"So it is very, very important that that continues to be the case. I don't like the look of these proposals, and we'll be consulting about what we can do.\"\n\nUefa released a joint statement with England's Football Association, the Premier League, the Spanish Football Federation, La Liga and the Italian Football Federation, as well as Serie A, saying they would \"remain united\" in trying to stop the breakaway, using \"all available measures\".\n\nThe ECA said it \"strongly opposed\" the league, while the Football Supporters' Association said the plans were \"motivated by nothing but cynical greed\".\n\nWorld players' union Fifpro said it will \"vigorously oppose measures by either side that would impede the rights of players, such as exclusion from their national teams\".\n\nIt added: \"This decision leaves players and their unions with many concerns and questions about its impact not only on the fabric and cultural identity of football but also more practically on their careers.\"\n\nThe League Managers Association said a Super League would be \"catastrophically destabilising to the entire European football pyramid, with deep and far-reaching consequences\". It added: \"Closing off the top of the pyramid of European club football would immediately extinguish many of the ambitions and dreams that drive managers, coaches, players and fans.\"\n\nFormer Portugal midfielder Luis Figo tweeted: \"This greedy and callous move would spell disaster for our grassroots, for women's football, and the wider football community only to serve self-interested owners, who stopped caring about their fans long ago, and [show] complete disregard for sporting merit. Tragic.\"\n\nParis St-Germain and former Manchester United midfielder Ander Herrera tweeted: \"I fell in love with popular football, with the football of the fans, with the dream of seeing the team of my heart compete against the greatest.\n\n\"If this European super league advances, those dreams are over.\n\n\"I love football and I cannot remain silent about this, I believe in an improved Champions League, but not in the rich stealing what the people created.\"\n\nAmong ex-professionals, former Liverpool and Tottenham midfielder Danny Murphy told BBC Sport the plans \"sound soulless\", former Manchester United captain Gary Neville told Sky Sports he was \"absolutely disgusted\", while former team-mate Rio Ferdinand said on BT Sport that the proposals will hurt fans the most.\n\nFan groups associated with all six English clubs involved are strongly opposed to the Super League.\n\nLiverpool supporters' group Spirit of Shankly (SOS) said it was \"appalled\" by the decision of Fenway Sports Group, the club's US-based owner.\n\nIn a social media post, SOS said: \"FSG have ignored fans in their relentless and greedy pursuit of money. Football is ours, not theirs. Our football club is ours not theirs.\"\n\nChelsea Supporters' Trust called the move \"unforgivable\" and said its members and \"football supporters across the world have experienced the ultimate betrayal\".\n\nThe Arsenal Supporters' Trust called the club's agreement to join \"the death of Arsenal as a sporting institution\".\n\nManchester City's Official Supporters Club said the move showed \"those involved have zero regard for the game's traditions\", adding it was \"determined to fight against this proposed Super League\".\n\nThe Manchester United Supporters' Trust had earlier said the proposals were \"completely unacceptable\" and the ESL \"goes against everything football, and Manchester United, should stand for\".\n\nTottenham Hotspur Supporters' Trust said the ESL was a \"concept driven by avarice and self-interest at the expense of the intrinsic values of the game we hold so dear\".\n\nIf there was any lingering doubt over the desire of these 12 clubs to launch their own competition, it has been removed by their statement - reinforced by each of them through their own media platforms.\n\nChiefly, can they actually get their plan over the line given the strong resistance from Uefa and the leagues and associations of the countries concerned?\n\nBut beyond that, who will the other three clubs be to make up the 15 founding members? Will Bayern Munich and Paris St-Germain eventually join up? And how will the other five clubs be decided?\n\nThese discussions will be fascinating. But right now, the clubs who have signed up to the European Super League have a public relations battle to turn around perceptions - because initial reaction has been overwhelmingly negative.\n• None Big Narstie explores the impact of the Brixton Riots\n• None Find out on the Bad People podcast", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nUefa, the Premier League and UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson have condemned 12 major European clubs, including the 'big six' from England, signing up to a breakaway European Super League.\n\nArsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham are part of the group.\n\nLa Liga's Atletico Madrid, Barcelona and Real Madrid and Serie A's AC Milan, Inter Milan and Juventus are involved.\n\nUefa said it will use \"all measures\" possible to stop the \"cynical project\".\n\nSenior figures at European football's governing body are furious about the proposals.\n\nJohnson said the plans would be \"very damaging for football\" and that the UK government supports the sport's authorities \"in taking action\".\n\nHe added: \"The clubs involved must answer to their fans and the wider footballing community before taking any further steps.\"\n\nThe European Clubs' Association (ECA), which represents Europe's clubs, held an emergency meeting on Sunday in the wake of the reports.\n\nBBC Sport understands none of the clubs mentioned in the Super League reports responded to a request to attend the meeting.\n\nThe meeting was chaired by Ajax chief executive Edwin van der Sar. Bayern Munich and Paris St-Germain were among the clubs who were present.\n\nIn a statement the ECA said it would be \"strongly opposed\" to a \"closed super league model\".\n\nIt has pushed plans for a 36-team Champions League, which Uefa had hoped would head off the formation of a Super League. The Champions League reforms are set to be confirmed on Monday.\n\nBBC Sport was told last week of plans for some sort of confirmation about a European Super League.\n\nUefa released a joint statement, together with England's Football Association, the Premier League, the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), La Liga, and the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) as well as Serie A, on Sunday.\n\nThey said they will \"remain united\" in trying to stop the breakaway, using both judicial and sporting measures if required.\n\nThey also reiterated Fifa's stance that players taking part in the Super League would be banned from all other competitions at domestic, European or world level and could be prevented from representing their national teams.\n\nIn a separate statement, the Premier League said it condemned the proposal as it \"attacks the principles of open competition and sporting merit which are at the heart\" of domestic and European football.\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden said in a statement the government is \"concerned this plan could create a closed shop at the very top of our national game\".\n\nHe added: \"We have a football pyramid where funds from the globally successful Premier League flow down the leagues and into local communities.\n\n\"I would be bitterly disappointed to see any action that destroys that.\"\n\nLabour leader Keir Starmer said the clubs involved should \"rethink immediately\" or \"face the consequences of their actions\".\n\n\"This proposal risks shutting the door on fans for good, reducing them to mere spectators and consumers,\" he said.\n\nJuventus owner Andrea Agnelli, Manchester United executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward and AC Milan chief executive Ivan Gazidis would all have had a significant input into the Champions League discussions on Friday.\n\nHowever, those clubs are among those to have broken ranks, to the fury of Uefa, whose president Aleksander Ceferin wanted to stave off a Super League threat.\n\nThe Premier League said a European Super League would \"destroy\" the dream of fans that \"their team may climb to the top and play against the best\".\n\nIt added such a league would \"undermine the appeal of the whole game\" and that they would work with the FA, the English Football League, Professional Footballers' Association (PFA), League Managers Association (LMA) and fans to \"defend the integrity and future prospects of English football\".\n\nThe FA said it will \"not provide permission to any competition that would be damaging to English football\" and will \"take any legal and/or regulatory action necessary\" to stop it.\n\nBundesliga sides are opposed to the plans because the German model means commercial investors cannot have more than a 49% stake in clubs, so fans hold a majority of their own voting rights.\n\nFrench Ligue 1 side Paris St-Germain are not part of the group either.\n\nUefa said it thanked \"those clubs in other countries, especially the French and German clubs, who have refused to sign up\" to the breakaway league.\n\n\"We call on all lovers of football, supporters and politicians, to join us in fighting against such a project if it were to be announced,\" it added.\n\n\"This persistent self-interest of a few has been going on for too long. Enough is enough.\"\n\nQuite when the European Super League would start is unclear.\n\nHowever, world governing body Fifa has already said it would not recognise such a competition and any players involved in it would be denied the chance to play at a World Cup.\n\nSerie A has called an emergency board meeting to discuss the matter.\n\nThe Football Supporters' Association said it is \"totally opposed\" to the plans, which it said were \"motivated by nothing but cynical greed\".\n\nIt added: \"This competition is being created behind our backs by billionaire club owners who have zero regard for the game's traditions and continue to treat football as their personal fiefdom.\"\n\nThe PFA said it had \"substantial concerns\" about the proposal, adding it would \"detract from the strength and joy of domestic football and diminish the game for the vast majority of fans across the continent\".\n\nFrance's President Emmanuel Macron said he \"welcomes the position of French clubs to refuse to participate\" in a European Super League \"that threatens the principle of solidarity and sporting merit\".\n\nA statement from the French presidency added: \"The French state will support all the steps taken by the LFP [France's professional leagues governing body], FFF [France's football association], Uefa and Fifa to protect the integrity of federal competitions, whether national or European.\"\n\nIt has been agreed the new-look Champions League will involve an initial phase where every club plays 10 matches each rather than the current group phase.\n\nIn addition there would be play-offs, followed by a knockout phase.\n\nThe most controversial aspect of the proposals surround the allocation of the four additional places, with two being reserved for the clubs ranked highest in Uefa's coefficient table who fail to qualify for the Champions League through their domestic competition, but do secure some kind of European football.\n\nAt the moment, Liverpool and Chelsea would be the clubs who benefited from that system if it was in place this season.\n\nFormer Manchester United captain Gary Neville said he is \"absolutely disgusted\" by the plans.\n\n\"I'm a Manchester United fan and have been for 40 years,\" Neville, who also co-owns League Two club Salford City, told Sky Sports. \"It's an absolute disgrace.\n\n\"Honestly, we have to wrestle back the power in this country from the clubs at the top of this league and that includes my club.\"\n\nThe former England defender said the six English clubs involved should be docked points and fined.\n\n\"It's pure greed,\" Neville said. \"They're [the club's owners] imposters.\n\n\"They're nothing to do with football in this country. There's 100-odd years of history in this country of fans who have lived and loved these clubs.\n\n\"We're in the middle of a pandemic and an economic crisis. Football clubs in the [semi-professional] National League are going bust, furloughing players and these lot are having Zoom calls about breaking away.\n\n\"Dock them all points tomorrow. Put them at the bottom of the league and take the money off them. Seriously. You have to stamp on this.\"", "First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has confirmed the most significant stage in Scotland's lockdown easing will go ahead as planned on Monday.\n\nThe biggest changes since the country went into lockdown on Boxing Day will include the reopening of hospitality, gyms and non-essential shops.\n\nNon-essential travel with England, Wales and Northern Ireland will also be allowed for the first time this year.\n\nMainland Scotland will move down from level four to three restrictions.\n\nMs Sturgeon said that if the data continued to improve, the whole of Scotland would move to level two on 17 May.\n\nThis would allow people to meet indoors in small numbers and see a further easing of hospitality restrictions.\n\nThe first minister said she hoped that the country would move to level one on 7 June, and then to level zero later that month.\n\nGyms are set to open in mid-April but only for individual exercise\n\nShe said life should look \"much more like normality\" during July.\n\n\"We are hopeful, very hopeful, of seeing sustained progress in the weeks and months ahead,\" she said.\n\nHowever, Ms Sturgeon warned that travel restrictions between parts of Scotland and other parts of the UK could be introduced to deal with local outbreaks.\n\nShe also announced that from Monday lateral flow tests would be available to anyone in the country. The kits can be ordered online or picked up at testing centres in the afternoon and early evening.\n\nMs Sturgeon encouraged everyone to take advantage of the offer, especially those planning to visit Scotland's islands.\n\nTravel between Scotland, England and Wales will be permitted\n\nWhen Scotland moves down to level three restrictions on Monday, it will be possible for:\n\nFrom this date, takeaways can be collected indoors, non-essential childcare will be allowed, non-essential work can be carried out inside houses and driving lessons and tests can take place again.\n\nThe first minister said people would be looking forward to doing things they have been unable to do for some time.\n\nBut she added: \"We must remember that the virus we are dealing with now is much more infectious than it was when bars and cafes were last open so it is really important that as we enjoy these new restored freedoms we continue to be really careful and take all of the required precautions.\"\n\nHowever, many in the hospitality sector are unhappy with draft guidance.\n\nThey expected 1m (3ft) social distancing to be in place between tables, but the proposals want people from different households to observe social distancing at tables.\n\nBut during the briefing Ms Sturgeon said this guidance had not changed since last year.\n\nThe easing of restrictions on 17 May should enable pubs to open indoors until 22:30 and allow contact sports and some small-scale events to take place.\n\nFrom that date, up to four people from two households will also be able to meet indoors.\n\nOther changes could include the return of cinemas, amusement arcades and bingo halls, along with indoor group exercise.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said all the public health evidence suggests the country is getting on top of the virus but the government should \"safely and cautiously look to ease these restrictions a little bit quicker.\"\n\nMr Ross added he would like gyms to open before Monday and he would also have liked more freedom for hospitality from 26 April.\n\nScottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar said it was right the government took a careful, phased approach to easing restrictions, backed up by data.\n\nHe told BBC Scotland: \"The last thing we need is another lockdown. We have to make sure this is the last one.\"\n\nScottish Liberal Democrat health spokesman Alex Cole-Hamilton welcomed the developments but called for the country's test and trace system to be \"beefed up\".\n\nHe added: \"If new strains arrive in the Scotland we must have the resources in place to swiftly crush them before they can spread.\"\n\nAnd Scottish Greens co-convenor Alison Johnstone said ministers should avoid the temptation to act with haste and continue to listen to the best scientific advice.\n\nShe also called for the government to be more proactive in terms of quarantine and said people should stay in Scotland for their holidays.\n\nDr Liz Cameron, chief executive of the Scottish Chambers of Commerce, called for additional support and compensation for businesses which have not yet been allowed to reopen.\n\nShe added: \"To translate hope into reality, the business community needs the Scottish government to empower businesses to re-open with sensible guidelines that enable us to get back on our feet.\"\n\nDavid Lonsdale, director of the Scottish Retail Consortium, estimates non-essential stores lost out on £4bn of sales during the first 12 months of the pandemic.\n\nHe said: \"Re-opening alone isn't a silver bullet which will save Scotland's shops.\n\n\"While we do expect a level of pent-up demand to return, shopper footfall is likely to be constrained for some weeks yet by the later re-opening of much of hospitality, tourism, and offices in our city centres.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nPlayers who compete in a European Super League will be barred from international competitions, world football's governing body Fifa said.\n\nFifa and the six confederations, including Uefa, reiterated that such a competition \"would not be recognised\".\n\nTalks have taken place over the 'members only' concept, which could be a threat to the Champions League.\n\nEx-Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu said he had accepted proposals for the club to join a Super League.\n\nFifa said in a statement: \"In light of recent media speculation about the creation of a closed European 'Super League' by some European clubs, Fifa and the six confederations (AFC, CAF, Concacaf, Conmebol, OFC and Uefa) once again would like to reiterate and strongly emphasise that such a competition would not be recognised by either Fifa or the respective confederation.\n\n\"Any club or player involved in such a competition would as a consequence not be allowed to participate in any competition organised by Fifa or their respective confederation.\"\n\nFifa also stated that its Club World Cup, both in its current and future guise, and the confederations' respective tournaments were the only club competitions recognised.\n\nThe governing body plans to expand its Club World Cup to include 24 teams from the six confederations. The forthcoming event in Qatar, postponed from 2020, will feature six teams.\n• None You can stream five fourth-round games live on the BBC this weekend, including Liverpool's trip to Manchester United. Find out more here.", "The US has warned Russia there will be \"consequences\" if the opposition activist Alexei Navalny dies in jail.\n\nThe UK, France, Germany and the European Union have also expressed their concern over his treatment.\n\nNavalny's doctors say he \"will die within the next few days\" if not given urgent medical attention for acute back pain and leg numbness.\n\nRussia's ambassador to the UK has said that Navalny is attention seeking and \"will not be allowed to die in prison\".\n\nA prominent critic of President Vladimir Putin, Navalny, 44, was jailed in February for old embezzlement charges, which he claims are politically motivated.\n\nHe started a hunger strike on 31 March in protest at not being able to see his own medical team, and his doctors say recent blood test results indicate he could suffer kidney failure and go into cardiac arrest at any moment.\n\nHuman rights campaigners say the jail where Alexei Navalny is being held is known for its especially harsh conditions\n\nOn Sunday, a number of countries joined the international protest against Navalny's treatment inside the Russian jail in the town of Pokrov, about 100 km (62 miles) east of Moscow.\n\nUS national security adviser Jake Sullivan told CNN there would be \"consequences if Mr Navalny dies\" and Russia would be \"held accountable by the international community\", while President Joe Biden said his medical treatment was \"totally unfair and totally inappropriate\".\n\nThe US is already embroiled in a diplomatic row with Russia over the near-fatal poisoning of Navalny last year, with the chemical warfare agent Novichock.\n\nThe Kremlin denies Navalny's claims that President Vladimir Putin ordered the attack. But US intelligence officials concluded that the Moscow government was behind the poisoning, prompting the Biden administration to impose sanctions on senior Russian officials.\n\nNow Moscow is imposing its own measures in retaliation.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jake Sullivan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEU leaders are expected to discuss the situation on Monday, and Josep Borrell, the bloc's top diplomat, said the EU was \"deeply concerned\" and called for prison authorities to grant access to Navalny's medical team immediately.\n\nThe UK's Foreign Office said in a statement: \"Mr Navalny must be given immediate access to independent medical care. We reiterate our call for his immediate release from his politically motivated imprisonment.\"\n\nNavalny's 20-year-old daughter, Daria Navalnaya, who is currently studying in California, wrote \"allow a doctor to see my dad\" on Twitter.\n\nNavalny's wife Yulia said he had lost 9kg (19 lbs) since starting his hunger strike, according to AP.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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\nNavalny's supporters in Russia are organising a nationwide protest on Wednesday, saying \"there are circumstances in which you need to act quickly, otherwise the irreparable will happen\".\n\nOn Friday, four doctors wrote to prison officials to request permission to see Navalny urgently, saying his potassium had reached \"critical levels\".\n\nDr Alexander Polupan, who treated Navalny after he was poisoned with Novichock last year, said his blood test results were an \"absolute indication\" that he needed urgent medical care or he would \"die within the next [few] days\".\n\nOn Sunday, his personal physician, Anastasia Vasilyeva, who has previously been arrested for protesting outside Navalny's jail, tweeted that she and the three doctors had \"stood for two hours and begged\" to be let into the jail, but they were refused entry.\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\nAlso joining the call for action are more than 70 well known writers, artists and academics, who have have signed a letter calling on President Putin to ensure Navalny receives adequate medical care.\n\nThe letter was published in The Economist and France's Le Monde newspaper, and included the signatures of Hollywood actors Jude Law, Ralph Fiennes and Benedict Cumberbatch, Harry Potter author JK Rowling and director Ken Burns.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC's Andrew Marr recorded on Friday but aired on Sunday, Russia's ambassador to the UK, Andrei Kelin, said that Navalny was not in danger.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Andrei Kelin: \"He (Alexei Navalny) will not be allowed to die in prison\"\n\n\"Of course he will not be allowed to die in prison, but I can say that Mr Navalny behaves like a hooligan absolutely in trying to violate every rule that has been established,\" he said, adding that activist was attempting \"to attract attention\".", "The house in Prestatyn, Denbighshire, was totally gutted by the fire\n\nA father who was woken early by his son saved seven people from a fire just minutes before their house was engulfed in flames.\n\nAaron Gray saw the blaze while getting his three-year-old son a glass of milk at 05:00 BST on Sunday morning.\n\nThe former soldier rushed over and roused the two women and five children inside the bungalow in Prestatyn.\n\nHe said if he had been five minutes later \"I think we'd be looking at a different outcome\".\n\nAaron said all seven people in the rented property were \"totally oblivious\" to the fact the building was alight when he dashed round just before 05:10 to raise the alarm.\n\n\"I phoned the fire service at eight minutes past five and by 22 minutes past five the whole roof was ablaze and by six o'clock there was nothing left of the roof,\" said Aaron, who served with the Royal Welsh for 12 years, including a tour of duty in Afghanistan.\n\nAaron Gray saw the fire after waking early to get his son some milk\n\nThe 33-year-old, who now works for the civil service, said the blaze appeared to have started after an incinerator bin in the garden of the bungalow set fire to something on the ground.\n\nIt is then believed to have spread to a bush close to the house, setting fire to the roof of the property.\n\nIt was only after he had got up to get the milk that he spotted the fire.\n\nHe said he saw an orange light behind the blind when he came back into the bedroom, and opened it to see the back garden and fence on fire.\n\n\"I put my clothes on, ran round, whilst phoning the fire service.\"\n\nAaron said he had trouble getting those inside to wake up.\n\nThe family escaped the house minutes before it was engulfed in fire\n\n\"I was kicking the door, punching the door, banging the windows, screaming through the letter box - everything,\" he explained.\n\nHe said those inside were \"panicking\" when they realised the danger and started trying to get everyone out.\n\nHe then helped lift the children over a garden fence to keep them away from the fire as they fled the property, via the back door as they were unable to find the front door key.\n\nHe said: \"If I'd left it five minutes later, as the fire service said, I think we'd be looking at a different outcome.\"\n\nIt is understood the property was rented by one of the two women who lived there with her three children. The second woman and her two children were staying over at the time of the fire.\n\nAaron, who had never spoken to his neighbour before, said that they thanked him for what he had done and he has since been contacted on social media by family members expressing their gratitude.", "It was a tense day at the White House. It began with Joe Biden saying he was praying for the “right verdict” in the Derek Chauvin trial, and his press secretary spending much of her subsequent news conference deflecting questions about whether that was a reckless statement.\n\nIt ended with the president and Vice-President Kamala Harris marking what they said was a just resolution to the case.\n\nTheir statements were delivered in the Cross Hall of the White House - the same location Barack Obama chose to announce the killing of Osama bin Laden.\n\nThe message was clear, that this was another historic day; another victory for justice. Biden warned, however, that the verdict was just a “step forward”, and “not enough”.\n\nBoth he and Harris specifically pointed to a history of systemic racism in the US, which Biden called a “stain on our nation’s soul\".\n\nTo overcome that history, he said, requires lawmakers to act and for the American people to continue to work.\n\nIt shouldn’t take a “murder in the full light of day”, captured on video and stretched over nine minutes, as Biden said, to get the nation’s attention anymore.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nLeicester City boss Brendan Rodgers says his side have \"the chance to create history\" after reaching their first FA Cup final since 1969 at the expense of Southampton at Wembley.\n\nKelechi Iheanacho's second-half goal proved decisive for the Foxes, whose last major final of any description came in 2000, when they lifted the League Cup.\n\n\"That is what this game is about, creating a memory,\" said Rodgers, who is yet to win major silverware in English football, but won seven trophies in less than three years as manager of Celtic.\n\n\"I have been made aware since I've been at Leicester how important this cup is for the supporters.\n\n\"We have the chance to create history. When we arrived here, that was the ambition. From a football perspective we wanted to be able to compete and we have been able to do that. Now we have a trophy to genuinely go for.\"\n\nIheanacho, who benefited from Jamie Vardy's fine work to score at the second attempt 10 minutes after the interval, added: \"It is a dream come true. I watched the FA Cup when I was little and now I get the chance to play in the final.\n\n\"I think the FA Cup loves me and I love the FA Cup.\"\n\nThe game was played in front of 4,000 supporters as part of a pilot scheme, with research being carried out on allowing fans back in to sporting events as coronavirus restrictions are eased.\n\nTickets were limited to residents of Brent - the north London borough where Wembley Stadium is situated - and key workers.\n\nThose inside Wembley witnessed a mainly dour game but Leicester, playing in their first semi-final since 1982, will not care - and neither will their followers.\n\nSouthampton were strangely lacking in intensity, barely threatening Leicester keeper Kasper Schmeichel. Ibrahima Diallo went closest to an equaliser for the Saints but his powerful drive went just wide.\n\nRodgers' side will now face Chelsea in the final on 15 May, their first appearance in the showpiece since they lost 1-0 against Manchester City 52 years ago.\n\nLeicester fully merited their victory as they were much the more composed and ordered side in a low-key semi-final with few chances.\n\nIt took Iheanacho, who scored the winner against Brighton in the fifth round and was on target twice in the 3-1 win against Manchester United in the quarter-final, to make the decisive contribution.\n\nHis goal secured a place in the final against Chelsea, who the Foxes beat in the Premier League in January.\n\nAnd while they will be underdogs, Leicester have enough quality and resilience to be quietly confident.\n\nThis FA Cup final appearance is further evidence of the fine work being done by Rodgers, who also has Leicester right in the mix for the Champions League places next season.\n\nNow they have the chance to turn all this endeavour into silverware at Wembley against Thomas Tuchel's side.\n\nSouthampton will leave Wembley with bitter regrets as they failed to produce anything near their best and can have no complaints about the outcome.\n\nThey showed little of the intensity and energy that is their trademark when at their best under manager Ralph Hasenhuttl.\n\nThe Saints lacked ambition and positive intent apart from a brief revival a couple of minutes after Leicester scored, when Diallo was not far off target and there was a scramble after a corner.\n\nMain marksman Danny Ings cut a frustrated figure, starved of service and reduced mainly to chasing lost causes.\n\n\"That such a goal decides such a game is a pity for us,\" said Hasenhuttl.\n\n\"In the end, especially in the final third, we didn't have good moments. We couldn't get a shot on goal and this is not enough.\"\n\nThis will be a real blow to Southampton, who fancied their chances in the FA Cup this season and had a big opportunity to reach the final, but they came up short and must now return to ensuring their Premier League status.\n\nThis was the biggest crowd at a football match in England since the country went into lockdown in March last year - and what a glorious sound it was as the Leicester and Southampton players came out to cheers from 4,000 fans inside Wembley, reciprocating the gesture as they lined up before kick-off.\n\nIt did not have the partisanship and passion of the tradition football crowd because this was a test and research event with only locals and key workers in attendance.\n\nThere were moments, however, especially when Leicester scored and when Southampton substitute Theo Walcott came on to a very loud, mixed reception - presumably from Arsenal fans inside Wembley who idolised him from his time with the Gunners and Tottenham supporters who took the opposite view.\n\nThere were resounding cheers when the supporters were thanked over the public address system for their attendance and the hope is that this test event will help navigate a route out of the behind-closed-doors occasions that have been the way of things during lockdown.\n\nThe sight and sound of fans added to the spectacle, even when most of those watching this FA Cup semi-final were neutrals.\n\n'It feels amazing' - what they said\n\nLeicester boss Brendan Rodgers, speaking to BBC Sport: \"It feels amazing. I thought we deserved it, the players worked so hard. Commiserations to Southampton, they are a terrific team.\n\n\"We got the goal which was a great piece of play by Jamie [Vardy]. We had two or three moments after that to close it out. When you are 1-0 up, you have to show that self-control and stay calm and we did that.\n\n\"Even thought there were only 4,000 fans, it felt great. It will be amazing when we get supporters back into stadiums. I did hear some Leicester supporters in there and it was really nice.\"\n\nSouthampton boss Ralph Hasenhuttl, speaking to BBC Sport: \"We conceded our first goal in the FA Cup. [It is] Hard to take because we haven't been the worst team. We tried to put pressure on them. We saw a not very good football game to be honest, with both teams a little nervous.\n\n\"We had the chance to get to the final. We will try again next year.\"\n• None Leicester City have reached their first FA Cup final since 1969, a gap of 52 years, the longest between finals since Portsmouth went 69 and Cardiff went 81 between finals before facing one another in 2008.\n• None Southampton have now been eliminated in eight of their past 10 FA Cup semi-final appearances, two of which have come in the past four seasons (2017-18 vs Chelsea, 2020-21 vs Leicester).\n• None This was only Leicester's fourth win in 15 appearances at Wembley (D1 L10) and their first since the 2000 League Cup final against Tranmere, while Southampton have lost eight of their 10 matches at Wembley (W2), losing their last five in a row.\n• None Since his debut in the FA Cup in January 2016, Kelechi Iheanacho has scored more goals in the competition (first round onwards) than any other player, netting 14 times in 19 games.\n• None Iheanacho is the first Nigerian player to score 15 goals in all competitions in a season for a Premier League club since Odion Ighalo in 2015-16 for Watford, who scored 17.\n• None Southampton failed to have a single shot in the first half, the first time that had happened since November 2019 against Everton in a Premier League game.\n• None Only Sheffield United (13) have lost more games in all competitions in 2021 among Premier League clubs than Southampton (12).\n• None Jamie Vardy has gone 11 games without a goal in all competitions for Leicester, his longest goal drought since a run of 16 games between September - December 2016.\n\nLeicester return to action when they host West Bromwich Albion in the Premier League on Thursday, 22 April (20:00 BST).\n\nSouthampton travel to Tottenham for their next match in the Premier League on Wednesday, 21 April (18:00 BST).\n• None Attempt blocked. Kelechi Iheanacho (Leicester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Timothy Castagne.\n• None Jan Bednarek (Southampton) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Offside, Leicester City. James Maddison tries a through ball, but Jamie Vardy is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. James Maddison (Leicester City) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Kelechi Iheanacho.\n• None Attempt missed. James Maddison (Leicester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Kelechi Iheanacho. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None One simple thing that could improve your life!\n• None Why are Hong Kong citizens having to decide whether to move to the UK?", "Healthy young people who have had Covid-19 are being asked to volunteer for a trial that will deliberately expose them to the pandemic virus.\n\nThe experts behind the study, beginning this month, want to see how the immune system copes second time round.\n\nThe ultimate aim is to design better treatments and vaccines.\n\nUp to 64 people aged 18-30 will spend 17 days in a quarantine unit at a hospital suite and have numerous tests, including lung scans.\n\nThey will be re-exposed to the virus, the original strain from Wuhan, China, in a \"safe and controlled environment\" while the medical team monitors their health.\n\nThe first phase of this study, funded by the Wellcome Trust, will aim to establish the lowest dose of virus that can take hold and start replicating but produce few or no symptoms.\n\nThis dose will then be used to infect participants in the second phase of the study, expected to start in the summer.\n\nVolunteers who develop symptoms will be given an antibody treatment to help them fight off the infection.\n\nThey will be discharged only when they are no longer contagious.\n\nChief investigator Prof Helen McShane, from the University of Oxford, said: \"Challenge studies tell us things that other studies cannot because, unlike natural infection, they are tightly controlled.\n\n\"When we reinfect these participants, we will know exactly how their immune system has reacted to the first Covid infection, exactly when the second infection occurs, and exactly how much virus they got.\n\n\"As well as enhancing our basic understanding, this may help us to design tests that can accurately predict whether people are protected.\"\n\nProf Lawrence Young, of Warwick University, said: \"Human challenge studies have a long history of being able to generate important information about infections under strictly controlled conditions as well as allow the efficacy of vaccination to be accurately assessed.\n\n\"They will significantly improve our understanding of the dynamics of virus infection and of the immune response as well as provide valuable information to help with the ongoing design of vaccines and the development of anti-viral therapies.\"", "Netflix described Byron Bay as the \"perfect setting\" for its new Australian reality show\n\nThousands of people have signed a petition calling for a boycott of a proposed Netflix reality show to be set in the Australian beach town of Byron Bay.\n\nAnger has erupted in the community over the planned influencer-led series titled Byron Baes.\n\nThe petition, which calls for a filming ban, argues the town will be used as a \"punch line\" for the show.\n\nSome businesses have refused to take part in the show, local media report.\n\nThe picturesque town on the New South Wales north coast is known for its surf beaches and relaxed lifestyle. It has gained prominence in influencer culture and over the past year, has also become a mecca for visiting Hollywood stars.\n\nUnveiling plans for the series last month, Netflix said: \"It is a truth universally acknowledged that an influencer in possession of a good follower count must be in want of a beach backdrop.\n\n\"And there's no better backdrop - or magnet for influencers - than Byron Bay, the perfect setting for our next Australian Netflix Original.\"\n\nIt said the \"docu-soap\" would follow \"hot Instagrammers living their best lives\".\n\nThe plans have been met with frustration.\n\n\"It's a multinational company trying to exploit the town's name when the community doesn't want it and think they can just come in and use us as a commodity,\" local musician Ben Gordon, who owns cafe The Byron Bay General Store, told the Sydney Morning Herald.\n\nLocals are unhappy with the perception of Byron Bay that has grown in some parts of the media.\n\nThey claim an unrealistic view of the town has emerged via social media, a glossy portrayal that doesn't reflect life for most locals. They point to a range of social and environmental challenges facing Byron Bay - and many want Netflix out.\n\nByron Shire Mayor Simon Richardson told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation the show was \"offensive\" to the community.\n\n\"We've almost got a Truman Show-type portrayal of who we are where everything is quite idyllic and superficial, where out the back it's an empty parking lot,\" he said.\n\n\"We've got a community that is in real stress, we've got a community that has real life issues dealing with housing, work, affordability.\"\n\nThe boycott petition, signed by more than 6,000 people, calls on local authorities to refuse all production filming permits needed for the proposed series.\n\n\"We are a community experiencing significant challenges driven by influencer culture and rapidly shifting demographics of residents. We do not want to be cast as the perfect backdrop and magnet for social media influencers. We do not want to appear in 'Byron Baes',\" the petition said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"Rather than using our region as a reality show punch line we want... authorities to focus on supporting our community to address systemic issues of housing affordability, coastal erosion, increasing unemployment, traffic management challenges, low high school completion rates and high levels of gendered and domestic violence.\"", "A review of policing says officers sometimes struggled to enforce coronavirus restrictions because of a lack of clarity from ministers.\n\nThe analysis by a policing watchdog found chief constables heard about new restrictions from the government's television briefings.\n\nConfusion led to mistakes, putting confidence at risk, say inspectors.\n\nThe report says that despite major challenges, forces in England and Wales learned from mistakes.\n\nIt adds that it is essential the police do not become seen as \"coercive agents of ministers\".\n\nHer Majesty's Inspector of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services (HMICFRS), the body that reviews how well police do their work, said the rapid introduction and repeated changes to coronavirus laws left forces confused.\n\n\"Despite close working between the Home Office and national policing leaders, communication about restrictions and regulations was often at short notice and subject to change,\" says the inspectors' report.\n\n\"Many forces expressed frustration at the way that some government announcements were communicated... they had not been consulted in advance.\n\n\"This made it difficult to produce [internal] advice to forces on enforcing legislation.\"\n\nPolice chiefs in England told the inspectors they had little access to policymakers in the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), who were devising the new laws.\n\nSome were so concerned about what they were legally required to do, they took their own legal advice.\n\n\"Some forces expressed concern that they first heard of certain changes at the 5pm daily televised government briefings,\" says the report.\n\n\"In some cases, the changes required immediate implementation and many forces felt disadvantaged by a lack of notice and consultation.\n\n\"Their difficulty was made worse by a widespread confusion in relation to the status of government announcements and statements by ministers.\n\n\"Ministers asserting that their guidance - which had no higher status than requests - were in fact 'instructions to the British people' inevitably confused people.\"\n\nExamples include widespread confusion over whether repeat daily exercise had become a crime - it hadn't - and whether the two-metre social distancing \"rule\" was a legal requirement, when in fact it was only good practice.\n\n\"In these circumstances, mistakes were made... High-profile examples included road checks to identify unnecessary journeys, drone surveillance of people in open and almost deserted places, and police action in relation to non-essential shopping and what was thought to be excessive exercise.\"\n\n\"And as difficulties arose and some well-publicised mistakes were made, public confidence in, and support for, the police were inevitably put at risk.\"\n\nThe chairman of the National Police Chiefs' Council, Martin Hewitt, said the report recognised the past 12 months had been \"one of the biggest challenges to face modern policing, and that the service has stepped up and met that challenge head on\".\n\nHe added: \"We haven't always got things right straightaway, and we have sought throughout the pandemic to learn as we go and improve the service we provide.\"\n\nA Home Office spokesperson said: \"The police have worked tirelessly to keep us safe during the pandemic and as this report shows, took immediate and decisive action to help protect the NHS and save lives.\n\n\"Whilst the majority of us have been able to stay at home, our courageous officers have been out on the streets pursuing criminals, protecting the public and enforcing the coronavirus rules where necessary.\"\n\nA Home Office spokesman praised the police for tirelessly working during the pandemic and said there had been a constant dialogue with chiefs that had informed the devising of restrictions.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA wildfire on the slopes of South Africa's Table Mountain has spread to the nearby University of Cape Town campus, forcing the evacuation of hundreds of students, officials say.\n\nThe blaze spread quickly after breaking out on Sunday morning near a memorial to politician Cecil Rhodes. A restaurant was destroyed.\n\nThe university's historic library and other buildings were also affected.\n\nFour helicopters are water-bombing the flames.\n\nSouth African National Parks said firefighters were alerted at 09:00 local time (07:00 GMT). The flames spread quickly because of the low humidity and dry bush.\n\nThe fire created its own wind further increasing the rate of spread, it added, estimating that firefighters would need at least three days to control the blaze.\n\n\"After the initial investigation, it is surmised that the origin of the fire is from a vacated vagrant fire,\" it said.\n\nMore than 120 firefighters have been deployed to the area\n\nHelicopters have been used to try to control the fire\n\nMore than 120 firefighters have been deployed to the area, and one had to be sent to hospital for treatment with burn wounds.\n\nThe fire partially destroyed the University of Cape Town's Jagger Library and the historic Mostert's Mill. Other buildings were also affected.\n\n\"All UCT students have been evacuated from campus by emergency services support staff,\" the university said on Twitter.\n\nThe Jagger Library was partially destroyed by the fire\n\nThe historic Mostert's Mill is seen in ruins after the blaze\n\nResidents in the area have been warned of smoke and soot in the air, and told to keep windows and doors closed.\n\nMeanwhile hikers in the Table Mountain National Park have been urged to leave and drivers who have parked in the area have been told to collect their vehicles.\n\nA house used as a University of Cape Town students' residence was also partially destroyed\n\nThis file photo of Table Mountain shows its position above Cape Town", "India is being added to the red list of countries from which travel is banned, we heard in the House of Commons this afternoon.\n\nIt means Britons arriving from India will have to quarantine in a hotel for 10 days when they get back. Anyone who is not a UK or Irish resident or a British citizen will be banned from entering if they have been in India in the previous 10 days.\n\nBut is that new rule for England, or is it the whole of the UK?\n\nWell, technically, as public health is determined by individual nations, it only concerns England.\n\nAs there are no international flights into Wales or Northern Ireland however, they tend to fall into line with England's decisions. And there are no quarantine hotels in Wales or Northern Ireland either.\n\nScotland currently requires hotel quarantine for all international arrivals at the moment anyway, so today's announcement makes no difference to anyone landing there.\n\nHere's an explainer on which countries are currently on the red list and exactly what it means for travellers.", "As a boy, I watched Liverpool winning the league title and European Cup and dreamed of doing the same myself.\n\nWhen I became a Liverpool player, I wanted to win the things those teams had done, to show I was as good as they were.\n\nThat history, that tradition - all of those things that have grown since Liverpool Football Club formed in 1892 - would disappear if they joined this proposed breakaway European Super League and were banned from the Premier League.\n\nEverything that makes Liverpool the institution it is would be lost. If they leave domestic competition for this, what happens to the decades-long rivalry with Manchester United over who has won the most titles?\n\nDo the things that mattered when I put on that red shirt suddenly not matter any more? Where do they go?\n\n'From a players' point of view, I don't see the appeal'\n\nI am retired now, but it will be the same for current Liverpool players, and all those at the other English clubs involved - United, Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester City and Tottenham.\n\nThey have been dreaming of winning the titles and trophies they grew up with, that they are competing for right now, because they mean so much.\n\nThey won't wake up tomorrow and think 'well all I want to do is win a stagnated European Super League'.\n\nThe plans, which were officially announced on Sunday night, sound soulless.\n\nIt is beyond belief, actually, that they can think they can put this idea forward with the thought it will just be brought in smoothly and have everyone accept it.\n\nThat is just a complete lack of understanding about our game, our traditions, what we love about football and what is in our hearts when we watch it and play the game.\n\nWe've already seen strong opposition from leagues and federations who would be affected, and fans as well. Next, I think we will see a backlash from managers and players too.\n\nWhen I look at the proposals, and also the consequences if you are part of them, then from a players' point of view, I just don't see the appeal at all.\n\nPart of the joy of being a player is the rewards you get for your success on the pitch - you earn it, individually and collectively. This way, you don't get any of that. You would just get a closed shop every season, playing the same clubs every time.\n\nIt sounds sterile and boring. Players don't want that, they want to be tested. If there are no incentives, there will be no intensity. What is left for you to play for?\n\nYou're also being told you can no longer play for your country if you are part of this. Again, that's what you dream of doing as a kid, so I just don't see many footballers agreeing to that, which actually gives me hope that this whole idea will quickly fall apart.\n\n'The more I think about it, the more nonsensical it gets'\n\nWhen news of the breakaway plans came through on Sunday, my reaction was the same as I'd expect from most people who love football - disappointment and disgust at the greed that is behind the idea.\n\nThe intention here has nothing to do with the love of football or progressing the game, it is just about money.\n\nBy signing up for this, you are changing everything. If the big six go down this road and leave the Premier League, it dismantles the whole pyramid which makes English football brilliant, and has been the bedrock of our game for generations.\n\nThat's what has shocked me. Not the idea itself, because it has been talked about for years, but that there are actually people within the hierarchies at the big clubs who aren't intelligent enough to understand how damaging this could be.\n\nI'm open-minded enough to look at any ideas for football's future and consider the pros and cons of any changes, but I simply don't see any positives here.\n\nAs well as being guaranteed involvement every season, the clubs involved must think they will be able to sell the broadcast rights for these big games and get more money than they do now out of the Champions League and domestic competitions.\n\nBut I think they are naive, because I don't think there is an appetite to see the same fixtures every season, whoever is involved.\n\nSome of the clubs involved who have got owners from the United States might like that model, which works in sports over there. That doesn't matter, though, because it doesn't work for English football.\n\nFans don't want to see that, they want excitement. They want to see their team respond to disappointment, and fight to reach the next level, and get the rewards that follow that success.\n\nSo to make it a closed shop, with no ins and outs unless the member clubs decide it, goes against the whole nature of football. It's not beneficial, and it's not sustainable.\n\nIf these plans go through, they will have huge repercussions for football in this country and beyond, but my hope is that they are dealt with properly, and in unison, by everyone who does have the game's best interests at heart.\n\nI just hope this is not allowed to escalate, because the more I think about it, the more nonsensical it gets.", "Nasa has confirmed that this small helicopter has made history by becoming the first to successfully fly on another planet.\n\nIngenuity took its test flight on Monday 19 April but it wasn't until later in the morning that data showed it had worked.\n\nIngenuity is a 1.8kg (4lb) helicopter that travelled to Mars inside Nasa's Perseverance rover, which landed in February 2021.\n\nFlying on the Red Planet isn't straightforward - as BBC science reporter Laura Foster and Nasa systems engineer Farah Alibay explain.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nThe European Super League (ESL) is a \"disgraceful, self-serving\" plan and a \"spit in the face of football lovers\", says Uefa president Aleksander Ceferin.\n\nHe also said players who play for teams involved in the closed league would be \"banned from the World Cup and Euros\".\n\nArsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham are among 12 clubs who have agreed to join the proposed ESL.\n\nDowden said the review had been brought forward and would offer a \"root and branch\" review of the sport, covering finance, governance and regulation.\n\nHe said while football's authorities are equipped to handle the proposed ESL breakaway, the UK government would provide \"full backing\".\n\n\"Be in no doubt, if they can't act, we will,\" added Dowden. \"We will put everything on the table to prevent this from happening. We are examining every option. Put simply, we will be reviewing everything the government does to support these clubs.\"\n\nLabour welcomed Dowden's statement but said it was \"short on detail and the urgency this situation merits\".\n\nA YouGov poll of 1,730 football fans found 79% opposed the idea of a European Super League, with 68% of those polled stating they are strongly opposed to the move.\n\nCeferin, who has been Uefa president since 2016, has overseen an agreement on a new-look 36-team Champions League but made clear his disdain for the ESL project.\n\n\"We are all united against this nonsense of a project,\" he said.\n\n\"I cannot stress more strongly how everyone is united against these disgraceful, self-serving proposals, fuelled by greed above all else.\n\n\"[It is a] cynical plan, completely against what football should be. We cannot and will not allow that to change.\n\n\"Players who will play in the teams that might play in the closed league will be banned from the World Cup and Euros. We urge everyone to stand tall with us as we do everything in our power to ensure this never ends up in fruition.\n\n\"This idea is a spit in the face of all football lovers. We will not allow them to take it away from us.\"\n\nThe ESL will be a \"new midweek competition\" with teams continuing to \"compete in their respective national leagues\".\n\nAfter it was announced on Sunday, Fifa expressed its \"disapproval\" of the proposed competition and called on \"all parties involved in heated discussions to engage in calm, constructive and balanced dialogue for the good of the game\".\n\nWorld football's governing body previously said it would not recognise such a competition and any players involved could be denied the chance to play at a World Cup.\n\nThe 14 Premier League clubs not signed up to the ESL will meet on Tuesday to assess the proposals and consider a response.\n\nOn Monday, Ceferin reiterated clubs and players involved with the ESL could be banned \"as soon as possible\" from all Uefa competitions.\n\n\"We're still assessing with our legal team but we will take all the sanctions that we can and we will inform you as soon we can,\" he said.\n\n\"My opinion is that as soon as possible they have to be banned from all our competitions and the players from all our competitions.\"\n• None Super League: Why are football's biggest clubs starting a new tournament?\n• None 'A bonfire of greed' - how Europe reacted to the Super League\n\nCeferin was particularly critical of Manchester United executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward and Juventus chairman Andrea Agnelli, who have both stepped down from their roles at Uefa.\n\nAgnelli was also a long-time president of the European Club Association (ECA), from which all 12 clubs involved in the ESL have resigned.\n\n\"He's probably one of the biggest disappointments, or the biggest disappointment of all,\" said Ceferin.\n\n\"I don't want to be too personal. But the fact is that I've never seen a person that would lie so many times, so persistently that he did was unbelievable.\n\n\"I spoke with him also on Saturday afternoon. He said, 'These are all only rumours. Don't worry, nothing is going on'. And then he said, 'I'll call you in one hour'. And he turned off the phone.\"\n\nOn Woodward, Ceferin added: \"I didn't have much contact with him but he called me last Thursday in the evening saying that he's very satisfied with the [Champions League] reforms, that he fully supports the reforms, and that the only thing he would like to speak about is about financial fair play.\n\n\"And obviously he already signed something else.\"\n\nChelsea boss Thomas Tuchel, the only manager of one of England's 'big six' joining the ESL to speak so far, said he \"trusts the club to make the right decisions\".\n\n\"I've know since yesterday but I am here to be in the hardest competition, it's why I came here to play the toughest competitions,\" he said.\n\n\"I am part of this club and I trust this club to make the right decisions. I think it's too early to judge everything and it's not my part. On my badge it says that everyone has to play their role. My role is to coach, be focused, and we've another game tomorrow.\"\n\nEarlier on Monday, Aston Villa chief executive Christian Purslow said the ESL was a \"grotesque concept\" and goes against everything football stands for.\n\n\"These proposals do away with sporting merit,\" Purslow told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"It would enable a small number of clubs to be in this competition come what may and, for millions of people in football, that goes against everything the sport means and stands for.\n\n\"The idea is that the uncertainty that comes with sport, that makes it so compelling, that we all love, is actually damaging to the business models of these huge clubs.\n\n\"So the scheme is designed to take away that uncertainty, to give predictability to their businesses so that, if they're badly managed or have a poor year, they're still in the premier tournament.\n\n\"Does that sound like sport or football to you? To me it sounds a grotesque concept.\"\n\nWriting on Twitter, Leeds owner Andrea Radrizzani said: \"Absolutely against the sporting spirit, the dream of millions of fans to conquer the champions on the field, with planning, vision, work. Kill dreams of players and fans.\n\n\"The teams are fans and WE are custodians of the club.\"\n\nSouthampton boss Ralph Hasenhuttl reiterated his opposition to the move.\n\n\"There cannot be any other opinion about it. It's a big threat, what I see coming up - war, if you want, from the big clubs,\" he said.\n\n\"We will see what the future brings but it's a big threat and we have to fight against it.\n\n\"I hope we have the fans with us, and without the fans football won't work. They have a lot of power, these big clubs.\"\n\nAnd Preston North End, one of the Football League's 12 founding clubs in 1888, said the breakaway could \"destroy nearly 150 years of football history for short-term riches for the few\".\n\nNorth End won the first two league titles and the club's statement went on: \"The underlying principle that these breakaway clubs appear to have completely disregarded is that football is most importantly about its supporters.\n\n\"This European Super League plan has totally ignored their voice, which is unacceptable.\"\n• None Big Narstie explores the impact of the Brixton Riots\n• None Find out on the Bad People podcast", "Secondary schools in Scotland will reopen full time as planned after the Easter holidays, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has confirmed.\n\nPupils will no longer have to follow strict two metre physical distancing rules when they return, and must wear face coverings throughout the school.\n\nMs Sturgeon said \"virtually all\" secondary pupils would be back in the classroom after the holidays.\n\nThe only exception is for those pupils in the shielding category.\n\n\"We are continuing to recommend that they stay at home until 26 April, and that's in line with the advice already received from the chief medical officer,\" said Ms Sturgeon.\n\nPrimary schools had already resumed full-time teaching before the holidays, but a part-time blended learning system had been used in secondary schools.\n\nThe first minister said the return to in-person, full-time learning would be \"a huge relief\" to many children and parents.\n\nShe acknowledged that there would be some \"concern and anxiety\" about the move, but said safety would be \"paramount\"\n\n\"The return to school will involve the removal, where necessary, of strict two metre distancing between pupils, but we are asking schools to consider how they strengthen their mitigations,\" she said.\n\nSecondary pupils will have to wear face coverings at all times, and all age groups will be able to access twice-weekly lateral flow testing.\n\nDuring the coronavirus briefing, Ms Sturgeon was asked about the assessment system for senior pupils following concerns that some would be sitting \"exams by another name\" in coming weeks.\n\nShe said: \"There is no requirement to replicate a full exam or prelim this year. Teacher judgement is at the centre of this.\"\n\nThe Scottish Liberal Democrats' Alex Cole-Hamilton said he had \"some real concerns\" that the assessments were exams by another name.\n\nHe said this would put \"tremendous pressure\" on teachers and pupils, adding: \"We have to make sure young people have every support they need.\"\n\nScottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar said the full-time return of pupils would bring \"a sense of relief\" for parents.\n\nBut he added: \"Now we have a ramping up of the vaccine supply, we should be looking at rolling out those vaccines for teachers to give them a sense of confidence, and to pupils and parents as well.\"\n\nLarry Flanagan, general secretary of the EIS teachers' union, said there needed to be \"great caution\" over the return of pupils to school.\n\n\"It will undoubtedly lead to an increase in school Covid outbreaks, which will require to be dealt with quickly, particularly for senior pupils who will be in the final stages of their qualification work,\" he said.\n\n\"If we had made more progress on the EIS demands of ventilation, vaccination and facemasks, we would be in a stronger position. Improving such mitigations is still possible.\"\n\nThe first minister also told the briefing that the first batch of the newly-approved Moderna vaccine had arrived in Scotland.\n\nScotland is due to receive more than one million of the 17 million doses ordered by the UK.\n\n\"The fact that we now have three vaccines in use is clearly very welcome and it does give us greater security of supply which is welcome,\" she said.\n\nResponding to questions about the prospect of introducing vaccine passports for those who have had their jab, Ms Sturgeon said it was important \"not to close our minds\" to the idea.\n\nShe said that if the public are to have confidence in any future certification process, time must be taken to \"air all of the challenges\".\n\n\"We all want to get back to normal, so anything that can play a part in getting us back to normal is something we should think about very carefully,\" she said.\n\n\"But nor should we gloss over the practical and ethical issues.\"\n\nThe UK government has said the introduction of certificates which could show vaccination, test or immunity status is one option currently being considered.\n\nAlison Johnstone, from the Scottish Green Party, said she had not been convinced that widespread use of vaccination passports would be a good thing.\n\n\"There may be some cases where this is appropriate, but I would be extremely concerned about the introduction of a vaccine passport at a domestic level,\" she said.\n\nA total of 2,577,816 people in Scotland have now received their first dose and 463,780 have received their second dose.\n\nThere were 259 positive cases of Covid reported in the last 24 hours, a positivity rate of 2%. No further deaths were recorded.\n\nMs Sturgeon said routine testing will be expanded to enable everyone to take a lateral flow test twice a week. A similar move was announced in England on Monday.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said the figures indicated that things were moving in the right direction.\n\nHe said this meant there were \"a number of reopenings that can be safely and cautiously brought forward\" - such as allowing alcohol to be served with a meal indoors in pubs and restaurants.", "Shops, restaurants and bars will offer QR barcode check-ins once restrictions ease\n\nEngland and Wales' contact tracing app will soon ask users to share details of venues they have checked in to, if they test positive for the coronavirus.\n\nThe update to the NHS Covid-19 app will be deployed ahead of shops reopening in both nations on 12 April, as well as outdoor hospitality in England.\n\nThe authorities will be able to use the information to tell other visitors if they need to be tested for the virus.\n\nBut the system has been designed to protect users' anonymity.\n\n\"The app has been designed with user privacy in mind, so it tracks the virus not people, and uses the latest in data security technology to protect privacy,\" said a spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Social Care.\n\nUntil now, the QR barcode-scanning facility only came into use if local authorities themselves flagged a location as being a virus hotspot by other means.\n\nThis would then trigger a process whereby each phone could check if it had been at one of the affected venues on the dates concerned, and send the owner an alert.\n\nBut the facility has rarely been used, despite more than 106 million check-ins.\n\nIn March, Sky News reported that \"capacity issues at a local level\" were blamed for this, with overburdened health protection teams unclear about what they were supposed to do.\n\nThe decision to automate the system via users' own actions could help address this.\n\nThe QR barcode posters are being relaunched with a simplified design ahead of 12 April\n\nPeople might have reservations about disclosing where they have been and when.\n\nTo address this, the Department of Health has said a \"privacy-protecting\" approach is being taken.\n\nThe app will only share venue history data if users opt in.\n\nAnd rather than any names or other personal details being disclosed, the software will simply inform the system when an infected user had visited the locations.\n\nDepending on the thresholds set - for example how many infected users visited the same place on the same day - other app users can then be told to either monitor their symptoms or immediately get a test, whether they feel ill or not.\n\nIt is not intended that the check-in tool be used alone to force others to self-isolate.\n\n\"People shouldn't be worried about this as effectively they aren't being asked where they were, but rather where an unidentified person testing positive with Covid was,\" commented Prof Alan Woodward, a security expert from the University of Surrey.\n\nFurther details will be revealed in a forthcoming revision to the app's data protection impact assessment (DPIA) document.\n\nPrivacy advocates have, however, raised concerns about a parallel system being run in Scotland.\n\nUsers there are being asked to use a new app - Check In Scotland - to register at venues.\n\nThe Check In Scotland app was launched on 18 December\n\nIt is separate to the Protect Scotland contact-tracing app, and thus not bound to the same privacy-preserving measures demanded by Google and Apple, which provide some of the technology involved.\n\nCheck In Scotland uploads the name, email address and mobile phone number of each user to a \"secure\" centralised database along with the time of their visit to each venue.\n\nThe justification given is two-fold:\n\nUsers are told the data should only be used to try to combat the virus.\n\nBut the DPIA acknowledges that the information could, in theory, be disclosed for other purposes if demanded via a court order or ministerial direction.\n\nSome experts are concerned this leaves the door open to it being \"misused\".\n\n\"The concern is that this infrastructure, once in place, is unlikely to go away because the coronavirus will be with us for a long time,\" said Prof Michael Veale, a lecturer in digital rights at University College London.", "Credit Suisse took drastic action on Tuesday, replacing two key executives and cutting bonuses amid the fallout from two major business relationships.\n\nIts chief risk officer, Lara Warner and its investment banking chief, Brian Chin will both leave the bank in April.\n\nTwo businesses linked to the Swiss banking giant, Greensill Capital and hedge fund Archegos imploded in recent weeks with major losses.\n\nGreensill was the key financial backer of Liberty Steel owner, GFG Alliance.\n\nGreensill Capital, filed for insolvency earlier this month. There are concerns about the future of Liberty Steel which directly employs 3,000 people in the UK. An additional 2,000 people work for GFG Alliance in the UK.\n\nCredit Suisse said it expects to make a $960m (£690m) loss for the first quarter. It had planned to ask shareholders to vote on both short and long-term bonus awards for executives, but it has now cancelled these proposals and it is cutting its proposed dividend payout to shareholders.\n\nIt also warned of a $4.7bn loss from Archegos' implosion alone.\n\nIt said it had yet to calculate the cost of its involvement with Greensill Capital.\n\nArchegos is run by controversial former hedge fund manager, Bill Hwang.The Swiss bank was one of several lenders that acted as prime broker to Mr Hwang.\n\nArchegos collapsed after bets it made on stocks unravelled. Shares in one of its holdings, US entertainment giant Viacom, starting falling, forcing it to sell them off in double-quick time.\n\nCredit Suisse was one of the last to try to unload its shares in the company, selling then at just over $40 per share, compared with the $100 it was priced at earlier in March.\n\nCredit Suisse's chief executive, Thomas Gottstein, said in a statement: \"The significant loss in our prime services business relating to the failure of a US-based hedge fund is unacceptable.\n\n\"In combination with the recent issues around the supply chain finance funds, I recognise that these cases have caused significant concern amongst all our stakeholders.\"\n\nCredit Suisse said it had launched investigations into both of these matters. It said these would not only focus on the direct issues arising from each of them, but also on the broader consequences.\n\nMr Gottstein said: \"Serious lessons will be learned.\"\n\nThe bank's results will be published on April 22, 2021.", "A decade-long battle over copied code in Google's Android operating system has ended in the US Supreme Court.\n\nOracle, another tech titan, had sued Google in 2010 for copyright infringement over what it said was copied computer code.\n\nAndroid is now used in an estimated 70% of global smartphones, and damages could have run into the billions.\n\nBut the Supreme Court let Google off the hook, overturning a lower court's decision it had infringed copyright.\n\nThe court ruled six to two in favour of Google.\n\nAt issue was whether Google's use of Oracle's Java API - a widely-used \"building block\" for programmers - counted as \"fair use\" under US copyright law.\n\nIf it was, the fact that Google was accused of copying more than 11,000 lines of code would not matter.\n\nJustice Stephen Breyer, in his written opinion, said that \"to allow enforcement of Oracle's copyright here would risk harm to the public\".\n\nSo many programmers used and had deep knowledge of Oracle's building blocks that such a move would turn computer code into \"a lock limiting the future creativity of new programs\".\n\n\"Oracle alone would hold the key,\" he warned.\n\nOracle made clear that it firmly disagreed with the court's judgement, saying that it had increased Google's power further and damaged other companies' ability to compete.\n\n\"They stole Java and spent a decade litigating as only a monopolist can,\" said Dorian Daley, the company's general counsel, in a statement.\n\n\"This behaviour is exactly why regulatory authorities around the world and in the United States are examining Google's business practices.\"\n\nGoogle, meanwhile, painted the decision as a victory for the software industry as a whole.\n\n\"Today's Supreme Court decision in Google v Oracle is a big win for innovation, interoperability and computing,\" wrote Ken Walker, the company's senior vice president for global affairs.\n\n\"Thanks to the country's leading innovators, software engineers and copyright scholars for their support.\"\n\nThe majority of judges agreed that Google's copying of the Java code - in the particular way it was used - was \"a fair use of that material\".\n\nBut the judges disagreed on how to apply traditional copyright law to computer code.\n\nJustice Breyer, writing for the majority, acknowledged that it is \"difficult to apply traditional copyright concepts in that technological world\".\n\nBut in a dissenting opinion, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote that allowing fair use simply because it allows new products to be created effectively redefines the idea.\n\n\"That new definition eviscerates copyright,\" he warned.\n\nHe also lamented that the majority had decided not to rule on whether code was copyrightable, instead saving the question for another day and relying on fair use instead.\n\n\"The majority cannot square its fundamentally flawed fair-use analysis with a finding that declaring code is copyrightable,\" he wrote of his peers.", "More than 500 Covid cases have been recorded at DVLA sites in Swansea since September\n\nStaff at the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency in Swansea are \"scared to go to work\" over Covid concerns, a union has said.\n\nMembers of the PCS union started a four-day strike at the agency's headquarters earlier.\n\nDVLA sites in the city have recorded more than 500 Covid cases since September.\n\nA spokesman for the agency said it had followed Welsh government Covid guidance \"at every single point\".\n\nPublic Health Wales declared a Covid-19 outbreak at the DVLA's contact centre in Swansea Vale in Llansamlet in December, following more than 350 cases at the site.\n\nThe DVLA said it had had no new confirmed Covid cases since the 24 March\n\nAlong with the DVLA headquarters in the Clase area of Swansea, the agency employs more than 6,000 people in the city.\n\nPCS said it was asking its 3,300 members at the Swansea HQ to strike \"to protect workers' safety\", following an industrial action ballot in early March.\n\nThe union said those involved would include operational staff who have not been working from home.\n\nPCS general secretary Mark Serwotka said strike action was \"unfortunately\" necessary.\n\n\"The DVLA has had more Covid cases than any other workplace in the whole of the United Kingdom, over 600 cases,\" he said\n\n\"Sadly, there has been a fatality and, even in recent weeks, we have seen people contacted at work and we have seen cases break out at work.\n\n\"None of this is necessary because every other UK civil service department has a majority of people working from home, yet the DVLA insists on 2,500 people going to work every single day, and we believe that is not safe.\"\n\nHe said the lowest paid staff were instructed to attend the office while senior managers stayed home, adding: \"It's really a scandal.\"\n\nThe union's DVLA branch secretary, Sarah Evans, told BBC Wales Breakfast: \"They are being forced to take this action for the sake of not just their own health and safety, but the safety of their family and their work colleagues.\n\n\"They don't feel the DVLA are taking their health and safety seriously.\"\n\nMore than 2,000 staff are still working at the DVLA offices every day, says PCS\n\nPCS said progress had been made in talks, but the lack of immediate moves to reduce numbers on site meant industrial action would go ahead.\n\nAgreement had been reached on removing more than 300 desks, revising risk assessments, which has led to a further 300 staff being sent home, and a commitment on how to proceed in talks over the coming months.\n\nHowever, the union said there were still \"well in excess of 2,000\" staff a day going into its Swansea offices.\n\nThe agency said the strike was likely to delay paper applications it received, as well as calls to its contact centre, but online services would still be available.\n\nIt said it had had no new confirmed Covid cases since the 24 March.\n\nA DVLA spokesman said: \"The safety of our staff is paramount and we have continuously adapted our measures over the past year and will continue to do so.\n\n\"There is currently not a single member of staff in the 10 day isolation period, out of a workforce of more than 6,000.\"\n\nHe added the agency had \"consistently worked with Public Health Wales, environmental health and Swansea Bay Health Board to introduce a wide range of safety measures\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The bodies of Alan Minard, Ross Ballantine and Carl McGrath were discovered last month\n\nA team searching for a fishing boat that went missing with three men on board has found a \"sunken vessel of significant interest\".\n\nRoss Ballantine, 39, Alan Minard, 20, and skipper Carl McGrath, 34, had been on the Nicola Faith which failed to return to Conwy's port in January,\n\nThe bodies of all three were found last month.\n\nThe Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) said a vessel had been located in the Colwyn Bay area.\n\nThe Nicola Faith fishing boat has been missing since 27 January\n\nIt said the Chief Inspector of Marine Accidents has issued a notice of direction to prohibit access around the wreck, requiring that it be left undisturbed pending further investigation.\n\nIt prohibits anchoring, fishing by nets, trawls or lines or any diving within a 200 metres radius of the wreck.\n\nMAIB said a vessel had been located in the Colwyn Bay area", "Unions have criticised a 50p-per-week increase in statutory sick pay (SSP) as \"miserly\".\n\nSSP increases from £95.85 to £96.35 on Tuesday, but unions including the Trades Union Congress (TUC) and Unite say it is too little to live on.\n\nTUC general secretary Frances O'Grady said: \"No-one should be plunged into hardship if they need to self-isolate.\"\n\nA government spokesman said there was a \"comprehensive package\" in place to support those who need to self-isolate.\n\nIt also said many employers pay more than the minimum level of statutory sick pay.\n\nAccording to the OECD, the UK has one of the lowest statutory sick pay rates of any developed country, as a proportion of the average worker's earnings.\n\nHowever, its coverage lasts longer than in most European nations.\n\nMs O'Grady said \"low\" SSP payments could risk \"undermining\" public health efforts as lockdowns ease across the UK.\n\n\"Many working in pubs and shops are on low wages and face having to survive on just £96 a week if they get sick,\" she said.\n\nThe TUC is calling for the level of SSP paid to be raised in line with the National Living Wage, which stands at £8.91-per-hour for workers aged 23 and over.\n\nIt also warned that nearly two million workers do not earn enough to qualify for SSP - most of them women.\n\nNor are the self-employed eligible to receive it, unlike in most other European countries.\n\nLen McCluskey, Unite general secretary, said: \"Time and again the government has been told that people will not isolate without a living income.\n\n\"Unless and until the government addresses the scandalously low level of sick pay provision in this country, any scheme to reopen the economy that rests on isolation but without income is half-baked and will fail.\"\n\nA government spokesman said that there was a \"comprehensive package of financial support in place for workers who need to self-isolate to help stop the spread of coronavirus\".\n\nThat includes a £500 payment for those on the lowest incomes who have been contacted by NHS Test and Trace.\n\n\"Many employers pay more than the minimum level of statutory sick pay and employers with up to 250 staff can be reimbursed the cost of up to a fortnight's statutory sick pay.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Claims all over-50s in Wales have been offered a Covid jab have been questioned\n\nClaims all over-50s and at-risk adults with underlying health conditions have been offered a Covid vaccine in Wales have been disputed.\n\nSome people in those groups have said they are still waiting to be contacted to have their jab.\n\nIt comes after the Welsh government said on Monday it had already met the mid-April milestone target set for all UK governments.\n\nOn Tuesday, it said \"plans are in place to make sure no-one is left behind\".\n\nPublic Health Wales (PHW) has said people should contact their health board.\n\nGarry Edwards, 51, from Anglesey, is registered as asthmatic and said he was still waiting for his invitation.\n\nHe said he was previously told by his surgery only second jabs were being given, so he called Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board which confirmed he was on the list and would be called.\n\n\"I know a lot of people who have had, and a lot of people younger than me who have had it - I know people in their 40s who have had it,\" Mr Edwards said on BBC Radio Wales Breakfast with Claire Summers.\n\n\"It's going to be done when it's done but when you are told you are going to be invited to have it... and it hasn't happened, then the statistics are wrong somewhere.\"\n\nOther listeners to the programme messaged to say they were also still waiting for a first vaccine.\n\nBeverley Williams, 57, from Tonypandy, Rhondda Cynon Taf, said she was still waiting to hear about her vaccine through Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board.\n\n\"I've had Covid before so I'm a bit stressed,\" she said.\n\n\"I rang them this morning and they are going to send me another letter and if I don't hear anything by next week, I've got to ring them again.\n\n\"My husband's [vaccine] was late and he only found out he missed his because they rang him to find out why he hadn't turned up.\"\n\nShe added he was then booked in for the jab the same day as the call.\n\nGraham Thomas said it was \"really annoying\" his 84-year-old mother Marion Price was still waiting for her vaccine in Caerphilly.\n\n\"She has asthma and [lung disease] COPD. She's disabled and can't get out of the house.\"\n\nHe said she had received an offer to come to the surgery, but it was known she was housebound: \"She has to have a home visit. She's got a letter saying she is on the priority list but she hasn't had a vaccine.\"\n\nSonja Milano's mother Manuela Levi moved to Bangor, Gwynedd, last summer from Italy.\n\nThe 50-year-old is registered with a GP but has been told to wait two more weeks for news of a vaccine appointment.\n\nMs Milano said: \"I phoned her GP surgery today and was told if nothing has happened by then, to call again.\n\n\"Everybody else around us over 50 has been offered one. I just want to make sure she will get a call.\"\n\nSonja Milano's mother Manuela Levi, 50, has been told to wait two more weeks for news of a vaccine appointment\n\nDr Giri Shankar, incident director for the Covid-19 response at PHW, said vaccinations were delivered by health boards.\n\n\"I can't think of any systematic issue that would have led to several people having not received their vaccinations,\" he said.\n\n\"There may be isolated cases where that has happened, which obviously needs to be looked into, and the health boards are best placed to do that.\n\n\"Without looking into the specific details of each of those cases, it's difficult to say what might have happened, but I think the main thing to say is it's never too late.\n\n\"If you feel you haven't been given an appointment, you should immediately make contact with the health board.\"\n\nIn a statement, the Welsh government said: \"Any person aged 50 or over will have had at least their first vaccination or been sent an appointment, and plans are in in place to make sure no-one is left behind.\n\n\"If health boards have been unable to contact someone on the list, or if an appointment has been missed, systems are in place to go back and check and re-arrange a new appointment for anyone who wants to be vaccinated.\"\n\nInformation is available on the Welsh government website for people who think they should have had an appointment but have not received one.\n\nDr Mair Hopkin said she thought cases of people not being offered the vaccine were \"few and far between\"\n\nDr Mair Hopkin, joint chairman of the Royal College of General Practitioners Wales, said she did not think there was \"potentially a problem\" with delivering the vaccine.\n\nShe said she had heard cases of people not being offered the vaccine were \"few and far between\".\n\n\"There may be very many reasons why people have been left off a list,\" Dr Hopkin said, citing people moving house and records not being updated.\n\nDr Hopkin expressed concern younger people could be harder to reach for vaccination since they could be in education or at work and not \"sitting there waiting for that phone call\".\n\nShe said it was important the young were vaccinated even if they thought they were not at risk.\n\n\"You have to remember that you are putting everyone one else at risk,\" she said.\n\nOn Monday, PHW said 1,493,192 people had received a first dose of the vaccine and 469,251 people were fully vaccinated, having had both jabs.\n\nThe Welsh government also said on Monday it had achieved its \"second milestone\" of offering a vaccine to everyone over the age of 50 and those with underlying health issues.\n\nBut Hywel Dda University Health Board, which covers Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion, said it was on track to meet the UK's mid-April target by 18 April.\n\nChief executive Steve Moore encouraged people to get in touch to secure their first vaccine dose if they have not yet had an appointment.\n\nHe added: \"We have seen an overwhelming response from our wonderful communities across the three counties who have turned up in storms, snow, rain and sunshine to receive their vaccine.\"\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr health board's primary and community care boss, Dr Chris Stockport, said the \"vast majority\" of appointments for unvaccinated people in groups five to nine were now booked.\n\nInvitation letters, he said, were \"sent in the post last week\".\n\n\"Most of these letters have been delivered, but a small number may arrive in the coming days, because of bank holiday postal arrangements,\" Dr Stockport said.\n\nA \"significant number\" of invitations had also been sent to people in their 40s, he said.\n\n\"We are determined to not leave anybody behind,\" he said.\n\nThe uptake of first doses of those in their early 50s across Wales on average was up to 67.2%, while for those in their late 50s, the figure stands at more than 84%.\n\nThe top four priority groups in Wales, which is made up of all over-70s, including care home residents, were offered a jab by mid-February.\n• None All over-50s in Wales offered jab by target date\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The seal has been named \"Mrs Vicar\" because of the white ring that was around the neck\n\nA seal that had a plastic ring stuck around its neck for two-and-half years has had it removed after being rescued from a Norfolk beach.\n\nThe animal, named \"Mrs Vicar\", was captured on Horsey Beach, near Great Yarmouth, on Easter Sunday.\n\nIt is being cared for at the RSPCA's East Winch wildlife centre after having the ring taken off by vets.\n\nAlison Charles, manager at the centre, said the wound was \"very sore, but we are hopeful she will recover\".\n\nMrs Vicar was rescued off a Norfolk beach on Easter Sunday\n\nThe adult grey seal had the rigid white plastic ring deeply embedded in her neck, as seals are unable to get them off once their heads go through.\n\nThe RSPCA said as the seal grew bigger it began to cut into the neck and caused a 7cm (2.8in) deep wound, which became infected.\n\nMs Charles said: \"All we can do now is hope that Mrs Vicar is strong enough to pull through.\n\n\"Even if she makes it through the next few days, we are not out of the woods and we will be treating her for a number of months.\"\n\nThe seal is at the RSPCA East Winch wildlife centre which specialises in care for injured seals\n\nPeter Ansell, chairman of the Friends of Horsey Seals which helped rescue the seal, said it was named Mrs Vicar due to the white ring around the neck.\n\nHe said the ring \"turned out to be some type of flange, possibly used in large scale pipework\".\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.", "Stuart Jones said he thought people would now be \"much more willing\" to shop on the High Street again Image caption: Stuart Jones said he thought people would now be \"much more willing\" to shop on the High Street again\n\nWe've been hearing a lot over the past few days about how people in the UK are feeling about the route out of lockdown.\n\nStuart Jones says he is “looking forward to finally opening” his personalised garment printing business in Romsey, Hampshire, for the first time next Monday - 12 April.\n\nThe 41-year-old took on a lease in September and was all set to open in November but was stopped by the second lockdown.\n\nHe then decided against opening the business at Christmas for many reasons, the main one being what he saw as a “weariness around the pandemic”.\n\nBack then, Stuart, who is from Romsey himself, thought people would be less likely to shop on the High Street but now he hopes with more people vaccinated, shoppers will return and support local businesses again.\n\nStuart says: “Now we’re on the road to freedom, I’ve had my first vaccine and it feels like there’s light at the end of the tunnel and people are much more willing to shop on the High Street again.\n\n“I know I will be looking to shop on the High Street again and support independent shops with a boost that's desperately needed.\"", "Alex Cole-Hamilton says the Lib Dems have \"deep concerns\" about the prospect of vaccine passports.\n\nThis would be the first time in living memory that evidence of your medical history and treatment status \"will be a pre-requisite for freedom of movement and activity\", he says.\n\nGovernments in Westminster and Scotland don’t have a very good track record of maintaining and securing personal data, he says, highlighting some \"massive data breaches\".\n\n\"It is not something that fills us with optimism and I think it is a short step to full ID cards if we get used to having them domestically,\" Mr Cole-Hamilton adds.", "Scott Davis has returned to help restore the John Summers Clock Tower at Shotton steelworks, where he was an apprentice in the 1990s\n\nA businessman has returned to the place he was a teenage apprentice to help restore a dilapidated landmark.\n\nThe Grade II-listed John Summers Clock Tower in Deeside was home to Shotton Steelworks' general office from 1907.\n\nAfter the Flintshire building was sold by Tata Steel in 2009, it was vandalised and fell into disrepair.\n\nNow, 20 years after he started an apprenticeship at the steelworks, Scott Davis has returned to help restore the building.\n\nThe project, which has received lottery funding, has been supported by more than 50 volunteers who have helped clear the way for major structural repairs.\n\nLed by the non-profit Enbarr Foundation, the project is under way to turn the building into a community hub and heritage skills centre.\n\nThe building was targeted by vandals and fell into disrepair after it was sold in 2009\n\nMr Davis, 39, is the CEO of Ethikos Group, which owns firms in the electrical and manufacturing sectors and has operations in Deeside, Cheshire and Anglesey.\n\nHe knows this will not be a quick-fix project: \"There's no electric on site, no water, so we've got to try and get those reconnected.\n\n\"But with the manpower and all the volunteers, we're making massive progress on the clear-up and strip-out.\n\n\"The challenges will come with the reinstatement of the roof and all the mechanical and electrical infrastructure.\"\n\nMarie Dixon, who worked in the steelworks' canteen for 30 years, says she was \"heartbroken\" when she saw the state it was in\n\nMarie Dixon worked in the executive staff canteen for 30 years and now comes with her husband to clear the rubbish from the site.\n\n\"I went into the building three weeks ago and I was heartbroken, sorry that I went in and saw it because I've got lots of lovely memories there,\" she said.\n\n\"Now all I've got is what it is today. But it will get back to what it was, I'm sure.\"\n\nThe office building was built in 1907\n\nThis year marks the 125th anniversary of Shotton Steelworks and volunteers want to preserve its history as well as create skills for the next generation.\n\nMr Davis said the steelworks had been \"foundational\" to his career and those of so many other apprentices.\n\n\"Everybody in my year has gone on to do equally as well, so as a foundation, I've got a lot of gratitude for this place.\"\n\nScott Davis (centre) on the last day of his apprenticeship at the steelworks\n\nFar from being an obstacle, the coronavirus pandemic has meant more volunteers \"who've wanted things to do\", according to Vicki Roskams, CEO of the Enbarr Foundation\n\nAnd the project is being supported by Tata, which is providing archive photos and drawings of what the building used to look like.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The image shared by MP Robbie Moore shows two adults walking with a child between the railway tracks\n\nTwo women pictured walking along a railway line with a pushchair have been branded \"totally irresponsible\".\n\nThe pair were seen with a young child on the the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway (KWVR) heritage line on Sunday.\n\nStaff said the heritage line, which was used to film the 1970 classic The Railway Children, was still used \"intensively\" for training runs.\n\nA local MP said encouraging children to walk on the tracks was \"dangerous, risky and totally irresponsible\".\n\nKWVR operations manager Noel Hartley said trespassing had increased during the last year due to false assumptions the line was not being used.\n\n\"It's incredibly frustrating and disheartening to see people blindly carrying on doing it regardless of the risks involved,\" he said.\n\n\"We have been running engineering trains throughout all of this.\"\n\nWhile passenger services were currently suspended, Mr Hartley said engines had been passing every 40 minutes during the past week.\n\nKeighley's Conservative MP Robbie Moore, who shared the image taken on Sunday afternoon, said: \"Trespassing on the railway is illegal and dangerous - please stay safe and do not do it.\"\n\nMr Hartley added: \"We've had people taking photos of others doing handstands on the rails last summer, a dog-walking business taking dogs for a walk.\n\n\"But it's taking kids for a walk on the railway which is really silly - it starts to instil the idea in children that it's OK to trespass on the railway property.\"\n\nThe line reopens to passengers on 17 April.\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.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday morning. We'll have another update for you this evening.\n\nCriticism is growing over plans for Covid passports in England. Government documents say certificates proving whether someone has had a vaccine, has tested negative or has immunity are likely to become \"a feature of our lives\" and their use will be trialled at events such as the FA Cup final. The UK government says it's working with the devolved administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to seek a \"consistent approach\". But some MPs argue they could lead to a \"two-tier Britain.\"\n\nStatutory Sick Pay increases by 50p a week to £96.35 on Tuesday, but unions are calling the rise \"miserly\", with Trades Union Congress general secretary Frances O'Grady saying: \"No-one should be plunged into hardship if they need to self-isolate.\" The government says there's a \"comprehensive package\" in place to support those who need to do so.\n\nLeading travel industry figures have reacted with dismay to Boris Johnson's latest comments on the lockdown roadmap, saying they need more clarity. The prime minister said he was \"hopeful\" that foreign travel could begin again on 17 May but urged people to wait for advisers to report back next Monday. Business Travel Association chief executive Clive Wratten says a move to open borders has \"once again been kicked down the road\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson said he did not want the virus to be \"reimported\"\n\nThere was a net loss of nearly 10,000 shops to the UK High Street last year, as the pandemic exacerbated difficulties for bricks-and-mortar retail. BBC Radio 5 live has been hearing from workers affected by those closures, like Heather Rowlinson, 54, from Newcastle. After 34 years at TopShop, she is still unemployed and has been left frustrated by recruitment agencies who promise jobs but don't deliver. \"They never answer your calls,\" she says.\n\nThe family of Captain Sir Tom Moore is encouraging people to take on their own \"100\" challenge on what would have been his 101st birthday weekend, between 30 April and 3 May. The Army veteran raised almost £33m for NHS charities, as the pandemic swept the country, by walking 100 laps of his Bedfordshire garden before he turned 100. He died on 2 February after contracting coronavirus. Now his relatives want people to create their own challenge around the number 100 to raise money for the foundation set up in his name, or other charities.\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nWant to know if your boss can make you head to the office? Find out here.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Chris Sutton has opened up about the struggle of watching his dad, footballer Mike Sutton, suffer with dementia.\n\nThe disease required the former Norwich City player to have 24-hour care ahead of his death in 2020.\n\nHis son Chris, also a former footballer, believes more needs to be done, including limiting the amount of heading the ball in training.\n\nThe FA says it has \"helped to lead the way in ground-breaking research into the links with football and we have a clear and unwavering commitment, both financially and with resource, to support objective, robust and thorough research going forward.\"\n\nIt also says it works closely with the Alzheimer's Society and has issued updated guidance in England on heading \"for all age groups between under-six and under-18\".\n\nRead more: Simple measures would protect 'generations to come', says Chris Sutton", "Small towns are set to benefit from a post-Covid recovery, but middle-sized town could struggle, says academic\n\nSmall towns are set to benefit from a post-pandemic recovery as more people work from home and support independent businesses, a retail expert has said.\n\nProf Cathy Parker said larger cities in Wales such as Cardiff and Swansea could also recover well with the right planning and resources.\n\nBut she warned middle-sized towns could face the biggest challenges.\n\nThe Welsh government has a target of 30% of people working \"at or near home\" after the pandemic is over.\n\nThat could mean working at home or a co-working office where space is rented by the day or month.\n\nThat may change depending on the outcome of the Senedd election on 6 May.\n\nMany people are expected to adopt \"hybrid\" working after the pandemic is over - working some days at home, others in the office.\n\nGone are the days of people working from an office at all times, retail experts predict\n\nBut more people working from home raises questions, including whether people can easily adapt their homes for work, the standard of broadband across Wales and the potential impact on shops and cafes.\n\nOn the other hand, fewer people travelling to and from work could help tackle congestion and benefit the environment.\n\nA recent report by the Senedd's economy committee warned the effects of remote working would need to be monitored to ensure they did not increase inequality by \"favouring more highly-skilled and affluent workers\".\n\nIt also called for a retail strategy to address the challenges faced by businesses and workers in light of more remote working.\n\nProf Cathy Parker says small towns \"can be very resilient and very sustainable\"\n\nProf Parker, of Manchester Metropolitan University, said it was not an argument about towns versus cities, but rather about each place having an individual recovery plan based on data which showed what worked best for them.\n\n\"Small places, if they are serving the needs of the small catchment that's around them, can be very resilient and very sustainable,\" she explained.\n\n\"It's not all about growing, it's about serving the people that live around your town so small places have got it a little bit easier.\"\n\nShe pointed to places such as Porthcawl in Bridgend county which had seen a 20% drop in footfall last year compared with much larger drops in other places, because it was serving a local community.\n\nCities such as Cardiff will have more adjusting to do, but have better resources, according to Prof Parker\n\nCities have traditionally relied on lots of workers coming into the centre and spending money in businesses there, Prof Parker said.\n\n\"The larger places will have more adjusting to do but they've probably got the resources to do it.\n\n\"It's probably perhaps some of those medium-sized places that might struggle more because they are affected by the changes in commuting patterns, and perhaps they haven't got the partnerships there to sort of manage that over the next few years.\"\n\nMore people are setting up small businesses and large companies are looking for smaller offices, or deciding what to do with surplus space once workers return for only part of the week.\n\nGareth Jones says demand is coming from people who want to work both at home and the office\n\nWork will be more about \"flexibility\" after the pandemic, according to Gareth Jones, chief executive of the co-working offices business Town Square Spaces.\n\n\"Now we've all had this experiment [of] working from home, we realised working from home is great a couple of days a week, but it's not always ideal, especially if you've got cats jumping on your Zoom and things like this,\" he said.\n\n\"We're finding a lot of demand is not people wanting to come in five days a week, it's one or two days here and there.\n\n\"And the demand from the corporate side is interesting because there are companies saying: 'We've got more space than we need, how can we use this in a different way'?\"\n\nCreditsafe will not now expand its Cardiff offices, says chief executive Cato Syversen\n\nCredit reference company Creditsafe manages offices in 14 countries from its Cardiff headquarters.\n\nStaff have been largely working from home and have told bosses they want a 50:50 split between working at home and the office after the pandemic.\n\n\"A lot of people were spending an hour each way to work. So, you know, their lives changed. There are lots of positive to this as well,\" said chief executive Cato Syversen.\n\nThe planned expansion of the company's Cardiff offices will not now go ahead.\n\nSelf-employed graphic designer Emma Jones says she \"can't wait to get out the house\"\n\nEmma Jones, a graphic designer from Wrexham, gave up her full-time job to set up her own business in February 2020 - just before the pandemic hit.\n\nShe is looking forward to going back to a co-working hub in the town in order to be surrounded by a support network.\n\n\"I can't wait to get out the house,\" she said, adding it was important for workers to return to towns like Wrexham to \"help the economy\" and \"help each other sort of get back into the swing of things\".", "Ciaran Morris was two weeks old when he died\n\nA 34-year-old man has appeared in court charged with causing the death of a two-week-old baby by dangerous driving.\n\nCiaran Morris was being pushed along the pavement with his family on High Street, Brownhills, West Midlands, when he was struck on Sunday afternoon.\n\nJames Davis, from Walsall, spoke only to confirm his details at Wolverhampton Magistrates' Court.\n\nHe was remanded in custody, and is next due to appear at the city's Crown court on 4 May.\n\nMr Davis, of Croxtalls Avenue, is charged with causing death by dangerous driving, causing death by driving while uninsured, failing to stop at the scene of a collision, and failure to report a collision.\n\nToys and floral tributes have been left for baby Ciaran at the scene of the crash.\n\nJames Davis, 34, spoke only to confirm his personal details at the hearing\n\nA fundraising appeal for the family has so far raised more than £18,000 to support them following the crash.\n\n\"Mommy's and Daddy's hearts will always ache, we love you more than anything,\" his parents said in a tribute on Monday.\n\n\"We didn't get to keep you for long but we are happy we had the chance to meet you, look after you and call you our son.\n\nFlowers, toys and tributes have been placed at the scene\n\nSgt Mark Crozier, from West Midlands Police, said officers had been \"left numb\" by the baby's death.\n\n\"To see the loss of someone so young is difficult for us as officers, but we know the pain is even greater for Ciaran's family,\" he said.\n\n\"We'll be doing all we can to support them while also trying to establish what happened leading to the collision.\"\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. Hunter Biden says his father \"saved\" him several times when he was in a dark place with his addiction battle\n\nHunter Biden, the son of US President Joe Biden, has reflected on his public struggle with drug and alcohol addiction, saying his life \"is not a tabloid\".\n\n\"I don't belong to an administration, I belong to a family,\" he told the BBC.\n\nHe took responsibility for \"creating a story... that anyone conscious would know would be a tabloid sensation\".\n\nHe also addressed the scrutiny he and his father faced over his work with Ukrainian energy company Burisma.\n\nMr Biden was a director on the board of Burisma while Joe Biden was US vice-president and the Obama administration's point man on US-Ukrainian relations.\n\nSpeaking to US broadcaster CBS, he also said he was confident that he would be cleared of any wrongdoing over his business affairs by an ongoing US Department of Justice investigation.\n\nThe business dealings in Ukraine made him a frequent target of Republican criticism during the 2020 election campaign, and were at the centre of former US President Donald Trump's first impeachment.\n\nThe impeachment inquiry focused on a conversation Mr Trump had with Ukraine's president in which he appeared to pressure him to open an inquiry into the Bidens. The call came shortly after Mr Trump had blocked the release of military aid to Ukraine.\n\nWhile defending his qualifications for the position at Burisma, Mr Biden said that, in retrospect, he had \"missed... the perception that I would create\".\n\n\"I know that it is hard to believe with 20/20 hindsight how I could possibly have missed that,\" the 51-year-old told the BBC in an interview.\n\nHe added that Burisma saw his name \"as gold\" and that it played a large part in his appointment to the board.\n\nWhile no criminal activity by the Bidens has been proven, a senior US state department official raised concerns about a potential conflict of interest as far back as 2015.\n\nAn investigation by US Republican lawmakers last year found that Hunter Biden's work for the Ukrainian firm was \"problematic\" but concluded there was not evidence that US foreign policy was influenced by it. The report also claimed that Biden relatives \"cashed in on Joe Biden's vice presidency\".\n\nThe report was slammed by Utah Republican Senator Mitt Romney, one of Mr Trump's most vocal critics in Congress, who described it as a \"political exercise\".\n\nMr Biden acknowledged that his father's name had \"opened doors that wouldn't be opened up to other people\". But he said this had been \"both a privilege and a burden\".\n\nAsked by CBS about the ongoing Department of Justice investigation into his financial dealings, the president's son said: \"I can say this, I'm co-operating, completely. And I'm absolutely certain, 100% certain, that at the end of the investigation, that I will be cleared of any wrongdoing.\"\n\nUS media quote sources saying the investigation relates to business dealings with foreign countries including China.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC ahead of the release of his new memoir Beautiful Things, Mr Biden said he wanted to write about \"the love of a family and how it saved me\".\n\n\"And, you know, we're going through two pandemics right now... there's the pandemic of coronavirus, and there's a pandemic of addiction too,\" he said.\n\nMr Biden's mother and sister died in a car accident in 1972 that he and his brother survived. In the interview, he talked about the links between the trauma he has suffered and his drug and alcohol addiction.\n\n\"There's something at the centre of each addict that's missing, that they feel that they need to fill... Nothing can possibly fill it. And so you numb yourself,\" he said.\n\nAfter his brother Beau died of cancer in 2015, he said he \"descended into a really dark, dark place\".\n\n\"My brother had just died, I'd separated with my wife, I was in an apartment by myself, and I was basically drinking myself to death. It was awful. I mean, grief does funny things. And combine that with addiction and it is a really hard thing to overcome,\" he said.\n\nHunter Biden acknowledged that his father's name had \"opened doors\"\n\nHe added that while his struggle with addiction made him a target for tabloid stories and political attacks, it was also something that people across the country could relate to.\n\n\"I think what people see in the Biden family is their family. I think that they see all of the tragedy in loss, but they see all the love and sincerity. And I think that they see that we're not much different than any other family out there,\" he said.\n\nIn anticipation of Mr Trump raising his addiction in the first election debate, Mr Biden said both he and his father \"intuitively knew what to say\".\n\n\"I said 'Dad, you know, this is our story. And it's a story of love. It's a story of hope. It's a story that so many people are going through right now. Just talk to them and know that your honesty and my honesty about where we are is what I think will resonate with the American people.'\n\n\"It wasn't a political calculation, it was from the heart.\"\n\nLooking towards his future, Mr Biden said addiction \"never leaves\" but that many addicts had \"gone on to do incredibly brilliant, great, amazing things\".\n\n\"It's about time we started looking at addiction as a mental health issue, rather than an ethical or moral issue,\" he said.\n\nAsked about the possibility of his father running for re-election at the age of 82, he said: \"My dad is younger than me in his physical and mental capacity... I don't know anyone that has more energy.\"", "The Welsh Government spells out how it will strengthen day to day businesses post-Covid\n\nTown centres are to be the focus of the Welsh Government's \"mission\" for post-Covid economic recovery.\n\nAn extra £270m is to be made available to offer long-term financial help to businesses.\n\nHowever firms that are given government support will be expected to reduce carbon use and be fair employers.\n\nDeputy Minister Lee Waters said Wales must set out a \"green, prosperous and a fairer\" economic recovery from the pandemic.\n\nIn its Economic Resilience and Reconstruction Mission, the Welsh Government has spelt out how it aims to strengthen businesses and help those firms that innovate, to offer skilled jobs.\n\nEmployers will be encouraged to show how their organisations are reducing their impact on the environment and promise permanent work.\n\n\"If businesses want support from the government they have to sign up to give something back as well - an economic and social contract which respects fair work, respects the environment and can harness and support workers mental health, I think that's a fair deal,\" said Mr Waters.\n\nMore public sector money will be encouraged to be spent within Wales\n\nWith high streets in Wales already changing, the mission said Covid has increased the speed of that change - as seen with the closure of Debenhams and Topshop stores, among others.\n\nThe Welsh Government said different departments are working to help towns have a new future, by repurposing buildings and encouraging hubs where people can work closer to home rather than commuting.\n\nThe public sector in Wales spends around £6bn a year and the plan is for more to be spent within Wales, to help jobs and prosperity.\n\nNHS Wales, for example, spends £22m a year on food - 48% of which is being spent with businesses outside Wales.\n\nLast decade's progress to reduce unemployment has been partly reversed by efforts to combat Covid\n\nHowever, the Welsh Government claimed efforts to combat Covid and effects of Brexit have reversed the last decade's progress in reducing unemployment and economic inactivity.\n\nYoung people, women, disabled people and ethnic communities are being hit hardest with job losses and working fewer hours because of Covid, ministers say.\n\nThe mission also wants business success to be measured by the percentage of people in permanent employment, narrowing the gender pay gap, household incomes, air pollution levels, greenhouse gas emissions and the percentage of companies carrying out research and development.\n\nWelsh Conservative economy spokesman, Russell George MS, welcomed the additional support but said it is \"disappointing Labour ministers continue to drag their heels\" on extending the business rates holiday.\n\n\"We now face a huge challenge to rebuild Wales after the pandemic, and Welsh Labour's dismal track record has stifled economic growth to the extent where ministers have admitted they don't know what they've been doing on the economy,\" he said.\n\nPlaid Cymru's economy spokeswoman, Helen Mary Jones, said the Welsh Government's plan was \"a pale imitation\" of her party's £6bn Welsh Green Deal, which claims to see 60,000 jobs created.\n\n\"Twenty years of a Labour government in Wales has been characterised by a failure of delivery,\" she said.", "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.", "People diagnosed with Covid-19 in the previous six months were more likely to develop depression, dementia, psychosis and stroke, researchers have found.\n\nA third of those with a previous Covid infection went on to develop or have a relapse of a psychological or neurological condition.\n\nBut those admitted to hospital or in intensive care had an even higher risk.\n\nThe study authors pointed to both the effects of stress, and the virus having a direct impact on the brain.\n\nUK scientists looked at the electronic medical records of more than half a million patients in the US, and their chances of developing one of 14 common psychological or neurological conditions, including:\n\nAnxiety and mood disorders were the most common diagnosis among those with Covid, and these were more likely to be down to the stress of the experience of being very ill or taken to hospital, the researchers explained.\n\nConditions like stroke and dementia were more likely to be down to the biological impacts of the virus itself, or of the body's reaction to infection in general.\n\nCovid-19 was not associated with an increased risk of Parkinson's or Guillain-Barré syndrome (a risk from flu).\n\nThe study, published in the Lancet Psychiatry journal, was observational. So the researchers couldn't say whether Covid had caused any of the diagnoses - and some people would have had a stroke or depression in the next six months regardless.\n\nBut by comparing a group of people who had had Covid-19 with two groups - with flu and with other respiratory infections respectively - the researchers at the University of Oxford concluded Covid was associated with more subsequent brain conditions than other respiratory illnesses.\n\nThe participants were matched by age, sex, ethnicity and health conditions, to make them as comparable as possible.\n\nSufferers were 16% more likely to develop a psychological or neurological disorder after Covid than after other respiratory infections, and 44% more likely than people recovering from flu.\n\nOn top of this, the more severely ill with Covid the patient had been, the more likely they were to receive a subsequent mental health or brain disorder diagnosis\n\nMood, anxiety or psychotic disorders affected 24% of all patients but this rose to 25% in those admitted to hospital, 28% in people who were in intensive care and 36% in people who experienced delirium while ill.\n\nStrokes affected 2% of all Covid patients, rising to 7% of those admitted to ICU and 9% of those who had delirium.\n\nAnd dementia was diagnosed in 0.7% of all Covid patients, but 5% of those who'd experienced delirium as a symptom.\n\nDr Sara Imarisio, head of research at Alzheimer's Research UK, said: \"Previous studies have highlighted that people with dementia are at higher risk of developing severe Covid-19. This new study investigates whether this relationship may also hold in the other direction.\n\n\"The study doesn't focus on the cause of this relationship and it is important that researchers get to the bottom of what underlies these findings.\"\n\nThere is evidence the virus does enter the brain and cause direct damage, neurology professor Masud Husain at the University of Oxford, explained.\n\nIt can have other indirect effects, for example by affecting blood clotting which can lead to strokes. And the general inflammation which happens in the body as it responds to infection can affect the brain.\n\nFor just over a third of people developing one or more of these conditions, it was their first diagnosis.\n\nBut even where it was a recurrence of a pre-existing problem, researchers said this did not rule out the possibility that Covid had caused the episode of illness.\n\nProf Dame Til Wykes, at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, said: \"The study confirms our suspicions that a Covid-19 diagnosis is not just related to respiratory symptoms, it is also related to psychiatric and neurological problems.\n\n\"Looking over six months after diagnosis has demonstrated that the \"after-effects\" can appear much later than expected - something that is no surprise to those suffering from Long Covid.\n\n\"Although as expected, the outcomes are more serious in those admitted to hospital, the study does point out that serious effects are also evident in those who had not been admitted to hospital.\"\n• None Fergus Walsh: What does Covid-19 do to the brain?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jack Colmer said he felt \"ashamed\" when he saw the piles of litter on Woodhouse Moor\n\nA university student built and installed a bin bag dispenser in a park where crowds left stacks of rubbish.\n\nPiles of litter were strewn across Woodhouse Moor, in Hyde Park, Leeds, last week as groups gathered amid warm weather and the easing of lockdown measures.\n\nJack Colmer, 22, said he had felt \"ashamed\" so built the black bag device as a potential solution.\n\nHe said he hoped his creation would help people to keep the park tidy.\n\nDrinks bottles and waste were left strewn across the grass at the park\n\nLeeds Beckett University student Mr Colmer, who is from Newcastle, said: \"After the images were released of Hyde Park and the mess it just annoyed me because I try and clean up after myself.\n\n\"I do a lot of DIY and building in my spare time as a hobby so I just started putting something together, making it up as I went along, and it eventually ended up as a bin bag dispenser.\n\n\"The litter in the place was unacceptable and I think as a community we can do better than that.\n\n\"I genuinely believe that people don't want to litter but they never really have the supplies or the bin bags there on the day to do it so, hopefully, this will encourage people to go grab a bag and pick their stuff up.\"\n\nJack Colmer said he had felt \"ashamed\" to see the pictures of the rubbish at Hyde Park\n\nMr Colmer said he had received lots of positive messages since he installed the dispenser, with one local bar even offering him a tab which he said he was looking forward to spending once pubs reopen.\n\nHe also said he hoped his efforts would help remove the \"bad image\" surrounding students and littering.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Mounds of rubbish left at Leeds park by revellers\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 on the safety of the AstraZeneca jab\n\nPeople should get their Covid-19 jab when invited, the PM has said, amid concerns about potential side effects of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.\n\nBoris Johnson said getting vaccinated was \"the key thing\" and the regulator's advice was to keep giving the jab.\n\nIt comes after a European Medicines Agency official, speaking in a personal capacity, said there appeared to be a link with the jab and rare blood clots.\n\nMore than 31.6 million people in the UK have had a first vaccine dose.\n\nA total of 5.4 million people have received a second dose.\n\nTwo vaccines - developed by Oxford-AstraZeneca and Pfizer-BioNtech - are being used in the UK, while A third - from Moderna - has been approved.\n\nThe European Medicines Agency's (EMA) safety committee has been reviewing very rare cases of unusual blood clots in people vaccinated with the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.\n\nIt said that the committee had \"not yet reached a conclusion and the review is currently ongoing\", but it is expected to announce findings on Wednesday or Thursday.\n\nThe UK regulator the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) says the benefits of the jab continue to outweigh any risk.\n\nDuring a visit to the AstraZeneca manufacturing plant in Macclesfield, Cheshire, Mr Johnson defended its vaccine.\n\n\"On the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, the best thing people should do is look at what the MHRA say, our independent regulator - that's why we have them, that's why they are independent,\" said Mr Johnson, who has received the first dose of the vaccine himself.\n\n\"Their advice to people is to keep going out there, get your jab, get your second jab.\"\n\nThe prime minister added: \"The best thing of all is to vaccinate our population, get everybody out getting the jab, that's the key thing and that's what I would advocate, number one.\"\n\nSpeaking to an Italian newspaper in a personal capacity, Marco Cavaleri, head of vaccines at the EMA, is reported to have suggested a clear link between the jab and rare blood clots, though admitted there was uncertainty how the vaccine would cause the complication.\n\nThe EMA has previously said that there was \"no evidence\" to support restricting the use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in any population.\n\nDr Rogerio Pinto de Sa Gaspar, director of regulation and prequalification at the World Health Organization, said there was \"no link for the moment\" between the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine and rare blood clots.\n\nThe MHRA is investigating reports of a very rare and specific type of blood clot in the brain, known as cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST), occurring together with low levels of platelets (thrombocytopenia) following vaccination.\n\nA number of countries have suspended the use of the jab among younger people, including in Germany, which has paused it for people aged below 60, and Canada, where the jab is not being given to those under 55.\n\nIn total, the UK has secured 457 million Covid vaccine doses, of which 100 million are from AstraZeneca. Vaccines from Moderna will be deployed in the UK \"around the third week of April\", Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi has said.\n\nThe MHRA has said it identified 30 cases of rare blood clot events out of 18.1 million doses of the jab administered up to and including 24 March. There have been seven deaths among the 30 cases.\n\nBut the regulator's chief executive Dr June Raine said: \"People should continue to get their vaccine when invited to do so.\n\n\"Our thorough and detailed review is ongoing into reports of very rare and specific types of blood clots with low platelets [the cells involved in clotting] following the Covid-19 vaccine AstraZeneca.\n\n\"No decision has yet been made on any regulatory action.\"\n\nProf Adam Finn, a member of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), which advises the UK government, told the BBC there was \"a lot of uncertainties around\" and more information was \"desperately\" needed.\n\nBut, he said, there were some \"clear certainties around\" including the facts that both of the vaccines used in the UK were \"highly effective against Covid\" while the risk of getting sick or dying with Covid for those who are currently being offered doses, \"are far and away greater than any small theoretical risk that may exist relating to these cases\".\n\nThere have been a further 2,379 coronavirus cases in the UK and another 20 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test, according to the latest government figures.", "The International Monetary Fund is now forecasting a stronger economic recovery this year and next.\n\nThe IMF has upgraded both its UK and global forecasts compared with what it projected in January.\n\nBut the British economy is still predicted to return to its pre-pandemic level of activity only in late 2022.\n\nThe agency also warns that recoveries are diverging dangerously within and between countries.\n\nThe new UK forecast is for growth of 5.3% this year and 5.1% in 2022. Both figures are upgrades, though the latter is only marginally higher than the January forecast.\n\nThe recovery follows last year's pandemic driven contraction of 9.9% which was the deepest of any of the G7 major developed economies.\n\nBringing in the two predicted recovery years, the UK's performance over 2020 to 2022 would be ahead of one of the G7 countries, Italy.\n\nThe new global forecasts are growth of 6% and 4.4% this year and next. Both are upgrades, a fairly modest one for 2022.\n\nThat mainly reflects up-rating to the forecast for developed economies, especially the United States.\n\nIn a blog on the forecasts, the IMF's chief economist Gita Gopinath says a way out of the health and economic crisis is increasingly visible. Vaccinations, she writes, are likely to power recoveries in many countries in 2021.\n\nBut she is also concerned about how those recoveries are diverging.\n\nCountries with slower vaccine rollouts, more limited support from economic policy, and those more reliant on tourism are likely to do less well.\n\nThe first two of these are particular issues for developing countries. Many have less access to vaccines, and they also tend to find it more difficult to finance economic and health policy actions.\n\nAmong emerging and developing economies, China has already returned to pre-pandemic levels of economic activity. But many others in the group are not expected to do so until well into 2023.\n\nThe report says the cumulative losses in income per person over the period 2020 to 2022 are likely to be 20% for those countries, compared with a less severe but still large figure of 11% for the developed world.\n\nThe report also says that gains in poverty reduction have been reversed. It says people counted as extremely poor are likely to have increased by 95 million last year, with a rise of 80 million in the number who are undernourished.\n\nThe IMF says the divergences are occurring not just between but also within countries. Income inequality is likely to increase as young people and those with relatively low levels of skills have been harder hit in both developed and developing countries.\n\nWomen have already been affected as they account for a large share of employment in some sectors, such as tourism, where there is a lot of personal contact.\n\nThe pandemic has also had an impact on workers whose jobs are vulnerable to automation. That is a process that has been accelerated as a result of the health crisis.", "Wales is set to become the first UK nation to have offered a first Covid-19 jab to over-50s and at-risk adults with long-term health conditions, the Welsh government has said.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said everyone in the top nine priority groups would be offered a first jab by Sunday.\n\nAll four UK governments had promised to reach the milestone by mid-April.\n\nHe paid tribute to front-line staff for helping to reach the target early.\n\n\"This is a truly remarkable effort and is down to the hard work of thousands of people who are working tirelessly on the NHS front line across Wales to make this happen,\" he said.\n\n\"I want to thank each and every one of them.\n\n\"And it is because of those efforts that I am able to say today that we will meet our next vaccine milestone early.\n\n\"By Sunday we will have offered a vaccine to everyone in the first nine priority groups - that's everyone over 50; all adults with an underlying health condition and a great many unpaid carers.\n\n\"By Sunday, a minimum of 75% of those in each priority group will have received a first vaccination.\"\n\nData on vaccinations will not be published by Public Health Wales on Easter Sunday.\n\nThe news comes as Mr Drakeford announced a series of lockdown easing measures, including plans for pubs, restaurants and hotels to reopen indoors in time for the Spring Bank Holiday at the end of May.\n\nEarlier on Thursday, he told Claire Summers on BBC Radio Wales Breakfast: \"The presence of the virus in Wales is the lowest in the United Kingdom, the rate of vaccination in Wales is the highest in the United Kingdom.\"\n\nThe announcement follows concern about a slow-down in vaccine supplies and people not attending appointments.\n\nOn Monday the Welsh Government's Chief Pharmacist said second Covid-19 vaccine doses will be prioritised during the expected supply slowdown of the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab with Wales receiving 250,000 fewer Oxford-AstraZeneca jab doses than expected.\n\nBut Andrew Evans insisted the shipping delay not affect Wales hitting its targets.\n\nThe NHS has also been urging people to attend vaccine appointment after hundreds failed to show up for their jabs.\n\nIn the Swansea Bay area almost 500 people did not attend on Monday.\n\nAt a mass vaccination centre in Bangor in Gwynedd, almost 200 people failed to show up over a three-day period.\n\nIn February it was announced that Wales became the first UK nation to offer a first dose to the top 4 priority groups.\n\nThe next target is to offer at least a first jab to every adult by the end of July.\n\nThe Welsh Liberal Democrats' health spokeswoman Jo Watkins said: \"This is good news and our thanks go out to everyone working on this programme and those who will be working over the Easter break.\n\n\"We must continue this rollout to ensure everyone in Wales is vaccinated as quickly and safely as possible.\"\n\nWelsh Conservative health spokeswoman Angela Burns said: \"The milestone that is expected to be met in Wales on Sunday has been made possible because of the strength of our United Kingdom, where the UK government made the swift decision to place orders for vaccines, and the superb work of NHS staff, volunteers and all others involved in the rollout of the programme in Wales.\"", "Under the plans, existing buildings at Leeds Bradford Airport would be demolished and a new terminal built\n\nA £150m proposal to redevelop Leeds Bradford Airport has been delayed to allow Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick more time to consider it.\n\nPlans to demolish existing buildings and build a new terminal were approved by Leeds City Council in February.\n\nBut that decision was referred to the government after objectors said it would contribute to climate change.\n\nThe government said it needed time to allow for \"proper consideration\" of requests for the plan to be called in.\n\nA date for a final decision has not been set, but the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has put in place an order which prevents Leeds City Council from granting planning permission without special authorisation.\n\nLeeds Bradford Airport said the new terminal was not an expansion as it could already expand passenger numbers with its existing facilities.\n\nIt added that the replacement building would be a more efficient and sustainable development helping it to achieve its carbon net-zero goals by 2023.\n\nCampaigners had urged councillors to reject the £150m scheme for Leeds Bradford Airport\n\nA spokesman for Leeds Bradford Airport said: \"We acknowledge the deadline extension and hope the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government will uphold Leeds City Council's approval for our replacement terminal, which will deliver thousands of new jobs and support the region's economy.\"\n\nThe airport estimates the project will support 12,650 permanent jobs across the Leeds City Region, as well as creating 850 construction-related jobs.\n\nThe site handles about four million passengers annually and has already been granted permission to increase that to seven million over a 10-year-period.\n\nIn July 2020, a group of climate scientists warned the expanded airport's greenhouse gas emissions would be higher than those allowed for the whole of Leeds in 10 years' time.\n\nEnvironmental campaigners Greenpeace said the delay over a final decision on the redevelopment plans was a sign the government was \"starting to clock the catastrophic impacts of this proposed expansion\".\n\nRebecca Newsom, Greenpeace UK's head of politics, said: \"But we're just months away from hosting critical global climate talks, and this climate-wrecking mega project is clearly incompatible with our plans to cut emissions, so why only delay the decision and not just call it in now?\"\n\nMeanwhile, in a tweet, the Group for Action on Leeds Bradford Airport, said: \"No airport anywhere should expand. Delaying this decision is good news.\"\n\nMr Jenrick's decision to - in effect - kick this local issue into the long grass has national significance because seven other airports as well as Leeds Bradford also want to expand their operations. They'll all be less optimistic now.\n\nTo be clear, the Leeds plan isn't dead. But it doesn't bode well for the airport that Mr Jenrick says he needs more time to decide whether to kill it or not.\n\nHis note to the airport didn't spell out his reasoning, but it's reasonable to assume Mr Jenrick wanted to avoid another bruising like the one he suffered recently after tacitly approving a plan for a coal mine in Cumbria.\n\nHe was forced into a U-turn on that issue.\n\nSo when will we get a final ruling? The government won't say, but my guess is we'll have to wait for the government's transport decarbonisation strategy due in the coming months that will show how all emissions from transport can be reduced.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSome men among the crowds who descended on Cardiff Bay at the weekend were cat-calling women and intimidating people, a woman who lives nearby has said.\n\nOver the Easter bank holiday weekend hundreds gathered despite Covid restrictions and a dispersal order for the area remains in force.\n\nOnly six people from two different households can meet outdoors.\n\nBecca Head, 23, said men had been intimidating people, creating a \"difficult situation\".\n\nShe told BBC Radio Wales with Claire Summers: \"Usually there's so many places people can go - at the moment they don't have those pubs, bars and restaurants to go to when it's sunny so those crowds go outside.\n\n\"You feel that you don't want to go for a walk around Mermaid Quay when that's your home. It's a really difficult situation.\"\n\nCovid rules state six people from two different households can meet outdoors\n\nIt led her to avoid staying outside: \"On Friday I stayed home, I did go out on Saturday afternoon just for a walk around the barrage with a friend... there were lots of people drinking really heavily, there were a lot of men cat-calling and intimidating people, it was not a nice atmosphere.\"\n\nShe said she got an Uber home by 17:00 \"because of how bad it was\" rather than take the short walk.\n\n\"It's not a nice place to be at the moment,\" she said.\n\n\"I felt scared. I felt like I was going to be followed and shouted at. I'm used to that when on a night out in town, but not in my home in Cardiff Bay.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Clean-up supervisor Tony Tobenas branded the mess left behind as \"disgusting\"\n\nBarriers have also been put across the steps to the Senedd, but Ms Head said this was not a solution: \"The barriers are around two of the biggest seating areas in the bay.\n\n\"If they weren't up, people would be able to sit down and socially distance, but what they've done is made a forced crowd, they'd usually spread out.\"\n\nCrowds stretched across the waterfront on the steps of the Senedd on Friday evening\n\nOver the weekend, officers arrested a 20-year-old man for a public order offence, a 22-year-old woman was arrested for being drunk and disorderly and possession of a Class A substance and a 35-year-old-man was also arrested for possession of a Class A substance.\n\nIllegal partygoers were also seen urinating on a memorial to merchant seamen in the area.\n\nAt the weekend, Cardiff council leader Huw Thomas said people who took part should be \"deeply ashamed of themselves\".\n\nHe said it a was a \"clear abuse of the rules\", adding: \"I worry about a spike in cases after this.\"\n\nSouth Wales Police said the Section 35 dispersal order for Cardiff Bay remained in force and would continue to do so until further notice.", "A greater proportion of people in Wales have received a jab than other UK nations\n\nWales will be the first UK nation to have offered the top four priority groups a Covid jab, the Welsh Government has said.\n\nWithin hours, officials say, all over-70s including care home residents, will have been offered a first dose.\n\nWales and the other UK nations have aimed to hit the target by mid-February.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford thanked \"everyone who had been working around the clock to reach this point\".\n\nIt follows a warning that vaccine supplies will fall in the coming weeks.\n\nThe UK Government's Welsh Secretary Simon Hart said Wales' milestone was \"fantastic news\" and testament to the continued effort made by NHS and military staff.\n\nThe country currently leads the UK in the percentage of the population that has received a first jab - at least 715,944 doses have been given out.\n\nThere have been warnings that supplies could slow down\n\nFigures up to Thursday night show 22.7% of the population have been vaccinated, compared to 21% in England, 20.4% in Scotland and 19.7% in Northern Ireland.\n\nBut there were more than 87,000 people from target groups, including more than 37,000 in their early 70s, still to get a first dose.\n\nThe picture is complicated by a built-in delay on data being published while figures are checked and verified.\n\nThere are also issues involving some care home residents having to wait for doses, because of isolation due to Covid outbreaks.\n\nBut Mr Drakeford said he was confident the programme remained on track - with plans remaining in place to reach the next five priority groups by the spring.\n\nHe said: \"We're the first UK nation to reach this milestone, others will follow in a couple of days.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. First Minister Mark Drakeford says the success of the vaccine rollout is due to the \"phenomenal effort\" of all involved.\n\nAsked how many people in those top groups who will not have had vaccine appointments by the weekend, he said it would be \"a very small number\".\n\n\"We've already completed 92% of all the people in those priority groups thanks to the amazing efforts of our NHS and other staff,\" he said.\n\n\"There will be some people who were ill when they were offered and need to be re-book. There will be some people who chose not to have a vaccine when they were first offered it, who may have changed their minds.\"\n\nMr Drakeford said the NHS was \"checking and rechecking\" whether anyone had been left out and final appointments were being arranged for the weekend.\n\n\"Anybody who knows of somebody who may have missed out, it is not too late at all,\" he said.\n\n\"We will make sure that those people have an appointment as fast as possible.\"\n\nHealth minister Vaughan Gething said \"a leave no-one behind approach\" was being taken.\n\n\"The next group, those people 65 and over, all health boards are already sending out invites for those people to come forward as well,\" he said.\n\n\"We're not looking to miss a step, we're carrying on with the vaccine we have available.\"\n\nFigures show 88.4% of those aged 80 or older have had a first dose, compared to 86.3% for 75 to 79 year olds and 79.8% of 70 to 74 year olds.\n\nPublic Health Wales said a total of 80.3% of care home residents have had a first dose, and 83.5% of care home workers.\n\nBritish Medical Association chairman Dr David Bailey said Wales was \"hopefully on the home straight\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio Wales: \"People are really making an effort to make the thing go smoothly as possible, and it is a credit to the Welsh public, as well as everyone who has actually been delivering the vaccine, because it has gone smoothly and everyone has been trying to do their part.\"\n\nMr Drakeford said: \"To have achieved this first milestone and offered vaccination to everyone in the first four priority groups - those who are most vulnerable to coronavirus - is a truly phenomenal effort.\n\n\"Of course, the hard work has only just begun - there are many, many more people to vaccinate yet and a lot of second doses still to give.\"\n\nHe said it showed the UK Government had \"ensured Wales has had the vaccines available to protect the most vulnerable in our society and meet this target\" and hoped Wales could soon reopen its economy.\n\nHowever he added there was a still a \"long way to go\" with 80% of the population yet to be offered the vaccine.\n\nPlaid Cymru's health spokesperson Rhun ap Iorwerth, said it was thanks to NHS staff and volunteers \"that Wales has been able to accelerate the vaccination effort to its current levels\".\n\nMr ap Iorwerth added his party would continue to call for \"those in all care settings, not just the elderly, to be vaccinated as a matter of priority, and for key workers in schools, the emergency services and public transport to be brought in to the priority system sooner.\"", "A number of masked men can be seen in footage of the parade\n\nPolice have said they are investigating a parade that took place in Portadown, County Armagh, on Monday.\n\nSocial media footage appears to show a number of masked men taking part in a loyalist band parade.\n\nPolice said they received a report regarding an \"un-notified parade in the Jervis Street area of Portadown\".\n\nSinn Féin assembly member John O'Dowd said \"reckless rhetoric from unionist politicians has seen tensions rise right across the community\".\n\n\"Tonight's so-called band parade in Portadown was led by masked men through the streets,\" he added.\n\n\"I would appeal for calm and I call on those in positions of influence in political unionism to demonstrate more measured and responsible leadership before someone is killed or seriously injured.\"\n\nHowever, Upper Bann MP Carla Lockhart of the DUP, said that \"Sinn Féin's arrogant disregard for the Covid regulations is to blame for this political crisis\".\n\nShe added: \"When there is a double standard by the police, then that damages respect for the law.\n\n\"For my part, I will oppose law-breaking in all forms.\n\n\"All law-breaking is wrong. I urge those loyalists, frustrated by the actions of Sinn Féin, to step back.\n\n\"Remain peaceful and stay off the streets. We don't want young lives criminalised. Two wrongs don't make a right.\"\n\nMeanwhile, about 300 people marched through the Ballykeel estate in Ballymena on Monday night.\n\nPolice officers were at the scene.\n\nA social media post said the march was to show support for loyalist culture.", "Captain Sir Tom Moore, originally from Keighley near Bradford, raised almost £33m for charities supporting the NHS\n\nThe family of Captain Sir Tom Moore have encouraged people to take on their own \"100\" challenge on what would have been his 101st birthday weekend.\n\nThe Army veteran, who raised almost £33m for NHS charities by walking 100 laps of his Bedfordshire garden before he turned 100, died on 2 February.\n\nPeople have been asked to create their own challenge around the number 100 to raise money for charity.\n\nAny challenges would take place on the 30 April-3 May bank holiday weekend.\n\nCapt Sir Tom, whose fundraising walk in his garden in Marston Moretaine captured the hearts of the nation last year, died with coronavirus at Bedford Hospital.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHis daughter Hannah Ingram-Moore urged people to create their own challenge to raise money for the Captain Tom Foundation or a charity of their choice.\n\nMs Ingram-Moore said her family were \"still a grieving family\" but are \"propelled forward by hope\".\n\n\"I really hope people see this [100 challenge] for what it is, which is an absolute chance to bring joy, put money back into charities and support the Captain Tom Foundation, which after all is the legacy of hope that he's left us,\" she said.\n\nShe said the family had spoken with Capt Sir Tom about what they might do for his 101st birthday.\n\n\"The number 100 - it really meant a lot to my father - and he was fully part of this next event to celebrate his 101st birthday and we fully expected him to be at it.\"\n\nShe said the family would take part by continuing Capt Sir Tom's walk \"right where he left it because we feel it's the only right thing to do\".\n\n\"We've talked about is that 100 [laps] a day? Is that 25 each? We're still working out the finer details,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Ingram-Moore added: \"We want people to go crazy and create their own 100 - a challenge around the number 100.\n\n\"Because he was 100 and he was so proud to be 100.\n\n\"We thought of whether it should be 101, but it's definitely 100 because that year he lived being 100 was the best year of his life, almost certainly.\"\n\nCaptain Sir Tom Moore received his knighthood from the Queen at Windsor Castle\n\nMs Ingram-Moore said her father \"loved the beach so he would have said 100 sandcastles or jump 100 waves\".\n\nShe the challenge \"feels like the perfect way to celebrate the hope and joy we know he inspired in so many\" and her father \"would have loved the idea that everyone could get involved\".\n\n\"Just be in his spirit of hope... just help to keep that legacy of hope alive, that my father gave us,\" she added.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion please email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police have accused the banned separatist group, the Indigenous People of Biafra, of carrying out the attack\n\nMore than 1,800 inmates have escaped from a prison in Nigeria after it was attacked by gunmen, officials say.\n\nThe attackers reportedly entered the prison yard in the south-eastern town of Owerri by using explosives to blast the administrative block.\n\nSix prisoners have reportedly returned, while 35 refused to escape.\n\nPolice have accused the banned separatist group, the Indigenous People of Biafra, of carrying out the attack. It has reportedly denied involvement.\n\nThe Nigerian Correctional Service has confirmed that 1,844 inmates escaped from the jail in Imo state.\n\nHeavily armed men stormed the Owerri Custodial Centre in the early hours of Monday, after arriving in pickup trucks and buses, the service said.\n\nA police spokesperson said the attackers carried rocket-propelled grenades, machine guns, explosives and rifles.\n\nBurnt-out vehicles were seen outside after the explosion\n\nPresident Muhammadu Buhari called the attack an \"act of terrorism\" carried out by \"anarchists\". He called upon security forces to capture the attackers and the escaped prisoners.\n\nA spokesman for the Indigenous People of Biafra separatist movement told the AFP news agency that accusations it was behind Monday's attack were \"lies\".\n\nImo state has long been a breeding ground for separatist groups, while relations between the central government and indigenous Igbo population are strained.\n\nSince January several police stations and vehicles across south-eastern Nigeria have been attacked and large amounts of ammunition stolen. No-one has claimed responsibility for the attacks.", "A trial of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid vaccine on children has stopped giving out jabs while the UK's medicines regulator investigates a possible link with rare blood clots in adults.\n\nProf Andrew Pollard from the University of Oxford told the BBC there were no safety concerns with the trial itself, but its scientists were waiting for further information.\n\nEarlier, PM Boris Johnson said people should get their jab when invited.\n\nMore than 31.6 million people in the UK have had a first vaccine dose and a total of 5.4 million people have received a second dose.\n\nTwo vaccines - developed by Oxford-AstraZeneca and Pfizer-BioNtech - are being used in the UK, while a third - from Moderna - has been approved.\n\nThe trial of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine on children, which started in February, is assessing whether the jab produces a strong immune response in those aged between six and 17.\n\nIts suspension comes after a European Medicines Agency (EMA) official, speaking in a personal capacity, said there appeared to be a link with the jab and rare blood clots.\n\nConfirming that the trial on children was being paused, Prof Pollard said: \"Whilst there are no safety concerns in the paediatric clinical trial, we await additional information from the MHRA on its review of rare cases of thrombosis/thrombocytopaenia that have been reported in adults, before giving any further vaccinations in the trial.\"\n\nParticipants are advised to continue to attend all scheduled visits and can contact the trial sites if they have any questions.\n\nUpdates from the EMA and the UK's regulator, the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), are expected in the coming days.\n\nThe EMA said its safety committee had \"not yet reached a conclusion and the review is currently ongoing\".\n\nThe MHRA says the benefits of the jab continue to outweigh any risk.\n\nAll medicines, from vaccines to paracetamol, have the potential to cause severe side effects.\n\nThe seasonal flu jab has around a one-in-a-million chance of causing the nerve disorder Guillain-Barre syndrome, for example.\n\nThe key question is whether the risks are worth the benefits.\n\nEven if the vaccine was the cause, and this is still not proven, the numbers suggest around one death in every 2.5 million people vaccinated in the UK.\n\nFor everyone over the age of 75 infected there is one death per eight Covid infections.\n\nFor those in their 40s it is one death per 1,000.\n\nSo on the face of it, the risk-benefit ratio is clearly in favour of vaccination - if you assume you are going to be infected at some point.\n\nBut what is needed now is more information about who has been suffering from these rare blood clots. How old are they? Do they have any underlying health conditions that could explain what happened?\n\nThis will help narrow down the scale of any potential risks.\n\nAn update from the UK regulator - as well as the European one - is expected in the coming days.\n\nDuring a visit to the AstraZeneca manufacturing plant in Macclesfield, Cheshire, earlier on Tuesday, Mr Johnson defended its vaccine.\n\n\"On the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, the best thing people should do is look at what the MHRA say, our independent regulator - that's why we have them, that's why they are independent,\" said Mr Johnson, who has received the first dose of the vaccine himself.\n\n\"Their advice to people is to keep going out there, get your jab, get your second jab.\"\n\nThe prime minister added: \"The best thing of all is to vaccinate our population, get everybody out getting the jab, that's the key thing and that's what I would advocate, number one.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The PM on the safety of the AstraZeneca jab\n\nThe MHRA is investigating reports of a very rare and specific type of blood clot in the brain, known as cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST), occurring together with low levels of platelets (thrombocytopenia) following vaccination.\n\nA number of countries have suspended the use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab among younger people, including in Germany, which has paused it for people aged below 60, and Canada, where the jab is not being given to those under 55.\n\nIn total, the UK has secured 457 million Covid vaccine doses, of which 100 million are from AstraZeneca. Vaccines from Moderna will be deployed in the UK \"around the third week of April\", Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi has said.\n\nThe MHRA has said it identified 30 cases of rare blood clot events out of 18.1 million doses of the jab administered up to and including 24 March. There have been seven deaths among the 30 cases.\n\nBut the regulator's chief executive Dr June Raine said: \"People should continue to get their vaccine when invited to do so.\n\n\"Our thorough and detailed review is ongoing into reports of very rare and specific types of blood clots with low platelets [the cells involved in clotting] following the Covid-19 vaccine AstraZeneca.\n\n\"No decision has yet been made on any regulatory action.\"\n\nOne of the members of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation - which advises the government on the jab rollout - told the BBC's Newsnight that the issue was being taken seriously and \"we do need to get to the bottom of this\".\n\nProfessor Adam Finn, who was speaking in a personal capacity, said the trial of the jab on children was paused as a \"precautionary measure\" while they wait for clearer information, rather than because any problems had occurred.\n\nAsked if his opinion on the vaccine had changed in the last fortnight, Prof Finn cited thromboses being associated with low platelet count and a lack of associated cases with the Pfizer vaccine as being of particular concern.\n\n\"So those two things do raise the serious possibility that this could be a causal link and certainly means we need to take it very seriously and understand it more clearly,\" he said.\n\n\"I think personally it's surprising that we haven't seen any cases with Pfizer if it's simply uncausal so that's one of the reasons we're concerned about this.\"\n\nThere have been a further 2,379 coronavirus cases in the UK and another 20 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test, according to the latest government figures.", "Richard Okorogheye, who has sickle cell disease, left home without his medication\n\nA post-mortem examination is due to be carried out on a body found in Epping Forest by police searching for missing student Richard Okorogheye.\n\nThe family of the 19-year-old, who has sickle cell disease, have been spoken to by officers, who are waiting for formal identification.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said the body was discovered in a pond in the woodland.\n\nDet Supt Danny Gosling said Mr Okorogheye's family have been informed.\n\n\"This is an extensive inquiry and we are working tirelessly.\n\n\"Our officers and specialist search teams and dogs have been carrying out extensive searches since Richard was last seen on CCTV in the area.\"\n\nOn Monday, the Met said it had been informed by Essex Police about the body of a man found in a pond\n\nThe Oxford Brookes student, who has sickle cell disease, was last seen by his family on 22 March, when he left their home in the Ladbroke Grove area of west London.\n\nPolice said he then took a taxi to a residential street in Loughton, Essex, where he was last seen on CCTV in the early hours of the following day, walking towards Epping Forest.\n\nThe force previously said Mr Okorogheye's phone had not been in use since his disappearance. He did not take his medication or any money when he left home.\n\nOfficers and police dogs were searching the forest for a fifth day when they made the discovery on Monday afternoon.\n\nMr Okorogheye's mother, Evidence Joel, previously said her son had been \"struggling to cope\" with his business and IT degree.\n\nAs someone with sickle cell disease, Mr Okorogheye would only leave the house to go to hospital for regular blood transfusions for his condition, his family explained.\n\nOfficers have been seen at the Wake Valley pond in Epping Forest following the discovery\n\nCrime scene tape flutters in the trees around the Wake Valley pond.\n\nA few Met officers stand guard, shivering on a bright, freezing morning. They are supporting their Essex Police colleagues, making sure nobody interferes with any evidence.\n\nThere is urgent and important work to do as there is a body to identify and a cause of death to establish.\n\nDetectives must piece together the puzzle of how that person ended up in the pond.\n\nRichard's family and friends are waiting anxiously for answers to those and many other questions.\n\nWhat drew the 19-year-old student from his home nearly two weeks ago? Why did he travel across London then head for the forest after midnight and was anybody else involved?", "\"Covid-19 Student Ambassadors\" getting the jab in Detroit on Tuesday\n\nThe White House has ruled out introducing mandatory federal Covid-19 vaccination passports, saying citizens' privacy and rights should be protected.\n\nSchemes to introduce such passports have been touted around the world as a way to enable safe circulation of people while fighting the pandemic.\n\nBut critics say such documents could be discriminatory.\n\nThe US said it did not and would not support a \"system that requires Americans to carry a credential\".\n\nThe country has reported more than 550,000 deaths linked to the virus and nearly 31 million cases, the highest numbers in the world, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nAddressing reporters, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said there would be no \"federal vaccinations database\" or a \"federal mandate requiring everyone to obtain a single vaccination credential\".\n\n\"The government is not now, nor will be, supporting a system that requires Americans to carry a credential,\" she said. \"Our interest is very simple from the federal government, which is Americans' privacy and rights should be protected, and so that these systems are not used against people unfairly.\"\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\nCountries around the world are looking at the introduction of so-called vaccine passports, which would be used to show that a person has been inoculated against Covid-19, as a way of safely reopening mass gatherings and travel.\n\nIn England, a \"Covid status certification\" scheme is being developed to enable concerts and sports matches to take place. It would record whether people had been vaccinated, recently tested negative, or had already had and recovered from Covid-19.\n\nThe European Union is also working on plans to introduce certificates, while in Israel a \"Green Pass\" is already available to anyone who has been fully vaccinated or has recovered from Covid-19, which they have to show to access facilities such as hotels, gyms or theatres.\n\nThe World Health Organization on Tuesday said it did not currently support requiring vaccination passports for travel, because of uncertainty over whether inoculation prevents transmission, and discrimination concerns.\n\nMeanwhile, US President Joe Biden announced on Tuesday that he had brought forward to 19 April the date by which all American adults will be eligible for a Covid vaccine.\n\n\"We have to ramp up a whole-of-government approach that rallies the whole country and puts us on a war footing to truly beat this virus,\" he said.", "Qari Abdul Rauf was convicted of trafficking a child within the UK for sexual exploitation\n\nFresh calls have been made to deport members of a notorious grooming gang after one of the men was spotted in the town where he abused young girls more than a decade ago.\n\nQari Abdul Rauf, Abdul Aziz and Adil Khan were jailed in 2012 for attacks in Rochdale, Greater Manchester.\n\nThe trio have been facing deportation since 2018 after losing an appeal to retain their British citizenship.\n\nMP Tony Lloyd said the government had shown \"grossly unacceptable inaction\".\n\nThe Home Office said the men's cases had recently been reviewed and it \"intends to update the victims through the proper channels when we can\".\n\nRochdale's Labour MP Mr Lloyd was speaking after Rauf, now 51, was apparently photographed shopping in the town.\n\nHe was said to have been stocking up a trolley with drinks at a store, as well as carrying a takeaway food delivery bag.\n\nMr Lloyd said it was \"unthinkable\" that the men's victims still face the possibility of \"walking round a street corner and bumping into them\".\n\n\"Particularly as we've had promises from successive home secretaries, not just in recent months, but over a good number of years now,\" he said.\n\n\"Quite frankly the inaction by the government is unthinkable and grossly unacceptable.\"\n\n(L-R) Abdul Aziz, Adil Khan and Qari Abdul Rauf exploited girls as young as 13\n\nRauf, Aziz and Khan, who are Pakistani nationals, were among nine jailed for crimes including rape and trafficking of girls as young as 13.\n\nIn some cases their victims, who were targeted from 2008, had been raped and handed to men who paid for sex with them in Oldham as well as Rochdale.\n\nThe three men were given jail sentences of between six and nine years.\n\nFormer police detective Maggie Oliver, who resigned over the way the cases were handled by Greater Manchester Police, said news of the sighting of Rauf had made her \"blood boil\".\n\n\"This is just the latest failure about how disgracefully the victims are treated, basically,\" she said.\n\n\"I'm in touch with them regularly and this is the latest in a long line of what they see as the criminal justice system failing them.\n\n\"I know these men have been out and about in Rochdale just carrying on with their lives as if they've done nothing wrong.\"\n\nA Home Office spokesman said: \"What happened in places such as Rochdale remains one of the biggest stains on our country's conscience.\n\n\"The cases of the foreign national offenders involved in these crimes have recently been reviewed at the request of the home secretary and we intend to update the victims through the proper channels when we can.\"\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.", "Actor Paul Ritter, who played dad Martin Goodman in the popular Channel 4 comedy Friday Night Dinner, has died after a brain tumour at the age of 54.\n\nHe also starred in Sky drama Chernobyl, played Eldred Worple in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, and was in James Bond film Quantum of Solace.\n\nHis other TV credits included Vera, Belgravia, Cold Feet and No Offence.\n\nFriday Night Dinner creator Robert Popper said he was \"a deeply clever, funny, intelligent, kind man\".\n\n\"But he also had that rare thing, he had the common touch, so people could just relate to him,\" Popper told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRecalling watching Ritter on set, Popper said: \"He was so quiet and focused before he went on, and then as soon as he went on, all that energy just popped out of him. It was amazing.\n\n\"I don't think he ever did anything wrong… he was very professional and he was a lovely guy.\"\n• None 👀\"Are you trying to be a moron?\"\n\nThe sitcom also starred Tamsin Grieg, Simon Bird, Tom Rosenthal and Mark Heap. Ritter played Martin, who was loosely based on Popper's father, who apparently often walked around the house with his shirt off.\n\nRosenthal tweeted that it was \"incredibly sad\" news.\n\nStephen Mangan, who had known Ritter since they were students, co-starred with him in Alan Ayckbourn's The Norman Conquests in the West End and on Broadway. Mangan said he had \"so much talent and it shone from him even as a teenager\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Stephen Mangan This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRitter's agent said he was \"an exceptionally talented actor playing an enormous variety of roles on stage and screen with extraordinary skill\", describing him as \"fiercely intelligent, kind and very funny\".\n\nIn a statement, Big Talk, the producers of Friday Night Dinner, said: \"He was a brilliant, kind and talented man much loved by everyone who was lucky enough to know and work with him, and Paul will forever be part of both the Big Talk and Friday Night Dinner families.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with his own family at this time and following their wishes we will be making a donation to the Old Vic Impact Fund.\"\n\nRitter (centre) at the 2009 Tony Awards with his co-stars of The Norman Conquests\n\nOther actors paying tribute included Derry Girls' Nicola Coughlan, who tweeted that Ritter \"was absolutely magic\", while Eddie Marsan said he was \"one of our greatest actors\".\n\nCatastrophe's Rob Delaney said Ritter had an \"unreal talent\" that spanned comedy and drama, and fellow actor Sanjeev Kohli described him as \"one of the most versatile & brilliant actors that has ever drawn breath\".\n\nRadio Times executive editor Morgan Jeffrey remembered him as \"a fantastic, magnetic actor\" and said Martin was \"one of the most brilliant and memorable comedy characters of the past several decades\".\n\nYears and Years and Being Human star Russell Tovey said he still remembered learning a lesson on stage from Ritter.\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\nFriday Night Dinner started in 2011 and was nominated for the best sitcom award at the Baftas the following year.\n\nThe show focused on the British Jewish Goodman family, whose sons returned home each Friday night for a meal, which usually involved eating \"crimble crumble\" for dessert, and ended in some kind of disarray after the appearance of their unusual neighbour Jim, played by Heap.\n\nMartin would regularly joke about the meal's main course being \"a lovely bit of squirrel\".\n\nRitter, from Kent, told the New Zealand Herald in 2014 he based some aspects of Martin on his own father, saying: \"Lots of the mannerisms come from my own dear old departed dad. He was a very funny guy as well.\"\n\nThe series became such a hit that Ritter said he was stopped in the street by teenagers and parents alike, who all wanted to talk to him about Martin. There have been three attempts at a US remake, including one with Tony Shalhoub as the father figure.\n\nIn the 2019 drama Chernobyl, which was produced by HBO and Sky UK, Ritter played Anatoly Dyatlov, the deputy chief engineer at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.\n\nThe show, which also starred Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgård and Emily Watson, won awards including two Golden Globes and 10 Emmy Awards.\n\nHe played former Prime Minister John Major on stage opposite Dame Helen Mirren as the Queen in 2013\n\nRitter was a familiar face elsewhere on stage and screen. He was nominated for an Olivier Award in the West End in 2006, and was up for a Tony Award on Broadway for The Norman Conquests.\n\nIn 2013, he played John Major in The Audience, which was The Crown creator Peter Morgan's play about the meetings between prime ministers and the Queen, played by Dame Helen Mirren.\n\nHis agent said on Tuesday: \"It is with great sadness we can confirm that Paul Ritter passed away last night.\"\n\nThey said he died peacefully at home with his wife Polly and sons Frank and Noah by his side. \"We will miss him greatly,\" they added.", "The collapsed fashion chain Peacocks has been bought out of administration, a move that includes transferring 2,000 jobs and 200 shops.\n\nThe number means the other half of the 400 trading at the time of the chain's collapse last November will not reopen as Peacocks.\n\nIt was previously owned by Edinburgh Woollen Mills (EWM).\n\nThe buyers are an international consortium, led by Peacocks' former chief operating officer, Steve Simpson.\n\nHe hopes to reopen the stores once non-essential retailers are allowed out of lockdown.\n\nEWM Group is a private investment group controlled by the Day family, which is owed money by Peacocks and is supporting the consortium.\n\nA statement from the administrators, FRP, said the collapse of the chain was due to \"the devastating effects of the Covid-19 lockdown\" on the business.\n\nThe Peacocks' management team hope that, with the support of their partners, suppliers and landlords, they will be able to reopen up to 200 stores.\n\nThe statement added the company hoped all 1,850 store staff, who are currently on furlough, will be able to return to work once stores reopen, along with more than 150 in head office and support.\n\nA similar deal was set in place with EWM and Bonmarche brands, while another of EWM's brands, Jaeger, was sold to Marks & Spencer, which intends to run it as an online-only business.\n\nPeacocks had 400 stores going into the pandemic a year ago and announced a series of job losses and store closures as it struggled to manage under the various restrictions.\n\nAnalyst Susannah Streeter at stockbrokers Hargreaves Lansdown, said: \"Peacocks will be a much leaner beast emerging from the crisis, with its footprint of around 400 stores halved under the deal.\n\n\"Shedding the excess weight of underperforming outlets will help it be more nimble but getting the online offering into better shape will be even more crucial, given its rivals are seen as racing ahead.\"\n\nShe added that there were parallels with Sir Philip Green's Arcadia chain, whose star outlet was Top Shop: \"Like Arcadia Group, Peacocks former owner, Edinburgh Woollen Mill, struggled with the accelerated shift to digital brought on by the pandemic. It was another sprawling retail empire which collapsed, with former rivals picking over the spoils.\"", "Masks will be needed at the start of next term, but might not be required after 17 May, say ministers\n\nSecondary school pupils in England must keep wearing face masks in class after the Easter holidays, said Education Secretary Gavin Williamson.\n\nFace masks would remain as a \"precautionary measure,\" he said.\n\nMr Williamson had promised to review the wearing of masks, which have been required since schools reopened fully last month.\n\nBut head teachers say masks can disrupt learning and should not be used any longer than is \"absolutely necessary\".\n\nAnnouncing the decision to retain masks in the classroom, at least until 17 May, the Department for Education (DfE) said: \"This cautious approach will help limit the risk of transmission and enable continued monitoring of the effect of school and college returns.\"\n\nBut the latest DfE guidance says: \"It is expected that face coverings will no longer be required to be worn in classrooms, or by students in other communal areas, at step three of the roadmap, which will be no earlier than 17 May.\"\n\n\"Schools and students have done a great job adapting to Covid secure guidance and working hard to make sure it doesn't impact learning,\" said Mr Williamson.\n\n\"We obviously all want to get back to facemask-free classrooms and we will do this in line with the latest scientific data while balancing the interests of students, teachers and the wider community.\"\n\nHowever, Geoff Barton, head of the school leaders' union ASCL, said that while his union would support the department's new guidance, masks in class were \"not ideal\".\n\n\"The use of face coverings is clearly not ideal in a classroom setting, as it has the capacity to disrupt education and it is not something we want to see going on any longer than is absolutely necessary.\n\n\"We hope that the continued excellent progress with vaccinations will mean it is no longer necessary for students to wear face coverings in lessons when the government announces the next stage in the easing of restrictions in May.\"\n\nBut Patrick Roach, general secretary of the NASUWT teachers' union, welcomed the move.\n\n\"Relaxing the rules in schools would send a message to pupils and parents that the threat of Covid has passed at a time when extreme caution is still needed.\n\n\"We are not out of the woods yet and maintaining the highest levels of Covid security in our schools is critical as we move into the new term in order to protect the safety and health of teachers and learners.\"", "Sir Keir Starmer has apologised after visiting a church which has been criticised for its stance towards homosexuality.\n\nThe Labour leader visited Jesus House in London on Good Friday and later shared a video from his visit online.\n\nBut after a backlash including from his party's LGBT+ members, Sir Keir called it a mistake and deleted the clip.\n\nHe said he \"completely\" disagreed with the church's views on LGBT+ rights and was not aware of them beforehand.\n\n\"I apologise for the hurt my visit caused and have taken down the video,\" he said. \"It was a mistake and I accept that.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Keir Starmer This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nJesus House for All The Nations church is in Brent, north London, and is part of the Redeemed Christian Church of God denomination. It has recently opened up part of its premises as a vaccination centre.\n\nThe church's senior pastor, Agu Irukwu, has previously been criticised after speaking out against same-sex marriage and equality laws.\n\nFollowing Sir Keir's visit, the LGBT+ Labour group called it \"unacceptable\" and said they had contacted Sir Keir to ask for an apology. It said the church was known for its \"broadly anti-LGBT+ views\".\n\nHowever the group said it believed the explanation that it was a \"genuine mistake\" where \"research had mistakenly not been carried out in advance of the visit\".\n\nAfter Sir Keir apologised, the group tweeted their thanks and added: \"We are pleased that you have recognised and apologised for this mistake. We look forward to working with you to end conversion therapy and achieve equality for LGBT+ people.\"\n\nSir Keir is not the only public figure to have visited the church. Boris Johnson and the Prince of Wales have both been to the pop-up vaccination centre there in recent weeks without attracting widespread comment - although Mr Johnson did face criticism when he visited as mayor in 2009.\n\nPastor Agu Irukwu, right, has hosted visits from other public figures\n\nIn 2017, Theresa May was criticised for visiting the church and meeting with the pastor.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday evening. We'll have another update for you on Wednesday morning.\n\nBoris Johnson has said the public should continue to get a coronavirus vaccine when they are offered it, amid concern over potential side-effects of the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab. The PM said getting vaccinated was \"the key thing\" and the advice from the UK's medicines watchdog was to keep giving the jab. Inquiries by regulators into whether there is a link between the jab and rare blood clots are ongoing. A number of countries have suspended the use of the jab among younger people, including in Germany and Canada. Read more about the blood clot risk here.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The PM on the safety of the AstraZeneca jab\n\nA stronger economic recovery for this year and next is being forecast by the International Monetary Fund, in an upgrade of its UK and global forecasts compared with its projections in January. The British economy is still predicted to return to its pre-pandemic level of activity only in late 2022. The new UK forecast is for growth of 5.3% this year and 5.1% in 2022. Both figures are upgrades, though the latter is only marginally higher than the January forecast. You can read more here.\n\nScotland's secondary schools will reopen full time as planned after the Easter break, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has confirmed. Students will no longer have to follow the two-metre social distancing rule when they return, but they will have to wear face coverings at all times and all age groups will be offered access to twice-weekly Covid lateral flow testing. Pupils who are shielding are advised to remain at home until 26 April. Meanwhile, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson has said that secondary school pupils in England must continue to wear face masks in class after the Easter holidays.\n\nThe NHS Covid-19 contact-tracing app for England and Wales will soon ask users to share details of venues they have checked in to if they test positive for coronavirus. Officials will be able to use the information to alert other visitors as to whether they need to be tested for Covid. The Department of Health and Social Care insisted a \"privacy-protecting\" approach is being taken. The updates to the app come ahead of the reopening of non-essential shops in both nations on 12 April, in addition to outdoor hospitality in England. Read more about how the lockdown rules are changing here.\n\nPosters of the QR barcode used for the app are being relaunched with a simplified design ahead of 12 April\n\nThe UK's largest independent flower show has been cancelled for a second year in a row due to the \"uncertainty of the pandemic\", organisers say. Southport Flower Show chairman Max Steinberg said despite the lockdown easing and the \"progressive\" vaccine rollout, it still faced \"too many\" uncertain elements. The four-day event, which was due to run between 19 and 22 August, usually has more than 55,000 visitors.\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nWant to know if your boss can make you head to the office? Find out here.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Petrol bombs were thrown at police in Carrickfergus on Monday night\n\nForty-one police officers have been injured as a result of violence in Northern Ireland in recent days.\n\nOn Monday, petrol bombs were thrown in Carrickfergus, a car was set alight in Londonderry and nine officers were injured in disorder in Ballymena.\n\nPolice said the officers were injured after they tried to engage with people present at an un-notified parade.\n\nIn total, 10 arrests have been made across Northern Ireland during disorder over the past week.\n\nOn Tuesday, First Minister Arlene Foster urged young people not to get a criminal record by getting involved in violence.\n\nBut she also said confidence had gone in the senior management of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) over the decision by prosecutors not to charge anyone over the Bobby Storey funeral.\n\n\"It is right that people speak out, but it is right that we say to those young people that two wrongs don't make a right,\" she said.\n\nThere was a police presence in Larne on Tuesday evening\n\nMrs Foster said she had spoken to the chairman of the Police Federation for Northern Ireland to offer her support to rank-and-file officers.\n\n\"The chief constable needs to resign, and needs to resign quickly. Confidence is gone in his leadership, and confidence is gone in his senior management team.\"\n\nProtesters gathered at a roundabout in Larne, County Antrim, on Tuesday evening\n\nOn Tuesday evening, about 80 loyalist protesters took part in a peaceful demonstration at the Antiville roundabout in Larne, while police looked on.\n\nThe A8 was closed in both directions for a short time but has since reopened. There were reports of minor trouble in nearby Linn Road in the town.\n\nDuring the disturbances on Monday night, police said petrol bombs and masonry were thrown at officers \"as they worked to restore order in the areas\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. First Minister Arlene Foster urged young people not to get a criminal record by getting involved in the violence\n\nA stretch of the M2 in Ballymena was also closed for a time after debris and bins were thrown onto it.\n\nIn Derry, a group of about 20 young people were involved in setting a car on fire in Sperrin Park, a seventh night out of eight in which there has been violence in the city.\n\nDetectives are also investigating parades in Portadown and Markethill on Monday.\n\nSocial media footage showed a number of masked men taking part in a loyalist band parade in the Jervis Street area of Portadown.\n\nPolice attended another night of disorder in the Waterside area of Derry on Monday night\n\nThe police and political parties have repeatedly called for calm, with the disturbances blamed on loyalist frustrations over a PPS (Public Prosecution Service) decision not to prosecute people who attended the large-scale funeral of republican Bobby Storey in June 2020, as well as concerns about the NI Protocol in the Brexit deal.\n\nThe leaders of the DUP, UUP and TUV have called for Chief Constable Simon Byrne to resign over the PSNI's handling of the funeral, which was attended by a number of senior Sinn Féin politicians, including Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill.\n\nThe NI Protocol has increased checks and caused disruption for some goods moving between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.\n\nThere has been a concern that loyalist anger would eventually make its way onto the streets.\n\nYou could say the writing was on the wall - literally - since January and growing tension over the Irish Sea border.\n\nBut there is a melting pot of grievances, largely bottled up by lockdown.\n\nThis ranges from policing, to politics to societal problems.\n\nThe rioting was low-level, relatively scattered and localised - there is no sense of a broader, joined-up orchestration.\n\nAnd then there were incidents - unlawful marches - where there was no violence at all.\n\nIn short, no one reason sparked successive days of unrest.\n\nSeveral agendas are at play, including the South East Antrim UDA kicking back at the PSNI after a clampdown on its criminality.\n\nOnce on the streets, will things gather momentum?\n\nOr will a combination of police action against rioters and a de-escalation of tension and political rhetoric calm things down?\n\nPieces of masonry that were thrown at police officers in Carrickfergus on Sunday\n\nCh Supt Davy Beck said he believed there were a number of \"small disaffected groups that are linked to criminality that are involved in orchestrating and promoting this violence\".\n\nHe said while there were tensions across communities there was \"no justification for violence and attacks on police officers and members of public\".\n\n\"When our officers have arrived to deal with situations they are met with petrol bombs, debris, wheelie bins and that takes a degree of orchestration - which is evidence this is not spontaneous,\" he added.\n\nThe senior police officer said he did not want to see young people being criminalised.\n\n\"Not only did their reckless and criminal behaviour place the lives of our officers in danger, but such senseless behaviour shows the blatant disregard those responsible have for the safety of others by throwing debris onto a motorway.\n\n\"It is extremely fortunate no one was seriously injured, or worse.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Police Federation say \"sinister elements\" are influencing younger people to attack police\n\nThe assembly is to be recalled on Thursday morning to discuss the violence.\n\nThe Alliance party secured the 30 signatures needed for the recall.\n\nLast week, the assembly was recalled early as MLAs debated a motion of censure against Sinn Féin politicians in relation to the funeral of Bobby Storey.\n\nDuring the Easter weekend, officers were injured during violence in Belfast, Newtownabbey, Carrickfergus and Derry.\n\nThe Police Federation said some of those who were hurt had potentially \"career-impacting\" injuries.\n\nPolice said the officers injured in Ballymena on Monday were expected to be able to return to duty on Tuesday.", "Boris Johnson says any testing regime for international travel should be easy and cheap, after the boss of EasyJet criticised new government plans.\n\nThe prime minister also said vaccine passports would be a \"fact of life\" for people travelling internationally in future.\n\nThe government hopes to reopen international travel on 17 May, but is yet to make a final decision.\n\nHowever, the prime minister said he had \"not given up\" on the idea.\n\nUnder plans outlined on Sunday, destinations would be classed as green, amber or red based on their Covid infection rates and vaccination coverage.\n\nNo isolation would be necessary on return to the UK from green countries, but pre-departure and post-arrival tests would be required, potentially costing up to £200 each.\n\nBut earlier on Tuesday, EasyJet boss Johan Lundgren told the BBC this would make travel too expensive, with the tests costing as much or more than a flight in some cases.\n\nAsked about the comments, and whether cheaper lateral flow tests could replace PCR tests in the plans, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"I do think we want to make things as easy as we possibly can.\n\n\"The boss of EasyJet is right to focus on this issue, we're going to see what we can do to make things as flexible and as affordable as possible.\"\n\nMr Lundgren told the BBC that if costs were not reduced, the government \"wouldn't open up international travel for everyone, but only those who can afford it.\n\n\"If you are ticking all of those boxes to become a green destination… [multiple tests] don't make sense to me and it would add to cost and complexities.\"\n\nScientists and ministers recently warned that holidays to destinations such as France, where Covid cases are rising, are \"unlikely\". But Mr Johnson said he \"had not given up\" on the idea that non-essential foreign travel could begin again on 17 May.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How one airline is keeping its aircraft and staff ready to fly\n\nHowever, other travel industry figures called for clarity following the prime minister's latest announcement on lockdown restrictions easing.\n\nThe Business Travel Association said the announcement was \"beyond disappointing\" and called for \"a clear pathway to international travel and trade\".\n\nIts chief executive, Clive Wratten, said moves to open borders had \"once again been kicked down the road\".\n\n\"The business travel industry continues to be crippled by today's lack of movement,\" he added.\n\nThe boss of travel firm Thomas Cook, Alan French, also told the BBC's Wake Up to Money that a lack of clarity around what type of tests might be required for passengers and when they would need to be taken was a let-down.\n\nHe said that overall, there were \"glimmers of good news\", in that the earliest date for travel resuming on 17 May was not pushed back. \"But actually, the details were missing and that was disappointing,\" he said.\n\nOn Monday, Mr Johnson said he did not want to see coronavirus re-imported from abroad and urged people to wait for a report from the Global Travel Taskforce on 12 April.\n\nBut Gemma Antrobus, owner of independent travel company Haslemere Travel, warned that business owners like herself faced a difficult path.\n\n\"Disappointed is putting it mildly. Where we hoped confidence would start to pick up, and more people would be interested in booking holidays… that just won't come this week.\"\n\nShe added that some customers had now moved bookings for holidays five times amid changing restrictions.\n\n\"Every week we don't have that confidence from consumers, business owners like myself just wonder what lies ahead.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi says no decision made on passports\n\nIt would be \"remiss\" of the government not to consider Covid certification as a way of fully reopening the economy, Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi says.\n\nAmid criticism of the plans, Mr Zahawi said: \"It's only right that we look at all these options that are available to us to take our lives back.\"\n\nThe government said certificates showing vaccination, test or immunity status could \"provide reassurance\".\n\nBoris Johnson said they could help signal a person is not contagious.\n\nSpeaking on a visit to an AstraZeneca factory in Macclesfield, Cheshire, Mr Johnson said Covid certificates - also referred to as passports - would not be rolled out until well after indoor hospitality reopens from 17 May.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she was open-minded about using certificates to allow certain activities to resume, and called for an open debate.\n\nBut many MPs have criticised the plans, with senior Tory backbencher Mark Harper warning it could lead to a \"two-tier\" Britain, demanding a vote on the issue.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The prime minister was asked about the safety of AstraZeneca jabs as well as vaccine passports\n\nMr Zahawi was keen to point out that the concept of using Covid certificates to allow international travel was distinct from a review of using them within the UK.\n\n\"But I think it would be remiss and irresponsible for us to not look at all these things,\" he told BBC Breakfast, adding that any certificate would show test results because testing is available to all, unlike vaccines.\n\nBut he stressed they would not be needed for the reopening of outdoor hospitality or non-essential retail on 12 April or indoor hospitality from 17 May.\n\nMr Zahawi told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the use of certificates domestically \"does raise a number of ethical issues\".\n\nGovernment scientific advisers have warned indoor mixing later in the year would be \"highly likely\" to lead to a resurgence in hospitalisations and deaths.\n\nMr Zahawi said the prediction - by SPI-M, a group that feeds into the government's scientific advisory group, Sage - was why England's roadmap out of lockdown had five-week intervals.\n\nThe UK government said it was working with the devolved administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to seek a \"consistent approach\".\n\nMr Johnson has the power to set public health regulations for England, but it is a devolved power in the other UK nations.\n\nA government review suggested Covid certificates could allow social distancing to be relaxed in venues like pubs\n\nA government review is currently being carried out to see how certificates that show testing status could work in England - and they are going to be trialled at upcoming events including the FA Cup final at Wembley Stadium.\n\nA series of trials - including comedy nights and a large nightclub event - are also planned in Liverpool to see whether requiring participants to have a negative test can allow big indoor gatherings to be held more safely.\n\nNo decision has yet been made on whether Covid status certificates will be introduced, but the government has now published an update on its review.\n\nIt said they could play a role in allowing people to return to theatres, nightclubs and mass events like festivals, and could allow social distancing to be relaxed in hospitality venues.\n\n\"Even without government intervention, Covid status certification is likely to become a feature of our lives until the threat from the pandemic recedes,\" it added.\n\nOn the face of it, the UK seems to be in a very strong position. The vaccine rollout is going very well and infection levels, hospitalisations and deaths are all low.\n\nAnd yet modelling done for the government suggests once all restrictions are lifted the country could be heading for a devastating resurgence in the virus similar to that seen in January.\n\nHow can this be? First of all, the models are not a prediction. They are an example of what could happen under certain assumptions, including how many do not take up the offer of the vaccines, how much vaccines stop infections and serious illness and how much people mix.\n\nThe idea of returning to January levels of deaths is at the pessimistic end of those models - and comes with huge caveats. A more optimistic scenario is that deaths are no higher than a bad flu season.\n\nThe problem the decision makers face is that there are so many unknowns and it is very easy to find yourself playing catching up. Working out what is a proportionate response is the key.\n\nA recent opinion poll of more than 8,000 UK adults suggested there was strong public support for the use of \"vaccine passports\" in certain situations.\n\nMore than three-quarters (78%) of those surveyed by Ipsos Mori supported their use for international travel and care home visits, while 74% supported them for visiting relatives in hospital, and 68% to attend the theatre.\n\nBut opposition to Covid passports being used within the UK has mounted - with a group of more than 70 cross-party MPs criticising the plan last week.\n\nThey said demanding medical proof in order to take part in local community life, for example going to venues like pubs, is discriminatory and divisive.\n\nIn Israel, a \"green pass\" showing someone is fully vaccinated is required for people to do certain things\n\nMark Harper, who chairs the Covid Recovery Group of Conservative MPs, which is against lockdown restrictions, said it was not acceptable for the end of social distancing to depend on certificates.\n\nHe said it was \"crucial\" that MPs are allowed to vote on the issue.\n\n\"Trying to introduce these domestic vaccine passports by the back door by linking them to removing social distancing rules just won't be acceptable either,\" he said.\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth did not rule out voting for the policy in Parliament, but said he would not support certificates for activities like clothes shopping.\n\nThe government has said certificates to permit access to essential public services, public transport and essential shops should \"never be required, in order to ensure access for all\".\n\nMr Zahawi said MPs would \"absolutely\" be offered a vote on Covid certification.\n\nBehavioural scientist Prof Stephen Reicher, who advises the government as part of SPI-B, which feeds into Sage, criticised ministers for \"very mixed\" messaging that could affect the take-up of jabs.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme: \"I think even to talk about vaccine passports, even to talk about the possibility that participating in everyday social life, you will have to get vaccinated is counterproductive at this stage where we'd need to convert and convince those who have doubts.\"\n\nThe government's certificate review is not expected to be finalised until the summer.\n\nIt comes as several countries implement their own passport schemes, including Israel.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Zahawi confirmed a third vaccine, made by Moderna, would be deployed in the UK \"around the third week of April\".\n\nMore than 5.4 million people in the UK have been fully vaccinated, with a total of more than 31.6 million first doses given.\n\nAnother 2,379 cases were reported on Tuesday alongside a further 20 deaths within 28 days of testing positive.\n\nEngland's next step of lockdown easing is to go ahead as planned on 12 April.", "Ciaran Leigh Morris was two weeks old when he died\n\nA 34-year-old man has been charged in connection with a car crash that killed a two-week-old boy in a pram.\n\nCiaran Leigh Morris was being pushed along the pavement by family members on High Street, Brownhills, West Midlands, when he was struck on Sunday afternoon.\n\nJames Paul Davis, from Walsall, has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving and causing death by driving while uninsured.\n\nHe will appear at Wolverhampton Magistrates Court on Tuesday morning.\n\nMr Davis also faces further charges of failing to stop at the scene of a collision and failure to report a collision.\n\nFlowers, toys and tributes have been placed at the scene\n\nFlowers, toys and tributes have been left at the scene, where damage to a brick wall can be seen.\n\nIn a tribute released on Monday, Ciaran's parents said: \"Mommy's and Daddy's hearts will always ache, we love you more than anything.\n\n\"We didn't get to keep you for long but we are happy we had the chance to meet you, look after you and call you our son.\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.", "Only 51% of the pre-Covid footfall has returned to Cardiff\n\nThe Welsh economy was in decline even before the pandemic hit, according to new official figures.\n\nGross domestic product (GDP) - the value of goods made and services delivered in Wales - fell by 2.4% between January and March, the Office for National Statistics said.\n\nThat followed a decline of 1.1% between October and December 2019.\n\nScotland, Northern Ireland and every region of England also saw falls to their GDP.\n\nGeneral Secretary of union Wales TUC Shavanah Taj said: \"This data is a good reminder that Covid isn't the only challenge facing our economy.\n\n\"The ongoing Brexit negotiations have made many employers reluctant to invest, and the growth in precarious work was already the reality for one in 10 workers before the pandemic.\n\n\"The challenges facing manufacturing are particularly alarming... this is why we have consistently pushed government to do all it can to retain jobs as we work our way out of this crisis.\"\n\nWales, along with the rest of the UK, went into lockdown in late March as the coronavirus pandemic took hold.\n\nSchools, workplaces, shops, gyms and hair and beauty salons closed while sport and leisure activities ceased.\n\nPublic transport use dropped off dramatically as people were asked to stay home and work from there, or placed on furlough if their workplaces had shut.\n\nEducation has been the sector hardest hit by a fall in business\n\nLooking at different industries in Wales , the ONS says education experienced the steepest fall in business.\n\nIt contracted by 18% between January and March, followed by transport with a fall of just more than 10% and arts and entertainment falling just less than 10%.\n\nThe average decline across the UK between January and March was 2.5%, slightly steeper than in Wales.\n\nThe economies of England and Scotland also declined by 2.5% while in Northern Ireland the economy contracted by 4.5%.\n\nEvery region of England also saw business decline.\n\nThe battle against the impact of the pandemic in both health and economic terms has perhaps led us to forget the fragility of the Welsh and UK economies as 2020 began.\n\nLooking at the UK as a whole, 2019 had seen the economy contract between March and June 2019 , it picked up little over the summer and then went flat again.\n\nIn fact the GDP figures for October to December 2019 showed a fall of 1.12% with economists blaming the uncertainty around Brexit and what it might mean in practise along with a slowdown globally.\n\nFrom a Welsh perspective such decrease in economic activity is worrying since the Welsh economy tends to linger at the bottom of the table of nations and regions of the UK in terms of GDP, the value of the goods made and services delivered.\n\nIn December, Wales was no longer at the bottom , the north east of England was , but Wales performed only slightly better.\n\nThese new figures for the first three months of the year show how much the Welsh economy, and the UK as a whole , was weakened as Covid restrictions began to impact the economy.\n\nWe can easily imagine the effect of closed cafes and pubs but the majority of sectors were hit.\n\nThe 17.8% fall in the value of the education sector between January and March is a reflection of the large number of hours of teaching that were cancelled because of Covid, either with individual teachers not being able to work or schools closing entirely because of lockdown.\n\nA reminder of how the world of work was before the lockdown in March is useful .\n\nIt explains why some businesses and some sectors are finding it hard to operate now with fewer customers .", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The prime minister said international travel from 17 May was \"hopeful\"\n\nLeading travel industry figures have reacted with dismay to Boris Johnson's latest comments on the lockdown roadmap, saying they need more clarity.\n\nThe prime minister said he was \"hopeful\" that foreign travel could begin again on 17 May.\n\nBut he said more data was needed before a firm decision could be taken.\n\nThe Business Travel Association said the announcement was \"beyond disappointing\" and called for \"a clear pathway to international travel and trade\".\n\nIts chief executive, Clive Wratten, said moves to open borders had \"once again been kicked down the road\".\n\n\"The business travel industry continues to be crippled by today's lack of movement,\" he added.\n\nIn a Downing Street briefing on Monday, Mr Johnson said he did not want to see coronavirus re-imported from abroad and urged people to await a report from the Global Travel Taskforce on 12 April.\n\nMr Wratten called on the government to be \"confident in its roadmap\", adding: \"This is our last resort.\"\n\nOther travel industry bodies expressed similar discontent as they await further details of a risk-based \"traffic light\" system for foreign travel, due to be published later this week.\n\nUnder the system, no isolation would be necessary on return to the UK from \"green\" countries - although pre-departure and post-arrival tests would be required.\n\nTim Alderslade, chief executive of Airlines UK, said: \"Whilst we support the establishment of a framework for restarting international travel and welcome the removal of self-isolation for arrivals from 'green countries', today's announcement does not provide the clarity we were seeking on the roadmap back towards normality.\n\n\"We await further details, but the measures indicated, including the potential for multiple tests for travellers even from 'green countries', will prevent meaningful travel even to low-risk destinations.\"\n\nMark Tanzer, chief executive of the Abta travel association, welcomed the traffic light system, but said: \"We need to see the details in the Global Travel Taskforce report before this can be assessed fully.\"\n\nHe added: \"It is vital that the government clarifies how the transition between green, amber and red levels will work, both to help travel businesses plan ahead and to provide reassurance for travellers.\n\n\"Destinations should not be suddenly closed off unless variants of concern dictate that this must happen.\"\n\nThe chief executive of the Airport Operators Association, Karen Dee, said she was \"disappointed\" that the prime minister \"continues to suggest significant barriers to international travel and may push back the date of restart beyond 17 May\".\n\nShe said a \"risk-based, proportionate system\" could \"open up aviation without quarantine and with affordable, rapid testing\".", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nJurgen Klopp says Liverpool made it \"too easy\" for Real Madrid to win the quarter-final first leg between the sides, but feels Mohamed Salah's goal offers his side a lifeline in the return game at Anfield.\n\nThe Reds were largely second best throughout an entertaining game against a Real team missing their first-choice centre-back pairing, but packed with impressive attacking talent.\n\nMuch of the damage was done in the first half through Vinicius Junior's low drive after he had chested down a superb long pass from Toni Kroos and a Marco Asensio's close-range finish following a defensive mistake from Trent Alexander-Arnold.\n\nLiverpool came out fighting after the break, pulling a goal back through Salah's finish off the crossbar to spark their best 20-minute spell of the contest.\n\nBut they were stung when Vinicius found the net via a first-time shot following a fine attacking move with 25 minutes to go, leaving them with a mountain to climb in the return leg at an empty Anfield on 14 April.\n\n\"If you want to go to the semi-final, you have to earn the right to do so,\" Klopp told BT Sport. \"We didn't do that tonight, especially in the first half.\n\n\"We just didn't play good enough football to cause Real Madrid more problems. We made it too easy for them.\n\n\"The only good thing I can say, apart from the goal, is it's only the first half of the tie. We didn't deserve a lot more but that one goal and the second half was OK. It gives us a lifeline.\"\n• None Why another Anfield rescue act looks beyond Liverpool now - Lawrenson analysis\n• None Best action and reaction from Tuesday's Champions League games\n\nAt the weekend, Liverpool ripped Arsenal apart, winning 3-0 in a display that some felt represented the turning of a corner for a side that have fallen well short of the standards they set during last season's stellar title-winning campaign.\n\nIf that was one step forward, this was two steps back, with the Reds largely outclassed by a notably superior opponent. They repeatedly gave the ball away under pressure and were - barring a brief rally at the start of the second half - uncharacteristically pedestrian and toothless.\n\nIt said much that manager Klopp opted for a substitution just before the break, correcting his decision to start Naby Keita ahead of Thiago.\n\nIt could easily have been any of the Reds' outfield 10 withdrawn, though, with the front three largely passengers, the centre-back pairing of Nat Phillips and Ozan Kabak looking every bit second-string and Alexander-Arnold and Andy Robertson often found out of position and exposed.\n\nThey were, however, aggrieved that a foul was not awarded for a challenge on Sadio Mane before Asensio's goal - a subject Klopp commented on after the game.\n\n\"The situation with Sadio, what the ref did tonight I have to say I don't understand,\" he added. \"For me that was something personal because he dealt with the situation with Sadio, which was a clear foul, like he was a diver or whatever.\n\n\"From that moment on whenever Sadio went down he didn't get anything. That is not right. That is what I told him after the game, that I thought he was unfair with Sadio.\n\n\"That doesn't change anything at all. He [the referee] didn't lose the game. We were not good enough to get a better result, but in these moments you need just an 'OK' ref. That would have been enough.\"\n\nIt is to the credit of Klopp and his players they were able to rectify some of their problems and get themselves back into the tie through Salah's neat finish.\n\nThey were unable to build on it, though, with Salah and Diogo Jota spurning chances to restore parity.\n\nReal's third goal killed their momentum and turned the match into one Real could manage.\n\nDuring their run to win the Champions League in 2019, Liverpool came back from a 3-0 away leg loss to beat Barcelona on aggregate via a stunning semi-final second leg full of ferocity and attacking brilliance.\n\nThey will need to do produce similar if they are to beat Barca's fierce rivals in eight days time.\n\nReal have not had consistently stellar campaign themselves, but they are now threatening to produce something special when it matters once again.\n\nThey made a habit of coming to life at the business end of a campaign during Zidane's first spell as manager, especially in the Champions League, which they won three times in a row between 2016 and 2018.\n\nIn a seven-day stretch that could be season-defining, with a home La Liga game against fellow title-chasers Barcelona between the two legs of this tie, Real turned on the style for part one, with Vinicius the headline act.\n\nIt should come as no surprise. This is a side that have not lost since January and, in Zidane, have a canny boss capable of picking Liverpool's weak spots out wide and steering his players to ruthlessly exploit them.\n\nMuch of the pre-game noise surrounded the absence of their first-choice centre-back pairing - the talismanic Sergio Ramos (who has a calf injury) and Rafael Varane (who recently tested positive for Covid).\n\nHowever, unlike their opponents, with Virgil van Dijk and Joe Gomez high-profile absentees, Real comfortably overcame their defensive issues, with replacements Nacho Fernandez and Eder Militao excellent, especially during the spell of intense Liverpool pressure.\n\nSalah's goal keeps the tie alive, but it is very much Real's to lose.\n\nReal with superb record after winning first leg\n• None Real have progressed from 15 of their last 16 Champions League knockout matches after winning the opening leg, only failing to do so against Ajax in the 2018-19 last 16.\n• None Only teams from Spain (14) have progressed from more Champions League knockout ties after losing the first leg than sides from England (12), with Liverpool the most recent English club to do so, against Barcelona in the 2018-19 semi-finals.\n• None In all European competitions, no side has beaten Liverpool more often than Real (4, level with Benfica), with the Reds suffering defeat in each of the last four encounters with Los Blancos.\n• None Salah has now scored 27 goals this season, four more than he managed last season, while equalling his tally from 2018-19 - only in 2017-18 (44) did he score more for Liverpool in a single campaign.\n• None Benzema has now appeared in 108 Champions League matches for Real - the outright most by a non-Spaniard, with only Ramos (128), Raul (130) and Iker Casillas (150) playing more for the club in the competition.\n• None Only Kylian Mbappe in April 2017 (18y 113d v Borussia Dortmund) has scored a Champions League brace at the quarter-final stage (or later) at a younger age than Real Madrid's Vinicius (20y 268d).\n• None Asensio has scored in four straight matches for Real in all competitions, managing as many goals over this period as he did across his previous 41 matches (4).\n• None Real boss Zidane took charge of his 50th game in the Champions League, with this his 31st victory in the competition. Indeed, only Jupp Heynckes (32) won more of his first 50 managerial games in the competition than the Frenchman.\n• None Attempt blocked. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Thiago.\n• None Attempt blocked. Georginio Wijnaldum (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Roberto Firmino.\n• None Attempt missed. Thiago (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Mohamed Salah.\n• None Offside, Real Madrid. Casemiro tries a through ball, but Karim Benzema is caught offside. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Why are we the exception to the norm when it comes to sex?\n• None Six life lessons the four-legged friends could teach us", "Mental health \"hubs\" for new, expectant or bereaved mothers are to be set up around England.\n\nThe 26 sites, due to be opened by next April, will offer physical health checks and psychological therapy in one building.\n\nNHS England said these centres would provide treatment for about 6,000 new parents in the first year.\n\nFive years ago, 40% of areas in England had no dedicated maternal mental health services.\n\nThings have improved since then with some specialist services available in each of the 44 local NHS areas in England.\n\nBut in the NHS's Long Term Plan, published in 2019, the health service pledged to offer more \"evidence-based\" support, including to partners and families through these hubs or \"outreach clinics\".\n\nThe NHS hopes to offer services to people with moderate-to-severe difficulties, whereas earlier investment focused on the most acutely unwell mothers.\n\nThese clinics will \"integrate maternity, reproductive health and psychological therapy for women experiencing mental health difficulties directly arising from, or related to, the maternity experience,\" NHS England said.\n\nOne of the new sites, in Devon, opened in January this year.\n\nLizzie, who experienced low mood and nightmares during her pregnancy having previously suffered a miscarriage, was referred to the service for some support.\n\nShe was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and offered a therapy called Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), which is designed to help people cope with distressing memories.\n\nAfter the treatment and having had her baby girl Enfys, Lizzie said: \"I feel unbelievably better after this pregnancy and birth compared to how I felt after my experience with my first child, when there wasn't any support available to me; even with the added distress of having a miscarriage, the pressures of Covid-19 restrictions and not being able to see my family.\n\n\"I feel happier, more confident and much better in my mental health. I feel fully recovered.\"\n\nIn 2019-20, more than 30,000 women were seen by specialist perinatal mental health community services.\n\nNHS England has made a commitment to offer specialist care to at least 66,000 people with mental health difficulties related to pregnancy, birth or parenthood by 2023-24.\n\nEmily Slater, CEO of the Maternal Mental Health Alliance, said: \"For the more than one in 10 expectant and new mothers experiencing mental health problems, and the increased numbers as a result of the pandemic, there needs to be a system of care available to support them.\n\n\"These new services will enable more women than ever to access vital perinatal mental health care.\"\n\nHelp will be available from before conception - for those with pre-existing mental health conditions who want to get pregnant - until the baby's second birthday, whereas currently these services are available for the first year of a child's life.\n\nNHS England said care would be provided for a \"wide range of mental health issues from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after giving birth to others with a severe fear of childbirth,\" for 1,001 days from conception.\n\nClaire Murdoch, NHS England's national mental health director, said: \"Every woman has a unique experience with pregnancy and motherhood and some will need extra support to cope with mental health issues that can range from anxiety to severe depression.\n\n\"I would encourage any mum who needs this support to come forward safe in the knowledge that her mental health and wellbeing are of paramount importance and she should not feel ashamed of accessing the help she needs.\"\n\nThe clinics will also train maternity staff and midwives as well as providing psychological therapies to people during pregnancy and after giving birth.\n\nThe first 10 sites will open around England \"within months\", in:\n\nThe rest are expected to be up and running by April 2022, with plans for all 44 local NHS areas to have one of these hubs by April 2024.", "Sir Ed has been out campaigning ahead of May's local elections\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey has urged more council involvement in climate policies, as he launched his party's local elections campaign.\n\nSir Ed said local authorities would be handed around a third of the £150bn the party has proposed for green projects in the wake of the Covid pandemic.\n\nIn a speech, he said the future of the environment was \"on the ballot\" for the 6 May polls.\n\nHe also urged ministers to cut taxes on smaller firms to help them recover.\n\nHe added Conservative-run councils had a \"shockingly poor\" record on climate issues, including over local public transport and recycling schemes.\n\nBy contrast, he said Liberal Democrat-run councils had \"always made the environment a top priority\".\n\nSpeaking ahead of a campaign visit to Watford, he said: \"Government should be backing local communities everywhere to take the environment seriously.\"\n\nHe added that the party would ringfence £48bn from its three-year £150bn Green Recovery Plan - announced last June - for spending by local councils.\n\nThe party says the plan should fund jobs training in green industries, home insulation, tree-planting schemes and the move towards renewable energy.\n\nHe also renewed his party's call for the government to slash the amount of employment tax small businesses have to pay to employ their staff.\n\nThe Lib Dems say Employment Allowance - an amount small firms can knock off their annual national insurance bill - should go up from £4,000 to £16,000.\n\nSearch below to find to see which elections you can vote in.\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\nSir Ed also criticised government plans to change the planning system in England by replacing case-by-case assessments with a new zoning system.\n\nLocal residents would get a say on the 10-year plans underpinning the zones, but their ability to comment on individual applications would be curtailed.\n\nMinisters say the changes will speed up the planning process, and prevent viable developments being derailed by a \"small minority\" of vocal opponents.\n\nBut Sir Ed said the proposals would \"silence the role of local communities\" in their local environment.\n\nThe 6 May elections in England will include polls for district and county councils, police and crime commissioners (PCCs) and city mayors, including in London.\n\nLocal elections that were postponed last year have been combined with those originally scheduled to take place in 2021, meaning a bumper crop of voting.\n\nPCC elections will also take place in Wales, along with Welsh Parliament elections. Elections for the Scottish Parliament will take place in Scotland.", "Not all energy marketed as green comes from renewable sources\n\nGreat Britain's electricity system was the greenest it had ever been at lunchtime on Easter Bank Holiday Monday, its operator has said.\n\nSunny and windy weather, coupled with low demand for power, led to a surge in renewable sources of energy, National Grid Electricity System Operator said.\n\nIt meant low-carbon energy sources made up almost 80% of Britain's power.\n\nThere was no coal generation on the grid and just 10% of power was from gas plants, the operator added.\n\nThe National Grid Electricity System Operator (ESO) said levels of carbon pollution for each unit of electricity consumed dropped to just 39 grams of carbon dioxide - the lowest ever recorded for the grid - at 13:00 BST on Monday.\n\nIt said wind power made up 39% of the energy mix, with solar at 21% and nuclear accounting for 16%.\n\nThe burning of biomass accounted for around 4%. There is debate over the environmental costs of burning biomass, like wood, and the National Grid ESO categorises it separately from low-carbon sources and fossil fuels.\n\nBy comparison, on Tuesday, 24.8% of Britain's energy came from fossil fuels, most of which was gas (combined cycle), while 45.2% was renewable energy sources.\n\nThose fossil fuel figures have been dropping all year. In January, gas accounted for more than 43% of the energy mix, with coal at almost 5%, and then last month just 37% of Britain's electricity was generated from gas.\n\nThe previous record for Great Britain's greenest day was set during lockdown last year, on 24 May.\n\nWhen Britain went into lockdown, electricity demand plummeted and the National Grid responded by taking power plants off the network and the four remaining coal-fired plants were among the first to be shut down.\n\nThe new record may be a cause for celebration as the UK strives for a near zero-carbon society - but it's far from a surprise.\n\nTake the ingredients of a sunny, windy day on a bank holiday when factories are not working - coupled with a lockdown, and you're sure to cook up an impressive percentage of wind power.\n\nBut remember, as investment in renewables increases, these records will be happening regularly.\n\nThe real test for renewables comes when we face a cold, still, overcast February day when demand for heat and light soars and wind power is non-existent.\n\nThat will need much more energy storage than is currently available.\n\nThe government aims to have almost all electricity produced from low carbon sources by 2030 - and despite this week's impressive results, there's still a very long way to go.\n\nLast year as a whole saw many records broken for Britain's electricity mix, with an almost 68-day coal-free run between 10 April and 16 June, and solar providing more than a third of electricity supplies on several occasions during May.\n\nChristmas 2020 was also the first ever coal-free Christmas Day.\n\nMeanwhile, the highest ever amount of electricity generated by wind was on 13 February this year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Here are some coal-fired power stations being demolished over the years\n\nFintan Slye, director at National Grid ESO, said: \"This latest record is another example of how the grid continues to transform at an astonishing rate as we move away from fossil fuel generation and harness the growth of renewable power sources.\n\n\"It's an exciting time, and the progress we're seeing with these records underlines the significant strides we're taking towards our ambition of being able to operate the system carbon free by 2025.\"\n\nA decade ago about 40% of Britain's electricity came from coal\n\nThe record comes ahead of COP26, a UN international climate change summit, due to be held in Glasgow this November.\n\nKate Blagojevic, head of climate at Greenpeace UK, praised the progress on taking fossil fuels out of the energy mix, but added that it was \"no time for the UK government to rest on its laurels\".\n\n\"Carbon emissions from our homes, farms and roads remain stubbornly high, and only a major government intervention can unblock the impasse,\" she said.\n\n\"As the Glasgow climate summit looms closer, ministers really need to up their game on tackling UK carbon emissions right across the board.\"", "Fares Maatou was stabbed near Zzetta Soul Fired Pizza restaurant in Newham\n\nA 15-year-old boy stabbed to death outside an east London pizza restaurant has been named by police.\n\nFares Maatou died at the scene of the attack on Barking Road, Newham, on Friday afternoon.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said officers found the teenager with stab wounds shortly before 16:00 BST, but despite emergency efforts, he was pronounced dead half an hour later.\n\nWitnesses said Fares was wearing his school uniform when he was attacked.\n\nPeople place flowers at the scene in Barking Road, where 15-year-old Fares Maatou was stabbed\n\nThe Met said it believed Fares was attacked with \"a large bladed item\".\n\nTwo boys, 14 and 15, were arrested on suspicion of murder on Friday, while another 15-year-old boy was also held in connection with the incident, a spokesman added.\n\nA post-mortem examination is still due to take place.\n\nTwo boys, 14 and 15, were arrested on suspicion of murder on Friday\n\nFloral tributes and balloons have been placed outside the Zzetta Soul Fired Pizza restaurant.\n\nA member of staff from the restaurant, who asked not to be named, said a FedEx worker, an off-duty police officer and a woman passing by had all rushed to the teenager's aid as he lay injured in the street.\n\n\"They were just shouting at him, 'wake up, wake up, try to breathe',\" he said.\n\nA close friend of Fares said he had been a \"really nice\" person who \"loved life\".\n\nThe tearful 15-year-old, accompanied by her mother, said: \"He would just be there for you.\n\n\"If you ever needed him, he would be there. He had nothing to do with the gang stuff around here.\n\nHer mother, 33, from Stratford, said her daughter, who had been friends with Fares since nursery, had been left \"heartbroken\" and had not stopped crying \"since she found out\".\n\nDespite the efforts of the emergency services, Fares was pronounced dead half an hour after being attacked\n\nDet Ch Insp Perry Benton said Fares's family were, \"of course, absolutely devastated\".\n\n\"I have assured them of my total commitment to bringing to justice those responsible for this senseless killing,\" he said.\n\n\"They will be supported by specialist officers at every stage of what will be a terrible ordeal for them.\"\n\nHe added that officers had \"received a good deal of information from local people\".\n\n\"I thank them for that, and ask anyone with information or any witnesses who have yet to speak with police to please come forward.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Crowds have gathered in large numbers in Cardiff Bay, breaching Covid rules\n\nPolice have pledged to clamp down on anyone causing anti-social behaviour at hotspots over the weekend.\n\nDispersal orders have been put in place in Cardiff Bay, Swansea, Ogmore-by-Sea and Barry Island, giving South Wales Police powers to break up crowds.\n\nAction is also being taken in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, due to concerns about \"possible anti-social behaviour\".\n\nFrom Saturday, six people from six different households can meet outdoors under revised Covid rules.\n\nThe action comes after criticism of people gathering in large numbers and leaving litter in Cardiff Bay and further afield.\n\nA dispersal order has also been put in place in Aberaeron, Ceredigion, in case large crowds gather with people advised to \"be sensible when meeting with friends or family this weekend\".\n\nNorth Wales Police said it was putting on extra patrols as it was anticipating the area would \"get very busy this weekend\".\n\nSouth Wales Police said it was the first time a dispersal order had been put in place at Ogmore-by-Sea due to recent anti-social behaviour.\n\nPolice say they are aware of messages circulating on social media about a party on Swansea beach\n\n\"We are not there to monitor visitor numbers and prevent those visiting in a law-abiding manner from enjoying. We are there to ensure public safety,\" said the force.\n\n\"We all have a responsibility to make sensible choices when we are out and about, maintaining social distancing and not putting ourselves and others at unnecessary risk.\"\n\nThe dispersal order at SA1 Swansea comes as South Wales Police said it was aware of messages on social media about a gathering on a beach.\n\nDyfed-Powys Police has launched its annual Operation Lion initiative to ensure Tenby \"continues to be a safe and popular destination for all this spring and summer\".\n\nChief Insp Louise Harries said it had been adopted following recent incidents and after \"listening to residents' concerns\".\n\nThe force also said officers will be \"conducting proactive patrols of areas identified as possible sites for illegal raves over the weekend\" and it called on the public to alert them.\n\nIn north Wales, the force urged motorists to \"take extra care on the roads\" following several fatal and serious collisions this year.", "The general (left) is in Jakarta for a regional summit that is expected to focus on Myanmar\n\nSouth East Asian leaders have urged the head of the Myanmar army, which took power in a coup in February, to end the violent crackdown in the country.\n\nIn his first known foreign trip since the takeover, General Min Aung Hlaing heard calls for the military to stop killing protesters and to release political prisoners.\n\nMore than 700 people have been killed and thousands detained since the coup.\n\nThe talks in Indonesia were the first big effort to address the crisis.\n\nA statement released after the summit said the leaders and foreign ministers from the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) had reached a consensus on five points.\n\nThey included asking for an immediate stop to the violence and opening a dialogue between the military and civilian leaders, with that process overseen by a special Asean envoy who would also visit with a delegation. The group also offered humanitarian assistance.\n\nThe consensus was welcomed by Myanmar's newly formed National Unity Government (NUG), a group made up of opponents of the coup - including pro-democracy figures, representatives of the armed ethnic groups and former members of civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi's former government.\n\nAfter the meeting, which was held in the Indonesian capital Jakarta, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said the general was \"not opposed\" to a visit by as Asean delegation or humanitarian assistance, adding: \"He said he heard us, he would take the points in which he considered helpful.\"\n\nMalaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin also called for unconditional release of political prisoners. Aung San Suu Kyi remains in detention, as well as anti-coup leaders.\n\n\"The deplorable situation in Myanmar must stop immediately,\" he said.\n\nDemonstrators gathered near the venue of the summit, beating pots and pans and holding signs that read \"Restore democracy\" and \"We stand against the military coup\". Protests were also held in Myanmar's main cities but there were no immediate reports of violence.\n\nAsean leaders have been widely criticised for inviting to their meeting the man responsible for overthrowing the elected government in Myanmar, and for unleashing savage violence on those opposed to his coup.\n\nThey may now argue that it was worth it; that by attending, Min Aung Hlaing has accepted the meeting's concluding statement calling for an end to the violence and the start of dialogue with an opposition movement that enjoys substantial popular support. The general was described by his Indonesian hosts only as the armed forces commander and not the head of a legitimate government.\n\nHowever, an appeal for the release of political prisoners was dropped from the final communique. Much detail remains to be hashed out on how dialogue will happen. But, in his first diplomatic encounter since his disastrous coup, Min Aung Hlaing, until now deaf to appeals for restraint, does appear to have agreed that his regime needs to change course. Asean member states fear that unless this happens, they may have a civil war, or even a failed state, on their doorstep.\n\nProtesters across Myanmar are calling for an end to the coup\n\nThis afternoon people across the commercial capital Yangon banged pots and pans to show their defiance of a military junta that has shocked the world by its brutality. Never before has Asean had to deal with a member state whose government faces such entrenched public hostility. It is a challenge the countries of this region, many of them undemocratic, are ill-equipped to meet.\n\nUnited Nation's Secretary-General António Guterres had called for the Asean summit to resolve the crisis and prevent \"possible grave humanitarian implications beyond Myanmar's borders,\" UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said.\n\nThere have been calls for Myanmar, also known as Burma, to be expelled from Asean but the members historically do not get involved in each other's internal affairs.\n\nThe UN special envoy for Myanmar, Christine Schraner Burgener, is in Jakarta for meetings on the sidelines of the summit.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We are in danger of seeing a civil war\"\n\nMass protests have been taking place across Myanmar since the military seized control and declared a year-long state of emergency.\n\nThe armed forces claim there had been widespread fraud during a general election late last year which had returned elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy party (NLD) to power.\n\nThe military promised instead that it would hold \"free and fair\" elections once the state of emergency is over.\n\nMin Aung Hlaing has medals galore, but little public support\n\nIn the past few weeks, the military has been increasing its use of force against protesters. More than 80 people were killed in one incident in the city of Bago earlier this month.", "The contract was awarded to a firm which offers a service to connect GPs to specialist consultants for treatment advice\n\nA £650,000 per year contract awarded by the Welsh government without an open tender process has been criticised by opposition parties in Wales.\n\nConsultant Connect, which offers a service where GPs can talk directly to specialist consultants for advice, was awarded the contract last April.\n\nThe Welsh government said the award was fully compliant with rules and Covid's impact had justified the direct award.\n\nPlaid Cymru and the Liberal Democrats have called for an open tender process.\n\nSome medical professionals have also expressed concerns about the system, which can connect GPs in Wales to consultants in England, due to differences between the devolved Welsh NHS and the healthcare system in England.\n\nThe Welsh government confirmed the body responsible for NHS Wales procurement was \"in the process of undertaking a direct award/extending the contract to ensure continuation of the service until a full evaluation of the service has been completed\".\n\nTendering offers businesses and taxpayers greater transparency and understanding of the process in granting public contracts and concerns have been raised by opposition parties about an alleged lack of transparency in awarding the contract.\n\nRhun ap Iowerth, who speaks on health for Plaid Cymru, said: \"It is possible to award contracts in an exceptionally fast way and without a tender where there is no other option. There is also an option of going through tender processes which are open but very quick.\n\n\"Especially now, when we come to renewing the contract, surely there is no excuse for at least going through a tender process which is open but fast?\"\n\nCadan ap Tomos, the Welsh Liberal Democrat candidate for Ceredigion, said: \"It is 12 months since this contract was first awarded.\n\n\"Having had 12 months to consider whether this is the best way to offer a particular service, it is imperative a fairer process is in place and that a public tender process is allowed to take place.\"\n\nRhun ap Iorwerth of Plaid Cymru said there was \"no excuse\" for the contract to have not been put through an \"open but fast\" tendering process\n\nThe Welsh Conservatives and Welsh Labour both declined to comment.\n\nAt the time of the awarding of the contract, the then-non-executive chairman of Consultant Connect had links with the Labour party.\n\nHe was previously a director of a company which \"developed the entire online infrastructure for the UK Labour party\".\n\nHe had also been a director of Labour List, a website supportive but independent of the Labour party.\n\nBoth Welsh Labour and the Welsh government declined to comment on links between the company and the Labour party.\n\nConsultant Connect said: \"The contract with the Welsh government originated from a clinician who had previously seen the benefits of Consultant Connect in another healthcare area.\n\n\"It was not the result of solicitation from Consultant Connect nor anyone associated with Consultant Connect.\"\n\nSeveral GPs also told BBC Wales they were often, if not always, referred to consultants working in England.\n\nSome were concerned advice and treatment suggested broke local guidelines in Wales.\n\nDr Phil White, chairman of BMA Cymru's GP committee, told BBC Wales's Newyddion S4C programme: \"The concept is very good. It's a way of getting a rapid response from a consultant in the speciality you are looking for.\n\n\"The downside has been many of the consultants signed up for the scheme are in England and of course there are certain differences between the NHS in Wales and England and how things are run.\"\n\nDr Phil White from BMA Cymru said the concept of the service was \"very good,\" but raised concerns over GPs being connected to England-based consultants\n\nThe Welsh government said: \"Calls are taken by a NHS consultant, registrar or nurse practitioner and wherever possible, local clinicians are used to provide the advice.\n\n\"Where this is not possible, then the calls may be routed to a national network of NHS clinicians.\"\n\nConsultant Connect said: \"Most calls on Consultant Connect are between a local GP and a local specialist as we know that local advice is always best.\n\n\"But we also know that, where no local specialists are available to take a call, advice from another UK specialist may still be better than no advice at all.\"", "Teacher James Prodger moved to Singapore with his wife Alex and son Zachary in 2019 Image caption: Teacher James Prodger moved to Singapore with his wife Alex and son Zachary in 2019\n\nWhen maths teacher James Prodger left the UK with his wife and toddler to work in Singapore a couple of years ago, he envisioned a stint abroad peppered with exciting holidays in Southeast Asia and regular trips home to see family.\n\n\"Covid-19 really put a spanner in the works for us,\" he says. \"We were always intending to come here with the intention of being able to go home every six months.\n\n\"We went home three times in the first year and then we had friends due to come out for a holiday in Bali, but all those things we were looking forward to just disappeared.\"\n\nThe thought of being unable to get home quickly for a family emergency fills him with dread.\n\n\"A major consideration for us is our parents. My wife's parents, they are in their 70s,\" he said. \"What happens if one of our parents gets ill? That's always in the back of our minds.\"\n\nAs vaccine rollouts gather pace around the world and borders start to reopen, there will be a rush to book flights - not just from holiday-makers desperate for some sun, but also from those who haven't seen their families for months or even years, outside of a screen.\n\nRead more about the pandemic's impact on those working abroad here.", "People in the area are advised to keep windows and doors shut\n\nPeople were advised to keep windows and doors shut following a large fire at a recycling centre.\n\nEight appliances were called to the fire in Nantycaws, Carmarthenshire, after a call at 15:15 BST on Saturday.\n\nCrews remain at the scene on Sunday morning, according to Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service.\n\nEmma Jones, from Cross Hands, said she could see \"thick black smoke\" whilst driving from Llangunnor, around four miles away from the recycling centre.\n\nCarmarthenshire council said no-one had been injured.\n\nPaul Wakelin, head of operations at Cwm Environmental, who run the site, said it was working closely with the fire service.\n\n\"We do not yet know the cause of the fire and a full investigation will need to be launched,\" he 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 Cyfoeth Naturiol Cymru | Natural Resources Wales This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 council said the recycling centre and the waste transfer station for the disposal of commercial waste would remain closed.\n\nIt said residents who had booked an appointment between Sunday and Wednesday could instead visit one of the county's other sites at Trostre, Wernddu or Whitland, but should bring their confirmation email.\n\nNatural Resources Wales said a fire water plan was in place and it would visit the site of the fire again on Sunday.\n\nThe fire service said crews were dampening down on Sunday.\n\nAn investigation will take place later to determine the cause of the blaze.\n\nFire crews are at a fire in Nantycaws in Carmarthenshire\n\nMeanwhile, the combined control room of South Wales and Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service received 490 calls relating to grass fires from 09:00 BST onwards on Friday.\n\nAt its height, five fire crews tackled a blaze of burning grass and gorse at Kilvey Hill, Swansea, which first began at 14:00 BST on Friday.\n\nAt another incident, 20 firefighters tackled a fire at Cilgwyn near Carmel, south of Caernarfon, until 22:20 on Friday.\n\nThe cloud of smoke from the incident was so large that control room staff received 999 calls from Anglesey, North Wales Fire and Rescue Service said.\n\nThe Cilgwyn blaze could be seen from Anglesey\n\nLee Smith, who lives in Carmel, said he came across the fire while out running on the mountain.\n\n\"I saw the smoke and thought it was a bonfire,\" he said.\n\nMr Smith added he thought the blaze was the size of a \"football pitch or two\".\n\nA wildfire of over seven acres (three hectares) above Park Road in Ferndale, Rhondda Cynon Taf, was also tackled by three fire crews, using water jets and an all-terrain vehicle.\n\nAnd three crews also attended a wildfire at Nantmor near Beddgelert in Gwynedd before the incident was declared over by 22:10.\n\nOne fire could be seen from the shores of Caswell Bay, Gower\n\nFirefighters had to return to a smouldering wildfire which has reignited at Aberhenwaun Uchaf, Seven Sisters, Neath Port Talbot, on Friday at about 20:15.\n\nIn Llanrwst in Conwy county, two appliances attended the scene of a gorse fire on Friday afternoon.\n\nAnd a grass fire smouldered overnight at Cwm Nant y Groes at Six Bells, Blaenau Gwent.\n\nAnother fire was monitored on a cliff across seven acres (three hectares) at Caswell Bay, Gower, on Friday night.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Yogita Limaye reports from a hospital in Delhi, which is running low on beds and oxygen\n\nIndian hospitals say their patients are dying because of a shortage of oxygen as Covid case numbers and deaths set new records for a third day running.\n\nIndia has recorded nearly a million infections in three days, with 346,786 new cases overnight into Saturday.\n\nAt the Jaipur Golden Hospital in Delhi, 20 people died overnight because of a lack of oxygen, an official said.\n\nThe government says it is deploying trains and the air force to transport supplies to hard-hit areas.\n\nThe number of deaths across India rose by 2,624 in the 24 hours to Saturday, up from 2,263 on Friday.\n\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) said the situation in India was a \"devastating reminder\" of what the coronavirus could do.\n\nEarlier this year, the Indian government believed it had beaten the virus. New cases fell to 11,000 by mid-February, vaccines were being exported, and in March the health minister said India was \"in the endgame\" of the pandemic.\n\nHowever, since then, a new surge has erupted, driven by the emergence of new variants, as well as mass gatherings, such as the Kumbh Mela festival, where millions of pilgrims gathered earlier this month.\n\nHospitals in Delhi have warned they are at breaking point. At the Holy Family Hospital, intensive care units are full and there is no room for any more beds.\n\n\"Almost every hospital is on the edge. If oxygen runs out, there is no leeway for many patients,\" Dr Sumit Ray told the BBC.\n\n\"Within minutes, they will die. You can see these patients: they're on ventilators, they require high-flow oxygen. If the oxygen stops, most of them will die.\"\n\nAt the Jaipur Golden Hospital, a doctor told the BBC the government had allocated 3.6 tonnes of oxygen, to be delivered by 17:00 on Friday.\n\nHowever, the supply - a fraction of what was promised - only arrived at midnight, he told the BBC.\n\nOn Friday, Delhi's Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal pleaded for oxygen supplies on live TV, Reuters news agency reported.\n\n\"All of the country's oxygen plants should immediately be taken over by the government through the army,\" he said.\n\n\"Oxygen, oxygen, can you get me oxygen?\" I wake up this morning to an anguished phone call from a school teacher, whose husband was been battling for his life in a Delhi hospital.\n\nI tell myself: another day of life in a city where breathing has become a luxury for so many. We work the phone, send SOS calls. I text a doctor friend working in critical care.\n\nI pick up the newspaper. Twenty-five critically ill patients have died in a private hospital. The oxygen pressure had been dialled down in critical care, the hospital said.\n\nThere's a photograph of two men and a woman sharing a cylinder on the front page - three strangers, caught up in a tragedy brought upon by government negligence, sharing a lifeline.\n\nAs the day progresses I realise nothing has changed. Patients are dying because there's no oxygen. Medicines are still scarce and on the black market.\n\nThe teacher calls again. The hospital doesn't even have a spare oxygen flow meter, so she has to get one. We work the phones again, send out Twitter appeals. Someone manages to find a device.\n\nDespite government claims, things are going from bad to worse. There are no beds, few medicines. For many it's a slow road to death.\n\nA virologist at the Christian Medical College in the city of Vellore in southern India, Gagandeep Kang, told the BBC more action was needed to stop the spread of the virus.\n\n\"We need to ensure that there are no non-essential activities taking place. You know what Indian weddings are like, and restricting the size of gatherings, whether it is for family reasons, other social reasons or for business or for political rallies. All of that really needs to stop,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"I don't think a national lockdown is required, but I think that in places that are showing a rise in cases, we do need to intervene with greater stringency than we have done in the past.\"", "A body, believed to be the missing man, was found about six hours after he entered the water\n\nA man has died after jumping in the River Thames to rescue a woman who fell from London Bridge.\n\nTwo men entered the water just after 00:10 BST after spotting the woman fall from the structure, City of London Police said.\n\nThe coastguard and the Met Police's marine unit rescued the woman and one of the men, but could not locate the other despite an extensive search.\n\nA body, believed to be that of the missing man, was found at about 06:00.\n\nThe force said the man's next of kin had been informed.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sir James Dyson texted the prime minister last March when he was involved in efforts to provide ventilators\n\nLabour has called for a \"thorough investigation\" into Boris Johnson's contacts with inventor Sir James Dyson.\n\nShadow Cabinet Office minister Rachel Reeves said the messages between the prime minister and Sir James opened up a \"new urgent corridor of inquiry\".\n\nThe texts - seen by the BBC - show Mr Johnson saying he could \"fix\" tax issues relating to Dyson staff who came to the UK to work on the pandemic.\n\nThe PM said he made \"no apology\" for trying to get ventilators for the NHS.\n\nLabour has said the text messages are part of a pattern of government \"sleaze\" and has called on the cross-party Liaison Committee of senior MPs to investigate \"as soon as possible\".\n\nMs Reeves claimed there was \"a growing feeling that if someone has access to a telephone number of someone like the prime minister or the chancellor, then they are able to gain special treatment\".\n\nLiaison Committee Chair Sir Bernard Jenkin said the MPs would consider Ms Reeves request adding that the prime minster was due to appear in front of the committee before the summer recess.\n\nIn March last year, the Department of Health feared the NHS in England would need as many as 20,000 additional ventilators to deal with Covid patients.\n\nIt asked companies, including Dyson, which is based in Singapore, to help.\n\nThe prime minister is understood to have called Sir James on 13 March and asked him to participate.\n\nDyson answered the call - although subsequently the company was not called upon to provide ventilators to the NHS.\n\nSir James contacted the Treasury for assurances there would be no extra tax to pay for employees who came to the UK to help.\n\nWhen he failed to get a response, he texted the prime minister directly.\n\nIn exchanges seen by the BBC, Mr Johnson messaged Sir James saying: \"[Chancellor] Rishi [Sunak] says it is fixed!! We need you here.\"\n\nWhen the businessman sought further reassurance for the tax status of the firm and \"senior individuals\", Mr Johnson replied: \"I am First Lord of the Treasury and you can take it that we are backing you to do what you need.\"\n\nTwo weeks later, Mr Sunak told a group of MPs that the tax status of people who came to the UK to provide specific help during the pandemic would not be affected.\n\nOn Wednesday, Mr Johnson said he made \"no apology for moving heaven and earth\" to persuade businesses to help bolster supplies of equipment and ventilators to treat coronavirus patients.\n\nHe said he had done the \"right thing\" and that \"any prime minister\" would have done the same in the circumstances.\n\nSNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford called on Mr Johnson to reveal \"how many more Covid contracts he personally fixed\" and publish all personal exchanges on these contracts.\n\nBut Mr Johnson said there was \"nothing to conceal about this\" and he would share details with MPs.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said Mr Johnson had abided by the ministerial code, governing conduct in office, and had \"informed officials in a timely manner\" after his contact with Sir James.\n\nHe added that he did not know when the prime minister would publish his exchanges with Sir James.\n\nSeparately, it is understood some in government have suggested the prime minister should be less willing to share his personal contact details - but officials have denied that he was told to change his mobile phone number.\n\nIt was also revealed recently that former Prime Minister David Cameron had contacted several ministers - including Chancellor Rishi Sunak, whom he texted - on behalf of the failed finance firm Greensill Capital.\n\nSeveral inquiries have been launched looking into the work of lobbyists, whose job it is to influence government policy.\n\nMr Cameron has denied that he broke any codes of conduct or any government rules on lobbying.\n• None What is lobbying? A brief guide\n• None What is Greensill lobbying row about?", "SpaceX's Dragon Endeavour spacecraft has docked with the International Space Station.\n\nAmericans Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, Frenchman Thomas Pesquet and Japanese flier Akihiko Hoshide were greeted with hugs by the crew already onboard.", "The recommendation is to sniff familiar items like garlic, oranges and mint twice a day for several months\n\nResearchers are calling for people struggling to regain their sense of smell after falling ill with Covid-19 to undergo \"smell training\" rather than being treated with steroids.\n\nThis is a process that involves sniffing different odours over a period of months to retrain the brain to recognise different smells.\n\nA group of international experts say smell training is cheap and simple.\n\nAnd unlike steroids, it is free from potential side effects.\n\nA loss of smell is one of the main symptoms of a coronavirus infection, along with a fever and a persistent cough.\n\nIn most cases, loss of smell will return relatively quickly after the illness has passed.\n\nBut around one in five people report they are still having problems eight weeks after falling ill.\n\nOne treatment that has been prescribed by doctors is a course of drugs known as corticosteroids, which lower inflammation in the body and are already used to treat conditions such as asthma.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"The public toilets smell nice\" - Tim Muffett speaks to three women struggling with changing tastes and smells\n\nBut Prof Carl Philpott, from the University of East Anglia's Norwich Medical School, who was part of the team reviewing current evidence, said there was very little to suggest that corticosteroids would help with smell loss.\n\n\"And because they have well-known potential adverse side effects, our advice is that they should not be prescribed as a treatment for post-viral smell loss,\" he said.\n\n\"Luckily most people who experience smell loss as a result of Covid-19 will regain their sense of smell spontaneously.\"\n\nThe steroids' side effects include fluid retention, high blood pressure, and problems with mood swings and behaviour.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Laura Wood still cannot smell or taste, two months on\n\nInstead, in a paper published in the journal International Forum of Allergy & Rhinology, the researchers suggest \"smell training\".\n\nThis involves sniffing four things that have a distinctive, easily identifiable and familiar smell - for example, oranges, mint, garlic or coffee - twice a day for several months.\n\nProf Philpott said research shows that 90% of people fully recover their sense of smell after six months.\n\nIf it doesn't return, he says \"smell training\" helps to retrain the brain's smell pathways to recognise different odours.\n\n\"It aims to help recovery based on neuroplasticity - the brain's ability to reorganise itself to compensate for a change or injury,\" he said.", "A submarine missing since Wednesday off the coast of Bali with 53 people on board has been lost, the Indonesian navy said on Saturday.\n\nParts of the submarine, along with debris including prayer mats, were found near where it went missing, the navy chief of staff said.\n\nA scan detected the sub at a depth of 850m (2,800ft), well beyond its survivable limit.\n\nIt was only carrying enough oxygen for three days.\n\nThe KRI Nanggala disappeared after requesting permission to dive during a torpedo drill. The German-built vessel was more than 40 years old but underwent a refit in 2012.\n\nThe Indonesian navy has insisted the sub was in good condition but an oil slick where it is thought the vessel submerged has raised concern that the fuel tank may have been damaged.\n\n\"We have found several pieces and parts that are believed to be parts or components that are attached to the submarine that would not come out of the ship if there had not been pressure from outside or a crack in the torpedo launcher,\" said Navy Chief of Staff Yudo Margono.\n\nAmong the items recovered was a bottle of grease for lubricating the periscope. They were found in a 10-mile (16km) radius where no other ships had passed.\n\nThere has been an international effort to locate the navy boat.", "US health regulators have lifted an 11-day pause on the Johnson & Johnson (J&J) Covid-19 jab, but will add a warning label about the potential for extremely rare blood clots.\n\nA Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) panel earlier approved restarting US rollout of the shot.\n\nFifteen vaccine recipients suffered from a dangerous blood clot out of nearly eight million given the jab.\n\nThis week, Europe's drug regulator also ended restrictions on the J&J vaccine.\n\nEuropean regulators this month also linked similar, highly unusual blood clots to the AstraZeneca Covid-19 shot, but found the benefits of the drug outweighed any risks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOn Friday afternoon, the CDC and Food and Drug Administration swiftly followed the recommendation of the CDC advisory panel after it voted 10-4 to continue rolling out the vaccine for people 18 years of age and older in line with its original authorisation.\n\nThe decision means at least 10 million doses of the J&J vaccine, shipped from the company's factory in the Netherlands, can be deployed across the US immediately.\n\nThe health officials on Friday identified nine more cases of the blood clots, adding to six cases already identified since regulators first approved the jab as safe and effective in February.\n\nAll were women, most under the age of 50. Three died and seven remain in hospital.\n\nAbout a dozen of the cases affected women aged 30-39. Seven of the women were obese, two had high blood pressure, and two were using oral contraceptives, according to health officials.\n\nCDC officials who presented the data on Friday said a few cases of blood clots in men were being reviewed, too.\n\nThe officials also said it was important for women be told about the potential risks of the vaccine so they could decide whether to seek alternatives.\n\nDr Sarah Long, of Drexel University College of Medicine, was among the panel members who voted against the proposal because she thought it did not go far enough in warning women.\n\n\"This is an age group that is most at risk [of the blood clot] that is getting vaccine predominantly to save other peoples' lives and morbidity, not their own,\" she told AP new agency. \"And I think we have a responsibility to be certain that they know this.\"\n\nSymptoms can arise within three weeks of vaccination and include acute headaches, shortness of breath, and leg and abdominal pain.\n\nUS health officials are warning doctors that heparin, a common treatment for blood clots, can worsen the vaccine-linked condition.\n\nThe US paused use of the single-dose shot earlier this month over a few reports of blood clotting in the brain post-vaccine among US women.\n\nFollowing the advice, all federal sites in the US stopped using the vaccine.\n\nIt was not the first setback for J&J in its US coronavirus vaccine rollout. Last month, the ingredients for up to 15 million doses of the pharmaceutical giant's vaccine were ruined at a Baltimore facility.\n\nFederal inspectors this week identified a series of problems at the Emergent BioSolutions plant, including cleanliness and safety issues.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The PM queries those who say there's something \"dodgy or rum or weird or sleazy\" about securing more ventilators in a pandemic.\n\nBoris Johnson has said anyone who thinks there was something \"dodgy or rum\" in his dealings with Sir James Dyson is \"out of their mind\".\n\nThe PM was responding to claims by Labour that he was personally involved in \"sleaze\" after texts between the two were revealed by the BBC.\n\nDowning Street declined to comment on \"speculation\" Mr Johnson's former aide Dominic Cummings had leaked the texts.\n\nThe government has launched an internal inquiry into who was responsible.\n\nThe prime minister's spokesman said: \"We don't get into detail of processes in terms of these inquiries, but the Cabinet Office is taking that work forward.\"\n\nThe BBC said it did not discuss the sources of stories.\n\nMr Johnson was speaking on a visit to Derbyshire as allegations of cronyism abound at Westminster.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour leader claims \"sleaze is back\" after allegations over lobbying of the PM and a former PM.\n\nOn Tuesday the BBC published text messages between Mr Johnson and Sir James, in which the prime minister agreed to \"fix\" concerns the businessman had over his employees' tax bills if they moved to the UK to make ventilators at the start of the pandemic.\n\nAsked whether this proved Labour's allegation that friends of the Conservatives were given privileged access, the prime minister said it was \"completely the right thing to do\" to ask manufacturers to help bolster supplies of equipment needed to treat Covid patients.\n\n\"To think that there's anything remotely dodgy or rum or weird or sleazy about trying to secure more ventilators at the time of a national pandemic and doing everything in your power to do that, I think you're out of your mind,\" he added.\n\nBut Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, who was on a visit to Hartlepool, said it was \"increasingly obvious\" the prime minister was involved in \"sleaze\".\n\nAsked if media reports pointing to Mr Cummings as the source of leaks were part of an attempt to distract from lobbying allegations, Sir Keir said: \"Boris Johnson is desperate to try to keep this at arm's length but it's obvious that he can't. This is government by WhatsApp.\n\n\"They are all at it - whether it's access to the prime minister, whether it's the former prime minister accessing ministers and officials, whether it's the health secretary with shares in companies with the contracts with the NHS. The list just grows and grows...\n\n\"Sleaze is back and it's bigger than it was before.\"\n\nShadow Treasury minister Bridget Phillipson tweeted: \"Dominic Cummings is a distraction. Follow the money, not the soap opera.\"\n\nMr Cummings has not accepted invitations to respond to the reports and, so far, no evidence of his involvement in the leaks has been produced.\n\nLabour has called for an urgent investigation into the prime minister's conduct by the Liaison Committee of senior MPs.\n\nIt said the text messages showed Mr Johnson had offered a \"tax break\" to a \"chum\".\n\nThe head of the committee, Conservative MP Sir Bernard Jenkin, turned down the call for an inquiry, saying three other parliamentary committees were already looking at the issues.\n\nHe told Radio 4's Today programme ministers should not be \"locked away in ivory towers\" with people unable to contact them and should be able to carry out conversations about policy in private, as this would \"stifle proper conversation\".\n\n\"What's got to come out of this is obviously a system of managing conflicts of interest, which commands more public confidence, and is more rigorous, but also a balance,\" he added.\n\nThe SNP's Westminster leader, Ian Blackford, has written to the Cabinet Secretary, calling for officials to \"secure and publish\" all Mr Johnson's private correspondence on coronavirus contracts, and not just his texts with Sir James Dyson.\n\nHe said \"such a narrow and limited internal investigation totally and utterly fails to address the scale of the scandal\".", "A free trade deal between the UK and Australia will reduce extra costs and taxes on exports and imports between the two countries\n\nThe UK and Australia say they have agreed \"the vast majority\" of a free trade deal.\n\nAfter talks on Friday in London the two said they aim to seal a deal by June.\n\n\"Both countries are confident the remaining issues will be resolved, and will now enter a sprint to agree the outstanding details with the aim of reaching agreement in principle,\" a joint statement said.\n\nIt is estimated a deal could add £500m ($694m) to UK GDP over the long-term.\n\nThe final day of talks between UK International Trade Secretary Liz Truss and Australian Trade Minister Dan Tehan ended in London without a deal but both sides will spend the next few weeks ironing out the outstanding issues standing in the way of an agreement.\n\nMs Truss said the trade deal between the two countries \"will help us emerge stronger from the pandemic, strengthening ties between two democracies who share a fierce belief in freedom, enterprise and fair play\".\n\nIf concluded, the UK-Australia free trade agreement will be one of the first post-Brexit trade deals negotiated by the UK that is not a \"rollover deal\", a replica of a trading arrangement earlier negotiated on the UK's behalf by the European Union.\n\nThe UK inked a trade deal with Japan in October 2020.\n\nA free trade deal aims to encourage trade - usually in goods but occasionally in services - by making it cheaper. This is often achieved by reducing or eliminating tariffs - taxes or charges by governments for trading goods across borders.\n\nTrade agreements also aim to remove quotas - which are limits on the amount of goods which can be traded.\n\nTrade can also be made simpler if countries have the same rules, such as the colour of wires in plugs. The closer the rules are, the less likely that goods need to be checked.", "An officer stands in front of a chart of part the Bali coast, amid the search for the KRI Nanggala\n\nIndonesian rescue teams are fearing the worst as oxygen supplies on a missing Indonesian naval submarine are thought to have run out.\n\nThere are fears the vessel carrying 53 crew may already have sunk to a depth where it might have been crushed.\n\nThe KRI Nanggala 402 disappeared on Wednesday during exercises off the coast of Bali, sparking a frantic search to locate the stricken vessel.\n\nAustralia, India, Malaysia and Singapore have so far sent assistance.\n\nAnd a US Navy P-8 Poseidon aircraft landed in Bali early on Saturday morning.\n\n\"Indonesia is a good friend and strategic partner. We were all deeply saddened to see the reports about their submarine and our thoughts and our prayers are with the Indonesian sailors, the Indonesian navy, and of course all their families,\" said Pentagon spokesman John Kirby.\n\nAn oil slick where it was thought to have submerged suggested damage to a fuel tank may have been a factor.\n\nIndonesia's navy is racing to find the KRI Nanggala-402, pictured here in a file image\n\nThe Indonesian military said late on Thursday night that it had detected signs of an object at a depth of between 50 and 100 metres (165 to 330 feet), and had deployed ships with sonar-tracking equipment in the hope it was the KRI Nanggala 402.\n\nA military spokesman said the submarine would only have enough oxygen to last until around 03:00 local time on Saturday (21:00 GMT on Friday). That deadline has now passed.\n\nAt least six warships, a helicopter and 400 people have since been involved in the search. Singapore and Malaysia have dispatched ships to the area, and Australia, France and Germany have also offered assistance.\n\nThe KRI Nanggala 402 lost contact shortly after requesting permission to dive during live torpedo exercises early on Wednesday morning. The German-built vessel is one of five submarines operated by Indonesia. It was made in the late 1970s, and underwent a two-year refit in South Korea that was completed in 2012.\n\nA navy spokesman told the BBC the incident was the first time Indonesia had lost one of its submarines. But similar incidents have happened elsewhere.\n\nMajor Wisnu Subiyantoro is among the 53 crew missing\n\nIn 2000, the Kursk, a Russian navy sub, sank during manoeuvres in the Barents Sea with the loss of all 118 crew. An inquiry found that one torpedo had exploded, detonating all the others. Most of the Kursk's crew died instantly but some survived for several days before suffocating.\n\nIn 2003, 70 Chinese naval officers and crew were killed in an accident on a Ming-class submarine during exercises.\n\nAnd in 2017, an Argentine military submarine went missing in the southern Atlantic with 44 crew on board. Its wreck was located a year later and officials said the submarine had imploded.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nEngland won the Women's Six Nations for the third year in a row with a hard-fought final win against France.\n\nBoth sides were kept scoreless for most of what was nevertheless a thrilling first half, before Poppy Cleall's try put England ahead at the break.\n\nCaroline Drouin cut England's lead to one with two penalties and France kept up relentless, heavy pressure.\n\nThe Red Roses' defence held firm and they were rewarded with an Emily Scarratt penalty to seal the title.\n• None 'England had to dig in' - relive their tense win over France\n\nFew scores, but no shortage of entertainment\n\nIt was an experimental day for the Women's Six Nations with the tournament's first ever final, played outside the shadow of the men's event and a thrilling first half may well have captured the attention of new fans.\n\nThe championship was moved from its usual February and March slot, offering sunny conditions for England and France's impressive attacks to shine, but it was the defences who stole the limelight as both sides struggled to make an impact in the opposition 22.\n\nDespite the lack of scoring, the meeting between two teams who have dominated European rugby for the past five years did not disappoint as they delivered on the early fireworks promised by England head coach Simon Middleton in the week.\n\nThe Red Roses had two penalties in the first quarter and captain Emily Scarratt uncharacteristically missed both, with the second almost in front of the posts.\n\nThe centre left the field shortly after for a head injury assessment. She was replaced by Lagi Tuima but the substitution was reversed after Scarratt passed the test around 10 minutes later.\n\nEngland repeatedly failed to take advantage of attacking opportunities and France looked much more dangerous, with slick offloads almost leading to a try for Emilie Boulard but the score was ruled out because of a forward pass.\n\nFly-half Caroline Drouin missed a chance at three points, suggesting the strong breeze was affecting both sides' kickers.\n\nFinally, with the clock in the red, Poppy Cleall broke away from a scrum to bring England to within metres of the tryline, and she then picked up the ball from the base of a ruck and dived over the line.\n\nThis time, Scarratt was successful from the tee to put England seven points up at the break.\n\nThe Red Roses struggled to build on the score in the second half and instead gave Drouin two chances to trim their lead. Drouin missed the first but made no mistake with the second.\n\nEngland managed to make it into France's 22, but gave away a penalty and Les Bleues wrestled back momentum again.\n\nCaptain Sarah Hunter took to the field and should have offered England a boost along with replacement hooker Amy Cokayne.\n\nFrance had different ideas and continued to apply pressure, forcing errors from their opponents and first scrum-half Leanne Riley then full-back Sarah McKenna dropped high balls to give the visitors prime attacking opportunities.\n\nNerves continued to show as England fly-half Helena Rowland, whose boot had been flawless in the first half, missed a kick to touch and McKenna kicked the ball out on the full.\n\nErrors may have been the Red Roses' undoing in attack but they showed gritty determination in defence to hold back repeated French efforts.\n\nCleall left the field nursing an injury to her left arm just as England were forced to defend what could have been a crucial 10m line-out for France.\n\nThe visitors knocked the ball on but England immediately gave away a penalty in front of the posts which Drouin converted to reduce the deficit to one point with seven minutes remaining.\n\nBut the Red Roses showed the kind of professionalism and composure that may prove vital at next year's postponed World Cup, keeping the ball and running the clock down, eventually winning a penalty that Scarratt slotted over to seal their eighth win in a row against France.\n\n'We had to dig in' - what they said\n\nEngland captain Emily Scarratt said on BBC Two: \"It doesn't need to be big flamboyant scorelines every week.\n\n\"The defence was unreal and we had to dig in. I could have made it easier with a couple of penalties in the first half, but I'm really proud of the effort. The desire to not let them over the tryline was superb.\"\n\nEngland flanker Zoe Aldcroft said on BBC Two: \"It means so much, we have worked so hard since January. They pushed us back in the tackles but we held it together and kept going.\"\n\nFormer England international Danielle Waterman said on BBC Two: \"England had to work for that - it was bruising with the big hits that went in - and they didn't play their best but they got the win.\n\n\"France had so much possession and territory and will be massively disappointed.\"", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said he is \"absolutely delighted\" that more than half of the UK population has now received their first vaccine.\n\nGovernment data shows 33,508,590 first doses have been given - the UK's estimated population is 66.7m.\n\nMore than 12 million people who are \"most vulnerable to Covid\" have been given both doses of the vaccine.\n\nMr Hancock called it \"a brilliant milestone\", saying \"this vaccination programme is our way out\" on Twitter.\n\n\"It's clearly saving lives - we can see that - and it's meaning that fewer people are catching the disease as well.\"\n\nHe added that he was \"thrilled\" the uptake among those aged over 50 was over 95% \"which will give this country so much protection in the weeks and months ahead.\"\n\nIn England, all those aged 45 and over, as well as those who are vulnerable, are currently eligible to have the vaccine.\n\nSaffron Cordery, deputy chief executive of NHS Providers, praised frontline NHS staff and volunteers who have administered more than 45,580,400 jabs in the UK over five months.\n\n\"We've made truly significant progress, but we've still got a long way to go until we reach our next major milestone of offering all adults their first jab by the end of July,\" she added.\n\nShe urged people to continue to follow the rules and maintain social distancing: \"These measures are key to keeping Covid-19 infection rates under control and helping ensure this current lockdown is our last.\"\n\nThe latest data shows a further 32 people have died within 28 days of testing positive for coronavirus, bringing the total UK death toll to 127,417 by that measure.\n\nSeparate figures published by the UK's statistics agencies show there have been 151,000 deaths registered in the UK where Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate.\n• None One Covid vaccine cuts infections in all ages", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Brazil's environmental police in battle to reduce deforestation in the Amazon\n\nBrazil's President Jair Bolsonaro has approved a cut to the environment ministry budget a day after he vowed to boost spending to tackle deforestation.\n\nAt a US-led climate summit, he promised to double the money reserved for environmental enforcement and to end illegal deforestation by 2030.\n\nBut the budget signed off on Friday did not include his spending pledge, or additional proposals made by Congress.\n\nHis government has weakened protections and wants to develop protected areas.\n\nCritics say the president's promises on Thursday were linked to a controversial deal Brazil is negotiating with the US to receive financial aid in return for protecting the Amazon, the world's largest rainforest, and other areas.\n\nThe 2021 federal budget includes 2.1bn reais (£280m; $380m) for the environment ministry and agencies it oversees. The ministry had a budget of about 3bn reais in 2020.\n\nLate on Friday, Environment Minister Ricardo Salles said he had requested the economy ministry to review the numbers and fulfil the pledge made by President Bolsonaro at the virtual climate summit hosted by US President Joe Biden.\n\nThe Bolsonaro government has called for protected areas in the Amazon to be developed\n\nThe environmental policies of President Bolsonaro, who is supported by powerful agribusiness leaders, have drawn widespread condemnation. The far-right leader has encouraged agriculture and mining in the Amazon, and rolled back environmental legislation.\n\nLast year, deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon surged to a 12-year high. Activists and indigenous groups say environmental enforcement remains underfunded, and denounce the impunity for illegal logging and mining in protected areas.\n\nThe president rejects the criticism, saying Brazil remains an example for conservation. But at Thursday's summit he attempted to strike a more conciliatory tone, and also promised that Brazil would reach zero carbon emissions by 2050, 10 years earlier than previously agreed.\n\nDeforestation in the Brazilian Amazon surged to a 12-year high in 2020\n\nBrazilian and US officials have been discussing the possibility of collaborating to stop the destruction of the Amazon. Politicians and environmentalists have warned that the Bolsonaro government should show results first before any financial commitment is made.\n\nEarlier this week, a group of 35 US and Brazilian celebrities voiced their opposition to a deal with Brazil, saying it risked legitimising a government that was encouraging environmental destruction.\n\nThe document followed another letter in which more than 200 Brazilian groups told President Biden that the Bolsonaro government was an \"enemy\" of the Amazon and that it did not have legitimacy to represent Brazil.\n\nLast week, the environment minister said the country would need $1bn in foreign aid to support efforts to reduce deforestation in the Amazon by 30% to 40% in a year.", "Ms Maxwell appeared in court in New York on Friday\n\nGhislaine Maxwell has appeared in court on new charges of sex-trafficking, her first appearance since her arrest last summer.\n\nShe attended the New York court in person on Friday for arraignment on new charges against her filed last month.\n\nMs Maxwell, 59, pleaded not guilty to the new counts.\n\nThe British socialite is accused of helping convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein recruit, groom and sexually abuse girls.\n\nMs Maxwell, the daughter of media mogul Robert Maxwell, was in a relationship with Epstein in the 1990s. She allegedly introduced him to wealthy and powerful figures including Prince Andrew of the British Royal Family and Bill Clinton.\n\nShe now faces six counts including sex-trafficking of a minor and sex-trafficking conspiracy. She also faces a further two charges relating to allegations of perjury in 2016.\n\nThe two new charges relate to allegations that Maxwell recruited a 14-year-old girl to provide Epstein with sexualised massages between 2001 and 2004. The girl was then paid hundreds of dollars in cash in return and was encouraged to recruit other young women.\n\nThe entire proceeding on Friday lasted less than 10 minutes. Maxwell only spoke three times in order to answer the judge's question about whether or not she had received a copy of the indictment.\n\nJury selection is set for 12 July but the judge is considering a request to delay the trial.\n\nMs Maxwell has previously denied all of the charges. If convicted on all charges, she faces up to 80 years in prison.\n\nEpstein killed himself in 2019 as he awaited trial on sex trafficking charges, more than a decade after he was convicted for soliciting prostitution from a minor.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nPremier League, English Football League and Women's Super League clubs will join in a four-day boycott of social media platforms in an effort to combat abuse and discrimination.\n\nThe boycott will start on 30 April.\n\nThe Football Association, as well as league bodies and other organisations, including anti-discrimination charity Kick it Out, will also be involved.\n\n\"This boycott signifies our collective anger,\" said Kick it Out's chairman Sanjay Bhandari.\n\n\"Social media is now sadly a regular vessel for toxic abuse.\n\n\"By removing ourselves from the platforms, we are making a symbolic gesture to those with power. We need you to act. We need you to create change.\n\n\"We need social media companies to make their platforms a hostile environment for trolls rather than for the football family.\"\n• None Is football's racism battle being lost on social media?\n• None Is ending anonymity on social media the answer?\n• None Twitter and Facebook told to 'go further' by football authorities\n• None Duke of Cambridge calls for racist abuse of footballers to stop\n\nSheffield United's David McGoldrick, who was racially abused last year, welcomed the move, saying: \"It is about time. What has gone off on social media, it has happened to me.\n\n\"It has happened to many players. Something needs to happen, it is too easily to get racially abused on there.\"\n\nSpeaking to Sky Sports on Saturday night after scoring in his side's 1-0 win over Brighton, the striker added: \"The Super League got cut off in 48 hours, why is racism on the back foot? It is bigger in my eyes.\"\n\nBrighton forward Neal Maupay has also been the subject of online abuse and he told Sky Sports the boycott was a \"very good\" move.\n\n\"The players get a lot of abuse online and we need to fight it. It's a good way to do it. It's good that we are in this together,\" the Frenchman said.\n\nThe Football Supporters' Association, Professional Footballers' Association, League Managers' Association, Women in Football, Women's Championship and its clubs as well as refereeing body Professional Game Match Officials Limited (PGMOL) have also committed to the boycott of Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.\n\nThe move will come three weeks after Swansea City turned off their social media accounts for a week to make a stand against abuse following a number of their players being targeted.\n\nChampionship rivals Birmingham City and Scottish champions Rangers followed Swansea's lead in announcing a boycott of social media.\n\nFormer Arsenal and France striker Thierry Henry removed himself from all social media in March because of racism and bullying across platforms.\n\nIn an interview with BBC's Newsnight programme, the 43-year-old said \"enough was enough\" and that he had to make a stand against racism on social media.\n\nEarlier in April, Liverpool said racist abuse on social media \"cannot be allowed to continue\" after Trent Alexander-Arnold, Naby Keita and Sadio Mane were targeted in April.\n\nA joint statement from English football's governing bodies said the boycott is a way \"to emphasise that social media companies must do more to eradicate online hate\", while also \"highlighting the importance of educating people\".\n\n\"Boycott action from football in isolation will, of course, not eradicate the scourge of online discriminatory abuse, but it will demonstrate that the game is willing to take voluntary and proactive steps in this continued fight,\" the statement continued.\n\nThe FA's director of equality and diversity Edleen John said \"English football will not tolerate discrimination in any form\".\n\n\"We are calling on organisations and individuals across the game to join us in a temporary boycott of these social media platforms, to show solidarity and unite in the message,\" she said.\n\n\"Social media companies need to be held accountable if they continue to fall short of their moral and social responsibilities to address this endemic problem.\"\n\nThe UK government has previously threatened social media companies with \"large fines\" which could amount to \"billions of pounds\" if they fail to tackle abuse on their platforms.\n\nFacebook said in February that tougher measures would be taken to tackle the issue.\n\nLast week, Instagram - which is owned by Facebook - announced a tool to enable users to automatically filter out abusive messages from those they do not follow on the platform.\n• None Then test your knowledge of the Oscars\n• None No Passion, No Point is back: Eddie Hearn chats to the Rio Ferdinand about his next career move", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer: \"Every day there's more evidence of sleaze and it stinks\"\n\nBoris Johnson is being urged to explain how the refurbishment of his Downing Street flat was paid for, following allegations from his ex-chief advisor.\n\nDominic Cummings claimed the PM had once had \"possibly illegal\" plans to get Tory donors to fund the work.\n\nThe government said \"costs of wider refurbishment in this year have been met by the prime minister personally\".\n\nBut Labour said Mr Johnson needed to fully disclose where the money came from and whether it was a loan.\n\nParty leader Sir Keir Starmer said: \"It matters. It is about integrity, it is about taxpayers' money. Every day there is more evidence of this sleaze. Frankly, it stinks.\n\n\"Publish the details, have the full inquiry. If there is nothing to see here - whether it is the refurb of No 10, whether it is the dodgy contracts, whether it is the privileged access - if there is nothing to see, publish everything, have a full inquiry.\n\n\"Sunlight is the best disinfectant,\" Sir Keir said.\n\nIt comes amid a row over the lobbying of ministers, including the prime minister, after it was revealed he had exchanged text messages with businessman Sir James Dyson. Mr Cummings denied reports he leaked the messages.\n\nFormer attorney general Dominic Grieve said the \"constant wriggling\" over payment for the flat refurbishment was \"just one illustration of the chaos Mr Johnson seems to bring in his wake\", describing the prime minister as \"a vacuum of integrity\".\n\nThe former Conservative MP, who was expelled from the parliamentary party by Mr Johnson in 2019 after rebelling against him in a Brexit vote, also described his government as \"a cronyistic cabal\".\n\nOnce Mr Johnson's closest ally, Mr Cummings was forced out of his Downing Street role at the end of last year, following an internal power struggle.\n\nIn a blistering attack on his old boss on Friday, Mr Cummings questioned the prime minister's \"competence and integrity\".\n\nIn his first blog post since leaving his role, Mr Cummings:\n\nNo 10 insisted the PM had never interfered in a government leak inquiry.\n\nMr Cummings promised to answer questions about \"any\" issues when he appears before a Parliamentary inquiry into the government's pandemic response on 26 May.\n\nSir Alistair Graham, former chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, said if Mr Cummings could give evidence about the prime minister's alleged incompetence this could be \"very damaging\".\n\nIn his blog, Mr Cummings claimed the prime minister once planned to have donors \"secretly pay\" for renovation of his official Downing street flat.\n\nLike several of his recent predecessors, Mr Johnson and his fiancee Carrie Symonds are living in the flat above No 11 Downing Street, which is larger than the one above No 10.\n\nIn March, Downing Street dismissed as \"speculation\" suggestions that refurbishments carried out last year would be paid for by Tory donors through a charity set up for this purpose, amid reports that the costs had spiralled out of control.\n\nMr Cummings said Mr Johnson \"stopped speaking to me about the matter in 2020\", after he told the prime minister the renovation plans were \"unethical, foolish, possibly illegal and almost certainly broke the rules on proper disclosure of political donations if conducted in the way he intended\".\n\nHe added he would be \"happy to tell the cabinet secretary [Simon Case] or Electoral Commission\" what he knew about the matter but that his knowledge is \"limited\".\n\nThe Electoral Commission says it is working to establish whether any of the spending on the flat needs to be examined within its own remit on political donations, and therefore needs to be reported and subsequently published.\n\nWhen he was sacked by Boris Johnson last year Dominic Cummings left Downing Street ostentatiously carrying a cardboard box designed for office files.\n\nMr Cummings is a controversial figure. Many will not like him or put store by what he says. But the knowledge he bore with him is starting to come out as allegations.\n\nAnd he says he's prepared to give evidence under oath.\n\nWhen he gets his teeth into a cause, Mr Cummings is a tenacious campaigner, and he's skilful at weaving a narrative that can be damaging to his opponents. The prime minister is now one of them.\n\nWhat may have the biggest impact is the way Mr Cummings is drawing together the disparate strands of recent lobbying leaks and revelations, into one arc, questioning Mr Johnson's \"competence and integrity\".\n\nDowning Street says the prime minister has done nothing wrong. But can it close Pandora's box?\n\nIn response to Mr Cummings's claims, a No 10 spokesperson said: \"At all times, the government and ministers have acted in accordance with the appropriate codes of conduct and electoral law.\n\n\"Cabinet Office officials have been engaged and informed throughout and official advice has been followed.\n\n\"All reportable donations are transparently declared and published - either by the Electoral Commission or the House of Commons registrar, in line with the requirements set out in electoral law.\n\n\"Gifts and benefits received in a ministerial capacity are, and will continue to be, declared in transparency returns.\"\n\nResponding to a Parliamentary question, Cabinet Office minister Lord True said that during successive governments the prime minister has been given an allowance of £30,000 a year from the public funds to maintain and furnish the flat in Downing Street.\n\nHe said no work took place in 2019-20 due to the pandemic, but official figures on spending this year are not yet available.\n\nDowning Street contractors have carried out work on painting, sanding and floorboards, Lord True said, while \"any costs of wider refurbishment in this year have been met by the prime minister personally\".", "Dominic Cummings has launched a blistering attack on his old boss Boris Johnson, questioning his \"competence and integrity\".\n\nThe former top adviser denied leaking text messages sent between Mr Johnson and businessman Sir James Dyson.\n\nAnd he claimed Mr Johnson once had a \"possibly illegal\" plan for donors to pay for renovations of the Downing Street flat.\n\nNo 10 said ministers had always obeyed codes of conduct and electoral law.\n\nMr Cummings was forced out of his Downing Street role at the end of last year, following an internal power struggle.\n\nOn Friday, in his first blog post since leaving that role, he also denied leaking details of the second Covid lockdown in England.\n\nThis is an explosive intervention from a man Boris Johnson used to count on as one of his closest allies.\n\nAnd if you're tempted to roll your eyes and think it's just sour grapes from a jilted adviser, think again.\n\nDominic Cummings' blog is proof that he is willing to lift the lid on his time at the heart of Downing Street, regardless of how it reflects on the prime minister.\n\nBeyond his denial of leaking text messages, he has also given his version of events relating to two potential political weak spots for Boris Johnson.\n\nThey are the questions over the financing of the renovation of the Downing Street flat and the leaking of a plan to impose a lockdown.\n\nThe level of detail shows that Mr Cummings is willing to expose others while defending himself and lay bare the inner workings of No 10.\n\nSeveral newspapers ran front page stories suggesting Mr Cummings was the source of leaked messages between Mr Johnson and Sir James Dyson, first reported this week by the BBC.\n\nThe BBC - whose political editor Laura Kuenssberg first reported on the text messages on Tuesday - said it did not discuss the sources of stories.\n\nAsked whether he had blamed his former adviser for it, Mr Johnson said: \"I don't think people give a monkey's, to be frank, about who is briefing what to who.\"\n\nNo 10 has launched an inquiry into who leaked the text messages.\n\nThe text exchange between Mr Johnson and Sir James happened in March last year, after the government asked companies to help build thousands of ventilators needed to deal with very ill patients.\n\nIn it, the prime minister agreed to \"fix\" concerns the businessman had about tax bills for his Singapore-based staff if they moved to the UK to do this.\n\nWriting on his blog, Mr Cummings said: \"I was not directly or indirectly a/the source for the BBC/Kuenssberg story on the PM/Dyson texts.\"\n\nHe adds: \"I am happy to meet with the cabinet secretary and for him to search my phone for Dyson messages.\"\n\nMr Cummings continues that he is \"happy for No 10 to publish every email I received and sent July 2019-November 2020\".\n\nHe also calls for an \"urgent parliamentary inquiry into the government's conduct over the Covid crisis\", adding that he thinks Mr Johnson has fallen \"far below\" the standards of \"competence\" the \"country deserves\".\n\nMr Cummings promises to answer questions about \"any\" issues when he appears before a parliamentary inquiry into the government's pandemic response on 26 May.\n\nIn his blog, Mr Cummings also claimed the prime minister once planned to have donors \"secretly pay\" for renovation of his official Downing street flat.\n\nLike several of his recent predecessors, the PM is living in the flat above No 11 Downing Street, which is larger than the one above No 10.\n\nHe adds that Mr Johnson \"stopped speaking to me about the matter in 2020\", as he told him the renovation plans were \"unethical, foolish, possibly illegal and almost certainly broke the rules on proper disclosure of political donations if conducted in the way he intended\".\n\nMr Cummings says he would be \"happy to tell the cabinet secretary or Electoral Commission\" what he knew about the matter but that his knowledge is \"limited\".\n\nIn response to Mr Cummings's claims, a No 10 spokesperson said: \"At all times, the government and ministers have acted in accordance with the appropriate codes of conduct and electoral law.\n\n\"Cabinet Office officials have been engaged and informed throughout and official advice has been followed.\n\n\"All reportable donations are transparently declared and published - either by the Electoral Commission or the House of Commons registrar, in line with the requirements set out in electoral law.\n\n\"Gifts and benefits received in a ministerial capacity are, and will continue to be, declared in transparency returns.\"\n\nEarlier on Friday, the government said that \"costs of wider refurbishment in this year have been met by the Prime Minister personally.\"\n\nLabour's shadow Cabinet Office minister Rachel Reeves said the issue needed \"investigating in full\".\n\nDenying being the source of a leak last year ahead of the second Covid lockdown in November, Mr Cummings says an inquiry at the time found that neither he nor the then-Downing Street director of communications, Lee Cain, had been responsible.\n\nHe adds that the events around that inquiry \"contributed to [his] decision to stick to [his] plan to leave No 10 by 18 December\", which he says were \"communicated to the prime minister in July\".\n\nIn his blog, Mr Cummings also claimed Mr Johnson had considered stopping the inquiry.\n\nHe wrote that he recalled a meeting between Mr Johnson and the cabinet secretary at the time, after an inquiry had been launched, at which the cabinet secretary allegedly said \"all the evidence definitely leads to Henry Newman and others in that office\".\n\nAt the time, Mr Newman was a special adviser at the Cabinet Office. He took up a role in Downing Street earlier this year.\n\nMr Cummings claims that, in a conversation he had with the PM afterwards, Boris Johnson said: \"If Newman is confirmed as the leaker then I will have to fire him, and this will cause me very serious problems with Carrie [Symonds - the PM's fiancee] as they're best friends… [pause] perhaps we could get the cabinet secretary to stop the leak inquiry?\"\n\nIn response to Mr Cummings' claims, a Downing Street statement said: \"The prime minister has never interfered in a government leak inquiry.\"\n\nAnd a senior government official said: \"The allegations against Henry Newman are entirely false. He wouldn't be working in Downing Street if he was suspected of leaking information.\"\n\nEarlier, Downing Street declined to comment on \"speculation\" that Mr Cummings - who quit his government job last November after a row over his role as the PM's chief adviser - had leaked the texts.\n\nOn a visit to Derbyshire, Mr Johnson said anyone who thought there was something \"dodgy or rum\" in his dealings with Sir James Dyson was \"out of their mind\".", "Streamvale Open Farm welcomed its first visitors for months as restrictions eased on Friday\n\nClose-contact services such as hairdressers reopened and driving lessons resumed on Friday as Northern Ireland's Covid restrictions ease.\n\nOutdoor visitor attractions opened their doors for the first time since lockdown was imposed after Christmas.\n\nCompetitive sports involving 100 people can also resume after Stormont ministers agreed reopening dates earlier this month.\n\nOutdoor hospitality businesses and non-essential shops will open next Friday.\n\nNorthern Ireland has eased its coronavirus restrictions at a slower pace than other parts of the UK, with Stormont ministers and officials stressing differences in the rate of transmission of the virus.\n\nThe current reproduction (R) number in Northern Ireland, which measures how quickly the virus is spreading, is estimated to be between 0.7 and 1.05, down from 0.95-1.4 the previous week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Months of frustration turned to a day of joy as people could finally get to the hairdresser or visit outdoor attractions\n\nAs of Friday 23 April, static band practice and rehearsals are also permitted in agreed outdoor locations.\n\nNew Covid-19 regulations released on Thursday state that people must book appointments in order to get a haircut or attend a beauty salon.\n\nGillian Herron, the owner of the Hair Lounge in Bangor, said reopening was \"a big change\".\n\n\"We are quite a large salon so we are very, very lucky in that we're able to space our clients out,\" she told BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme.\n\n\"So we haven't had to put screens up as such.\n\n\"We have a massive backlog of clients trying to get in, so there are an awful lot of disappointed clients having to wait longer than we'd want to.\"\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said on Thursday the Northern Ireland Executive will \"keep looking\" to see if Covid restrictions can be eased faster.\n\nBut she added the effect of easing restrictions needed to be monitored.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann said easing restrictions had been hard-earned, but that did not mean we can \"ease up in our attitude towards the virus\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Business owners said they were excited about the long-awaited reopening\n\n\"We must not jeopardise the important progress made to date or do anything that could impede our pathway towards a better summer,\" he said.\n\nHe warned that nobody should think the threat from the virus was going \"to simply fade away\".\n\nThe average daily number of new cases being confirmed in Northern Ireland has risen slightly.\n\nThe seven-day rolling average of new positive cases is 41 per 100,000 people, up from 38 the previous week.\n\nBellaire Hair and Beauty Salon in Belfast is gearing up for a busy time from Friday\n\nThis \"modest increase\" is particularly in the 0-11 age group and appears to be stabilising, health officials say, adding that this may be partly due to the return of school and the rollout of testing for close contacts.\n\nNorthern Ireland took gradual steps out of lockdown earlier this month, when all pupils returned to school for the first time since Christmas.\n\nIt was the last part of the UK to lift its stay-at-home rule, which came into effect in January, in a bid to suppress a large rise in cases of coronavirus.\n\nFrom 30 April, further restrictions are expected to ease, including the reopening of non-essential retail and the reopening of licensed and unlicensed premises outdoors.\n\nThe Driver and Vehicle Agency (DVA) said all efforts were being made to clear the backlog of driving tests once the system reopens on Friday.\n\nJeremy Logan, DVA chief executive, said there was no question demand would be high.\n\nThe Driver and Vehicle Agency said all efforts are being made to clear the backlog of driving tests once the system reopens\n\nEconomy Minister Diane Dodds said the easing of measures allowed people \"to hope again that we can actually recover after the terrible time we have had with the pandemic\".\n\nMrs Dodds said this next stage would bring \"a bit of normality back on our high street\".\n\n\"No matter what we can give them in terms of grants to sustain them, it is nothing compared to being open and thriving and people coming in and out of the retail setting.\"\n\nMrs Dodds said she would soon reveal plans for a high street voucher scheme, costing £140m.\n\nThe minister said it would be released at the \"optimum\" time to act as a stimulus after an expected period of \"pent-up demand\".\n\nStaff at Sailor's Grave Tattoo Studio in Belfast have been busy preparing for Friday's reopening\n\nGeraldine Duggan, Belfast City Centre Manager, said the long-awaited reopening of businesses was \"a game changer\".\n\n\"Seeing close-contact services opening and now next week as well, retail and hospitality, it's going to be a big difference,\" she said.\n\nTaoiseach (Irish prime minister) Micheál Martin has said the easing of lockdown restrictions in the Republic of Ireland would not be perfectly aligned with Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Irish government is not due to announce relaxations until next month.\n\n\"I don't see perfect alignment or anything in the next number of weeks. There will be some gaps,\" Mr Martin told Northern Ireland business leaders on Thursday.", "Former Manchester United player Ryan Giggs is charged with three offences\n\nWales manager and former Manchester United player Ryan Giggs has been charged with assaulting two women.\n\nHe is accused of causing actual bodily harm to a woman in her 30s and common assault of a woman in her 20s at an address in Salford last November.\n\nMr Giggs, of Worsley, is also charged with coercive or controlling behaviour.\n\nHe has been bailed to appear at Manchester and Salford Magistrates' Court on 28 April.\n\nMr Giggs, 47, said in a statement he would plead not guilty to the charges in court.\n\n\"I have full respect for the due process of law and understand the seriousness of the allegations,\" he said.\n\n\"I look forward to clearing my name.\"\n\nGreater Manchester Police said officers were called at 22:05 GMT on 1 November to reports of a disturbance at an address in Worsley.\n\nThe force said a woman in her 30s was treated for minor injuries at the scene.\n\nMr Giggs is also accused of coercive or controlling behaviour between December 2017 and November 2020.\n\nThe Football Association of Wales (FAW) has confirmed assistant manager Robert Page will take charge of Wales at this summer's European Championships.\n\nThe FAW said there would be a board meeting to \"discuss the developments and its impact on the association and the national team\".\n\nIn his statement, Mr Giggs added: \"I would like to wish Robert Page, the coaching staff, the players and the supporters every success at the Euros this summer.\"\n\nThe former Manchester United winger is one of British football's most-decorated footballers following his 24-year career at Old Trafford and was appointed an OBE in 2007 before winning the BBC's Sports Personality of the Year in 2009.\n\nHe also won 64 caps for Wales between 1991 and 2007 and was appointed national manager in January 2018, leading them to qualification for Euro 2020, which has been re-scheduled because of Covid-19.\n\nHe is also co-owner of League Two side Salford City.", "Signs turning patients away have become commonplace\n\n\"Oxygen, oxygen, can you get me oxygen?\"\n\nI wake up this morning to an anguished phone call from a school teacher, whose 46-year-old husband has been battling Covid-19 in an oxygen-starved Delhi hospital.\n\nHere we go again, I tell myself. Just another day of life in a city where breathing has become a luxury for so many.\n\nWe work the phone, send SOS calls. Amid the sounds of beeping monitors, the woman tells us that her husband's oxygen saturation number has dipped to a precariously low 58. A bit later it rises to 62. You are supposed to consult your doctor if the number sinks to 92 or lower.\n\nShe tells us she is happy it has gone up. And her husband is still talking and aware.\n\n\"Patients remain talkative even when the number hits 40,\" she messages me.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Yogita Limaye reports from a hospital in Delhi, which is running low on beds and oxygen\n\nI pick up the newspaper. Twenty five critically ill patients have died in a well-known private hospital. The oxygen pressure had been dialled down in critical care and many patients were being given oxygen manually, the hospital said.\n\nThere's a photograph of two men and a woman sharing a cylinder on the front page. Three strangers - caught up in a tragedy brought upon by public laxity and government negligence - sharing a lifeline.\n\nThe 40-year-old son of one of the men, a report says, died outside the same hospital a few days ago, waiting for a bed. He had found a stretcher though, the report helpfully said.\n\nThat's what grieving Indians are grateful for now: if you can't provide beds or medicines or oxygen to save my loved one, at least give them a gurney to rest their corpses.\n\nAs the day progresses, I realise nothing has changed.\n\nPatients are dying because there's no oxygen. Medicines are still scarce and on the black market. There's hoarding and panic buying as if we are in a war.\n\nThe teacher calls again. The hospital doesn't even have a spare oxygen flow meter, so she has to get one.\n\nWe work the phones, send out Twitter appeals. Someone manages to pick up a device, which is used for regulating supply from the cylinder to the patient.\n\nDespite what the government says, things are going from bad to worse. Oxygen tankers are not making it in time to the city to save patients. There are no beds, few medicines.\n\nEven India's privileged have no privilege left: a magazine editor called me in the afternoon, looking for an oxygen cylinder for a sick patient, whom he knows.\n\nIn the apartment building where I live, residents are trying to buy some oxygen concentrators in case someone \"needs help with breathing\". Fifty seven residents are infected and isolated in their homes.\n\nDelhi and Mumbai have some of the best healthcare facilities in India, but have been overwhelmed\n\nPatients have been left to fend for themselves. For many it's a slow and gradual road to death. Covid-19 is a disease with too many ambushes.\n\n\"Even if I'm dying, until I actually die, I am still living,\" Paul Kalanithi, a neurosurgeon, wrote in his piercing memoir, When Breath Becomes Air.\n\nThere are only small mercies for the gasping victims of a deadly virus in India today.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nNewcastle substitute Joe Willock scored a dramatic but deserved 95th-minute equaliser to deny Liverpool a much-needed win in their pursuit of Champions League football.\n\nMohamed Salah's early goal appeared to have put the champions on track for a vital three points as they chase a top-four finish at the end of a disappointing season.\n\nBut despite dominating early on, Jurgen Klopp's side were unable to finish the game off and were given a lifeline they failed to take when Callum Wilson's last-minute equaliser was ruled out for handball.\n\nSteve Bruce's much-improved visitors kept up the late pressure and were rewarded when Willock fired in for the third match in a row with the last kick of the game to strengthen their own position at the bottom of the table.\n\nThe draw leaves Liverpool four points adrift of fourth-placed Chelsea, who beat fifth-placed West Ham 1-0, with five games to play.\n• None 'We learn or we don't play Champions League' - do Reds deserve top-four finish?\n• None Follow reaction and live text commentary of Saturday's matches here\n• None European Super League Q&A: Why it failed - and will clubs try again?\n\nIt was already a season to forget for Liverpool with a meek title defence and trophyless campaign, even before the off-field distraction of this week's aborted interest in the European Super League.\n\nThere were muted protests against the club's owners as the team coach arrived at Anfield but the players themselves were loudly cheered and the disruption was nothing like that seen at Arsenal on Friday night.\n\nSalah's superb early goal, spinning to control a clearance and smash in what is - remarkably - Liverpool's first first-half goal at home in 2021, seemed to set them on track for a win that would calm matters on and off the pitch.\n\nJurgen Klopp lined up Sadio Mane, Roberto Firmino and Diogo Jota alongside Salah in an attacking line-up and they all had chances, with Magpies keeper Martin Dubravka making eight saves in a solid if unspectacular showing.\n\nBut as the game wore on Liverpool's intensity and drive faded, an all-too-familiar sight in recent months.\n\nNewcastle's late rally meant two more dropped points for the home side and a disappointing season that may yet end without even a Champions League place next term.\n\nNewcastle came into the game on the back of a run of one defeat in seven games that had steered them away from danger, and their last-ditch Anfield exploits have now pushed them nine points ahead of Fulham in 18th place. Surely they are safe?\n\nBruce has been heavily criticised for his approach throughout his time in charge and Newcastle's defensive, containing 5-4-1 shape had no immediate effect as Salah crashed in following Ciaran Clark's poor clearing header.\n\nBut in Allan Saint-Maximin the visitors had the game's most lively attacker and he carried a threat single-handedly for most of the match.\n\nJoelinton then could, maybe should have equalised but Alisson kept out his effort before Wilson scrambled in at the second attempt. But the ball did hit his arm and VAR ruled it out.\n\nMany teams would have crumbled at such late disappointment so all credit to Newcastle for going again, and Willock was sure in his finish as he drilled in via a deflection from 10 yards out.\n• None After a run of eight defeats in 10 league games, Newcastle have lost just one of their past eight in the Premier League (W2 D5).\n• None Despite conceding a 90th-minute equaliser, Liverpool extended their unbeaten home run against Newcastle in the Premier League to 25 games (W20).\n• None Liverpool have kept just three home clean sheets in the Premier League this season, conceding at least once in each of their past eight at Anfield in the competition.\n• None At 94 minutes and 58 seconds, Joe Willock's equaliser for Newcastle was the latest goal Liverpool have conceded at Anfield in a Premier League game since exact goal times have been available (2006-07).\n• None Newcastle's Joe Willock became the first player to score a 90th-minute equalising or winning Premier League goal against Liverpool at Anfield since Harry Kane for Spurs in February 2018.\n• None Mohamed Salah's strike after two minutes and 59 seconds was Liverpool's earliest home goal in a Premier League game since April 2019, when Naby Keita scored after 15 seconds against Huddersfield.\n• None Liverpool's James Milner made his 159th appearance as a substitute in the Premier League, overtaking Peter Crouch as the all-time record holder for sub appearances in the competition.\n\nLiverpool have the small matter of a trip to Old Trafford next Sunday to take on Manchester United, while Newcastle welcome Arsenal on the same day.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 1, Newcastle United 1. Joseph Willock (Newcastle United) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Dwight Gayle with a headed pass.\n• None Attempt saved. Callum Wilson (Newcastle United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Allan Saint-Maximin with a through ball.\n• None Attempt missed. Joseph Willock (Newcastle United) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Matt Ritchie with a cross.\n• None Fabinho (Liverpool) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Substitution, Newcastle United. Dwight Gayle replaces Miguel Almirón because of an injury.\n• None Attempt saved. James Milner (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. James Milner (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Andrew Robertson.\n• None Attempt saved. Sadio Mané (Liverpool) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Trent Alexander-Arnold. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Then test your knowledge of the Oscars\n• None No Passion, No Point is back: Eddie Hearn chats to the Rio Ferdinand about his next career move", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nReal Madrid president Florentino Perez says the 12 clubs that agreed to join a new European Super League have \"binding contracts\" and \"cannot leave\".\n\nNine of the 12 teams, including all six Premier League clubs, withdrew from the proposed tournament on Tuesday after the plan sparked a furious backlash.\n\nReal Madrid, Barcelona and Juventus have not yet abandoned the project.\n\n\"I don't need to explain what a binding contract is, but effectively the clubs cannot leave,\" Perez told newspaper AS .\n\n\"Some of them, due to pressure, have said they're leaving. But this project, or one very similar, will move forward and I hope very soon.\"\n\nThe Real president added it was \"not true\" American investment bank JP Morgan - who had provided a 3.5bn euro (£2.8bn) grant to the founding members - had abandoned the ESL.\n\n\"They have taken some time for reflection, just like the 12 clubs. If we need to make changes we will but the Super League is the best project we've thought of,\" Perez said.\n\n\"What we have done is taken a few weeks to reflect in light of the fury of certain people who don't want to lose their privileges and have manipulated the project.\"\n\nPerez said on Thursday - in the aftermath of Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham's withdrawing - that the ESL was still on \"standby\".\n\nLa Liga club Atletico Madrid and Italian sides AC Milan and Inter Milan have also formally pulled out, while Juventus chairman Andrea Agnelli admitted the project could no longer proceed.\n\nThe 12-team Super League was announced on Sunday to widespread condemnation and has since prompted large protests outside grounds in England.\n• None Then test your knowledge of the Oscars\n• None No Passion, No Point is back: Eddie Hearn chats to the Rio Ferdinand about his next career move", "The collision happened close to Michaelwood Services between Thornbury and Stroud\n\nA driver has died in a three-lorry crash on the M5 in Gloucestershire.\n\nPolice were called at 05:00 BST to the collision on the southbound carriageway close to Michaelwood Services.\n\nFire crews were also at the scene and extinguished two of the lorries that were on fire. The road was shut between junctions 13 and 14 but the northbound carriageway has since been re-opened.\n\nThe drivers of the other two lorries have been taken to Southmead Hospital in Bristol for treatment.\n\nHighways England said the southbound carriageway is likely to remain shut overnight \"while we repair the extensive damage to the road surface\".\n\nThe northbound side of the road has now been reopened.\n\nMotorists are being asked to avoid the area\n\nHighways England said there was slow moving traffic approaching the M5 closure\n\nPC Tim Griffiths, from Gloucestershire Police, said officers from the force's forensic collision investigation unit were sent to the scene.\n\n\"When we arrived, the occupants from two of the vehicles had attempted to assist the driver of the third vehicle,\" he said.\n\n\"As a result of attempting to assist the driver, both of these drivers sustained minor injuries and both were taken to Southmead Hospital.\"\n\nHe said the force is advising anyone travelling in the area to either delay their journey or \"potentially use the A38 or the A46 through Stroud\".\n\nBut, he added, \"all those routes are very heavily congested\".\n\nThe drivers of the other two lorries have been taken to Southmead Hospital in Bristol for treatment\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Glos Police Specialist Ops This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Signs turning patients away have become commonplace\n\n\"Oxygen, oxygen, can you get me oxygen?\"\n\nI wake up this morning to an anguished phone call from a school teacher, whose 46-year-old husband has been battling Covid-19 in an oxygen-starved Delhi hospital.\n\nHere we go again, I tell myself. Just another day of life in a city where breathing has become a luxury for so many.\n\nWe work the phone, send SOS calls. Amid the sounds of beeping monitors, the woman tells us that her husband's oxygen saturation number has dipped to a precariously low 58. A bit later it rises to 62. You are supposed to consult your doctor if the number sinks to 92 or lower.\n\nShe tells us she is happy it has gone up. And her husband is still talking and aware.\n\n\"Patients remain talkative even when the number hits 40,\" she messages me.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Yogita Limaye reports from a hospital in Delhi, which is running low on beds and oxygen\n\nI pick up the newspaper. Twenty five critically ill patients have died in a well-known private hospital. The oxygen pressure had been dialled down in critical care and many patients were being given oxygen manually, the hospital said.\n\nThere's a photograph of two men and a woman sharing a cylinder on the front page. Three strangers - caught up in a tragedy brought upon by public laxity and government negligence - sharing a lifeline.\n\nThe 40-year-old son of one of the men, a report says, died outside the same hospital a few days ago, waiting for a bed. He had found a stretcher though, the report helpfully said.\n\nThat's what grieving Indians are grateful for now: if you can't provide beds or medicines or oxygen to save my loved one, at least give them a gurney to rest their corpses.\n\nAs the day progresses, I realise nothing has changed.\n\nPatients are dying because there's no oxygen. Medicines are still scarce and on the black market. There's hoarding and panic buying as if we are in a war.\n\nThe teacher calls again. The hospital doesn't even have a spare oxygen flow meter, so she has to get one.\n\nWe work the phones, send out Twitter appeals. Someone manages to pick up a device, which is used for regulating supply from the cylinder to the patient.\n\nDespite what the government says, things are going from bad to worse. Oxygen tankers are not making it in time to the city to save patients. There are no beds, few medicines.\n\nEven India's privileged have no privilege left: a magazine editor called me in the afternoon, looking for an oxygen cylinder for a sick patient, whom he knows.\n\nIn the apartment building where I live, residents are trying to buy some oxygen concentrators in case someone \"needs help with breathing\". Fifty seven residents are infected and isolated in their homes.\n\nDelhi and Mumbai have some of the best healthcare facilities in India, but have been overwhelmed\n\nPatients have been left to fend for themselves. For many it's a slow and gradual road to death. Covid-19 is a disease with too many ambushes.\n\n\"Even if I'm dying, until I actually die, I am still living,\" Paul Kalanithi, a neurosurgeon, wrote in his piercing memoir, When Breath Becomes Air.\n\nThere are only small mercies for the gasping victims of a deadly virus in India today.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why has Sia been criticised for her new film?\n\nSinger Sia has been named \"worst director\" for her controversial debut film at the Razzies, the pre-Oscars prizes for the year's worst movies.\n\nTitled Music, her film won three Golden Raspberry Awards in total, including worst actress for Kate Hudson and worst supporting actress for Maddie Ziegler.\n\nThe movie has been criticised for casting Ziegler in the autistic lead role and for its portrayal of autism.\n\nIt was described as an \"insensitive\" and \"ill-conceived\" \"autism musical\".\n\nThe film follows Zu, a drug dealer, who is a recovering alcoholic, played by Hudson, who becomes the guardian of her young autistic half-sister, played by Sia's protégé Ziegler.\n\nSia has had pop hits including Titanium, Chandelier and Cheap Thrills\n\nThe Australian pop star has previously apologised for casting a neurotypical actor as a nonverbal autistic girl, and for scenes depicting the use of restraints on autistic people.\n\n\"I plan to remove the restraint scenes from all future printings,\" she tweeted in February, shortly before deleting her account. \"I listened to the wrong people and that is my responsibility, my research was clearly not thorough enough, not wide enough.\"\n\nNow in their 40th year, the Razzies have previously honoured titles such as Cats and Showgirls. This year's winners were announced in a video on YouTube.\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 Razzie Channel 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 award for worst film to the \"fake news snooze-fest\" Absolute Proof, which claimed there had been fraud in the 2020 US presidential election. Its star and director Mike Lindell also won worst actor.\n\nDonald Trump's former lawyer Rudy Giuliani's cameo in Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, saw him win worst supporting actor. Mr Giuliani dismissed as a \"complete fabrication\" a clip from the film which appeared to show him with his hands down his trousers on a bed in a hotel room.\n\nMeanwhile, Robert Downey Jr's critically-panned remake of Dr Dolittle picked up the award for \"worst remake, rip-off or sequel\".\n\nA special prize went to 2020 itself for being \"the worst calendar year ever\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "WMAS chief executive Anthony Marsh said it was \"truly awful news\"\n\nA technician has died after the ambulance he was in was hit by an object while en route to a 999 call.\n\nWest Midlands Ambulance Service (WMAS) said the vehicle's windscreen was hit on the A49 near the village of Moreton on Lugg, Herefordshire, at 08:00 BST.\n\nA spokeswoman said two ambulance crews, paramedics, the air ambulance and two doctors were called to the scene.\n\nHowever, she said \"despite everyone's best efforts, nothing could be done to save our colleague\".\n\nShe said the driver was also injured and was taken to hospital for treatment.\n\nHe has since been discharged.\n\nThe ambulance was heading towards Leominster when it was struck\n\nWest Mercia Police said the ambulance was struck while heading towards Leominster near the A49's junction with Moreton Road, north of Hereford, and have asked anyone with information about what happened to get in touch.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with the deceased's loved ones and our colleagues in West Midlands Ambulance Service at this difficult time,\" a force spokesman said.\n\nWMAS chief executive Anthony Marsh said it was \"truly awful news\".\n\n\"My thoughts and prayers go out to the family, friends, and colleagues of those involved at this very difficult time,\" he added.\n\n\"I am enormously proud of all the staff and the university students [working] as part of their clinical placement that worked so hard and professionally to try to save our colleague.\n\n\"I am sorry that despite their best efforts, he could not be saved.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It is believed the 14-year-old was stabbed outside Zzetta Pizza on Barking Road\n\nA 14-year-old boy has been stabbed to death in east London.\n\nMet Police officers, who are treating the case as murder, were called to Barking Road in Canning Town, Newham, at about 16:00 BST on Friday.\n\nThe teenager was confirmed dead at the scene and officers are trying to find and tell his family.\n\nA crime scene cordon is in place and there will be an increased police presence in the area, the Met said. No arrests have yet been made.\n\nDespite the efforts of paramedics from the London Ambulance Service and London Air Ambulance, the victim was pronounced dead shortly after 16:30.\n\nDespite the efforts of the London Air Ambulance, the victim was pronounced dead\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan said he was \"deeply saddened\" by the killing, adding: \"I am in touch with the Deputy Met Commissioner and my thoughts are with the victim's family and friends.\"\n\nHe urged witnesses to come forward, saying: \"This appalling incident happened on a busy street in broad daylight, so if you saw or know anything then please don't stay silent.\"\n\nAnyone with information is urged to contact the force on 101.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Chelsea\n\nOwner Roman Abramovich and the Chelsea board say they \"deeply regret\" the decision to join the controversial European Super League.\n\nThey were one of six Premier League clubs to join only to withdraw 48 hours later following a furious backlash.\n\nChelsea fans held a protest on Tuesday to make their feelings known.\n\n\"The owner and board understand that involving the club in such a proposal was a decision we should not have taken,\" the club said.\n\n\"It is a decision we deeply regret.\"\n\nChelsea added that the initial decision to join the Super League was taken because they did not want to risk \"falling behind\" their English and European rivals.\n\nHowever, they said they quickly recognised that their involvement risked damaging the club's reputation.\n\n\"We have taken time since withdrawing from the ESL to speak directly the various supporter groups and listen to their views and concerns,\" the Blues added.\n\n\"Our ambition with Chelsea has always been to make it the best club in the world, both on the pitch and in how we work with, and give back to the community off it.\"\n\nAcross London on Friday discontent with club owners was shown by fans of Arsenal and Tottenham - two other teams that had committed to the European Super League before also withdrawing.\n\nMore than 1,000 Gunners fans gathered outside the Emirates Stadium before their Premier League game with Everton, calling for owner Stan Kroenke to leave.\n\nThe Tottenham Hotspur Supporters' Trust urged the club's board to resign immediately in the wake of their involvement.\n\nMeanwhile, Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp and Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola have criticised changes to the Champions League format that will see the number of clubs competing in it increase from 32 to 36 from 2024.\n\nBoth are concerned about the impact an increased number of games will have, something West Ham boss David Moyes believes could be eased by the creation of a unified British competition.\n\nMoyes feels the formation of a Premier League II - which would include Rangers and Celtic - and a reduction in the number of teams in Premier League I would help relieve fixture congestion.\n• None The rocky story of Derry City is streaming now\n• None Stephen Lawrence's story and the lessons still being learnt", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The increase in demand for semiconductors during the pandemic surprised many, Mr Robbins says\n\nThe boss of networking giant Cisco has said the shortage of computer chips is set to last for most of this year.\n\nMany firms have seen production delayed because of a lack of semiconductors, triggered by the Covid pandemic and exacerbated by other factors.\n\nCisco chief Chuck Robbins told the BBC: \"We think we've got another six months to get through the short term.\n\n\"The providers are building out more capacity. And that'll get better and better over the next 12 to 18 months.\"\n\nThat expansion of capacity will be crucial as advances in technology - including 5G, cloud computing, the internet of things and artificial intelligence - drive a big increase in demand.\n\nMr Robbins is the latest tech boss to weigh in on the debate - and with 85% of internet traffic using Cisco's systems, his opinion matters.\n\n\"Right now, it is a big problem,\" he says, \"because semiconductors go in virtually everything.\"\n\nThe seemingly insatiable demand is why major US manufacturer Intel announced a $20bn (£14.5bn) plan to significantly expand production, including two new plants in Arizona.\n\nAccording to Dan Ives, a tech analyst at investment firm Wedbush Securities, current \"demand is probably 25% higher than anyone would have expected\".\n\nEven though the shortage \"is going to be an issue for the next three to six months\", technology share prices are doing well because investors are focused on the growing long-term demand for their products.\n\nPresident Biden and his advisers held a virtual meeting to discuss the chip shortage with business leaders\n\nUS President Joe Biden also sees this as a long-term issue and used a White House summit with business leaders this month to urge them to make the country a world leader in computer chips. Amid the trade and technology war with China, the White House says it is \"a top and immediate priority\".\n\nThe US-based Semiconductor Industry Association says 75% of global manufacturing capacity is in East Asia. Taiwan's TSMC and South Korea's Samsung are the dominant players.\n\nEuropean politicians also want more chips made locally, a view partly driven by concerns over China's desire to achieve reunification with Taiwan. Meanwhile, China has seen a huge growth in domestic demand for chips to power new technology, but has only a small share of global manufacturing capacity.\n\nMr Robbins says: \"I think that it doesn't necessarily matter where they're made, as long as you have multiple sources.\"\n\nHowever, Intel chief executive Pat Gelsinger told the BBC it was not \"palatable\" to have so many chips made in Asia.\n\nData centres, such as this one full of Cisco equipment, are helping drive demand for semiconductors\n\nTSMC appears intent on holding on to its position as the world's biggest contract manufacturer and is spending $100bn to expand capacity over the next three years.\n\nThis week its founder, Morris Chang, called on the Taiwanese government to \"keep hold of it tightly\", arguing it is better positioned to make chips than the US or China, despite their big government subsidies.\n\nTSMC founder Morris Chang, seen here in November, wants Taiwan's government to protect its chip industry\n\nThe chip shortage was heightened by the coronavirus pandemic. At first, many companies cut their orders for chips, thinking demand would fall, which led suppliers to reduce capacity. However, demand for consumer electronics rose during the pandemic.\n\nThe problems have been worsened by a string of other factors, including a fire at a semiconductor factory and weather issues.\n\nThis, combined with a \"generational technological change has created an unprecedented situation for the industry\", according to Paul Triolo, who leads the geo-technology practice at consultancy Eurasia Group.\n\nHe thinks it doesn't matter where chips are made as long as there is a diversity of supply. However, the shortages are likely \"to persist for some time\" and longer-term solutions are needed to address the concentration of manufacturing of semiconductors, which is a \"problem that predates the shortage\".\n\nThat is why Mr Robbins says: \"What we don't want is to have consolidation where any of the risks that we may face could, frankly, result in the situation we're seeing today, whether it's weather-related disaster risks, whether it's single point of failure risk, whether its geopolitical risks, whatever those are. We just need more options, I think, for where semiconductors are built.\"\n\nWater trucks arrive at a TSMC factory in Taiwan to help address the water shortage which is causing production problems\n\nCisco recently completed the $4.5bn acquisition of Acacia Communications, which, among other things, designs computer chips. Mr Robbins ruled out Cisco using it as an opportunity to start making its own chips.\n\n\"We're not a semiconductor fab company, so it's not a core competency for us to do that. So we think that companies that play in this space are much better equipped, we're working very closely with them.\"\n\nThe huge cost of chip manufacturing facilities means they operate at near full capacity and so it will take time to meet the increased demand.\n\nThe size of that demand \"is not clear\", according to Mr Triolo. He says that, like other major technology vendors, \"Cisco's equipment relies heavily on reliable supply chains for a range of semiconductors.\"\n\nThe shortages, he says, have been \"exacerbated by companies over ordering components to build up inventory, afraid of being caught short again\".\n\nYou can watch Chuck Robbins' full interview on \"Talking Business with Aaron Heslehurst\" this weekend on BBC World News at Saturday 2330 GMT, Sunday 0530 and 1630 GMT, Monday 0630 GMT and 1030 GMT and Tuesday at 1230 GMT.", "Last updated on .From the section Championship\n\nWatford sealed automatic promotion back to the Premier League at the first attempt after a narrow home win over Millwall.\n\nIsmaila Sarr's composed 11th-minute penalty, after the Senegal winger was brought down in the box by Billy Mitchell, proved enough for the Hornets.\n\nMitchell drew a save from home keeper Daniel Bachmann before the break with a shot from outside the box before Mason Bennett saw his follow-up effort clip the top of the bar.\n\nBachmann clawed away a close-range effort from a corner as Millwall pressed for an equaliser in the second half, but Watford held on to secure an eighth successive league victory at Vicarage Road.\n\nWatford have followed Norwich City in securing an instant return to the to flight after relegation last season, and their impressive home form has been the cornerstone of their promotion bid.\n\nXisco Munoz's side are on their best run at at Vicarage Road since 1977 - and registered a club-record 18th home triumph of the campaign.\n\nSarr made no mistake from the spot, stroking the ball down the middle as Lions keeper Bartosz Bialkowski dived to his left.\n\nDan Gosling could have made it 2-0 with a header from Tom Cleverley's free-kick before the Watford goal came under threat, but a 22nd clean sheet of the season secured all three points and prompted celebrations at full-time.\n\nWhile stability was the cornerstone of Norwich's success this season, Watford have gone about things in a typically frantic manner.\n\nHayden Mullins had seen them through to the end of last season in an interim capacity after the dismissal of Nigel Pearson, and Vladimir Ivic was appointed in August to lead the club's recovery in the Championship.\n\nAbdoulaye Doucoure, Gerard Deulofeu and Roberto Pereyra were among the big names to leave Vicarage Road, though highly sought-after forward Sarr and captain Troy Deeney remained.\n\nBut Ivic's reign lasted just four months and 20 league games, despite the Hornets being fifth in the table and just four points from the top two.\n\nA falling out with striker Deeney seemed to seal the Serbian's fate and Munoz replaced him the following day to become the Watford's fifth manager in just over a year.\n\nThe 40-year-old Spaniard turned previously frequent draws into victories and an already solid defence became even tougher to breach, with Bachmann becoming first-choice keeper and Francisco Sierralta, William Troost-Ekong and Kiko Femenia all dependable across the back.\n\nWatford have gone from being functional and somewhat uninspiring in the first half of the campaign to showing a real attacking verve - talisman Sarr, Brazilian teenager Joao Pedro and Sweden winger Ken Sema forming a skilful three-pronged attack - with the 6-0 demolition of Bristol City in February a particular high point.\n\nHow they will fare back in the Premier League next season is anyone's guess but the chop and change approach of owner Gino Pozzo has once again paid dividends.\n\n\"It is an amazing moment, and it is the moment to say thank you to everyone who has helped me and the players.\n\n\"It was a very good performance and we are at a very good level.\n\n\"I will always say I have been very lucky with the players from the first day.\n\n\"Everyone worked with the same idea and passion, and it is very nice when you have a group where everyone has the same direction. Everyone at the training ground believed.\n\n\"Right now it is important to enjoy the situation and after we will prepare for next season.\"\n\n\"We gave a silly penalty away. Billy has got to learn not to be so rash, but he is a terrific young player with a bright future.\n\n\"For about 15 minutes after that it looked as though we felt a bit sorry for ourselves, but we worked hard to try to get back into the game.\n\n\"After the first 20 minutes I thought we were excellent and we were probably the better side from thereon.\n\n\"Just that little bit of quality was missing. I don't think we could have done much more than we did.\n\n\"Good luck to Watford - they have got Premier League quality players and deserve to go up.\"\n• None Attempt missed. Maikel Kieftenbeld (Millwall) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.\n• None Attempt missed. Mahlon Romeo (Millwall) left footed shot from the right side of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Jed Wallace.\n• None Hayden Muller (Millwall) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The \"smiles, laughs, nerves, and sighs of relief\" of the vaccine programme were documented as part of the campaign to encourage uptake\n\nA new campaign is being launched to encourage younger people to get the Covid vaccine when their turn comes.\n\nThe Department of Health has released a series of photos documenting the NHS's largest-ever vaccination programme.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said 45.5 million doses had been administered so far, but \"the battle is not yet over\".\n\nMore than half the entire UK population - 33.5 million people - have now received a first dose, while more than 12 million people have had two doses.\n\nOn Monday lockdown restrictions will ease further in Wales and Scotland. Pubs and restaurants will be allowed to serve customers outdoors in Wales, while in Scotland all non-essential shops, pubs and restaurants can reopen, with up to six people from two households allowed to socialise indoors in a public place.\n\nThe UK recorded another 2,061 confirmed cases on Saturday and a further 32 deaths.\n\nThe latest campaign aims to encourage under-50s to take the vaccine, following research that suggests younger people are more likely to be hesitant.\n\nIn England those aged 45 or over are already being invited to book an appointment, while in Scotland this applies to those aged 50 or over.\n\nNorthern Ireland has now opened bookings for the 35 to 39 age group and one health board in Wales is offering the vaccine to those aged 30 to 39 - although most are still vaccinating people in their 40s and 50s.\n\nAlice Tooley says she hopes other young people will \"jump at\" the chance to get vaccinated\n\nAlthough 94% of all adults in the most recent survey by the Office for National Statistics felt positively about the vaccines, about one in eight 16 to 29-year-olds said they were hesitant, the highest such finding among all age groups.\n\nVaccine hesitancy is also higher among black people and people in more deprived areas, although the numbers saying they are hesitant has been falling in every group, the survey suggested.\n\nAmong the people caught on camera in the photo project was 25-year-old Alice Tooley, who was vaccinated early in the rollout because of her frontline work with vulnerable adults for a refugee charity.\n\nDozens of sites across the country have been used as vaccine centres, including Salisbury Cathedral\n\nAs younger people get invited to have their jab, she said: \"I hope they jump at it the way I did so, as a collective, we all play our part in getting back to a more normal way of life.\"\n\nDocumentary photographers and filmmakers set out across the UK in February and March to capture the immunisation programme in action, travelling to hospitals, mobile vaccination units, care homes and some of the more unusual vaccination sites such as Salisbury Cathedral and the Science Museum in London.\n\nPhotojournalist Jude Palmer said it had been a privilege to document the \"smiles, laughs, nerves, and sighs of relief as we get one step closer to a more normal way of life\".\n\nAmong the people they photographed was Dr Gavin Chestnutt, a GP at Ballycastle Medical Practice, who took his vaccine supplies on the ferry to Rathlin Island - Northern Ireland's most northerly point - to immunise the community there and ensure the elderly population did not have to travel in bad weather.\n\nVaccinators have travelled to the UK's remote corners, such as Rathlin Island off County Antrim, to deliver millions of doses\n\nDr Chestnutt, who is also a part-time farmer, was photographed vaccinating a 92-year-old man in his back garden, looking out over the coastline.\n\nThe 42-year-old said it had been an honour to witness people's \"physical relief\" as they were protected from Covid-19.\n\n\"Most overwhelming has been to see how grateful everyone has been for getting their vaccine and finally seeing some light at the end of the tunnel,\" he added.\n\nMeanwhile, 8,000 football supporters will be at Wembley later for the Carabao Cup final between Manchester City and Tottenham - the biggest attendance at an outdoor sports event since the first lockdown in March last year.\n\nThe game is part of the government's official test programme to work out the best way for big crowds to return to venues.\n\nIt comes as 22 anti-lockdown scientists and academics have written an open letter calling for face masks and social distancing to end in June.\n\nThe letter, published in full on the Daily Express website, says more weight should be given to the success of the vaccines and less to what it calls the \"theoretical\" risk of new variants or a new surge in infections.\n\nIt also urges the government to scrap plans for vaccine passports, along with mass community testing in favour of a more targeted approach.\n\nThe government has already announced it hopes to end all legal limits on social contact in England on 21 June at the earliest and the prime minister has said there is nothing in the data to suggest this will not be the case.\n\nBut some scientists have suggested people could still be asked to wear face coverings and socially distance for several years as other countries are yet to complete their vaccination programmes.\n\nBBC health correspondent Katharine Da Costa says many of the signatories to the letter had previously called for lockdowns to be abolished in favour of shielding the vulnerable, a strategy strongly criticised by the wider scientific community.", "Scotland's political leaders have paid tribute to Prince Philip after Holyrood was recalled in a special session.\n\nMSPs held a minute's silence in remembrance of the Duke of Edinburgh, who died on Friday aged 99.\n\nCampaigning for the Holyrood election on 6 May was suspended, but will resume in full on Tuesday.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the duke had \"led a life of distinction\", offering the \"deepest sympathies\" of the parliament to the Queen.\n\nFlags outside Holyrood have been flying at half-mast as a mark of respect, while a special session to pay tribute is also being held in the House of Commons.\n\nScotland's parties were approaching the end of the second full week of campaigning ahead of the election, with several scheduled to launch their manifestos.\n\nHowever, after campaigns were put on hold, Presiding Officer Ken Macintosh decided to recall MSPs to pay tribute to the duke.\n\nThis was possible because the parliament was not dissolved for the election as usual, but put into recess so that members could be recalled in the event of any Covid-19 emergency.\n\nFlags have been at half-mast at the Scottish Parliament building\n\nMs Sturgeon told MSPs that she had witnesses the strength of the \"true partnership\" between the Queen and Prince Philip while visiting them at Balmoral, and said she \"always enjoyed\" her conversations with the duke.\n\nShe said: \"I was struck by how different he was in private to the way he was sometimes characterised in public.\n\n\"He was a thoughtful man, deeply interesting and fiercely intelligent. He was also a serious bookworm, which I am too, so talking about the books we were reading was often for me a real highlight of our conversations.\"\n\nScottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson added: \"It was clear that not only was he a man of huge practical ability - a decorated and talented naval officer, a qualified pilot, a natural sailor and horseman - he also had interests and passions that he wanted to use his position to drive forward.\n\n\"He focused on engineering, research, youth, the outdoors and conservation.\n\n\"In a life that could so easily have been one shallow wave, a ribbon cut, a couple of public remarks before on to the next engagement, he demonstrated huge commitment to the organisations that he championed.\"\n\nPresiding Officer Ken Macintosh said Prince Philip had attended every royal occasion at Holyrood before retiring\n\nThis is the sixth time Holyrood has been recalled in its short history but the first occasion MSPs have been brought back during an election campaign.\n\nThat is only possible because of special pandemic arrangements that mean parliament has not been formally stood down in the usual way and MSPs continue in their roles until 5 May.\n\nThere were similar tributes from Scottish party leaders when the Queen Mother died in 2002.\n\nThe Duke of Edinburgh was a regular visitor to Holyrood, attending the royal openings of each session with the Queen whose royal palace is next door to parliament.\n\nElection campaigning has been suspended since Friday ahead of an important week in which postal voting begins. Labour has put back its manifesto launch by a week.\n\nThere was a more prolonged interruption to campaigning in the devolution referendum that set up the Scottish Parliament in 1997 following the death of Princess Diana.\n\nScottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar said Prince Philip was an \"extraordinary public servant\", paying particular tribute to the impact of the Duke of Edinburgh Award scheme.\n\nHe added: \"This is hard for anyone, no matter how many years have been shared - the Queen has lost her beloved husband after spending more than 70 years together.\n\n\"I can't even begin to imagine how that must feel, and my thoughts and prayers are with her majesty.\"\n\nScottish Green co-convener Patrick Harvie said his party had considered whether to take part in the event, given they want to replace the monarchy with an elected head of state.\n\nHowever, he said \"respect and compassion\" were due in times of loss, offering his \"sincere condolences\" to the duke's family.\n\nAnd Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie said Prince Philip had \"left lasting impressions with so many\", with many \"fun and memorable\" memories.\n\nHe added: \"For so many he has been part of a family that has provided comfort and stability in what can be a turbulent and intimidating world.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The pilot was taken to Cardiff's University Hospital of Wales for treatment\n\nA paraglider pilot has been airlifted to hospital after falling 200ft (60m) and becoming trapped in a tree.\n\nA rescue operation was launched on Sunday after the man crashed at the site above Hundred House near Llandrindod Wells in Powys.\n\nFirefighters, paramedics and mountain rescue teams were called to the scene at about 14:00 BST.\n\nThe pilot was flown to the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff with head, leg and pelvic injuries.\n\nFire teams from three different counties joined the effort to rescue the man\n\nMid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service said crews were called in to help from Ammanford in Carmarthenshire, Pontardawe in the Swansea Valley, and Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, along with Powys firefighters from Llandrindod and Builth.\n\nThe pilot was stabilised at the scene by Helimed flying doctors from the Emergency Medical Retrieval Service, while rescuers struggled for nearly three hours to free him from tree branches.\n\nThe paraglider was treated at the scene by Helimed doctors\n\nThe man was eventually winched onto a coastguard rescue helicopter, before being taken the 65 miles (105km) to Cardiff for emergency care.\n\nThe incident was declared over just after 17:00.\n\nMark Jones from Brecon Mountain Rescue team said the man \"had sustained very serious injuries and was lucky to be alive.\"\n\nHe said the team had seen a marked increase in callouts since lockdown restrictions eased last month, as more people travelled to mountains and beauty spots in recent weeks.\n\nMr Jones said many may be unprepared or have lost fitness after only having access to parks during lockdown, and urged people to prepare before heading back into the hills and mountains.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Zoe Stacey is unhappy about being summoned for jury service whilst breastfeeding her two-month-old son\n\nA mother has been told she must attend court for jury service despite wanting to breastfeed her baby.\n\nZoe Stacey, from Eastleigh, Hampshire, has been told her jury service in May at Winchester Crown Court can be deferred within a 12-month period.\n\nBut she said she wanted to breastfeed her son William for longer than a year, and has appealed against the decision.\n\nHM Courts and Tribunals Service said it was \"investigating the facts of the case\".\n\nMother-of-two Mrs Stacey, who had her request to be excused from service rejected by the Jury Central Summoning Bureau, said she breastfed her older son, Thomas, for longer than a year.\n\nShe added she had initially found it difficult to breastfeed William, who is two months old, as he had a tongue-tie - where the strip of skin connecting the baby's tongue to the bottom of their mouth is shorter than usual.\n\nMrs Stacey said: \"I do feel strongly about being able to breastfeed for as long as possible, and not wanting to leave him for the next year... I think they need to show more compassion to new parents.\n\n\"It's very tiring having a new child. I wouldn't want to have someone sat on the jury who was exhausted or couldn't pay full attention.\n\n\"If anyone's on parental leave they should be exempt from it. It's precious time and should be protected, and the court should recognise that.\"\n\nHer appeal is due to be considered by a judge at Winchester Crown Court.\n\nHM Courts and Tribunals Service said: \"Crown court practice is to defer new mums that are breastfeeding. We are investigating the facts of this case.\"\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.", "Secondary and primary pupils in six Scottish councils have returned to full-time, in-class lessons following the Easter break.\n\nThe return of pupils in Aberdeen, Fife, Dumfries and Galloway, Moray, Shetland and the Western Isles marks the end of distance learning for many.\n\nPupils will no longer have to follow strict physical distancing rules, but will still need to wear face coverings.\n\nThe majority of Scotland's pupils are due to return to school on 19 April.\n\nHowever, pupils in Edinburgh and Midlothian councils will return on 20 April.\n\nMinisters have said that schools will need to adopt enhanced safety precautions, such as improved ventilation and Covid testing, to mitigate the relaxation of physical distancing measures.\n\nPrimary schools had already resumed full-time teaching before the Easter holidays, but a part-time blended learning system had been in place in secondary schools.\n\nAlison Murison, head teacher at Aberdeen Grammar School, was among those who welcomed back pupils after the Easter holiday.\n\n\"The staff and pupils have worked so hard to keep learning going but they know that nothing replicates being in the classroom,\" she said. \"That's what they are looking forward to.\"\n\nShe said the return to school was the \"big prize\" they had been waiting for.\n\nIn addition to measures introduced in August, they now have regular lateral flow testing, and pupils and staff would wear masks inside buildings at all times.\n\n\"It is so, so important that we adhere to those,\" Ms Murison said. \"I am confident because the pupils, the staff, the parents have all been right behind me from the start in making sure that we follow these mitigations. They have been hugely supportive. \"\n\nAberdeen Grammar School head teacher Alison Murison said the return to school was the \"big prize\" they had been waiting for.\n\nThe only exception to pupils returning will be those in the shielding category.\n\nThe first minister has said that pupils who were shielding should stay at home until 26 April, in line with advice from the chief medical officer.\n\nIt comes after this year's National 5s, Highers and Advanced Highers were cancelled because of disruption caused by the pandemic.\n\nGrades will instead be based on \"teacher judgement\" backed up by evidence gathered in tests.\n\nHowever, the approach across schools varies - with some spreading the tests over class lesson times while others will do them in one go, with invigilators on hand to ensure strict exam conditions are met.\n\nHugh McCulloch, head teacher of Elgin High School in Moray, said it had been a \"challenging time for young people\" but staff had been involved in consultations over what the new assessments would look like.\n\n\"They are slimmed down and will take account of what the student's learning has been over the broken down year that they have had,\" he told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland.\n\nHe added: \"You've got a lot of teacher professional judgement as well which will contribute to that.\n\n\"I do believe we will be able to support them to get the results that they are worthy of with these assessment diets.\"", "David Cameron replaced Gordon Brown as prime minister after the 2010 general election\n\nLabour's Gordon Brown says former prime ministers \"must never\" lobby government for commercial purposes, amid a row over the conduct of his successor.\n\nDavid Cameron has been criticised for contacting ministers via text on behalf of finance firm Greensill Capital.\n\nThe Tory former prime minister broke his silence on the controversy on Sunday, saying he should have contacted ministers through \"formal\" channels.\n\nBut he said he had not broken codes of conduct or rules on lobbying.\n\nUnder current guidelines, former ministers and senior civil servants are banned from lobbying for two years after they leave government, a rule Mr Cameron followed.\n\nBut Mr Brown - who was prime minister from 2007 to 2010 - said: \"Former prime ministers must never be lobbying for commercial purposes. Current ministers should not be entertaining such lobbying.\"\n\n\"It simply brings public service into disrepute,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nHe suggested that if the existing rules cannot be made to work, new laws should be passed to stop former ministers lobbying for five years after leaving office.\n\nLabour has said \"many serious questions remain unanswered\" after Mr Cameron's statement and he should be quizzed in Parliament.\n\nIt follows a series of newspaper reports over Mr Cameron's lobbying on behalf of Greensill Capital, where he began working as an adviser in August 2018, two years after he left No 10.\n\nThe firm was founded by Australian financier Lex Greensill, who worked as an unpaid adviser to Mr Cameron's government.\n\nThe reports revealed that Mr Cameron had texted Chancellor Rishi Sunak and other Treasury ministers over access to government-backed emergency loans during the Covid pandemic.\n\nMr Cameron said he had been trying to involve Greensill Capital in the government's CCFF (Covid Corporate Financing Facility) initiative, launched at the start of the crisis.\n\nMr Cameron rejected calls to comment on the affair until Sunday, when he released a statement to the media.\n\nIn it, Mr Cameron said he believed it had been \"right\" for him to contact government on behalf of Greensill Capital, as it was \"involved in financing a large number of UK firms\" at a time of \"crisis for the UK economy\".\n\nBut he said he understood the \"concern\" caused by how he had chosen to make contact with government figures.\n\n\"There are important lessons to be learnt,\" he added.\n\n\"As a former prime minister, I accept that communications with government need to be done through only the most formal of channels, so there can be no room for misinterpretation.\"\n\nFor three weeks the headlines kept coming. For three weeks David Cameron said nothing.\n\nAnd now this - the former prime minister admits he made a dud judgement call.\n\nForget the rules; this is about the sniff test. Does it smell bad? Does it feel right?\n\nPlenty had been saying no it doesn't, and now David Cameron appears to agree.\n\nIt's a lengthy statement from him, worthy of detailed examination.\n\nBut it boils down to this: he acknowledges texting and ringing the chancellor and going for a private drink with the health secretary, as part of his paid work for a private company, was a bad idea.\n\nThere's another point worth making too: journalism matters.\n\nThe work of the Financial Times and the Sunday Times, ferreting out awkward truths, is what has prompted this.\n\nIn his statement, Mr Cameron added: \"In my representations to government, I was breaking no codes of conduct and no government rules.\"\n\nHe said that his suggestions about Greensill and the CCFF scheme were ultimately \"not taken up\".\n\nHe also said he had had \"very little to do\" with Lex Greensill during the financier's time working as a government adviser.\n\nHe added that Mr Greensill had been brought in as a government adviser by then-Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood, in 2011.\n\n\"As I recall, I met him twice at most in the entirety of my time as prime minister,\" he added.\n\n\"The idea of my working for Greensill was never raised, or considered by me, until well after I left office,\" he added.\n\nThe company recently collapsed, with the loss of 440 jobs.\n\nSenior Conservative MP Sir Bernard Jenkin, who chairs Parliament's Liaison Committee, said the lobbying row had revealed a \"very casual\" culture in the relationship between those at the top of government and business.\n\n\"This is pretty devastating, this is pretty corrosive,\" he told the Today programme.\n\nHe added: \"I am not going to pass judgment on David Cameron, I think in some respects it's a distraction.\n\n\"What is more important is not who is lobbying, and even if you have a five-year ban as suggested by Gordon Brown, is it OK for an ex-prime minister to start lobbying after six years?\n\n\"You can't make laws stretch far into the future to bind people to previous employment, it just doesn't work.\"\n\nLabour's Rachel Reeves said: \"The events unfolding over the last few weeks stretch across government and affect thousands of people.\n\n\"Transparency and accountability are crucial and that requires the utmost openness from government to establish the full facts behind this scandal.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSeveral million Hindus have gathered to take a dip in the Ganges river as a deadly second Covid-19 wave continues to sweep India.\n\nThe devotees are marking an auspicious bathing day on Monday at the Kumbh Mela religious festival in Haridwar city in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand.\n\nOfficials say they are struggling to impose safety norms due to huge crowds.\n\nHindus believe the river is holy and bathing in it will cleanse them of their sins and bring salvation.\n\nThe Kumbh Mela takes place every 12 years and the venue is chosen from amongst four cities, including Allahabad (also called Prayagraj), Haridwar, Nasik and Ujjain.\n\nHaridwar's turn to host the gathering came amid a sharp rise in the number of coronavirus infections, with India consistently reporting more than 100,000 cases daily in the past few weeks.\n\nOn Monday, India logged more than 168,000 new cases, overtaking Brazil to become the country with the second-highest number of cases globally.\n\nWith the total case tally of more than 13.5 million cases, India is now only behind the United States which has reported more than 31 million cases. With 13.4 million cases, Brazil is now at number three.\n\nHealth experts had appealed for the Kumbh Mela festival to be cancelled, but the government went ahead saying safety rules would be followed.\n\nHindu devotees believe taking a dip in the Ganges frees them from the cycle of birth and death\n\nA senior police official told ANI news agency that it was very difficult to ensure social distancing on the river banks.\n\n\"We are continuously appealing to people to follow Covid-appropriate behaviour. But due to the huge crowd, it is practically not possible to issue challans [fines],\" inspector general of police Sanjay Gunjyal said.\n\nHe said that a \"stampede-like situation\" could arise if the police tried to enforce social distancing on the river banks.\n\nOfficials said by Monday evening more than 3.1 million devotees had bathed in the river, with many more expected to follow suit. Monday - Somvati Amavasya - marks the biggest bathing day during the two-month-long festival.\n\nThe government had earlier said that only people with Covid negative reports would be allowed at the festival and strict measures like social distancing would be followed.\n\nBut a number of people, including top saints, have already tested positive.\n\nThis has given rise to fears that Monday's bathing day will help the infection spread faster among the devotees and that some of them could also take the virus back to their cities and villages in other parts of the country.\n\nPolice officials say it is difficult to ensure social distancing due to huge crowds\n\nThe second wave is wreaking havoc across India. Reports of a shortage of hospital beds and life-saving drugs have started coming in from different parts of the country.\n\nThe state of Maharashtra is particularly affected - accounting for an average of almost 30-40% of daily cases. Measures like night curfews and limited lockdowns have been taken but the green light given to the Kumbh Mela festival has baffled experts.\n\nSome of them say that the worst is yet to come unless strict, urgent measures are taken, and that includes ramping up vaccinations.\n\nIndia has given more than 100 million doses so far but the pace needs to further pick up to halt the spread of the virus, experts say.", "Nicola Charles (pictured in 1998) was a model and actress and is now an author\n\nFormer Neighbours actress Nicola Charles has claimed two of her cast mates once tried to get her deported back to the UK.\n\nCharles, who played Sarah Beaumont in the soap for two stints in the 1990s and 2010s, alleges she was targeted for \"taking a job from an Australian\".\n\nHer character was best known for having an affair with Dr Karl Kennedy.\n\nCharles made the claim in her forthcoming memoir, Soap Star, which has been previewed in The Herald Sun.\n\nFremantle Media, which produces the long-running Australian soap, has been contacted by the BBC for a comment.\n\nIn her book, Charles alleges that she found a handwritten letter sent to the immigration department shortly after her six-month probation period on Neighbours ended in 1996, just as her contract was about to be extended.\n\nCharles (right) was part of a love triangle on the soap\n\nShe does not name the two cast members in question.\n\n\"I did know who they were, the individuals who did it, but I thought - who goes to that length, and what have I done to be disliked that much?\" she wrote, in an excerpt published in Australia on Monday.\n\n\"That experience coloured my relationships with everyone on the cast and crew, because I kind of felt nervous about trusting anyone after that.\"\n\nShe added: \"Then my immigration lawyer told me the letter complained that a British actor had been given a full-time role on the show, thus taking a job away from an Australian.\n\n\"But the show employed me as a British actor. I was written into the show,\" she explained.\n\nCharles was born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire. She moved to London as a teenager and then to Australia.\n\nHer autobiography is published on Friday. She also had a fictional novel published last year, titled The Witches of Toorak.\n\nLast week, two Aboriginal-Australian TV stars alleged they witnessed racist incidents while working on the set of Neighbours.\n\nShareena Clanton alleged \"multiple racist traumas\" during her time on the show in an Instagram post.\n\nA day later, former Neighbours actor Meyne Wyatt said he too had experienced racism on set in a tweet.\n\nIn response to Ms Clanton's allegations, Fremantle Media said it would do more to promote inclusion.\n\n\"Neighbours strives to be a platform for diversity and inclusion on-screen and off-screen,\" a spokesperson for Fremantle Media told the BBC. \"Our quest is always to continue to grow and develop in this area and we acknowledge that this is an evolving process.\"", "Shoppers queuing outside the Primark in Stoke-on-Trent\n\nShoppers rushed back to the High Street on Monday as non-essential retailers in England and Wales reopened after more than three months.\n\nAs of 5pm, High Street footfall had nearly doubled from a week earlier, as queues formed outside branches of Primark, JD Sports and TK Maxx and retailers extended their opening hours.\n\nBeauty salons, barbers and pub gardens also reported a surge in bookings.\n\nBut it is unclear if the demand will last as shops try to recoup lost sales.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC health correspondent Laura Foster explains how to keep safe while shopping\n\nShoppers began queuing at 7am at Primark shops in London's Oxford Street and Birmingham as the fashion retailer reopened 161 stores across the country.\n\nLike others it is extending its open hours from 7am to 10pm to help prevent crowding in stores.\n\nPrimark boss Paul Marchant said: \"We have been working really hard to get our stores ready to open safely; we are fully stocked with everything our customers have been waiting for.\n\n\"We ask our customers to continue supporting us and be mindful of our in-store measures, in particular if queuing outside and in-store.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Vikki O'Neill This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThere were also queues outside Selfridges in London and Birmingham, TK Maxx in Cardiff and JD Sports in Newcastle.\n\nAmanda Philips, retail manager of the Moor shopping area in Sheffield, said it had been so busy it was like \"an old fashioned Saturday in 2019\".\n\n\"The sun is shining which always brings people out. We've been desperate to get outside and get a bit of retail therapy. The kids are still off school, it's half term,\" she told the BBC.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Shoppers in Liverpool are 'excited' to be back\n\nHospitality venues, including restaurants, museums, theme parks and zoos, have also been welcoming people back, as well as gyms, swimming pools and spas.\n\nAt pubs such as the Oak Inn, in Coventry, drinkers queued up outside before midnight on Sunday to buy their first pints when outdoor service resumed.\n\nBlink Brow Bar, a beauty salon chain with 21 outlets, said it had seen lots of \"pent-up demand\" ahead of Monday.\n\n\"We've had 1,000 clients on our waiting list from February. As soon as the appointments were up, we became fully-booked very quickly for the next few weeks,\" boss Vanita Parti told the BBC.\n\n\"That's a really exciting sign that people are so ready to step out of the house and indulge in a little self-care.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Mr. Bond This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nJulian Metcalf, chief executive of sushi chain Itsu, said he was hopeful demand would pick up as people returned to the High Street but said he felt \"a bit nervous\".\n\n\"It's scary,\" he told the BBC. \"But there's a lot to be grateful for; the vaccination programme in our country is little short of remarkable, so there's no reason that we can't come back with real strength and positivity.\"\n\nJohn Edgar, the boss of department store chain Fenwicks, warned cold weather in some parts of England and Wales could affect demand on Monday. He also said some shoppers would remain wary of heading back to the High Street for health reasons.\n\n\"It remains to be seen how many people choose to stay away in the short-term because of nervousness, but we believe that most retailers are offering a very safe environment to go shopping,\" he told the BBC.\n\nThe British Retail Consortium says businesses have spent hundreds of millions of pounds to make shops Covid-secure. Some, including John Lewis, will have \"customer service hosts\" to manage customer numbers, while Ikea has planned a staggered entry system and more frequent cleaning routines.\n\nAccording to the latest figures from analyst Springboard, by 5pm footfall across all UK shopping destinations was up 146% from a week ago, and 481% higher compared with last year.\n\nHowever, footfall was still 16.2% lower than the level seen on the comparable day in 2019, before the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nDr Gordon Fletcher, retail expert from the University of Salford, said: \"When the shoppers return to the High Street there will invariably be a surge of foot traffic as the built up tensions of lockdown need to vented.\n\n\"The biggest risk for the old and new independent High Street retailers is that any surge will only be temporary as many shoppers quickly return to their increasingly refined ecommerce habits built up over the past 12 months.\"", "Dior Jackson, Ihsaan Bernard, Ayuub Mahmood and Omarni Bernard-Sewell, were \"jointly liable\" for the killing, West Midlands Police said\n\nFour men who plotted to murder a rival gang member in a drive-by shooting have been jailed for life.\n\nDante Mullings, 23, died after being shot in St Vincent Street West in Ladywood, Birmingham in May 2019.\n\nDior Jackson, Ihsaan Bernard, Ayuub Mahmood and Omarni Bernard-Sewell had denied conspiring to murder him.\n\nMr Mullings was in a parked car on 7 May 2019, when a gunman opened fire from a passing vehicle, West Midlands Police said.\n\nOne bullet struck him in the lower back and he suffered fatal internal injuries, the force said, while two other passengers were shot but survived.\n\nThe Volkswagen Passat used in the attack was later found on fire in Nechells and officers used CCTV to track its movements throughout the day.\n\nInquiries implicated Bernard and Bernard-Sewell, who, police said, orchestrated the plot in revenge for a stabbing less than 24 hours earlier.\n\nDante Mullings' family said he was the \"epitome of kind, caring and thoughtful\"\n\nMahmood had contacted Hockley Car Spares on the day of the murder to collect cloned plates for the car, the force said.\n\nThe murder weapon was found hidden in bushes and from examinations by ballistics experts, was shown to have fired the rounds that killed Mr Mullings.\n\nJackson, 22, from Waddington Avenue in Great Barr, Bernard, 21, from Anerley Road, Kingstanding and Bernard-Sewell, 25, of no fixed abode, were all jailed at Birmingham Crown Court on Friday for 29 years while Mahmood, 19, from Lozells Street, was sentenced to 26 years.\n\n\"We weren't able to prove who pulled the trigger, but we were able to show this group plotted together to carry out the shooting and therefore they were jointly liable,\" said Det Insp Hannah Whitehouse.\n\nA 16-year-old boy was also charged with conspiracy to murder Dante Mullings and is set to stand trial on 17 May.\n\nTwo other man Mohammed Qadir, 20, from Dunsink Road, Aston, and 27-year-old Wasim Hussain from Gerard Street, Lozells were both cleared of involvement in the murder plot.\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 post-mortem examination found Loretta Herman had died due to compression of the neck\n\nA man has been charged with the murder of an 85-year-old woman found in a bathtub in London.\n\nMet Police officers have named the victim as Loretta Herman, although formal identification has yet to take place.\n\nShe was found unconscious in a home in Rushden Gardens, Ilford, on Friday.\n\nMark Herman, 54, of Rushden Gardens, has been remanded in custody and will appear at Redbridge Magistrates' Court on 12 April.\n\nA post-mortem examination found the cause of death was compression to the neck.\n\nHer family has been informed.\n\nParamedics battled for an hour to save Ms Herman's life but she was pronounced dead at 11:48 BST.\n\nFlowers have been left outside the property where she was believed to have lived for about the last 35 years.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Makers of the NHS Covid-19 app had planned to ask infected users to share their check-in histories\n\nAn update to England and Wales's contact tracing app has been blocked for breaking the terms of an agreement made with Apple and Google.\n\nThe plan had been to ask users to upload logs of venue check-ins - carried out via poster barcode scans - if they tested positive for the virus. This could be used to warn others.\n\nThe update had been timed to coincide with the relaxation of lockdown rules.\n\nBut the two firms had explicitly banned such a function from the start.\n\nUnder the terms that all health authorities signed up to in order to use Apple and Google's privacy-centric contact-tracing tech, they had to agree not to collect any location data via the software.\n\nAs a result, Apple and Google refused to make the update available for download from their app stores last week, and have instead kept the old version live.\n\nWhen questioned, the Department of Health declined to discuss how this misstep had occurred.\n\nScotland has avoided this pitfall because it released a separate product - Check In Scotland - to share venue histories, rather than trying to build the functionality into its Protect Scotland contact-tracing app.\n\nThe Check In Scotland app was launched on 18 December\n\nNHS Covid-19's users have long been able to scan a QR code when entering a shop, restaurant or other venue to log within the app the fact that they had visited.\n\nBut this data has never been accessible to others.\n\nInstead, it has only come into use if local authorities have identified a location as being a virus hotspot by other means, and flagged the fact to a central database.\n\nSince each phone regularly checks the database for a match, it can alert the owner if they need to take action as a consequence, without sharing the information with others.\n\nHowever, this facility has rarely been used, in part because prior to the most recent lockdown, many local authorities were confused about what they were supposed to do.\n\nBefore shops reopened in England and Wales on Monday, along with outdoor hospitality venues in England, the intention had been to automate the process.\n\nPubs, restaurants and cafes with outdoor seating have been allowed to reopen\n\nThis would have involved users who had tested positive being asked if they were willing to upload their logs.\n\nDepending on the thresholds set - for example, how many infected users registered having visited the same place on the same day - other app users would then have been told to either monitor their symptoms or immediately get a test, whether they felt ill or not.\n\nThe Department of Health had described this as being a \"privacy-protecting\" approach.\n\nBut despite being opt-in, it was still a clear breach of the terms that health chiefs had agreed to when they switched to adopting Apple and Google's contact tracing API (application programming interface) in June 2020. This was after their original effort was found to miss too many potential cases of contagion.\n\nThe tech firms' Exposure Notifications System FAQ states that apps involved must \"not share location data from the user's device with the public health authority, Apple, or Google\".\n\nEngland and Wales's QR barcode posters have been tweaked to have a simpler design\n\nAnd a separate document covering the terms and conditions in more detail says that \"a contact tracing app may not use location-based APIs... and may not collect any device information to identify the precise location of users\".\n\nHad Apple and Google made an exception for England and Wales in this case, it could have set a precedent for other countries to have sought changes of their own.\n\nThe team behind the app was told not to disclose why the update had failed to be released on schedule.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Department of Health told the BBC: \"The deployment of the functionality of the NHS Covid-19 app to enable users to upload their venue history has been delayed.\n\n\"This does not impact the functionality of the app and we remain in discussions with our partners to provide beneficial updates to the app which protect the public.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for the Welsh government said it had nothing to add.\n\nApple has indicated it wants to work out a solution.\n\nJust a week ago, the Department of Health seemed to think this update to the app would go through without problems.\n\nIt's hard to understand why. After all, the rules for using the Apple-Google Exposure Notification System were clear - collecting any location data was a no-no.\n\nThe app team knew that when they switched to it last summer, having discovered that going it alone with their own system was just not practical.\n\nBut they may have assumed that, because the sharing of locations by users was optional, the tech giants might show some flexibility.\n\nInstead, Apple and Google have insisted that rules are rules.\n\nWhat this underlines is that governments around the world have been forced to frame part of their response to the global pandemic according to rules set down by giant unelected corporations.\n\nAt a time when the power of the tech giants is under the microscope as never before, that will leave many people feeling uncomfortable.", "Post-primary pupils will also be required to wear face coverings in classrooms unless they have an exemption.\n\nAll 350,000 pupils in Northern Ireland return to school on Monday.\n\nFor many of those in post-primary years eight to 11, it will be their first time in the classroom in 2021.\n\nPrimary and pre-school pupils and those in years 12-14 made a phased return to school in March before the Easter break.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann and Education Minister Peter Weir welcomed the return, but said safety measures should continue to be followed.\n\nThe full return to school follows a decision taken by the Northern Ireland Executive on 1 April.\n\nAll school staff and pupils in years 12,13 and 14 are being asked to take twice-weekly lateral flow device (LFD) tests.\n\nThe Public Health Agency (PHA) has said that is to reduce the risk of the virus being transmitted in schools.\n\nPost-primary pupils will also be required to wear face coverings in classrooms unless they have an exemption.\n\nSchools have a number of other safety measures in place, including class \"bubbles\" to limit pupils mixing and ventilating classrooms.\n\nThey have also been told by the Department of Education (DE) that breakfast clubs, sports fixtures between schools and other extra-curricular or after-school clubs should not take place yet.\n\nRita Moore, principal of St Mary's in Limavady told BBC's Good Morning Ulster her staff were \"looking forward\" to welcoming children back through the gates.\n\n\"What I would call on Minister Weir to do, is let us know what the arrangements are going to be for next year,\" she added.\n\n\"We can't leave the end of this term without teachers knowing exactly what they have to prepare their children for in the coming academic year.\"\n\nDr Michelle Rainey, principal of Ballyclare High School, said it was important to reassure children.\n\n\"We're controlling what we can, bringing them in and creating that safe environment for them,\" she said.\n\nThere have also been concerns that some pupils in years 12 -14 will face multiple exams.\n\nSome experts have called for pupils to be given time to settle back in after what has been, for many, a long period learning from home.\n\nThe mental health champion Prof Siobhan O'Neill, for example, has previously said there should initially be a curriculum \"designed to address children's worries about the pandemic and the virus.\"\".\n\nThere have also been concerns that some pupils in years 12 -14 will face multiple exams as schools gather evidence to award them GCSE, AS and A-level grades.\n\nAs summer exams have been cancelled for a second year, teachers and schools will calculate the grades to be awarded to their pupils.\n\nOn Monday, Mr Weir said it was \"important schools do not over test\" those pupils in exam years.\n\nHe reiterated that tests, which the Northern Ireland exams board CCEA sent to schools for pupils to sit when they returned to school, were not compulsory.\n\n\"But the balance needs to be struck to make sure an assessment is being done,\" he said.\n\n\"I know work is being done to try and ease them back in and particularly a focus on trying to make sure their mental health is protected, but there will need to be some level of assessment.\"\n\nA few grammar schools have also already said they would not use transfer tests in 2021 to select pupils due to the disruption to the education of children currently in Primary Six.\n• None Call for school singing ban to be overturned", "Sir Richard Sutton's wealth was valued at £301m in the 2020 Sunday Times Rich List\n\nA man accused of murdering one of the UK's richest men has appeared in court.\n\nSir Richard Sutton was stabbed to death at his home in Higher Langham, Gillingham, Dorset, on Wednesday.\n\nHis partner, Anne Schreiber, was also stabbed and remains in a critical condition in hospital.\n\nThomas Schreiber, 34, appeared at Poole Magistrates' Court charged with murder, attempted murder and dangerous driving. He will appear at Winchester Crown Court on Tuesday.\n\nCourt artist sketch by Elizabeth Cook of Thomas Schreiber (left), 34, appearing at Poole Magistrates Court\n\nMr Schreiber spoke in court only to confirm his name, age and address, before he was remanded in custody.\n\nThe wealth of Sir Richard, 83, and his family was valued at £301m in the 2020 Sunday Times Rich List.\n\nHe owned an extensive property and farming portfolio, including the freehold of the Sheraton Grand London Park Lane and the Athenaeum Hotel in Mayfair.\n\nAn initial post-mortem examination indicated Sir Richard's cause of death was stab wounds to his chest, police said.\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.", "Water companies have been illegally dumping untreated sewage into rivers in England and Wales, an investigation by BBC Panorama has found.\n\nData analysed by the programme showed some companies have regularly breached the conditions in their permits.\n\nTreatment works are only allowed to put sewage into waterways after wet weather and when they are close to capacity.\n\nThe water industry says it will invest more than a billion pounds over five years to reduce discharges into rivers.\n\nTreatment works are allowed to release sewage into rivers and streams after extreme weather, such as torrential rain, and when they are operating close to full capacity.\n\nThis protects properties from flooding and prevents sewage from backing up into streets and homes.\n\nThe untreated sewage is normally screened and passed through storage tanks before it is dumped.\n\nDischarge permits issued by the Environment Agency specify the level of sewage each works has to treat before it can dump untreated sewage.\n\nBut Panorama's investigation found one water company was discharging sewage without a permit and evidence that another company had given the Environment Agency incorrect information about the sewage it was dumping in the river.\n\nRecent figures published by the Environment Agency reveal untreated sewage, including human waste, wet wipes and condoms, was released into waterways for more than three million hours last year.\n\nPanorama gathered detailed data from 10 water companies in England and Wales through environmental information requests. They were each asked for information on a handful of sewage works.\n\nThe data suggests seven of the 10 companies had treatment works that were breaching their permits by dumping sewage before they were treating the specified volumes.\n\nOne of the worst offenders was the not-for-profit company, Welsh Water. The data shows three of its treatment works were in breach of their permits.\n\nIts Aberbaiden plant illegally dumped untreated sewage into the River Usk on 12 consecutive days in December.\n\nThe Usk is supposed to be a protected river, as it is a Site of Special Scientific Interest and a Special Area of Conservation.\n\nWelsh Water's Aberbaiden plant illegally dumped untreated sewage into the River Usk on 12 consecutive days last December\n\nAngela Jones, who swims in the river every day, was shocked by the programme's findings: \"I know so many people who swim up that area, you know. It's just appalling, absolutely appalling.\n\n\"We can see clearly that they are releasing sewage into the water when they're not allowed to.\"\n\nOpen water swimmers, kayakers, paddlers and dog walkers have been asked to avoid contact with the water during and after sewage spills.\n\nThe Rivers Trust, an organisation which campaigns to protect rivers in England and Wales, has compiled a map of where water companies release treated sewage and overflows of untreated sewage into rivers.\n\nIt advises people not to enter the water immediately downstream of where treated sewage is released, and to avoid the overflow areas, especially after wet weather.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Swim England urges anyone wanting to take up the practice to follow safety guidelines\n\nPanorama also discovered Welsh Water has been using a sewage overflow pipe on the River Usk that doesn't have a permit.\n\nThe company has been illegally dumping untreated sewage through the pipe, sometimes on several occasions a day.\n\nWelsh Water told the programme it hoped to have a permit for the overflow pipe by July and it doesn't accept its sites are operating illegally.\n\nThe company said it works closely with regulators and works hard to comply with all environmental regulations.\n\n\"We continue to invest significantly in our network so that we minimise the impact of our activities on the environment. However, these solutions and processes can sometimes take many years to resolve in order to fully investigate, design solutions, and secure funding.\"\n\nAdditional data about an eleventh water company, Thames Water, was shared with the programme by the campaign group Windrush Against Sewage Pollution.\n\nIt showed the company's giant Mogden treatment works in south-west London has been illegally dumping billions of litres of untreated sewage.\n\nThe data revealed Mogden - which deals with waste from more than two million people in the city - breached its permit on 43 days last year.\n\nAnother Thames Water site, Stanton Harcourt in Oxfordshire, dumped sewage almost continuously for three consecutive months at the start of last year.\n\nThames Water said the sewage is partially treated because it is screened and settled in storage tanks.\n\nIt said a small number of its sewage works have struggled following periods of heavy rainfall and it is investing heavily to improve the sites.\n\n\"Putting untreated sewage into rivers is unacceptable to us, to our customers and to the environment, even when legally permitted,\" the company said. \"We absolutely want to go further, invest more, and play our part in helping the environment to thrive.\"\n\nYorkshire Water failed to report sewage spills into the River Wharfe to the Environment Agency, Panorama found\n\nPanorama also investigated the Wetherby treatment works run by Yorkshire Water.\n\nFootage shot by local campaigner Mark Barrow shows the works dumped untreated sewage into the River Wharfe on several occasions last year.\n\nBut the programme found Yorkshire Water failed to report any of these spills to the Environment Agency.\n\nIts annual filing showed no sewage dumping at all at Wetherby.\n\nYorkshire Water said: \"We have not misled the Environment Agency, this is a single data anomaly within a very large set of data and we will certainly investigate what has happened here. There is a process for correcting submitted data with the Environment Agency and if it is found that there has been an unreported discharge we will report this in due course.\"\n\nPanorama: The river pollution scandal will be on BBC One at 19:40 BST and later on the BBC iPlayer.", "The Princess Royal has said her father the Duke of Edinburgh was her \"teacher, supporter and critic\".\n\nPrincess Anne - the duke's only daughter - said he would leave a \"legacy which can inspire us all\".\n\nHer written statement comes after her brother, the Duke of York, said the Queen had described the death of Prince Philip as \"having left a huge void in her life\".\n\nHe and his brother the Earl of Wessex earlier paid tribute to their father.\n\nIn a statement on the Royal Family's website, the princess said she \"most wanted to emulate\" her father's example of a \"life well lived and service freely given\".\n\nShe said \"his ability to treat every person as an individual in their own right with their own skills\" was reflected in the organisations he worked with.\n\n\"I regard it as an honour and a privilege to have been asked to follow in his footsteps and it has been a pleasure to have kept him in touch with their activities,\" she added.\n\nOn Sunday, a special remembrance service for Prince Philip was held in Canterbury Cathedral as the UK observes a period of official mourning.\n\nIt was led by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, who is expected to officiate at the duke's funeral on Saturday.\n\nHe said that \"for the Royal Family, as for every other, no words can reach into the depth of sorrow that goes into bereavement\".\n\nA ceremonial royal funeral will be held for the duke at St George's Chapel, in the grounds of Windsor Castle, at 15:00 BST on 17 April. The event will be televised.\n\nMembers of the Royal Family will walk behind the coffin ahead of the funeral, while the Queen will travel separately to the chapel.\n\nThe Duke of Sussex will fly from the US for the service, though it is not clear when. His wife, Meghan, who is pregnant, will remain at home in California on the advice of doctors.\n\nIt will be the first time Prince William and Prince Harry will meet face to face since the Sussexes aired criticisms of the Royal Family in an interview to US broadcaster Oprah Winfrey last month.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"A huge void in her life\": Prince Andrew describes the Queen's feelings of loss\n\nMeanwhile, Prince Andrew has said that his father's death was a \"terrible loss\", and his family was \"rallying round\" to support the Queen.\n\n\"We've lost the grandfather of the nation,\" he added, as he left a service at Windsor's Royal Lodge.\n\nHe was joined by the Earl and Countess of Wessex and their daughter Lady Louise Windsor.\n\nHe said the Royal Family was grateful for all the \"absolutely amazing tributes\" to Prince Philip, who died at Windsor Castle on Friday, aged 99.\n\nHe added: \"The Queen, as you would expect, is an incredibly stoic person.\n\n\"She described it as having left a huge void in her life but we, the family, the ones that are close, are rallying round to make sure that we're there to support her.\"\n\nSpeaking of his love for his father, Prince Andrew said: \"He was so calm. If you had a problem, he would think about it.\n\n\"He was always somebody you could go to and he would always listen so it's a great loss.\n\nPrince Andrew stepped back from royal duties in 2019 after criticism of his ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein intensified following a BBC interview.\n\nThe Earl and Countess of Wessex attended the service with their daughter Lady Louise Windsor\n\nThe Earl of Wessex, the Queen's youngest son, said: \"However much one tries to prepare oneself for something like this, it's still a dreadful shock.\"\n\nThe Countess of Wessex said the Queen was \"thinking of others before herself\".\n\nSpeaking to members of the congregation outside the chapel, Sophie said that Prince Philip's death was \"very peaceful\".\n\n\"It was right for him. It was so gentle. It was just like somebody took him by the hand and off he went,\" she said.\n\n\"Very, very peaceful and that's all you want for somebody isn't it?\"\n\nShe added: \"I think it's so much easier for the person that goes than the people that are left behind.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"My family and I miss my father enormously,\" said Prince Charles at his Highgrove home\n\nThe Prince of Wales paid tribute to his \"dear papa\" on Saturday, saying he and the Royal Family would miss him \"enormously\".\n\nHe said the duke had given the \"most remarkable, devoted service\" to the Queen, the Royal Family, the country, and the Commonwealth.\n\nEarlier, the former prime minister Sir John Major, who was appointed a special guardian to the Duke of Cambridge and the Duke of Sussex after their mother, Diana, Princess of Wales died in 1997, said the \"shared grief\" over the death of Prince Philip is an \"ideal opportunity\" to mend any rifts in the Royal Family.", "There is no need to stop the clocks, nor disconnect the phone. Noisy dogs need not be silenced with a juicy bone.\n\nTo suggest the nation is convulsed with grief - or should be - ill-serves the memory and legacy of a man who knew well his place in public life.\n\nPrince Philip was not one given to public soul-searching. But when he did speak of his role in life he was very clear; it was to be at his wife's side.\n\nTo support the Queen: never to overshadow her; never to undermine her; never to embarrass her.\n\nThat he chose to do so much more than that - the dizzying numbers of speeches and engagements, passions, patronages and interests, remembered in the outpouring of tributes that has followed his death - was testament to his desire to make a difference.\n\nHe could have led a very different life, one much less burdened by the ceremony and formality that he made clear, in as light-hearted a way as possible, that he had little time for.\n\n\"Get on with it\" might have been his informal motto. Said at some volume.\n\nBut in life, there was a lot of waiting around - for formal welcomes, for ceremonies grand and bizarre and often overlong, for functions that meant so much to those hosting and attending but must have blurred into one after so many decades.\n\nIn death it will be different. In death, he'll do it his way.\n\nNo princes with heads bowed at the corners of his coffin. No public procession. No gun carriage.\n\nInstead, in a hat-tip to his greatest service - his military service in wartime - his coffin will ride on the back of the workhorse that sprang from World War Two, a Land Rover, that he had redesigned.\n\nSomething tells you that he was pretty pleased with that redesign.\n\nGoing with him into St George's Chapel, his naval cap and sword, and the glory of those who offer and sometimes give their lives for their country.\n\nMissing will be the many representatives of 'his' charities, the ones he established or championed for so long and to such effect. Missing will be some sliver of the people who would like to thank him for his tireless and often unmentioned work.\n\nChildren and grandchildren, says the palace, that's about it.\n\nMissing also will be the kings and princes and grand dukes, politicians, pop stars and aristocrats that have in some variety turned royal events into a century-long media phenomenon.\n\nThis will be by recent royal standards a simple, family farewell. A time for his relatives to mourn and celebrate and remember.\n\nAnd a simple service may well appeal. This is a funeral, not the end of a fairy tale. A no-nonsense moderniser, the Duke's last service to the monarchy may be in the way he departs it.", "It is believed Darius was taken from his enclosure\n\nAn award-winning four-foot long rabbit is thought to have been stolen from its enclosure.\n\nDarius, a continental giant rabbit, went missing from his home in Stoulton, Worcestershire, on Saturday night.\n\nHis owner Annette Edwards has offered a £1,000 reward for his return and said it was a \"very sad day\".\n\nAt 129cm (4ft 2in) long, Darius is a record holder after being named the world's longest rabbit in 2010.\n\nAnnette Edwards has offered a £1,000 reward for the return of Darius\n\nWest Mercia Police said it is believed Darius was stolen from his enclosure, which is in his owners' garden, overnight on Saturday.\n\nMs Edwards said Darius is \"too old to breed now\" and pleaded for his safe return.\n\nHe was named as the longest living rabbit by Guinness World Records in April 2010, when he was measured for an article in the Daily Mail.\n\nMs Edwards said he claimed the title from his mother Alice, and he was her fourth award-winning rabbit.\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.", "Prince Philip corresponded with the villagers over the years, and sent pictures of himself holding a ceremonial club they gave him\n\nAs Britons mourn the death of Prince Philip, they are joined by a tribal community on a Pacific island half a world away.\n\nFor decades, two villages on the Vanuatuan island of Tanna have revered the Duke of Edinburgh as a god-like spiritual figure.\n\nA formal period of mourning is now under way.\n\nOn Monday, scores of tribespeople gathered in a ceremony to remember Prince Philip.\n\n\"The connection between the people on the island of Tanna and the English people is very strong... We are sending condolence messages to the Royal Family and the people of England,\" said tribal leader Chief Yapa, according to Reuters news agency.\n\nFor the next few weeks, villagers will periodically meet to conduct rites for the duke, who is seen as a \"recycled descendant of a very powerful spirit or god that lives on one of their mountains\", says anthropologist Kirk Huffman who has studied the tribes since the 1970s.\n\nThey will likely conduct ritualistic dance, hold a procession, and display memorabilia of Prince Philip, while the men will drink kava, a ceremonial drink made from the roots of the kava plant.\n\nThis will culminate with a \"significant gathering\" as a final act of mourning. \"There will be a great deal of wealth on display\" which would mean yams and kava plants, says Vanuatu-based journalist Dan McGarry.\n\n\"And also pigs, because they are a primary source of protein. I would expect numerous pigs to be killed for the ceremonial event.\"\n\nMonday's meeting saw a couple of hundred people gather under giant banyan trees, according to Mr McGarry who is on Tanna.\n\nThere were speeches remembering Prince Philip, but also discussion about a possible successor. At sunset the men drank kava.\n\nThe BBC understands that a private message to Queen Elizabeth has been given to journalists at the scene, who will convey it to British officials.\n\nOver the weekend villagers in Yaohnanen prepared kava roots for a mourning ceremony\n\nFor half a century, the Prince Philip Movement thrived in the villages of Yakel and Yaohnanen - at its height, it had several thousand followers, though numbers are thought to have dwindled to a few hundred.\n\nThe villagers live in Tanna's jungles and continue to practise their ancestral customs. Wearing traditional dress is still common, and while they maintain strong links with society, money and modern technology such as mobile phones are seldom used within their own community.\n\nThough they live only several kilometres from the nearest airport, \"they just made an active choice to disavow the modern world. It's not a physical distance, it's a metaphysical distance. They're just 3,000 years away,\" says Mr McGarry, who has frequently met the villagers.\n\nThe villagers live in traditional houses in the jungle of Tanna\n\nThe villagers' centuries-old \"kastom\", or culture and way of life, sees Tanna as the origin of the world and aims to promote peace - and this is where Prince Philip has played a central role.\n\nOver time, the villagers have come to believe he is one of them - the fulfilment of a prophecy of a tribesman who has \"left the island, in his original spiritual form, to find a powerful wife overseas\", says Mr Huffman.\n\n\"Ruling the UK with the help of the Queen, he was trying to bring peace and respect for tradition to England and other parts of the world. If he was successful, then he could return to Tanna - though one thing preventing him was, as they saw it, white people's stupidity, jealousy, greed and perpetual fighting.\"\n\nWith his \"mission to literally plant the seed of Tanna kastom at the heart of the Commonwealth and empire\", the duke was thus seen as the living embodiment of their culture, says Mr McGarry.\n\n\"It's a hero's journey, a person who sets off on a quest and literally wins the princess and the kingdom.\"\n\nPrince Philip was seen as the embodiment of Tanna \"kastom\"\n\nNobody is sure exactly how or why the movement began, though there are various theories.\n\nOne idea, according to Mr Huffman, is that villagers may have seen his picture along with the Queen's on the walls of British colonial outposts when Vanuatu was still known as New Hebrides, a colony administered jointly by Britain and France.\n\nAnother interpretation is that it emerged as a \"reaction to colonial presence, a way of re-appropriating and taking back colonial power by associating themselves with someone who sits at the right hand of the ruler of the Commonwealth\", says Mr McGarry, pointing to the sometimes violent colonial history of Vanuatu.\n\nBut experts are certain that by the 1970s, the Prince Philip Movement already existed, cemented by the royal couple's visit in 1974 to New Hebrides where the duke reportedly took part in kava-drinking rituals.\n\nPrince Philip and Queen Elizabeth, seen in the front row, watched traditional ceremonies on Pentecost Island in New Hebrides\n\nWhat did Prince Philip make of it all? Publicly, he appeared to accept their reverence, sending several letters and photographs of himself to the tribesmen, who in turn have plied him with traditional gifts over the years.\n\nOne of their first presents was a ceremonial club called a nal-nal, given at a 1978 meeting convened by villagers to ask for more information about Prince Philip, which Mr Huffman attended.\n\n\"So the British resident commissioner went down, made a presentation of photos of Prince Philip. Hundreds of these people were just waiting around, sitting or standing under the bushes. It was so quiet, we could hear a pin drop,\" says Mr Huffman.\n\n\"One of the chiefs then gave a club to pass to Prince Philip, and wanted proof that he received it.\"\n\nIt was sent all the way to the UK, where pictures of the duke holding the club were taken and sent back to the villagers. Those photos, among other memorabilia, are still treasured by the villagers to this day.\n\nIn 2007, several tribesmen met the duke in person. Flown to the UK for the Channel 4 reality television series Meet the Natives, five tribal leaders had an off-screen meeting with the duke at Windsor Castle where they presented gifts and asked when he would return to Tanna.\n\nHis reply, as reported by the tribesmen later, was cryptic - \"when it turns warm, I will send a message\" - but appeared to please them.\n\nThough Prince Philip was known for his frankness and has been criticised in the past for being culturally insensitive, on Tanna \"he is seen as very supportive and sensitive\", says Mr Huffman.\n\nChief Yapa was one of several tribesmen who met Prince Philip in Britain in 2007 and took pictures with him\n\nHis connection with the tribes has continued through Prince Charles, who visited Vanuatu in 2018 and drank the same kava his father did decades ago. He also received a walking stick on behalf of the duke from a Yaohnanen tribesman.\n\nThe duke's death has now inevitably opened up the tricky question of who will take his place in the tribes' spiritual pantheon.\n\nDiscussions are already under way, and it may take some time before they decide on his successor.\n\nBut for observers familiar with Vanuatu, where tribal custom usually dictates that the title of chief is inherited by male descendants, the answer is obvious. \"They might say, he has left it to Charles to continue his mission,\" says Mr Huffman.\n\nEven if Prince Charles becomes the latest incarnation of their deity, Prince Philip will not be forgotten any time soon. Mr Huffman says the movement are likely to keep its name, and one tribesman has told him they are even considering starting a political party.\n\nBut more importantly, \"there has always been the idea that Prince Philip would return some day, either in person or in spiritual form\", says Mr Huffman, who adds that some may think his death will finally trigger this eventuality.\n\nAnd so, while the Duke of Edinburgh lies in rest in Windsor Castle, there is the belief that his soul is making its final journey across the waves of the Pacific Ocean to its spiritual home, the island of Tanna - to reside with those who have loved and revered him from afar all these years.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The G7 group of wealthy nations must lead a \"Herculean mobilisation\" to push for global mass vaccination against Covid, former PM Gordon Brown has said.\n\nWriting in the Guardian, Mr Brown said £22bn was needed to ensure yearly vaccinations for lower income countries until Covid no longer claims lives.\n\nThe next G7 summit is due to take place in the UK in June.\n\nThe UK government said millions of doses had been sent to developing countries under the Covax scheme.\n\nThe Covax programme, run by the World Health Organization (WHO) and other international groups, aims to ensure vaccines are shared fairly among all nations, rich and poor.\n\nThe scheme is expected to provide enough jabs to cover more than a quarter of the developing world by the end of this year, but less than 1% of the population of sub-Saharan Africa has been immunised so far, Mr Brown said.\n\n\"Immunising the west but only a fraction of the developing world is already fuelling allegations of 'vaccine apartheid', and will leave Covid-19 spreading, mutating and threatening the lives and livelihoods of us all for years to come,\" he wrote.\n\nThe G7 is made up of the UK, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the US and the European Union.\n\nMr Brown said there was an urgent need for greater action and warned against \"unpredictable funding\" and \"erratic patterns of giving\".\n\n\"We need to spend now to save lives, and we need to spend tomorrow to carry on vaccinating each year until the disease no longer claims lives,\" the former Labour leader said.\n\nDeliveries of vaccine supplies under the Covax programme started in February, but there have been criticisms that it has not moved quickly enough.\n\nSo far, more than 38 million doses have been delivered to around 100 countries under the scheme.\n\nThe WHO has criticised the \"shocking imbalance\" in the distribution of coronavirus vaccines between wealthier and poorer nations.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covax vaccine plan: What is it and how will it work?\n\nMr Brown said if G7 members commit to funding 60% of the vaccination fund, other wealthy countries will likely follow.\n\nThe money needed is a \"fraction of the trillions\" the pandemic is costing, Mr Brown added.\n\nHe said that if wealthy nations could mobilise the same moral force and urgency that inspired Live Aid in the 1980s and Make Poverty History in 2005, \"we can end our reliance on the begging bowl\" and establish global systems to deal with the pandemic.\n\nHowever, international aid commitments have been cut in the last year as economies struggle to recover from the impact of the pandemic.\n\nThe UK government has come under fire for its decision to reduce foreign aid from 0.7% of national income to 0.5% - a move that would save about £4bn a year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"We recognise this is a global crisis requiring global solutions, which is why the UK has been a leading donor to the Covax procurement pool for vaccines.\n\n\"Millions of doses have been sent to developing countries through the Covax scheme already. With our G7 partners, we will intensify our cooperation on the health response to Covid-19, including the acceleration of global vaccine development and deployment.\"", "Nomadland, a drama about a woman who lives in a van in the American West after the financial crash, has taken top honours at the Bafta Film Awards.\n\nIt scooped four prizes including best film, best actress for its star Frances McDormand and best director.\n\nThat made Chloe Zhao only the second woman to win best director in the 53 years of the category's history.\n\nMeanwhile, Sir Anthony Hopkins won best actor for The Father, 27 years after his last competitive Bafta win.\n\nOlivia Colman stars with Sir Anthony Hopkins in The Father\n\nThe 83-year-old, who won for playing a man losing his grip on reality, is the oldest ever winner of the award. But he was not watching Sunday's ceremony and later said he only found out he'd won when he heard cheering from the next room.\n\n\"I was sitting here painting, and I heard this cheer go off next door,\" he said after the ceremony. \"I thought, what the hell's happened? I thought they were watching a football match. And they came in and said I'd won.\"\n\nMost winners were watching live and delivered acceptance speeches remotely, with none of the nominees at the Royal Albert Hall in person.\n\nZhao, who was born in China and is based in the US, referred to her education in the UK when she told the ceremony: \"I think I just made my teacher at Brighton College very proud.\"\n\nHer win comes 11 years after Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win best director for The Hurt Locker, and Zhao's victory means she is the first woman of colour to pick up the prize. Nomadland will be released in the UK on Disney+ on 30 April.\n\nBritish star Daniel Kaluuya was named best supporting actor for playing Black Panther leader Fred Hampton in Judas and the Black Messiah.\n\nThe supporting actress trophy went to South Korea's Yuh-Jung Youn for playing a grandmother in Korean-American drama Minari. Giving her speech in broken English, the 73-year-old said the award meant a lot because Brits were \"snobbish\" people.\n\n\"Every award is meaningful, but this one especially recognised by British people, known as very snobbish people, and they approved me as a good actor so I'm very, very privileged,\" she said.\n\nEmerald Fennell said the reception for Promising Young Woman had been \"completely incredible\"\n\nThe prize for best British film went to Promising Young Woman, a revenge thriller about a woman, played by Carey Mulligan, who pretends to be blind drunk when men pick her up in bars and clubs.\n\nIts writer and director Emerald Fennell also won best original screenplay. She joked that everyone involved in the film had made it for \"a packet of crisps\", and said the experience was \"the greatest thing in my life\".\n\nFennell is best known to viewers for her acting as Patsy in BBC drama Call the Midwife and for playing Camilla Parker-Bowles in Netflix's The Crown.\n\nOther Bafta winners included Bukky Bakray. The 18-year-old was named rising star following her first ever acting role in Rocks, in which she played a teenage schoolgirl abandoned by her mother.\n\nThe low-budget film, set in east London, was the joint highest nominee along with Nomadland, with seven nominations each. Rocks also won the casting award for finding its group of largely novice young stars.\n\nMany of the young stars of Rocks, which won best casting, had not acted before\n\nOther films to win two prizes included Disney/Pixar's animated hit Soul; Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, adapted from August Wilson's play about a 1920s blues band; and Sound of Metal, which stars Riz Ahmed as a rock drummer who loses his hearing.\n\nThis year's shortlists included a diverse line-up of talent, following an outcry last year when voters only nominated white actors.\n\nThis time 16 of the 24 acting contenders came from minority ethnic backgrounds, while 21 were first-time nominees.\n\nMore on the winning films:\n\nThe night began with a tribute to the Duke of Edinburgh, who was Bafta's first president between 1959 and 1966.\n\nCo-host Edith Bowman said Prince Philip \"occupies a very special place in Bafta's history, and our thoughts are with the Royal Family\".\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge had been due to appear in a pre-recorded segment, but pulled out following the death of his grandfather.\n\nThis year's Baftas were delayed by two months because of the pandemic, and come two weeks before the awards season reaches its climax with the Academy Awards.\n\nUnlike the Baftas, Oscars organisers want nominees to appear in person and will have a London venue for the first time for UK-based contenders.\n\nSir Anthony, however, said he would stay in Wales, where he is having \"a quiet time\", rather than travelling to take part in the Oscar ceremony.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Twelve months later, the prince had appeared to be in good health when he accompanied the Queen on the royal barge, the Spirit of Chartwell, which formed part of the rain-drenched Diamond Jubilee river pageant on 3 June 2012. He and the Queen stood for most of the 80-minute journey, as they were accompanied by 1,000 boats travelling seven miles down the River Thames to Tower Bridge. However, the duke was admitted to hospital with a bladder infection before the Diamond Jubilee concert on 4 June.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lockdown lifting in Liverpool: 'Light at the end of the tunnel'\n\nFor the first time in months, pub gardens, shops and hairdressers have reopened in England, as rules were also eased in the rest of the UK.\n\nShoppers flocked to the High Street, with long queues seen outside some retailers. Other people took advantage of England's gyms and zoos reopening.\n\nThe PM had planned to have a celebratory pint to mark the measures easing, but that has been postponed following the death of the Duke of Edinburgh on Friday.\n\nSnow showers and chilly temperatures in parts of southern England appeared to do little to dampen enthusiasm for outdoor pints.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A Leeds landlord says his pub has had thousands of bookings for their outside area.\n\nScott Westlake, landlord of the Myrtle Tavern in Leeds, said the pub had received 5,000 bookings over the next month for his new outside eating and drinking area.\n\nMr Westlake said: \"If the weather's good, I think most people are optimistic and excited.\n\n\"Atmosphere, ambience, seeing your mates, I think they (customers) are looking forward to that more than anything - and they'll sit in a blizzard for the first few days at least.\"\n\nGroups of people sat at tables outside bars in the Northern Quarter of central Manchester\n\nDrinkers at the Still & West pub in Portsmouth came prepared for all weather\n\nTwo friends enjoy a celebratory drink at the Skylight roof top bar in London\n\nNicholas Hair, landlord and owner of the Kentish Belle pub in Bexleyheath, south-east London, said there was a \"sense of celebration\" in the early hours of Monday as it opened to midnight customers.\n\n\"I'm hoping that this is a sort of rebirth, and that we are reopen for the foreseeable,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile, a town in Lincolnshire has introduced its own European-style pavement cafes to help boost trade.\n\nSeveral hospitality venues in the market town of Louth have been allowed to put seating and tables outside to serve people during the day.\n\nLewis Phillips, general manager of the Masons Arms, which is one of the venues involved in the Louth scheme, said: \"We don't have a lovely big beer garden. So what we've got out the front here is absolutely brilliant.\"\n\nSeveral hospitality businesses in Louth are taking part in the scheme\n\nThe prime minister had planned to have a celebratory pint to mark the measures easing, but that was postponed following the death of the Duke of Edinburgh on Friday.\n\nHowever, Downing Street confirmed that Mr Johnson did have a haircut before he paid tribute to the duke in the House of Commons.\n\nThe PM had previously suggested he would prioritise a visit to the pub over a trip to the hairdressers\n\nMarika Smith, general manager of Hough End Leisure Centre, Withington, Manchester, said all of their swimming times were already fully booked on Monday.\n\nKelly Boad, owner of the Hair & Beauty Gallery in Warwick, opened her salon at midnight for a symbolic \"first cut\" of 2021, adding she is fully booked for the first few weeks.\n\nShoppers rushed back to the High Street, as queues formed outside branches of Primark, JD Sports and TK Maxx and retailers extended their opening hours.\n\nAnother business that reopened in England was Secret Spa, which offers at-home salon and spa treatments in London, Manchester and Brighton.\n\nCo-owner Emily Ewart-Perks said it had \"been such a long time coming\", saying: \"Everyone has really missed the social contact of the day-to-day job and making clients happy.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Long queues were not going to put shoppers off from visiting their favourite High Street retailers\n\nThe rule changes in England from Monday include:\n\nBut the British Beer and Pub Association has estimated that only 40% of licensed premises have the space to reopen for outdoor service.\n\nPeople flocked to salons after months without a haircut\n\nThrillseekers have been enjoying the rides at Thorpe Park in Surrey\n\nIn Northern Ireland, the remaining school year groups 8-11 returned to the classroom. The stay-at-home message has been lifted and up to 10 people from two households can meet in a private garden.\n\nIn Scotland, pupils at schools in six council areas went back to school but not everyone returned on Monday because differing term times mean some schools are still closed for the Easter holidays.\n\nAfter a drop in Covid cases prompted the Welsh Government to bring forward some dates for reopening, all students returned to face-to-face teaching on Monday.\n\nNon-essential shops can also reopen, close-contact services can resume, driving lessons can restart and travel in and out of Wales from the rest of the UK is allowed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Shopper in Liverpool: \"It means life has come back to normal again\"\n\nFamilies descended on London Zoo, which has also been closed for months\n\nShoppers, gym fans, domestic holiday makers, outdoor drinkers and diners, plus those in need of a haircut will share the government's hope that Monday is an irreversible step towards old and cherished freedoms.\n\nSo will the business owners who will be welcoming them back.\n\nBut this significant easing of lockdown is also an important test.\n\nWill customers want or be able to return in sufficient numbers for firms to break even and if they don't, what will it take to make the economy work again?\n\nOnly two in five hospitality venues have any outdoor space and the rules over future inside opening are still unclear.\n\nThe government and the opposition have distanced themselves from requiring Covid certificates for day-to-day life but the government has also hinted individual businesses may require them if they wish.\n\nHospitality chiefs have told the BBC they fear having to choose between two different ways to lose money - half-empty venues without certificates or full ones with extra staff and hassle to check Covid status.\n\nHairdressers are booked solid, retailers are hopeful of high footfall and are welcoming longer opening hours but some holiday parks are reporting subdued bookings as many of their public amenities remain closed.\n\nIt is a test for everyone - but a welcome one for most.\n\nIn a statement, the prime minister said the rule relaxations are \"a major step forward in our roadmap to freedom\".\n\n\"I'm sure it will be a huge relief for those business owners who have been closed for so long, and for everyone else it's a chance to get back to doing some of the things we love and have missed,\" he added.\n\n\"I urge everyone to continue to behave responsibly and remember 'hands, face, space and fresh air' to suppress Covid as we push on with our vaccination programme.\"\n\nUltimate Fitness Gym in Wallsend, north-east England, was among the businesses to have reopened early on Monday\n\nSynchronised swimmers are able to return to indoor pools, which can reopen, such as this one at Clissold Leisure Centre, north London\n\nThe rule changes in England marks the third easing since the country's third national lockdown began on 6 January.\n\nThere is a gap of at least five weeks between each step on the government's \"roadmap\" out of lockdown, to allow the impact of changes on infection rates and hospital admissions to be assessed.\n\nThe next significant date is 17 May, when up to six people from different households could be allowed to socialise indoors.\n\nMore than 32 million people in the UK have now had their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine and of those 7.6m have had their second dose, according to the latest government data.\n\nMeanwhile, 189,665 second doses were administered on Sunday - along with 69,223 first doses.\n\nSaturday marked a record total for second doses, with 475,230 given, while 111,109 were first doses.\n\nA further 13 people are reported to have died within 28 days of a positive Covid test, and there have been 3,568 new infections.\n\nThere can be a lag in reporting coronavirus statistics during weekends.\n\nMeanwhile, surge coronavirus testing is being rolled out in areas of Wandsworth and Lambeth in south London, where cases of the South Africa variant were found.\n\nAll identified cases are self-isolating or have completed their isolation, and their contacts have been traced and asked to self-isolate.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The rule of six applies for those visiting pubs and restaurants outdoors in England", "A cheap drug, commonly used to treat asthma, can help people at home recover more quickly from Covid-19, a UK trial has found.\n\nTwo puffs of budesonide twice a day could benefit many over-50s with early symptoms around the world, said the University of Oxford research team.\n\nThere are also early signs the drug could reduce hospital admissions.\n\nThe NHS says it can now be prescribed by GPs to treat Covid on a case-by-case basis.\n\nAt present, there are few options for treating people with Covid who are not in hospital, apart from paracetamol.\n\nThis widely-available asthma drug works in the lungs, where coronavirus can do serious damage, and could improve the recovery of at-risk patients who are unwell with Covid at home.\n\nProf Stephen Powis, national medical director of NHS England, said he was \"delighted\" by the trial results so far and added that GPs could prescribe it after \"a shared decision conversation\" with patients.\n\nProf Mona Bafadhel, a respiratory doctor who was involved in the Oxford-led Principle trial, said the results were \"something we should be excited about\".\n\n\"We are helping the patient as much as possible, as early as possible - in the community,\" she said.\n\nEarly in the pandemic, asthma patients were under-represented in severely-ill hospital patients with Covid - and the drugs they took to treat their condition were thought to be the reason.\n\nThe trial involved more than 1,700 people at high risk of becoming severely ill with Covid-19 - all aged over 50, either with an underlying health condition or aged over 65 with no health problems.\n\nAn inhaler similar to the one used in the budesonide trial to treat Covid in at-risk patients at home\n\nDuring the first two weeks of experiencing symptoms at home, 751 were given an inhaler containing budesonide to use twice a day.\n\nThis group recovered from Covid on average three days sooner than another group given normal care, which is advice to rest and take paracetamol, the trial data showed.\n\nAnd a third of those taking inhaled budesonide recovered within the first 14 days of using it, compared to less than a quarter of those in the other group.\n\nThere were also early signs that slightly fewer people on the drug were admitted to hospital with Covid (8.5% compared to 10.3%) - but more data is needed before this, or any reduction in deaths from Covid, can be confirmed, the researchers said.\n\nThese are interim results from the trial up to the end of March, which have not yet been peer-reviewed or published in a journal.\n\nFinal results from the trial, which are likely to include more data, are expected at the end of April.\n\nBudesonide, like other coricosteroids which are breathed into the lungs using an inhaler, \"work at the site of the virus where it is likely to be causing the biggest effect and is widely known to reduce inflammation\", Prof Bafadhel said.\n\nLab tests suggest the drug also reduces viral replication of the virus.\n\nAssociate Prof Gail Hayward, a GP and investigator on the trial, said patients at higher risk could be offered the inhaler as part of their treatment on the NHS. One inhaler is thought to cost about £14.\n\n\"We now have the evidence to treat my patients at home,\" she said.\n\nA smaller, earlier-stage trial on the drug in February also reported promising results.\n\nThe Oxford-led Principle trial is the latest UK trial to release positive results in the search for Covid treatments. Last year, a steroid called dexamethasone was found to save lives among the most seriously-ill patients in hospital and a number of other drugs and treatments have also shown promise.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "From the archive: The opening of the Clyde Tunnel. Video, 00:00:39From the archive: The opening of the Clyde Tunnel", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTropical cyclone Seroja has ripped across a 1,000km (621-mile) stretch of Western Australia, leaving a trail of damage.\n\nThe category three storm made landfall near the town of Kalbarri on Sunday with gusts of up to 170km/h (105mph).\n\nThe storm was later downgraded to a tropical low, though strong winds continue to move south-east.\n\nKalbarri resident Debbie Major said the storm, which hit the resort town around 19:00 local time (11:00 GMT), raged through the night and was \"absolutely terrifying\".\n\n\"You just thought, this is it. I would have thought that when we opened the door, that there would be nothing around us except that roof,\" she told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.\n\n\"We are a small town. Half of it has been flattened.\"\n\nWeather authorities said Cyclone Seroja had maintained \"uncommon\" pace and strength throughout Sunday night, as it moved from Kalbarri and Geraldton on the coast, and inland across the state's Wheat Belt.\n\nEmergency services said about 70% of structures in Kalbarri, which is home to about 1,500 people, were damaged by the cyclone. Several towns in the state's south-east remain under \"red alert\" on Monday, meaning residents were advised to take shelter, and thousands of homes were left without power.\n\nOne Kalbarri resident told the West Australian newspaper that he was forced to hide in a pantry with his pregnant wife and their dog.\n\n\"I heard a few windows smash and some loud bangs. I went upstairs to check and felt that it was raining. I didn't look up but I am guessing I have lost some of my roof,\" Jason Regan said.\n\nAuthorities have warned the heavy rain may cause flooding\n\nDarius Winterfield, a reporter for Channel 9 news in Kalbarri, lost the roof to his balcony and said the storm would be \"devastating for many come first light\".\n\nEmergency services received 175 calls for help on Monday, a Department of Fire and Emergency Services spokeswoman told the BBC.\n\nGovernment emergency funding is being offered to affected residents.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Darius Winterfield This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 the storm hit, state Premier Mark McGowan warned that the cyclone was \"like nothing we have seen before in decades\". The Bureau of Meteorology said it was the first cyclone to hit some affected areas since 1956.\n\nLast month, areas of eastern Australia were evacuated as rivers and dams overflowed in the worst floods in decades, with around 18,000 people displaced.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "MPs' tributes not at all sombre\n\nDressed in black, MPs began by standing with their heads bowed for a minute's silence in memory of Prince Phillip. But their tributes to him are not at all sombre. Prime Minister Boris Johnson - a man who loves words (and has sometimes got into trouble for them) - recalled the Duke admitting to \"dontopedalogy\" or the science of opening your mouth and putting your foot in it. The SNP leader, Ian Blackford, who was wearing Highland dress, remembered the Duke's love of Balmoral - and his loathing of over-long speeches. And the Labour leader, Sir Keir Starmer, recounted taking part in the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme when he was 14 - wandering around Dartmoor as part of a small team, trying desperately to find his way. \"If that doesn't prepare you for politics,\" he said, \"nothing will.\" Well over 100 MPs want to speak in this debate, so it is likely to last well into the evening.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. As he received the freedom of Cardiff, Prince Philip said every visit to Wales was a delight\n\nIn 1954, the Duke of Edinburgh became the 48th person to receive the freedom of Cardiff.\n\nHe told the assembled dignitaries: \"It is always comforting to be told that one is a person of distinction but it's even more comforting to know it's by act of parliament.\"\n\nWearing the dress uniform of the Welsh Guards, he went on: \"Here in Wales there's a strange, wild beauty which makes every visit a delight.\"\n\nIn 1954, the Duke of Edinburgh became the 48th person to receive the Freedom of Cardiff\n\nAnd he paid tribute to the \"very genuine kindness and hospitality of the people of Wales to myself and, indeed, to all visitors\".\n\nThe freedom of Cardiff is the highest honour the city can bestow on an individual and was first awarded in 1886.\n\nIn 1954, the Queen was the only woman to have received the honour.\n\nThe duke attended the ceremony wearing the dress uniform of the Welsh Guards\n\nTo date, it has been bestowed on 62 people, including Nelson Mandela, Princess Diana, Dame Shirley Bassey and 10 organisations.\n\nUnlike freeman honours awarded in cities such as London, the Cardiff title is purely honorary without any special privileges.\n\nIn London, being given the freedom of the city historically bestowed the right to herd sheep over London bridge, to go about the city with a drawn sword and, if convicted of a capital offence, to be hanged with a silken rope.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Baroness Williams, pictured here in 2016, was a former education secretary\n\nVeteran politician and Liberal Democrat peer Baroness Shirley Williams has died at the age of 90, the party has announced.\n\nShe was hailed as a \"Liberal lion and a true trailblazer\" by Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey.\n\nOriginally a Labour MP, she was part of the \"Gang of Four\" who quit the party to found the Social Democratic Party.\n\nShe was a leading member of the 1970s Labour government and one of the first women cabinet ministers.\n\nShe later went on to support the SDP's merger with the Liberal Party, which led to the creation of the Liberal Democrats in the late 1980s.\n\nHer career in politics spanned more than 50 years, after she first entered Parliament as the Labour MP for Hitchin in 1964.\n\nShe retired from political life in 2016, after leading the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The late Shirley Williams is described as a “liberal lion” by the current Lib Dem leader.\n\nThe Lib Dems said she died peacefully in the early hours of Monday.\n\nSir Ed said she had been an \"inspiration to millions,\" and news of her death was \"heartbreaking for me and for our whole Liberal Democrat family\".\n\n\"Political life will be poorer without her intellect, her wisdom and her generosity,\" he added.\n\n\"Shirley had a limitless empathy only too rare in politics today; she connected with people, cared about their lives and saw politics as a crucial tool to change lives for the better.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson described her as \"a kind and thoughtful member of the once radical centre left\".\n\n\"Even when we disagreed - as we often did - she had the gift of sounding so completely reasonable at all times.\n\n\"I spent many happy hours sparring with her on Question Time. She will be much missed.\"\n\nBaroness Williams quit Labour in 1981, after becoming dismayed at its drift to the left\n\nBaroness Williams served in several ministerial roles under the premiership of Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson, before landing her first cabinet job in 1974 as the Secretary of State for Prices and Consumer Protection.\n\nWhen Wilson resigned as Labour leader in 1976 his successor, Jim Callaghan, made her Secretary of State for Education and Science.\n\nShe lost her seat in the 1979 election when Conservative leader Margaret Thatcher came to power following the so-called Winter of Discontent.\n\nAfter this, she found herself increasingly out of step with the Labour Party on issues including defence and her support for the UK's membership of the European Union.\n\nShe later quit the party in 1981 - and with leading Labour lights Bill Rodgers, Roy Jenkins and David Owen formed the \"Gang of Four\" which founded the Social Democratic Party.\n\nShirley Williams with the \"Gang of Four\" in 1981\n\nWith growing support, the SDP went on to secure 25% of the vote at the 1983 general election, as part of an electoral alliance with the Liberal Party.\n\nThis only delivered 23 MPs for the fledgling alliance, but then-Labour leader Michael Foot blamed it for reducing his party's share of the vote and giving Margaret Thatcher and the Conservatives another term in government.\n\nThe Alliance fought the 1987 election, but failed to boost its representation in the Commons - with almost 23% of the vote amounting to just 22 MPs.\n\nLord Steel, who led the Liberal Party during the Alliance, said Baroness Williams was a \"key figure\" in helping it come close to breaking the two-party mould in British politics.\n\n\"She was a very, very popular person - much more popular than any of the rest of us,\" he told BBC News.\n\nHe added that she was a \"tremendous public inspirer and communicator, and a real humanitarian\".\n\nIt was decided in 1988 that the SDP and the Liberal Party should merge, leading to the formation of the Liberal Democrats in October 1989.\n\nSir Nick Clegg, who stood down as Lib Dem leader after the 2015 election, said he would \"forever be grateful for the support, candid advice and generosity\" Baroness Williams showed him during his time in charge of the party.\n\n\"Her warmth, commitment to progressive ideals and, above all, her wisdom were a constant inspiration down the years to so many,\" he added.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said Baroness Williams had been \"widely respected across politics and was a tireless champion for the causes she believed in\".\n• None Who were the Social Democratic Party?", "The government has announced a review covering David Cameron's efforts to lobby ministers on behalf of finance firm Greensill Capital.\n\nThe former prime minister has been criticised for contacting ministers via text on behalf of the company, which collapsed in March.\n\nDowning Street said the probe would be led by lawyer Nigel Boardman on behalf of the Cabinet Office.\n\nLabour says the government's response is \"inadequate\".\n\nMr Cameron has said he has not broken any codes of conduct or lobbying rules.\n\nBut in a statement on Sunday weeks after reports of his lobbying emerged, the former Tory leader said that he should have contacted ministers through \"formal\" channels.\n\nA spokesman for the former PM told the BBC: \"David Cameron welcomes the inquiry and will be glad to take part.\"\n\nMr Cameron began working as an adviser to Greensill Capital in August 2018, two years after he stepped down as prime minister.\n\nIn recent weeks, newspaper reports have revealed he texted Chancellor Rishi Sunak and other Treasury ministers on behalf of the company.\n\nMr Cameron said he had been trying to involve the company in a government-backed emergency loans scheme for firms hit by the Covid pandemic.\n\nThe government went on to reject his plans to involve Greensill in the so-called Covid Corporate Financing Facility.\n\nIt has also been revealed that Mr Cameron met Health Secretary Matt Hancock for a \"private drink\" in 2019 to discuss a payment scheme for the NHS.\n\nAn ally of Mr Hancock said he had \"acted in entirely the correct way\".\n\nIf you hope that the review that is meant to clear up what happened in this instance will propose some big crackdown, forget it. Just like the organisation that provides rules for former ministers, it has no power of sanction, no statutory, or legal force.\n\nSources suggests its remit is to find out narrowly what happened with Mr Cameron and Mr Greensill, not to start a conversation about the rights and wrongs of lobbying, let alone to propose a new system.\n\nThat is not to cast aspersions either on the ability of the senior lawyer who will carry out the work, who may well turn up more interesting nuggets.\n\nHe'll report by the end of June, and has been promised access to the information he needs. But the remit is tightly drawn, suggesting little appetite in government for a big rethink of the landscape.\n\nDowning Street insists the prime minster understands the significant public interest and wants to look at the issues raised and get more details.\n\nWhile there is no love lost between Boris Johnson and David Cameron, and it is pretty much impossible to think of a similar case where a serving PM commissions an investigation into one of his predecessors, Labour is already warning that it could be a \"Conservative cover-up\".\n\nDespite that rather dramatic language, do not forget there are questions that remain for current government figures about conversations they had with Mr Cameron and Mr Greensill.\n\nA Cabinet Office spokesperson said the review would look into \"the decisions taken around the development and use of supply chain finance (and associated schemes) in government, especially the role of Lex Greensill and Greensill Capital\".\n\n\"Mr Boardman will have access to all necessary government information required to conduct the review and will engage with those involved at the time when decisions were made.\"\n\nThe spokesperson also said that Mr Boardman would report his findings to the prime minister \"no later than the end of June 2021\" and that he will pause his work as a non-executive director of the Business Department while the review is carried out.\n\nThe BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg says it is understood the review will not have legal powers, and is likely to come up with findings rather than recommendations.\n\nAnd Mr Boardman has not been asked to suggest ways of tightening up the lobbying system, but has been given a limited remit to ascertain how decisions about Greensill Capital were made.\n\nThe shadow cabinet office minister, Rachel Reeves, said what the government has announced \"doesn't go far enough\".\n\n\"There is a real risk that the government are attempting to brush under the carpet or cover up this scandal of cronyism, of contracts and of involvement of the former prime minister in lobbying current ministers\" she said.\n\n\"It is essential that everybody involved in this scandal comes before parliament and answers serious and important questions about possible wrongdoing\" she added.\n\nMr Cameron's predecessor at No 10, Gordon Brown, welcomed an inquiry, adding: \"it's important to get to the bottom of this\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gordon Brown: “Public office should not be a platform for private gain”\n\nThe ex-Labour leader told BBC News: \"I don't really think former ministers and prime ministers should be engaged in lobbying for particular commercial companies, when they are lobbying their successors whom they know very well and could have privileged access to.\n\n\"Lobbying in this commercial way could also be a stain on our democracy, and therefore an inquiry is completely appropriate.\"\n\nFormer ministers and senior civil servants are banned from lobbying for two years after they leave government, a rule Mr Cameron followed.\n\nMr Brown had suggested earlier on Monday the ban should be extended to five years if existing rules prove inadequate.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSenior Welsh politicians have paid tribute to the Duke of Edinburgh at a recalled meeting of the Senedd.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said Prince Philip led a remarkable life and had championed a \"broad diversity\" of causes in Wales.\n\nMembers of the Senedd held a minute's silence at the virtual meeting for the duke, who died on Friday at Windsor Castle at the age of 99.\n\nMPs in Westminster also gathered on Monday to remember the duke.\n\nMSPs also paid tribute in the Scottish Parliament, where they held a minute's silence.\n\nThe Welsh Conservatives' Andrew RT Davies said the Duke of Edinburgh's Award helped more than 400,000 people in the country.\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Adam Price celebrated the support the duke \"provided to others\".\n\nMr Drakeford said: \"A very long life in any circumstances brings with it a set of remarkable events witnessed and experienced, enjoyed or endured.\n\n\"To have lived such a life at the centre of world events and in a way which made almost every experience of public, rather than simply private interest, makes it even more remarkable still, and that was the life of the Duke of Edinburgh.\"\n\nAs news emerged of his death, the main parties in Wales - Labour, Conservatives, Plaid Cymru and the Liberal Democrats - suspended their campaigns for the Senedd and police and crime commissioner elections.\n\nThey planned to resume the campaign for May's Senedd election after the tributes.\n\nThe first minister said \"the sense of the collision of the personal and the historical has been there to see in the reaction of so many of our fellow citizens\".\n\n\"It tells us something about the presence of Prince Philip throughout the lifespan of every single member of this Senedd.\"\n\nMr Drakeford said the duke, who was also the Earl of Merioneth, \"was a supporter of a number of associations and societies in Meirionnydd, to the cricket club, the sailing club to the Meirionnydd brass band\".\n\nMr Davies, leader of the Welsh Conservatives in the Senedd, paid tribute to the work Prince Philip had carried out in supporting young people, military charities and wildlife projects.\n\nHe said the Duke of Edinburgh's Award scheme had benefitted millions of young people around the world while in Wales it had put \"more than 400,000 people on the road to a future of bright prospects\".\n\nMr Davies said he'd met the duke on several occasions when he'd visited the Senedd and he was \"always interested, always thoughtful and always considered in his judgement\".\n\nMembers of the Senedd held a minute's silent in tribute to the duke\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Adam Price said: \"We are here not only to grieve but also to thank Prince Philip for his lifetime's contribution.\n\n\"It's not a title or status or crown that is Prince Philip's most important legacy that we celebrate today - but the support that he provided to others.\"\n\nMr Price told the parliament: \"Our silence here today is a mark of respect and commemoration to the Royal Family in their grief, but it's also a heart-rending symbol of loss as we grieve with all those who have lost loved ones during this most difficult of years.\"\n\nThe Senedd sent its condolences on the death of Prince Philip\n\nLord Dafydd Elis-Thomas said the Duke of Edinburgh had a \"unique\" interest in faith communities with him understanding the \"importance of faith to communities\".\n\nLiberal Democrat Kirsty Williams said Prince Philip also supported literacy programmes across the world, \"developing public libraries, recognising the importance of access to the written word in democratising knowledge\".\n\nMark Reckless, speaking for the Abolish The Welsh Assembly Party, paid tribute to Prince Philip's ability to have \"genuine and real conversations with so many people\".\n\nCaroline Jones, the leader of the Independent Alliance for Reform Group in the Senedd, said he was a \"shining beacon of public service\".\n\nPresiding officer Elin Jones, who chairs meetings of the Welsh Parliament, told members she would write to the Queen to express the Welsh Parliament's condolences.\n\nPlaid Cymru will fully restart its campaign later, including door knocking or door-to-door canvassing, which can now recommence following a change in the Covid-19 rules.\n\nLabour and the Liberal Democrats will resume leafleting on Monday afternoon before fully returning to their campaigns on Tuesday.\n\nThe Conservatives will restart their campaign on Tuesday.\n\nThe Conservatives, Labour and the Lib Dems also plan to fully suspend campaigning on Saturday to mark the Duke of Edinburgh's funeral.\n\nPlaid is still to make a final decision but the current plan is to continue campaigning on Saturday morning before stopping for the funeral itself.\n\nThe service is due to be held at 15:00 BST in the grounds of Windsor Castle.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "David Cameron has said he should have contacted the government “through only the most formal of channels\" when lobbying for a financial firm.\n\nThe former prime minister has faced criticism for contacting ministers on behalf of Greensill Capital.\n\nIn his first statement on the issue, he said he should have left \"no room for misinterpretation\".\n\nBut Mr Cameron reiterated that he had broken no codes of conduct or government rules on lobbying.\n\nHe added: \"However, I have reflected on this at length. There are important lessons to be learnt.\"\n\nThe Labour Party said Mr Cameron's statement had left \"many serious questions\" unanswered, and called for him to answer them before Parliament.\n\nIt was revealed earlier that Health Secretary Matt Hancock had met Mr Cameron and financier Lex Greensill for a \"private drink\" in 2019 to discuss a new payment scheme for the NHS.\n\nAn ally of Mr Hancock said he had \"acted in entirely the correct way\".\n\nThe meeting is the latest in a series of Sunday Times disclosures about Mr Cameron's lobbying work since leaving office, with Chancellor Rishi Sunak - whom he texted - among the ministers contacted.\n\nFor three weeks the headlines kept coming. For three weeks David Cameron said nothing.\n\nAnd now this - the former prime minister admits he made a dud judgement call.\n\nForget the rules; this is about the sniff test. Does it smell bad? Does it feel right?\n\nPlenty had been saying no it doesn't, and now David Cameron appears to agree.\n\nIt's a lengthy statement from him, worthy of detailed examination.\n\nBut it boils down to this: he acknowledges texting and ringing the chancellor and going for a private drink with the health secretary, as part of his paid work for a private company, was a bad idea.\n\nThere's another point worth making too: journalism matters.\n\nThe work of the Financial Times and the Sunday Times, ferreting out awkward truths, is what has prompted this.\n\nMr Greensill, an Australian, worked as an unpaid adviser to Mr Cameron's government, and the former prime minister went on to be employed by his company - Greensill Capital - in 2018, two years after leaving Downing Street.\n\nIn his statement, Mr Cameron said: \"In my representations to government, I was breaking no codes of conduct and no government rules.\n\n\"Ultimately, the outcome of the discussions I encouraged about how Greensill's proposals might be included in the government's CCFF (Covid Corporate Financing Facility) initiative - and help in the wake of the coronavirus crisis - was that they were not taken up.\n\n\"So, I complied with the rules and my interventions did not lead to a change in the government's approach to the CCFF.\"\n\nHe added: \"As a former prime minister, I accept that communications with government need to be done through only the most formal of channels, so there can be no room for misinterpretation.\"\n\nMr Cameron added that he had worked for Greensill Capital in the belief that there \"would be a material benefit for UK businesses at a challenging time\".\n\n\"That was, in large part, my reason for working for Greensill in the first place,\" he said.\n\nThe company recently collapsed, with the loss of 440 jobs.\n\nMr Cameron said: \"I completely understand the public interest in this issue, given the impact of Greensill's collapse on the hundreds of people who worked for the company and on other businesses and livelihoods. I feel desperately sorry for those affected.\"\n\nHe added that Mr Greensill had been brought in as a government adviser by then-Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood, in 2011.\n\n\"He was not a political appointee,\" Mr Cameron said, \"but part of the Civil Service drive to improve government efficiency.\"\n\nHe continued: \"The false impression has been created that Lex Greensill was a close member of my team, meeting with me on a regular basis.\n\n\"The truth is, I had very little to do with Lex Greensill at this stage - as I recall, I met him twice at most in the entirety of my time as prime minister.\"\n\nMr Cameron - who was in Downing Street from 2010 to 2016 - is reported to have told friends he was set to earn as much as £60m from shareholdings in Greensill Capital prior to its collapse, although this has since been disputed.\n\nShadow chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Rachel Reeves said: \"The events unfolding over the last few weeks stretch across government and affect thousands of people.\n\n\"Transparency and accountability are crucial and that requires the utmost openness from government to establish the full facts behind this scandal.\"", "More than 167 million Covid-19 vaccine doses have now been delivered in China, making it the country with the second largest number of vaccinations in the world - behind the US on 187 million.\n\nChina's total would equate to about 12% of its population but last week the official People’s Daily signalled that the majority of vaccine recipients had also received second doses, and that statistically, the percentage of the population fully vaccinated was still in the single digits .\n\nChina says it needs 70-80% of its population vaccinated in order to achieve herd immunity and has ambitious plans to vaccinate 40% of the population by the end of June.\n\nBut it is struggling to see uptake. On average, some three to four million vaccine doses are being administered per day, even though national newspaper Global Times says China has capability to administer 10 million shots daily .\n\nThis is partly due to China being slow to include the elderly in its vaccination programme. A significant proportion of China’s population are over 60, owing to decades of birth controls under the now-abolished one-child policy.\n\nOver-60s have only just begun receiving vaccines, and there is still caution over widespread rollout due to there being insufficient data on how this demographic will respond in clinical trials .\n\nBut there are also more general, human nature concerns about vaccine safety. Last week, official broadcaster CCTV tried to dispel fears about getting vaccinated, noting there were concerns among the public over adverse reactions and the safety and efficacy of China’s vaccines .\n\nIt also noted there was a general resistance to getting vaccinated due to China having its Covid-19 situation largely under control and many not feeling it was \"necessary\" .", "US actor Joseph Siravo, who played Tony Soprano's father Johnny in the TV drama The Sopranos, has died aged 64.\n\nSiravo also featured in the Tony Award-winning stage musical Jersey Boys, as well as The People v OJ Simpson - part of the American Crime Story TV series.\n\nHis daughter Allegra Okarmus confirmed the news of his death online.\n\n\"I was by his side when my dear father passed away this morning, peacefully, in his beloved Treehouse,\" she posted on Instagram.\n\n\"We are both so lucky to be so intensely loved. I am so immensely grateful to have had him here on earth and I know that he hasn't gone very far.\"\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\nThe Sopranos ran for six seasons from 1999 to 2007, winning multiple Emmy and Golden Globe awards.\n\nSiravo's character appeared in flashbacks to the sixties as Tony's father, with whom he had a troubled relationship.\n\nJames Gandolfini, who portrayed Tony, died in 2013 but several of the show's other stars have paid tribute to Siravo online.\n\n\"RIP my dear friend, who fought an incredible fight,\" posted Garry Pastore.\n\n\"I will miss you. See you on the other side.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 and raised in the US capital Washington DC, Siravo made his on-screen debut in the 1993 film Carlito's Way.\n\nA star of screen and stage, he put in more than 2,000 performances as the character Gyp DeCarlo in the first national tour of the musical Jersey Boys from 2006 onwards.\n\nSiravo (far right) poses for pictures alongside Frankie Valli (centre) during the opening night party for Jersey Boys the 2006\n\nDeCarlo was a real-life mobster who took an interest in the career of musician Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons and, in the play, helps them settle a debt with a loan shark.\n\nSiravo often found himself cast as a Mafioso, playing both John and Gene Gotti of the Gambino crime family in separate projects.\n\nMore recently, he played Fred Goldman, father of the murdered waiter Ronald Goldman, in 2016's The People v OJ Simpson: American Crime Story; and appeared in the political drama film The Report in 2019.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "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.\"", "Peggie was a working sheepdog before she lost her hearing and was given up by the farmer\n\nA sheepdog given up to the RSPCA when she lost her hearing and was unable to work on a farm, has been taught a form of sign language enabling her to \"get back to the job she loved\".\n\nPeggy, a collie, was adopted in 2018 by a member of the charity's staff, whose husband is a shepherd in Norfolk.\n\nTogether they began the \"long process\" of teaching her how to herd using hand signals rather than voice commands.\n\nPeggy, 10, is now working part-time with the couple's other two dogs.\n\nPeggy was a \"bright and efficient sheepdog\" but as she had lost her hearing, she had lost her communication skills with her handler, the RSPCA said.\n\nA farmer handed the dog, then aged eight, to the charity's Mid Norfolk and North Suffolk branch, where Chloe Shorten, an animal welfare manager, worked.\n\nChloe Shorten and her husband Jason have taught signs and signals to Peggy\n\nWith no room in the kennels just before Christmas, Peggy went home to stay with the Shortens and their other two working sheepdogs.\n\n\"We knew Peggy wanted to be working, so we started the long process of teaching her how to herd and work with a shepherd without relying on voice commands,\" said Mrs Shorten.\n\n\"We started by teaching her to look at us for hand signals.\n\n\"We used repetitive and positive reinforcement and instead of pairing a verbal command with an action, we'd use a physical hand gesture.\"\n\nPeggy loves to run around and play, her owners say\n\nWith the help of a sheepdog trainer, Peggy came to understand hand signals and body language.\n\nThe process took time, Mrs Shorten said, and it also took time for Peggy to \"learn that we love her - and understand our praise\".\n\nA thumbs up means \"good girl\", she said.\n\nWhile the collie is \"generally retired\" she still goes out to work from time to time with Mrs Shorten's husband. When it comes to time to play, Peggy has to wear a GPS tracker as she runs around so enthusiastically and cannot hear her owners calling her back.\n\n\"It's amazing to see her with this new lease of life, and enjoying her life with us,\" said Mrs Shorten.\n\n\"She's proof that you can teach an old dog new tricks, and is a wonderful example of the capability of a dog - even if they do lose a sense.\"\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.", "People aged 11 and over are being urged to take a PCR test even if they have no symptoms\n\nA \"significant\" cluster of the South African Covid-19 variant has been found in two areas of south London where surge testing has been implemented.\n\nWandsworth and Lambeth will see additional testing after 44 confirmed and 30 probable cases were identified.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) called it the \"largest surge testing operation to date\".\n\nAll identified cases are isolating or have completed their isolation and their contacts have been traced.\n\nDr Susan Hopkins, chief medical adviser for NHS Test and Trace, said the number of cases was \"significant\" and stressed it was \"really important people in the local area play their part in stopping any further spread within the local community\".\n\nThe Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, urged people in the affected boroughs to get tested \"as soon as possible\".\n\n\"It's vital that we do everything we can to control this variant by taking a test and following the rules,\" he said.\n\nPeople aged 11 and over who live, work or travel through the affected areas are being urged to take a Covid-19 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test, as well as using twice-weekly rapid testing.\n\nPositive results from PCR testing will be sent for genomic sequencing at specialist labs.\n\nThe PCR test has been advised as well as using twice-weekly rapid testing\n\nThe first case was found in early March and the DHSC said the testing operation was aimed at suppressing any possible new cases of the variant.\n\nDr Hopkins said: \"Around one in three people with Covid-19 don't show any symptoms.\n\n\"By taking part you can protect yourselves and your loved ones and help us identify any possible new cases that would otherwise be missed, preventing further transmission and saving lives.\"\n\nSurge testing was previously carried out in three postcode areas of Lambeth in February after a case of the South African variant was discovered.\n\nIn March, intensive testing was put in place in three areas of Wandsworth borough following a small number of cases.", "Officers addressed the congregation on Good Friday, asking them to leave the building\n\nPolice have said they \"deeply\" regret the hurt caused when a Good Friday service was shut down for breaching Covid-19 restrictions.\n\nMet Police officers found some worshippers without masks and not socially distancing at Christ the King on Balham High Road, London.\n\nVideo of officers addressing the congregation inside the church circulated online.\n\nDet Supt Andy Wadey also addressed the congregation after Mass on Sunday.\n\nHe said Covid-19 restrictions had been challenging for faith communities, but the restrictions were designed \"to protect and support communities in staying safe during the pandemic\".\n\n\"We know, however, that many people were very upset by what happened on Good Friday and we deeply regret that,\" he said.\n\nDet Supt Wadey also said that there had been \"significant reflection and learning\" by both officers and senior leaders at New Scotland Yard.\n\nAt the time of the incident, a representative of Polish Catholic Mission Balham, which runs the church, said it believed police had \"brutally exceeded their powers by issuing their warrant for no good reason\".\n\nThey added the congregation had \"been wronged on such an important day for every believer\" and that worship had \"been profaned\".\n\nThe Roman Catholic Archbishop of Southwark, Most Rev John Wilson, accompanied Supt Wadey to the service on Sunday and said the concerns of the church had \"been heard directly by the Metropolitan Police Service\".\n\n\"We are all deeply saddened by the events that took place in this church on Good Friday afternoon,\" he added.\n\nCommunal worship in churches, synagogues, mosques, gurdwaras, temples and meeting rooms is allowed under current rules.\n\nThe number allowed at any service is determined by a risk assessment on the building where it is held.", "Millions of people watched coverage of the Duke of Edinburgh's death on Friday\n\nThe BBC has received 100,000 complaints from members of the public over its coverage of the Duke of Edinburgh's death, according to the Sun newspaper.\n\nThe corporation cleared its schedules to cover the news when Prince Philip died on Friday, at the age of 99.\n\nEastEnders and the MasterChef final were replaced by news programmes, while BBC Four was taken off air completely.\n\nThe BBC said: \"We are proud of our coverage and the role we play during moments of national significance.\"\n\nHowever, it declined to confirm the number of complaints it received.\n\nThe figures are due to be included in the broadcaster's fortnightly complaints bulletin on Thursday.\n\nA figure of 100,000 would make the coverage of Prince Philip's death the most complained-about piece of programming in BBC history.\n\nOther programmes that attracted a high volume of correspondence included the broadcast of Jerry Springer: The Opera, which received 63,000 complaints in 2005; and Russell Brand's prank call to actor Andrew Sachs, which drew 42,000 complaints in 2008.\n\nThe BBC was not alone in adjusting its schedule to reflect Prince Philip's death, with ITV and Channel 4 both broadcasting extended news coverage.\n\nHowever, many viewers turned away as the day wore on, with ITV's Friday night audience declining by 60% in comparison to the previous week, according to overnight figures.\n\nBBC One's audience also dropped six per cent week-on-week, while BBC Two lost two-thirds of its audience, with just 340,000 people tuning in at any time between 7pm and 11pm.\n\nThe most-watched programme on a single channel on Friday night was Channel 4's Gogglebox, with 4.2 million viewers.\n\nLate on Friday, the BBC put a dedicated form on its website to allow viewers to complain about the TV coverage, in recognition of the volume of complaints.\n\nThe form was removed on Saturday afternoon, after the number of complaints began to fall, the corporation said.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "One firefighter has died and two are seriously hurt after a massive blaze at a historic factory in St Petersburg.\n\nThe fire started at about 12:30 local time (09:30 GMT) on Monday, and quickly spread to all six floors of the Nevskaya Manufaktura building.\n\nStrong winds hampered efforts to put out the flames, with a huge plume of black smoke visible across the city.\n\nThe building dates back to 1841, when it was used to manufacture fabric, and is an iconic landmark in St Petersburg.", "Twenty-two people died in the attack on 22 May 2017\n\nA mother who saw the Manchester Arena bomber minutes before he detonated his device has told the inquiry into the attack about \"desperately\" searching for her child in the resulting \"chaos\".\n\nSarah Nellist told the Manchester Arena Inquiry she was near the box office in the foyer when the blast happened.\n\nShe said she had thought Salman Abedi \"looked odd\" prior to the bombing.\n\nThe inquiry also heard from Dr Darah Burke, who spoke about the shrapnel injuries his family all suffered.\n\nDr Burke had been crossing the foyer with his wife and daughter when Abedi detonated his bomb.\n\nTwenty-two people were killed and hundreds more were injured in the attack on 22 May 2017.\n\nMs Nellist, who was injured and knocked to the ground by the force of the blast, told the inquiry she spotted the bomber dressed all in black.\n\nThe mother, from North Wales, said he was carrying a large rucksack waiting near her as thousands of \"excited young girls\" began streaming out of the arena doors following an Ariana Grande concert.\n\n\"I thought maybe he was there for a sister and he did not want to be there,\" she said, adding that she then saw him detonate the bomb \"in the corner of my eye\".\n\nThe public inquiry into the bombing has been hearing evidence about the emergency response\n\n\"The only way I can describe it, it was like black powder paint,\" she said.\n\n\"A high-pitched sound [which] I have never experienced anything like before and the heat was just unbelievable,\" she said.\n\n\"I was trying to stand. There was a loud fire alarm going off. I couldn't really hear properly.\n\n\"I ran to the concourse, desperately trying to search for my daughter and niece.\n\n\"I was trying to call my daughter, she answered her phone, but I could not hear her.\"\n\nShe added that she had then managed to meet up with her 17-year-old daughter and six-year-old niece outside the arena and they made their way to their car.\n\nLater, Dr Burke, from Ashton-under-Lyne in Greater Manchester, told the inquiry that he heard a loud bang and was \"thrown forward slightly\".\n\n\"I went into a crouching position,\" he said.\n\n\"Everything seemed quite dark, almost debris in the air.\n\n\"[My wife] Ann was standing up, but not straight [and my 10-year-old daughter] Catherine was on the floor.\n\nDr Burke suffered a shrapnel injury which fractured his right leg, his wife had shrapnel injuries to her thigh and a deep wound in her heel, and their daughter suffered 16 separate shrapnel injuries to her arms and legs.\n\nThe 10-year-old has also been left permanently deaf in her right ear.\n\nThe inquiry was told after escaping the room, Dr Burke attempted to go back and help but could not because of the severity of his injuries, so instead helped direct police and emergency responders until he and his family were taken to hospital.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mr Rennie says the Duke sometime offended but adds he does not share the view of some that he was an offensive man.\n\nHe adds: \"For so many he has been part of a family that has provided comfort and stability in what can be a turbulent and intimidating world.\"\n\nThe Scottish Liberal Democrat leader says he was a \"steadfast presence\" when so much was changing around him.\n\nMr Rennie says his two sons were active in the Duke of Edinburgh Awards.\n\nHe adds: \"His impact on my family has been great.\n\n\"His impact on millions of others has been utterly outstanding.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police release footage of arrest and shooting of Daunte Wright.\n\nThe fatal shooting of a black man by a police officer in the US city of Brooklyn Center in Minnesota was an accident, the police chief has said.\n\nDaunte Wright, 20, was shot after the officer meant to use a Taser, but mistakenly drew her gun instead, Chief Tim Gannon told reporters.\n\nThe officer was later named as Kim Potter who has worked for Brooklyn Center Police for 26 years.\n\nMr Wright's death has sparked protests and a curfew has been declared.\n\nLate on Monday, crowds defied the curfew to gather for a second night outside Brooklyn Center Police headquarters. Witnesses said some threw fireworks and bottles at officers who responded with tear gas and stun grenades.\n\nTensions in nearby Minneapolis are high as the trial of an ex-officer accused of killing George Floyd continues.\n\nDaunte Wright was pulled over on Sunday for a traffic violation, but there was a struggle when he tried to get back into his car.\n\nAt a news conference on Monday, Chief Gannon played a short video from the body camera worn by a policewoman, which shows Mr Wright trying to get back into his car as officers attempt to handcuff him on the side of the road.\n\nAn officer can then be heard saying \"Taser, Taser, Taser\" - normal police procedure before firing one of the stun guns. Mr Wright is seen to get into his car and drive away, while the same officer says: \"Holy shit, I just shot him\".\n\nDaunte Wright's mother, Katie, said her son called her as he was being pulled over by police\n\n\"It is my belief the officer meant to deploy their Taser but shot him with a single bullet,\" Chief Gannon said, adding: \"There's nothing I can say to lessen the pain.\"\n\nThe officer has been placed on administrative leave - meaning she is paid while investigations take place.\n\nAt the same news conference, Brooklyn Center Mayor Mike Elliott said he would do everything in his power to \"ensure justice is done for Daunte Wright\".\n\n\"Our hearts are aching right now, we are in pain right now. We recognise this couldn't have happened at a worse time. This is happening at a time that all of our community, all of America, indeed all of the world is watching,\" he said.\n\nAngry protests erupted in Brooklyn Center on Sunday night as news of Mr Wright's death spread.\n\nHundreds of protesters chanting his name gathered late outside the police headquarters.\n\nAbout 20 businesses in a nearby shopping centre were later broken into, the StarTribune reported, with sporadic looting spreading to parts of Minneapolis.\n\nIt prompted authorities to enforce an overnight curfew on Sunday night, and on Monday, the mayors of Minneapolis and neighbouring St Paul declared a local state of emergency. Another curfew is in place from 19:00 to 06:00 local time across the two cities.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police used tear gas and flash bangs on Sunday night to disperse protesters\n\nAs darkness fell on Monday, riot police ordered protesters to disperse but the crowd remained, CBS reported. Police then began deploying gas canisters and stun grenades, reporters at the scene said.\n\nMembers of the Minnesota National Guard, already deployed for the trial on murder charges of Derek Chauvin, have also been sent to Brooklyn Center.\n\nNational ice hockey, basketball and baseball games that were due to take place on Monday night were postponed.\n\nOne sign at the protest captured the mood: \"During the trial!!?\" it read in bright orange letters.\n\n\"It's ridiculous,\" said the young man carrying it. \"They know they have a delicate relationship with the black community right now and they should look to be making amends, not this.\"\n\nCity officials had said the shooting could not have happened at a worse time, with tensions high over the George Floyd case.\n\nSome protesters threw bottles and shot fireworks toward police lines. They vented their rage as officers in riot gear stood impassively. \"You took his life, for what?\" screamed a young woman.\n\n\"He was a son, he was a father, he was a black man that deserved to live.\" \"Do you know the difference between a gun and a taser?\" shouted someone else. \"Hell yeah,\" roared the crowd, scorning the police chief's belief that the shooting was a tragic mistake.\n\n\"There's no room for accidents,\" said one man. \"The fact is that we lost another young black male to a police officer.'\n\nMr Wright's mother, Katie, said her heart had been \"broken in a thousand pieces... I miss him so much\".\n\n\"He was my life, he was my son and I can never get that back,\" she said on Monday. \"Because of a mistake? Because of an accident?\"\n\nEarlier, she told how her son had called her during the traffic stop. He said he had been pulled over because of \"air fresheners hanging from his rear-view mirror\". She said she then heard scuffling and the phone line was cut.\n\n\"A minute later, I called and his girlfriend answered, who was the passenger in the car, and said that he'd been shot... and my son was laying there lifeless.\"\n\nThe trial of Derek Chauvin over the death of George Floyd has been under way in the city for two weeks now.\n\nMr Chauvin was filmed kneeling on Mr Floyd's neck for more than nine minutes during an arrest operation in Minneapolis last May.\n\nThe footage of the incident sparked global protests against racism.\n\nThe trial is now into its third week and law enforcement officials have been bracing for possible unrest once the jury reaches a verdict.\n\nGeorge Floyd's death sparked waves of protests around the city, many peaceful but some violent with hundreds of buildings damaged.\n• None Why was trial over George Floyd killing so important?", "The Duke of Edinburgh passed away on Friday morning at the age of 99\n\nLeading politicians will meet in the UK's parliaments and assemblies later to pay tribute to the Duke of Edinburgh - in person and via video link.\n\nThe House of Commons, the Scottish Parliament and the Senedd are being recalled especially.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Assembly and the House of Lords will also devote Monday to marking the life of Prince Philip, who died on Friday, aged 99.\n\nThe commemorations take place ahead of the duke's funeral on Saturday.\n\nOn Sunday, the Duke of York said the Queen described the death of her husband of 73 years as \"having left a huge void in her life\".\n\nPrince Andrew said his father's death was a \"terrible loss\", and his family was \"rallying round\" to help the Queen.\n\nThe Princess Royal, meanwhile, described her father as her \"teacher, supporter and critic\".\n\nPrincess Anne - the duke's only daughter - said he would leave a \"legacy which can inspire us all\".\n\nIn a statement on the Royal Family's website, the princess said she \"most wanted to emulate\" her father's example of a \"life well lived and service freely given\".\n\nShe said \"his ability to treat every person as an individual in their own right with their own skills\" was reflected in the organisations he worked with.\n\n\"I regard it as an honour and a privilege to have been asked to follow in his footsteps and it has been a pleasure to have kept him in touch with their activities,\" she added.\n\nThe Duke of Edinburgh attended many State Openings of Parliament\n\nThe House of Commons, which was supposed to be on its Easter break until Tuesday, is being recalled a day early, with MPs giving their tributes to the duke from 14:30 BST.\n\nThe House of Lords, which had already been due to sit on Monday, will take part in a minute's silence at 13:00 before peers give their tributes. The day's scheduled business will be put back to Wednesday.\n\nThe Queen and Duke of Edinburgh visited the Scottish Parliament in 2002\n\nThe Scottish Parliament and Sennedd, both of which were not due to be sitting ahead of May's elections, will be recalled for members to pay tribute from 11:00.\n\nAnd the Northern Ireland Assembly will meet from 12:00.\n\nThe tributes come during a period of national mourning which will end on the day of Prince Philip's funeral at Windsor Castle's St George's Chapel.\n\nA national minute's silence will be held to coincide with the start of the service at 15:00.\n\nThe Duke of Sussex will attend the service, without his wife, the Duchess of Sussex, who is pregnant and will remain at home in California on the advice of doctors.\n\nMembers of the Royal Family will walk behind the coffin ahead of the funeral.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday evening. We'll have another update for you tomorrow morning.\n\nFor the first time in months, pub gardens, non-essential shops and hairdressers are reopening in England. Some pubs and salons opened at midnight, with one landlord saying there was a \"sense of celebration\", and shoppers queued outside branches of Primark, JD Sports and TK Maxx. Non-essential shops and close-contact services have also reopened in Wales, while travel to other parts of the UK is allowed again. And in Northern Ireland, a stay-at-home order has been lifted, with people instead being asked to \"stay local\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Long queues were not going to put shoppers off from visiting their favourite High Street retailers\n\nMeanwhile, the hospitality and tourism industry in Scotland has criticised restrictions that prevent venues from reopening there. Scotland's lockdown is expected to ease further from 26 April, with shops and gyms due to reopen and pubs and restaurants likely to be able to open until 20:00 indoors, with no alcohol permitted, and 22:00 outdoors. But industry leaders warned that waiting two weeks before reopening would cost the economy £20m.\n\nAll pupils in Northern Ireland have returned to school today, with children in years eight to 11 back in classrooms for the first time this year. The phased reopening of schools in Northern Ireland began in March, before the Easter break. Staff and pupils in years 12 to 14 are being asked to take rapid lateral flow tests twice a week to help reduce the risk of the virus spreading and post-primary school children will also be required to wear face coverings in classrooms unless they have an exemption. In Scotland, secondary and primary pupils in six Scottish councils have also returned to the classroom full-time, marking the end of remote learning for many.\n\nAn update to England and Wales's contact tracing app has been blocked for breaking the terms of an agreement made with Apple and Google. The plan had been to ask users to upload logs of venue check-ins - carried out via poster barcode scans - if they tested positive for the virus. This could be used to warn others. The update had been timed to coincide with the relaxation of lockdown rules. But the two firms had explicitly banned collecting any location data via the software.\n\nFor many, the most anticipated post-lockdown activity is the opportunity to get a haircut, with many salons fully booked for weeks. Jeanette Braddy was the first customer through the door at Divas Hair Salon in Colchester. She says she missed going there, describing haircuts as a \"social thing as well\". \"I come on a regular basis, so to come back is amazing,\" she adds. You can read more from customers and stylists at the salon here.\n\nJeanette Braddy is \"delighted\" with her haircut\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nAnd if you're heading to the pub this evening, check out our guide to see what new rules to expect.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "The Duke of Edinburgh on a visit to Harland and Wolff in July 1977\n\nTributes have been paid to Prince Philip during a special sitting of the Northern Ireland Assembly.\n\nAssembly members met at midday and put on record their condolences to the Royal Family.\n\nThe union flag is flying at half mast from Parliament Buildings until the end of this week.\n\nPrince Philip, Queen Elizabeth II's husband, died on Friday, aged 99, and his funeral will take place on Saturday.\n\nSpeaker Alex Maskey, of Sinn Féin, opened tributes by saying Prince Philip had a record of public service to which few could compare.\n\nHe also paid tribute to him for establishing the Duke of Edinburgh Awards.\n\n\"His priority was on opening the door for young people to participate, whatever their background,\" he said.\n\nHe also paid tribute to the \"reconciliation efforts\" over the years.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said Prince Philip's service had been carried out with \"dedication, humanity and humour\".\n\n\"A sometimes blunt humour, which we got to appreciate here, on his many occasions when he visited Northern Ireland,\" she said.\n\nA gun salute took place at Hillsborough Castle in County Down marking Prince Philip's death\n\nMrs Foster said he \"redefined the role of a royal\" and his work with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) was \"literally decades ahead of its time\".\n\nShe said more than two million people had secured a Duke of Edinburgh Award, and more people from Northern Ireland had participated in the scheme than any other part of the UK.\n\n\"A true intergenerational legacy to our youth, our United Kingdom and the world's environment,\" Mrs Foster said.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said there had been \"significant interventions\" over the past two decades by the Royal Family to assist in the building of relationships between Britain and Ireland.\n\n\"I acknowledge that the Queen and Prince Philip and their family were directly impacted by the conflict and regrettably endured sorrow and pain as a result of their personal loss and their bereavement,\" she said.\n\nMichelle O'Neill acknowledges the impact of Northern Ireland's conflict on the Royal Family\n\n\"Yet having endured such personal loss, the Royal Family set about working towards advancing peace and reconciliation.\"\n\nThe IRA murdered the Queen's cousin, Lord Louis Mountbatten, in the Republic of Ireland in 1979.\n\nInfrastructure Minister and SDLP MLA Nichola Mallon said the prince had a part to play in \"sustaining the new bond of shared endeavour across these islands\".\n\n\"We should also reflect on the role that he played alongside Queen Elizabeth in building relationships, setting aside enmity and promoting reconciliation, most visibly during their recent visit to Ireland,\" she said.\n\nThe Queen and Prince Philip met Martin McGuinness, the then deputy first minister, in Belfast in 2012\n\nUlster Unionist Party (UUP) leader Steve Aiken said Prince Philip had \"garnered so much respect and affection\" and he \"was a great friend to Northern Ireland\" who was \"greatly saddened by the horrors of the Troubles\".\n\nHe also paid tribute to Ms O'Neill and the SDLP for their remarks regarding the duke's death.\n\n\"While we may disagree on much, those are welcome sentiments,\" he said.\n\n\"I appreciate your sympathy and reaching out to those of us who hold the union and monarchy dear.\"\n\nJustice Minister and Alliance Party leader Naomi Long said Prince Philip demonstrated what it \"means to be a supportive husband to a powerful woman\".\n\n\"He was a reformer and moderniser of the Royal Household as he encouraged more informality and less protocol and engagements, and also promoted the use of new technology, particularly television,\" she said.\n\n\"His work spanned his patronage of many charities at home and abroad.\"\n\nThe Green Party's Rachael Woods said he would be dearly missed by his grandchildren.\n\n\"The duke's passing reminds us to appreciate and treasure our grandparents and families when we can.\"\n\nPrince Philip at Hillsborough Castle during his last official visit to Northern Ireland in 2017\n\nTraditional Unionist Voice (TUV) leader Jim Allister said there would now be \"difficult, tough days for the Queen\".\n\n\"I do pray that she finds the strength to carry on in the remarkable era that has been her rule over us,\" he said.\n\nThe Duke of Edinburgh was the longest-serving royal consort in British history.\n\nOn Saturday, a 41-gun salute echoed across County Down from Hillsborough Castle, the Queen's official residence in Northern Ireland.\n\nIn Scotland, political parties suspended their campaigning on Friday for the Scottish Parliament election following the announcement of Prince Philip's death.\n\nThe main political parties in Wales also said they would suspend campaigning for the 6 May Senedd election.\n\nTributes to the duke are to be paid in the Scottish and Welsh Parliaments on Monday.\n\nThe House of Commons, which was supposed to be on its Easter break until Tuesday, is being recalled a day early, with MPs giving their tributes to the duke from 14:30 BST.\n\nA period of national mourning will end after 17 April, when Prince Philip's funeral will take place at St George's Chapel, in the grounds of Windsor Castle.\n\nA national minute's silence will be held to coincide with the start of the funeral at 15:00 BST.", "For the first time in months, High Street shops, hairdressers and outdoor hospitality venues have opened in England, as coronavirus restrictions are eased.\n\nThe centre of Norwich was bustling with shoppers on Monday, with many joining a long queue outside Primark.\n\nAt lunchtime the queue was more than 130m (427ft) long - the equivalent of about 10 double-decker buses nose-to-tail.\n\n\"We're incredibly excited to welcome you all back to our city and local businesses,\" tweeted the Norwich Business Improvement District team.\n\nIt added: \"Please remember to keep a safe distance, wear a mask where necessary and be respectful and understanding of others.\"\n\nFacebook Live: Our panel is back from 19:00 BST on Monday to answer your questions about the latest changes in the easing of lockdown restrictions. Join us here.", "Iran's foreign ministry said a number of uranium centrifuges were damaged in the incident\n\nThe Iranian foreign minister has said his country will \"take revenge\" for an attack on an underground nuclear site, for which it has blamed Israel.\n\nIranian officials said the Natanz uranium enrichment plant was the target of \"nuclear terrorism\" on Sunday, after initially reporting a power failure.\n\nNew advanced centrifuges to enrich uranium had just been activated there.\n\nIsrael has not commented, but public radio cited intelligence sources as saying it was a Mossad cyber operation.\n\nThey said it had caused more extensive damage than Iran had reported.\n\nUS intelligence officials told the New York Times that a large explosion had completely destroyed the independent internal power system that supplied the centrifuges inside the underground facility. They estimated it could take at least nine months to resume enrichment there.\n\nIran's Nour News agency, which is affiliated to the Supreme National Security Council, cited an intelligence ministry source as saying the \"main perpetrator\" had been identified and an operation was under way to arrest them.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Iran's nuclear programme: What's been happening at its key nuclear sites?\n\nIsrael has recently stepped up its warnings about its arch-foe's nuclear programme amid efforts to revive a 2015 nuclear deal that was abandoned by former US President Donald Trump.\n\nHis successor, Joe Biden, has said he wants to return to the landmark accord. But Iran and the five other world powers still party to it - China, France, Germany, Russia and the UK - need to find a way for him to lift US sanctions and for Iran to return to the agreed limits on its nuclear programme.\n\nUS and Iranian officials are holding indirect talks in the Austrian capital, Vienna, to try to break the impasse, with European officials acting as intermediaries.\n\nThe European Union said it still needed to clarify the facts about the Natanz incident, but that it rejected \"any attempts to undermine or weaken diplomatic efforts on the nuclear agreement\".\n\nUS Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin, who is visiting Israel, said he was aware of the reports about Natanz and that the Biden administration's diplomatic efforts to re-engage with Iran diplomatically would continue.\n\n\"The Zionists want to take revenge because of our progress in the way to lift sanctions,\" Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif was quoted by state media as saying on Monday.\n\n\"They have publicly said that they will not allow this. But we will take our revenge from the Zionists.\"\n\nIran does not recognise Israel's right to exist and often refers to it as the \"Zionist state\".\n\nForeign ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh later told a news conference in the capital, Tehran, that Israel was \"of course\" behind the attack on Natanz.\n\n\"This incident, fortunately, did not cause any damage to human lives or the environment. However, it could have been a catastrophe. This is a crime against humanity and carrying out such actions is in line with the essence of the Zionist regime,\" he said.\n\nMr Khatibzadeh said only the least efficient \"IR-1\" centrifuges were damaged in the incident, and that they would be replaced with advanced ones.\n\nIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not mention the incident at a later joint news conference with the US defence secretary.\n\nBut he stated: \"My policy... is clear: I will never allow Iran to obtain the nuclear capability to carry out its genocidal goal of eliminating Israel. And Israel will continue to defend itself against Iran's aggression and terrorism.\"\n\nThe undeclared \"near war\" between Iran and Israel is heating up.\n\nThe latest damage done to Iran's nuclear programme, for which Iran has vowed to take revenge, follows a series of tit-for-tat actions around the Middle East.\n\nThere have been mysterious explosions on ships' hulls, blamed variously on both countries, and most significantly last November, there was the assassination in broad daylight near Tehran of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the man suspected of leading Iran's military nuclear programme. The Israeli air force has also carried out numerous air strikes against missile bases in Syria and other sites where Iranian advisers have been providing assistance to units of Hezbollah, the Shia Islamist militant group.\n\nIsrael sees Iran's nuclear programme as a potential threat to its existence and is determined to delay or stop it. It does not see any point in current efforts to revive the Iran nuclear deal, believing it to be ineffective.\n\nThe attack on Natanz is likely to strengthen the hand of Iran's hardliners and complicate any future negotiations.\n\nEnriched uranium is produced by feeding uranium hexafluoride gas into centrifuges to separate out the most suitable isotope for nuclear fission, called U-235.\n\nThe nuclear deal only allows Iran to use IR-1 centrifuges to produce limited quantities of uranium enriched up to 3.67% concentration, which can be used to produce fuel for commercial nuclear power plants. Uranium that is enriched to 90% or more can be used to make nuclear weapons.\n\nIran, which insists it does not want nuclear weapons, has retaliated against the sanctions reinstated by the Trump administration by rolling back key commitments under the accord.\n\nThese have included operating advanced centrifuges, resuming enrichment to 20% concentration, and building a stockpile of that material.\n\nOn Saturday, when Iran marked National Nuclear Technology Day, President Hassan Rouhani inaugurated a cascade (or cluster) of 164 advanced IR-6 centrifuges at Natanz. He also launched tests on new IR-9 centrifuges, which officials said could enrich uranium 50 times faster than the IR-1.\n\nThis is not the first time that Natanz has been the target of sabotage.\n\nLast July, an above-ground centrifuge assembly plant was badly damaged by what Iranian officials said was a fire. In response, Iran began building a new structure underneath nearby mountains.\n\nEnrichment at the plant was previously disrupted by the Stuxnet computer virus, widely believed to have been created by the US and Israel. The virus, which was discovered in 2010, changed the speeds at which the centrifuges spun and reportedly ruined almost 1,000 of them.\n\nIran also accused Israel of being behind the assassination of its top nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, last November. Israel neither confirmed nor denied any involvement.\n\nAnd in recent months the countries have accused each other of being behind explosions that have damaged Israeli and Iranian commercial vessels.\n\n6 April: Iranian cargo ship Saviz, allegedly used for spying, damaged by blast in Red Sea off coast of Eritrea; New York Times says Israel informed US that it carried out attack\n\n25 March: Israeli cargo ship Lori hit by missile in Arabian Sea; Israeli security officials say Iran suspected\n\n10 March: Iranian cargo ship Shahr-e Kord hit by blast in Mediterranean Sea; Iranian media say Israel to blame\n\n26 February: Israeli vehicle carrier MV Helios Ray hit by explosion in Gulf of Oman; Israel blames Iran\n\nJune-July 2020: Series of mysterious fires and explosions hit industrial, power, medical and nuclear sites across Iran; Western intelligence sources say Israel suspected of involvement\n\n9 May 2020: Israel reportedly behind cyber-attack on Shahid Rajaee port in Iran", "Chinese tech giant Alibaba said on Monday that it accepted a record penalty imposed by the country's anti-monopoly regulator.\n\nRegulators slapped a $2.8bn fine after a probe determined that it had abused its market position for years.\n\nThe fine amounts to about 4% of the company's 2019 domestic revenue.\n\nAlibaba Group's executive vice chairman Joe Tsai indicated that regulators have taken an interest in platforms like Alibaba as they grow in importance.\n\n\"We're happy to get the matter behind us, but the tendency is that regulators will be keen to look at some of the areas where you might have unfair competition,\" he told an investor call on Monday.\n\nThe company added that it was not aware of any further anti-monopoly investigations by Chinese regulators, though it signalled that Alibaba and its competitors would remain under review in China over mergers and acquisitions.\n\nThe main issue for regulators was that Alibaba restricted merchants from doing business or running promotions on rival platforms.\n\nThe company said it would introduce measures to lower entry barriers and business costs faced by merchants on e-commerce platforms.\n\n\"With this penalty decision we've received good guidance on some of the specific issues under the anti-monopoly law,\" Mr Tsai said.\n\nThe group does not expect any material impact on its business from the change of exclusivity arrangements imposed by regulators.\n\nThe message from Alibaba today in its investor call was: we may be the biggest and the first Chinese tech firm to attract regulators' attention - but we are by no means the last.\n\nAlibaba executives sought to reassure investors that they are playing ball with the regulators. They're going to make it cheaper for businesses to sell on their platform, and not force them to pick and choose between platforms - a practice seen by some in the industry as a case of \"it's my way or the highway\".\n\nSo far, Alibaba says, the discussions with regulators have been amicable, and the statement from the firm on accepting the penalty is markedly contrite.\n\nIt may also be heaving a sigh of relief. The 4% of 2019 revenue penalty is a record fine, but for Alibaba, which has a huge war chest, it's a drop in the ocean.\n\nBut there will be more oversight and scrutiny of it and other firms.\n\nThe e-commerce giant indicated that while for now Alibaba is in the clear in terms of future investigations, the same could not be said for other firms in this sector.\n\nChinese tech firms are a powerful force in the country, and Beijing is keen to regulate them. Alibaba's experience is a sign of more of the same to come.\n\nThe penalty is the latest in a chain of events targeting the company that kicked off last October, after its co-founder Jack Ma criticised regulators, suggesting they were stifling innovation.\n\nShortly after the speech, Chinese regulators scuppered the share market launch of Ant Group, which is Alibaba's sister company and China's biggest electronic payments provider.\n\nHowever, some commentators noted that regulators had legitimate concerns about Ant Group's consumer finance arm.\n\nAnt Group was expected to be last year's biggest share market launch on the Hong Kong exchange.\n\nBut Alibaba isn't the only Chinese company to come under scrutiny by China's increasingly assertive regulators.\n\nLast month, China's State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) said it had fined 12 companies over 10 deals that violated anti-monopoly rules.\n\nThe companies included Tencent, Baidu and Didi Chuxing - which are among China's largest tech companies.", "The UK government is to challenge parts of two bills passed by the Scottish Parliament.\n\nMSPs unanimously approved the bills relating to children's rights and local government last month.\n\nBut UK ministers are concerned the legislation could place obligations on them and, if so, would be beyond the scope of Holyrood's devolved powers.\n\nThe UK government is referring both to the UK Supreme Court for a ruling.\n\nIt means they will not receive royal assent, which allows them to become laws, until the UK's highest court has considered the challenge.\n\nOne of the bills incorporates the European Charter of Local Self-Government into Scots law, while the other seeks to incorporate the incorporate the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC).\n\nAfter every bill is passed by the Scottish Parliament there is a four-week period where the UK government can consider whether to use powers in the Scotland Act 1998 to challenge the planned law.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has described the challenge as \"jaw dropping\".\n\nIn a tweet, the first minister added: \"The UK Tory government is going to court to challenge a law passed by the Scottish Parliament unanimously.\n\n\"And for what? To protect their ability to legislate/act in ways that breach children's rights in Scotland.\n\nBut a UK government source said: \"This delay to the legislation could easily have been avoided.\n\n\"Sadly, it appears the Scottish government are more interested in stirring a constitutional row than getting the UNCRC bill into law at the first opportunity.\"\n\nA UK government spokesman said: \"The UK government law officers' concerns are not about the substance of the legislation, rather whether parts are outwith the legislative competence of the Scottish Parliament.\"\n\nTo challenge the scope of Holyrood's law-making powers in the middle of an election campaign is a politically explosive decision by the UK government.\n\nThe timing was not entirely in their gift because the Scottish Parliament's decision to pass the two bills last month created a four-week window for them to consider action.\n\nOne UK government source told me the legal challenge was \"regrettable\" but \"avoidable\" if the Scottish government had listened to their concerns and made some changes.\n\nThe UK government insists it has no objection to the policy content of the bills, only to their potential to limit UK decision making in Scotland - which would be beyond Holyrood's powers.\n\nAn SNP source said changes were not required because the bills had passed the scrutiny of both Scottish government and Scottish Parliament lawyers.\n\nEach side accuses the other of picking this fight. It will now be for the UK Supreme Court to settle - a process that will put the legislation on hold and fuel the constitutional debate in the Holyrood election campaign.", "The baby was found by a member of the public in the car park of Morrisons on the Black Country Route in Bilston\n\nA newborn baby has been found dead in the car park of a supermarket.\n\nA member of the public found the baby at Morrisons on the Black Country Route in Bilston at about 09:00 BST, West Midlands Police said.\n\nIn a statement, the force said it did not currently know \"when the baby was born or how they came to be in the car park\".\n\nPolice have since identified the mother of the baby and said she was receiving \"appropriate care\".\n\nDet Insp Jim Edmonds said it had been a \"tragic discovery\" and officers had been \"treating the scene and the baby with the utmost care and dignity\".\n\nIn an update, issued at 20:00 BST, West Midlands Police said it had traced the mother and officers would be speaking to her \"in due course\".\n\nIt thanked the public for sharing its appeal to trace her.\n\nA Morrisons spokesman said the company was helping the police and it would not be releasing any further information.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir John Major: \"I hope it's possible to mend any rifts\"\n\nShared grief over the death of the Duke of Edinburgh is an \"ideal opportunity\" to mend any rifts within the Royal Family, ex-PM Sir John Major has said.\n\nSir John, who was guardian to Princes William and Harry following their mother's death, said he hoped it would end any \"friction\" between the pair.\n\nHe also said the Queen needed time to grieve for her husband.\n\nHis comments came as the Archbishop of Canterbury paid tribute to the duke in a remembrance service.\n\nThe Queen has described the death of her husband as \"having left a huge void in her life\", the Duke of York has said.\n\nDuring a service at Canterbury Cathedral earlier, which was also streamed online, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby said that \"for the Royal Family, as for every other, no words can reach into the depth of sorrow that goes into bereavement\".\n\nThe archbishop is also expected to lead the duke's funeral on Saturday, which Princes William and Harry are both due to attend.\n\nThe Duke of Sussex will fly from the US for the service, though it is not clear when.\n\nHis wife the Duchess of Sussex, who is pregnant, will remain at home in California on the advice of doctors.\n\nMembers of the Royal Family will walk behind the coffin ahead of the funeral at Windsor Castle.\n\nCardinal Vincent Nichols, the head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales, has suggested that coming together for Philip's funeral could help to heal any tensions.\n\nSir John, who was appointed a special guardian to the princes after their mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, died in 1997, told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show: \"The friction that we are told has arisen is a friction better ended as speedily as possible.\"\n\nHe added: \"They shared emotion. They share grief at the present time because of the death of their grandfather. I think [this] is an ideal opportunity.\n\n\"I hope very much that it is possible to mend any rifts that may exist.\"\n\nHarry and Meghan, who have stepped back from frontline royal duties, gave an interview to US broadcaster Oprah Winfrey last month.\n\nIn it, Harry said of his older brother: \"The relationship is 'space' at the moment. And time heals all things, hopefully.\"\n\nSir John also told Andrew Marr the Duke of Edinburgh would \"still be there in [the Queen's] memory\" and that she would \"hear his voice\".\n\nBeing head of state was a \"lonely position in many ways\" for the Queen, and the duke was \"the person to whom she could unburden herself\", he added.\n\nA period of national mourning will end after 17 April, when Prince Philip's funeral takes place at Windsor Castle's St George's Chapel.\n\nA national minute's silence will be held to coincide with the start of the service at 15:00 BST.\n\nIn an interview at a service in Windsor, Prince Andrew said he loved his father, who was \"always somebody you could go to\" - and that his death was a \"terrible loss\".\n\nHe added: \"We've lost the grandfather of the nation.\"\n\nMembers of the public have continued laying flowers outside the castle, although the new government guidance asks the public to refrain from doing so and give to charity instead.\n\nA spokesman for Windsor Great Park said on Saturday that tributes would be removed \"respectfully\" and displayed within the castle grounds.\n\nRoyal household staff were photographed on Sunday placing bouquets on the ground outside St George's Chapel.\n\nJoanna Lumley was among those to pay their respects to Prince Philip on BBC One's Andrew Marr Show.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"He was very kind, that's quite often overlooked\": Joanna Lumley's memories of Prince Philip", "DJ Tiiny had hosted a weekly show on Capital Xtra since 2018\n\nRadio station Capital Xtra will not face any penalties after one of its DJs was found to be asking for payments of £200 to play songs on his show.\n\nDJ Tiiny, who tours with Stormzy, broke the UK broadcasting code by asking for money in return for exposure on his weekly Friday night show.\n\nHe was dropped by the radio station as soon as the situation came to light.\n\nIt triggered an investigation by media regulator Ofcom, which now says it \"considers the matter resolved\".\n\nThe story became public in January, when the record producer J Beatz Music posted a screenshot of an email, purportedly written by DJ Tiiny.\n\n\"If you wish for [your] track to be premiered on my Friday night radio show, there would be a charge of £200 for one track,\" the email said.\n\n\"This would also include keeping the track within my radio playlist for 2 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 J Beatz This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGlobal Radio, the parent company of Capital and Capital Xtra, confirmed it had been made aware of the allegations on 27 January 2021, and that the presenter's contract had been terminated the following day.\n\nGlobal told Ofcom that the matter had then been investigated by its legal team, which established that no-one else at the station had been \"involved in, or aware of, the presenter's activity\".\n\nIt added that \"seeking payments to influence music selection is culturally understood by those working at Global to be completely unacceptable, and this incident [had] shocked its staff\".\n\nThe broadcaster noted that DJ Tiiny's contract had specifically forbidden so-called pay-for-play deals; and that he had received training from Capital Xtra that would have \"reinforced his obligations\" to adhere to the broadcasting code.\n\nOfcom ruled that, in light of the station's swift and decisive action, it would take no further action.\n\n\"In this instance, the presenter had gained financially from soliciting payment for playing specific music tracks on Capital Xtra,\" the regulator said in its decision.\n\n\"However, Ofcom recognises that broadcasters can only minimise the risk of an employee or agent forming with a third party a commercial arrangement that may influence the selection or rotation of music for broadcast\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 DJTiiNY This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDJ Tiiny apologised for his actions in February.\n\n\"I was given an incredible opportunity within radio and carelessly and irresponsibly took advantage of my position,\" wrote the DJ, whose real name is Frank Boakye-Yiadom.\n\n\"I take full responsibility for my actions and fully accept the consequences.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "French lawmakers want the train to take the strain\n\nFrench lawmakers have moved to ban short-haul internal flights where train alternatives exist, in a bid to reduce carbon emissions.\n\nOver the weekend, lawmakers voted in favour of a bill to end routes where the same journey could be made by train in under two-and-a-half hours.\n\nConnecting flights will not be affected, however.\n\nThe planned measures will face a further vote in the Senate before becoming law.\n\nAirlines around the world have been severely hit by the coronavirus pandemic, with website Flightradar24 reporting that the number of flights last year were down almost 42% from 2019.\n\nThe measures could affect travel between Paris and cities including Nantes, Lyon and Bordeaux.\n\nThe French government had faced calls to introduce even stricter rules.\n\nFrance's Citizens' Convention on Climate, which was created by President Emmanuel Macron in 2019 and included 150 members of the public, had proposed scrapping plane journeys where train journeys of under four hours existed.\n\nBut this was reduced to two-and-a-half hours after objections from some regions, and the airline Air France-KLM.\n\nFrancois Pupponi, a member of the French National Assembly, also told Reuters news agency that the plan was \"not the right one\".\n\n\"The environmental choice must take precedence, but let's not abandon the social and economic choices around industry and around airports - the two are complementary,\" he said.\n\nBut French consumer group UFC-Que Choisir called on lawmakers to retain the four-hour limit.\n\n\"On average, the plane emits 77 times more CO2 per passenger than the train on these routes, even though the train is cheaper and the time lost is limited to 40 minutes,\" it said.\n\nIt also called for \"safeguards that [French national railway] SNCF will not seize the opportunity to artificially inflate its prices or degrade the quality of rail service\".\n\nSaturday's vote came days after the French government more than doubled its stake in Air France. The government had previously offered €7bn ($8.3bn, £6bn) in loans to help the airline weather the pandemic, although France's economy minister said at the time the funding was dependent on the airline scrapping some of its domestic flights.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC Reality Check explains what the coronavirus pandemic has done for climate\n\nThis is not the first time similar measures have been introduced.\n\nLast year, Austrian Airlines replaced a flight route between the capital Vienna and the city of Salzburg with an increased train service, after receiving a government bailout with provisions to cut its carbon footprint.", "Saskia Jones and Jack Merritt were killed during a conference on rehabilitating offenders near London Bridge\n\nThe mother of a Cambridge graduate killed in a terror attack in central London in 2019 has told an inquest that her son's death \"was a tragedy, but his life was a triumph\".\n\nConvicted terrorist Usman Khan stabbed Jack Merritt and Saskia Jones at a prisoner rehabilitation conference at Fishmongers' Hall on 29 November.\n\nHe injured two others before he was shot dead by police on London Bridge.\n\nThe inquest at London's Guildhall is due to last nine weeks.\n\nAfter a jury was sworn in, Anne Merritt said her 25-year-old son was a \"force for good in the world\" and had a \"strong moral compass\".\n\nFriends from Cambridge University, where he worked for the criminal justice charity Learning Together, said he was \"absorbingly intelligent\" and \"fiercely loyal\".\n\nShe told jurors: \"Jack Merritt was a good person. Jack was a force for good in the world, someone who made other people's lives better for knowing him.\n\n\"We are hugely proud of who Jack was and what he stood for. His death was a tragedy but his life was a triumph.\"\n\nShe read tributes from friends and family, who described him as a \"true visionary\", a \"very cool brother\" and a \"fiercely loyal\" friend who \"championed the underdog\".\n\nMessages of condolences were left at London Bridge after the attack\n\nFriends from Manchester University, where Mr Merritt studied, said: \"It was clear that Jack was intelligent, but when we started to study miscarriages of justice in further detail, it became clear how strongly Jack felt about criminal justice.\"\n\nThe family of Ms Jones, from Stratford-upon-Avon, described her as someone with a \"private nature\".\n\nIn a statement read by Henry Pitchers QC, the family said they chose not to provide a full portrait of the 23-year-old at the inquest.\n\n\"They believe that she would wish the focus of the coroner and the jury to be on the facts and evidence before them and for the emphasis to be on a thorough investigation as to how she came to lose her life,\" the statement continued.\n\n\"It would be her hope that no other family is devastated and heartbroken again in similar circumstances.\n\n\"It is very important to the family that Saskia's legacy should not solely be based on her work with Learning Together as she was about so much more than just that.\n\n\"She should be defined as someone who battled to improve the lives of others in several spheres and was driven to make real changes in the world.\"\n\nThe family statement said Ms Jones did \"incredible research in the field of sexual violence and Rape Crisis\".\n\n\"Her passion in this area enabled her to finally find her career path with the hope of becoming a detective in victim support within a police force,\" the family added.\n\n\"The grief and loss that the family and friends of Saskia continue to endure is personal to them and it is their wish that it remains so.\"\n\nUsman Khan was jailed in 2012 over a plot to blow up the London Stock Exchange\n\nAs the inquest got under way Det Ch Insp Dan Brown chronicled the attack in a series of photographs and videos.\n\nFootage from shortly before midday showed 28-year-old Khan talking \"animatedly\" with Ms Jones at a table, even though they had not known each other.\n\nA 13:56 GMT he launched his attack in the men's toilets at Fishmongers' Hall, strapping two knives on to his hands, leaving a bag containing a third blade in a cubicle and dropping a prayer book on the floor.\n\nJurors were told that Mr Merritt had had some professional dealings with Khan before the Learning Together event at the hall\n\nHe came across Mr Merritt, stabbing him multiple times, causing 12 injuries including a fatal wound to the chest, the court heard.\n\nKhan made his way to the cloakroom area, where he gestured to a member of staff \"as if to be quiet\", Det Ch Insp Brown said.\n\nMs Jones was stabbed once in the neck and staggered up a few steps before she collapsed, jurors heard.\n\nJurors heard that one of Khan's knives had a crudely etched Arabic symbol for Allah on it\n\nKhan went on to injure Stephanie Szczotko and Isobel Rowbotham before he was confronted by a number of attendees with makeshift weapons, including an ornamental pike taken from the wall.\n\nThe attacker approached a member of staff, held a knife to his chest and asked him to open the door, which he did, the court was told.\n\nKhan was pursued on to London Bridge by John Crilly, Steven Gallant and Darryn Frost at 14:01, jurors were told.\n\nMr Crilly sprayed a fire extinguisher at him and Mr Frost jabbed at him with a narwhal tusk before they all tackled Khan to the ground with other members of the public.\n\nPolice had been called at 13:58 and armed City of London Police officers arrived at 14:02.\n\nDet Ch Insp Brown said Khan appeared to be wearing an improvised explosive device (IED) strapped around his midriff and people were told stand clear.\n\nKhan was then shot and Tasered by police but still appeared to present a threat as he writhed on the floor wearing the suspected IED, Mr Brown said.\n\nAn examination of the device later revealed it was not genuine, the court heard.\n\nThe hearing is expected to be followed by a separate jury inquest into the death of Khan.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It was a tense day at the White House. It began with Joe Biden saying he was praying for the “right verdict” in the Derek Chauvin trial, and his press secretary spending much of her subsequent news conference deflecting questions about whether that was a reckless statement.\n\nIt ended with the president and Vice-President Kamala Harris marking what they said was a just resolution to the case.\n\nTheir statements were delivered in the Cross Hall of the White House - the same location Barack Obama chose to announce the killing of Osama bin Laden.\n\nThe message was clear, that this was another historic day; another victory for justice. Biden warned, however, that the verdict was just a “step forward”, and “not enough”.\n\nBoth he and Harris specifically pointed to a history of systemic racism in the US, which Biden called a “stain on our nation’s soul\".\n\nTo overcome that history, he said, requires lawmakers to act and for the American people to continue to work.\n\nIt shouldn’t take a “murder in the full light of day”, captured on video and stretched over nine minutes, as Biden said, to get the nation’s attention anymore.", "First Minister Mark Drakeford told the virtual Senedd meeting Prince Philip had lived a \"remarkable” life.\n\nThe Welsh Labour leader said the duke championed a “broad diversity” of causes in Wales “in the spheres of culture, sport and the environment”.\n\nMr Drakeford said: “A very long life in any circumstances, brings with it a set of remarkable events witnessed and experiences, enjoyed or endured.\n\n“To have lived such a life at the centre of world events and in a way which made almost every experience of public, rather than simply private interest, makes it even more remarkable still, and that was the life of the Duke of Edinburgh.\n\n“We will all have heard the tributes of the last few days, and their entirely accurate focus on the theme of public service, but it is worth pausing for a moment to remember the human story that goes alongside the service, and the decade after decade in which that service was sustained.”\n\nAs the duke was also the Earl of Merioneth, Mr Drakeford said it was \"no surprise, therefore, that he was a supporter of a number of associations and societies in Meirionnydd, to the cricket club, the sailing club to the Meirionnydd brass band”.\n\nThe first minister said the last 12 months had seen many families faced with the grief of losing someone they have loved.\n\n“However it happens, each loss is uniquely felt by those for whom that person will leave a gap in their lives, which no one else can fill,\" he said.\n\n“Our thoughts today are with those members of the wider royal family, who have to face that loss in the particularly distressing circumstances, caused by the public health emergency.”\n\nMr Drakeford concluded: “On behalf of the Welsh Government and those supporting the government in this Parliament, which was another huge development during his lifetime, I extend our sincerest sympathies,” he said, \"at the end of an exceptional life lived.”", "-10 -9-7 -6 -5 -4 P Reed (US), C Conners (Can)\n\nHideki Matsuyama held off the field to win the Masters by one stroke at Augusta National and become the first Japanese man to claim a major title.\n\nMatsuyama had a four-shot lead heading into the final day and, despite some nervy moments on Sunday, shot a one-over 73 to win on 10 under par.\n\nAmerican debutant Will Zalatoris was his closest challenger on nine under.\n\nEngland's Justin Rose, who led for two rounds, faded in the final 18 holes with a two-over 74 to end five under.\n\nXander Schauffele, playing with Matsuyama, birdied the 15th to close to within two shots, but hit his tee shot in the water on the 16th as his challenge finished with a triple-bogey six.\n\nHe ended on seven under in a share of third with fellow American and 2015 champion Jordan Spieth.\n\nSpanish world number three Jon Rahm posted a final-day 66 to come in a further stroke back, alongside Australia's Marc Leishman.\n\nScotland's Robert MacIntyre impressed on his debut and finished joint 12th at two under to secure his place at next year's Masters.\n\nI am glad to open the floodgates - Matsuyama on historic win\n\nA decade since Matsuyama was awarded the Silver Cup as the leading amateur at the 2011 Masters, the 29-year-old returned to record a victory that will resonate hugely in his home nation.\n\nJapan has boasted major champions in 1977 LGPA Championship winner Hisako Higuchi and Hinako Shibuno, who won the Women's Open two years ago, but the closest a male player had previously come to golf's most sought-after prizes was Isao Aoki with a runner-up finish at the 1980 US Open.\n\n\"I am really happy. My nerves really didn't start on the back nine, it was right from the start and right until the very last putt,\" said Matsuyama.\n\n\"I was thinking about them [friends and family] all the way around. I am really happy I played well for them. Hopefully I will be a pioneer and many other Japanese players will follow and I am glad to open the floodgates.\"\n\nThe foundations for Matsuyama's success were laid on Saturday, returning from an hour-long delay for storms to shoot six under par through his final eight holes.\n\nIt meant the world number 25, who passed the time by sitting in his car playing games on his phone, signed for a stunning 65 that put him four strokes clear of the field on 11 under.\n\nThere were some early nerves on Sunday as Matsuyama sent his opening drive into the trees and watched his lead cut to one after Zalatoris made a birdie-birdie start to climb to nine under.\n\nThe 24-year-old American, who was aiming to become the first debutant to win since Fuzzy Zoeller in 1979, emerged as a surprise challenger but Matsuyama birdied the second, made smart par-saves at three and five and then completed the front nine with successive birdies.\n\nAfter Zalatoris dropped shots at 10 and the Golden Bell 12th, Matsuyama's advantage was stretched to six strokes.\n\nMatsuyama, who had not won on the PGA Tour since 2017, could afford to cautiously bogey the par-three 12th but was fortunate to avoid sending his approach to the par-five 13th green into the azaleas and he went on to birdie the hole.\n\nPlaying partner Schauffele looked to have blown his challenge with four dropped shots in three holes through three, four and five.\n\nBut a run of four birdies that started on the 12th suddenly put the pressure on Matsuyama, especially when the leader hit his second shot on the par-five 15th over the green and into the water on the nearby 16th. That resulted in a dropped shot and his advantage was down to two.\n\nSchauffele's grandparents live in Japan and he says he knows enough of the language to share a joke with Matsuyama, but the American was is no mood for that when his tee shot on the par-three 16th dropped into the water as he recorded a triple-bogey six.\n\nThat handed Matsuyama the initiative once more, despite carding a bogey himself, and he held a two-shot lead heading down the 18th, where he converted a bogey putt to clinch the Green Jacket in front of the patrons gathered around the green.\n\nThe former world number two becomes the second Japanese player to enjoy a victory at the iconic Georgia venue in eight days, after Tsubasa Kajitani won the Augusta National Women's Amateur last week.\n\nTwo-time runner-up Rose opened the tournament with a seven-under 65 and held on to that lead through the second round after a level-par 72. He shot 72 on Saturday to be in the group starting Sunday four behind Matsuyama.\n\nBut he could not sustain his bid for a first Green Jacket as he faded to finish five back.\n\n\"I enjoyed the week and it's a bit more evidence that I love playing this golf course and I know how to play it,\" 40-year-old Rose said after a round that featured six bogeys and four birdies. \"Weirdly I felt I played better than I had all week. Just the putter went cold.\n\n\"I say that nothing really important happens before April. The major season is when it really counts. This is the start of it.\n\n\"Every month there is one to prepare for and work for and that is what I will be doing. This is a confidence boost and gives plenty of evidence that things are going in the right direction.\"\n\nMacIntyre will be back next year after a level-par 72 on the final day, with the top 12 and ties getting invites to return.\n\n\"I have to take the positives,\" he said. \"I have played great on a golf course I have never seen. I have only played it on computer games with my pals. If I had known this golf course more I could have been up there competing.\"\n\nZalatoris was also making his debut and continued his impressive rise by ending the week as runner-up for his sixth top-10 finish in 15 starts on the PGA Tour this season, including a tie for sixth at the US Open last September.\n\n\"I am speechless,\" he said. \"To come one shot short is motivating, but for it to come at the Masters where I have been coming since I was nine years old is exciting,\" he said.\n\n\"I will come back next year and hopefully go one better.\"\n\nRahm, who became a father last week, carded the round of the day with an impressive bogey-free 66 to move to six under and post his fourth successive top-10 finish at Augusta.\n\nThe 26-year-old Spaniard is still searching for his first major title but is a combined 37 under par at the venue in that period, better than any other player.\n\nAmerican Patrick Reed, the 2018 champion, and Australia's Cameron Smith, five months after his runner-up finish, also enjoyed top-10 finishes at four under and three under respectively.", "Armin Laschet (left) and Markus Söder appeared together after party talks in Berlin\n\nThe race to replace German Chancellor Angela Merkel is heating up after both leaders of the two parties that make up her conservative alliance put themselves forwards.\n\nMrs Merkel, leader since 2005, is set to stand down at September's election.\n\nMarkus Söder, who is Bavaria's premier, said on Sunday he was prepared to be the candidate if he had the support of the conservatives elsewhere in Germany.\n\nHis rival is Armin Laschet who had already said he would stand.\n\nMr Laschet is the recently elected leader of Mrs Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) and current premier of Germany's most populous state.\n\nMr Söder's announcement came as the two conservative parties, who work together in federal politics, met on Sunday for talks on the issue. A decision on the CDU/CSU joint nominee is expected soon.\n\nSpeaking at a joint news conference, Mr Laschet, 60, said: \"Markus Söder and I had a long conversation before today. We declared our willingness to run for the chancellorship.\"\n\nMr Söder, 54, said they were both suited for the role and willing to take it up.\n\n\"What is important is that we do this with respect for each other. And I will say this: whoever is chosen in the end we will both work very well together.\n\n\"It is not about our individual ambitions - it is about the good of the party and above all, the good of the country,\" he said.\n\nMore commonly a leader of the CDU, the larger party, would be expected to become the two parties' candidate. But at present, polls suggest Mr Söder would be the more electable choice.\n\nA candidate from the Bavarian sister party has never won the federal election before. Two previous attempts by CSU leaders failed in 1980 and 2002.\n\nMrs Merkel has not publicly expressed a preference for either potential candidate.\n\nThe conservative alliance is facing a decline in popularity following the coronavirus pandemic, slipping to about 27% in polls.\n\nSo far Mr Söder has proved popular in the crisis, even though Bavaria's Covid figures are no better than those of most other German states.\n\nThe Social Democrats have already announced their candidate for chancellor, Finance Minister Olaf Scholz, while the Green party will announce their nominee next week.", "Jimmy Lai was sentenced in April 2021 to a year in prison\n\nThe billionaire media mogul Jimmy Lai is one of the most prominent supporters of Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement. He has been a persistent thorn in China's side, and is now in prison serving a year's sentence for his involvement in protests in the territory.\n\nMr Lai was 12 years old when he fled his village in mainland China, arriving in Hong Kong as a stowaway on a fishing boat. Like a number of the city’s famed tycoons, he went from a menial role, toiling in a Hong Kong sweatshop, to founding a multi-million dollar empire.\n\nBut unlike others who rose to the top in Hong Kong, Mr Lai also became one of the fiercest critics of the Chinese state and a leading figure advocating democracy in the former British territory. As a result, he has faced a string of cases in recent years and was eventually been sentenced to a prison term on a charge of \"unauthorised assembly\".\n\nHe is still the most prominent person charged under Hong Kong's controversial new national security law, which can carry a life sentence.\n\n“I’m a born rebel,\" he told the BBC in an interview late last year, hours before he was charged. \"I have a very rebellious character.\"\n\nJimmy Lai was born in Guangzhou, a city in southern China, to a wealthy family that lost everything when the communists took power in 1949. From working odd jobs and knitting in a small clothing shop he taught himself English, eventually founding the international clothing brand Giordano.\n\nThe chain was a huge success. But when in 1989 China sent in tanks to crush pro-democracy protests in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, Mr Lai began a new journey as a vocal democracy activist as well as an entrepreneur.\n\nHe started writing columns criticising the massacre that followed the demonstrations in Beijing and established a publishing house that went on to become one of Hong Kong's most influential.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Hong Kong billionaire risking it all by speaking out\n\nAs China responded by threatening to shut his stores on the mainland, leading him to sell the company, Mr Lai launched a string of popular pro-democracy titles that now include Next, a digital magazine, and the widely read Apple Daily newspaper.\n\nIn a local media landscape increasingly fearful of Beijing, Mr Lai has been a persistent critic of China's authorities both through his publications and writing. This has seen him become a hero for many residents in Hong Kong but on the mainland he is viewed as a “traitor” who threatens Chinese national security.\n\nIn recent years, masked attackers have firebombed Mr Lai’s house and company headquarters. The 73-year-old has also been the target of an assassination plot.\n\nBut none of the threats has stopped him from airing his views robustly. He has been a prominent part of the city’s pro-democracy demonstrations and had already been arrested twice this year on illegal assembly charges for earlier protests before his detention earlier this month.\n\nWhen China passed Hong Kong's new national security law in June, Mr Lai told the BBC it spelt the \"death knell\" for the territory. The influential entrepreneur also warned that Hong Kong would become as corrupt as China. Without the rule of law, he said, its coveted status as a global financial hub would be \"totally destroyed\".\n\nFor his admirers Mr Lai is a man of courage who has taken on great risks to defend the freedoms of Hong Kong.\n\n\"I have enormous respect for Mr. Lai. Clearly a man with courage and probably among the very very few who has maintained his business interests without diluting his principles,\" wrote one Twitter user after his arrest.\n\nThe media mogul is known for his frankness and acts of flamboyance. Earlier this year he had urged US President Donald Trump to help the territory, saying he was \"the only one who can save us\" from China. His newspaper, Apple Daily, published a front-page letter that finished: \"Mr President, please help us.\"\n\nWhen his sentence was read out in court in April, he was calm. The judge said, \"Actions have consequences for everyone irrespective of who they are.\" Outside the courtroom, pro-democracy protesters chanted.", "China's economy grew a record 18.3% in the first quarter of 2021 compared to the same quarter last year.\n\nIt's the biggest jump in gross domestic product (GDP) since China started keeping quarterly records in 1992.\n\nHowever, Friday's figures are below expectations, with a Reuters poll of economists predicting 19% growth.\n\nThey are also heavily skewed, and less indicative of strong growth, as they are compared to last year's huge economic contraction.\n\nIn the first quarter of 2020, China's economy shrank 6.8% due to nationwide lockdowns at the peak of its Covid-19 outbreak.\n\n\"The national economy made a good start,\" said China's National Bureau of Statistics, which released the first quarter data.\n\nBut it added: \"We must be aware that the Covid-19 epidemic is still spreading globally and the international landscape is complicated with high uncertainties and instabilities.\"\n\nOther key figures released by China's statistics department also point to a continuing rebound, but are also unusually strong because they are compared against extremely weak numbers from last year.\n\nIndustrial output for March rose 14.1% over a year ago, while retail sales grew 34.2%.\n\nIt's ironic that China's economic boom has been announced just as its leader wrestles with the problem of climate change - which has been caused by economic growth over the decades.\n\nHistorically, that growth has been almost completely fuelled by emissions from burning coal, gas and oil.\n\nChina has promised to freeze its growth in emissions by 2030 and halt them totally by 2060.\n\nBut President Xi is hearing from France's President Macron and Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel that it can and should freeze emissions earlier - perhaps by 2025.\n\nLeaders of the EU and US are also urging China to stop funding new coal-fired power plants in poor nations in the so-called Belt and Road initiative.\n\nThe world will suffer, they say, if African nations follow the polluting path to prosperity laid down by nations which got rich on coal.\n\n\"Promisingly, the monthly indicators suggest that industrial production, consumption and investment all gained pace in March on a sequential basis, following the weakness in the first two months,\" said Louis Kuijs, head of Asia economics at research and consultancy firm Oxford Economics.\n\nHowever, some analysts predicted a number of sectors will slow as government fiscal and monetary support is reduced.\n\nYue Su, the Economist Intelligence Unit's principal economist for China, while the latest figures show that the country's economic recovery is broad-based, some production and export activity could have been \"front-loaded\" into the first quarter, suggesting slower growth ahead.\n\n\"Trade performance and domestic industrial activities for the rest of year might not be able to maintain such strong momentum, due to lack of measures to stimulate domestic economy,\" she said.\n\nThe figures nevertheless suggest China has continued to gain economic momentum. Comparing growth for the last quarter with the last quarter of 2020, the Chinese economy grew by a far smaller 0.6%.\n\nHelped by strict virus containment measures and emergency relief for businesses, the economy has recovered steadily since the pandemic hit.\n\nDespite a calamitous start to the year, China was the only major economy to register growth in 2020 albeit its weakest in decades, at 2.3%.\n\nChina has set an economic growth target of 6% for 2021, after scrapping its target last year.", "Poldark actor Aidan Turner has said he is \"glad\" that a new historical drama about Leonardo da Vinci reflects the artist's sexuality.\n\nThe Amazon Prime TV series stars Turner as the Renaissance painter, architect and inventor.\n\nIn it, Leonardo is depicted as having male lovers. Some historians have argued he was gay or bisexual.\n\n\"It's such a huge part of who he was\" Turner told Leonardo: The Official Podcast.\n\n\"And his motivation for doing so much.\"\n\nThe star agreed with podcast host Angellica Bell that discovering fresh perspectives on the artist's life had also led to him \"looking at his paintings slightly differently\".\n\n\"There's something almost tortured in some of it,\" he added. \"You can see something else and feel something else, something more visceral about it.\n\nMatilda De Angelis and Freddie Highmore also star in the drama\n\n\"Once you realise the sexuality is such a huge part of any person, you know, to even contemplate not discussing the sexuality of a person is just mind-boggling.\n\n\"So I'm glad that's something that, even from the early drafts of the scripts... that that was present in our story.\"\n\nThe drama series, which is a love story and a murder mystery, explores what made Leonardo tick. Each of the eight episodes focuses on a different painting of his and the story behind it.\n\nIt also features Giancarlo Giannini as his master, Andrea del Verrocchio, and The Undoing star Matilda De Angelis as his muse - Caterina of Cremona.\n\nLast month however, The Guardian claimed the relationship between the artist and his on-screen female muse rested on \"virtually no historical evidence\". \"Why can't we accept that Da Vinci was gay?\" asked its writer Jonathan Jones.\n\nTurner said he learned a lot about da Vinci while playing him\n\nThe polymath's sexuality has been widely discussed down the centuries, including by psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud in his 1910 essay, Da Vinci, A Memory of His Childhood.\n\nCourt records, found at the start of the 1900s, showed that Leonardo was accused of alleged interaction with a male prostitute. But the case before Florentine magistrates in 1476 was thrown out due to lack of evidence.\n\nThe Evening Standard said the new series released on 16 April \"plays fast and loose with historical fact - with mixed results\".\n\n\"We're in a boom time for historical drama that doesn't stick to the rules of the genre - just look at success stories like The Favourite and The Great,\" wrote Katie Rosseinsky.\n\n\"Perhaps that's why the show's creators decided to shake things up. The end result, though, lacks cohesion - it feels more like a sketch than a masterpiece.\"\n\nMeanwhile, The Telegraph awarded three stars, describing the show as \"stonkingly chaste Aidan Turner in Horrible Histories minus the laughs\".\n\nJournalist Ed Power called it \"a quick sketch rather than the fuller portrait one of history's greatest minds surely merits.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Alicia Keys' dates in Manchester, London and Birmingham won't go ahead this June\n\nTickets for arena shows by Alicia Keys, Haim and Mrs Brown's Boys in June are still on sale despite the fact they can't go ahead as planned under the government reopening roadmap.\n\nIn February, the government said full-capacity indoor events would not return in England until at least 21 June.\n\nBut on Friday, tickets remained on sale to see Keys, Haim, Mrs Brown's Boys and more stars on tour before that date.\n\nFans can only get refunds if shows are officially rescheduled or cancelled.\n\nKeys is scheduled to play in Manchester, London and Birmingham from 6-10 June - dates that have already been rescheduled once. Her spokeswoman confirmed the tour will not happen this June.\n\nTickets are still on sale for The Mrs Brown's Boys tour from 7 June\n\nThe English leg of the Mrs Brown's Boys comedy tour is scheduled to start in Hull on 7 June. A spokeswoman said they are likely to announce new plans next week. Meanwhile, US trio Haim are due to play in Manchester, London and Nottingham from 15 June.\n\nAny such shows are not expected to go ahead with smaller, socially-distanced crowds, which could be allowed from 17 May.\n\nHaim fan Kat Hakin has paid £95 for two tickets to see the band at the O2 Arena. \"The biggest problem is they're still selling tickets for a date that they know that's not going to happen,\" she said.\n\nMs Hakin said her ticket app it is still showing the tickets as being valid for 18 June. \"There's no indication there that it's not going to happen,\" she said.\n\nHaim recently performed at the Grammy Awards, but won't be travelling to the UK soon\n\n\"I'm frustrated at not being able to make my plans. I don't expect the concert to go ahead on the 18th at all, but I'm not about to make other plans, just in case. I've got to travel and get accommodation for that date, so I don't want to be doing that at last minute, should Boris [Johnson] bring the opening date forward, which I really can't see.\"\n\nJulian Knight MP, chair of the House of Commons culture select committee, said it was \"concerning\" that tickets were still on sale for events that would not take place as planned.\n\n\"People who've already bought tickets should be able to get a refund, there is no reason for concerts organisers to hang on their cash,\" he said. \"The 'not before' roadmap date of 21 June has given the industry the clarity it was waiting for - now is the time for the industry to do the responsible thing.\"\n\nAdam French, senior consumer rights editor at Which?, said: \"These events should be taken off sale.\n\n\"Consumers should also be advised not to buy tickets until new dates are confirmed, otherwise they could lose out on the cost of booking fees in any refund they are due if they cannot make the new dates.\"\n\nTicket sites and venues must wait for promoters to instruct them to move or remove shows from their listings.\n\nPromoters Live Nation said on Thursday that announcements about shows scheduled for before 21 June involving Keys, Haim and more were \"imminent\".\n\nFellow promoters SJM said: \"The planned dates for Mrs Browns Boys will not be able to happen this summer as a result of the ongoing restrictions related to the global pandemic. We are working to reschedule the tour and will have news for all fans shortly. All customers should hold on to their tickets and as soon as new dates are confirmed we will let them know and the dates will be publicised.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for the O2 Arena said they were waiting to hear from Live Nation and SJM. A spokeswoman for Nottingham's Motorpoint Arena, where Haim are due to play on 19 June, said they were \"awaiting information from the promoter\".\n\nA message on the website of Manchester's AO Arena, which is due to host Keys' first UK date, said the venue was \"continuing to liaise with promoters and event organisers of all shows that are scheduled to take place before the 21 June 2021, expecting more changes to the events calendar\".\n\nThe Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith, London, where Mrs Brown's Boys are scheduled to appear on 11 and 12 June, said it was \"waiting on confirmation from the event promoters on when this event is postponing to\" and that \"the event will not be socially distanced, it would have to postpone to a date where it can take place at full capacity\".\n\nA spokesman for Blackpool Opera House, where Mrs Brown's Boys are in the diary from 14-16 June, said they were \"awaiting an update from the show's promoters\".\n\nTrade associations UK Music, Live and the Concert Promoters' Association declined to comment.", "Actors Damian Lewis and Helen McCrory are expanding their initiative to give NHS workers meals from High-Street restaurants, after raising nearly £1m.\n\nThe stars of Homeland and Peaky Blinders launched the Feed NHS scheme in London but now say it will roll out to other UK cities facing Covid-19.\n\nLewis told the BBC it was important to look after hospital staff struggling to find places to eat during their shifts.\n\n\"The public have been incredible,\" he said on the Coronavirus Newscast.\n\n\"I know a lot of people are feeling a bit cash-strapped at the moment, so they've been unbelievably generous.\n\n\"But it means we can now kick in with a second round of funding - which is essentially what we are trying to do - in order to take it to Birmingham, Cardiff and Manchester, because the virus will move through those city centres.\"\n\nLewis, who plays US Marine Sgt Nicholas Brody in the Showtime terrorist drama, is currently isolating at home with his wife and fellow screen star, McCrory, and their two children, while the TV and film industry is on shutdown.\n\nThe couple teamed up with restaurant chains including Leon, Dishoom, Wasabi and Tortilla, to \"get food to these people who were working such long hours and weren't able to\".\n\nComedian Matt Lucas has also been involved in the Feed NHS scheme, releasing his revised Baked Potato Song to help raise funds.\n\nHis charity single, Thank You Baked Potato, debuted at number 34 on the official UK singles chart on Friday, with the highest digital download sales of the week.\n\nElsewhere on Friday, Liam Gallagher became the latest musician to show his appreciation for health workers by announcing he was putting on a free concert for them, following in the footsteps of the Manic Street Preachers and Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott.\n\n\"They do an incredible job, we are very lucky to have them,\" posted the rock star.\n\nQuarantined people around the UK gave a round of applause for the NHS for a third Thursday running, this week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. People around the UK clapped for healthcare workers\n\nLewis and McCrory's scheme has so far provided thousands of meals for frontline workers at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and UCLH Healthcare NHS Trust in the capital.\n\nThe actress said that if the events of the worldwide coronavirus pandemic had been pitched to her in a prospective script, she \"would have turned this film down\".\n\n\"Because it would have seemed too far-fetched,\" declared the star, who portrays Polly Gray in the BBC Midlands gangster series.\n\nShe also spoke about the \"overwhelming\" feelings of sadness she has experienced during the past few weeks in lockdown.\n\n\"You think you're absolutely fine, you're pottering along, you're coping with it - cleaning, cooking, cleaning, cooking, cleaning, cooking - and you suddenly burst into tears,\" she said.\n\n\"And it's this fear and it's the vulnerability coming out and then you pick yourself up and you go along again as if nothing happened. And it's very surreal.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 Sounds This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCoronavirus Newscast is a daily podcast available to download on BBC Sounds. It also appears as a weekly TV programme on BBC One, on Thursdays at 23:45 BST.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "'There will be new variants' of the virus\n\nPam Cameron is the deputy chair of the health committee and wants to know if there’s been any agreement on a passenger locator form for those travelling to NI from the Republic of Ireland. That’s something that hasn’t yet been resolved, says Arlene Foster. The first minister adds that earlier today, the chief scientific adviser outlined the possible outcomes and spread of the virus in the six months at the executive. “From what we’ve seen there will be new variants unfortunately” of Covid-19, says Mrs Foster. Is the test, trace and protect system able to cope with the “increased burden” that PCR testing of all contacts of a positive case will place on the system, asks DUP MLA Ms Cameron. Michelle O’Neill says the system “needs to be 100% perfect” and “actively finding cases and dealing with them head on”. The deputy first minister adds that “we need to try and avoid” another circuit of lockdown.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nBritish number one Dan Evans came from a set down to beat Belgium's David Goffin and reach the semi-finals of the Monte Carlo Masters.\n\nEvans, who claimed the biggest win of his career by beating Novak Djokovic in the previous round, won 5-7 6-3 6-4.\n\nHe fended off four break points at 4-4 in the final set to hold serve and then took match point at his first attempt to win in two hours and 46 minutes.\n\nEvans will face Stefanos Tsitsipas in his first Masters Series semi-final.\n\nThe Greek world number five had taken the opening set 7-5 against Alejandro Davidovich Fokina when the Spaniard retired.\n\nEvans will also team up with Neal Skupski for a doubles semi-final on Saturday after the pair beat Raven Klaasen and Ben McLachlan 1-6 7-6 (7-5) 10-4 in a deciding set tie-break.\n\n\"It's been a good week. I'm enjoying it,\" said Evans.\n\n\"It's easy to say everybody told me I'd be able to play on clay before. It's not that simple, is it? Otherwise we'd all be winning matches all the time. It's one of those things.\n\n\"I feel a bit more comfortable moving. It's been a lot easier. Obviously I have worked with a fitness trainer for a few weeks. We did a lot of footwork stuff, sliding. It's definitely helped.\"\n\nHowever, Rafael Nadal failed to reach the last four for only the second time in his last 16 appearances, following a surprise defeat by Andrey Rublev.\n\nThe Spaniard was bidding for his 12th title in Monte Carlo but slipped to a 6-2 4-6 6-2 loss against sixth seed Rublev, who will now face Norway's Casper Ruud.\n\n\"I'm always sad to lose here, of course, because it's an important one for me. I missed an opportunity to start the clay-court season in the right way,\" said Nadal.\n\n\"But that's it. I can't complain. The only thing that I can do is go to Barcelona and keep practising, try to fix the things that didn't work well.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n\n'A story no-one expected to be writing' - analysis\n\nFor a surface on which British players are supposed to struggle, some remarkable clay court seasons have been compiled in recent years.\n\nIn 2015, Andy Murray won his first clay tournaments in consecutive weeks in Munich and Madrid, and four years later - with little previous hint of what was to come - Johanna Konta put together a thrilling run which culminated in a French Open semi-final.\n\nAnd now Dan Evans, with just four tour level wins on clay before this week, has doubled his tally on the surface.\n\nHe saved 15 of the 17 break points he faced against David Goffin, with some clutch serving when most required in the decider.\n\nConfidence, a smart game plan, and some exceptional execution have contributed to a story no-one expected to be writing.\n• None One simple thing that could improve your life!\n• None A new visa means many Hong Kong citizens have to decide to stay or make the move to the UK", "Gary Stewart's wife Jude died from the coronavirus at the start of the year. She had been living in a care home and he hadn't been able to see her for months.\n\nBecause of restrictions caused by the pandemic, no more than 30 people could attend and they had to socially distance.\n\nGary, who lives near Peterborough, describes his wife's funeral as \"a ridiculous non-event\" and not \"what she deserved\".\n\nHe spoke to the BBC ahead of Prince Philip's funeral this Saturday, which will only have 30 mourners in line with Covid rules.", "A 21-year old university student developed heart failure after \"excessive\" consumption of energy drinks, a new report suggests.\n\nFor two years, the man drank four 500ml energy drinks a day, according to the BMJ Case Report.\n\nHe spent 58 days in hospital, including the intensive care unit which he described as \"traumatising\".\n\nBefore the hospital admission, he suffered with shortness of breath and weight loss for four months.\n\nDoctors treating him considered a number of diagnoses, but concluded: \"Energy drink-induced cardiotoxicity was felt to be the most likely cause.\"\n\nAn organ transplant was considered after tests revealed both his heart and kidneys had failed - with the kidney failure linked to a long-standing but previously undiagnosed condition.\n\nThe unnamed patient contributed to the report, and was unable to continue his university studies three months before hospital admission because of his health.\n\n\"When I was drinking up to four energy drinks per day, I suffered from tremors and heart palpitations, which interfered with my ability to concentrate on daily tasks and my studies at university.\"\n\nThe authors said recovery or relapse was difficult to predict\n\nAfter nine months his heart function has appeared to have returned with \"mildly impaired function\", but the report said it was difficult to predict recovery or potential for relapse.\n\nThe student suffered from severe migraine headaches which would \"often occur during the periods\" when he didn't have energy drinks.\n\n\"This also restricted my ability to perform day-to-day tasks and even leisurely activities such as going to the park or taking a walk,\" he said.\n\nHe felt there should be more awareness about energy drinks and the effect of their contents.\n\n\"I believe they are very addictive and far too accessible to young children. I think warning labels, similar to smoking, should be made to illustrate the potential dangers of the ingredients in energy drink,\" he added.\n\nThis comes after a separate study done by researchers at Cardiff University analysed the responses of a health survey of more than 176,000 secondary school children in Wales aged 11 to 16 between 2013 and 2017.\n\nIt found that 6% of pupils said they drank energy drinks on a \"daily\" basis - a trend which didn't change over time.\n\nThe study's lead author Dr Kelly Morgan said there was a difference in consumption between those from low and high socioeconomic groups.\n\n\"Marketing campaigns for energy drinks are often aimed at those from more disadvantaged backgrounds.\"\n\nTheir popularity was unlikely to be hit unless policy measures were \"put in place\", Dr Morgan added.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Rachid Khadla was obsessed with fitness and dieting, the Crown Prosecution Service said\n\nA fitness-obsessed father who forced his daughter to sign a contract to \"never get fat\" has been jailed for 30 months.\n\nRachid Khadla, from Windsor, Berkshire, violently attacked and manipulated his three children for years, Reading Crown Court heard.\n\nThe 56-year-old was found guilty by a jury of assault and cruelty to his children, now all adults.\n\nSentencing, Judge Kirsty Real described him as \"a bully\".\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said Khadla was obsessed with fitness and dieting.\n\nHe forced his daughter to sign a document to say she would \"do lots of exercise\" and \"never get fat, even until I die\", it added.\n\nProsecutor Alex Krikler told the court Khadla also threw a chair at her, aged nine, causing a keloid on her ear needing \"numerous operations and treatments\".\n\n\"She describes being made to feel worthless and stupid by her father,\" he said. \"There was anxiety and eating disorders.\"\n\nAll three children were regularly physically assaulted with a wooden spoon on their hands, and were told who they could be friends with and what activities they could do.\n\nKhadla's behaviour came to light in 2019, when his teenage son told police his father had strangled him and punched him in an attack.\n\nIn a victim impact statement, his eldest son said the abuse, which started when he was five, had left him with \"long-term mental health issues\".\n\nHe described his father as a smart man \"plotting and calculating every move\".\n\nHe added the abuse led to him being bullied at school, but it \"was almost enjoyable compared to the life I left at home\".\n\nKhadla, of Dedworth Road, Windsor, pleaded not guilty to two counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and three counts of cruelty to a child.\n\nPassing sentence Judge Real said he had \"effectively ruined their childhoods\" through \"multiple incidents of cruelty over many years\".\n\nShe said: \"You were a bully, and you have been unwilling to accept or acknowledge that.\"\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nHarry Kane suffered a late injury after scoring twice to rescue a point for Tottenham against Everton at Goodison Park.\n\nNine days before the Carabao Cup final and 58 days before England's European Championship opener, Kane limped off in stoppage time with an apparent ankle problem.\n\nThe striker seemed to land awkwardly after jumping for a header when defending a corner late on.\n\nManager Jose Mourinho said he did not know how serious the injury was.\n\n\"That's also a question I want an answer to as soon as possible but it's too early,\" Mourinho said.\n\n\"For him to come out it is not because it's nothing, it's something.\n\n\"We all felt the same fears of something that stops him playing Wednesday [against Southampton in the Premier League] and especially Sunday [the Carabao Cup final] but we will see.\"\n\nKane had earlier been at his clinical best, capitalising on two mistakes in the Everton defence to put Spurs ahead in the first half and grab a second-half equaliser.\n\nIn between Kane's strikes Gylfi Sigurdsson levelled from the penalty spot and gave Everton the lead by finishing off a fine team goal.\n\nEverton pushed hardest for a winner and had the best chance to win it but Joshua King's effort was saved by Hugo Lloris and Richarlison fired the rebound over from 12 yards.\n\nA draw suited neither side's pursuit of European football, with Tottenham staying seventh, five points behind fourth-placed West Ham and Everton a point and a place worse off, though they do have a game in hand.\n\nKane to the rescue but at what cost?\n\nKane walking gingerly before bending down and holding his right ankle will strike fear into every Tottenham and England fan.\n\nHe left the field of his own accord but did so immediately and shaking his head.\n\nKane has suffered a series of ankle injuries in the past which only adds to the concern.\n\nIn 2018-19 he had two significant spells out with a left ankle injury and in 2017-18 he missed a month with an injury to the right ankle. He also endured separate absences of six and four weeks during the 2016-17 campaign.\n\nEarlier this season he injured both ankles earlier but ultimately returned sooner than expected.\n\n\"Obviously it's always worrying when you see him limping because he doesn't fall over easily,\" team-mate Eric Dier told Sky Sports.\n\n\"He takes a lot of knocks. It's early days to say how bad it is but I'm sure he's a tough boy so will do what he can to be ready.\"\n\nKane had earlier shown his massive importance to his team once more, slamming home two sharp finishes from his only opportunities in an otherwise underwhelming Spurs performance. He has been involved in 62 goals in 62 appearances under Jose Mourinho.\n\nHis latest strikes were his 20th and 21st of this season, taking him two clear in the race for the golden boot. They also lifted him into seventh on the all-time Premier League scorers chart, clear of Robbie Fowler and Jermain Defoe.\n\nEverton were much improved from their toothless performance in a goalless draw with Brighton on Monday. It was two mix-ups at the back that cost them three points.\n\nFor Kane's opener Michael Keane misjudged a header and flicked a cross into the Spurs striker's path and the England defender was involved again for Kane's second goal.\n\nAs a tame cross came in, he headed the ball into his fellow centre-back Mason Holgate and it deflected to Kane in the box. For a second time Kane gave the returning Jordan Pickford no chance.\n\nThere were positive signs in the rest of Everton's performance, however. They created opportunities despite the continued absence of their top scorer Dominic Calvert-Lewin because of injury.\n\nSigurdsson's second was a delightful left-footed guide into the far corner from Seamus Coleman's cross after the Ireland international had played a slick one-two with Richarlison.\n\nEverton also benefited from clumsiness by Sergio Reguilon, who rushed into the back of James Rodriguez to foul the Colombian for Everton's penalty. There was not much contact but enough for the spot-kick to be awarded.\n\nThe Toffees are now five games without a win in the league but this was a much more promising display.\n\n\"If we made less mistakes in the box we can win the game,\" manager Carlo Ancelotti said.\n\n\"It was one of the best performances we have played here at home. We created the opportunities to win the game.\"\n\nSpurs surrender winning position again - the best stats\n• None The past five meetings between Everton and Tottenham at Goodison Park in all competitions have produced 26 goals (10 for Everton, 16 for Spurs), an average of 5.2 per game.\n• None Everton have failed to win any of their past five Premier League matches (D3 L2), their longest such run since December 2018 under Marco Silva.\n• None No Premier League side has dropped more points from winning positions this season than Tottenham (20).\n• None Everton have scored all five of the penalties they have taken against Spurs in the Premier League (Cottee, Unsworth x2, Ferguson, Sigurdsson).\n• None Only versus Chelsea (6) has Everton's Gylfi Sigurdsson scored more Premier League goals than against Tottenham (5). Indeed, Sigurdsson is the third player to score a Premier League double against Spurs having played for them in the competition, after Darren Bent (April 2010, Sunderland) and Matthew Etherington (December 2011, Stoke).\n• None Only Alan Shearer (7) and Sergio Aguero (6) have scored 20+ goals in more different Premier League seasons than Spurs' Harry Kane (5 - level with Thierry Henry).\n• None Harry Kane has been directly involved in 62 goals in 62 appearances in all competitions for Spurs under Jose Mourinho (45 goals, 17 assists) - no Premier League player has more goal involvements in this period (since 23 November 2019).\n\nSpurs play Southampton on Wednesday (18:00 BST kick-off) in the Premier League before their Carabao Cup final against Manchester City at Wembley a week on Sunday.\n\nEverton's next match is away at Arsenal on Friday, 23 April (20:00 BST).\n• None Attempt missed. James Rodríguez (Everton) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Gylfi Sigurdsson.\n• None Substitution, Tottenham Hotspur. Dele Alli replaces Harry Kane because of an injury.\n• None Attempt missed. Ben Godfrey (Everton) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left following a corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Richarlison (Everton) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.\n• None Attempt saved. Joshua King (Everton) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by James Rodríguez.\n• None Attempt missed. Séamus Coleman (Everton) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Allan.\n• None Attempt blocked. Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Son Heung-Min.\n• None Attempt missed. Erik Lamela (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Pierre-Emile Højbjerg. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None One simple thing that could improve your life!\n• None Why are Hong Kong citizens having to decide whether to move to the UK?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Friedrich Joussen tells the BBC's Aaron Heslehurst that he is optimistic about the summer.\n\nSuccessful vaccine programmes will prevent another washout for summer holidaymakers, the boss of Europe's largest tour company has told the BBC.\n\n\"We are optimistic about the summer,\" said Friedrich Joussen, who runs TUI.\n\nThe firm - which owns a fleet of aircraft, cruise ships and a chain of travel agencies - said bookings in March alone had hit 2.8 million.\n\nAs a result, it expected to operate up to 75% of its normal schedule for the summer season.\n\n\"We are still confident that we will have a decent summer,\" said Mr Joussen, pointing to coronavirus vaccination programmes in the UK, US and Europe.\n\nThe company, which sells holidays to 180 different countries, suffered heavy losses during the pandemic.\n\nAcross the industry, income slumped by almost $4.5 trillion last year, leaving more than 62 million people without work, according to the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC).\n\nThe industry body is pressing for international travel to resume in June to stem further job losses.\n\nBut Mr Joussen said he expected some countries to ask travellers to prove they had been vaccinated before they were allowed to cross the border. Although he thinks demonstrating a negative test result would be just as effective in preventing the spread of the virus.\n\nHowever, for that strategy to be successful, he said the cost of those tests should be reduced.\n\n\"The cheaper it gets, the better it works and the less harmful it is for the general economy,\" he said.\n\nEuropean countries have ramped up their vaccination programmes in recent weeks, as the continent experiences a third wave of infections in the face of new variants. Nevertheless, Mr Joussen is optimistic about the summer.\n\n\"All medical advice we are getting as a company says that existing vaccines are working with existing variants,\" Mr Joussen said.\n\n\"Now they might be less efficient sometimes, but still it's much better than not being vaccinated.\"\n\nIn the past year, TUI has been forced to borrow billions from the German government just to stay afloat. But analysts have warned that in the wake of the crisis, the part-nationalised firm may struggle to compete against leaner rivals, as the industry reels from more than 12 months of international travel bans.\n\nMr Joussen said the German state stepped in at a time of great uncertainty, when the firm was struggling to survive and could not raise money from private investors.\n\n\"Berlin is a very rational investor,\" he said, adding: \"Germany would want to exit the loan as soon as possible.\"\n\nYou can watch Friedrich Joussen'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 06: 30 GMT & 10:30 GMT, Tuesday at 12:30 GMT and Thursday at 07:30 GMT.", "It has been almost a week since Darius vanished from his enclosure\n\nA reward offered in a bid to trace an award-winning four-foot long rabbit stolen from his home is being doubled.\n\nOwner Annette Edwards said she was \"very upset\" and increased the reward to £2,000 amid concerns Darius would die if he was not returned home soon.\n\nShe has enlisted a pet detective to help trace Darius, whose disappearance is also being probed by police.\n\nAt 129cm (4ft 2in) long, Darius is a record holder after being named the world's longest living rabbit in 2010.\n\nDarius, pictured with one of his sons, is too old to breed now his owner said\n\nMs Edwards runs a business breeding giant rabbits and Darius has sired many for customers who hope for a pet on a similar scale, however due to his age Ms Edwards said he has been retired from breeding for years.\n\nShe credits his old age with a special diet and is concerned if he is not properly fed he is unlikely to survive.\n\n\"He's such an old boy,\" she said. \"If I don't get him back quickly, he's going to die.\n\n\"He doesn't run around, he's very slow,\" she added. \"If he gets dumped a fox would get him.\"\n\nContinental giant rabbits normally only live for up to six years, leading to speculations on social media about whether it is possible for Darius to live to such an old age.\n\nExperts told the BBC while it was unheard of to them, they could not say it was impossible.\n\nAs a result of the speculation, Ms Edwards has faced abuse on social media since his disappearance.\n\n\"People think it's a hoax,\" she said. \"It saddens me, but what can I do? At a time like this, how awful.\"\n\nThe former model has denied allegations Darius was insured for six-figure sums, indeed that he was insured at all, and said she has been vilified by certain online communities for years.\n\nAs to why, Ms Edwards said she is not sure how to account for it, but being well-known in the rabbit breeding world leads her to put it down to jealousy.\n\nRabbit breeding is largely unregulated in the UK - unlike with dogs, no licence is currently required.\n\nWest Mercia Police said it is believed Darius was stolen from his enclosure, which is in his owners' garden, overnight on Saturday. So far, the force has not disclosed any updates on its investigation.\n\nThe RSPCA said it was deeply concerned by reports pet theft was on the rise and said thieves are \"attracting large value to pets\" as demand soared during lockdown.\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 former head of the Civil Service has said he is \"baffled\" that approval was given for a top civil servant to take a job at Greensill Capital while still on the government payroll.\n\nLord Kerslake said he could \"see no circumstances\" under which Bill Crothers's appointment at the finance firm could have been \"acceptable\".\n\nThe government has ordered a review which will look into his role.\n\nLabour said the dual working was evidence of a \"return to sleaze\".\n\nLord Kerslake, who ran the Civil Service under David Cameron's government and has advised the Labour Party, is the latest high-profile figure to express concern about the relationship between political figures and the now collapsed finance firm.\n\nGreensill is at the heart of a row engulfing Westminster about access, influence and lobbying, after it emerged that Mr Cameron had contacted current cabinet ministers about loans on behalf of the company, while working as a consultant there after leaving office.\n\nA government review and three separate inquiries by parliamentary committees will look at the former prime minister's role and that of Mr Crothers.\n\nThe National Audit Office, which monitors public spending, has also launched an investigation in to Greensill's involvement in the government's Covid-19 financial support schemes.\n\nIt says this will include the accreditation process and any subsequent monitoring of the company's activities.\n\nBill Crothers was in charge of government procurement until 2015\n\nMr Crothers had stopped being head of government procurement by the time he started work as an adviser for Greensill in 2015, but remained a senior civil servant.\n\nLord Kerslake, an independent peer, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that trust in the Civil Service was \"its most precious commodity\".\n\nHe said he was \"shocked and concerned\" at recent revelations, and that \"legitimate concerns\" about how Mr Crothers - who was able to hold dual roles - needed to be \"thoroughly investigated\".\n\n\"He led on procurement, an area of absolutely intense scrutiny and where integrity is vital,\" he said, while \"the effect of what he did, if not the intent\" was to \"bypass\" the rules set out by the watchdog, Acoba, that advises ministers and officials on outside employment.\n\n\"The situation was that Greensill were active in government, even if they didn't have a contract. So I am personally baffled as to how this got approved,\" he added.\n\nMr Crothers's appointment by joined Greensill received the go-ahead from the Cabinet Office, but he did not consult Acoba.\n\nIt emerged on Thursday that he had also failed to alert it about another job he took in 2016 as a trustee with the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply.\n\nMr Crothers apologised in a letter to Acoba for what he described an \"honest mistake\", saying he did not think he had to report the role as it was unpaid and with a not-for-profit charity.\n\nBut the head of Acoba, Lord Pickles, said the rules applied to both paid and unpaid jobs and it was therefore a breach of the regulations.\n\nThe Guardian newspaper has reported further links between Greensill and the Civil Service.\n\nIt said David Brierwood combined a role as a Crown representative in the Cabinet Office with being a director at Greensill for three-and-a-half years.\n\nMr Brierwood has not commented on the revelations.\n\nBut a Cabinet Office spokesman said: \"Crown representatives do not participate in the procurement process nor are they able to award any contracts.\n\n\"They are part-time senior executives recruited for their working knowledge of a sector to help ensure value for money for the taxpayer.\n\n\"All Crown representatives go through regular propriety checks and cannot work with a supplier where there could be a conflict of interest.\n\n\"Mr Brierwood's Crown representative role was not anything to do with supply-chain finance.\"\n\nSpeaking on a visit to Edinburgh, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer repeated his calls for a \"full, independent, transparent inquiry\".\n\n\"This has gone much wider than a single incident,\" he added, with \"story after story\" of cronyism and \"contracts for mates\".\n\n\"It is a catalogue of examples of sleaze and we have got to get to the bottom of it.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has said the \"most important thing is to get to the bottom of it properly\" and that all ministers and officials have been ordered to tell the government inquiry what it needs to know.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Police cameras show the final seconds before Adam Toledo, 13, was shot\n\nChicago police have released graphic footage of an officer shooting dead a 13-year-old boy in a dark alley.\n\nBodycam video shows the policeman shouting \"drop it\" before shooting Adam Toledo once in the chest on 29 March.\n\nThe boy does not appear to be holding a weapon in the split second he is shot, but police video shows a handgun near the spot where he falls.\n\nSmall protests were held on Thursday evening around Chicago, hours after the city's mayor appealed for calm.\n\nThe video's release follows the fatal police shooting on 11 April of Daunte Wright by an officer in a Minneapolis suburb.\n\nThat shooting has sparked violent protests as the city awaits the outcome of the trial of Derek Chauvin, the officer accused in the death of George Floyd.\n\nThe clip shows the officer jumping out of his squad car and chasing the Latino boy on foot down a dark alley as another suspect disappears from view.\n\nThe policeman shouts: \"Police! Stop! Stop right [expletive] now! Hands! Hands! Show me your [expletive] hands!\"\n\nThe boy turns and raises his hands. The officer shouts \"Drop it\" and fires his weapon - 19 seconds after exiting his squad car.\n\nSeparate CCTV footage appears to show the teenager throwing something through a gap in the fence as the officer runs up to him. Bodycam video shows officers shining a light on a handgun behind the wooden fence after the shooting.\n\nThe policeman calls for an ambulance while urging the fallen boy to \"stay awake\". Other officers arrive at the scene in the Little Village neighbourhood on the city's west side and CPR is performed.\n\nAccording to prosecutors, the teenager was with a 21-year-old man, Ruben Roman, who had just fired a gun at a passing car. The gunfire drew police to the area, resulting in the deadly confrontation.\n\nMr Roman appeared in court on Saturday charged with aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, reckless discharge of a firearm and child endangerment, according to local media reports.\n\nThe Civilian Office of Police Accountability released the bodycam footage on Thursday along with CCTV video, arrest reports and audio recordings of the shots fired in the area that alerted police.\n\nShortly before the video was released, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot held a press conference where she called the footage \"excruciating\" to watch.\n\n\"Simply put, we failed Adam,\" she said. \"And we cannot afford to fail one more young person in our city.\"\n\nChicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said the footage was \"excruciating\" to watch\n\n\"We live in a city that is traumatised by a long history of police violence and misconduct,\" the mayor said. \"So while we don't have enough information to be the judge and jury of this particular situation, it is certainly understandable why so many of our residents are feeling that all too familiar surge of outrage and pain.\"\n\nThe Toledo family also appealed for calm.\n\n\"We have heard reports in the media that more protests are planned today, and while we have no direct knowledge of such events, we pray that for the sake of our city, people remain peaceful to honour Adam's memory and work constructively to promote reform,\" they said in a statement.\n\nOn Thursday night, protestors called on Ms Lightfoot and the city's police superintendent David Brown to resign, alleging that authorities have dragged their feet in sharing information about the case and have not punished the officer involved.\n\nAt a news conference on Thursday, Toledo family lawyer Adeena Weiss Ortiz said the boy had not been holding a gun in the moment he was shot.\n\nBut she said they could not say with \"100% certainty\" whether the teenager had been carrying a weapon just beforehand, the Chicago Tribune reported.\n\nThe officer who fired the fatal shot, Eric Stillman, has not been officially accused of wrongdoing. He has been placed on administrative duty pending the outcome of an inquiry into whether he followed proper procedure on use of force.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Stillman's lawyer said there was \"irrefutable evidence\" his client had done the right thing because \"all prior attempts to deescalate and gain compliance with all of the officer's lawful orders had failed\".\n\nThe attorney added it was \"amazing and disheartening\" that nobody had asked about Mr Stillman's well-being after the incident.\n\nMr Stillman is a 34-year-old military veteran who joined the force in 2015. He has had four use of force reports and three complaints filed against him, according to the Invisible Institute, which publishes data about police misconduct in Chicago.\n\nThe Chicago-Sun Times reports that the Chicago Police Department has been on alert for potential retaliation against officers because the area where Adam Toledo was shot is a stronghold of the Latin Kings street gang.\n\nJohn Catanzara, president of the Chicago Police Union, alleged live on CNN that Toledo was a Latin Kings member and his shooting was \"100% justified\" and \"heroic\".\n\nAccording to a database compiled by the Washington Post Newspaper, 265 people have been killed by police so far this year in the US.", "Pregnant women should be offered a Covid jab when other people their age get one, the UK's vaccine advisers say.\n\nThey say the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are preferable because data from the US in 90,000 pregnant women has not raised any safety concerns.\n\nUp until now, only women with underlying health conditions or those whose risk of exposure to the virus was high were eligible.\n\nThe shift in advice brings the UK into line with other countries.\n\nThe Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation now advises that pregnant women should all be offered the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccines where available, at the same time as the rest of the population.\n\nThey are encouraged to discuss the risks and benefits of the vaccines with their doctor before making the appointment, but it is not a requirement.\n\n\"There is no evidence to suggest that other vaccines are unsafe for pregnant women, but more research is needed,\" it added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why it's recommended you get the Covid vaccine if you're pregnant\n\nCurrently, there is a lack of data on the AstraZeneca vaccine in pregnancy because pregnant women were not included in trials, but the JCVI says more evidence may be forthcoming in the near future.\n\nThe JCVI has already said that, as a precaution, adults under 30 should be offered an alternative to the AstraZeneca jab because of evidence possibly linking it to extremely rare blood clots in adults.\n\nProfessor Wei Shen Lim, Covid-19 chair for the JCVI, said: \"We encourage pregnant women to discuss the risks and benefits with their clinician - those at increased risk of severe outcomes from Covid-19 are encouraged to promptly take up the offer of vaccination when offered.\"\n\nDr Edward Morris, president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, said: \"Vaccination offers pregnant women the best protection from Covid-19, which can be serious in some women.\n\n\"We believe it should be a woman's choice whether to have the vaccine or not after considering the benefits and risks, and would encourage pregnant women to discuss with a trusted source like their GP, obstetrician or midwife, or a healthcare professional in a vaccination centre.\"\n\nDr Mary Ross-Davie, from the Royal College of Midwives, said the new advice was \"a sensible step\" by the vaccines committee.\n\nShe said midwives and obstetricians \"will be there to support pregnant women to make an informed decision that is right for them\".\n\nWomen can be vaccinated at any time during their pregnancy although they may prefer to wait until after the first trimester or the first scan, the RCOG said.\n\nAlthough pregnant women are at no greater risk of being infected by the virus, they are more likely to have complications from Covid-19.\n\nData shows that one in five pregnant women who become unwell with Covid needs to have her baby delivered early.\n\nAs the UK's vaccination programme is now inviting people in their 40s, clarity on advice for pregnant women on the vaccine was needed.\n\nMore than 32 million people in the UK have received a first dose of a Covid vaccine.\n\nWomen who are planning pregnancy or are breastfeeding can be vaccinated with any vaccine, depending on their age and clinical risk group, the JCVI said.\n\nIt said it would closely monitor the evidence on Covid-19 vaccination in pregnancy and update its advice as required.\n\nAre you pregnant? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n• None Who can get another Covid jab this autumn?", "Sarah Everard has been described as \"beautiful, thoughtful and incredibly kind\"\n\nA woman in her 30s, who was arrested in connection with the disappearance and death of Sarah Everard, has had her bail extended by the Met Police.\n\nMs Everard's body was found in woodland in Kent more than a week after she was last seen on 3 March.\n\nThe woman was arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender and has now been bailed until early June\n\nShe was arrested at the same time as PC Wayne Couzens, who has been charged with murder.\n\nMs Everard, 33, 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, Kent, and was identified using dental records.\n\nIn the aftermath of Sarah Everard's death hundreds of floral tributes were laid at Clapham Common\n\nIn an update into the investigation, the Met said two post-mortem examinations have now taken place but no cause of death has been released.\n\nPC Couzens, 48, of Deal was charged with Ms Everard's murder and kidnap.\n\nHe is next due to appear at the Old Bailey for a plea hearing on 9 July.\n\nAt a previous hearing a provisional trial date was earmarked for 25 October at the Old Bailey.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police officer Jonathan Mattingly (centre) was shot during the raid in March 2020\n\nA US publisher says it will not distribute a book by a police officer involved in the fatal shooting of black woman Breonna Taylor.\n\nJonathan Mattingly, who was shot in the leg during a raid on Ms Taylor's home last year, is writing a book telling his version of what happened.\n\nHer killing spurred Black Lives Matter protests across the US.\n\nAfter an online backlash, Simon & Schuster said it would not distribute the book on behalf of its publisher.\n\nMr Mattingly's book, The Fight for Truth: The Inside Story Behind the Breonna Taylor Tragedy, will be released by independent publisher Post Hill Press, it was reported on Thursday. The publisher releases conservative political books, among other genres.\n\nMore than 20,000 people signed a petition calling on Simon & Schuster, which has a deal to distribute Post Hill Press's books, to cancel arrangements to distribute the title.\n\nLater on Thursday, Simon & Schuster said it would \"not be involved\".\n\n\"Like much of the American public, earlier today Simon & Schuster learned of plans by distribution client Post Hill Press to publish a book by Jonathan Mattingly,\" the publisher said on Twitter. \"We have subsequently decided not be involved in the distribution of this book.\"\n\nPost Hill Press said it would press on with the work.\n\n\"His [Mattingly's] story is important and it deserves to be heard by the public at large. We feel strongly that an open dialogue is essential to shining a light on the challenging issues our country is facing,\" a spokesperson said in a statement provided to the Associated Press.\n\nNews of Mr Mattingly's book generated fierce criticism, with author Roxane Gay among those condemning the move.\n\nKentucky State representative Attica Scott, a Democrat, wrote on Twitter that \"people love to profit off of Black pain and tragedy. It sells.\"\n\nMr Mattingly, 48, was one of three plainclothes officers who conducted a raid on Ms Taylor's home in Louisville, Kentucky, on 13 March 2020. Police had a warrant to search for drugs but none were found.\n\nWhen they entered the apartment, Mr Mattingly was shot in the leg by Ms Taylor's boyfriend Kenneth Walker, who said he fired a single shot after fearing an intruder was breaking into the apartment.\n\nThe officers returned fire, killing Ms Taylor, a 26-year-old emergency medical technician. Mr Mattingly fired at least one of the shots that hit Ms Taylor, but not the one that killed her, a FBI report said.\n\nMs Taylor's name became a global rallying cry as people demanded a thorough investigation into her death.\n\nIn September, a grand jury cleared Mr Mattingly and the other officers of murder charges.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend Kenneth Walker describes the night she was killed by police\n\nMr Mattingly, who still serves as a police officer, has previously said the case had \"nothing to do with race\".\n\nLast year, he accused city officials of failing \"all of us in epic proportions for their own gain and to cover their asses\".\n\nIn October, the officer sued Mr Walker for assault and battery. His lawyer accused Ms Taylor's boyfriend of causing \"severe trauma, mental anguish, and emotional distress,\" when he shot Mr Mattingly.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIt was not so much a partridge in a pear tree - more pigeons in a Christmas tree that left a town still looking at its yuletide decoration in April.\n\nCovid restrictions had already delayed the tree's removal in Cardigan - but if the pigeons were now nesting in it moving it would be illegal.\n\nIn reality though, the birds have just been roosting - and so the well overdue festivities can finally come to an end.\n\nTown mayor Clive Davies has confirmed the tree will be gone by Monday.\n\nNesting concerns were sparked by Councillor Yvonne O'Neill at a meeting last week.\n\nThe tree is due to be removed this weekend\n\nUnder the 1981 Wildlife & Countryside Act, it is illegal to move wild birds' nests.\n\nMr Davies doubted the claims because the the trees' needles would be too \"spikey\" to make a nest but tasked the town clerk and Ms O'Neill to investigate further.\n\nThe tree in all its glory last Christmas\n\nAn investigation carried out on Tuesday revealed that while pigeons were roosting in the tree, there were no nests in it.\n\nMr Davies said he was \"relived\" at the news and was glad Cardigan can now begin planning for the summer.\n\nHe told BBC Wales: \"There's no nest and there hasn't been a nest so we will take the thing down now.\n\n\"I asked Councillor O'Neill if she'd seen the nest, and she said no but she had seen pigeons.\n\n\"If there was a nesting bird with eggs we'd have to do everything else apart from the tree.\n\n\"It wouldn't have been a problem because we could take the decorations down and leave the tree.\n\n\"It would have been awkward, that's all, because it wouldn't look brilliant.\n\n\"Hopefully, we can move ahead and get Cardigan ready for the summer.\"\n• None Christmas finally over in April for Welsh town. Video, 00:01:31Christmas finally over in April for Welsh town", "A specially-modified Land Rover hearse, which Prince Philip helped to design over 16 years, will convey his coffin to the funeral on Saturday.\n\nThe vehicle was manufactured at Land Rover's factory in Solihull in 2003. The Duke requested the vehicle be repainted in military green and helped to design the open top rear of the car.", "The vehicle is based on SpaceX's Starship design\n\nNasa has chosen Elon Musk's company SpaceX to build a lander that will return humans to the Moon this decade.\n\nThis vehicle will carry the next man and the first woman down to the lunar surface under the space agency's Artemis programme.\n\nAnother goal of the programme will be to land the first person of colour on the Moon.\n\nThe lander is based on SpaceX's Starship craft, which is being tested at a site in southern Texas.\n\nSpaceX was competing against a joint bid from traditional aerospace giants and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, as well as Alabama-based Dynetics. The total value of the contract awarded to Musk's company is $2.89bn.\n\n\"With this award, Nasa and our partners will complete the first crewed demonstration mission to the surface of the Moon in the 21st century as the agency takes a step forward for women's equality and long-term deep space exploration,\" said Kathy Lueders, the organisation's head of human exploration.\n\n\"This critical step puts humanity on a path to sustainable lunar exploration and keeps our eyes on missions farther into the Solar System, including Mars.\"\n\nArtwork: Nasa wants to return to the Moon this decade, but this time it wants to stay\n\nThe Artemis programme, initiated under the Trump administration, had targeted a return to the lunar surface in 2024. But a shortfall in funding of the landing system has made that goal unattainable.\n\nElon Musk has been developing the Starship design for years. Resembling the rocketships from the golden age of science fiction, it is a crucial component of the entrepreneur's long-term plans for settling humans on Mars.\n\nFor now, though, it will serve as the lander that ferries astronauts from lunar orbit to the surface.\n\nWith a spacious cabin and two airlocks, allowing astronauts to exit the craft for moonwalks, it's a far cry from the cramped, spindly lunar module (LM) that carried 12 men to the surface under the US Apollo programme between 1969 and 1972.\n\nThe new vehicle will be known as the Human Landing System (HLS).\n\nIn recent times, Nasa has chosen more than one company when procuring space transport services, giving it options if one of them fails to deliver.\n\nBill Nelson - President Biden's pick as Nasa chief - is set to appear at his confirmation hearing next week\n\nBut Nasa has received only $850m of the $3.3bn it requested from Congress to build the Moon lander. In a statement, Ms Lueders said that \"while it remains the agency's desire to preserve a competitive environment at this stage of the HLS program\", its current budget precluded it from selecting two companies, as it was expected to.\n\nCost is believed to have been a major factor; SpaceX's bid was the lowest of the three competitors \"by a wide margin\".\n\nMs Lueders explained: \"I made a determination that it would be in the agency's best interests to make an initial, conditional selection of SpaceX.\"\n\nThe decision has caused a stir in Congress. Nasa is undergoing a transition of power following Joe Biden's election as President. It is being run by an interim administrator, and Mr Biden's pick to run the agency - former senator and astronaut Bill Nelson - will appear at his confirmation hearing next week.\n\n\"I am disappointed that the acting Nasa leadership decided to make such a consequential award prior to the arrival of a new permanent Nasa administrator and deputy administrator,\" said congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson, the democrat chair of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology.\n\nA Starship prototype \"belly flops\" back to Earth during one of its flight tests\n\n\"The decision to make the award today also comes despite the obvious need for a re-baselining of Nasa's lunar exploration program, which has no realistic chance of returning US astronauts to the Moon by 2024.\"\n\nNasa is targeting the Moon's South Polar region for the first landing with astronauts since 1972. This area holds abundant deposits of water-ice, which could be turned into rocket fuel and breathable air to support a future lunar base.\n\nBut touching down here also presents challenges, because the angle of the Sun casts long shadows that obscure surface features as the craft comes down to land.\n\nEngineers will need to navigate the problem as they refine their plans for the first Artemis landing.\n\nSpaceX had been in a run-off against the National Team - consisting of Blue Origin (founded by Bezos), Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Draper - and defence contractor Dynetics.\n\nIt represents another milestone for the 19-year-old company founded by Musk, which initially had to overcome widespread scepticism about its plans to bring down the costs of spaceflight. SpaceX almost ran out of money, but was kept going by a fortuitous contract award from Nasa in 2008.\n\nStarship is a far cry from the spindly Lunar Module used for the Apollo-era landings\n\nSince then, it has achieved huge success launching commercial satellites and picked up a lucrative contract to fly people to the ISS.\n\nThe Starship vehicle is currently being tested at a facility in Boca Chica, South Texas. A number of uncrewed prototypes have already been launched to altitudes of 10km or more, before being brought back down in an attempt to land them softly on the ground. However, the last few test flights ended with the vehicles exploding, either close to or on the pad after their return.\n\n\"This is an exciting time for Nasa and especially the Artemis team,\" said Lisa Watson-Morgan, programme manager for the Human Landing System at the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville.\n\n\"During the Apollo programme, we proved that it is possible to do the seemingly impossible: land humans on the Moon. By taking a collaborative approach in working with industry while leveraging Nasa's proven technical expertise and capabilities, we will return American astronauts to the Moon's surface once again, this time to explore new areas for longer periods of time.\"\n\nThe Artemis programme aims to establish a long-term presence on the Moon, including the establishment of a lunar base.", "Last updated on .From the section Welsh Rugby\n\nLegendary former Wales and British and Irish Lions captain and coach John Dawes has died at the age of 80.\n\nDawes won the first of his 22 Wales caps in 1964 and was captain six times, leading them to the Grand Slam in 1971.\n\nHe also captained the Lions on the 1971 tour of New Zealand, still the Lions' only series win over the All Blacks.\n\nAs coach of Wales, Dawes won four Five Nations titles including two Grand Slams and four triple crowns and was coach of the 1977 Lions in New Zealand.\n\nThe Lions tweeted on Friday: \"We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Lion #487 John Dawes.\n\n\"Captain of the Lions on the 1971 Tour, the only Lions side to win a series in New Zealand, Dawes made 19 appearances for the Lions.\n\n\"A true legend of the game, John will be sorely missed.\"\n\nDawes' first club Newbridge said: \"After a period of ill health, John Dawes sadly passed away this morning.\n\n\"Everyone associated with our game will be aware of John's story and his great achievements.\n\n\"His venture into senior rugby started with us here at the Welfare Ground.\n\n\"The heartfelt condolences of everyone at Newbridge RFC go out to John's family at this very sad time.\"\n\nLondon Welsh described him as \"the heart of our great club for over 50 years.\"\n\nAfter starting his career at Newbridge, Dawes went on to captain and coach the London Welsh team of the late 1960s and early 1970s which included future Wales captains Mervyn Davies and JPR Williams as well as flanker John Taylor and wing Gerald Davies.\n\nA skilful and astute centre, Dawes led a Wales team including all of those Exiles to the Five Nations Grand Slam in 1971.\n\nHe then captained the Lions for their tour of New Zealand the following summer, leading them to a 2-1 series win which remains the only time the Lions have beaten the All Blacks in a Test series.\n\nDawes also captained the Barbarians in their 1973 victory over New Zealand in Cardiff, best remembered for Gareth Edwards's \"try of the century\" with Dawes playing a key role in the build-up.\n\nWithin a year Dawes was appointed Wales coach and he presided over a period of domination, winning the Five Nations championship four times between 1975 and 1979, including two Grand Slams and four consecutive Triple Crowns.\n\nDawes was also appointed coach of the Lions for the tour of New Zealand in 1977, but this time the All Blacks won 3-1.\n\n\"He was truly outstanding player,\" former Wales fly-half and team-mate Phil Bennett told BBC Radio Wales.\n\n\"He wasn't the fastest but what he had was a brilliant rugby brain.\n\n\"Great players have time and John always had time, always knew when to pass the ball or put a grubber kick in.\n\n\"He was truly a remarkable man, a wonderful rugby coach but also a wonderful man as well.\"\n\nFormer London Welsh, Wales and Lions forward John Taylor described Dawes as the \"thinking man's leader.\"\n\n\"I think people don't realise quite what a pioneer he was,\" Taylor told BBC Radio Wales Sport.\n\n\"He literally changed the way rugby was played back in the late 1960s, early 1970s and it was a remarkable story.\n\n\"He was always a terrific thinker about the game. John was always planning ahead.\n\n\"A journalist once said he was a ventriloquist - he made the ball talk and it was very true.\n\n\"He was the best receiver, passer of the ball that I have ever seen and that still goes today.\"", "Raúl Castro was 27 when the revolutionaries overthrew the authoritarian regime of Fulgencio Batista.\n\nRaúl Castro has stepped down as first secretary of Cuba's Communist Party.\n\nThe move means that for the first time in more than five decades, the party - which has ruled the island since the party's formation in 1965 - is not led by either Raúl Castro or his late brother, Fidel.\n\nFidel Castro led the revolution that toppled the Cuban government in 1959 and his younger brother Raúl was one of the commanders.\n\nBorn on 3 June 1931 and educated at a Jesuit school in the Cuban capital, Havana, Raúl Castro went on to study economics at university in Havana, where he joined a communist youth group.\n\nIn 1953, he helped his older brother, Fidel, plan and execute a failed attack on the Moncada military barracks in Santiago de Cuba in an attempt to oust Gen Fulgencio Batista.\n\nHe was sentenced to 13 years in prison for his part in the attack but was granted an amnesty in 1955 and went into exile in Mexico.\n\nThere, he befriended the Argentine revolutionary Ernesto \"Che\" Guevara and introduced him to Fidel Castro.\n\nRaúl Castro and Che Guevara first met in Mexico\n\nRaúl Castro returned to Cuba in December 1956 on board the ship Granma as one of his brother Fidel's group of exiles known as the 26 July Revolutionary Movement.\n\nThey conducted a guerrilla warfare campaign from the Sierra Maestra mountains which led to the overthrow of Gen Batista's government and forced Batista to flee.\n\nA 1959 photo shows Raúl Castro (left) with fellow revolutionaries, including Ernesto \"Che\" Guevara (third from left)\n\nFidel Castro was sworn in as prime minister and put Raúl in charge of the Revolutionary Armed Forces, a post he held until 2008.\n\nRaúl Castro is joined by his wife (right) and Che Guevara (left)\n\nWhether presiding over military parades or reading to Cubans in the countryside, he could most often be seen in his olive green uniform.\n\nThe father of Fidel and Raúl Castro was a prosperous sugar cane farmer and Raúl would sometimes pose for photographs among fields of Cuba's most important crop.\n\nIn 1965, Raúl Castro assumed the post of second secretary of the Central Committee in the newly formed Communist Party of Cuba.\n\nFidel and Raúl Castro between them led Cuba for six decades\n\nHis older brother, Fidel, held the post of first secretary from 1965 until 2011, when he resigned and Raúl Castro assumed what is arguably the most influential position in Cuba.\n\nFidel Castro handed the reins of power over to his brother officially in 2011\n\nWhile Raúl Castro has spent most of his life in the shadow of his brother Fidel, during his time as Cuba's president - first in an acting capacity from 2006 and later officially from 2008 to 2018 - the younger Castro not only welcomed Pope Francis to the island in 2015...\n\n...he also shook hands with US President Barack Obama in a gesture that signalled a thaw in the relations between the two countries in 2015.\n\nThe two leaders would meet again in 2016 when Barack Obama joined Raúl Castro in the stands at a baseball game in Havana during the US leader's landmark trip to the Communist island.\n\nFollowing the death of Fidel Castro on 25 November 2016, it fell to his younger brother to place the urn containing the ashes in his tomb at the Santa Ifigenia cemetery in Santiago de Cuba.", "Wales was subject to a ban on the sale, supply and consumption of alcohol in licensed premises at the time\n\nA catering worker who served Senedd members alcohol while a Wales-wide ban was in force faces an investigation for allegedly breaking Covid regulations.\n\nFour members drank alcohol in the Senedd tea room in December just days after a lockdown ban on sale, supply and consumption in licensed premises.\n\nPaul Davies resigned as Welsh Tory group leader over the incident.\n\nCouncil officials have requested a formal interview under criminal caution with the unnamed female employee.\n\nPropel party leader Neil McEvoy said it was not in the public interest to proceed with the case.\n\nIn a Twitter video he said: \"It simply is not on - it shouldn't be happening, she should not be prosecuted.\"\n\nCatering company Charlton House holds the alcohol licence for the tea rooms at the Senedd in Cardiff Bay and employs the woman who served the members.\n\nA Senedd Commission investigation found that five individuals - four members of the Senedd (MSs) and the Conservative group's chief of staff at the time - drank alcohol in the licensed tearoom on 8 December.\n\nThe four MSs were Paul Davies, Darren Millar, Nick Ramsay and Alun Davies.\n\nPaul Davies stepped down as Conservative group leader following the incident\n\nFour days earlier a ban on serving alcohol in pubs and licensed premises across Wales had been imposed, leading the investigation to conclude the incident could amount to \"a possible breach\" of Covid-19 regulations.\n\nSenedd officials referred the matter to the parliament's own standards watchdog and Cardiff council.\n\nShared Regulatory Services (SRS), which investigates Covid regulation breaches in three council areas - Cardiff, the Vale of Glamorgan and Bridgend - has written to the catering worker requesting a formal interview under a criminal caution.\n\nIn the letter, SRS says: \"This department has received a complaint regarding in connection with potential offences under Health Protection (Coronavirus restrictions) (Wales) No 4 Regulations 2020 namely that the catering premises, Tea Room, Welsh Parliament, carried on the service other than in accordance with the regulations. In addition, food and alcohol was supplied and consumed on the premises.\n\n\"I wish to formally interview you in connection with these matters. After discussions with your solicitor I am happy to receive these via written response.\n\n\"I have attached a list of questions. I must advise you that any response to this letter may be subject to criminal proceedings therefore I must caution you.\"\n\nIt adds in capital letters: \"You do not have to say anything, but it may harm your defence if you do not mention when questioned something that you later rely on in court. Anything you do say may be used in evidence.\"\n\nThe Senedd Commission has declined to comment.\n\nIn a statement, the caterers Charlton House told BBC Wales: \"We continue to co-operate with the ongoing investigation by the Shared Regulatory Services.\n\n\"However, as this investigation is ongoing it would be inappropriate for us to comment further.\"\n\nIn statement, SRS told BBC Wales: \"We can confirm that Shared Regulatory Services is currently conducting an investigation into this issue but cannot comment further while this is in progress.\"\n\nReacting to the latest development, Welsh Conservatives Darren Millar and Paul Davies said: \"We are both very disappointed that Cardiff council has decided to take this action, it is grossly unfair to penalise a staff member in this way.\n\n\"We have co-operated fully with the authorities and at every stage made clear the staff member was not at fault.\n\n\"We look forward to the publication of the Standards Commissioner's report as a matter of urgency.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland all-rounder Ben Stokes will be out for up to 12 weeks after an X-ray and scan showed he would need surgery on a fractured left index finger.\n\nHe will miss England's home Test series against New Zealand starting on 2 June.\n\nStokes, 29, is currently in India with Rajasthan Royals in the Indian Premier League, but will fly home on Saturday and have surgery in Leeds on Monday.\n\nHe was injured while fielding during the Royals' four-run loss to Punjab Kings on Monday.\n\nStokes is a doubt for the white-ball games against Sri Lanka (23 June-4 July) and Pakistan (8-20 July).\n\nAfter the two-Test New Zealand series, England have a five-Test series against India in August and September, before the Men's T20 World Cup in India and the Ashes in Australia in the winter.\n\nStokes was named Wisden's leading cricketer in the world for the second year in a row on Wednesday.\n• None One simple thing that could improve your life!\n• None Top tips for taking your cocktails outside", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Duke of Edinburgh has been laid to rest in an intimate funeral at St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle.\n\nThe Dean of Windsor paid tribute to Prince Philip's \"kindness, humour and humanity\" during the ceremony.\n\nThe congregation wore masks and was socially distanced in line with Covid rules, with the Queen seated alone.\n\nThe duke's children walked behind his coffin in a funeral procession, followed by a national minute's silence.\n\nMore than 730 members of the armed forces took part in the event, but there was a limit of 30 mourners inside St George's Chapel, under coronavirus rules.\n\nHis coffin was carried the short distance to St George's Chapel on a modified Land Rover, which the duke himself helped to design.\n\nThe funeral procession was headed by the Band of the Grenadier Guards, the Major General's party, and military service chiefs.\n\nPrincess Anne and Prince Charles made up the front row behind the vehicle, followed by Prince Edward and Prince Andrew.\n\nPrince William and Prince Harry walked either side of their cousin Peter Phillips.\n\nThe brothers sat on opposite sides of the aisle but were seen chatting together after they left the service.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were seen chatting with the Duke of Sussex after the service\n\nThe Queen sat alone because of coronavirus restrictions\n\nVice Admiral Sir Timothy Laurence and the Earl of Snowdon also walked behind the coffin, trailed by members of the duke's household staff.\n\nThe Queen, 94, travelled with a lady-in-waiting in the State Bentley at the end of the procession.\n\nMembers of the Royal Family walked behind the duke's coffin\n\nA ceremonial gun fire at nine locations across the UK and in Gibraltar marked the start and end of the national minute's silence.\n\nNo planes landed or took off at Heathrow for six minutes to coincide with the silence and all major sporting events were rescheduled to avoid a clash with the funeral.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe funeral service was conducted by the Dean of Windsor, with the Archbishop of Canterbury pronouncing the blessing.\n\nThe Dean paid tribute to Prince Philip's \"kindness, humour and humanity\" and the \"many ways in which his long life has been a blessing to us\".\n\n\"We have been inspired by his unwavering loyalty to our Queen, by his service to the nation and the Commonwealth, by his courage, fortitude and faith,\" he said during his bidding.\n\nThe duke's association with the Royal Navy and love of the sea was also a focus of the service but no sermon was delivered, in line with his wishes.\n\nThe music included the 1860 hymn Eternal Father, Strong to Save, by William Whiting, which is associated with seafarers and the maritime armed services.\n\nThere was a reduced choir of four singers but the congregation did not sing, in line with coronavirus restrictions.\n\nBuglers of the Royal Marines sounded Action Stations - a signal that all hands should be ready for battle - as the coffin was lowered into the Royal Vault at the end of the service.\n\nThe duke's insignia was displayed on the altar in St George's Chapel\n\nBuckingham Palace said the funeral plans had been modified to take into account public health guidelines.\n\nThe funeral took place entirely within the grounds of the castle and the public were asked not to gather there or at other royal residences.\n\nBut the ceremonial aspects of the day and the service remained in line with Prince Philip's wishes and reflected his military affiliations and personal elements of his life.\n\nAhead of the funeral, the Queen shared a favourite photograph of herself with her husband in Aberdeenshire.\n\nTaken by the Countess of Wessex in 2003, the picture shows the couple relaxing on a picnic rug on the grass at the Coyles of Muick beauty spot, near the Queen's private estate of Balmoral.\n\nThe Queen released one her favourite photos ahead of the funeral\n\nSilence descended across Windsor High Street at 15:00 to mark the start of the duke's funeral.\n\nThe Royal Family had asked members of the public to stay away because of coronavirus restrictions. And the streets of this town were far emptier than they would otherwise have been.\n\nBut hundreds still gathered in the sun to pay their respects.\n\nAs the funeral service was under way in St George's Chapel, a short distance away in Windsor's Guildhall a wedding was coming to an end.\n\nMikey Durnian said he and his partner Jodie had rearranged their wedding five times because of the pandemic.\n\nHe said it had felt \"strange\" to learn last week that their wedding would be taking place just metres away from Prince Philip's funeral.\n\n\"Obviously we're overjoyed. This day has been in the making a long time. But obviously, there's a lot of people around to mourn.\"\n\nJodie added: \"We definitely didn't want to overtake from anything that's happening today. It is a very sad occasion. But we are delighted to finally be married.\"\n\nThe 30 guests at the funeral wore morning coats with medals, or day dress, but not military uniform.\n\nThe Queen and duke's four children - the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, the Duke of York and the Earl of Wessex - and eight grandchildren attended, but none of their young great-grandchildren.\n\nSpouses of the children and grandchildren are among the congregation, including two who have married into the family in recent years - Jack Brooksbank and Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, husbands of Princesses Eugenie and Beatrice.\n\nBut the Duke of Sussex's wife, Meghan, is heavily pregnant and was advised by her doctors not to fly in from the US. She was said to have watched the service from home.\n\nThe other mourners included the children of the Queen's sister, Princess Margaret, and three of Prince Philip's German relatives - Bernhard, the Hereditary Prince of Baden; Donatus, Prince and Landgrave of Hesse; and Prince Philipp of Hohenlohe-Langenburg.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Poet laureate Simon Armitage has written an elegy for Prince Philip", "Shoppers will return to streets when all retailers in Northern Ireland can reopen at the end of April\n\nNorthern Ireland can begin rebuilding its economy under plans to ease Covid-19 restrictions from next week, Economy Minister Diane Dodds has said.\n\nOn Thursday the Stormont executive agreed reopening dates for some sectors, including hairdressers, non-essential retail and hospitality.\n\nThe current lockdown has been in place for more than 100 days in a bid to curb the spread of coronavirus.\n\nMrs Dodds said precautions would still be needed to reopen businesses safely.\n\n\"But it does mean we can get on with opening our economy, recovering our economy,\" she told BBC News NI's The View programme.\n\nShe said growing the economy would help to mitigate the fallout from the pandemic, including a potentially huge spike in unemployment.\n\nThe announcement has received a cautious welcome from businesses.\n\nCommunities Minister Deirdre Hargey told The View she was glad the executive had reached consensus.\n\n\"There was no dissent around the table - it [was] a good day to give hope to the public,\" she said.\n\nPeter McCleery, who runs a cafe in Comber, County Down, said that preparing to resume trade would be like opening a new business.\n\nThe cafe has no outdoor space so it is due to open on 24 May, several weeks after hospitality businesses that have outdoor facilities.\n\nShutters are set be lifted from the doors of pubs in Northern Ireland for the first time this year\n\n\"Even with those dates we have to plan ahead and recruit staff and train staff,\" he told BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme.\n\n\"We're starting again from a fresh sheet - we're looking forward to it.\"\n\nThe owner of a County Armagh hotel situated a short distance from the Irish border said he was concerned that business that would have to deal with the consequences of the differing restrictions in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.\n\nJason Foody said it was not the job of his hotel staff \"to police the roads and people that come through our door\".\n\nThe Republic of Ireland has recently lifted the 5km (three miles) travel limit that applied under its highest level of restrictions.\n\nBusiness owners have been busy preparing their premises for reopening\n\nMr Foody said: \"Previously if we were seeing [people with] addresses... from areas that shouldn't have travelled we were saying it to them but people have to travel for different reasons too and if it's for essential reasons you can't stop them.\n\nHe said the hotel was \"getting a huge amount of calls\" from people in the Republic of Ireland who were wanting to book a stay.\n\nJules Stothard, who owns a pub in Dromara, County Down, said her business had been open for about three months over the past 13 months.\n\nShe would be \"ecstatic\" to see her customers again but had a \"bit of anxiety about the financial side\".\n\n\"We are grateful to the government for the grant but every penny we have had has gone,\" she said.\n\n\"We were so ecstatic that we could open again but then reality strikes - we won't have the customers at the capacity to sustain our business without help.\"\n\nOutdoor dining and drinking at cafes and bars will be allowed from 30 April\n\nTourist attractions also face challenges when they reopen - the Marble Arch Caves in County Fermanagh will have reduced capacity for its tours, says its manager Kate McGrath.\n\n\"We will get there but need to clarify bubble numbers,\" she added.\n\nProposed dates leaked to the media on Thursday had suggested outdoor hospitality for pubs would have to wait until 10 May before being allowed to welcome back customers, with indoor venues not reopening before 1 June.\n\nHowever, Mrs Dodds had raised concerns in a letter to the first and deputy first ministers about the proposed dates, saying it was her preference for unlicensed premises to open earlier, on 23 April, followed later by licenced premises.", "MPs and peers are calling for funding for families forced to buy medicinal cannabis for their children privately.\n\nThe treatment was made legal with a prescription in 2018 for those with an \"exceptional clinical need\".\n\nBut a cross-party letter from 100 politicians says only three NHS prescriptions have been given out since, forcing families to spend thousands on private treatments.\n\nThe government said it sympathised with those facing hard-to-treat conditions.\n\nThe change in law came about after the cases of Alfie Dingley and Billy Caldwell, who had both been denied access to cannabis oil to treat their rare forms of epilepsy.\n\nThe Home Office later granted the boys licences to access the treatment.\n\nBut after a review by experts, the then home secretary Sajid Javid introduced legislation to make it legal for specialist doctors to provide prescriptions for cannabis-derived medicinal products in \"exceptional circumstances\".\n\nOver two years have passed since the law changed, but the All Parliamentary Group on Access to Medical Cannabis Under Prescription said dozens of families were not seeing the benefit.\n\nIn a letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the group's chair, Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi, said instead, parents were having to fund raise up to £2,000 a month to pay for the treatment privately.\n\n\"In any circumstance, this is a severe financial burden for families already having to cope with very sick children and Covid restrictions have rendered most fund-raising impossible,\" she added.\n\n\"The reasons for the lack of NHS prescriptions appear to be complex and will inevitably take time to resolve. However, the families to which we refer simply do not have time.\n\n\"They are emotionally and financially broken and their children are at risk of being without their life-transforming medicine within weeks.\"\n\nBacked by 100 MPs and peers from all parties, Ms Antoniazzi appealed to the PM to \"grant access to some form of compassionate funding until the wider issues can be resolved\".\n\nLabour MP Tonia Antoniazzi has written to the PM on behalf of the families\n\nThe APPG receives help with its administration from campaign group End Our Pain, which has welcomed the intervention.\n\nGroup director Peter Carroll said the situation was \"desperate\" for the families, telling the BBC: \"When the law was changed, we thought as campaigners 'job done', there will be prescriptions - but it didn't happen.\"\n\nHe claimed the advice given out by various medical bodies on prescriptions for the treatment had been \"extremely cautious\", and as a result, \"we are in this crazy situation where it is totally legal, but hardly any specialist doctors will prescribe it\".\n\nBut Mr Carroll said the call for funding for the families was \"the only thing that can work in very short term\".\n\nHe added: \"We can't fight the other battles and win in weeks - the only way forward right now is to give these families the money to pay for prescriptions in the short term.\n\n\"I appeal to the government, give them money, stop them having to do online raffles for fundraising so they can focus on caring for some of the sickest children in the country.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Department of Health and Social Care said: \"We sympathise with every patient and every family courageously confronting life with hard-to-treat conditions.\"\n\nThe spokesman added that after the law was changed in 2018 on prescriptions, the department was considering \"what further action we can take with regard to broader access to unlicensed cannabis-based products, while giving immediate priority to resolving the supply of Bedrocan oils from the Netherlands, which many patients are receiving.\"", "The government denied there was any conflict of interest and said the health secretary had declared his shareholding properly\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock owns shares in a company which was approved as a potential supplier for NHS trusts in England, it has emerged.\n\nIn March, he declared he had acquired more than 15% of Topwood Ltd, which was granted the approved status in 2019.\n\nThe firm, which specialises in the secure storage, shredding and scanning of documents, also won £300,000 of business from NHS Wales this year.\n\nA government spokesman said there had been no conflict of interest.\n\nHe also said the health secretary had acted \"entirely properly\".\n\nBut Labour said there was \"cronyism at the heart of this government\" and the party's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth has asked the head of the civil service to investigate whether Mr Hancock breached the ministerial code.\n\nIn March this year, Mr Hancock declared in the MPs' register of interests that he had acquired more than 15% of the shares in Topwood, under a \"delegated management arrangement\".\n\nPublic contract records show that the company was awarded a place in the Shared Business Services framework as a potential supplier for NHS local trusts in 2019, the year after Mr Hancock became health secretary.\n\nThe MPs' register did not mention that his sister Emily Gilruth - involved in the firm since its foundation in 2002 - owns a larger portion of the shares and is a director, or that Topwood has links to the NHS - as first reported by the Guido Fawkes blog and Health Service Journal.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said: \"Matt Hancock has to answer the questions... He can't pretend that the responsibility lies elsewhere.\"\n\nBut he said he was \"not suggesting\" the health secretary had broken any rules.\n\nThe SNP's deputy Westminster leader, Kirsten Oswald, said \"Tory cronyism\" was \"rife within Westminster\".\n\nBut a government spokesperson said: \"Mr Hancock has acted entirely properly in these circumstances. All declarations of interest have been made in accordance with the ministerial code. Ministers have no involvement in the awarding of these contracts, and no conflict of interest arises.\"\n\nA Department of Health source said Mr Hancock had discussed the fact he was to be gifted shares in the firm with civil servants before he accepted them.\n\nThey ruled that if any conflicts of interest were to arise, they could be handled in line with the ministerial code, the rulebook setting out the standards of conduct for ministers.\n\nThis states that ministers should declare interests of close family if they believe they might give rise to a conflict.\n\nWhen he was secretary of state for digital, culture, media and sport in 2017, he did declare that his brother Chris Hancock was chief executive of an investment crowdfunding company called Crowd2Fund.\n\nThe Department of Health said Mr Hancock had no active role in running Topwood.\n\nAs health secretary for England, he does not have responsibility for NHS Wales, which awarded contracts to Topwood earlier this year.\n\nMr Hancock has not yet commented.", "In public, Prince Philip always took second place\n\nHe outlived nearly everyone who knew him and might explain him.\n\nAnd so we have been left with a two-dimensional portrait of the duke; salt-tongued and short-tempered, a man who told off-colour jokes and made politically incorrect remarks, an eccentric great-uncle who'd been around forever and towards whom most people felt affection - but who rather too often embarrassed himself and others in company.\n\nWith his death will come reassessment. Because Prince Philip was an extraordinary man who lived an extraordinary life; a life intimately connected with the sweeping changes of our turbulent 20th Century, a life of fascinating contrast and contradiction, of service and some degree of solitude. A complex, clever, eternally restless man.\n\nHis mother and father met at the funeral of Queen Victoria in 1901. At a time when all but four of Europe's nations were monarchies, his relatives were scattered through European royalty. Some royal houses were swept away by World War One; but the world into which Philip was born was still one where monarchies were the norm. His grandfather was the King of Greece; his great-aunt Ella was murdered along with the Russian tsar, by the Bolsheviks, at Ekaterinberg; his mother was a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria.\n\nHis four older sisters would all marry Germans. While Philip fought for Britain in the Royal Navy, three of his sisters actively supported the Nazi cause; none would be invited to his wedding.\n\nWhen peace came, and with it eventual economic recovery, Philip would throw himself into the construction of a better Britain, urging the country to adopt scientific methods, embracing the ideas of industrial design, planning, education and training. A decade before Harold Wilson talked of the \"white heat of the technological revolution\", Philip was urging modernity on the nation in speeches and interviews. And as the country and the world became richer and consumed ever more, Philip warned of the impact on the environment, well before it was even vaguely fashionable.\n\nEighteen months after his birth, his family was in exile\n\nHis childhood quickly taught him the values of self-reliance\n\nHe was forged by the turmoil of his first decade and then moulded by his schooling. His early years were spent wandering, as his place of birth ejected him, his family disintegrated and he moved from country to country, none of them ever his own. When he was just a year old, he and his family were scooped up by a British destroyer from his home on the Greek island of Corfu after his father had been condemned to death. They were deposited in Italy. One of Philip's first international journeys was spent crawling around on the floor of the train from an Italian port city, \"the grubby child on the desolate train pulling out of the Brindisi night,\" as his sister Sophia later described it.\n\nIn Paris, he lived in a house borrowed from a relative; but it was not destined to become a home. In just one year, while he was at boarding school in Britain, the mental health of his mother, Princess Alice, deteriorated and she went into an asylum; his father, Prince Andrew, went off to Monte Carlo to live with his mistress; and his four sisters married and went to live in Germany. In the space of 10 years he had gone from a prince of Greece to a wandering, homeless, and virtually penniless boy with no-one to care for him.\n\n\"I don't think anybody thinks I had a father,\" he once said. Andrew would die during the war. Philip went to Monte Carlo to pick up his father's possessions after the Germans had been driven from France; there was almost nothing left, just a couple of clothes brushes and some cuff-links.\n\nBy the time he went to Gordonstoun, a private school on the north coast of Scotland, Philip was tough, independent and able to fend for himself; he'd had to be. Gordonstoun would channel those traits into the school's distinct philosophy of community service, teamwork, responsibility and respect for the individual. And it sparked one of the great passions of Philip's life - his love of the sea.\n\nPhilip adored the school as much as his son Charles would despise it. Not just because the stress it put on physical as well as mental excellence - he was a great sportsman. But because of its ethos, laid down by its founder Kurt Hahn, an exile from Nazi Germany.\n\nPrince Philip became one of the youngest first lieutenants in the Royal Navy\n\nBut he had to give up his career to support the Queen\n\nThe Duke of Edinburgh's children would not bear his name, Mountbatten\n\nThat ethos became a significant, perhaps the significant, part of the way that Philip believed life should be lived. It shines through the speeches he gave later in his life. \"The essence of freedom,\" he would say in Ghana in 1958, \"is discipline and self-control.\" The comforts of the post-war era, he told the British Schools Exploring Society a year earlier, may be important \"but it is much more important that the human spirit should not be stifled by easy living\". And two years before that, he spoke to the boys of Ipswich School of the moral as well as material imperatives of life, with the \"importance of the individual\" as the \"guiding principle of our society\".\n\nAnd at Gordonstoun was born one of the great contradictions of Philip's fascinating life. The importance of the individual was what in Kurt Hahn's eyes differentiated Britain and liberal democracies from the kind of totalitarian dictatorship that he had fled. Philip put that centrality of the individual, and individual agency - the ability we have as humans to make our own moral and ethical decisions - at the heart of his philosophy.\n\nAnd yet he was throughout his life, first in the navy and then in the many decades of life in the Palace, tightly bound by rules of tradition, of precedent, of command and hierarchy. He had little, if anything, in the way of agency. Did he say one thing and do another, as members of the Royal Family are often accused of? Or was his first choice - to serve - by necessity his last?\n\nThe navy ran deep in the Duke of Edinburgh's family. He is pictured sitting at the wheel of the nuclear-powered submarine HMS Churchill\n\nPrince Philip gave between 60 and 80 speeches every year, decade after decade, on topics that reflected his vast range of interests\n\nAt Dartmouth Naval College in 1939, the two great passions of his life would collide. He had learned to sail at Gordonstoun; he would learn to lead at Dartmouth. And his driving desire to achieve, and to win, would shine through. Despite entering the college far later than most other cadets, he would graduate top of his class in 1940. In further training at Portsmouth, he gained the top grade in four out of five sections of the exam. He became one of the youngest first lieutenants in the Royal Navy.\n\nThe navy ran deep in his family. His maternal grandfather had been the First Sea Lord, the commander of the Royal Navy; his uncle, \"Dickie\" Mountbatten, had command of a destroyer while Philip was in training. In war, he showed not only bravery but guile. It was his natural milieu. \"Prince Philip\", wrote Gordonstoun headmaster Kurt Hahn admiringly, \"will make his mark in any profession where he will have to prove himself in a trial of strength\".\n\nOthers had their reservations about the brilliant and ambitious young officer. In peace, once he had his own command, he drove his men hard, much too hard for some. \"If he had a fault, it was a tendency to intolerance,\" wrote one biographer. That kind of comment would recur. Contemporaries were more blunt. \"One of his crew,\" writes another biographer, \"said he would rather die than serve under him again.\"\n\nIn Dartmouth in 1939, as war became ever more certain, the navy was his destiny. He had fallen in love with the sea itself. \"It is an extraordinary master or mistress,\" he would say later, \"it has such extraordinary moods.\" But a rival to the sea would come.\n\nWhen King George VI toured the Naval College, accompanied by Philip's uncle, he brought with him his daughter, Princess Elizabeth. Philip was asked to look after her. He showed off to her, vaulting the nets of the tennis court in the grounds of the college. He was confident, outgoing, strikingly handsome, of royal blood if without a throne. She was beautiful, a little sheltered, a little serious, and very smitten by Philip.\n\nPrince Philip with his uncle, Earl Mountbatten, at the Royal Marines Barracks in 1965\n\nThe Queen, with one of the Royal corgis, chats with polo-playing Prince Philip at Windsor Great Park\n\nTheir engagement was announced in July 1947\n\nDid he know then that this was a collision of two great passions? That he could not have the sea and the beautiful young woman? For a time after their wedding in 1948, he did have both. As young newlyweds in Malta, he had what he so prized - command of a ship - and they had two idyllic years together. But the illness and then early death of King George VI brought it all to an end.\n\nHe knew what it meant, the moment he was told. Up in a lodge in Kenya, touring Africa, with Princess Elizabeth in place of the King, Philip was told first of the monarch's death. He looked, said his equerry Mike Parker, \"as if a tonne of bricks had fallen on him\". For some time he sat, slumped in a chair, a newspaper covering his head and chest. His princess had become the Queen. His world had changed irrevocably.\n\nFor someone who almost never displayed anything close to self-pity, and rarely spoke of his own emotions, he was by his own standards candid about the loss of his naval calling. \"There's never been 'if only',\" he said once, \"except perhaps that I regret not having been able to continue a career in the navy\". Those who knew the man and his passions are blunter. The former First Sea Lord, Admiral Lord West, says Philip did his duty; but of the end of his time in the navy he says, \"I know it was a huge loss to him. I know it.\"\n\nThat moment, when princess became Queen, revealed another great contradiction of Philip's life. He was born and brought up in a world almost entirely run by men. He was a rugged, physical man who was brought up and then worked in an entirely male environment. He celebrated masculinity, telling Mike Parker on the birth of his first son Charles, \"It takes a man to have a boy.\" But literally overnight, and for 65 years to follow, it became his life to support his wife, the Queen.\n\nHe would walk behind her. He would give up his job for her. He would apologise if he came into a room after her. At her coronation he knelt before her, his hands enclosed by hers, and swore to be her \"liege man of life and limb\". His children would not bear his name, Mountbatten. \"I'm nothing but a bloody amoeba,\" he exclaimed at that. But there was nothing to be done. She was the Queen. He was her husband.\n\nPrince Philip talked of the upending of circumstance little. \"Within the house,\" he said of the time before the Queen's accession, \"I suppose I naturally filled the principal position. People used to come and ask me what to do. In 1952 the whole thing changed very, very considerably.\"\n\nPrince Philip had hundreds of patronages and projects with a focus on youth, science, the outdoors and sport\n\nThe transition to life in the Palace was brutal. \"Philip,\" said his equerry, \"was constantly being squashed, snubbed, ticked off, rapped over the knuckles... I felt Philip did not have any friends or helpers.\" Philip may not have helped himself; one biographer writes that in the early years Palace staff felt he was \"difficult to deal with... prickly... arrogant... defensive\". He was looked upon with suspicion by some in the court, as something of an adventurer, as perhaps a fortune hunter. He had German blood, and this was just after the herculean effort of defeating Nazi Germany.\n\nIn response, Philip began what would become a lifetime of near-ceaseless activity; abroad he was at the side of the Queen on the long tours they undertook, sometimes breaking off to pursue interests particular to him - sporting, industrial or research. She nearly always travelled with him as her companion; but he also travelled alone. It was he, not she, that made the farewells to colonial possessions in the 1950s and 1960s.\n\nAt home there were patronages and projects, hundreds upon hundreds of them, with a focus on youth, science, the outdoors and sport. He played cricket, squash, polo; he swam, sailed, rowed and rode horses and carriage drove. He learnt to fly, and developed his own photographs.\n\nWithin the Palace he was a moderniser, striding the corridors, rootling around the cellars, trying to find out what everyone did. He took over the management of the estate at Sandringham and over the years significantly redeveloped it.\n\n\"He believes he has a creative mission,\" wrote an early biographer, \"to present the monarchy as a dynamic, involved and responsive institution that will address itself to some of the problems of contemporary British society.\"\n\nHe was young and very good looking; he smiled and joked and was at ease in front of the cameras. When he visited a boys' club in London in the late 1950s, a photo shows him with a broad smile on his face, looking crisp in a double-breasted pinstripe suit, his hair slicked back with brilliantine, surrounded by the upturned faces of boys and their mothers all shoving and trying to get close to him. There is more than a whiff of Beatlemania to the moment.\n\nIn his study on the first floor of Buckingham Palace, overlooking the gardens and Green Park, surrounded by thousands of books, with a model of his first command HMS Magpie to one side, he would research and write and type out his speeches. (In 1986 he would buy, always the moderniser, what he called a \"splendid gadget\" that he called \"a miniature word processor\".) He gave between 60 and 80 speeches every year, decade after decade, on topics that reflected his vast range of interests.\n\nOut of the speeches comes a picture of the man. For someone who sat through so much of it, he was clearly impatient with ceremony. \"A lot of time and energy,\" he told students and staff at the Chesterfield College of Technology, \"has been spent on arranging for you to listen to me to take a long time to declare open a building which everyone knows is open already.\"\n\nReflecting his dizzying range of interests, there was sometimes a touch of the gentleman-farmer to his thoughts - well-organised arguments that don't really go anywhere, a lot of anecdotal evidence (\"it seems to me...\") garnered from his extensive travels.\n\nDespite modernising instincts, he was a conservative, somewhat suspicious of the machinations of the big city. He spoke of \"urban dwellers\" and of the \"average citizen\" dumping rubbish from their car. He preferred practical solutions to highfalutin theory - \"The enterprise is doomed,\" he told the Commonwealth Conference on Industrial Relations, \"if it is allowed to enter the rarefied atmosphere of theory.\"\n\nHe was an environmentalist before anyone really knew what that was. He warned of the \"greedy and senseless exploitation of nature.\" And in 1982 he brought up a topic that now grips us, but back then was almost never spoken of, \"a hotly-debated issue directly attributable to the development of industry... the build-up of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere,\" which he referred to as the \"greenhouse effect\".\n\nHis relationship with his eldest son improved in later years\n\nAnd he constantly did himself down, shrugging as to why anyone should want to hear him speak: \"I have very little experience of self-government,\" he told one audience, \"I am one of the most governed people you could meet....\" His example of irrational behaviour? - \"making and listening to speeches on important occasions\". Or speaking before the Brussels Expo in 1958 - \"I feel I can claim to be an expert at going round exhibitions.\" He knew most speeches were a dull formality that had to be got through - and he was happy to let his audience have a laugh at his expense.\n\nIt is another contradiction in a life of them; that someone who cared so much about how we live our lives, about how to pursue a good and moral life, about how government and society might try to channel our instincts, should end up being popularly portrayed as a saloon-bar bore, his retirement from public life in 2017 accompanied by lists of his \"gaffes\", off-colour comments and salty jokes.\n\nThat he could be rude, startlingly so at times, there is no doubt. Part of it was impatience, that dynamo whirring away, the desire to get things done double-quick. Part of it may have been deafness, inherited from his almost wholly deaf mother. But part of it was just plain bad manners, a disregard for what others felt and a thoughtlessness that came from position and temperament.\n\nThere was for a long time a fair amount of barking and shouting at those who failed to please him, and not a lot of thanking those that did.\n\nLooking back down the decades, two great contrasts stand out. The first, that between a life led in the public eye, and a really quite private man. The boy shuttling between guardians and schools and countries quickly learnt to seal off his private side from public view. Inside the Palace it became his world view. Most of his biographers' personal queries were met with a shrug, as if to say \"I don't know why you are bothering\". He once said of his son Charles: \"He is a romantic, I am a pragmatist. And because I don't see things as a romantic would, I'm [perceived as] unfeeling.\" There can be little doubt that he was stung by the accusation. But his inner thoughts were not for public consumption.\n\nAnd the second great, related, contrast is that between the near unceasing whirl of his public life, and a degree of solitude in his private. Of course there was family, though all his sisters pre-deceased him. But few, if any, great friendships are recorded, a corollary of his private nature and the pattern of his many decades. \"Life,\" wrote one biographer, \"hasn't enabled him to build up friendships. He is going round the world at such a lick.\" And royalty is its own curious cage, repelling outsiders. \"What the royal family offers you is friendliness,\" said the late James Callaghan, prime minister in the 1970s, \"not friendship.\"\n\nMajor General Charles Stickland of the Royal Marines, of which for 64 years Philip was Captain General, tells of when the duke flew into an exercise in Norway. He was supposed to say a quick hello to the enlisted men and then have lunch with the commanding officer. Instead he \"asked two of the corporals to spoon food into his mess tin, sat on a Bergan [rucksack], told stories and chatted away with my troops when he was supposed to be having a posh lunch and then got back on the helicopter, having inspired a group of young men as to why it was great to be a Royal Marine\".\n\nIt was vintage Philip; no ceremony, hierarchy pushed to one side, the big group over the more intimate gathering.\n\nBecause of his desire for privacy, because of his position, and because nearly all who knew him best have gone, our understanding of him will always be incomplete. But that's also because of what kind of person he was, because of the contradictions and contrasts that emerged over the decades. \"A mercurial man like His Royal Highness,\" said the artist and architect Sir Hugh Casson, \"needs a loose fit portrait.\"\n\nHe was asked once what his life had been about (the sort of question that normally received an incredulous snort). Had it been about supporting the Queen? \"Absolutely, absolutely,\" he replied. He didn't see himself as a leader, though lead he could. And his own achievements he consistently played down. Accepting the Freedom of the City of London in 1948, he spoke for himself and for what he called other \"followers\", with trademark modesty. \"Our only distinction,\" he said, \"was that we did what we were told to do, to the very best of our ability, and kept on doing it.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Babies, mothers and fathers, have been missing out on indoor group activities during lockdown\n\nParents with new babies have said living through lockdowns in Wales without being able attend indoor activity groups has been \"really tough\".\n\nSome have said it has affected their mental well-being as they missed support from other mothers and fathers.\n\nThose with businesses running parenting groups said they felt \"forgotten\".\n\nIn England, indoor events for young children are allowed, but no date has been confirmed in Wales.\n\nThe Welsh government has indicated that indoor activities for children will be part of the a Covid review on 13 May.\n\nEmma Loyns, who runs music clubs for babies across Bridgend, Vale of Glamorgan and Cardiff, described the situation as \"crazy\".\n\n\"In Wales, the gyms are going to be open before we can start meeting indoors - it's unbelievable,\" she said.\n\nShe has only been able to operate her music activity club franchise for nine weeks since the pandemic closed everything down last year.\n\nShe has moved as many of her activities as she can online, but said the support role from meeting other new mothers and fathers was missing.\n\n\"I have had parents crying because they just haven't seen anybody else during lockdown, their babies have not seen anybody else.\n\n\"It is not just a baby group - it is far more than that.\"\n\nBeth Britten is worried about how more anxious mothers are coping with lockdown\n\nBeth Britten knows that better than most.\n\nA teacher, she is on maternity leave after having her second baby Audrey, five months ago.\n\nShe also has a part-time business hosting a baby sensory activity group at weekends in Swansea.\n\n\"It can be such a lonely time if it is your first baby - so in that sense, I've been lucky - I know what I'm doing this time around.\n\n\"But it is also about the social side of things and I certainly miss that.\"\n\nReady to play! But when will parents and babies return to sessions such as this in Bridgend?\n\nFrom a business point of view, she said it had been a hard year.\n\n\"As a franchise owner, it's been horrendous. I'd only just taken it over a year last June, so I'd only really just got my numbers up. I feel like I'm starting from scratch again.\"\n\nShe said she was particularly worried for those new mothers who could have post-natal depression and how they can be coaxed back when lockdown restrictions were finally lifted.\n\n\"Those mums that are going to join us will be the confident ones who are ready to come out into the big wide world. I'm worried about the ones who are feeling apprehensive.\n\n\"It's hard enough coming out with a new baby, but having being locked in for so long, I think there are a lot of anxious mums and dads out there.\n\n\"That's the thing we have got to deal with now - how to reach them.\"\n\nSarah Jones is one of those mothers who took her first child to sensory play sessions around Bridgend, but has also experienced post-natal mental health challenges with her second child Sullivan, who was born in lockdown 10 months ago.\n\n\"It's been really, really tough,\" she said.\n\n\"The mummy friends and the support you get from those groups is incredible. To not have that this time around, it has been so isolating and so difficult.\n\n\"I think the biggest thing with the classes and baby groups is support.\n\n\"As much as the baby gets out of it, I think the parents get just as much or even more. You do rely on that mummy support.\"\n\nSarah Jones said she was missing \"mummy support\" after having Sullivan\n\nThe professional photographer said it also meant \"mummy guilt\" had become an issue for many.\n\n\"My little one has never been swimming, he's never been to a soft-play area, and even days out have been limited - so many places are just closed.\n\n\"I feel guilty Sullivan hasn't experienced what my other child has had.\"\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford has said the restrictions on children's indoor activities could be lifted on 17 May, providing cases of Covid remain low.", "What do we know about the Indian variant?\n\nViruses mutate all the time in a bid to survive. The challenge for scientists is to work out which mutations change how the coronavirus behaves. Do they alter how the virus spreads, for example, do they cause people to be more seriously ill and could they evade the protection of vaccines? These are all questions experts will now try to answer about the Indian variant by carrying out experiments in the lab and looking at data on cases in the real world. So far, we know that it has two mutations – the first, E484Q is similar to one found in the Brazilian, South African and Kent variants – and the second, L452R has been found in a variant in California. That means it could be a concern based on what is known about those variants already. But the \"double mutation\" on its own isn’t unusual and has been found in other variants. Covid vaccines are still very effective at reducing the risk of serious illness and manufacturers plan to update their vaccines in response to the most worrying new variants.", "Hammerson, owner of Birmingham's Bullring, is to cut rents for its retail tenants by 30% as it aims to recover from a year of lockdowns.\n\nThe firm's UK boss Mark Bourgeois said it had been a \"challenging\" period when it had tried to \"share the pain\" with retailers forced to shut.\n\nNon-essential shops in England and Wales reopened on Monday.\n\nHammerson said footfall had been stronger than the week after the first lockdown ended in June.\n\nOver the past year, Hammerson, which also owns London's Brent Cross, collected about 75% of rents owed by its tenants and agreed abatements with those shops who needed it.\n\nHowever, it expects to continue helping the retailers in its shopping centres which also include The Oracle site in Reading and the Victoria Quarter in Leeds.\n\n\"Typically, we're resetting our rents to more affordable levels,\" Mr Bourgeois told the BBC's Today programme.\n\n\"We reckon across the board and our business we'll probably reduce rents from their peak by about 30% so we are really doing our bit as are... all landlords to make sure we maintain vibrancy in these centres.\"\n\nPeople returned to shops on Monday as non-essential retailers in England reopened\n\nMr Bourgeois said that the bounce back in footfall in the past week had been more pronounced than equivalent period last June.\n\nHe said that the Covid-19 vaccine roll-out has made shoppers \"feel safer\", adding it was likely there was \"more cash in people's pockets and they are feeling perhaps more confident to go and spend\".\n\nThe Bank of England estimates that UK households have amassed £125bn in pent-up savings during the pandemic.\n\nBut Mr Bourgeois also said: \"People just love to get out. You can only do so much online shopping [people want to] get out and feel the products and brands in real life.\"\n\nOver its last financial year, for the 12 months to 31 December, Hammerson reported a record £1.7bn loss.\n\nHowever, even before the coronavirus pandemic forced the closure of large parts of the economy, retailers and their landlords were struggling as more consumers chose to shop online.\n\nLast June, Intu, the heavily-indebted owned of Manchester's Trafford Centre, was forced to file for administration.\n\nMr Bourgeois said: \"Retail has always been about winners and losers and that's been really accelerated during Covid.\"\n\nHe said Hammerson was now working to \"repurpose\" space left by the likes of department store Debenhams, which closed all its high street stores after falling into administration and selling the brand to online fashion firm Boohoo.\n\n\"We have a planning application in Leicester for instance where we are preparing to demolish a Debenhams store and put 300 flats there,\" said Mr Bourgeois. \"So we're bringing homes right into the heart of the city.\"", "Human cells were grown in an early monkey embryo\n\nMonkey embryos containing human cells have been made in a laboratory, a study has confirmed.\n\nThe research, by a US-Chinese team, has sparked fresh debate into the ethics of such experiments.\n\nThe scientists injected human stem cells - cells that have the ability to develop into many different body tissues - into macaque embryos.\n\nThe developing embryos were studied for up to 20 days.\n\nOther so-called mixed-species embryos, or chimeras, have been produced in the past, with human cells implanted into sheep and pig embryos.\n\nThe scientists were led by Prof Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte of the Salk Institute in the US, who, in 2017, helped make the first human-pig hybrid.\n\nTheir work could pave the way in addressing the severe shortage in transplantable organs as well as help understand more about early human development, disease progression and ageing, he said.\n\n\"These chimeric approaches could be really very useful for advancing biomedical research not just at the very earliest stage of life, but also the latest stage of life.\"\n\nHe maintained that the study, published in the journal Cell, had met the current ethical and legal guidelines.\n\n\"Ultimately, we conduct these studies to understand and improve human health,\" he said.\n\nSome scientists have, however, raised concerns about the experiment, arguing that while the embryos in this case were destroyed at 20 days, others could try to take the work further.\n\nThey are calling for public debate over the implications of creating part human/part nonhuman chimeras.\n\nCommenting on the research, Dr Anna Smajdor, lecturer and researcher in biomedical ethics at the University of East Anglia's Norwich Medical School, said it posed \"significant ethical and legal challenges\".\n\nShe added: \"The scientists behind this research state that these chimeric embryos offer new opportunities, because 'we are unable to conduct certain types of experiments in humans'. But whether these embryos are human or not is open to question.\"\n\nProf Julian Savulescu, director of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and co-director of the Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities, University of Oxford, said the research \"opens Pandora's box to human-nonhuman chimeras\".\n\nHe added: \"These embryos were destroyed at 20 days of development but it is only a matter of time before human-nonhuman chimeras are successfully developed, perhaps as a source of organs for humans. That is one of the long-term goals of this research.\"\n\nSarah Norcross, director of the Progress Educational Trust, said that while \"substantial advances\" are being made in embryo and stem cell research, which could bring equally substantial benefits, \"there is a clear need for public discussion and debate about the ethical and regulatory challenges raised\".", "Will Beresford took this picture of James and Ally after a morning run up Ben Lomond to celebrate their \"new found freedom\"\n\nMore families and friends have been able to reunite in parks, gardens and beaches across Scotland after months in lockdown.\n\nRestrictions have been eased allowing people to travel between council areas and meet more people outdoors.\n\nMichael Mancini, who runs the Ice Cream Factory at Troon, South Ayrshire, said the beach was \"heaving\" with visitors.\n\n\"We have been absolutely flying today. It has been brilliant, absolutely brilliant,\" he told BBC Radio Scotland.\n\nThe change to the rules means it is now possible to travel out of your local area for non-essential reasons and for six people from up to six households to meet up outdoors.\n\nThe relaxation had not been due to come into force until 26 April but the government said the changes were being made earlier in an effort to boost people's mental health and wellbeing.\n\nPeople cannot stay overnight outside their council area - even in a tent or caravan.\n\nAnd the advice remains to shop within your own council area unless there are no practical alternatives.\n\nWhile six people can meet up outdoors, the guidance is to minimise meetings, maintain 2m distancing and \"use common sense\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSt Andrews' famous West Sands beach was one popular spot for family reunions.\n\nAnn Buchanan, who lives near Stirling, met up with relatives from East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, whom she had not seen since last year.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland: \"We have not been able to meet up for ages, for such a long time, and it is really nice to get together here.\n\n\"This is such a lovely place to come and relax and have a bit of a catch up.\"\n\nMs Buchanan joked: \"This is the furthest I have driven in a year. It's just like passing your driving test again.\"\n\nAnn Buchanan and grandson Jensen were reunited in St Andrews\n\nAndrew McVie, 27, from Glasgow, said he was \"super excited\" to be visiting Millport, on the Isle of Cumbrae, to cycle round the island for the first time in more than two years.\n\nThe clerical assistant said: \"You can do it in about two hours if you don't stop. It's why a lot of people like it.\n\n\"There's great scenery and it's a really nice, friendly, welcoming place and it's a beautiful day.\n\n\"I've missed it so much not being able to go because of the travel restrictions but I'll still be taking precautions.\"\n\nMr McVie added that he plans to visit Edinburgh with friends on on Saturday for the first time in more than a year.\n\nJames Fraser, chairman of The Friends of Loch Lomond and the Trossachs, told BBC Radio Scotland's Drivetime the national park was not as busy as he had anticipated.\n\nMr Fraser put this down to people prioritising meeting up with their loved ones on day one of the travel restrictions being eased.\n\nBut he added: \"I think it will be a lot busier over the weekend if this weather holds up. There is no doubt about that so we would advise people to travel early.\n\n\"I am sure we will get to a stage where all the car parks are full and people will be getting turned away.\"\n\nDouglas Cairns, of Traffic Scotland's control centre, urged people to allow extra time for their journeys.\n\nHe told the programme: \"This is the first relaxation where we are allowed to travel outwith our local authority area so there will be a slight increase in demand and, obviously, that is based around weather as well.\"\n\nFriends enjoying a drink in the sunshine on West Sands Beach in St Andrews\n\nEarlier, Scotland's chief medical officer Dr Gregor Smith told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland that people may be uncertain about using another household's toilet during a meet up - but that \"pragmatism\" was important.\n\nHe said: \"Of course there might be a risk going into someone's house but if people are very, very careful and they make sure they're taking precautions - washing their hands afterwards - nipping in to use someone's toilet is not something I think anyone would frown on.\n\n\"What we don't want to see is people using that as an excuse to nip inside for cup of tea with people and sitting in unventilated areas.\"\n\nHe said the outdoors - with \"free circulating air\" - was much safer than indoors.\n\nThe next significant easing of restrictions on 26 April should see all shops and some hospitality reopen.\n\nAt that point, someone visiting a friend in another part of the country will be able choose to book into a hotel or bed and breakfast for the night.\n\nAll remaining shops and close contact services like nail salons are also due to reopen on 26 April.\n\nPubs, bars, cafés, restaurants and bars will be able to serve people outdoors - in groups of up to six from six households - until 22:00 from that date.\n\nAlcohol will be permitted, and there will be no requirement for food to be served.\n\nTakeaways will be able to resume normal service, with physical distancing and face masks worn in premises\n\nThere will also be a partial resumption of indoor hospitality, with food and non-alcoholic drinks being served until 20:00 for groups of up to four people from no more than two households.", "Corrie Mckeague went missing after being asked to leave a nightclub in September 2016\n\nAn inquest into the death of a missing RAF airman will not become an examination of the police investigation into his disappearance, a coroner said.\n\nCorrie Mckeague, who was 23, is believed to have died after climbing into an industrial waste bin after a night out in Bury St Edmunds in 2016.\n\nHis body has never been found.\n\nSuffolk's coroner said an independent review of the police case had taken place and it would be \"inappropriate\" for an inquest to further review that.\n\nMr McKeague, from Dunfermline in Fife, was a gunner based at RAF Honington in Suffolk at the time of his disappearance.\n\nA previous inquest hearing - opened and adjourned in November - heard from a police officer who said Mr Mckeague was \"very drunk\" when he was asked to leave the Flex nightclub in Bury St Edmunds on 24 September 2016.\n\nHis last confirmed sighting was at 03:25 BST, when CCTV cameras recorded him walking into an area behind Greggs and Superdrug, where industrial waste bins were stored.\n\nMr Mckeague was last seen on CCTV after leaving a nightclub\n\nLater that morning, a Biffa refuse lorry emptied the bins.\n\nPolice believe this is when Mr Mckeague died, but despite extensive searches, his body has never been found.\n\nAt a pre-inquest hearing, Nigel Parsley, senior coroner for Suffolk, said \"reasons why alternative theories were ruled out by police\" will form part of the scope of the inquest, which will be held before a jury.\n\n\"I'm very minded this will not become an inquiry into the police investigation,\" he said.\n\n\"There has already been an independent review of the police investigation.\n\n\"The inquest is an inappropriate place for a further review.\"\n\nA landfill site at Milton near Cambridge was extensively searched as part of the investigation\n\nThe review of the police search for Mr Mckeague, carried out in 2017 by police from the East Midlands, concluded officers carried out \"exemplary\" work despite having \"limited resources\".\n\nMr Parsley set a provisional date of 20 September for the full inquest, which was expected to last for four weeks.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A new independent review group will assess the prescription of puberty blockers for under-16s, NHS England has announced.\n\nPuberty blockers are prescribed to some young people who are experiencing gender dysphoria - a \"mismatch\" between their biological sex and gender identity.\n\nThe announcement follows a ruling from the Family Division of the High Court in March, which said parents can consent to the treatment on behalf of their child.\n\nBut the judge added it may be that \"additional safeguards\" should be built into decision-making.\n\nThe case was brought after three high court judges had previously ruled that children under 16 were unlikely to be able to give informed consent for the treatment.\n\nThat ruling, in December, was from a case brought against the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust which provides England's only NHS specialist gender clinic for children.\n\nNHS England said its new processes were being introduced on an \"interim basis\" while it awaits the outcome of a review into gender identity services.\n\nIt said it had \"carefully reviewed\" the parental consent judgement from March along with \"significant concerns\" raised by a recent Care Quality Commission report about the clinic and a puberty blockers evidence review by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.\n\nThe Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust provides England's only NHS specialist gender clinic for children\n\nThe health body said that while parental consent had not been \"historically\" relied on it may be for existing patients who are already being prescribed puberty blockers.\n\nIn such cases there would need to be \"full agreement\" between the child, parent(s) and clinical team as well as support from the new review group.\n\nIt added that, should the review group have doubts about whether the decision-making process was \"robust\", a best interests decision could still be sought from court.\n\nTreatment will not be withdrawn for existing patients until the review group's view is known or further consideration by the court.\n\n· What does transgender mean and what does the law say?\n\nThe same interim process will be used for new patients once the Tavistock clinic decides to resume making new referrals, NHS England said.\n\nA statement from Tavistock and Portman said it welcomed the update \"that parental consent may form a legal basis to prescribe puberty blockers to children under 16 years\".\n\nThe trust added: \"We will be working with NHS England on the implications of these changes for patients currently in treatment and new referrals, and will issue more information about this as soon as we are able.\"\n\nNew referrals were paused in December following the High Court ruling.\n\nThe review group will be made up of health and care professionals with expertise in child development, neurodevelopment and mental health.\n\nIt's not clear when it will be established but NHS England said more details would be available \"in due course\".\n\nUntil the group is operational a requirement for a best interests order from the court, for new patients, will remain.", "Bill Crothers says he was \"transparent\" about the role he took on with Greensill Capital\n\nA former senior civil servant embroiled in a row over his job at Greensill Capital took another post without reporting it, it has emerged.\n\nBill Crothers has come under fire for working at the now-failed finance firm while still on the government payroll.\n\nIt has now come to light he took on another trustee role without seeking the advice of the necessary committee.\n\nMr Crothers apologised to the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments for what he called an \"honest mistake\".\n\nBut the chair of the committee, Lord Pickles, said he had breached government rules.\n\nThe news comes after Lord Pickles warned the existing guidelines on ministers and top officials taking jobs with private firms needed urgent reforms as there did not appear to be \"any boundaries at all\" between civil servants and the private sector.\n\nLabour says things are becoming \"murkier\" and lobbyists have an \"open door\" to government.\n\nThe government has announced a review of contacts between top officials and ministers after the row over Greensill Capital, access, influence and lobbying has engulfed Westminster.\n\nThe review will include former prime minister David Cameron's dealing with the firm, as well as Mr Crothers.\n\nIt will be led by Nigel Boardman, a non-executive board member of the department for business.\n\nA number of Commons Select Committees have also announced their own inquiries.\n\nOn Wednesday, Mr Johnson ordered Conservative MPs to vote down Labour's call for a \"full\" MP-led inquiry into Greensill and lobbying more widely.\n\nIt emerged on Tuesday that Mr Crothers - a former government procurement officer - joined Greensill as an adviser in 2015 while still working as a civil servant, after getting the go-ahead from the Cabinet Office.\n\nBut an exchange of letters between him and Lord Pickles, published on Thursday, also revealed he had failed to alert the committee about a different job he took in 2016 as a trustee with the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply\n\nMr Crothers apologised in his letter for what he described an \"honest mistake\", saying he did not think he had to report the role as it was unpaid and with a not-for-profit charity.\n\nBut Lord Pickles said the rules applied to both paid and unpaid jobs and it was therefore a breach of the regulations.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lord Pickles: \"I hope this doesn't sound rude, but there doesn't seem to have been any boundaries at all\"\n\nEarlier, the Tory peer Lord Pickles told the Commons public administration committee he had warned of a scandal but the Greensill lobbying affair was \"not where I expected it to come from\".\n\nHe added: \"There is nothing wrong with lobbyists. What is wrong is with unregulated lobbying, secret lobbying - people getting an undue advantage.\n\n\"Our entire political careers have been built by lobbying of some sort. But where it becomes wrong is where it is not properly regulated and is transparent.\"\n\nSpeaking about Mr Crothers, Lord Pickles said it was not unusual for civil servants to have second jobs and to share their expertise.\n\nBut he said the former civil servant's \"excuse\" when justifying his work with Greensill surprised him.\n\n\"It did seem, talking to other colleagues who had enjoyed being civil servants in the past, that they also shared my surprise - this seems to be a new thing, or a new excuse,\" he said.\n\nHe said contractors and consultants to the government should have to sign a memorandum of understanding about the restrictions that would be placed on them after completing their public sector work.\n\nLord Pickles also expressed his frustration that his committee had a \"very limited and defined role\", but added that most people do follow the rules and it is \"only a tiny minority\" who cause problems.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lobbying row: PM Johnson says we must \"get to the bottom of it\"\n\nSpeaking on a visit to Dartmouth College in Devon, Boris Johnson said he agreed with Lord Pickles that reform was needed.\n\nThe PM said: \"I think the most important thing is for us to get to the bottom of it properly and I want all ministers and civil servants to be making the information that needs to be known known to Mr Boardman and let's see what he has to say.\n\n\"We need to understand what's gone on here.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said more and stronger lobbying rules are needed because the current system \"is not working\".\n\nHe said ministers were being lobbied for \"massive\" procurement contracts \"involving millions sometimes billions of pounds\".\n\nHe added: \"Increasingly we're seeing a murkier and murkier picture whether it's the way contracts are handed out, the lack of due process or the lobbying which is not a revolving door, it's an open door now in to government\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Firefighters were called to the flat blaze on Morland Road at about 19:00 BST on Thursday\n\nA glazier who ran into a burning building to rescue a woman trapped inside said he was just \"going on instincts\".\n\nSam Merrill, 32, had finished a gym session on Morland Road, Sheffield, at 19:00 BST on Thursday when he noticed smoke from a nearby block of flats.\n\nHe rushed in to the building and found the stricken woman in a first-floor flat.\n\nMr Merrill denied he was a hero, adding: \"You don't do it for that.\"\n\nSam Merrill said he did not think of himself as a hero\n\nFirefighters were called to the blaze but Mr Merrill had already entered the building to carry out the rescue.\n\n\"By the time she'd got outside, she was on the verge of being dead. If it was another 30 seconds there'd have been no return,\" he said.\n\n\"There were flames around the door. Everyone was covered in smoke and it was spreading fast.\n\n\"It was just a case of making sure everyone is out and everyone is safe, that was the scenario for me,\" Mr Merrill added.\n\nA cordon was in place while an investigation took place\n\nThe keen boxer said he did not think of himself as a hero.\n\nHe added: \"You don't do it for that status, you just do it because you don't want someone to die. Just the fact the woman's all right is better for me.\"\n\nAn investigation into the cause of the fire is ongoing, the South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service said.\n\nYorkshire Ambulance Service has been contacted about the woman's condition.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A mural dedicated to George Floyd in Brooklyn, New York.\n\nHere's a timeline of major incidents since 2014 involving police officers which resulted in the deaths of black Americans.\n\nA protest over the death of Eric Garner at the hands of New York police\n\nEric Garner died after he was wrestled to the ground by a New York police officer on suspicion of illegally selling cigarettes.\n\nWhile in a choke hold, Mr Garner uttered the words \"I can't breathe\" 11 times.\n\nThe incident - filmed by a bystander - led to protests across the country. The police officer involved was later fired, but was never prosecuted.\n\nIt came a year after the Black Lives Matter movement emerged in response to the acquittal of the man who killed teenager Trayvon Martin in Florida.\n\nThe killing of Michael Brown led to violent protests in Ferguson, Missouri\n\nMichael Brown, 18, was killed by a police officer, in Ferguson, Missouri, who was responding to reports that Brown had stolen a box of cigars.\n\nThe officer, Darren Wilson, stopped his car in front of Brown.\n\nBrown reached into the car and punched Wilson, and in the struggle that followed, he tried to grab the police officer's gun, according to a report by the Department of Justice (DOJ), which was based on forensic evidence and interviews with dozens of witnesses.\n\nOne shot was fired and Brown ran off, pursued by Wilson. When he turned back and moved towards Wilson, the fatal shots were fired, according to witnesses.\n\nAlthough the police officer was cleared of wrongdoing, the DOJ report was scathing about systemic problems in the Ferguson police and racial disparities in the justice system.\n\nThe incident led to multiple waves of protests and civil unrest in Ferguson, boosting the Black Lives Matter movement further.\n\nA solitary toy is left as a memorial near where Tamir Rice died\n\nTamir Rice, a boy of 12, was shot dead in Cleveland, Ohio by a police officer after reports of a male who was \"probably a juvenile\" pointing a gun that was \"probably fake\" at passers by.\n\nPolice claimed that they told Rice to drop the weapon - but instead of dropping it he pointed it at police.\n\nThe police confirmed that the gun was a toy after Rice had been shot dead.\n\nThe police officer who fired the fatal shots was sacked three years later for lying on his job application form.\n\nIn December 2020, the Justice Department said it was closing its investigation into the case as there was not enough evidence to bring federal criminal charges.\n\nWalter Scott was shot in the back five times by a white police officer, who was later fired and eventually sentenced to 20 years in prison.\n\nMr Scott had been pulled over for having a defective light on his car in North Charleston, South Carolina, and ran away from the police officer after a brief scuffle.\n\nThe killing sparked protests in North Charleston, with chants of \"No justice, no peace\".\n\nAlton Sterling's death led to days of protests in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Mr Sterling was killed after police responded to reports of a disturbance outside a shop.\n\nThe incident was caught on mobile phone footage and spread online.\n\nThe two officers involved did not face criminal charges, but one was dismissed and the other suspended from the police.\n\nPhilando Castile was killed while out driving with his girlfriend in St Paul, Minnesota.\n\nHe was pulled over by the police during a routine check, and told them he was licensed to carry a weapon, and had one in his possession.\n\nHe was shot as he was reaching for his licence, according to his girlfriend.\n\nShe live-streamed the encounter on Facebook. The officer involved was cleared of murder charges.\n\nStephon Clark died after being shot at least seven times in his grandmother's backyard in Sacramento, California, by police who were investigating a nearby break-in.\n\nOnly a mobile phone was found at the scene, and Mr Clark was unarmed.\n\nThe release of a police video of the incident sparked major protests in the city.\n\nIn March 2019, the authorities announced that the two officers involved would not face criminal prosecution as the officers had feared for their lives, believing Mr Clark had a gun.\n\nBreonna Taylor, a 26-year-old emergency medical technician, was shot eight times when officers raided her apartment in Louisville, Kentucky.\n\nLouisville police said they returned fire after one officer was shot at and wounded.\n\nBreonna Taylor's family filed a lawsuit, and in September 2020 reached a settlement of $12m (£9.4m) with the city authorities.\n\nThe lawsuit stated that Ms Taylor's partner - who was with her at the time - had fired in self-defence because the police did not identify themselves, and he thought the apartment was being burgled.\n\nA grand jury charged one police officer not with Ms Taylor's death, but with \"wanton endangerment\" for firing into a neighbouring apartment.\n\nThree officers involved in the raid have now been dismissed from the police force.\n\nProtests and demonstrations in Minneapolis as the trial of Derek Chauvin gets underway\n\nGeorge Floyd died after being arrested in Minneapolis and held down by police officers, one of whom had his knee on Mr Floyd's neck for more than nine minutes.\n\nHe pleaded that he couldn't breathe, and after his death, protests broke out across the US, and there were demonstrations in other parts of the world.\n\nFormer police officer Derek Chauvin - who had knelt on Mr Floyd - was convicted on charges of second-degree murder, third-degree murder and manslaughter after a three-week trial.\n\nThree other officers who were involved in the incident will be tried later this year accused of aiding and abetting Mr Chauvin.\n\nClashes erupted following Daunte Wright's killing, which occurred during the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin\n\nDaunte Wright was shot and killed in Brooklyn Center, just north of Minneapolis.\n\nAfter being pulled over for a traffic violation, the police told Mr Wright he was being arrested for an outstanding warrant.\n\nHe broke free and tried to re-enter his car, at which point an officer is heard shouting \"Taser\" several times before firing a shot.\n\nLocal police said the killing appeared to be accidental, and the officer, Kim Potter, had meant to use her Taser and not her handgun.\n\nThe family has rejected that explanation, and protests over the shooting have continued.\n\nMrs Potter has resigned from the police, and been charged with second-degree manslaughter.", "A 16-year-old girl found dead at her family's home was killed by pressure to her neck, an inquest has heard.\n\nWenjing Lin was found in the kitchen by her mother at their home above the Blue Sky Chinese takeaway restaurant in the Ynyswen area of Treorchy on 5 March.\n\nChun Xu, 31, has been charged with the teenager's murder.\n\nCoroner David Regan adjourned the inquest at Pontypridd Coroner's Court while the police investigation continues.\n\nChun Xu, of no fixed address, appeared at Cardiff Crown Court on 25 March and was remanded in custody ahead of a three-week trial on 1 November.\n\nHe also faces a separate charge of attempting to murder a 38-year-old man.\n\nForensic investigators at the scene on Baglan Street\n\nThe court heard that Wenjing had been living with her mother and stepfather above the takeaway in Baglan Street.\n\nCoroner's officer Lauren Howitt told the hearing that, at the time of the incident, another male was staying with them.\n\n\"Following an altercation at the property, Wenjing was discovered deceased in a kitchen area,\" she said.\n\n\"Police attended and arrested a male at the scene, who has been charged with her murder.\"\n\nMs Howitt said a post-mortem examination had provided a provisional cause of death for Wenjing as \"pressure on neck\", adding: \"However, there are further investigations to follow.\"\n\nFloral tributes were left at the scene\n\nThe court heard that Wenjing was born in Belfast, before her family later moved to Wales.\n\nA statement released by her family said: \"Wenjing had a very gentle soul, she was a very quiet person. 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\nWenjing's teachers at Treorchy Comprehensive School previously paid tribute to her, describing her as \"kind, passionate and ambitious\".\n\nThe school said the teenager was a \"very responsible pupil\" who combined her academic ambitions with supporting her family business.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nArsenal secured what manager Mikel Arteta called an \"important win in a crucial moment\" as they impressively swept aside Slavia Prague to reach the Europa League semi-finals.\n\nThe Gunners produced one of their best performances of the campaign to turn a potentially difficult night into a fine away victory.\n\nWith the tie evenly poised at 1-1, they scored three goals in the opening 24 minutes and had another ruled out by the video assistant referee - all-but ending the contest in the opening period.\n\nIt kept alive their hopes winning the competition - and with it their only realistic chance of European football next season.\n\n\"The boys were really at it from the start,\" Arteta said. \"We won in a convincing way, so credit to the players.\"\n\nNicolas Pepe squeezed home at the near post to open the scoring in the 18th minute before Alexandre Lacazette converted a penalty three minutes later following a foul on Bukayo Saka.\n\nSaka coolly swept in the third as Arsenal tore their Czech opponents apart once more.\n\nArteta's side controlled the game expertly thereafter and Lacazette smashed his second low into the net in the latter stages.\n\nThe Gunners will face Villarreal - managed by former Arsenal boss Unai Emery - in the last four.\n\nManchester United meet Roma in the other semi-final after Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's side comfortably saw off Granada.\n\nThis was Arsenal's biggest game remaining this season.\n\nHad they lost, their campaign would have effectively been over. Instead they breathed life into its final two months.\n\nTheir wastefulness in the first leg left the tie in the balance but in Prague, where their hosts had not lost for more than a year, they were supremely clinical.\n\nSpurred on by the guile and energy of Emile Smith Rowe, they scored three goals from five first-half shots - doing so without their captain Pierre Emerick Aubameyang, who revealed shortly before kick-off he has contracted malaria.\n\nSlavia had already knocked Leicester and Rangers out of this year's competition but at half-time they resorted to substituting four key players, seemingly an acceptance the tie was over.\n\nIt is 25 years since Arsenal, currently ninth in the league, failed to qualify for Europe and this win ensured they can extend that run.\n\nA meeting with Emery, who took Arsenal to the Europa League final in 2019 and won the tournament three times as manager of Sevilla, awaits on 29 April.\n\n\"It will be really tough and Unai Emery is probably the most successful manager in this competition,\" Arteta told BT Sport.\n\n\"We started really well and were aggressive in our high press.\n\n\"We looked a threat all the time. I really like the reaction of the team to the goal being disallowed.\"\n\nArsenal's best performance of the season?\n\nIt is little surprise that this performance came with Smith Rowe and Saka - the two shining lights of Arsenal's inconsistent season - reunited in the attacking line.\n\nSmith Rowe, a doubt for the game with an ankle injury that kept him out of the weekend's win over Sheffield United, had put Arsenal ahead in the 14th minute when he turned in the rebound after Saka's rasping shot was turned on to the post but he was narrowly judged to be offside.\n\nIt was the 20-year-old playmaker, however, who showed delightful feet to tee up Pepe for the opener moments later.\n\nHe then played in Saka whose driving run was unfairly halted by the sliding Jakub Hromada, resulting in the second goal from the penalty spot.\n• None Why Saka could be a future Arsenal captain\n\nSaka took the spotlight soon after, driving off his flank once more and finding the bottom corner while Lacazette was clinical with his spot-kick and assured second-half finish.\n\nPepe, too, a player often criticised during his time at Arsenal, impressed on the left. He now has five goals and four assists in this year's competition.\n\nIt will also please Arteta how Arsenal managed the game with a defensive solidity not seen at times this season.\n\n\"It was fantastic from start to finish,\" Saka told BT Sport.\n\n\"It shows everyone how exciting we can be, when we play like this it is so amazing to be involved in.\"\n\nLacazette loving the Europa League - the best stats\n• None Arsenal have reached the semi-finals of European competition for the 10th time (including Fairs Cup), with the Gunners getting to the last four in three of their four Europa League campaigns.\n• None Slavia Prague suffered their first home defeat in their last seven European games (W3 D3), conceding more goals in this game (4) than in the previous six on home soil (3).\n• None Arsenal have scored 3+ goals in four consecutive away games in all competitions for the first time since December 1932 (5 games).\n• None Arsenal kept a clean sheet in a European game for the first time in eight games, since a 3-0 away win over Molde in the Europa League in November 2020.\n• None Nicolas Pepe has been directly involved in nine goals in his 10 starts for Arsenal in the Europa League (4 goals, 5 assists).\n• None Emile Smith Rowe registered his seventh assist in all competitions this season, the joint-most of any Arsenal player in 2020-21 (level with Willian).\n• None Only Radamel Falcao (20) and Kevin Gameiro (19) have scored more Europa League knockout stage goals than Arsenal striker Alexandre Lacazette (18).\n• None Alexandre Lacazette has scored 2+ goals in consecutive games in all competitions for the first time for any club since his last three appearances for Lyon in May 2017.\n• None With four goals to his name, Bukayo Saka is now Arsenal's joint-top teenage scorer in major European competition, level with Charlie George and Ray Kennedy.\n\nArsenal return to Premier League action on Sunday against Fulham at Emirates Stadium (13:30 BST kick-off).\n• None Attempt missed. Gabriel Martinelli (Arsenal) right footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Dani Ceballos.\n• None Attempt blocked. Ondrej Lingr (Slavia Prague) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Gabriel Martinelli (Arsenal) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Goal! Slavia Prague 0, Arsenal 4. Alexandre Lacazette (Arsenal) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Nicolas Pépé.\n• None Offside, Arsenal. Bukayo Saka tries a through ball, but Mohamed Elneny is caught offside. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None One simple thing that could improve your life!\n• None Top tips for taking your cocktails outside", "The hospital provides treatment for people with severe learning disabilities and mental health needs\n\nSeven people are to be prosecuted over the alleged ill-treatment of patients at Muckamore Abbey Hospital in County Antrim.\n\nThe hospital on the outskirts of Antrim is run by the Belfast Health Trust.\n\nThe Public Prosecution Service (PPS) said the families of patients have been informed about the development.\n\nFifteen people have been arrested since a major police investigation began in 2017 into alleged abuse at the hospital.\n\nThese are the first charges to be announced and it is understood all seven people are staff members at the psychiatric intensive care unit at Muckamore Abbey Hospital.\n\nThey are to be charged with offences including alleged ill-treatment and wilful neglect of patients at the unit.\n\nThe PPS said another eight people had been reported to them in a second investigation file, which remains under consideration.\n\nA major police investigation into claims of ill-treatment of patients began in 2017\n\nIt said decisions about whether or not to prosecute would be made \"after a thorough consideration of all the available evidence\".\n\nThe process had been difficult for the patients and their families who had shown \"great dignity\", added the PPS.\n\nChief Supt Anthony McNally of the Police Service of Northern Ireland said the decision to prosecute was \"significant progress\" in the investigation.\n\n\"This has been a very detailed and complex investigation and we will continue to work closely with the PPS,\" he said.\n\n\"Our specially-trained officers will continue to provide support to the families whose loved ones are at the centre of this investigation.\n\n\"From the outset we have been committed to working closely with them with the aim of keeping them as informed as much as we possibly can and we will continue to do so.\n\n\"The protection of our most vulnerable is a priority for the Police Service of Northern Ireland.\"", "It has teamed up with another British company, Oxbotica, to build self-driving vehicles for itself and others who use its platform.\n\nThat could include automatic forklift trucks at warehouses, self-driving delivery vans, or even \"kerb to kitchen\" robots for the final leg.\n\nAs part of the deal, Ocado has bought a £10m stake in Oxbotica.\n\nTogether, they say they plan to build hardware and software for autonomous vehicles.\n\n\"We want the entire end to end operation, ultimately, to be autonomous - from the receipt of stock to the warehouse all the way through to the customer's door,\" said Alex Harvey, Ocado's head of advanced technology.\n\n\"From a customer's perspective you open your door and outside you will see an autonomous van or another autonomous vehicle pull up outside your house, and most likely an autonomous robot will get out of that autonomous vehicle, will collect your groceries, and hand them to you at the doorstep.\"\n\nIn recent years, Ocado has tried to project itself as a technology platform to be used by global retailers, rather than just an online grocery store.\n\nIt has developed robots which now pick and pack groceries at its state-of-the-art fulfilment centres, and this week, America's Kroger supermarket chain unveiled its first warehouse using the Ocado technology.\n\nKroger's delivery vans also use software developed by Ocado to plot the most efficient routes.\n\nThe new partnership with Oxbotica will aim to take this idea further.\n\nOxbotica builds autonomous driving software for a range of global clients. The company was founded in 2014 by two Oxford professors - Paul Newman and Ingmar Posner - whose university research focused on self-driving cars.\n\nThe startup company has just raised new funding from investors in the UK, US and China. Ocado's £10m stake is part of that funding round, and will give it a seat on Oxbotica's board.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: In 2017, Ocado tested Oxbotica's tech for driverless deliveries in London\n\nIn its announcement, Ocado tempered expectations and said that getting permission from regulators to operate autonomous vehicles on public roads - allowing driverless deliveries to customers' homes - may take some time.\n\nBut it said that \"last-mile\" deliveries to customers' homes are a significant part of an online retailer's costs, with labour accounting for half of that - so autonomous vans could produce big savings.\n\nIn the short term, it sees vehicles operating in restricted areas such as its own warehouses, with the first prototypes coming within two years.\n\nOcado executives hate it when you call it an online grocer. The company wants to be seen as a technology platform for the world's retailers. This partnership with another British business, the scrappy autonomous software startup Oxbotica, is meant to signal the scale of its ambitions.\n\nFor Oxbotica's Paul Newman, it's an exciting opportunity for two UK companies to become a global force in technology which has been dominated by American and Chinese players - \"we've got a global vision, we're going to change the way goods are moved,\" he told me this morning.\n\nAnd Ocado's technology boss Alex Harvey points out that the company has already acquired two American tech businesses this year.\n\n\"It's normally the other way around... I think it represents a very exciting opportunity to be able to leverage the best of British between Oxbotica and Ocado and export it to the rest of the world.\"\n\nRemember - big dreams about the progress towards self-driving vehicles on public roads have come up against the reality that the technological and regulatory hurdles to be cleared are very challenging,\n\nEveryone from the former Chancellor Philip Hammond to Oxbotica's own Paul Newman predicted self-driving cars and vans should be on UK streets by now.\n\nProf Newman, who started his driverless car research as an Oxford University academic, admits that was a little optimistic. But he says now, the time is right: \"This is a sensible proposition that makes economic sense.\"\n\nBut sceptics will wonder how motorists will feel about sharing the roads with driverless vans, let alone what customers will think about a robot telling you that the avocados are out of stock and you're getting oranges instead.", "Adam Toledo, 13, was shot dead by a Chicago police officer on 29 March. The footage of the encounter was released the victim's parents had called for full transparency.\n\nThe investigation into the boy's death is continuing.", "Some income tax powers were devolved to ministers in Cardiff in 2019\n\nThe Welsh Conservatives have vowed to cut income tax if a target to create 65,000 new jobs is met by 2025.\n\nThe party said it would cut the basic rate by 1% before the next Senedd election in five years time.\n\nIt comes as the Tories launched their Senedd election manifesto in Wrexham. Pledges include an M4 relief road and ending business rates for small firms.\n\nSenedd group leader Andrew RT Davies said Wales needed a \"critical national mission\" for the economy.\n\nThe Welsh Conservatives will be defending 11 seats when voters go to the polls on 6 May.\n\nIt was the third-largest party at the previous Senedd election, but at the UK general election in December 2019 it gained six constituencies from Labour, giving the party the best result in Wales since the days of Margaret Thatcher.\n\nThe party also promised to build five new or upgraded hospitals, 100,000 new homes and provide extra funding for the NHS every year.\n\nA £10 minimum wage for social care workers is pledged, Natural Resources Wales would be scrapped and Cardiff Airport sold off.\n\nThe Conservatives' manifesto says it would be the party's \"national mission\" to create 65,000 new jobs.\n\nThe document says the party would cut the basic rate of tax once the new jobs had been created, but does not specify the size of a cut.\n\nA press release for the party says it would be a 1p cut in the £1 on the basic rate - currently a total of 20% for earnings between £12,571 and £50,270 a year.\n\nThere were 2.1m basic rate taxpayers in 2020/21.\n\nAndrew RT Davies launched the manifesto at the JCB factory in Wrexham on Tuesday\n\nAsked how the tax cut would be funded, a party spokesman said: \"By having more people paying into the pot, we can reduce the amount of money everyone puts in, so that people can spend more money in their local economy, creating more jobs in return.\"\n\nThe policy suggests the Conservatives would make the tax cut in the last financial year before the next Senedd election in 2026, provided the jobs target is met.\n\nManifesto pledges on tax include a freeze for council tax for at least the next two years, and cutting the Welsh version of stamp duty, called land transaction tax (LTT).\n\nThe changes would mean first time buyers would not pay LTT, while the threshold for others would be raised to £250,000.\n\nSince 2019 Welsh ministers have been able to vary income tax rates from those set by the UK government by up to 10p in the pound.\n\nThis money, along with some other taxes collected in Wales and cash from Westminster, funds Welsh public services run from Cardiff.\n\nThe income tax powers have so far not been used.\n\nLabour, which has been leading the Welsh government since the start of devolution, vowed at the last election not to raise taxes.\n\nIn its manifesto this year the party changed tack, only ruling out a tax rise until the economy recovered from the impact of Covid.\n\nGuto Ifan from Cardiff University estimated that in 2025 a cut of 1p to the basic rate would cost around £220m.\n\n\"There are huge post-pandemic spending pressures and UK gov spending plans have already been reined back significantly. There are difficult trade-offs facing the next Welsh Government, and tax cuts will need to be balanced against these,\" he tweeted.\n\nWhat's happening? On 6 May, people will vote to elect 60 Members of the Senedd (MSs). The party that can command the support of a majority of MSs will form the Welsh government. Find out more here.\n\nWhat powers does the Senedd have? MSs pass laws on aspects of life in Wales such as health, education and transport - and have some tax powers.\n\nThe manifesto commits to building the M4 relief road\n\nThe Conservatives said they would invest £2bn to create modern infrastructure for Wales, including the M4 relief road which was scrapped by the Welsh government in 2019 and was then estimated to cost £1.6bn.\n\nThe cash would also be used to upgrade the A55 and A40 and to create 20,000 charging points for electric vehicles.\n\nOn Radio Wales Breakfast Mr Davies denied there was a contradiction between his road plans and the UK government's plans to accelerate cuts in carbon emissions.\n\n\"The carbon engine is disappearing out of the transport system,\" he said, \"because by 2030 it will be illegal to sell petrol and diesel engines and they'll be phased out by 2035.\"\n\n\"So we're moving to an environmentally friendly mode of transport here in Wales and indeed across the United Kingdom, and it's incumbent on any government to make sure we put that investment in the green infrastructure.\"\n\n\"It's really important that we have a big sign that says open for business to people so that we can create these 65,000 jobs that ultimately would be rewarded with a tax cut at the end of the parliament,\" he said.\n\nHe said 15,000 of the 65,000 jobs would be in \"green jobs\".\n\n\"Many of those jobs would be engineering jobs,\" he said, in installing charging points, and in \"developing green energy projects and concepts around Wales\".\n\nThe Conservatives are the only party in this election that is proposing cutting the Welsh rate of income tax.\n\nBut it's actually less of a cut than what the party suggested back in 2016, when Andrew RT Davies said the Tories would aim for cutting the basic rate by 2p.\n\nTuesday's plan also depends on a rise in the number of jobs, and it's also not baked into the manifesto itself.\n\nIt might be surprising how limited it is when Mr Davies had, years ago, sacked some of his frontbench because they disagreed with the powers being devolved to do this.\n\nBut it perhaps reflects how difficult it is in 2021 to promise tax cuts.\n\nEspecially when Mr Davies' party colleagues at the other end of the M4 are suggesting the opposite, with a million more across the UK expected to enter the basic tax bracket in the next five years.\n\nLeaders debate: If you would like to be part of the virtual audience for the BBC Wales Election 2021 Leaders Debate on 29 April, please email us your details to waleslive@bbc.co.uk.\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", "Coal-fired power stations like this one in Guizhou province, China are expected to play a role in the carbon surge\n\nThe International Energy Agency (IEA) is predicting a major surge in CO2 emissions from energy this year, as the world rebounds from the pandemic.\n\nTotal energy emissions for 2021 will still be slightly lower than in 2019, the agency says.\n\nBut CO2 will rise by the second largest annual amount on record.\n\nThe use of coal in Asia is expected to be key: the IEA says it will push global demand up by 4.5%, taking it close to the global peak seen in 2014.\n\nHowever, renewable energy is also booming, with green sources set to supply 30% of electricity this year.\n\nA deserted airport during the pandemic lockdown - demand for aviation is likely to stay low until the end of this year\n\nThe empty roads, high streets and airports that marked the global response to coronavirus saw the biggest fall in demand for energy since World War Two.\n\nThat decline saw carbon emissions tumble by around 6% in 2020, as the more carbon-intensive fuels such as coal and oil were hardest hit by restrictions.\n\nMany hoped that these changes in energy use would be sustained in the recovery from the pandemic, but these latest predictions from the IEA indicate that is not likely to be the case.\n\nEnergy demand is booming in the developing world, with a rise of 3.4% predicted for this year - this contrasts with richer economies, where overall energy use is expected to still be 3% below 2019.\n\nIn the places where energy demand is growing, coal is playing a key role.\n\nOverall global use declined by around 4% in 2020, but is expected to rise by 4.5% this year.\n\nWind energy is expected to grow by 17% from 2020 levels\n\nThis is mainly happening in Asia, where China is leading the way and expected to account for more than half of the global coal growth this year.\n\nBut even in the US and EU, where coal has been on the back foot for some time, demand is expected to rise - although it will still likely remain below 2019 levels in these regions.\n\nAccording to the IEA, coal demand is likely to be close to the global peak seen in 2014 - and that has implications for efforts to rein in climate change.\n\n\"Global carbon emissions are set to jump by 1.5 billion tonnes this year - driven by the resurgence of coal use in the power sector,\" said Fatih Birol, the IEA's executive director.\n\n\"This is a dire warning that the economic recovery from the Covid crisis is currently anything but sustainable for our climate.\"\n\nRenewables are booming in China - this image shows a floating solar park in the country\n\nThe emissions predictions for 2021 would be even worse, according to the IEA, if demand for oil increased to pre-covid levels.\n\nBy the end of this year, oil use for aviation is still expected to be 20% below 2019 levels.\n\nHowever there are some strong positives for renewable energy in the IEA report. Wind, solar and other sustainable forms grew 3% during 2020, and in the power sector they are expected to grow by 8% this year.\n\nOverall green energy sources will provide 30% of electricity generation, the highest level since the beginning of the industrial revolution.\n\nReflecting the complexities of the global energy picture, China is likely to account for almost half the global increase in renewable electricity this year.\n\n\"As we have seen at the country-level in the past 15 years, the countries that succeed to cut their emissions are those where renewable energy replaces fossil energy,\" said Prof Corinne Le Quéré, from the University of East Anglia, who has studied the factors that drive countries to change their power systems.\n\n\"What seems to be happening now is that we have a massive deployment of renewable energy, which is good for tackling climate change, but this is occurring alongside massive investments in coal and gas.\"\n\n\"Stimulus spending post-Covid-19 worldwide is still largely funding activities that lock us into high CO2 emissions for decades.\"\n\nLater this week, President Biden will host a climate summit, with around 40 presidents and prime ministers expected to take part virtually.\n\nThe US is also expected to announce a significantly improved emissions cutting target for 2030.\n\nAccording to the IEA, these actions can't come quickly enough if emissions are to be reined in to keep the temperature targets of the Paris climate agreement within sight.\n\n\"Unless governments around the world move rapidly to start cutting emissions, we are likely to face an even worse situation in 2022,\" said Dr Birol from the IEA.\n\n\"The leaders' summit on climate hosted by US President Joe Biden this week is a critical moment to commit to clear and immediate action ahead of COP26 in Glasgow.\"", "Avram Glazer, Joel Glazer and Bryan Glazer, pictured, are part of the family that owns a majority stake in Manchester United, although Avram sold some of his shares in March\n\nSports fans love a bit of jeopardy - a nail biting contest which can end in glory or defeat. But business owners generally hate all of that.\n\nOwners and business managers of football clubs have a peculiar problem.\n\nAs one former chief executive of a Premier League club told me: \"I won't know till the last day of the season if my budget for next year is going to be £170m or £70m.\"\n\nThat is not only almost impossible to manage, it has another very important consequence. Businesses with steady revenues are worth a lot more than ones with erratic earnings.\n\nIn business terms it's known as getting a higher \"multiple\" - volatile businesses are worth as little as five times average annual earnings, whereas steady ones are worth up to 20 times or more.\n\nThis is what the European Super League is all about - making the clubs involved worth more by eliminating the jeopardy of being relegated or missing out on Champions League qualification.\n\nThis is the moment many football team owners have been waiting for - particularly the American owners of Liverpool, Manchester United and Arsenal - who know for themselves how much more stable and therefore valuable are the earnings of American sports teams.\n\nThe backers of the Super League say that the existing Champions League was a poor product - too many meaningless one sided games between minnows and giants of European football before it got interesting.\n\nThey also argue that a more stable financial top to the football pyramid is needed to ensure the cascade or trickle down to the smaller clubs that they promise will increase as a result of this.\n\nBut many sports fans would argue the prospect of a romantic giant killing in Real Madrid's Bernabeau stadium or Old Trafford is an essential part of the game - while regular meetings between the great clubs normalise and make humdrum what was once an exotic and rare event.\n\nThe backers have told the BBC this is not another extreme form of negotiation to make Uefa cave to the big clubs' long-standing demands for more control of the world's most prestigious club event - \"this is really happening, it's on, even if Uefa backs down\".\n\nIf it does it will have far reaching implications for the existing leagues around Europe.\n\nFinishing in the top four of the Premier League is the biggest prize in English football. The six teams joining the Super League have realised that six doesn't go into four - two miss out every year.\n\nNot any more. An insider at the Super League admitted that the plan will seriously dilute the value of the Premier League as a product - the race which is one of its key attractions will be meaningless.\n\nWe have been down this road before and the former Premier League chief executive suggested that the pandemic had provided a window of opportunity for a very radical proposal that would not have a chance of succeeding in normal times.\n\n\"There is a cynical opportunism to this,\" he said. \"They realise that things are chaotic right now and that in many ways - anything goes.\"\n\nBut he added: \"Football is about two groups of people. Players and fans. You upset them at your peril.\n\n\"If fans decide to boycott the matches, that will be a financial disaster, and if Fifa threatens to ban participating players from representing their country in the World Cup - they won't go for it.\"\n\nIf you like jeopardy, the stakes don't get much higher than this.", "Walter Mondale was the first major US party presidential candidate to pick a female running mate\n\nFormer US Vice-President Walter Mondale has died in Minneapolis on Monday aged 93, his family has announced.\n\nMr Mondale was Jimmy Carter's running mate for his winning 1976 presidential bid and defeat four years later.\n\nMr Carter said he considered Mr Mondale the \"best vice-president in our country's history\".\n\nMr Mondale lost heavily to Ronald Reagan in the 1984 presidential election, securing only his home state of Minnesota and Washington DC.\n\nThat gave him 13 electoral votes compared with President Reagan's record-high tally of 525.\n\nMr Mondale is also remembered for choosing Geraldine Ferraro of New York as his running mate - the first woman on a major-party presidential ticket.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Carter said he was \"an invaluable partner and an able servant of the people of Minnesota, the United States and the world\".\n\n\"Rosalynn and I join all Americans in giving thanks for his exemplary life, and we extend our deepest condolences to his family,\" he added.\n\nJimmy Carter (2nd left) and Walter Mondale (3rd left) at New York's Madison Square Gardens in 1976\n\nMeanwhile, President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden said in a statement that they \"were able to call one of our nation's most dedicated patriots and public servants a dear friend and mentor\".\n\n\"Jill and I had the opportunity to speak to Fritz and his family over the weekend, to reflect on the years of friendship we shared, and how much we learned from and leaned on each other.\"\n\nMr Mondale's family earlier said in a statement: \"It is with profound sadness that we share news that our beloved dad passed away.\"\n\nThe family paid tribute to his achievements in housing, civil rights and environmental policy.\n\nThey said plans for memorials in both Minnesota and Washington DC would be announced later.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Eyewitnesses said the north Wales cliff fall was up to 40m (131ft) wide\n\nPeople living near the site of a major landslide in north Wales have been advised to temporarily relocate.\n\nMonday's cliff fall in Nefyn, Gwynedd, saw some seaside homes lose parts of their gardens to the beach below.\n\nGwynedd Council said a large area of the cliff face and adjoining private land had been lost in the \"significant\" landslide.\n\nIt said residents had been been spoken to and it was contacting the owners of nearby second homes.\n\nThe council said it was in contact with the Crown Estate, which is responsible for the section of beach up to the high-tide mark, and warning signs were being installed.\n\nNorth Wales Police previously said it was aware of people gathering on the beach to take photographs and advised the public to avoid the area.\n\nThe British Geological Survey (BGS) lists Nefyn as being in a \"subsidence hazard zone\".\n\nThe coastal area has a surface geology of weak, superficial drift deposits of clay, silt, sand and gravel.\n\nNeighbours say the house that lost a large part of its garden is a second home\n\nSpeaking on Monday, Christian Pilling, who works nearby, said he was on a walk in the area and \"had the shock of our lives\" when they saw what had happened.\n\nHe added: \"I don't think anyone was on the beach. We'd gone down there about half an hour after it happened. t's a good 40m wide, but it's hard to tell.\"\n\nJoan Coppin, who lives near the beach, said: \"It's taken land from the bottom of holiday homes on Rhodfar Mor - we have got local people to the right of those and they are in quite a precarious place, I would say.\n\n\"Us locals don't go there when the tide is coming in. The whole of the area - about two-and-a-half miles - has coastal erosion. We have had big landslides before.\"\n\nIn 2001, Shirley Race, 58, died and her husband Donald, 63, was seriously injured in Nefyn when a landslide engulfed their car, sweeping it over a cliff and into the sea.\n\nEmergency services and utility companies are securing the scene", "Family members of a person who died of Covid-19 react during a cremation\n\nIn early March, India's health minister Harsh Vardhan declared the country was \"in the endgame\" of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nMr Vardhan also lauded Prime Minister Narendra Modi's leadership as an \"example to the world in international co-operation\". From January onwards, India had begun shipping doses to foreign countries as part of its much-vaunted \"vaccine diplomacy\".\n\nMr Vardhan's unbridled optimism was based on a sharp drop in reported infections. Since a peak of more than 93,000 cases per day on average in mid-September, infections had steadily declined. By mid-February, India was counting an average of 11,000 cases a day. The seven-day rolling average of daily deaths from the disease had slid to below 100.\n\nThe euphoria at beating the virus had been building since late last year. Politicians, policy makers and parts of the media believed that India was truly out of the woods. In December, central bank officials announced that India was \"bending the Covid infection curve\". There was evidence, they said, in poetic terms, that the economy was \"breaking out amidst winter's lengthening shadows towards a place in sunlight\". Mr Modi was called a \"vaccine guru\".\n\nHospitals are overflowing with patients, often two to a bed\n\nAt the end of February, India's election authorities announced key elections in five states where 186 million people were eligible to vote for 824 seats. Beginning 27 March, the polls would stretch over a month, and in the case of the state of West Bengal, be held in eight phases. Campaigning had begun in full swing, with no safety protocols and social distancing. In mid-March, the cricket board allowed more than 130,000 fans, mostly unmasked, to watch two international cricket games between India and England at the Narendra Modi stadium in Gujarat.\n\nIn less than a month, things began to unravel. India was in the grips of a devastating second wave of the virus and cities were facing fresh lockdowns. By mid-April, the country was averaging more than 100,000 cases a day. On Sunday, India recorded more than 270,000 cases and over 1,600 deaths, both new single-day records. If the runway infection was not checked, India could be recording more than 2,300 deaths every day by first week of June, according to a report by The Lancet Covid-19 Commission.\n\nIndia is in now in the grips of a public health emergency. Social media feeds are full with videos of Covid funerals at crowded cemeteries, wailing relatives of the dead outside hospitals, long queues of ambulances carrying gasping patients, mortuaries overflowing with the dead, and patients, sometimes two to a bed, in corridors and lobbies of hospitals. There are frantic calls for help for beds, medicines, oxygen, essential drugs and tests. Drugs are being sold on the black market, and test results are taking days. \"They didn't tell me for three hours that my child is dead,\" a dazed mother says in one video, sitting outside an ICU. Wails of another person outside the intensive care punctuate the silences.\n\nIndia is facing a shortage of vaccines even as it ramps up its inoculation drive\n\nEven India's mammoth vaccination effort was now struggling. In the beginning, the rollout had been embroiled in a controversy over the efficacy over a home-grown candidate. Even as the country ramped up the drive and administered more than 100 million doses by last week, vaccine shortages were being reported. Serum Institute of India, the country's - and the world's - biggest vaccine maker said it would not be able to ramp up supplies before June because it didn't have enough money to expand capacity. India placed a temporary hold on all exports of the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine, because the doses were needed urgently at home, and allowed imports of foreign vaccines. Even oxygen was likely to be imported now to meet the surge in demand.\n\nMeanwhile, almost in a parallel universe, away from the death and despair, the world's richest cricket tournament was being played behind closed doors every evening, and tens of thousands of people were following their leaders to election rallies and attending the Hindu festival of Kumbh Mela. \"It is beyond surreal, what is happening,\" Shiv Visvanathan, a sociology professor, told me.\n\nExperts believe the government appears to have completely dropped the ball on the second wave of infections that was about to hit India.\n\nRelatives performing funerals of Covid victims in the city of Bhopal\n\nIn mid-February, Tabassum Barnagarwala, a journalist with the Indian Express newspaper, flagged a seven-fold rise in new cases in parts of Maharashtra and reported that samples from the infected had been sent for genome sequencing to look for imported variants.\n\nBy the end of the month, the BBC reported the surge and asked whether India was facing a new Covid wave. \"We really don't know what the cause of the surge is. What is worrying is that entire families are getting infected. This is a completely new trend,\" Dr Shyamsunder Nikam, civil surgeon of an affected district in Maharashtra, said at the time.\n\nExperts now say that crowing about India's exceptionalism in \"beating\" the epidemic - younger population, native immunity, a largely rural population - and declaring victory on the virus turned out to be cruelly premature. \"As is typical in India, official arrogance, hyper-nationalism, populism and an ample dose of bureaucratic incompetence have combined to create a crisis,\" said Mihir Sharma, a columnist for Bloomberg.\n\nIndia's second wave was fuelled by people letting their guard down, attending weddings and social gatherings, and by mixed messaging from the government, allowing political rallies and religious gatherings. With infections declining, fewer people were taking the jabs, slowing down the vaccination drive, which had aimed to inoculate 250 million people by the end of July. In mid-February, Bhramar Mukherjee, a biostatistician at the University of Michigan, tweeted that India needed to \"accelerate the vaccination drive while the case counts are low\". Nobody quite took notice.\n\nDevotees at the Kumbh Mela festival on 14 April, when India recorded more than 184,000 new infections\n\n\"There was a feeling of triumphalism,\" said K Srinath Reddy, the president of the Public Health Foundation of India. \"Some felt we had achieved herd immunity. Everyone wanted to get back to work. This narrative fell on many receptive ears, and the few voices of caution were not heeded to,\" he said.\n\nA second wave may have been inevitable, but India could have \"postponed or delayed it and lessened its impact,\" said Gautam Menon, a professor of physics and biology. Like many other countries, India should have begun careful genomic surveillance in January to detect variants, Mr Menon said. Some of these variants could be driving the surge. \"We learnt of new variants in February from reports from Maharashtra. This was initially denied by authorities,\" Mr Menon added. \"This was a significant turning point.\"\n\nWhat are the lessons of this public health crisis? For one, India should learn not to declare victory over the virus prematurely, and it should put a lid on triumphalism. People should also learn to adapt to short, local lockdowns in the event of the inevitable future spikes of infection. Most epidemiologists predict more waves, given that India is evidently still far away from reaching herd immunity and its vaccination rate remains slow.\n\n\"We cant freeze human life,\" Professor Reddy said. \"If we can't physically distance in the crowded cities, we can at least make sure everyone wears a proper mask. And wear it properly. That's not a big ask.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. India coronavirus: \"A Covid tsunami we had never seen before\"", "Jim Steinman sold more than 190m records and won four Grammy awards, his official website said\n\nJim Steinman, the colourful composer behind hits like Bat Out Of Hell and Total Eclipse Of The Heart, has died at the age of 73.\n\nHis brother Bill told the Associated Press that the songwriter and producer had died of kidney failure on Monday after being ill for some time.\n\n\"I miss him a great deal already,\" he added.\n\nSinger Meat Loaf, with whom Steinman scored his biggest hits, said goodbye with the words: \"Fly Jimmy Fly\".\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 Meat Loaf This article contains content provided by Facebook. 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Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nBonnie Tyler also paid tribute, saying she was \"absolutely devastated\" by news of her friend's death.\n\nOutside of music, \"he was also a funny, kind, supportive, and deeply caring human being,\" the Welsh singer wrote.\n\n\"The world is a better place for his life and his work and a worse one for his passing.\"\n\nKnown for his bombastic, operatic compositions, Steinman hit the big time in 1977 with the Meat Loaf album Bat Out Of Hell.\n\nStyled as a rock opera, it contained hits like You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth and Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad as well as the title track - and became one of the biggest albums of all time, with more than 50 million copies sold around the world.\n\nThe high-camp, over-the-top production was often imitated but never bettered - including by Steinman himself, although he came close on Bat Out Of Hell's 1993 sequel, which spawned the worldwide number one single, I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That).\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nHe later won the album of the year Grammy for his work on Celine Dion's Falling Into You; and worked on Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, Whistle Down The Wind, which opened in the West End in 1998.\n\nThe Bat Out Of Hell album trilogy received its own stage musical in 2017, with every song penned by Steinman.\n\nAnd while rock critics often looked down upon his extravagant and expansive style, the composer remained nonplussed.\n\n\"If you don't go over the top, how are you ever going to see what's on the other side?\" he once asked.\n\n\"There is no other songwriter ever like him,\" Meat Loaf said as Steinman was inducted to the Songwriters' Hall Of Fame in 2012.\n\n\"I can never repay him. He has been such an influence, in fact, the biggest influence on my life, and I learned so much from him that there would be no way I could ever repay Mr Jim Steinman.\"\n\nAmong the composer's other famous hits were Bonnie Tyler's Holding Out For A Hero, Barry Manilow's Read 'Em And Weep, Air Supply's Making Love Out Of Nothing at All and the Cher/Meat Loaf duet Dead Ringer For Love.\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 MeatLoafVEVO 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\nBorn and raised in New York, Steinman started his career in musical theatre, writing a score for a college production of Bertolt Brecht's A Man's a Man in 1968.\n\nHe followed that up with an original musical, The Dream Engine, which he later described as \"a three-hour rock epic with tons of nudity\".\n\nThe show, in which he also starred, caught the attention of a Broadway producer, who offered him a job at New York's Public Theater upon graduation.\n\nThere, he worked on several projects, including an adaptation of Wagner's Das Rheingold. But his first big success came when Yvonne Elliman recorded his song Happy Ending for her 1973 album Food of Love.\n\nThe same year, an actor called Marvin Lee Aday auditioned for Steinman's musical More Than You Deserve. The pair struck up a close friendship and, after Aday changed his name to Meat Loaf, they started work on the Bat Out Of Hell project.\n\nSteinman and Meat Loaf regularly fell out, but always ended up reconciling\n\nIt took several years to complete, and was rejected by four record labels. But when it was finally released in 1977, it became an immediate success in the UK and Australia. US fame followed a year later, after Meat Loaf performed on Saturday Night Live.\n\nDespite the record's success, Steinman maintained that his best song was Bonnie Tyler's Total Eclipse Of The Heart.\n\n\"That song never goes away. It's the biggest karaoke song in the world and it's been covered dozens of times,\" he told iHeartRadio in 2017. \"It's one of my children and I'm as proud of it as I am the others. I try not to play favourites but yeah, it's special.\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nHe had several fallings out with Meat Loaf over the years, which often ended up in the court room, but they reconciled just as frequently, last working together on the 2016 album Braver Than We Are.\n\n\"There will be much more to say in the coming hours and days as we prepare to honour this giant of a human being and his glorious legacy,\" it read.\n\n\"For now, do something that makes you feel young, happy and free. He'd want that for you!\"\n\nHis manager David Sonenberg said Steinman suffered a stroke four years ago and that his health had recently been declining.\n\n\"Having the opportunity to work with him was one of the greatest privileges of my career,\" she said. \"My thoughts and prayers go out to his family and friends.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Tributes to Jim Steinman, 'the Wagner of rock'", "Saskia Jones and Jack Merritt were killed during a conference on rehabilitating offenders\n\nA man working at Fishmongers' Hall stabbed an attacker with a large decorative spear after deciding \"he had to be hurt\", an inquest has heard.\n\nLukasz Koczocik described how he grabbed the ornament from a wall and went \"face to face\" with Usman Khan.\n\nKhan killed Jack Merritt and Saskia Jones and attacked others at a prisoner education event on 29 November 2019.\n\nAnother witness recalled how the 28-year-old had remained \"expressionless\" as he stabbed her.\n\nThe inquest jury at London's Guildhall was told how head porter Mr Koczocik sprang into action after a housekeeper ran downstairs, shouting \"someone's got stabbed\".\n\nLukasz Koczocik attacked Khan with a spear he had grabbed from the wall\n\nThe Polish national said he went upstairs and saw a man with two knives who was being confronted by three men \"holding objects\", including a chair and a sign.\n\nHe said Khan was \"defending himself from the objects that were hitting him\" and did not stop even when \"they hit this man on the head with the chair\".\n\nMr Koczocik said he then \"froze for a few seconds\" before he pulled the ornamental spear, known as a boarding pike, from the wall.\n\n\"The next thing I remember - me going back to the lobby area and being with this man face to face.\n\n\"I decided he had to be hurt, because I realised what was happening. I tried to stab him,\" he said.\n\nMr Koczocik told the jury he tried to stab the attacker in the face and stomach\n\nThe head porter described how he tried to stab Khan in the face but \"he was batting me away\", and when he jabbed at his stomach he said he heard a \"metal clink\".\n\nKhan then grabbed the pike with one hand and dragged himself \"closer to me\", Mr Koczocik said, cutting at his hand and shoulder.\n\n\"I dropped the pike because he cut the tendon in my hands,\" he said, adding that he was probably only still alive because other people carrying makeshift weapons crowded Khan.\n\nButler Jeffrey Stevelman, who witnessed the confrontation between Mr Koczocik and Khan, described the scene as \"absolute chaos\".\n\nHe told the inquest there had been a \"Mexican standoff\" and Khan had stood there and opened his jacket and started shouting: 'I've got a bomb, call the police, I've got a bomb.'\n\n\"You stand there and try to process it. It was just unreal,\" he said.\n\nStephanie Szczotko said it was only when she saw blood on her blouse she realised how badly injured she was\n\nStephanie Szczotko, who also gave evidence, told the jury how Khan had stabbed her during the attack.\n\nThe former student had been at the event in central London due to her work with prisoners as part of her criminology degree at Cambridge.\n\nShe said she first heard screams and shouts, and \"a cluster of people\" had fled past her before \"I saw a man run towards me\".\n\nMs Szczotko, who suffered wounds to her arms and torso, said Khan had a knife raised above his head and she raised her arm \"instinctively\" as he struck.\n\n\"For a moment I felt I was just paused in that moment,\" she said. \"I remember looking at him with shock and confusion.\"\n\nWhen asked about her witness statement, in which she described how her attacker \"didn't seem particularly bothered or psyched up\", she replied that he had been \"expressionless\".\n\nThe Guildhall also heard from Samy Sadek, an emergency doctor who described how he was met by several \"very distressed\" armed police officers after being called to the attack.\n\nDescribing what he saw upon entering the hall, the consultant said there were \"numerous police officers, there was a lot of noise by way of shouting - there was lots and lots of blood\".\n\nEmergency doctor Samy Sadek said everything was done to try to save Mr Merritt and Ms Jones\n\nDr Sadek said he saw Ms Jones, 23, being given CPR at the foot of a staircase, but felt the extent of her injuries meant \"there was no intervention we were able to provide to save her life\".\n\nHe described how as he examined other casualties, including 25-year-old Mr Merritt, he was told there was a bomb.\n\nThe consultant explained that he and his team \"were attempting to establish whether there was an ongoing threat\" but \"no-one was able to tell us if there was one or more assailant\".\n\nDr Sadek told the Guildhall he and his colleagues began massaging Mr Merritt's heart but \"we were not able to resuscitate Jack\".\n\nWhen asked whether every effort had been put in to help both victims, Dr Sadek replied: \"Absolutely everything was being done.\"\n\nUsman Khan sat at the same table as Saskia Jones before the knife attack\n\nSimon Bird, a maintenance electrician working at the hall that day, also gave evidence. He described how he heard Khan shouting for the front doors to be opened.\n\nHe said: \"I heard a voice from someone I now know to be Usman Khan: 'Open the effing door, open the effing door.'\n\nMr Bird, who said Khan had a large kitchen knife in his hand, said he then witnessed what he described as \"a river of blood\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A review of policing says officers sometimes struggled to enforce coronavirus restrictions because of a lack of clarity from ministers.\n\nThe analysis by a policing watchdog found chief constables heard about new restrictions from the government's television briefings.\n\nConfusion led to mistakes, putting confidence at risk, say inspectors.\n\nThe report says that despite major challenges, forces in England and Wales learned from mistakes.\n\nIt adds that it is essential the police do not become seen as \"coercive agents of ministers\".\n\nHer Majesty's Inspector of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services (HMICFRS), the body that reviews how well police do their work, said the rapid introduction and repeated changes to coronavirus laws left forces confused.\n\n\"Despite close working between the Home Office and national policing leaders, communication about restrictions and regulations was often at short notice and subject to change,\" says the inspectors' report.\n\n\"Many forces expressed frustration at the way that some government announcements were communicated... they had not been consulted in advance.\n\n\"This made it difficult to produce [internal] advice to forces on enforcing legislation.\"\n\nPolice chiefs in England told the inspectors they had little access to policymakers in the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), who were devising the new laws.\n\nSome were so concerned about what they were legally required to do, they took their own legal advice.\n\n\"Some forces expressed concern that they first heard of certain changes at the 5pm daily televised government briefings,\" says the report.\n\n\"In some cases, the changes required immediate implementation and many forces felt disadvantaged by a lack of notice and consultation.\n\n\"Their difficulty was made worse by a widespread confusion in relation to the status of government announcements and statements by ministers.\n\n\"Ministers asserting that their guidance - which had no higher status than requests - were in fact 'instructions to the British people' inevitably confused people.\"\n\nExamples include widespread confusion over whether repeat daily exercise had become a crime - it hadn't - and whether the two-metre social distancing \"rule\" was a legal requirement, when in fact it was only good practice.\n\n\"In these circumstances, mistakes were made... High-profile examples included road checks to identify unnecessary journeys, drone surveillance of people in open and almost deserted places, and police action in relation to non-essential shopping and what was thought to be excessive exercise.\"\n\n\"And as difficulties arose and some well-publicised mistakes were made, public confidence in, and support for, the police were inevitably put at risk.\"\n\nThe chairman of the National Police Chiefs' Council, Martin Hewitt, said the report recognised the past 12 months had been \"one of the biggest challenges to face modern policing, and that the service has stepped up and met that challenge head on\".\n\nHe added: \"We haven't always got things right straightaway, and we have sought throughout the pandemic to learn as we go and improve the service we provide.\"\n\nA Home Office spokesperson said: \"The police have worked tirelessly to keep us safe during the pandemic and as this report shows, took immediate and decisive action to help protect the NHS and save lives.\n\n\"Whilst the majority of us have been able to stay at home, our courageous officers have been out on the streets pursuing criminals, protecting the public and enforcing the coronavirus rules where necessary.\"\n\nA Home Office spokesman praised the police for tirelessly working during the pandemic and said there had been a constant dialogue with chiefs that had informed the devising of restrictions.", "Dave Bowler \"knew something was wrong\" when Natasha did not return from her morning run\n\nThe fiancé of a Team GB athlete who died after being hit by a car while out running says he has lost the \"love of his life\".\n\nBobsleigh team member Natasha Lewis, from Bath, was struck near Peasedown St John, Somerset, earlier this month.\n\nShe was training to compete in the Commonwealth Games and had been due to marry Dave Bowler later this year.\n\n\"She'd come back from running to wake me up in the morning and she never came back one morning,\" he said.\n\n\"I woke and I knew something was wrong. I just jumped in the car and went across there to try and find her and find out what was going on.\n\nNatasha Lewis was a personal trainer, massage therapist and co-owner of a gym\n\n\"I was stopped by the police and your heart sinks because you know what that means,\" added Mr Bowler.\n\nDave and Natasha also worked together and were co-owners of the personal training business Get Fit in Bath.\n\nTheir marriage was postponed until later this year due to Covid.\n\n\"She was the other side of my life. Everything that I was bad at she would be good at for me and anything she was bad at I'd be good at it for her,\" Mr Bowler said.\n\nMs Lewis trained and competed as a runner alongside her job. She had been involved in athletic competitions since she was a child and also represented Great Britain at bobsleigh.\n\nHer coach Tom Craggs said said it \"incredibly tragic\" news.\n\n\"I spoke to Tash most days so from a coach/athlete point of view it's been appalling,\" he said.\n\n\"To know that it's something that happened while she was out running is something that that I've really struggled to get my head around.\"\n\nNatasha's coach said he was struggling to come to terms with her death\n\nFriend Kim Barfoot-Brace described Ms Lewis as \"incredibly positive and driven\" with a smile that would \"literally light up a room\".\n\nAvon and Somerset Police are appealing for information about the crash, which happened at about 06:00 BST on 7 April on the A367 at Clandown.\n\nA 19-year-old man was arrested in connection with the crash and has been released under investigation.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n• None Tributes to athlete hit by car while running\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "As a boy, I watched Liverpool winning the league title and European Cup and dreamed of doing the same myself.\n\nWhen I became a Liverpool player, I wanted to win the things those teams had done, to show I was as good as they were.\n\nThat history, that tradition - all of those things that have grown since Liverpool Football Club formed in 1892 - would disappear if they joined this proposed breakaway European Super League and were banned from the Premier League.\n\nEverything that makes Liverpool the institution it is would be lost. If they leave domestic competition for this, what happens to the decades-long rivalry with Manchester United over who has won the most titles?\n\nDo the things that mattered when I put on that red shirt suddenly not matter any more? Where do they go?\n\n'From a players' point of view, I don't see the appeal'\n\nI am retired now, but it will be the same for current Liverpool players, and all those at the other English clubs involved - United, Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester City and Tottenham.\n\nThey have been dreaming of winning the titles and trophies they grew up with, that they are competing for right now, because they mean so much.\n\nThey won't wake up tomorrow and think 'well all I want to do is win a stagnated European Super League'.\n\nThe plans, which were officially announced on Sunday night, sound soulless.\n\nIt is beyond belief, actually, that they can think they can put this idea forward with the thought it will just be brought in smoothly and have everyone accept it.\n\nThat is just a complete lack of understanding about our game, our traditions, what we love about football and what is in our hearts when we watch it and play the game.\n\nWe've already seen strong opposition from leagues and federations who would be affected, and fans as well. Next, I think we will see a backlash from managers and players too.\n\nWhen I look at the proposals, and also the consequences if you are part of them, then from a players' point of view, I just don't see the appeal at all.\n\nPart of the joy of being a player is the rewards you get for your success on the pitch - you earn it, individually and collectively. This way, you don't get any of that. You would just get a closed shop every season, playing the same clubs every time.\n\nIt sounds sterile and boring. Players don't want that, they want to be tested. If there are no incentives, there will be no intensity. What is left for you to play for?\n\nYou're also being told you can no longer play for your country if you are part of this. Again, that's what you dream of doing as a kid, so I just don't see many footballers agreeing to that, which actually gives me hope that this whole idea will quickly fall apart.\n\n'The more I think about it, the more nonsensical it gets'\n\nWhen news of the breakaway plans came through on Sunday, my reaction was the same as I'd expect from most people who love football - disappointment and disgust at the greed that is behind the idea.\n\nThe intention here has nothing to do with the love of football or progressing the game, it is just about money.\n\nBy signing up for this, you are changing everything. If the big six go down this road and leave the Premier League, it dismantles the whole pyramid which makes English football brilliant, and has been the bedrock of our game for generations.\n\nThat's what has shocked me. Not the idea itself, because it has been talked about for years, but that there are actually people within the hierarchies at the big clubs who aren't intelligent enough to understand how damaging this could be.\n\nI'm open-minded enough to look at any ideas for football's future and consider the pros and cons of any changes, but I simply don't see any positives here.\n\nAs well as being guaranteed involvement every season, the clubs involved must think they will be able to sell the broadcast rights for these big games and get more money than they do now out of the Champions League and domestic competitions.\n\nBut I think they are naive, because I don't think there is an appetite to see the same fixtures every season, whoever is involved.\n\nSome of the clubs involved who have got owners from the United States might like that model, which works in sports over there. That doesn't matter, though, because it doesn't work for English football.\n\nFans don't want to see that, they want excitement. They want to see their team respond to disappointment, and fight to reach the next level, and get the rewards that follow that success.\n\nSo to make it a closed shop, with no ins and outs unless the member clubs decide it, goes against the whole nature of football. It's not beneficial, and it's not sustainable.\n\nIf these plans go through, they will have huge repercussions for football in this country and beyond, but my hope is that they are dealt with properly, and in unison, by everyone who does have the game's best interests at heart.\n\nI just hope this is not allowed to escalate, because the more I think about it, the more nonsensical it gets.", "Younger people continue to bear the brunt of the jobs crisis amid widespread cuts in sectors such as hospitality, official figures show.\n\nIn the year to March, 811,000 payroll jobs were lost in the UK, with under-35s accounting for 80% of these cuts.\n\nThe data also showed the unemployment rate dipped to 4.9% in the three months to February - down from 5% previously.\n\nThis was despite most of the UK being under strict lockdown rules for at least some of the period.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the jobs market \"remains subdued\", with five million people employed but still on furlough.\n\nHead of economics at the British Chambers of Commerce, Suren Thiru, said: \"Unemployment remains on course to peak towards the end of 2021, once the furlough scheme expires and those who stopped job hunting during the pandemic look to return to the workforce as restrictions ease.\n\n\"Although the furlough scheme will limit the peak in job losses, the longer-term structural unemployment caused by Covid-19, particularly among young people, may mean that the road back to pre-pandemic levels lags behind the wider economic recovery.\"\n\nOverall, some 1.67 million people were unemployed between December and February. That is down 50,000 on the previous quarter but still 311,000 higher than a year ago.\n\nBut the ONS said younger people were suffering disproportionately, as sectors such as retail and hospitality were hit hard by the crisis.\n\nPeople aged under 35 accounted for 635,000 payroll jobs lost in the year to March, with 436,000 of those positions held by people under 25.\n\nGerwyn Davies, senior policy adviser at the Chartered Institute of Professional Development, said the number of young people in employment had hit a \"post-pandemic low\".\n\n\"This reinforces the urgent case for apprenticeship incentives to be made more generous and targeted specifically at 18-24 year-olds. It also underlines the need to improve employers' awareness of traineeships and the Kickstart [work placement] Scheme.\"\n\nIt would be wrong to get carried away with the pleasant surprise of a dip in the official unemployment rate below 5%. The real pandemic picture is in the tax data for March. 813,000 fewer payrolls on the PAYE system versus a year ago, and four fifths of those jobs were lost to under 35s.\n\nBut the fact that the numbers in the first few months have been broadly stable is definitely a source of relief. Employers were able to navigate the second lockdown without widespread further job losses, thanks to the extension of support schemes such as furlough.\n\nThis provides a more solid basis than might have been expected for the phased reopening of the economy. There will be strains, especially as support is phased out in late summer. But these figures offer hope of a lower peak to unemployment, perhaps at around 6%, than had been expected.\n\nThe ONS said the overall jobs market had been \"broadly stable\" in recent months after the major shock of last spring, when where the economy contracted sharply.\n\nONS director of economic statistics Darren Morgan said the labour market \"remains subdued\" but that there were positive signs.\n\n\"With the prospect of businesses reopening, there was a marked rise in job vacancies in March, especially in sectors such as hospitality.\"\n\nThe Bank of England expects an economic rebound this year, as lockdown measures are eased and government support for jobs continues. But it says the recovery still depends on the \"evolution of the pandemic\".\n\nHannah Audino, an economist at PwC, said the stabilisation of the jobs market during the third national lockdown boded well for the UK economy.\n\n\"We expect a gradual recovery in the labour market in the coming months with the reopening of hospitality and retail, provided the government's roadmap to reopening the economy continues to go to plan.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nDiego Llorente scored a late equaliser for Leeds to deny Liverpool a place in the top four of the Premier League - as uncertainty reigns over what that would mean following the announcement of the European Super League.\n\nThe Reds are one of 12 clubs to agree to join a breakaway ESL to \"commence as soon as practicable\". Even if it does not start next season, Uefa has said it could ban the clubs - including six English sides - from European competition for their defection.\n\nThere was a strange mood around the first game involving any of the 12 teams since Sunday night's announcement, with protests inside and outside the ground.\n\nFans of Leeds and other clubs gathered outside Elland Road to stage a protest - during which a Liverpool shirt was burned - and a plane flew over the stadium displaying an anti-Super League message.\n\nInside the stadium Leeds players wore T-shirts saying 'Earn it' next to the Champions League logo and 'Football is for the fans'. A banner behind one goal had the same message.\n\nLeeds left the shirts in Liverpool's dressing room too, in case they wanted to protest - a move that annoyed Reds boss Jurgen Klopp, who said he does not like the idea of the ESL but that he and his players had no say in it.\n\nLiverpool dominated the first half and went ahead when Trent Alexander-Arnold latched on to Diogo Jota's fine pass and squared it to Sadio Mane to slot into an empty net after Illan Meslier had rushed out of goal.\n\nThat was his first Premier League goal since January, a run of 10 games.\n\nLeeds improved after the break and Patrick Bamford hit the crossbar before Llorente headed in his first goal for the club.\n\nLiverpool stay sixth after this result. Were they to occupy that position at the end of the season, they would not even finish in a European place, unless one of the domestic cup winners also finish in the top five.\n\nBut if the Super League does happen, the Reds would no longer need to worry about such things.\n\nLiverpool were the dominant force in the first half especially, with Thiago Alcantara forcing a save from distance and Roberto Firmino shooting straight at Meslier before the goal.\n\nLeeds battled back in the second half but Liverpool had two great chances to win it - shortly before the equaliser when substitute Mohamed Salah dragged a shot wide and then in the final minute when Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain was denied by Meslier.\n\nLiverpool's immediate future, though, is more likely to be decided off the pitch, rather than in a game at Elland Road against an English side not in the 'big six'.\n\nLeeds followed up last weekend's victory over champions-elect Manchester City with a dramatic draw against the title holders. Next up is old rivals Manchester United as they navigate a sequence of testing fixtures.\n\nThe hosts were not at their busy best in the first half - although Bamford was denied by Alisson after some poor goalkeeping - but they dramatically improved after the break.\n\nBamford clipped a clever first-time shot over Alisson that came off the crossbar, and Jack Harrison was denied by the goalkeeper at his near post.\n\nLeeds got the goal they deserved when Llorente nodded in Harrison's corner for a first goal in English football.\n\nUnited sit 10th in the Premier League, eight points behind the automatic European places. Although if six teams above them suddenly became ineligible, they would be in the Champions League spots.\n• None Leeds have won just one of their last 12 home games against Liverpool in all competitions (D4 L7).\n• None Liverpool have dropped 13 points from winning positions in the Premier League this season, two more than they had over the last two campaigns combined.\n• None Leeds have both scored and conceded 50 goals in the Premier League this season (32 games), with only Tottenham in 2007-08 doing so in fewer matches in a campaign in the competition (30).\n• None Liverpool's possession figure of 38.8% was their lowest in a Premier League game since November 2018 (38.2% vs Arsenal) - a game that also finished 1-1.\n• None Some 75% of Sadio Mane's Premier League goals this season have come away from home (6/8).\n• None Eight of Trent Alexander-Arnold's 31 Premier League assists for Liverpool have been for Mane, at least three more than he has provided for any other player.\n• None Diego Llorente's equaliser was his first goal in his 10th Premier League game for Leeds, and his first goal overall since July 2020 for Real Sociedad at Villarreal.\n• None With two attempts, Liverpool's Mohamed Salah became the second player to record 100 shots in the Premier League this season (101 in total), after Harry Kane (117).\n\nLiverpool host Newcastle in the early Saturday game (12:30 BST), while Leeds' tough run continues with a home game against Manchester United at 14:00 the following day.\n• None Ian Poveda-Ocampo (Leeds United) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt saved. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Roberto Firmino.\n• None Goal! Leeds United 1, Liverpool 1. Diego Llorente (Leeds United) header from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Jack Harrison with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Thiago with a through ball.\n• None Attempt missed. James Milner (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is too high following a corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Diogo Jota (Liverpool) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Ozan Kabak.\n• None Attempt blocked. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Big Narstie explores the impact of the Brixton Riots\n• None Find out on the Bad People podcast", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson said he hoped new treatments could be \"safely and rapidly available\" later this year\n\nA search for simple treatments for Covid that can be taken at home has been launched by Boris Johnson.\n\nThe PM said he hoped pills or capsules could be available by the autumn to help fight an anticipated third wave.\n\nThe aim would be to give them to people who have tested positive or exposed to someone who has.\n\nAn antiviral taskforce is being set up to oversee the work and future trials - as yet there are no treatments identified that could be used.\n\nFor the first time since September the latest figures show fewer than 2,000 Covid-19 patients in hospital.\n\nBut as he launched the new taskforce at a televised press briefing, Mr Johnson acknowledged soaring cases overseas and warnings from scientists that there will be another wave this year.\n\nHe said: \"As we look at what is happening in other countries, with cases now at record numbers around the world, we cannot delude ourselves that Covid has gone away.\n\n\"I see nothing in the data now that makes me think we are going to have to deviate in any way from the road map - cautious but irreversible - that we have set out.\n\n\"But the majority of scientific opinion in this country is still firmly of the view that there will be another wave of Covid at some stage this year.\n\n\"And so we must, as far as possible, learn to live with this disease as we live with other diseases.\"\n\nThe focus on antiviral treatment that can lessen the impact of an infection could be a vital tool when another wave of infections comes.\n\nWhile the rollout of Covid vaccines will lessen the wave, there will be people who remain unprotected either because the jab has not worked for them or they have not taken up the option.\n\nThrough the Recovery Trial run in hospitals, the UK has been at the forefront of developing treatments for people who are already severely ill.\n\nBut now the government wants to help efforts to find treatments that stop people who are infected from becoming seriously ill in the first place.\n\nThere are thought to be a number of treatments that are being looked at that work by stopping the virus replicating.\n\nIt is all part, the PM says, of learning to live with the virus.\n\nBut at the moment this is just an aspiration rather than a guarantee that it will actually happen.\n\nMr Johnson suggested that antivirals could be a third method of defence, along with vaccinations - including booster shots - and mass testing.\n\nThe antiviral taskforce will seek out new medicines to \"stop the virus in its tracks\", hopefully producing simple treatments that can be taken at home.\n\nIt is hoped that antivirals could help to reduce the severity of infections.\n\nMr Johnson said he hoped the move would help give \"ever greater confidence to the people of this country that we continue on our path towards freedom\".\n\nChief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said antiviral drugs \"could help protect those not protected by or ineligible for vaccines. They could also be another layer of defence in the face of new variants of concern.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The critical moments of the trial so far\n\nThe death of George Floyd, a 48-year-old black man, while he was being restrained by a white police officer, Derek Chauvin, during an arrest in Minneapolis in May 2020, shocked the world and sparked global protests about racism and police brutality.\n\nChauvin's three-week trial - on charges of murder and manslaughter - has now resulted in his conviction.\n\nHere are five key moments from the trial which heard from 45 witnesses and saw hours of video footage filmed by bystanders.\n\nSome of the most powerful testimony came in the first days of the trial when witnesses spoke of what they saw that day.\n\nDarnella, who was 17 at the time of Mr Floyd's death, filmed the video that went viral around the world. She told the jury there were nights when she stayed up \"apologising to George Floyd for not doing more and not physically interacting and not saving his life\".\n\n\"When I look at George Floyd, I look at my dad. I look at my brothers, I look at my cousins, my uncles. Because they are all black,\" she said.\n\nEmotional testimony also came from Charles McMillian, 61, who had been among the first on the scene and had tried to persuade Mr Floyd to get in the police car.\n\nHe broke down in tears watching graphic footage of the arrest in court, saying he had felt \"helpless\" as events unfolded and explained that he had confronted Chauvin after Mr Floyd was taken away in an ambulance because \"what I watched was wrong\".\n\nThe defence has argued that the presence of bystanders influenced Chauvin's actions that day. The court heard from one Minneapolis police officer, Peter Chang, that the crowd had been \"very aggressive to the officers\", while Nicole McKenzie, who trains the city's police on providing medical care, said the presence of bystanders at an arrest could make it harder for officers to see signs of distress in those they detained.\n\nAnother powerful moment came when Mr Floyd's girlfriend of three years, Courteney Ross, took the stand.\n\nShe described their first meeting, in the lobby of a Salvation Army homeless shelter, where Mr Floyd worked as a security guard, and how he had been devastated by his mother's death in 2018.\n\nMs Ross also told the court they both suffered from chronic pain, which led to an off-and-on struggle with opioid addiction.\n\n\"We got addicted and tried really hard to break that addiction many times,\" she testified.\n\nOne of the defence's arguments has been that Mr Floyd died largely because of complications from the opioids and methamphetamine he had in his system at the time of his arrest.\n\nAnother key issue at the heart of this trial has been whether Derek Chauvin violated policies on restraint when he kneeled on George Floyd's neck for nine and a half minutes.\n\nThe head of Minneapolis police, Chief Medaria Arradondo, was one of the prosecution's most high-profile witnesses and had fired Chauvin a day after the arrest.\n\nHe told the court that the police officer should have stopped applying \"that level of force\" the moment Mr Floyd stopped resisting. \"It's not part of our training and it's certainly not part of our ethics or values\" to continue with such force, he said.\n\nSome 45 people gave evidence during the trial including (from left to right) Dr Martin Tobin, Charles McMillian and Courteney Ross\n\nDefence witness Barry Brodd, a use-of-force expert, said Chauvin had been \"justified\" and acted \"with objective reasonableness\" because of the \"imminent threat\" Mr Floyd posed in resisting arrest.\n\nHowever, he did concede under cross-examination that the dangers of positional asphyxia - not being able to breathe in a certain position - were well-known among law enforcers.\n\nThe cause of Mr Floyd's death was arguably central to this trial, with the prosecution maintaining he died from asphyxia while the defence pointed to Mr Floyd's drug use and general poor health.\n\nDr Martin Tobin, an expert in pulmonary medicine, used video footage to explain what was happening to Mr Floyd's breathing during the nine and a half minutes he lay under Chauvin's knee.\n\nEven \"a healthy person, subjected to what Mr Floyd was subjected to, would have died,\" he said.\n\nA key witness for the defence, forensic pathologist David Fowler, said Mr Floyd's death should have been classified as \"undetermined\" rather than as a homicide, because there were \"so many conflicting different potential mechanisms\".\n\nComplicating factors included Mr Floyd's drug use and possible exposure to carbon monoxide poisoning from the police car's exhaust, said Dr Fowler, who was chief medical examiner for the state of Maryland until his retirement in 2019.\n\nHowever, under cross-examination he agreed that Mr Floyd should have been given immediate medical attention when he went into cardiac arrest, as there still was a chance to save his life.\n\nJust before the defence rested its case, the man on trial - Derek Chauvin - confirmed to the judge that he would not testify.\n\n\"I will invoke my Fifth Amendment privilege today,\" he said, referring to the constitutional right to remain silent in fear of self-incrimination.\n\nAsked by the judge whether this was his decision alone, and whether anyone else had unfairly influenced his decision, Chauvin responded: \"No promises or threats, your honour.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The three key arguments used by Chauvin's defence\n\nChauvin pleaded not guilty to charges of second-degree unintentional murder - for which he could be jailed for up to 40 years - third-degree murder, and manslaughter.\n\nThe jury took under a day to return a unanimous verdict convicting him of all charges.", "Allegra Stratton is to become spokeswoman for COP26\n\nDowning Street has scrapped plans to launch new White House-style press conferences after spending £2.6m on a venue to host them.\n\nThe PM's media chief Allegra Stratton - who had been due to front the briefings - has confirmed the move to the BBC.\n\nShe will instead become the spokeswoman for the COP26 climate summit.\n\nThe government was criticised for the price tag of its new facilities at 9 Downing Street, which will now be used by the prime minister and officials.\n\nResponding to the news, Labour's Deputy Leader Angela Rayner accused Boris Johnson of \"running scared of scrutiny\".\n\nShe added: \"Instead of wasting millions of pounds of taxpayers' money on a pointless vanity project, the prime minister should have used the money to give our NHS heroes a pay rise.\"\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden insisted the venue was \"not a waste of money\" adding that the room previously used for press conferences had been too small and was \"not fit for purpose\".\n\nHe said the \"modern press facility\" was similar to what other leaders around the world have and would be used by future governments, not just the current one.\n\nMr Johnson used the room to host a Covid press conference on Tuesday.\n\nThe plan to hold televised press conferences, similar to those seen in the United States, was announced by Mr Johnson in July last year.\n\nHe said the daily televised coronavirus briefings being held at the time showed the public wanted \"more direct, detailed information from the government\".\n\nI lived through a million daily televised briefings by the European Commission, when I worked at the BBC's Brussels bureau.\n\nI saw how much work officials did to prepare them and how much time was wasted by journalists trying to get spokespeople to deviate from the prepared script.\n\nI assumed something similar would happen when Westminster got its own version.\n\nThere have long been rumours that some in Number 10 thought the same way and it seems that they've won the internal argument.\n\nIt's also surely no coincidence that Downing Street has just appointed a new director of communications, who seems to have a more traditional view of how the government should interact with the media than some previous staffers in Number 10.\n\nThe total cost of the refit of the briefing room was revealed by a Freedom of Information request from the Press Association - £2,607,767.67, largely excluding VAT.\n\nCosts included £1,848,695 for the \"main works\", £198,024 on \"long lead items\", and £33,395 on broadband equipment.\n\nLabour attacked it as a \"vanity project\" which threatened to \"unbalance\" British politics, and the party's leader, Sir Keir Starmer, said the opposition should be given a right of reply.\n\nThe briefing room at 9 Downing Street cost £2.6m to refit\n\nThe briefings fronted by Ms Stratton had been due to start in October last year, but the government said they had been delayed because ministers were continuing to hold coronavirus briefings.\n\nMs Stratton has been given the job of the government's spokeswoman for COP26 - a UN climate change conference due to take place in November in Glasgow, chaired by former business secretary Alok Sharma.\n\nShe said: \"I am delighted to be starting this new role.\n\n\"The COP26 climate conference is a unique opportunity to deliver a cleaner, greener world and I'm looking forward to working with the prime minister and Alok Sharma to ensure it is a success.\"", "The Labour leader is told he has \"failed this country\" for not opposing government lockdown policies.\n\nSir Keir Starmer was confronted by pub landlord Rod Humphris who angrily ordered him off the premises.\n\nSir Keir said he “profoundly disagreed” with Mr Humphris, who then got in to an altercation with a security guard as he told Sir Keir: \"Get out of my pub\".\n\nSir Keir later said “nobody wants a lockdown, but it was necessary”.", "For Altou, a 19-year-old model, having a ‘slim thick’ body is the key to getting more likes and more work.\n\nShe’s one of thousands of women worldwide who have taken Apetamin, an appetite-stimulant promoted by social media influencers as a quick fix for the extreme hourglass figure popularised by celebrities like Kim Kardashian.\n\nIt’s widely available online. But a new BBC Three documentary, Dangerous Curves: Get Thicc, Get Sick?, reveals that many don’t realise Apetamin is actually an unlicensed medicine - and its misuse is causing serious harm.\n\nThe UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) told the BBC, ‘Apetamin is an unauthorised medicine which should not be sold, supplied or advertised without a licence. Taking unauthorised medicines can have serious health consequences’.\n\nThe MHRA is investigating the sale of this product following the BBC’s enquiries.\n\nDangerous Curves: Get Thicc, Get Sick? is on BBC iPlayer now\n\nHave you seen Apetamin advertised in or available in the UK? Are you affected by the issues raised in this story? Please share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:", "People gathered outside court in Minneapolis erupted in cheers upon hearing that Derek Chauvin had been found guilty of all charges over George Floyd's death.\n\nThe former police officer has been convicted on all three charges - second degree murder, third degree murder and manslaughter.\n\nChauvin was filmed with his knee on George Floyd's neck last May, sparking global protests against racism.\n\nRead more: US jury finds ex-officer guilty of Floyd murder", "A rare insect has been spotted in Scotland for the first time in more than 30 years.\n\nThe cow wheat shieldbug was found in woodland in Strathspey in the Cairngorms.\n\nThe discovery marked only the eighth time the bug has been recorded in Scotland.\n\nFour of the previous records have come from Strathspey, one from Perthshire in 1879, one from Argyll and Bute in 1890 and one from Loch Rannoch in 1989.\n\nThe insect has a black body featuring two distinctive white spots.\n\nIt is considered to be nationally scarce across the UK, and scientists said there had been \"worrying declines\" of the creature in the south-east of England in recent years.\n\nThe insect feeds on cow wheat, a plant common in Scotland. However, the cow wheat shieldbug survives where the plant grows in sheltered grassy or wooded areas with a warm micro-climate.\n\nGenevieve Tompkins, a field worker from the Rare Invertebrates in the Cairngorms partnership project, found the Strathspey bug.\n\nShe said: \"Insects are hugely under-recorded, but give us vital clues as to the health of our habitats.\n\n\"It is sad that this bug has suffered from a decline in traditional woodland management.\n\n\"However, there is hope, with diverse woodlands once more becoming a key feature of the Cairngorms National Park.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Football is meant to be on merit' - fans react to European Super League proposals\n\nThe government has said it will do \"whatever it takes\" to prevent a breakaway European Super League involving six leading English clubs.\n\nBoris Johnson said ministers would be working to make sure the league did not go ahead in the way being proposed.\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge also said he shared fans' concerns about \"the damage it risks causing to the game we love\".\n\nBut the president of Real Madrid told a Spanish TV show: \"We are doing this to save football at this critical moment.\"\n\nFlorentino Perez, president of Real Madrid, said the decision to create the new league was in part taken because \"young people are no longer interested\" in the game.\n\nSpeaking for the first time since the league was announced, Mr Perez said: \"Audiences are decreasing and rights are decreasing and something had to be done. We are all ruined. Television has to change so we can adapt.\"\n\nThe 12 founding members of the league, which includes Real Madrid plus three yet to join - would be permanent and never face relegation.\n\nSix English clubs - Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham - have signed up to the league\n\nThey would join Spanish sides Atletico Madrid, Real Madrid and Barcelona and Italian clubs AC Milan, Juventus and Inter Milan.\n\nThe competition would have 20 teams and another five sides would have to qualify each year for the competition.\n\nMatches would take place midweek and rival the existing Champions League.\n\nBut the president of European football's governing body Uefa, Aleksander Ceferin, warned players who play for teams in the ESL would be \"banned from the World Cup and the Euros\".\n\nAs opposition to the plans gathered momentum, Prince William, President of the Football Association, said in a tweet: \"Now, more than ever, we must protect the entire football community - from the top level to the grassroots - and the values of competition and fairness at its core.\"\n\nAnd broadcaster Sky Sports said: \"We have not been involved in any discussions with the proposed breakaway European Super League.\"\n\n\"We are completely focused on supporting our long term football partners in the UK and in Europe, already providing fans with the best live action from the best football competitions in the world,\" the company added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We will do whatever it takes to protect our national game\" – Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden\n\nIn a statement to MPs in the House of Commons, Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden criticised the so-called \"big six\" English clubs for going \"against the very spirit of the game\".\n\nHe added club owners \"should remember that they are only temporary custodians of these clubs and that they forget fans at their peril\".\n\nMr Dowden said he had spoken to Uefa and the Football Association, who both oppose the move by the 12 clubs, adding that, \"if they can't act, we will\".\n\n\"We will put everything on the table to prevent this from happening,\" he told MPs.\n\n\"We are examining every option from governance reform to competition law and mechanisms that allow football to take place.\n\n\"We will be reviewing everything Government does to support these clubs to play. We will do whatever it takes to protect our national game.\"\n\nA fan-led review, due to take place after the pandemic, has been brought forward because of the ESL announcement, Mr Dowden said.\n\nIt will be led by former sports minister Tracey Crouch and consider how fans can have an even greater say in the oversight of the game.\n\nThe review will also look at the finances of the men's and women's game, its governance and whether an independent football regulator should be set up.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEarlier, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the government was \"going to look at everything that we can do with the football authorities to make sure that this (plan) doesn't go ahead in the way that it's currently being proposed\".\n\nDowning Street said ministers were looking at a \"range of options\", including a German-style system of fan ownership of clubs and clawing back coronavirus support loans.\n\nBut Labour urged ministers to do more, with shadow culture secretary Jo Stevens saying it was \"time for the government to get off the subs bench and show some leadership on the pitch because we need reform of football\".\n\nShe added: \"It's not as if there's been a blockage here in Parliament preventing the government from taking action to sort the problems out.\"\n\nAbout 700 fans gathered outside the ground and then dispersed before kick-off\n\nFans and pundits have expressed revulsion at what they claim would be an unfair competition that would lock many teams out of top European football.\n\nMatch of the Day host and former England footballer Gary Lineker said it was \"a time of great concern\", adding that if the ESL went ahead as planned, it would have \"massive ramifications\" on the domestic game.\n\n\"It will wreck the pyramid system (of leagues, promotion and relegation) that has been so important to local football clubs, communities and teams, and it takes out the competition.\"\n\nAround 68% of football fans strongly oppose the creation of the ESL, while only 14% support it, according to a YouGov survey of 1,730 fans.\n\nSome 700 football supporters gathered outside Leeds United's Elland Road ground ahead of the club's Premier League game against Liverpool to protest against the proposed new league.\n\nA Liverpool shirt was burned and a plane flew over the stadium displaying an anti-Super League message.\n\nInside the stadium Leeds players wore T-shirts saying 'Earn it' next to the Champions League logo and 'Football is for the fans'. A banner behind one goal had the same message.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Manchester United fan Natalie Burrell said she was 'disgusted' by the plans\n\nLaunching their plan, the 12 founding members of the ESL said the pandemic had \"accelerated the instability in the existing European football economic model\".\n\nThey said there was a \"need to provide higher-quality matches and additional financial resources for the overall football pyramid\".\n\nBBC's Sports Editor Dan Roan said leading figures were insisting the Super League would generate much more money, not just for the clubs involved, but for the rest of the \"football family\".\n\nHe added they seemed \"very confident\" they were on a strong legal footing when it came to blocking any punishments threatened by bodies such as Uefa.\n\nEarlier, Manchester United's shares rose within minutes of the opening bell on the New York Stock Exchange, where they are traded.\n\nFifteen minutes after the trading day began, they were up around 8.5%.\n\nMeanwhile, Juventus's share price jumped by more than 14% on Monday morning.\n\nBut Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has said he remained opposed to the idea of the league - despite his club agreeing to join it.\n\n\"I like the competitive aspect of football. I like that West Ham might play in the Champions League,\" he said, adding that he and his players did not know about the move before it happened.", "A Scottish restaurant owner has described new draft hospitality Covid guidance as a \"bombshell\".\n\nThe sector had expected that 1m (3ft) social distancing would apply between tables when it reopens next Monday.\n\nBut the new proposals state people from different households will now have to observe social distancing at tables.\n\nThe government said it had worked with industry and unions to ensure its guidance was \"evidence-based, fair and ethical, clear and realistic\".\n\nWhen Scotland moves to level three next Monday the hospitality sector will be able to sell alcohol outdoors to a maximum group of six people from six households.\n\nThe sale of alcohol indoors will not be permitted, however, a maximum of six people from two households will be able to meet indoors and premises will close at 20:00.\n\nCarina Contini, co-owner of Cantini restaurants in Edinburgh, said she was feeling \"really optimistic\" until the new guidance was published at 18:00 on Friday.\n\nShe told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"They have thrown us an absolute bombshell, an absolutely impossibility in terms of reopening.\n\n\"The bookings that we have already got we will have to phone up and say 'I'm sorry we can't honour your booking because we can't host this level of capacity'.\"\n\nMs Contini said she would also have to let down suppliers and her staff.\n\nShe added: \"It is absolutely going to be crippling for the sector.\"\n\nShe said the rules were completely impractical.\n\n\"If I was catering for six people at a table, I would have to have a table that is 3.5m (11ft) long,\" she said.\n\n\"There is not a restaurant supplier in the country that makes tables that are 3.5m long.\n\n\"Elderly couples who may be hard of hearing are going to have to FaceTime themselves over lunch because the distance is so far away.\"\n\nMs Contini also criticised the short notice, ahead of the sector's planned reopening next Monday, and urged the Scottish government to reconsider.\n\nShe added: \"These regulations are now more harmful, more dangerous to our business than Covid itself.\"\n\nThe hospitality industry has been hit hard by the pandemic\n\nLinda Bauld, professor of public health at the University of Edinburgh, emphasised that the guidance was draft.\n\nShe told Good Morning Scotland: \"It is extremely important that the sector have the opportunity to comment, to express their concerns and to see what is feasible for them.\n\n\"I imagine the reason the 1m requirement between different household members is in place is to provide additional protection but the government has to balance up additional harms at the moment.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the Night Time Industries Association (NTIA) has warned of an \"impending unemployment tsunami\" and said a majority of businesses had run out of money to pay furlough contributions and fixed costs.\n\nIt also highlighted a recent survey of its members which found the average Covid-related debt was £150,000 or more per premises.\n\nNTIA spokesman Gavin Stevenson said: \"Many of our members have been closed for over a year now, and virtually all have suffered crippling financial losses.\n\n\"In short, the money going out every month has been far greater than the money coming in, and government support has typically covered less than a quarter of this deficit.\"\n\n\"To add insult to injury government support has now ended while there is no end date to forced closure and other restrictions.\"\n\nHe called on the Scottish government to provide \"substantial and immediate\" additional support for as long as businesses remain closed and operate under \"unviable\" restrictions.\n\nAlternatively, he said his members needed a \"clear route map\" with target dates for the end of all legal restrictions on capacity, activity and opening hours.\n\nApril 12 2021: Pubgoers gathered at outdoor bars in Old Compton Street in London's Soho\n\nThe Scottish government said the draft guidance \"may be amended subject to comments received to take into account engagement with stakeholders.\"\n\nA spokesman added: \"The requirement to physical distance has been established for some time and businesses are already following existing sectoral advice on this. The draft guidance builds on that but does not introduce significant change.\"\n\nHe added that it would help businesses due to open next week do so \"as safely as possible\" and provided guidance on how business owners could calculate maximum capacity on their premises.\n\nLast week hospitality and tourism leaders in Scotland criticised the Covid restrictions which prevent the sector from reopening.\n\nAnd they warned that waiting two weeks before reopening would come at a cost to Scotland's economy of £20m.\n\nThey were speaking as England's lockdown rules eased further, with pub gardens and restaurants among the places able to reopen.\n\nSouth of the border people can now visit bars and restaurants outdoors but must either follow the rule of six, or be in a group of any size with no more than two households present. Tables must be socially distanced.\n\nThe First Minister is set to confirm what she's been signalling for some time - hospitality will re-open in Scotland next Monday, April 26.\n\nThere will be restrictions on the industry, and one measure that many owners find frustrating is one metre social distancing.\n\nThis is the same rule that was in place last year. It means there should be one metre between any customers who are not part of the same household, even if they are at the same table.\n\nIt's not hard to work out why this isn't popular with some industry figures - social distancing (even at one metre) means fewer customers can fit in.\n\nBut the virus is still circulating, and measures like this are designed to lower transmission risk.\n\nOther changes scheduled for April 26 should go ahead as planned. Gyms and shops will re-open, and travel between Scotland, England and Wales should be possible. But it's unlikely further changes will be accelerated.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nAll six Premier League teams involved in the European Super League (ESL) have now withdrawn from the competition.\n\nManchester City were the first club to pull out after Chelsea had signalled their intent to do so by preparing documentation to withdraw.\n\nThe other four sides - Arsenal, Liverpool, Manchester United and Tottenham - have all now followed suit.\n\nItalian side Inter Milan are also set to withdraw as they no longer wish to be involved with the project.\n\nBBC Sport understands bosses at the Serie A club are preparing for their exit following Tuesday night's dramatic developments.\n\nThe 12-team Super League, set up by the seven afore-mentioned teams and Spain's Atletico Madrid, Barcelona and Real Madrid and Italy's AC Milan and Juventus was announced on Sunday to widespread condemnation.\n\n\"Despite the announced departure of the English clubs, forced to take such decisions due to the pressure put on them, we are convinced our proposal is fully aligned with European law and regulations,\" the ESL said on Wednesday, adding it was \"convinced that the current status quo of European football needs to change\".\n\nIn an interview with Italian newspaper la Repubblica, Juventus chairman Andrea Agnelli said the remaining clubs will \"press ahead\" and the project still had \"a 100% chance of being a success\".,\n\n\"Real Madrid president Florentino Perez is insisting on the idea of keeping the group together to push for change,\" says Spanish football expert Guillem Balague.\n\n\"Barcelona say they agreed to the ESL, but only if the Season Ticket Holders Assembly approve it, which could be their way out.\"\n\nBalague also says Atletico Madrid are meeting on Wednesday morning to review their position.\n• None 'Owners of big six must beg for forgiveness'\n\nManchester City confirmed they have \"formally enacted the procedures to withdraw\" from the Super League.\n\nLiverpool said their involvement in the proposed breakaway league \"has been discontinued\".\n\nManchester United said they had \"listened carefully to the reaction from our fans, the UK government and other key stakeholders\" in making their decision to not take part.\n\nArsenal apologised in an open letter to their fans and said they had \"made a mistake\", adding they were withdrawing after listening to them and the \"wider football community\".\n\nTottenham chairman Daniel Levy said the club regretted the \"anxiety and upset\" caused by the proposal.\n\nChelsea confirmed they have \"begun the formal procedures for withdrawal from the group\" that they only joined \"late last week\".\n\nUefa president Aleksander Ceferin welcomed the reversal, adding: \"I said yesterday that it is admirable to admit a mistake and these clubs made a big mistake.\n\n\"But they are back in the fold now and I know they have a lot to offer not just to our competitions but to the whole of the European game.\n\n\"The important thing now is that we move on, rebuild the unity that the game enjoyed before this and move forward together.\"\n\nUK Prime Minister Boris Johnson posted on Twitter: \"I welcome last night's announcement. This is the right result for football fans, clubs, and communities across the country. We must continue to protect our cherished national game.\"\n\nLabour leader Keir Starmer added that this \"must be a watershed moment, where we change our game to put fans first again\", while Liberal Democrats leader Ed Davey tweeted: \"This must be the start of a fans-led football revolution.\"\n\nIn a statement, the European Super League said: \"Given the current circumstances we shall reconsider the most appropriate steps to reshape the project, always having in mind our goals of offering fans the best experience possible while enhancing solidarity payments for the entire football community.\"\n\nEnglish football's 'big six' were part of a group that announced plans to form the breakaway league, which they hoped to establish as a new midweek competition.\n\nIt was condemned by fans, football authorities and government ministers in the UK and across Europe by Uefa and league associations.\n\nAround 1,000 fans gathered outside Chelsea's Stamford Bridge ground before their game against Brighton on Tuesday to protest at their club's involvement.\n\nManchester United executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward, who was involved in the Super League discussions, has announced he will step down from his role at the end of 2021.\n\nLeading players at some of the six clubs signalled their disapproval of the planned breakaway league.\n\nLiverpool captain Jordan Henderson said on social media his side's \"collective position\" is they do not want the Super League to take place.\n\n\"We don't like it and we don't want it to happen,\" read a message that was also posted by many fellow Liverpool players.\n\nAfter City confirmed their withdrawal, England winger Raheem Sterling posted: \"Ok bye.\"\n\nUefa had hoped to stave off the threat of a European Super League with a new 36-team Champions League, which was agreed on Monday.\n\nIn announcing their proposals for a Super League that would eventually comprise of 20 teams, the 12-club group said the Champions League reforms did not go far enough.\n\nReal Madrid president Florentino Perez, who was named as the ESL's chairman, said the competition was set up \"to save football\" because young people are \"no longer interested\" in the game because of \"a lot of poor quality games\".\n\nNone of the Spanish and Italian sides have yet released a statement after the six Premier League teams pulled out.\n\nWhat did each club say?\n\nThe Arsenal board said they did not intend to \"cause such distress\" and that they joined the Super League because they \"did not want to be left behind\" and wanted to ensure the club's future.\n\n\"Our aim is always to make the right decisions for this great football club, to protect it for the future and to take us forward,\" they added.\n\n\"We didn't make the right decision here, which we fully accept.\"\n\nManchester United said that they \"remain committed to working with others across the football community to come up with sustainable solutions to the long-term challenges facing the game\".\n\nLiverpool said the club had \"received representations from various key stakeholders, both internally and externally\" before reaching their decision and thanked them for their \"valuable contributions\".\n\nLevy said that Tottenham felt it was \"important\" to take part in \"a possible new structure that sought to better ensure financial fair play and financial sustainability whilst delivering significantly increased support for the wider football pyramid\".\n\nHe added: \"We should like to thank all those supporters who presented their considered opinions.\"\n\nChelsea said that after having had \"time to consider the matter fully\" they had decided that their \"continued participation in these plans would not be in the best interests of the club, our supporters or the wider football community\".\n\nManchester City said they have \"formally enacted the procedures to withdraw from the group developing plans for a European Super League\".\n• None Meet the man who stole millions from work to sustain his gambling habit\n• None 'Food is more than calories': Different strategies to help you achieve a healthy weight", "Scientists hope to find more treatments to be used against Covid, following on from the discovery Dexamethasone helped patients Image caption: Scientists hope to find more treatments to be used against Covid, following on from the discovery Dexamethasone helped patients\n\nThe decision to set up an antiviral taskforce reflects the desire to make progress in finding treatments people can take at home if they have tested positive or been exposed to someone who has.\n\nThrough the Recovery trial run in hospitals, the UK has been at the forefront of developing treatments for people who are already severely ill.\n\nBut this focus is aimed at identifying medicines that could help prevent people getting ill.\n\nThere are thought to be a number of treatments that are being looked at that work by stopping the virus replicating and making someone very ill.\n\nAs Prime Minister Boris Johnson acknowledged, there will be a future wave of infection even though the scale of it will be limited by the rollout of the vaccines.\n\nWhen it comes, the hope is the antivirals will offer another tool with which to fight it.\n\nIt is all part, the PM says, of learning to live with the virus.\n\nBut at the moment this is just an aspiration rather than a guarantee of something.", "A rail worker sprang into action when a six-year-old boy fell on to the tracks in India.\n\nThe child was with his partially sighted mother and was struggling to get back onto the platform before Mayur Shelke ran up and saved him.", "A US police officer who died after January's Capitol riot had two strokes and died from natural causes, the chief medical examiner for Washington DC has ruled.\n\nTwo men are accused of using a type of pepper spray on Officer Brian Sicknick.\n\nHowever, the ruling means they are now unlikely to be charged with homicide.\n\nThe autopsy found no evidence of an allergic reaction to chemicals, nor of internal or external injuries, Dr Francisco Diaz said.\n\nOfficer Sicknick, 42, was defending the Capitol building from supporters of then President Donald Trump who stormed it on 6 January. He collapsed after returning to his office during the siege, and died the next day in hospital.\n\nIn his ruling, Dr Diaz found Officer Sicknick died of a medical condition which was not brought on by an injury.\n\nDue to privacy laws, Dr Diaz is unable to say whether the officer had any pre-existing medical conditions. However, he did acknowledge the policeman's role in the events, telling the Washington Post: \"All that transpired played a role in his condition.\"\n\nSpeculation over Officer Sicknick's death was the source of widespread misinformation after the New York Times reported erroneously that protesters had bludgeoned him with a fire extinguisher - a claim the newspaper later retracted.\n\nFour other people died in the Capitol riot - all pro-Trump protesters: unarmed Ashli Babbitt was shot at point blank range by a Capitol Police officer; two others died of heart failure and one from an amphetamine overdose.\n\nOfficer Sicknick lay in honour in the Capitol Rotunda in January - a rare distinction reserved for those who are not government or military officials\n\nJulian Elie Khater, 32, and George Pierre Tanios, 39, were arrested in March accused of assaulting Officer Sicknick with a chemical spray. The pair, who reportedly grew up together in New Jersey, were \"working in concert and had a plan to use the toxic spray against law enforcement\", according to court documents.\n\nThe documents allege that Mr Khater was recorded on video asking Mr Tanios for the spray - known as bear spray - near the Lower West Terrace of the Capitol, where Officer Sicknick and other police were standing guard.\n\nMinutes later, Mr Khater is seen on video discharging a canister of the spray into the faces of three officers, who were were temporarily blinded and incapacitated for more than 20 minutes, according to investigators.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. When a mob stormed the US capitol\n\nThe men have been charged with nine counts and face up to 20 years in prison. Their lawyers had no comment on the chief medical examiner's ruling, AP reports.\n\nMore than 540 suspects have been identified, and investigators have charged some 400 people in connection with the Capitol siege so far, which led to Mr Trump's second impeachment.\n\nExactly 100 days after the riot, prosecutors got their first guilty plea, as Jon Schaffer, 53, a member of the Oath Keepers militia group and a heavy metal guitarist admitted to two charges - obstructing an official proceeding and entering a restricted building with a dangerous weapon.", "Jurgen Klopp is determined to remain Liverpool boss and \"help sort it\" after reiterating his opposition to the European Super League.\n\nThe Reds are one of 12 clubs to agree to join the breakaway competition.\n\nIn 2019 Klopp said he hoped there would never be a Super League and before the 1-1 Premier League draw with Leeds he confirmed his opinion had not changed.\n\n\"I heard I will resign. If times get tough it makes me even more sticky that I will stay,\" he said after the game.\n\nReds vice-captain James Milner was even more critical of the new tournament - which has threatened to cause a schism in football.\n\n\"I don't like it one bit and hopefully it doesn't happen,\" he told BBC Sport.\n\n\"It [the current system] has worked well for a long time. What has made it special, what we have done over the last few years, is we have earned the right to win the Champions League and the Premier League. The product we have currently is very good.\n\n\"It is difficult. Coming into the game today Leeds fans were making their feelings shown. As players we don't really have a say so it feels a bit unjust.\"\n\nFormer England captain Alan Shearer said it was unfair for Klopp to have to address the ESL and end up in an awkward situation.\n\n\"He doesn't want what his owners want and that is a really powerful voice,\" Shearer told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"Where are these owners? Why don't they come out and tell us why they want a closed shop that no-one else can get into?\"\n\nLeeds players wore T-shirts saying 'Earn it' next to the Champions League logo and 'Football is for the fans' and left the shirts in Liverpool's dressing room in case they wanted to join the protest. That angered Klopp.\n\n\"We were not involved in the process,\" he said after the game. \"We are the team, we wear the shirts with pride. Somebody has made a decision with the owners in world football that we don't know exactly why.\n\n\"We are here, we are the face of the club and arrived here and Leeds fans shouted at us as though we made the decision but we didn't.\n\n\"Gary Neville was talking about 'You'll Never Walk Alone'. This already should be forbidden. It's our anthem. We have the right to sing our anthem. He doesn't understand it anyway so I don't want this because it's not fair.\n\n\"I don't like this [Super League] either, but I don't talk about the other clubs...\n\n\"I wish Gary Neville would be in a hot seat somewhere and not where the most money is.\n\n\"He was at Manchester United where the most money was and now he's at Sky where the most money is. Don't forget that we have nothing to do with this. We are in the same situation like you all. We got the information yesterday and we still have to play football.\n\n\"'Damn them to hell?' Did he write that today? These things are really not OK.\"\n• None European Super League Q&A - What happens next?\n• None 'Bonfire of greed' - How Europe has reacted\n• None Ministers will do 'whatever it takes' to block breakaway\n\nNeville responded by arguing that he and Klopp were actually in agreement, but defended his own comments.\n\n\"I've handed out enough insults over the years to Liverpool, but yesterday was nothing to do with insulting Liverpool,\" he said. \"I don't know why I'm living in his head. I don't know what's spiked him.\n\n\"Yesterday was an impassioned plea from me about protecting football in this country.\n\n\"My biggest disappointment was with Manchester United and Liverpool. I think I've equally distributed enough criticism to both clubs in the last 24 hours so I don't know what the problem is.\"\n\nFans of several clubs protested outside Elland Road - including burning a Liverpool shirt - while Reds fans displayed banners opposing the move at Anfield.\n\nA plane flew over Leeds' ground saying 'No to Super League'.\n\nUefa president Aleksander Ceferin has said clubs and players involved with the ESL could be banned \"as soon as possible\" from all Uefa competitions - and the World Cup.\n\nKlopp told BBC Radio 5 Live: \"If you thought, what could make the year worse? All that happened, the pandemic, all the injuries, other stuff and then that came up. Another challenge... but we'll get through somehow.\"\n\nPrince William, the Football Association president, was among those to voice their opposition to the plan.\n\nLeeds boss Marcelo Bielsa was also critical of the Super League proposal.\n\n\"It shouldn't surprise us,\" he told the BBC. \"In all walks of life the powerful look after their own and don't worry about the rest of us.\n\n\"The big teams are also created due to the opposition of the other teams. In the search for higher economic earnings they forget about the rest. The powerful are more rich and the weak are poorer. It doesn't do good to football in general.\"\n\nBielsa's striker Patrick Bamford also said \"it is wrong\".\n\n\"Playing in a league you can't get relegated or promoted... it is not football,\" he said.\n\nFulham chairman Shahid Khan said via the club website: \"The concept will not serve the game or our most important stakeholders - the generations of football fans here in England and throughout Europe who have been as loyal to their domestic leagues, and the opportunities they offer, as they are faithful to their favourite team.\"\n\nPFA chief executive Gordon Taylor said the Super League idea had been mooted for some time but was \"the last thing the game needs\".\n\n\"It is a little bit of a ticking time bomb that we have,\" Taylor told BBC Sport. \"You have renegade members who run riot. That causes a massive problem for the vast majority of clubs or you look to try and control it.\n\n\"It is a real test for Uefa, Fifa and our Football Association and also it is something you need to be able to win over, because we are an entertainment industry, the players are important as are the fans and you can't just have a cavalier attitude and ignore it, or it will come back and bite you.\"\n• None A dozen clubs - including Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham - agree to form a new midweek competition\n• None in all and run alongside domestic leagues such as the Premier League\n• None Founding clubs are being enticed with a share of a €3.5bn (£3bn) grant provided by the investment bank JP Morgan\n• None UK government says it is prepared \"to put everything on the table to prevent this from happening\"\n• None France's president, Uefa, the Premier League, Europe's major leagues, players' unions and former players all strongly criticise the move\n• None Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp says he does not agree with the move and that the club's players were not consulted\n• None A YouGov poll of 1,730 football fans found 79% opposed the idea of a Super League\n• None The 14 Premier League clubs not involved in the ESL move will meet on Tuesday\n• None Fans air frustrations on social media and some visit grounds to unfurl banners in protest\n\nFormer Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher said on Sky Sports he felt the ESL move may collapse if one Premier League club can be convinced to withdraw, while ex-Manchester United defender Neville said he wants football to unite in the fight against the concept.\n\n\"If they get this through, it will change football in this country forever. We have to mobilise, organise. Everyone has to be behind this. Forget allegiances, this is an attack on everything that has been important in this country and they are trying to take it away from us.\"\n\nCarragher said: \"The owners, these are the people to blame for it. They are burning the history of what these clubs are about. The only reason Liverpool have a chance of being in this is because of all the European titles in their history. They have only won once with FSG.\n\n\"I think these clubs think it is a done deal. I don't think it is, I think supporters can stop this. We have tribalism and rivalry but football fans get together, all of us, to stop this and it can be stopped - I am convinced. This can not be allowed to happen.\"\n\nSky say they were not involved in the discussions.\n\nFormer Manchester City defender Micah Richards told BBC Radio 5 Live that despite holding a position as an ambassador at the club \"the first word that came to me was disgrace\".\n\n\"From where Manchester City have come from, from Division Two [what is now League One] all the way to the Premier League and they earned that the right way through hard work, great support and not doing things the easy way and went all the way to winning the Premier League.\n\n\"Now, having the audacity to believe they should be better than everyone else - I was flabbergasted.\"\n\nEx-Arsenal striker Ian Wright said he could not believe his former club was one of those involved in the ESL move. \"This is the same Arsenal that only a couple of weeks ago was commended for the tribute to David Rocastle,\" Wright said in a video on Twitter.\n\n\"God, the man would be turning in his grave knowing what is going on now. Is this how far we have fallen?\n\n\"That we are getting into competitions because we are not good enough to get into them, so at the detriment of the English game we are getting a seat at the table we have no right to be at.\"\n\nFormer Blackburn and Chelsea striker Chris Sutton added on 5 Live: \"It's deeply unfair for the players at Liverpool and on Jurgen Klopp as a manager and all the other clubs.\n\n\"The owners have made their beds and have to come out and explain and front up to the fans and they have not done that - it's shocking. This is going to turn very ugly.\n\n\"These clubs have an obligation to their country. I love the league format, if clubs leave the English league it will kill the game as a spectacle.\n\n\"The Champions League will be watered down. It's going to be a Champions League B competition. What will happen to the Merseyside derby? Liverpool have just crushed Everton. They're killing the game.\"\n\nFormer England captain David Beckham posted on Instagram that football was \"nothing without the fans\" and that the game should be \"for everyone\" and competitions \"based on merit\".\n• None Big Narstie explores the impact of the Brixton Riots\n• None Find out on the Bad People podcast", "Forensic investigation officers were at the scene on Tuesday afternoon\n\nA bomb left near a police officer's car outside her home in County Londonderry was an attempt to kill her and her young daughter, police have said.\n\nThe explosive was attached to a container of flammable liquid next to her car in Dungiven on Monday.\n\n\"This was designed to cause a fireball which would have engulfed the victim's car and anyone in it or close by,\" said Assistant Chief Constable Mark McEwan.\n\nPolice believe the dissident republican group the New IRA was responsible.\n\n\"What is really distressing here is the terrorists placed the bomb at the rear of the car directly at the point where the victim's three-year-old daughter sits,\" said ACC McEwan of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI).\n\n\"This demonstrates the complete and utter disregard for the life of a mother and her toddler - this simply beggars belief.\"\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster and Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill have described the attempted attack as \"reprehensible\".\n\n\"I do give thanks that she has survived this dreadful murder attempt,\" said Mrs Foster, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader.\n\nPolice said the device was found at the officer's home on Monday morning\n\n\"When I spoke to this lady earlier I gave her my prayerful support and indeed solidarity at this difficult time.\"\n\n\"To the republicans who sought to murder this young mother, your campaign is futile, you will never succeed.\"\n\nACC McEwan said dissident republicans were \"still intent on recklessly targeting honest hardworking members of our community\".\n\n\"They have no concern at all for those that are killed or harmed in the process,\" he said.\n\n\"It's time for people to examine their own conscience and ask themselves whether they support groups who are attempting to kill a three-year-old child and her mother.\n\n\"We will be unrelenting in our efforts to bring these people to justice.\"\n\nThe attack is believed to be the work of the New IRA, says ACC Mark McEwan\n\nPolice Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) Chief Constable Simon Byrne said it was an \"outrageous attack\" on the officer and her family.\n\nPart of Ballyquin Road, which had been closed while police examined the scene, reopened on Tuesday evening.\n\nThis sounds like some kind of supercharged incendiary bomb.\n\nIt maybe has echoes of more of the improvised devices of the Troubles than what we have come to associate with New IRA attacks of recent years.\n\nIn this instance, the police have not disclosed how this bomb was to have been triggered. That is not unusual. They can often hold certain information back and it remains unclear how this bomb was to have been set off.\n\nBut for the PSNI this is a secondary fact. They say it was designed create a huge fireball smothering those in its vicinity in flames.\n\nLast summer we saw the alleged leadership of the New IRA arrested following an MI5 bugging operation. Ten people were remanded in custody, accused of 50 serious offences under the Terrorism Act.\n\nHowever, the group has been re-organising and despite that setback has remained dangerous. The threat level has stayed at severe and in its recent Easter message the New IRA vowed to continue its campaign.\n\nBut until today you had to go back more than a year since the last New IRA attack on police.\n\nWhile the guard has not been down, the PSNI will undoubtedly be concerned the organisation has resurfaced in terms of attacks on its officers.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill described the attempted attack as a \"shocking and deplorable attempt on the life of a police officer that will rightly be reviled across the community\".\n\n\"Those behind this reckless attack have absolutely nothing to offer society and have shown a callous disregard for the entire community,\" said the Sinn Féin vice-president.\n\n\"They seek only to drag our communities backwards; they have no place in our society and they should disband.\"\n\nJustice Minister Naomi Long said it was a \"despicable and cowardly act\".\n\nThe Alliance Party leader added: \"When a device explodes, it does not discriminate. It does not pick and choose who it injures or who it kills.\n\n\"The people who sneaked around in the dark to plant this device have shown an utter disregard for human life, not only for this officer but for others living in the area or who may have been passing by.\"\n\nThe Police Federation for Northern Ireland said the officer's dedication \"to serving the community\" was in stark contrast \"to those who offer nothing but death and destruction\".\n\n\"Society has moved on and those engaged in such activity need to be consigned to the past,\" the federation added.\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis said: \"I want to convey my support for the officer concerned.\n\n\"Those who try to attack public servants have nothing to offer the communities they claim to represent.\"\n\nUlster Unionist leader Steve Aiken said it was a \"cowardly attempt on the life of someone who is courageously putting her selflessness to the good of all of our community\".\n\nSDLP leader and Foyle MP Colum Eastwood said the attempted attack was disgraceful.\n\n\"Those responsible and their warped agenda are putting police officers and our community in danger,\" he added.\n• None New IRA 'still dangerous' despite MI5 operation", "No more smart motorways without hard shoulders will be able to open without additional safety measures in place, the government has said.\n\nIt said any new \"all lane running\" roads would need radar technology installed first to detect stopped cars.\n\nSmart motorways use technology and other measures to cut congestion, such as opening the hard shoulder.\n\nBut there are fears about their safety after fatal accidents involving stationary cars being hit from behind.\n\nIn a written statement to Parliament, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said that for every hundred million miles driven there were fewer deaths on all-lane motorways than conventional ones.\n\nBut he added: \"We are determined to do all we can to help drivers feel safer and be safer on our roads - all our roads.\"\n\nHe said Highways England would now accelerate the introduction of a number of safety measures set out last year.\n\n\"Most significantly, radar-based stopped vehicle detection technology will now be installed on all operational all lane running (ALR) motorways by September 2022, six months earlier than planned,\" he said.\n\n\"Highways England has also made a commitment that no ALR motorways will open without radar technology to spot stopped vehicles, enable lanes to be closed where necessary and get help to drivers quickly.\"\n\nOther measures include upgrading cameras so motorists ignoring closed lanes indicated by red X signs can be caught and prosecuted, and putting more signs up about distances to emergency refuge areas.\n\nThe RAC's head of roads policy, Nicholas Lyes, said the motoring organisation was \"concerned that drivers will still need to wait up to 18 months before all cameras are enforcing red X lane closed signs\".\n\nHe said: \"Enforcement is vital in getting all drivers to obey these signs as anyone who disregards them is at a much greater risk of being in collision with a stranded vehicle.\"\n\nSmart motorways, which use technology to maintain the flow of traffic and give information on overhead displays, have existed in England since 2002.\n\nThe \"all lane running\" versions - which involves opening the hard shoulder permanently to drivers - began in 2014.\n\nBut a coroner in Sheffield found in January that such roads \"present an ongoing risk of future deaths\" after two people were killed when a lorry ploughed into their vehicles while they were stationary on the M1 in South Yorkshire.\n\nClaire Mercer, whose husband Jason Mercer died in the accident in June 2019, and who now campaigns against smart motorways, said: \"It's all compromises. Nothing is new. Nothing short of giving back the hard shoulder in every single instance will be acceptable.\"\n\nShe said she was sitting in a coffee shop with her husband Jason just before he was killed.\n\n\"We were sat chatting. At 8 o'clock he got up to leave, kissed me goodbye, told me he loved me, and apparently he was dead by 8:15,\" she said.\n\nHer husband and another motorist, Alexandru Murgeanu, had stopped after a minor collision.\n\nShe said over the past few months support for her campaign had grown exponentially.\n\n\"I just don't understand why they [the government] are digging in against accepting public opinion... People are starting to get really angry about being ignored.\"\n\nIn 2019, 15 people were killed on \"all lane running\" and \"dynamic hard shoulder\" motorways. This is four more deaths than in 2018.\n\nThe number of people being killed on motorways without hard shoulders increased each year from 2015 to 2019, and totalled 39 deaths.\n\nBy contrast, on so-called \"controlled motorways\" - a type of smart motorway which have variable speed limits and a hard shoulder - there were 24 deaths in that period.\n\nOn conventional motorways, which cover more of the UK than smart motorways, there were 368 fatalities from 2015 to 2019.\n\nThe Highways England report found that crashes between moving and stationary vehicles were more likely on such motorways.\n\nBut collisions between two or more moving vehicles - which is how more people die - were less likely due to speed regulation.\n\nThe Commons' Transport Select Committee has launched an inquiry into smart motorways, with chairman and Tory MP Huw Merriman warning there are \"genuine worries\" about the roads.\n\nAnd the AA and RAC have raised concerns that vehicles that break down on sections of road with no hard shoulder face greater dangers than before.\n\nReacting to the Department for Transport's update, AA president Edmund King said: \"It is encouraging that progress has been made on our demands to make 'smart' motorways safer. The objective should be to create the safest roads we can.\n\n\"The number one improvement advocated by the AA and our members is to increase the number of emergency refuge areas (ERAs) and retrofit them to older schemes to ensure they are placed at approximately 0.75 miles apart.\n\n\"More ERAs, together with improving the accuracy of stopped vehicle detection radar, should be the urgent priorities.\"\n\nThere are plans for about 800 miles of smart motorway in the UK by 2025 - up from just under 500 miles currently.\n\nAt the moment parts of the smart motorway network are not monitored by radar technology, but by human observation from watch centres.\n\nIt's the nightmare scenario. Breaking down on a motorway, without a hard shoulder to take refuge on, and with cars and lorries whizzing past inches away.\n\nThe government says smart motorways are safer than conventional ones. And it points out that hard shoulders themselves are far from safe. People get killed waiting there, too.\n\nMany motorists will find all this hard to accept, especially when they see other drivers ignoring speed limits or lane closures when incidents occur.\n\nBut the government needs to convince them. It's cheaper to have smart motorways than bigger roads.\n\nThat's why it says it's going all out to improve safety on roads it claims are already very safe. It wants to reassure people.\n\nThe question is, will critics be persuaded?", "A majority of people on both sides of the Irish border believes Northern Ireland will have left the UK within 25 years, a poll suggests.\n\nMost respondents said they thought NI would still be part of the UK in 10 years time, but not in 25 years.\n\nIn NI, 49% of people said if there was a border poll today they would vote to remain in the UK, with 43% backing a united Ireland and 8% undecided.\n\nThe poll was commissioned by BBC NI's Spotlight programme.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, where a vote would have to be held in parallel with any border poll in Northern Ireland, 51% said they would vote for a United Ireland, 27% would vote for Northern Ireland to stay in the UK and 22% were not sure.\n\nWhen asked if they thought NI woud be part of the UK in 10 years, 55% in NI and 59% in the Republic of Ireland said they thought it would be.\n\nBut when asked if this would be the case in 25 years, 51% of people in NI and 54% in the Republic said NI would have left the UK.\n\nThe poll also suggested that only 40% of people in Northern Ireland saw its formation 100 years ago as a cause for celebration.\n\nMost people on both sides of the Irish border believed there was a potential for a return to political violence in Northern Ireland, according to the poll.\n\nThe poll was carried out over the Easter period when clashes were taking place in a number of areas across Northern Ireland, sparked by loyalist anger over the Northern Ireland trade protocol and the Police Service of Northern Ireland's handling of a republican funeral during the pandemic.\n\nOf those surveyed in Northern Ireland, 76% agreed with the proposition that \"the dispute over Northern Ireland's status remains unresolved and there is still a potential for violence in the future\".\n\nIn the Republic, an even higher proportion, 87%, echoed that view.\n\nA total of 48% of those surveyed in Northern Ireland told the pollsters they want the controversial trade protocol introduced as part of the UK's EU Withdrawal Agreement scrapped, in line with demands from the DUP and other unionist parties, while 46% wanted the protocol to be retained.\n\nUnionists have claimed the protocol, which requires checks on goods moving across the Irish Sea from Great Britain to Northern Ireland, threatens the constitutional integrity of the UK.\n\nInterviewed for the Spotlight programme, Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Micheál Martin insisted the protocol was not tearing the UK apart, while Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was working to \"sandpaper\" away what he described as the \"ludicrous barriers\" to trade across the Irish Sea.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson pledges to end \"ludicrous barriers\" Between Great Britain and Northern Ireland\n\nIn the Republic, a majority of those surveyed supported the Irish government's defence of the trade protocol, with 74% saying it should not be scrapped.\n\nAlthough within Northern Ireland a larger number of people rejected the trade protocol than backed it, the poll also provided an indication that a majority wants to retain some form of economic link with the EU.\n\nSome 56% of those surveyed in Northern Ireland told the pollsters that they wanted their assembly members (MLAs) to vote to stay within the EU Single Market when the matter is put to a vote at Stormont in three years' time.\n\nOnly 38% indicated they wanted to leave the EU Single Market.\n\nIn Northern Ireland 37% of people surveyed told the pollsters they would like to see a border poll within the next five years, whilst a further 29% want it to happen at some point after that.\n\nHowever the prime minister told the Spotlight programme that he cannot see any Northern Ireland secretary considering a border poll for a \"very, very long time to come\".\n\nThe prime minister told BBC Northern Ireland that as \"a proud unionist\" he views the centenary of Northern Ireland's formation as a cause for celebration.\n\nHowever only 40% of the people surveyed agreed with the proposition that \"the formation of Northern Ireland 100 years ago was an achievement which should be celebrated\", while 45% disagreed with the statement.\n\nOutright celebration of the centenary turned out to be the least popular of five options included in the survey.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, 48% agreed that the partition of Ireland and the creation of a land border 100 years ago was \"a negative development which should be regretted\".\n\nA total of 50% wanted to concentrate on current challenges such as the Covid pandemic rather than the centenary, whilst 61% backed marking Northern Ireland's formation in a neutral manner acknowledging the differing opinions on the subject.\n\nThe same proportion, 61%, agreed with the statement \"Northern Ireland's history is not just about constitutional politics and the centenary should provide an opportunity to showcase its sporting, business, scientific and cultural achievements\".\n\nIn the Republic, celebrating the formation of Northern Ireland was even more unpopular with just 12% agreeing with the proposition.\n\nThe most popular options were marking this year's centenary in a neutral manner, which was favoured by 74% of those surveyed and regretting partition - a view 71% agreed with.\n\nThe poll commissioned by BBC Northern Ireland's Spotlight programme was carried out by the NI Pollsters LucidTalk and the Irish polling firm Ireland Thinks.\n\nThe margin of error is +/- 2.5%.\n\nThe results from a number of other questions in the survey regarding what should happen to the Irish flag, national anthem, the Stormont Executive and the health service in the event of a United Ireland will be released on BBC Northern Ireland's political programme The View on Thursday night.\n\nFull details of the poll will be available via the BBC NI news website and other BBC news and current affairs programmes during the course of the week.\n\nView the full, detailed results for Northern Ireland here and the Republic of Ireland here.\n\nYou can watch Spotlight - A Contested Centenary and The View on the BBC iPlayer.", "After less than a day of deliberation, jurors have found Derek Chauvin guilty of all charges over George Floyd's death.\n\nThe jury returned guilty verdicts of second degree murder, third degree murder and manslaughter.\n\nThe former police officer was filmed kneeling on Floyd for more than nine minutes during his arrest last May.\n\nChauvin will remain in jail until he is sentenced.\n\nRead more: US jury finds ex-officer guilty of Floyd murder", "The Archbishop of Canterbury has said the Church of England should not use non-disclosure agreements, after BBC Panorama revealed they were being used to silence staff complaining of racism.\n\nJustin Welby said he had not been aware confidentiality agreements were being used to stop people speaking publicly.\n\nHe told Times Radio the documentary was \"rightly shaming\".\n\nMr Welby added that he was \"horrified\" to hear the extent of racist abuse within the Church.\n\n\"I have said many times that I am totally against NDAs [non-disclosure agreements]. NDAs are unacceptable. I am just horrified by that and horrified by the fact of racism,\" he said.\n\nTogether with the Archbishop of York, Stephen Cottrell, he has written to senior members of the Church, telling them confidentiality agreements are no longer to be used.\n\nThe Church of England is releasing a report later this week, which it says will include plans to address racism within its own ranks.\n\nDr Elizabeth Henry, the Church's former adviser on race relations, quit her job last year because she said she felt disillusioned.\n\n\"I felt frustrated by the lack of progress with issues of racism,\" she told Panorama.\n\nDr Henry stood down as an adviser on race relations last year\n\nShe said one incident from 2019 particularly stood out.\n\n\"A really shocking incident was a young black man who received a picture of a banana. But that banana had his head superimposed upon it - and underneath it said: Banana Man. That is a deeply offensive and deeply racist image,\" she said.\n\n\"He took it to HR [human resources department] and he did file a grievance. And the decision was that it wasn't racist.\n\n\"That person left, and he received a very small compensation - however he was forced to sign a non-disclosure agreement.\"\n\nThat agreement means the BBC cannot say where the incident took place. The total number of non-disclosure agreements is also unknown.\n\nThe Church told Panorama that while it cannot comment on individual cases, \"any [racist] behaviour of the sort described by Dr Henry is unacceptable\".", "Marks & Spencer has stepped up its caterpillar rights wrangle with Aldi after the discounter said its Cuthbert cake was returning for charity.\n\nAldi had stopped selling the cake in February, two months before M&S accused the supermarket of infringing its Colin the Caterpillar trademark.\n\nBut now sales of a limited edition version will benefit Teenage Cancer Trust and Macmillan Cancer Support.\n\nM&S said it loved a charity idea, but Aldi should use its own character.\n\nUnveiling the idea on social media, Aldi said: \"Let's raise money for charity, not lawyers.\"\n\nM&S replied that a cake based on Aldi's Kevin the Carrot commercials would be better, adding: \"That idea's on us.\"\n\nLast week, M&S lodged an intellectual property claim with the High Court. It said Cuthbert's similarity with its own Colin cake led consumers to believe they were of the same standard and \"rides on the coat-tails\" of M&S's reputation.\n\nThe retailer has three trademarks relating to Colin, which it believes means Colin has acquired and retains an enhanced distinctive character.\n\nRival supermarkets, which all sell caterpillar cakes of their own, remained tight-lipped in the face of the action by M&S, which said it had \"not ruled out\" pursuing other retailers as well.\n\nM&S said it wanted Aldi to agree not to sell anything similar in the future, but it clearly had not bargained on Aldi's latest cheeky charity-related move.\n\n\"Hey Marks and Spencer we're taking a stand against caterpillar cruelty. Can Colin and Cuthbert be besties?\" said Aldi on social media.\n\n\"We're bringing back a limited edition Cuthbert next month and want to donate all profits to cancer charities including your partners Macmillan Cancer Support and ours Teenage Cancer Trust,\" it said, using the Twitter hashtag #caterpillarsforcancer.\n\nAldi said it was calling on other supermarkets to join it in raising money for cancer charities through the sale of caterpillar cakes.\n\nM&S tweeted back: \"Hey @AldiUK we love a charity idea (Colin's been a BIG fundraiser for years). We just want you to use your own character.\n\n\"How about #kevinthecarrotcake ? That idea's on us... and we promise we won't do Keith.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by M&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\nColin the Caterpillar was launched by M&S about 30 years ago. His appearance has been substantially unchanged since around 2004, except for adaptations for events such as Halloween and Christmas, and related products such as Connie the Caterpillar.\n\nColin is central to M&S's partnership with cancer charity Macmillan, and the retailer has created a Colin product for the annual World's Biggest Coffee Morning fundraising event.\n\nThe cake is a sponge with milk chocolate and buttercream, topped with chocolate sweets and a smiling white chocolate face.\n\nM&S was the first retailer to sell a caterpillar cake, but many supermarkets have since created their own similar products.\n\nOther cakes include Waitrose's Cecil, Sainsbury's Wiggles, Tesco's Curly and Asda's Clyde the Caterpillar.\n\n\"Aldi is known to sail close to the wind on creating products which look and/or sound incredibly similar to other brands,\" said Gary Assim, an intellectual property specialist at law firm Shoosmiths.\n\n\"M&S may find their case against Aldi difficult, since there are other caterpillar cakes on the market. They should have taken a zero-tolerance approach from the start if they felt that Colin and Connie were so important to them.\"", "Radical new climate change commitments will set the UK on course to cut carbon emissions by 78% by 2035, the UK government has announced.\n\nHitting the targets would require more electric cars, low-carbon heating, renewable electricity and, for many, cutting down on meat and dairy.\n\nFor the first time, climate law will be extended to cover international aviation and shipping.\n\nBut Labour said the government had to match \"rhetoric with reality\".\n\nIt urged Boris Johnson to treat \"the climate emergency as the emergency it is\" and show \"greater ambition\".\n\nThe prime minister's commitments, which are to become law, bring forward the current target for reducing carbon emissions by 15 years. This would be a world-leading position.\n\nHomes will need to be much better insulated, and people will be encouraged to drive less and walk and cycle more. Aviation is likely to become more expensive for frequent fliers.\n\nThe government has accepted the advice of its independent Climate Change Committee (CCC) to adopt the emissions cut, which is based on 1990 levels.\n\nThe International Energy Agency (IEA) has predicted a major surge in CO2 emissions from energy this year, as the world rebounds from the pandemic.\n\nThe UK's new commitments come as US President Joe Biden prepares to stage a climate summit from Washington DC.\n\nEnvironmentalists welcomed the government's move, but warned that ministers had consistently failed to achieve previous CCC-set targets.\n\nAnd they insisted that Chancellor Rishi Sunak must show clearly how the transition is to be funded.\n\nTom Burke, who chairs the environmental think tank E3G, explained what policy changes were needed to achieve the goal: \"The most important thing, I think, is for [the prime minister] to focus his policy around energy efficiency, around wind and solar, and around storage of electricity and the management of the grid,\" he said.\n\nHowever, he told the BBC's Today programme: \"At the moment, it's... a bit of a Boris blunderbuss and is a huge range of marginal things instead of a concentration of effort on those things that will deliver the most emissions reductions in the fastest time.\"\n\nLeo Murray of the climate charity Possible called the announcement \"fantastic\", but added: \"We're not on track to meet previous climate commitments and in many ways the government is still failing.\"\n\nMr Murray said ministers were \"facing both directions at the same time\", as they had scrapped the Green Homes Grant for insulating homes, had not stopped airport expansion and were \"still pushing a £27bn roads budget\".\n\nThe CCC report accepted by the government says low-carbon investment must scale up to £50bn a year in the UK. But it adds that in time fuel savings from more efficient equipment will cancel out investment costs.\n\nThe CCC believes around 1% of GDP - national wealth - would need to be spent on shifting away from fossil fuels over 30 years.\n\nIts chairman, Lord Deben, said previously: \"The implication of this path is clear: the utmost focus is required from government over the next 10 years.\n\n\"If policy is not scaled up across every sector, if business is not encouraged to invest, if the people of the UK are not engaged in this challenge - the UK will not deliver net zero by 2050. The 2020s must be the decisive decade of progress and action.\"\n\nEd Matthew, campaigns director of E3G, said: \"Setting an ambitious emission reduction target would boost the UK's diplomatic drive to persuade other countries to set out ambitious targets of their own.\"\n\nHe added: \"The UK now has the opportunity to spark a global green industrial revolution, but ultimately its credibility will rest on action.\"\n\nNet zero means cutting emissions as far as possible, then balancing out any remaining releases by, for example, tree planting.\n\nThe government has adopted the new 2035 deadline for a 78% emissions cut because scientists say this is needed to keep the rise in global temperatures close to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels.\n\nFor Labour, shadow business secretary Ed Miliband said: \"The character of this government on climate change is now clear: targets without delivery.\n\n\"So while any strengthening of our targets is the right thing to do, the government can't be trusted to match rhetoric with reality.\"\n\nHe added: \"We need a government that treats the climate emergency as the emergency it is. That means greater ambition than this government matched with much more decisive action.\"\n\nGreen Party MP Caroline Lucas commented: \"The most glaring problem [with the plan] is the government's failure to address what's driving the climate crisis: an outdated and exploitative economic system that treats our planet and natural world as peripheral to our lives and, worse, expendable.\n\n\"The Prime Minister needs to accompany stronger climate targets with an economic reset to put the health and well-being of people and planet above short-term profit and growth.\"", "The woman was attacked in a park in Wythenshawe, Manchester\n\nA woman was raped by a group of men in a park in what police described as a \"random and sickening attack\".\n\nThe victim, aged in her 20s, was attacked at about 00:30 BST at Kirkup Gardens in Wythenshawe, Manchester.\n\nGreater Manchester Police said it was \"truly horrendous\" and the woman was being supported by specialist officers.\n\nPatrols have been stepped up in the area as officers continue to search for evidence.\n\nNo arrests have been made and the force are appealing for anyone with information to get in touch.\n\nCh Insp Cara Charlesworth said: \"At this stage, this appears to have been a random and sickening attack and our officers are working tirelessly to identify those responsible.\n\n\"In the meantime, we have increased our police presence in the area, and the public should feel reassured that if they have any concerns they can approach our officers directly.\"\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.", "First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has confirmed the most significant stage in Scotland's lockdown easing will go ahead as planned on Monday.\n\nThe biggest changes since the country went into lockdown on Boxing Day will include the reopening of hospitality, gyms and non-essential shops.\n\nNon-essential travel with England, Wales and Northern Ireland will also be allowed for the first time this year.\n\nMainland Scotland will move down from level four to three restrictions.\n\nMs Sturgeon said that if the data continued to improve, the whole of Scotland would move to level two on 17 May.\n\nThis would allow people to meet indoors in small numbers and see a further easing of hospitality restrictions.\n\nThe first minister said she hoped that the country would move to level one on 7 June, and then to level zero later that month.\n\nGyms are set to open in mid-April but only for individual exercise\n\nShe said life should look \"much more like normality\" during July.\n\n\"We are hopeful, very hopeful, of seeing sustained progress in the weeks and months ahead,\" she said.\n\nHowever, Ms Sturgeon warned that travel restrictions between parts of Scotland and other parts of the UK could be introduced to deal with local outbreaks.\n\nShe also announced that from Monday lateral flow tests would be available to anyone in the country. The kits can be ordered online or picked up at testing centres in the afternoon and early evening.\n\nMs Sturgeon encouraged everyone to take advantage of the offer, especially those planning to visit Scotland's islands.\n\nTravel between Scotland, England and Wales will be permitted\n\nWhen Scotland moves down to level three restrictions on Monday, it will be possible for:\n\nFrom this date, takeaways can be collected indoors, non-essential childcare will be allowed, non-essential work can be carried out inside houses and driving lessons and tests can take place again.\n\nThe first minister said people would be looking forward to doing things they have been unable to do for some time.\n\nBut she added: \"We must remember that the virus we are dealing with now is much more infectious than it was when bars and cafes were last open so it is really important that as we enjoy these new restored freedoms we continue to be really careful and take all of the required precautions.\"\n\nHowever, many in the hospitality sector are unhappy with draft guidance.\n\nThey expected 1m (3ft) social distancing to be in place between tables, but the proposals want people from different households to observe social distancing at tables.\n\nBut during the briefing Ms Sturgeon said this guidance had not changed since last year.\n\nThe easing of restrictions on 17 May should enable pubs to open indoors until 22:30 and allow contact sports and some small-scale events to take place.\n\nFrom that date, up to four people from two households will also be able to meet indoors.\n\nOther changes could include the return of cinemas, amusement arcades and bingo halls, along with indoor group exercise.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said all the public health evidence suggests the country is getting on top of the virus but the government should \"safely and cautiously look to ease these restrictions a little bit quicker.\"\n\nMr Ross added he would like gyms to open before Monday and he would also have liked more freedom for hospitality from 26 April.\n\nScottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar said it was right the government took a careful, phased approach to easing restrictions, backed up by data.\n\nHe told BBC Scotland: \"The last thing we need is another lockdown. We have to make sure this is the last one.\"\n\nScottish Liberal Democrat health spokesman Alex Cole-Hamilton welcomed the developments but called for the country's test and trace system to be \"beefed up\".\n\nHe added: \"If new strains arrive in the Scotland we must have the resources in place to swiftly crush them before they can spread.\"\n\nAnd Scottish Greens co-convenor Alison Johnstone said ministers should avoid the temptation to act with haste and continue to listen to the best scientific advice.\n\nShe also called for the government to be more proactive in terms of quarantine and said people should stay in Scotland for their holidays.\n\nDr Liz Cameron, chief executive of the Scottish Chambers of Commerce, called for additional support and compensation for businesses which have not yet been allowed to reopen.\n\nShe added: \"To translate hope into reality, the business community needs the Scottish government to empower businesses to re-open with sensible guidelines that enable us to get back on our feet.\"\n\nDavid Lonsdale, director of the Scottish Retail Consortium, estimates non-essential stores lost out on £4bn of sales during the first 12 months of the pandemic.\n\nHe said: \"Re-opening alone isn't a silver bullet which will save Scotland's shops.\n\n\"While we do expect a level of pent-up demand to return, shopper footfall is likely to be constrained for some weeks yet by the later re-opening of much of hospitality, tourism, and offices in our city centres.\"", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nThe European Super League was created \"to save football\", says Real Madrid president Florentino Perez.\n\nReal are one of the 12 European clubs who have signed up to the breakaway league and intend to establish a new midweek competition.\n\nPerez said the move had been made because young people are \"no longer interested in football\" because of \"a lot of poor quality games\".\n\n\"Whenever there is change, there are always people who oppose it,\" he said.\n• None Fifa boss 'strongly disapproves' of ESL plans as Everton criticise clubs for 'preposterous arrogance'\n\nThe English 'big six' of Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham have agreed to join the new league.\n\nThe move has been criticised by football authorities and government ministers in the UK and widely condemned across Europe by Uefa and leagues associations.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson will hold a meeting with football's governing bodies on Tuesday to discuss the move, while the 14 Premier League clubs not included in the plans are also scheduled to meet.\n\nPerez said that the top teams were losing money and that big-name matches would help increase their revenue.\n\n\"We are doing this to save football at this critical moment,\" Perez told Spanish TV show El Chiringuito de Jugones.\n\n\"If we continue with the Champions League there is less and less interest and then it's over.\n\n\"The new format which starts in 2024 is absurd. In 2024, we are all dead.\"\n\nPlans for a revamped 36-team Champions League, starting in 2024, were confirmed by Uefa on Monday.\n\nHe added: \"In the '50s, it was a similar situation. Uefa and Fifa went against the new European Cup, but that competition changed football.\"\n• None 'Bonfire of greed' - How Europe has reacted\n• None European Super League Q&A - What happens next?\n\nAC Milan chief executive Ivan Gazidis said the ESL would be \"a new, exciting chapter for the game\" and that it will \"provide value and support\" across European football.\n\n\"We're confident that this new competition will capture the imagination of billions of soccer fans all over the world,\" he said.\n\nGazidis also said the club wants to continue to play in Serie A, which he said \"will remain the most important weekend competition in Italy\".\n\nJuventus manager Andrea Pirlo came out in support of the ESL and the club's owner Andrea Agnelli, who quit as European Club Association (ECA) chairman after signing the Turin club up to the new competition.\n\n\"He explained this project to us, he gave us great confidence, but the most important thing he told us is that we have to continue with our work,\" Pirlo said.\n\nPerez said the move had been accelerated by the coronavirus pandemic, which has led to matches being played behind closed doors.\n\nHe claimed 40% of young people are not interested in football and Real have lost 400m euros (£344m) because of the impact of the pandemic.\n\n\"When you don't have any income other than from television, you have to find a solution to make more attractive matches that fans all over the world can watch with all of the big clubs,\" said Perez.\n\n\"Young people are no longer interested in football. They have other platforms on which to distract themselves.\n\n\"We could get back some of the money we lost because of the pandemic. We have to raise more money organising more competitive games.\"\n\nA YouGov poll of 1,730 football fans in the UK found 79% opposed the idea of a Super League.\n\nAmong fans aged between 18 and 24, 71% were found to be against it with only 19% of respondents saying they were in favour of the competition. Only 7% said they strongly supported the creation of the ESL.\n\nHowever, critics say the move is being driven purely by money, would destroy domestic leagues and is against the integrity of the sport.\n\nFormer England captain Alan Shearer said he hoped the English clubs would consider the reaction of their fans, which has been overwhelmingly negative.\n\n\"Clubs talk about being a family and how fans are the soul of the club,\" Shearer told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"Well, let's see what they really think about the fans, because the fans have now spoken.\n\n\"It is clearly obvious that they don't want this, so let's see what their fans mean to the football clubs.\"\n\nHow could the league work?\n\nThere has been no concrete plan released on how the tournament would be structured but Perez said it could have shorter matches in order to keep their targeted younger audience interested.\n\n\"Young people say the game is too long,\" he said. \"If young people don't watch an entire game it is because it is not interesting enough, or we will have to shorten the games.\"\n\nHe also said that referees and the video review system would be \"improved\" in the tournament.\n\n\"There will be financial fair play and stability. We'll try to select the referees with professional criteria,\" he added.\n\nWhen could it start?\n\nAnother three teams will be added to the league as guaranteed members, with five more qualifying each year.\n\nPerez said the group want to start the new league by August, should they reach an agreement with Uefa, otherwise it could be delayed by a year.\n\nUefa president Aleksander Ceferin called the league a \"disgraceful, self-serving\" plan and a \"spit in the face of football lovers\".\n\nCeferin also said that players involved with the ESL could be banned from all Uefa competitions, which Perez denied.\n\n\"It will not happen, the law protects us,\" Perez added.\n\n\"We will not get into legal issues. It is impossible. The players should remain calm because the threats won't happen. \"This is not a league for the rich, it's a league to save football.\"\n\nThe key developments so far\n• None A dozen clubs - including Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham - agree to form a new midweek competition\n• None in all and run alongside domestic leagues such as the Premier League\n• None Founding clubs are being enticed with a share of a €3.5bn (£3bn) grant provided by the investment bank JP Morgan\n• None UK government says it is prepared \"to put everything on the table to prevent this from happening\".\n• None France's president, Uefa, the Premier League, Europe's major leagues, players' unions and former players all strongly criticise the move\n• None Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp says he does not agree with the move and that the club's players were not consulted\n• None A YouGov poll of 1,730 football fans found 79% opposed the idea of a Super League\n• None The 14 Premier League clubs not involved in the ESL move will meet on Tuesday\n• None Fans air frustrations on social media and some visit grounds to unfurl banners in protest\n• None Meet the man who stole millions from work to sustain his gambling habit\n• None 'Food is more than calories': Different strategies to help you achieve a healthy weight", "Dr Michael Watt worked at the Royal Victoria Hospital as a neurologist\n\nAlmost 20% of patients seen by neurology consultant Dr Michael Watt were given a wrong diagnosis, a report has found.\n\nA review of 927 of Dr Watt's high-risk patients found 181 people received a diagnosis described as \"not secure\", Health Minister Robin Swann said.\n\nHe was speaking as the Belfast Trust announced the recall of a further 209 neurology patients seen and discharged by Dr Watt between 1996 and 2012.\n\nThis is the third such recall.\n\nDr Watt was at the centre of Northern Ireland's biggest patient recall linked to his work at Belfast's Royal Victoria Hospital.\n\nMr Swann said he had met patients and families affected by the recall in October last year.\n\n\"While this report is statistical in nature, it deals with individuals, their families and their experiences,\" he said.\n\n\"I know that many will have had their confidence in our health service shaken and I remain committed to helping restore it.\"\n\nMr Swann \"unreservedly apologised\" to those patients who have been affected.\n\n\"I also want to acknowledge that in announcing a further recall, more patients will be affected,\" he said.\n\n\"It is deeply regrettable that this experience should happen to any of our patients and it is even more so when I consider the total number of patients involved.\"\n\nIn May 2018, the Belfast Trust recalled 2,500 patients for review after concerns were raised about the clinical work carried out by Dr Watt.\n\nThis was followed by a further 1,044 patients who were recalled in November 2018.\n\nThe RQIA regulatory body is also conducting a review into patient deaths.\n\nAn independent inquiry was elevated to a statutory public inquiry late last year but has yet to start hearing evidence.\n\nThose affected by this latest recall were seen and discharged between 1996, when Dr Watt began his career, and 2012 and who are taking certain prescribed medications for specific neurological conditions.\n\nThe Belfast Trust said those affected would have received a letter asking them to set up a telephone review to ascertain whether the medication is appropriate for their condition.\n\nExtra clinics have been set up to facilitate face-to-face interviews where necessary.\n\nBelfast Trust chief executive Dr Cathy Jack said she was \"truly sorry\" over the further recall.\n\n\"I absolutely understand that this will cause worry and anxiety to a number of people and their families and I am deeply sorry for that,\" she said.\n\n\"I also accept this next stage may be very difficult for those patients who have already been reviewed and whose diagnoses may have been changed as a result of our two previous recalls.\n\n\"Again, I want to express the trust's sincere regret for all the hurt and pain caused over the last number of years and for the harm that has undoubtedly been done.\n\n\"It is absolutely imperative that we put right any past wrongs and while this is painful, it is vital we assure ourselves that former patients, now discharged and who are taking very specific medication, are taking it for the correct reasons.\"\n\nUlster Independent Clinic and Hillsborough Private Clinic are recalling 57 and 10 former patients respectively.\n\nSeparately, the trust also reviewed case notes of 66 patients who had a blood patch procedure under the care of Dr Watt and who did not have a clinical review as part of the recall process.\n\nIt found that for 45 patients there was no clinical evidence to support that a blood patch was required.\n\nAnd, for 46 patients the care was unsatisfactory and fell below the standard expected by the trust.\n\n\"We are deeply sorry for this and for the undue hurt these patients experienced,\" the trust added.\n\nColm Gildernew, who chairs the health scrutiny committee at Stormont. described it as a scandal that has caused immense distress.\n\n\"The neurology inquiry has revealed again more examples of a lack of transparency, deficits in governance arrangements and accountability within the health service,\" he said.\n\nThe Sinn Féin assembly member asked what lessons had been learned?\n\nMeanwhile DUP assembly member Pam Cameron, deputy chair of the committee, asked about a timetable and scale of resource for financial redress for those entitled to compensation.\n\nMr Swann could not provide a definitive date but added: \"Redress payments will be paid because this is a failure of our systems that has to be corrected.\"", "Spies are using fake profiles to steal classified information, according to the counter-intelligence agency MI5\n\nAt least 10,000 UK nationals have been approached by fake profiles linked to hostile states, on the professional social network LinkedIn, over the past five years, according to MI5.\n\nIt warned users who had accepted such connection requests might have then been lured into sharing secrets.\n\n\"Malicious profiles\" are being used on \"an industrial scale\", the security agency's chief, Ken McCallum, said.\n\nA campaign has been launched to educate government workers about the threat.\n\nThe effort - Think Before You Link - warns foreign spies are targeting those with access to sensitive information.\n\nThe awareness campaign includes guides, posters and a video\n\nOne concern is the victims' colleagues, in turn, become more willing to accept follow-up requests - because it looks as if they share a mutual acquaintance.\n\nMI5 did not specifically name LinkedIn but BBC News has learned the Microsoft-owned service is indeed the platform involved.\n\nThe 10,000-plus figure includes staff in virtually every government departments as well as key industries, who might be offered speaking or business and travel opportunities that could lead to attempts to recruit them to provide confidential information.\n\nAnd it is thought a large number of those approached engaged initially with the profiles that contacted them online.\n\n\"No-one is immune to being socially manipulated into wrongdoing through these approaches,\" the guidance given to government staff says.\n\nLinkedIn has said it welcomes the initiative.\n\nThe campaign, run by the Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure, which reports to MI5, asks government staff to focus on \"the four Rs\":\n\n\"Since the start of the pandemic, many of us have been working remotely and having to spend more time at home on our personal devices,\" government chief security officer Dominic Fortescue said.\n\n\"As a result, staff have become more vulnerable to malicious approaches from hostile security services and criminal organisations on social media.\"\n\nThe US and other countries have launched similar campaigns.\n\nFormer CIA officer Kevin Mallory was sentenced to 20 years in prison, after being convicted of giving secrets to China following an approach on LinkedIn.\n\nAnd the UK's move is also being backed by the other members of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance, Australia, Canada and New Zealand.", "(L-R) Alan Foster, Donald Denton and Peter Metcalf are on trial\n\nTwo South Yorkshire Police officers altered statements to \"mask\" the force's failings after the Hillsborough disaster, a court has heard.\n\nNinety-six Liverpool football fans died as a result of the tragedy at an FA Cup semi-final on 15 April 1989.\n\nRetired Ch Supt Donald Denton, 83, retired Det Ch Insp Alan Foster, 74, and former solicitor Peter Metcalf, 71, deny perverting the course of justice.\n\nThe Nightingale court in Salford heard several police accounts were \"amended\".\n\nJurors were told Mr Metcalf advised on what alterations should be made and Mr Denton and Mr Foster followed his advice and changed the accounts.\n\nProsecutor Sarah Whitehouse QC said: \"The allegation is that these three tried to minimise the blame that might be heaped upon the South Yorkshire Police at the many different forms of inquiry that followed that dreadful day.\n\n\"They did this by altering accounts given by police officers who were present on the day.\"\n\nShe told jurors the effect of the alterations \"was to mask failings on the part of South Yorkshire Police in their planning and execution of the policing of the football match\".\n\nNinety-six people died as a result of the crush at Hillsborough\n\nThe trial is about the aftermath of the crush at Sheffield Wednesday's Hillsborough stadium during the semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest.\n\nThe jury was told lawyers had warned senior South Yorkshire Police's (SYP) officers they should regard themselves as \"the accused\" and to \"prepare accordingly\".\n\nMs Whitehouse told the court Mr Metcalf was a partner in Hammond Suddards, who acted for SYP's insurers after the disaster.\n\nHe was also instructed to act for the force at an inquiry chaired by Lord Justice Taylor to look at safety at sports events following the tragedy and in any civil litigation.\n\nWest Midlands Police took charge of investigations after the disaster and asked for written accounts made by officers who were present on the day to be handed over to them, jurors heard.\n\nBefore the accounts were handed over, Mr Metcalf advised on what alterations should be made to them, Mr Denton led an inquiry team to collect and review statements, and Mr Foster was the \"action man\", Ms Whitehouse said.\n\nThe people who lost their lives in the Hillsborough disaster\n\nMr Denton, of Sheffield, Mr Foster, of Harrogate, and Mr Metcalf, of Ilkley, each deny two counts of doing acts tending and intended to pervert the course of justice.\n\nJurors were told to \"forget everything\" they had heard before about the disaster and concentrate only on the evidence heard in court.\n\nThe trial at the Lowry theatre - which has been converted into a temporary courtroom to ensure social distancing due to the coronavirus pandemic - is expected to last 16 weeks.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock says putting India on the \"red list\" for travel was a \"difficult but vital decision\"\n\nIndia has been added to a “red list” of countries from which most travel to the UK is banned, over fears of a new Covid variant, the health secretary has said.\n\nFrom 04:00 BST on Friday 23 April, most people who have travelled from India in the last 10 days will be refused entry.\n\nBritish or Irish passport holders, or people with UK residence rights, will be allowed in but must quarantine in a government-approved hotel for 10 days.\n\nMatt Hancock said there had been 103 UK cases of the India variant.\n\nIn a statement to the House of Commons on Monday, the health secretary said the vast majority of the cases of the new variant - officially known as B.1.617 - had been linked to international travel.\n\nHe said test samples had been analysed to see if the new variant had any \"concerning characteristics\" such as greater transmissibility or resistance to treatments and vaccines.\n\nHe told MPs: \"After studying the data, and on a precautionary basis, we've made the difficult but vital decision to add India to the red list.\"\n\nHealth officials say this new variant, first identified in India, has some worrying genetic changes that need exploring.\n\nIt's still too soon to say if it is more contagious, deadly and will evade vaccines - and whether it should join the Variant of Concern list that the South Africa, Kent and Brazil variants belong to.\n\nAssessments are ongoing, and in the meantime the government is looking to stop more cases arriving and spreading in the country.\n\nThat's why the government is also stepping up surge testing to quickly find any new cases in the UK and is introducing a speedy new type of lab test that can show within hours if someone is positive for Covid - and if the infection they have is one of the known variants, including this new one from India.\n\nIt should mean people can isolate faster to prevent giving it to their friends, families, neighbours and colleagues.\n\nYou can read more from Michelle here.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps tweeted the move was made to ensure the UK did not lose its \"hard-won progress on the vaccine rollout\".\n\nA briefing document drawn up by officials at Public Health England shows that between 25 March and 7 April, 3,345 arrivals from India were registered in UK border travel data. Of those 161 - or 4.8% - tested positive for Covid-19 after a PCR test.\n\nThe new travel rule applies to England and Scotland. There are currently no direct international flights into Wales or Northern Ireland.\n\nScotland's Transport Secretary Michael Matheson said: \"International travel will continue to remain a significant risk, requiring a cautious approach, on a four-nation basis.\"\n\nMr Hancock said there had also been 557 cases of the South Africa variant found in the UK since December, with a \"cluster\" of cases in south London and isolated cases in Barnet, Birmingham and Sandwell over the last week.\n\nWhile around two-thirds were related to international travel, there had been a \"small amount\" of community transmission, he added.\n\nHe said the government was \"ramping up\" plans for a booster shot to ensure vaccines stayed \"ahead of the virus\".\n\nIt was less than four months ago that India banned flights from the UK to stop the spread of the UK variant.\n\nNow, as the so-called 'Indian variant' is investigated, and case numbers there climb, it's the UK that is putting the brakes on the number of passengers coming in the opposite direction.\n\nIt shows how quickly dynamics between countries can change.\n\nWhen the Westminster government last added countries to the red list, including Bangladesh and Pakistan, at the start of April, it gave a week's notice. This time it's just over three days.\n\nDirect flights to and from India are already limited - a decision made by the Indian government in January - to 30 a week, meaning that many will now be rushing to book the last few seats before Friday.\n\nThe travel industry is still hoping that international travel from England will restart on 17 May, but today's announcement underlines that it will be a while until the world is open to us.\n\nThe list of countries on the red list is getting longer rather than shorter.\n\nResponding to a question from shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth, Mr Hancock said that surge Covid testing would happen in areas where cases of the India variant had been identified.\n\nLabour's Yvette Cooper, chairwoman of the Home Affairs Committee, questioned why India was not put on the red list sooner, adding: \"Hong Kong this week have identified 47 Covid cases just on a single Delhi flight and we have still 16 more direct flights, many more indirect flights from India to here, before Friday alone.\"\n\nMr Hancock responded by saying that decisions on each country were \"kept under constant review\".\n\nThe announcement came after Prime Minister Boris Johnson cancelled a planned trip to India, which had been due to take place on 26 April, amid rising cases there.\n\nIndia has been reporting more than 200,000 cases daily since 15 April. Its capital Delhi has announced a week-long lockdown after a record spike in cases overwhelmed the city's healthcare system.\n\nIt comes as the UK recorded four deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test, according to the latest government figures.\n\nIt is the lowest daily figure since 7 September, although the number of deaths recorded on Monday and over the weekend tend to be lower because of reporting delays.\n\nThe data also showed there were also 2,963 new infections. Meanwhile, more than 10m people in the UK received a second dose of a Covid-19 vaccine, and nearly 33 million people have had their first dose.\n\nAll travellers returning to the UK must fill out a passenger locator form in advance, including details of their departure country and UK address.\n\nThey must also show proof of a negative Covid test taken within 72 hours before travelling to be allowed entry to the UK.\n\nIn England, a stay in a quarantine hotel costs £1,750 per passenger travelling alone to cover transport, tests, food and accommodation.\n\nEvery additional adult, or child over 12, must pay £650, while children aged five to 12 pay £325.\n\nReturning travellers must take a Covid test on days two and eight of quarantine, at a cost of £210.\n\nA negative test result does not mean they can shorten their time in quarantine, but if they test positive, they must self-isolate for a further 10 days.\n\nNeither will they be able to end it early through the Test to Release scheme, where travellers from non-red list countries can leave home isolation after a negative test on day five.\n\nRule-breakers face strict penalties - including prison sentences of up to 10 years.\n\nAre you trying to travel to India from the UK? Or are you in India trying to reach the UK? Get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Primark has said the number of people visiting its stores in England and Wales last week after lockdown eased reached pre-pandemic levels.\n\nThe chain said the stores \"delivered record sales\" in the first week since reopening after more than three months.\n\nUnlike most High Street retailers, Primark has no online operations.\n\nAs a result, the business has been hit hard by Covid restrictions and estimates it lost £1.1bn in sales while stores were closed.\n\nHowever, it said more than half of its stores broke their own sales records when they reopened last week.\n\nGeorge Weston, chief executive of Primark's parent firm, Associated British Foods, said it was a reflection of the company's confidence that it had decided to repay £121m in furlough money claimed under government job retention schemes.\n\n\"Compared to previous reopenings, this time we have seen excellent demand for our fashion ranges, particularly in womenswear,\" Primark said.\n\n\"We expect the period after the reopening of stores to be very cash-generative as we sell the higher-than-normal inventory on hand.\n\n\"In line with our normal practice, we have placed substantial orders for merchandise for the coming autumn/winter season.\"\n\nPrimark was not alone in seeing a surge in demand last week, as shoppers rushed to take advantage of the reopening of non-essential stores in England and Wales.\n\nRetail analyst Springboard said footfall across all UK shopping destinations was up 87.8% week-on-week.\n\nAB Foods, which also makes branded consumer goods including Silver Spoon sugar and Twinings tea, is to pay out a dividend of 6.2p a share to shareholders despite a slump in profits.\n\nThe company saw an 8% fall in statutory pre-tax profit to £275m in the 24 weeks to 27 February.\n\nPrimark said that despite the lack of sales during the enforced closure of its stores, the furlough scheme had allowed it to preserve all its 65,000 jobs.\n\n\"We estimate the loss of sales while stores were closed to be some £1.1bn and when stores were open, the restrictions resulted in like-for-like sales of -15% compared to last year,\" it added.\n\nPrimark said it was \"very optimistic\" about opportunities for growth in the business, with \"a strong pipeline of store openings across a number of growth markets\", particularly in southern and eastern Europe.\n\nIt was also looking to expand in France, Spain, Portugal and Italy, where the Primark brand \"resonates strongly with consumers\".", "The supermarket giant was given the penalty at Birmingham Magistrates' Court on Monday\n\nTesco has been fined £7.56m for selling out-of-date food at three stores in Birmingham.\n\nOffending items were found at two Tesco Express stores, in the city centre and Bournville, and a Tesco Metro in Bristol Road South.\n\nThe fine was handed down after Tesco Stores Ltd admitted 22 breaches of the Food Safety and Hygiene Regulations, which happened between 2016 and 2017.\n\nTesco said it took \"immediate action\" to rectify problems.\n\nThe grocery company was given the penalty at Birmingham Magistrates' Court on Monday and further ordered to pay prosecution costs of £95,500, the city council said.\n\nThe prosecution by its environmental health department came after complaints were received by the local authority about food being sold past its use-by date, triggering an investigation.\n\nFood inspectors visited three of the company's food retail premises in Birmingham\n\nFood inspectors visited three of the company's city food retail premises. The Tesco Metro in Bristol Road South has since been re-branded under Tesco's discount chain, Jack's.\n\nDate-checking for the firm is now externally approved by Hertfordshire County Council because the company's Welwyn Garden City head office is located in that local authority's area.\n\nA Tesco spokesman said: \"We're disappointed that a small number of out-of-date products were found on sale in three stores in 2016/17.\n\n\"The safety of our customers is always our priority and these incidents are not representative of the high standards of safety and quality we expect in Tesco stores.\n\n\"We took immediate action to address this at the time and we want to reassure our customers that we have robust procedures in place to make sure that this doesn't happen.\"\n\nThe grocery company was also ordered to pay a £170 victim surcharge.\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.", "British motorists are facing the biggest drop in car insurance costs in almost six years, a price comparison website has found.\n\nConfused.com says the average cost of car insurance has fallen by £87 in 12 months due to lower risk of accidents.\n\nThis comes as average mileage dropped by 43% during the pandemic as driving habits changed.\n\nThe cost of insurance for men fell by £91, a 14% fall year-on-year, while female drivers are saving £82.\n\nConfused.com's latest Car Insurance Price Index, in partnership with global insurance broker Willis Towers Watson, tracked six million insurance quotes during the first quarter of 2021.\n\nThe data showed motorists in the UK can now expect to pay an average of £538 on car insurance for the next year.\n\nYet if you've received your car insurance renewal in the last three months, you might have seen your insurance premium go up by an average of £45 - an amount derived from the insurance quotes tracked.\n\nThe price comparison site says this shows motorists are likely to pay more if they opt to stick with their current insurer.\n\nConsumer group Which? says that while it is good news that prices are coming down, this doesn't necessarily mean that you are guaranteed to get a price reduction on your car insurance quote.\n\n\"The reduction in premiums is clearly a reflection in quite a radical change in driver behaviour, and people being on the road less as a result of the pandemic, but in order for consumers to get the best deal on their car insurance, they should spend time on price comparison sites,\" said Which?'s head of money Gareth Shaw.\n\nHe added that the quote an insurer gives you depends on a set of personalised circumstances, including the type of car you drive, where you live, your driving history, your no-claims bonuses, the technology that might be in your car, the age of your car, or even your relationship status.\n\n\"It might be an option but it really depends on where you are in your contract and whether it's cost effective to switch,\" said Mr Shaw.", "Easing 'could have gone further' if not for vaccine lag - Lib Dems\n\nAlex Cole-Hamilton from the Scottish Liberal Democrats says there are definitely \"grounds for optimism\" in Nicola Sturgeon's easing of some restrictions. It is \"very welcome news\" for places like Glasgow, which he points out went into a circuit-breaker lockdown in October, from which it has never emerged. Mr Cole-Hamilton believes the government could have gone further \"if the vaccination programme had been up to scratch\". Scotland is still lagging behind other parts of the UK because of the government's \"mis-management\", he maintains. Wales is already vaccinating people well into their 30s, he adds. He says: \"I am 43 and I am still waiting for my blue envelope.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chad's President Idriss Déby was one of Africa's longest-serving leaders.\n\nChad's President Idriss Déby has died of his injuries following clashes with rebels in the north of the country at the weekend, the army has said.\n\nThe announcement came a day after provisional election results projected he would win a sixth term in office.\n\nThe government and parliament have been dissolved. A curfew has also been imposed and the borders have been shut.\n\nDéby, 68, spent more than three decades in power and was one of Africa's longest-serving leaders.\n\nAn army officer by training, he came to power in 1990 through an armed uprising. He was a long-time ally of France and other Western powers in the battle against jihadist groups in the Sahel region of Africa.\n\nDéby \"breathed his last defending the sovereign nation on the battlefield\", an army general said on state TV on Tuesday.\n\nHe had gone to the front line, several hundred kilometres north of the capital, N'Djamena, at the weekend to visit troops battling rebels belonging to a group calling itself Fact (the Front for Change and Concord in Chad).\n\nA state funeral is due to take place on Friday.\n\nA military council led by Déby's son, a 37-year-old four star general, will govern for the next 18 months.\n\nMahamat Idriss Déby Itno will lead the council, but \"free and democratic\" elections will be held once the transition period is over, the army said in its statement.\n\nHe later issued a statement naming the 14 other generals who will make up the new governing body.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Beverly Ochieng This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nExperts have told the BBC and other broadcasters that the move is unconstitutional, and that the speaker of parliament should take over when a sitting president dies before organising elections.\n\nAhead of the election on 11 April, Déby campaigned on a platform of bringing peace and security to the region. Provisional results showed he had 80% of the vote.\n\nBut there had been growing unhappiness over his government's management of Chad's oil resources.\n\nIdriss Déby was known as that rare thing - a true warrior president. The former rebel and trained pilot was the opposite of an armchair general.\n\nFor 30 years, he clung to power in Chad - a vast nation that straddles the Sahara and is surrounded by some of the continent's most protracted conflicts.\n\nAnd Déby had a hand in every one of them - from Darfur to Libya, Mali, Nigeria and the Central African Republic. His troops were among the most battle-hardened on the planet.\n\nDomestically, he had become an increasingly autocratic figure. His latest election victory saw him claim nearly 80% of the vote.\n\nIt is unclear if the poor, feuding, brittle state he leaves behind can manage a smooth transition.\n\nAnd there are wider concerns too. For years, President Déby was the West's indispensable ally in the war against Islamist militants - in Mali, Niger and beyond.\n\nHis death leaves a vacuum that many may now fight to fill.\n\nIn a statement, the French presidency described Mr Déby as a \"brave friend\" and said it affirmed its attachment to the stability of Chad. Over the years, France has deployed troops and fighter jets to push back Mr Déby's opponents.\n\nChadian forces are considered to be the most effective of the Western-backed \"G5\" countries fighting Islamist militants in the Sahel region.\n\nAnd it has often proved to be the more stable country in a region that includes Libya, Sudan and the Central African Republic - where armed groups roam freely and trade in weapons and lucrative resources that fuel conflict, says the BBC's Catherine Byaruhanga.\n\nFounded in 2016 by disillusioned former army officers, the rebel Fact group accuses President Déby of repression in the run-up to the election.\n\nThey built up their base in Libya in the Tibesti mountains, which straddle northern Chad and part of southern Libya.\n\nOn election day, the group mounted an attack on a border post and gradually advanced on N'Djamena.\n\nThe latest clashes began on Saturday. The army says that 300 insurgents were killed and 150 captured. Five government soldiers were killed and 36 injured, it says. The figures could not immediately be verified.\n\nSome foreign embassies in the capital have urged their staff to leave.\n\nA former BBC journalist in N'Djamena says the situation there seemed relatively calm:\n\n\"The news is filtering through to people, but the city is calm and people are just shocked to hear that actually, because many people didn't even know that he [President Déby] was wounded or that he was at the frontline,\" said Mahamat Adamou.\n\n\"In the street in downtown, there are armoured vehicles that are posted at key road junctions. Of course, there is a sense of 'What is going to happen?'. But not more than that.\"\n\nN'Djamena has come under rebel attack before and there was panic in the city on Monday, with parents taking their children home from school, when tanks were deployed along the main roads.\n\n1) It is named after Lake Chad. This is the second-largest lake in Africa, but has shrunk by 90% since the 1960s. Its basin covers parts of Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon, and is a water source for between 20 million and 30 million people.\n\n2) The Sahara Desert roughly covers one third of the country. Much of the north is desert and home to a mere 1% of Chad's population. The south has large expanses of wooded savannahs and woodlands.\n\n3) Remains of a seven-million-year-old human-like creature - or hominid - known as \"Toumai\" were unearthed in 2001. Its discoverers argued that Toumai was the oldest hominid known to science.\n\n4) Chad became an oil-producing nation in 2003, with the completion of a $4bn (£2.87bn) pipeline linking its oilfields to terminals on the Atlantic coast. The industry has been plagued by allegations of corruption.\n\n5) Agriculture is the main source of livelihood for most people - cotton is grown in the south, and exported to Europe and the US.", "Asda's sale to forecourt tycoons the Issa brothers could raise petrol prices in some parts of the UK, the competition watchdog has warned.\n\nThe Competition and Markets Authority found \"local competition concerns\" regarding fuel in 37 areas in the UK.\n\nZuber and Mohsin Issa, and TDR Capital, agreed to buy Asda for £6.8bn last year. However, they also own 395 UK petrol stations while Asda owns 323.\n\nThe Issa brothers said they would work with the CMA to find a solution.\n\nThe deal to buy the UK's third-largest supermarket chain from its US owner Walmart was announced in October last year.\n\nHowever, the CMA launched an initial inquiry into the takeover in December to see if it would lead to a \"substantial lessening of competition\".\n\nFollowing the competition body's initial findings, the buyers now have five working days to address its concerns and avoid a more in-depth investigation.\n\nJoel Bamford, CMA senior director of mergers, said: \"Our job is to protect consumers by making sure there continues to be strong competition between petrol stations, which leads to lower prices at the pump.\n\n\"These are two key players in the market, and it's important that we thoroughly analyse the deal to make sure that people don't end up paying over the odds.\n\n\"Right now, we're concerned the merger could lead to higher prices for motorists in certain parts of the UK. However, if the companies can provide a clear-cut solution to address our concerns, we won't carry out an in-depth Phase 2 investigation.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the Issa brothers and TDR Capital said: \"We will be working constructively with the CMA over the course of the next 10 days in order to arrive at a satisfactory outcome for all parties within Phase 1.\n\n\"This would provide welcome certainty for our colleagues, suppliers and customers, and allow us to move forward with our exciting plans for investment and growth at Asda.\"", "It was a tense day at the White House. It began with Joe Biden saying he was praying for the “right verdict” in the Derek Chauvin trial, and his press secretary spending much of her subsequent news conference deflecting questions about whether that was a reckless statement.\n\nIt ended with the president and Vice-President Kamala Harris marking what they said was a just resolution to the case.\n\nTheir statements were delivered in the Cross Hall of the White House - the same location Barack Obama chose to announce the killing of Osama bin Laden.\n\nThe message was clear, that this was another historic day; another victory for justice. Biden warned, however, that the verdict was just a “step forward”, and “not enough”.\n\nBoth he and Harris specifically pointed to a history of systemic racism in the US, which Biden called a “stain on our nation’s soul\".\n\nTo overcome that history, he said, requires lawmakers to act and for the American people to continue to work.\n\nIt shouldn’t take a “murder in the full light of day”, captured on video and stretched over nine minutes, as Biden said, to get the nation’s attention anymore.", "Tory MP Johnny Mercer says he was \"forced\" to resign as a defence minister over the treatment of veterans who served in Northern Ireland.\n\nNo 10 confirmed his exit on Tuesday - ahead of the Overseas Operations Bill returning to the Commons on Wednesday.\n\nThe new law is designed to protect veterans from unfounded prosecutions.\n\nBut British soldiers who served in Northern Ireland will be excluded from the bill. Mr Mercer called that a \"red line\" for him staying in government.\n\nIn response, Boris Johnson said the government was \"committed to doing more over the coming months, including for those who have served in Northern Ireland\".\n\nA No 10 spokesperson said Prime Minister Boris Johnson had \"accepted\" Mr Mercer's resignation and thanked him for his service as a minister.\n\nBut posting a resignation letter on Twitter immediately afterwards, Mr Mercer said he had been \"relieved of my responsibilities in government\".\n\nThe MP - who is a former Army captain - wrote that the government had \"abandoned people in a way I simply cannot reconcile\" in allowing \"endless investigations\" into historic killings to continue.\n\nHe added: \"Veterans are being sectioned, drinking themselves to death and dying well before their time, simply because the UK government cannot find the moral strength or courage we asked of them in bringing peace to Northern Ireland in finding a political solution to stop these appalling injustices.\"\n\nPlans were announced last year by the government to restrict the number of Troubles killings which could be fully investigated under a new approach where \"new, compelling evidence\" would be required.\n\nBut the Overseas Operations Bill would go further for other veterans, such as those who served in Iraq or Afghanistan, proposing a five-year limit on criminal prosecutions.\n\nSix former soldiers who served in Northern Ireland during the Troubles are currently facing prosecution.\n\nIn 2019, the Public Prosecution Service in Northern Ireland said of 32 \"legacy cases\" it had ruled on since 2012, 17 related to republicans, eight to loyalists, and five were connected to the Army.\n\nIn his letter, Mr Mercer said \"no discernible efforts have been made\" to introduce similar legislation to cover Northern Ireland veterans, despite previous pledges, adding: \"I can see no prospect of this changing.\"\n\nBoris Johnson says the Overseas Operations Bill will address \"vexatious\" claims against veterans\n\nThe Tory MP said he was \"deeply proud of my predecessors who served in Northern Ireland\", adding they were \"not second-class veterans\" and deserved \"the protection of the Overseas Operations Bill like everyone else\".\n\nNo 10 later shared a letter from the PM to Mr Mercer, thanking him for \"highlighting the importance of legislating to protect our Armed Forces against vexatious and repeated claims\".\n\nMr Johnson wrote: \"The conclusion of the enactment of the Overseas Operations Bill is a crucial part of that, addressing veterans who have served overseas.\n\n\"But we are committed to doing more over the coming months, including for those who have served in Northern Ireland.\"\n\nWhile the government has not moved on Mr Mercer's calls, it has changed course over another contentious part of the bill, ahead of the debate on Wednesday.\n\nThe law had come under fierce criticism by human rights groups, former military commanders and lawyers for including a \"presumption against prosecution\" after the five-year time frame for the most serious of crimes - namely torture, genocide and crimes against humanity.\n\nLabour's Lord Roberts brought an amendment to the bill in the House of Lords to ensure the rule does not apply for those actions, which won the support of peers.\n\nAnd now, ahead of the debate, the Ministry of Justice has conceded to the amendment, promising to exclude torture, genocide and crimes against humanity from the rule.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Ministry of Defence said: \"Whilst we maintain nothing in this bill prevents those accused of breaking the law from being prosecuted, we have listened to concerns, and in order to send a powerful message to the international community, amendments will be made to the Overseas Operations Bill.\"\n\nHowever, the department confirmed it would seek to overturn three other amendments agreed by peers earlier this month.", "Nicola Sturgeon believes a simple majority is the way the SNP will make progress on Scottish independence\n\nThe leader of the SNP has insisted her party was \"not divided\".\n\nSpeaking on BBC Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme, Nicola Sturgeon said her aim at May's Holyrood election was winning a \"simple majority\".\n\nShe rejected Alex Salmond's idea of creating a \"super majority\" by encouraging voters to back his newly-formed Alba Party on the regional list.\n\nThe former first minister said he wanted to work with an SNP government to advance the cause of independence.\n\nHe told the BBC's Today programme that that cause was \"much, much bigger than personalities\".\n\nMs Sturgeon denied that the SNP was suffering from internal issues and said support had \"never been higher\".\n\nShe explained: \"I know I lead a party that has a growing membership just now and has a commanding position in the opinion polls.\n\n\"The breakdown of opinion polls that tests the views and attitudes of SNP voters show the SNP is actually the most united of all the parties in Scotland.\"\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\nMs Sturgeon went to say that she was concentrating on winning a \"simple majority\" and if people wanted an SNP government, and her as first minister, then voting for the nationalists was the only way to bring that about.\n\nShe said: \"You only have to cast your mind back to the days when Alex Salmond was leader of the SNP and he didn't say what he is saying now.\n\n\"What he said then, and he was right then, is that the only way to make sure you get the government you want is to vote for the party that will be that government.\n\n\"Anything else is trying to gamble with the system, game the system, take a chance on the outcome of the election.\n\n\"If you want to see an SNP government elected that then has the ability to deliver an independence referendum, you don't get that by voting for somebody else.\"\n\nNicola Sturgeon insists that there is no split within the independence movement.\n\nBut it is inescapable that at the same moment she was being interviewed on Radio Scotland, her predecessor Alex Salmond was speaking on Radio 4 as the leader of a rival party.\n\nThe two were once an inseparable double act atop the SNP, which took Scotland to the brink of independence. But he has now formed his own breakaway group, populated with defectors from the SNP including two sitting MPs.\n\nThe fact that many of these defectors have left the SNP over various policy differences means there is sure to be friction between their manifesto pledges too.\n\nSo, Mr Salmond's very presence in the race raises questions for Ms Sturgeon - even over her core objective of independence, which her party can no longer own as home turf. She now has to spend precious time talking about his vision, instead of her own.\n\nBoth leaders may insist that their campaigns will be positive and do not pose a threat to the cause they share, but in many ways Holyrood is no longer big enough for the both of them.\n\nMs Sturgeon told listeners that two things were required to win independence - a majority in the Scottish Parliament to bring about a referendum and, \"crucially\", winning majority support among the Scottish population.\n\nShe said: \"Anybody who tries to suggest there's a shortcut to that, or that we can somehow game or trick our way to independence, frankly, is misleading people. It's got to be through a process that is not just legitimate but seen to be legitimate so that it can command respect and authority at home and internationally as well.\"\n\nOn SNP politicians leaving the party to stand at the Holyrood election for the Alba Party she said she was \"not sure it is as many as Mr Salmond might have been hoping for\".\n\nShe added: \"I also don't think this is a friendly gesture on Mr Salmond's part towards the SNP.\"\n\nMr Salmond said he wanted to work with an SNP government to advance the cause of independence\n\nLast week, former SNP leader Mr Salmond announced the creation of a new pro-independence party.\n\nHe said the Alba Party would not field candidates in any of the 73 constituency seats - but the party will field four candidates in each of the eight regional lists.\n\nSpeaking on Today, Mr Salmond said that securing a \"super majority\" of pro-independence parties at Holyrood would \"strengthen immeasurably Scotland's hand in negotiating with a Tory PM\".\n\nHe added: \"From 2007 to 2011 I was first minister and I was negotiated first with Gordon Brown.\n\n\"No Tory PM will want to be to trying to face down an entire parliament and an entire people.\"\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said Ms Sturgeon's comments were \"the clearest sign yet that the SNP will put another referendum before Scotland's recovery.\"\n\nHe added: \"The Institute for Fiscal Studies demonstrated this week that higher levels of public spending in Scotland is possible because we're part of the United Kingdom.\n\n\"The UK furlough scheme is still protecting Scottish jobs and people are still getting Covid jags in their arms - but Nicola Sturgeon thinks risking all of that is what's best for Scotland?\"\n\nThe Scottish Liberal Democrats said Ms Sturgeon had \"once again made it very clear that her only priority this election is another independence referendum\".\n\nThe party's campaign chairman, Alistair Carmichael, said: \"This is not what Scotland needs.\n\n\"Scotland needs a needle-sharp focus on green and secure jobs, a plan to help education bounce back and supporting the NHS and mental health.\"\n\nScottish Labour has said the focus of the next parliament should be on recovering from the pandemic and rebuilding the country's economy and health service rather than arguing about the constitution.\n\nBut the Scottish Greens believe a referendum is needed within the next five years because \"decisions about Scotland should be made by the Scottish people.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAn investigation by BBC Africa Eye has uncovered evidence that a massacre in northern Ethiopia was carried out by members of the Ethiopian military. It also reveals the precise location of the atrocity, in which at least 15 men were killed.\n\nIn early March, a series of five video clips surfaced on social media showing armed, uniformed men leading a group of unarmed men to the edge of a cliff, shooting some at point blank range, and pushing dead bodies over the cliff.\n\nUnarmed men in civilian clothes seen on the ground shortly before the massacre began\n\nThe BBC has confirmed that the massacre took place close to the town of Mahbere Dego in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region, where the Ethiopian army is fighting the forces of the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), previously the region's ruling party.\n\nThe fighting began last November when the government launched a military offensive against the TPLF, which Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed accused of attacking a government military base. The TPLF is opposed to efforts by Mr Abiy to increase the power of the federal government, and has said it is committed to \"extended resistance\".\n\nThe conflict has so far displaced more than two million people, according to Tigray's interim administration, and left more than four million people in need of aid.\n\nThe BBC Africa Eye investigations team, working together with analysts from the media outlets Bellingcat and Newsy, set out to establish where the massacre took place.\n\nThe first people to post the clips to social media claimed they were filmed near Mahbere Dego. Africa Eye analysed geographical features seen in the videos, including a dirt road, a plateau, and an escarpment with a distinctive profile, and compared them with satellite imagery of the area around the town.\n\nAn escarpment with a distinctive profile was used to compare the footage with satellite imagery\n\nThe direction and length of shadows cast by the armed men helped to pinpoint the likely time of day and showed that the escarpment was oriented north-south, allowing Africa Eye to identify a likely location.\n\nA ridgeline in the video footage was then overlaid on a topographical map of the location to confirm it was an exact match. A dry riverbed, band of vegetation, and pattern of trees further confirmed the match.\n\nFootage from one of the video clips was overlaid on a 3D rendering of the terrain to find a match\n\nVegetation seen in the footage was matched against the 3D satellite model\n\nThe BBC spoke by phone to a resident of Mahbere Dego, who said the Ethiopian army took away 73 men from the town and surrounding area in January this year, including three of his relatives. He said none of them had been heard from since.\n\nThe BBC also spoke to a resident in a neighbouring village who said that his brother was among those killed in this massacre. He said that the killings took place in Mahbere Dego, and gave the same month: January 2021 - the government had declared victory in the conflict in November.\n\n\"They killed them at the cliff,\" he said.\n\nAfrica Eye was not able to confirm the identities of the armed men seen in the video footage, but the details of their uniforms - including the camouflage pattern and arm badge in the colour of the Ethiopian flag - appear to match those worn by the Ethiopian National Defence Force (ENDF).\n\nOther features also match the ENDF uniform, including the cut and style of the pockets. One of the armed men wears a green beret bearing an insignia that appears to closely match the colour and insignia of the ENDF beret.\n\nBadges in the colour of the Ethiopian flag and the specific camouflage patterns seen on the armed men in the footage (right) match those worn by ENDF soldiers (left).\n\nThe armed men are speaking Amharic, the main official language of Ethiopia. In the first of the five video clips, they can be heard speaking to one another as they stand around the group of unarmed men, who are seated on the floor.\n\n\"We should not free these people. Not even one of them should be spared,\" says a voice off camera.\n\n\"We have to get this on video, how these people die,\" says another voice.\n\nMore about the conflict in Tigray:\n\nThe next four clips show the unarmed men being led at gunpoint towards the cliff edge, and capture the armed men killing several prisoners and pushing the bodies of the dead over the cliff.\n\nIn some sections of the footage, the gunmen can be seen firing bullets from close range into the bodies. In others they can be heard insulting and mocking the dead.\n\n\"I wish we could pour gas over them and burn them,\" says a voice off camera in one clip.\n\n\"It would have been great if there was gas to burn these people,\" replies a second voice. \"Burn their bodies like the Indians do.\"\n\nThe identity of the victims, who are seen wearing civilian clothes, is not known. They can be heard speaking Tigrinya, the language of the Tigray region. In the footage, the killers appear to suggest they believe the victims belong to the TPLF.\n\n\"This is the end of woyane,\" says a voice of one of the armed men, using a slang term for the TPLF.\n\nDisplaced people at a temporary shelter in Tigray last month\n\nLaetitia Bader, the Horn of Africa director for Human Rights Watch, told the BBC that observers had seen \"a whole magnitude of very serious abuses\" in the region in recent months, but that this footage was \"obviously particularly alarming\".\n\n\"We see what appear to be unarmed detained men, who are being executed,\" she said. \"This is absolutely an incident that requires further investigation, because what we are seeing here in these videos could amount to war crimes.\"\n\nThe BBC put the evidence it had gathered to the Ethiopian government, which said in a statement that \"social media posts and claims cannot be taken as evidence\", adding that the Tigray region was \"open for independent investigations to be undertaken\".", "A lack of \"adequate\" funding for schools in England during the pandemic is placing staff and pupils at risk, a teachers' union warns.\n\nThe Nasuwt union says it has reports of redundancies of staff who are vital to Covid safety measures in schools.\n\nOnline delegates at the union's annual conference will also hear about the high pay of academy \"fat cats\".\n\nThe Department for Education has offered support to schools for increased staffing and safety costs.\n\nThe Nasuwt teachers' union is warning of funding shortfalls and job losses in schools, particularly among support staff, who might help with Covid control measures outside of lesson times.\n\n\"It is not an exaggeration to say that the government's failure to fund schools adequately during the coronavirus pandemic is placing at risk staff, pupils and local communities,\" says a report from the union, called \"Where has all the money gone?\".\n\nIn the first lockdown in March 2020, the Department for Education announced funding for additional coronavirus costs in schools such as free school meals and cleaning.\n\nBut the teachers' union says the terms for funding were \"unnecessarily restricted\" - for instance, schools could claim for extra cleaning costs if there was a Covid outbreak, but could not claim for cleaning to prevent an outbreak.\n\nThere were also high costs in some schools for covering teachers kept at home because of the pandemic - but there was limited eligibility for reclaiming staffing costs, says the union.\n\nThe funding report also warns of excessive pay for some leaders of academy trusts.\n\nResearch by the union found the combined salaries of chief executives in the 20 largest academy trusts in 2018-19 cost £4.72m, or an average of £236,000 for each chief executive.\n\nNasuwt president Phil Kemp will tell the conference: \"The snouts have to come out of the trough\" and public money has to be protected from the worst excesses of a deregulated education system, which he likens to the \"Wild West\".\n\nHe will call for a national pay scale \"as soon as possible and measures put in place to ensure all employers in education adhere to it\".\n\nThe annual conference will hear debates about how the poor mental health of some teachers has been exacerbated by unmanageable workloads during the pandemic and challenging pupil behaviour.\n\nOn academy boss pay, the Department for Education (DfE) says: \"We consistently challenge trusts where we deem executive pay to be too high, and will continue to do so when it is neither proportionate nor directly linked to improving pupil outcomes.\"\n\nLast November, the DfE announced a fund to help schools which were hardest-hit by funding pressures from the pandemic - particularly to cover high levels of staff absence.\n\nThere has also been the promise of £1.7bn in catch-up funding for schools to help children recover from the disruption of the pandemic.", "Social media groups involving teenage girls that led to \"suicidal crises\" and \"serious self-harm\" have been uncovered by police, BBC News has learned.\n\nTwelve girls, aged between 12 and 16 years old and from across southern England, were part of an Instagram chat group whose name refers to suicide.\n\nThe group was discovered when three of the girls went missing and were found seriously unwell in London.\n\nInstagram says it found no suicide or self-harm related content in the group.\n\nBBC News has obtained a police briefing about the investigation which discovered the online groups.\n\nIt says \"peer-to-peer influence increased suicidal ideation amongst the children involved to the extent that several escalated to suicidal crises and serious self-harm.\"\n\nThe group came to the notice of police when three of the girls, who had been reported missing, travelled by train to meet in London.\n\nThey were found seriously unwell in a street and taken by ambulance to hospital for emergency treatment.\n\nOne of the girls mentioned they had first met each other online and discussed suicide, according to the briefing which was published on 25 March.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. After Molly Russell took her own life, her family discovered distressing material about suicide on her Instagram account\n\nPolice officers then examined digital devices to identify the name of the online group and its other members.\n\nSeven of the 12 girls had self-harmed prior to being traced by the police. Children's social care services from seven different local authorities have been involved in safeguarding children identified as members of the group.\n\nBBC News understands that some of the children had met on other social media platforms but were part of a closed Instagram group - a direct message thread - whose title explicitly mentions the words \"suicide\" and \"missing\".\n\nIn November 2020, Instagram introduced new technology to recognise self-harm and suicide content on its app.\n\nFears about the impact of this content on young and vulnerable people been raised since 14-year-old schoolgirl Molly Russell killed herself after seeing graphic images on the platform.\n\nMolly's father, Ian, told the BBC at the time that the \"pushy algorithms\" of social media \"helped kill my daughter\".\n\nFacebook, which owns Instagram, does not deny that the name of the closed group referenced \"suicide\" but says it has not been removed from the platform because the content of the messages does not break its rules.\n\nIn a statement, a company spokesperson said it was co-operating with the police.\n\n\"[We] reviewed reports but found no content that broke our rules, nor in fact any suicide or self-harm related content,\" they said.\n\n\"We don't allow graphic content, or content that promotes or encourages suicide or self-harm, and will remove it when we find it.\n\n\"We'll continue to support the police and will respond to any valid legal request for information.\"\n\nBritish Transport Police, which led the investigation, declined to comment.\n\nIf you've been affected by issues raised in this story, sources of support are available via the BBC Action Line here.\n\nYou can call Samaritans free on 116 123, email them at jo@samaritans.org, or visit www.samaritans.org to find your nearest branch.", "The \"stay at home\" message remains in place over Easter\n\nThe health minister has appealed for people to stay safe over the Easter holiday.\n\nWhile some regulations have been eased this week, the \"stay at home\" message remains.\n\nRobin Swann said he understood the frustration of facing another holiday with Covid-19 restrictions in place.\n\nThe warning comes as BBC News NI learns that Belfast City Hospital is closing as Northern Ireland's Nightingale Hospital in the next couple of days.\n\nThe hospital was re-established last October and expanded in January to deal with the surging number of cases, but officials have said in recent weeks that the hospital would be wound down as case numbers have dropped.\n\nWith the beginning of the Easter holidays, Mr Swann said he wanted \"people not to let their frustrations affect their judgement\".\n\n\"These restrictions are in place to protect us from a vicious virus that has brought great tragedy to so many families.\n\n\"When we are following them, we are helping keep ourselves and others safe - and helping our community get to a better place.\"\n\nThere are concerns that the good weather will encourage people to go out more than they have been able to.\n\nThe minister advised people to continue to avoid crowded places, especially where social distancing is difficult or not possible.\n\n\"Stay at home as much as possible and stay local when you are enjoying the great outdoors.\n\n\"Make fresh air your friend this Easter weekend - outdoors is much safer than indoors. Please please don't mix indoors with people from other households.\"\n\nIn a joint statement, First Minister Arlene Foster and Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said people can \"look forward with hope\".\n\n\"I would ask people to take a moment this Easter Sunday to remember all those we have lost and those who are continuing to experience pain and hardship,\" said Arlene Foster.\n\n\"For those of faith this can be through a time of prayer, as discussed recently with church leaders.\"\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said that Easter will be \"a time of mixed emotions for many\".\n\n\"Thankfully this year, with the success of our vaccination programme and the gradual easing of restrictions, we can all look to the future together with hope and optimism,\" she added.\n\nPolice Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) Assistant Chief Constable Alan Todd echoed Mr Swann's appeal for people to be mindful of Covid regulations.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Police Newry, Mourne and Down\n\n\"We understand that people may be frustrated and are keen to return to normal but the fact remains that we are still in the midst of a pandemic and the choices we make have the potential to influence the road map out of the current lockdown,\" he said.\n\n\"The regulations also direct that no person may leave or remain away from home without reasonable excuse.\n\n\"Travel or stay at holiday accommodation does not constitute reasonable excuse and we are asking everyone to continue to postpone their visits to holiday accommodation until the regulations change.\"\n\nPre-pandemic, many people enjoyed visits to beauty spots, such as Portrush, over Easter\n\nFrom 1 April, people in Northern Ireland have been able to meet in groups of up to six from no more than two households in private gardens.\n\nUp to 10 people from no more than two households can meet for some outdoor sporting activities in a public place or sports club.\n\nWith more than three-quarters of a million people having received their first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine, the Department of Health has also published advice about how those who have been vaccinated should continue to follow public health advice.\n\nIt reiterates that the guidance on social distancing, hand-washing and face coverings still applies, and that the virus spreads easily in enclosed indoor spaces.", "Sachin Tendulkar said he was experiencing mild symptoms after testing positive for Covid-19\n\nIndian cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar, who tested positive for Covid-19 last week, has been admitted to hospital.\n\nTendulkar tweeted on Friday that he decided to go to a hospital in Mumbai \"as a matter of abundant precaution under medical advice\".\n\nThe former captain, who is loved by millions, added that he was hoping to be back home in a few days.\n\nSeveral Indian cities, including Mumbai, have seen a sharp rise in Covid-19 cases in the past few weeks.\n\nTendulkar, 47, shared the news at a time when India is staring at what experts have called a \"deadlier second wave\".\n\nIndia reported 81,466 news cases and 469 deaths on Thursday - the highest daily spike since December.\n\nThe country's Covid caseload had dropped sharply in January when it was reporting less than 15,000 cases daily. But cases began to spike again in March, largely driven by poor test-and-trace and lax safety protocols.\n\nMany of the new cases were reported in the western state of Maharashtra, where Tendulkar lives in the city of Mumbai.\n\nSince the pandemic began, India has confirmed more than 12.2 million cases and over 163,000 deaths. It has the third-highest number of infections in the world after the United States and Brazil - however, its number of deaths per capita is far lower.\n\nIndia has registered 118 deaths per million, compared to 1,487 in Brazil and 1,668 in the US.\n\nIndia launched its vaccination drive in January and so far more than 65 million doses have been administered. But experts say the pace needs to further pick up to halt the spread.\n\nSome have also attributed the uptick in numbers to a highly contagious variants of the coronavirus, but the government has denied this.\n\nThe surge in cases comes during what some experts have called a \"delicate phase\" of the pandemic for India.\n\nStates are now reintroducing restrictions to stem the spread of the virus.\n\nIn his tweet, Tendulkar thanked his fans for their wishes and prayers.\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHis fans and many of his former teammates have responded with prayers for his recovery.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 𝐀.𝐆. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNicknamed the Master Blaster, Tendulkar retired from cricket in 2013 but continues to be one of the most popular public figures in India.\n\nHe recently took part in the Road Safety World Series Challenge, a veterans' tournament in the central Indian city of Raipur.\n\nHe made his international debut aged 16 in November 1989, setting off an illustrious 24-year career that earned him global recognition.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn that time, he amassed a record 15,921 Test-match runs, the highest number by any batsman in cricket history.\n\nIn 2012, Tendulkar became the only batsman ever to reach 100 international centuries.\n\nOne of his most memorable Test centuries was an unbeaten 103 that inspired India's victory over England in December 2008, and came shortly after terror attacks hit his home city of Mumbai.", "Pfizer says its vaccine is preventing 91% of coronavirus cases in the six months after people are immunised.\n\nAnd a separate study shows even people in their 80s and 90s are producing impressive levels of antibodies after receiving both doses of the vaccine.\n\nOnly 63% of them, however, also produce the T-cells that help maintain those antibodies in the longer term.\n\nAnd the crucial question of how long the protection from the vaccine lasts remains unanswered.\n\nPfizer analysed data from 46,000 people on the original clinical trial, exactly six months after their second dose.\n\nIt also looked at 800 trial participants in South Africa and concluded the vaccine was equally effective against the variant identified there - despite laboratory studies suggesting people's antibodies were less effective at attacking this variant.\n\n\"The high vaccine efficacy observed through up to six months following a second dose and against the variant prevalent in South Africa provides further confidence in our vaccine's overall effectiveness,\" chairman and chief executive officer Albert Bourla said.\n\nSimilar, long-term studies are taking place for all the vaccines including Oxford-AstraZeneca, but Pfizer has been the first to report.\n\nSeparate research by the University of Birmingham looked at what happened to the immune systems of 100 80- to and 96-year-olds.\n\nBlood samples showed high levels of antibodies able to effectively neutralise the original coronavirus.\n\nAgainst the variant identified Brazil, however, they were 14 times less effective.\n\nAlthough, the researchers were confident those who had received the Pfizer vaccine would still be protected against the Brazil variant because their levels of antibodies were so high.\n\nHowever, only 63% of people in this age group produced a detectable T-cell response.\n\n\"It is not clear what that means for clinical protection in the longer term,\" one of the researchers, Dr Helen Parry, said.\n\nT-cells can kill the cells in the body that have been hijacked and turned into coronavirus factories.\n\nBut they also help maintain levels of antibodies over time.\n\n\"That's something we'll keep an eye on very closely,\" researcher Prof Paul Moss said.", "A mother and daughter reunited in a care home in south London when visiting rules were first eased in March\n\nCare home residents in England will be allowed two regular visitors indoors from 12 April, the government has said.\n\nCurrently people in care homes can have just one face-to-face visitor, but as part of the next step of lockdown easing it will be extended to two.\n\nThey will be able to hold hands - but visitors must be tested and wear PPE.\n\nVisitors will also be able to bring babies and young children with them, meaning some residents could meet grandchildren for the first time.\n\nPeople living in care homes were first allowed one regular, nominated visitor again in early March - leading to many loved ones finally being reunited after lockdown.\n\nThe government has now said that from 12 April - which is the date for the planned next step of lifting lockdown - visitor numbers can be increased because of a drop in community infection rates and the vaccine rollout.\n\nBabies and toddlers will also be able to accompany visitors, and will not be counted as one of the two.\n\nHowever, the age of young children included has yet to be announced and the government said full guidance will be published later this week.\n\nMeanwhile, the essential care giver scheme - whereby relatives or specially trained assistants to residents with particularly complex needs have greater access to a home - will also continue, the government said.\n\nThe scheme was set up to help residents with advanced dementia, some autistic people and residents with a learning disability who needed a particular person to provide certain aspects of their care.\n\nMore than £340m of government funding has been earmarked to extend rapid testing to care homes and free PPE (personal protective equipment) until March 2022.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ruthie Henshall: \"It is beautiful to see the joy in her\"\n\nActor Ruthie Henshall is an essential care giver for her mother Gloria, who has dementia and lives in a care home.\n\nThey were recently reunited as rules on visiting care homes were eased, and Ruthie says that \"the light is back on in her [mother's] eyes\".\n\nShe told BBC Breakfast she was shocked at how much her mother had \"gone downhill\" over the last year, but that the difference in her mental health in just two weeks was \"incredible\".\n\n\"She's saying words again, and she's not been saying anything,\" she said.\n\n\"It is beautiful to see the joy in her and it is absolutely imperative that people get to see their loved ones. We are running out of time with our loved ones.\"\n\nRuthie can now go into the care home and feed her mother lunch, read to her or sing her favourite songs - Someone to Watch Over Me or I Dreamed A Dream.\n\nShe stressed care giving does not always have to be about changing and dressing a loved one. \"It is performing a something for her that is good for her care and wellbeing,\" she said.\n\nRuthie welcomed the announcement on visits, saying it was \"vital that we get family in\".\n\n\"The entertainment, the people, the life. It all comes in, they can't go out,\" she said.\n\nThe government also said that in the coming weeks, some visitors will be able to take tests at home rather than having them done at the care home.\n\n\"Our aim is to make visiting to care homes as normal as possible by the summer,\" said the government's care minister, Helen Whately.\n\nShe said the government continued to \"follow the science\", but that \"things are looking up\".\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson added: \"I'm particularly pleased to allow residents to have more visitors, including grandchildren, given the isolation and concern felt by so many this past year.\"\n\nIn addition, outdoor visits - as well as those inside pods or behind screens - will be able to continue for people who are not nominated as a regular visitor.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Anne Thompson holds hands with her mum Kathleen for the first time in months as care home visiting rules are eased in England in March\n\nThe announcement on visits was welcomed by Mike Padgham, the chairman of industry body the Independent Care Group - but called for residents aged over-65 to be allowed to take trips outside homes.\n\nAccording to the latest government guidance - which is facing a legal challenge - trips to see family or friends \"should only be considered\" for under-65s while national Covid restrictions apply because they increase the risk of bringing Covid into a home.\n\nBut campaigners say the ban is unlawful.\n\nMr Padgham, who runs four homes in North Yorkshire, said: \"It is hard to object to a party of over-65s going out in a minibus, for example, to enjoy a change of scenery and some fresh air, provided they were careful.\n\n\"We would like to see the government give greater guidance on this going forward.\"\n\nIn Scotland, care home residents are allowed to choose two people to visit indoors once a week, while in Wales, indoor care home visits are allowed for one visitor.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, government guidance states that where possible, visiting should be facilitated where there are well ventilated designated rooms or visiting pods - but families are still being denied visits, the nation's older people's commissioner has claimed.\n\nIt comes as a further 52 people died within 28 days of testing positive for coronavirus, according to UK government figures released on Friday - although the data does not include Wales.\n\nThe number of cases also increased by 3,402 - the lowest daily rise reported since mid-September, although again the figures do not include Wales.\n\nMore than 4.9 million people are now fully vaccinated with both doses, while in total 31.3 million first doses have been given.\n\nAs the Easter Bank Holiday began on Friday, Boris Johnson urged people to obey the rules and not mix indoors, even if they are vaccinated.\n\nHow will the increase in visitor numbers at care homes affect you? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also 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.", "Nathan Baggaley was a double silver-medallist at the 2004 Athens Olympics and three-times world champion\n\nAn Australian Olympic kayaker and his brother have been found guilty of attempting to smuggle A$200m ($152m; £109m) of cocaine into the country.\n\nNathan Baggaley and Dru Baggaley will be sentenced later this month. Both have pleaded not guilty.\n\nDru and another man were arrested in 2018 after a dramatic police chase at sea that also involved the navy and air force.\n\nNathan purchased the boat used in the incident.\n\nDru and the other man, Anthony Draper, made an 11-hour journey in June 2018 to meet up with a foreign ship that was carrying the drugs.\n\nHowever, they were spotted by surveillance planes and followed by a navy ship. Footage captured Dru throwing packages of cocaine overboard while Draper attempted to get away from the ship.\n\nThey were later caught by a Queensland police vessel off the coast and arrested by armed officers.\n\nDru claims that he thought he was collecting tobacco and not cocaine and said he was kidnapped by Draper and made to go on the voyage. He said Draper threatened his family if he didn't help him.\n\nHowever, Draper claimed he was recruited by Dru to drive the boat and alleged he was told they were picking up \"smoko\" which he assumed was marijuana.\n\nDraper pleaded guilty to importing cocaine earlier this year but his sentence was reduced for testifying against the Baggaley brothers.\n\nProsecutors say Nathan - a double silver-medallist at the Athens Olympics - was involved in the plan, purchasing the boat and fitting it with a satellite phone and a navigation system.\n\nBut he said in court that the boat was purchased with money given to him by Dru and said he was told it would be used to start a whale watching business, ABC News reports.\n\nHis fingerprints were also discovered on tape used to conceal the boat's registration number.\n\nIt isn't the first time the two brothers have been charged with drug offences. They have previously been convicted of involvement in a drug manufacturing group that made hallucinogenic tablets. They were also convicted in 2009 on other drug charges.\n\nAccording to ABC News, they could both face life in prison.", "Witnesses to the arrest of George Floyd have given emotional testimony about being at the scene of Mr Floyd's arrest.\n\nMr Floyd's girlfriend, the teenager who filmed the viral video from the scene and a city fire-fighter who begged police to check Mr Floyd's pulse are among those who have testified they watched Mr Floyd under the knee of ex-police officer Derek Chauvin.\n\nThe former officer denies charges of murder and manslaughter, and his defence team heard from a police officer who responded to the scene of Mr Floyd's arrest, a use-of-force expert and a forensic pathologist.\n\nMr Chauvin has decided not to testify, invoking his Fifth Amendment right under the constitution to stay silent and avoid self-incrimination.\n\nHere's what we've heard so far.\n\n'I had lost a lot of faith in God when I met George'\n\nMr Floyd's girlfriend of the last three years, Courteney Ross, provided some of the most emotional testimony of the trial. She is, to date, the only witness to take the stand who personally knew Mr Floyd.\n\nShe described their first meeting in the lobby of a Salvation Army homeless shelter, where Mr Floyd worked as a security guard.\n\nMs Ross was waiting to see the father of her son, and she said Mr Floyd asked her to pray with him, a memorable and \"sweet\" gesture at a time when she \"had lost a lot of faith in God\".\n\nShe said it was \"one of my favourite stories to tell\". The couple shared their first kiss that night, she said.\n\nMs Ross also told the court they both suffered from chronic pain, which led to an off and on struggle with opioid addiction.\n\n\"We got addicted and tried really hard to break that addiction many times,\" she testified.\n\nShe did not specifically address whether Mr Floyd was using opioids on the day he died.\n\n'If I would have just not taken the bill, this could have been avoided'\n\nThe teenage store clerk who says he believes that Mr Floyd unknowingly paid for cigarettes with a fake $20 bill told the court he was grappling with feelings of guilt over Mr Floyd's death.\n\nMr Martin, 19, said he had also been living in the building above Cup Foods, but moved after the incident and stopped working at the store.\n\nHe said Mr Floyd \"appeared to be high\" that day because he struggled to respond to a simple question, but that he was lucid enough to hold a conversation. He described Mr Floyd as \"friendly and approachable\".\n\nMr Martin, who witnessed the arrest, said he felt \"disbelief and guilt\" because \"if I'd have just not taken the bill, this could have been avoided\".\n\n'I did call the police on the police'\n\nAmong those to testify was a security guard and former wrestler trained in mixed martial arts who was heard in the viral video of Mr Floyd's arrest calling the officers \"punks\" and \"murderers\".\n\nMr Williams, 33, had gone fishing with his son earlier that day, and had gone to Cup Foods to get a drink.\n\n\"I did call the police on the police. I believe I witnessed a murder. I felt the need to call the police on the police,\" he testified.\n\n\"That was bogus, what they just did,\" he told the 911 dispatcher, according to a recording of the call played in court.\n\nMr Williams alleged he witnessed Mr Chauvin use a \"blood choke\" to cut off the airway, and a \"shimmy\" hold to keep up the pressure on Mr Floyd.\n\nHe said he watched Mr Floyd's life \"fade away, like a fish in a bag\".\n\nUnder cross-examination, he took issue with the notion that he and the crowd were growing \"angrier and angrier\".\n\nHe said his words \"grew more and more pleading for life\", as Mr Floyd fell unconscious.\n\nWhen defence lawyer Eric Nelson repeated the question, Mr Williams again objected.\n\n\"I grew professional and professional,\" he said. \"I stayed in my body. You can't paint me out to be angry.\"\n\n'It's not part of our training and it's certainly not part of our ethics or values'\n\nThe Minneapolis police chief, who oversees around 800 officers in the city, was one of the most high profile witnesses for the prosecution.\n\nChief Arradondo, the city's first African-American police chief, fired Mr Chauvin one day after the arrest and previously condemned his actions as \"murder\".\n\nDuring the trial, he testified that Mr Chauvin violated police procedures.\n\nHe said that Mr Chauvin had shown some \"initial reasonableness\" when he used force on Mr Floyd as he resisting getting in the back of the police car.\n\nBut when Mr Floyd had stopped resisting and \"clearly when Mr Floyd was no longer responsive and even motionless, to continue to apply that level of force to a person prone out, hands cuffed behind their back - that in no way, shape or form is anything that is by policy,\" Chief Arradondo said.\n\n\"It's not part of our training and it's certainly not part of our ethics or values.\"\n\n'My instincts were telling me something is wrong'\n\nThe first witness called to testify was a 911 dispatcher who had sent police to Cup Foods, where Mr Floyd had allegedly bought cigarettes with a counterfeit bill.\n\nMs Scurry watched the arrest unfold on a live CCTV feed on a camera across the street from the shop, and thought that the video had \"frozen\" due to how long the three officers remained on top of Mr Floyd.\n\n\"They were still on the ground. That whole situation was still the same,\" she said, noting that she was also being distracted by other work matters at the time.\n\n\"My instincts were telling me something is wrong, something is not right. I don't know what, but something was not right,\" she said. \"It was an extended period of time.\"\n\nShe called a supervisory sergeant to report what she saw. \"Call me a snitch if you want to,\" she said according to audio of the call, adding \"all of them sat on this man\".\n\n'We're lucky it was video-taped'\n\nThe off-duty Minneapolis city fire-fighter was hoping to have \"a peaceful day\" and went for a walk, she testified.\n\nShe noticed the lights of the police car, and wondered if her co-workers were responding to a fire.\n\n\"As I got closer there was a woman across the street screaming that they were killing him,\" said Ms Hansen, 27, who is also a trained emergency medical technician (EMT).\n\n\"I was concerned to see a handcuffed man who was not moving with officers with their whole body weight on his back and a crowd who was stressed out,\" she said.\n\nMs Hansen described pleading with the officers to check Mr Floyd's pulse and to begin CPR. One officer, she said, told her that \"if you really are a Minneapolis fire-fighter you would know better than to get involved\".\n\nThere were several heated moments during Ms Hansen's cross-examination by the defence.\n\nWhen Mr Chauvin's attorney asked her if the crowd had been \"upset or angry\", she replied: \"I don't know if you've seen anybody be killed, but it's upsetting.\"\n\nIn another testy response after she was challenged over her recollection of the incident, she said: \"We're lucky it was video taped.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe first bystander on the scene of George Floyd's arrest was 61-year-old Charles McMillian, a self-described \"nosy\" resident.\n\nHe pled repeatedly with Mr Floyd to \"get up and get in the car\" and told him \"you can't win\". He also said the officers looked like they were trying to \"hogtie\" him.\n\nWhile viewing graphic footage of the arrest in court, Mr McMillian broke down in tears and was unable to continue his testimony for a while. In the video, the court heard him tell Mr Chauvin: \"Your knee on his neck - that's wrong man.\"\n\nHe described feeling \"helpless\" seeing the incident unfold.\n\nMr McMillian said that he confronted officer Derek Chauvin after Mr Floyd was taken away in an ambulance because \"what I watched was wrong\".\n\n\"I think I said to him: 'Five days ago I told you at the end of the day go home to your family safe, and that the next person go home to their family safe, but today I gotta look at you as a maggot,'\" he said.\n\n'I stay up apologising and apologising to George Floyd'\n\n\"When I look at George Floyd, I look at my dad. I look at my brothers, I look at my cousins, my uncles. Because they are all black,\" said the 18-year-old that filmed the viral video of the arrest.\n\n\"I look at that and I look at how that could have been one of them,\" said Darnella, the first of four witnesses who the judge permitted to speak off-camera because they were minors at the time of the incident.\n\n\"It's been nights I stay up apologising and apologising to George Floyd for not doing more and not physically interacting and not saving his life,\" she continued.\n\n\"But it's not what I should have done. It's what he should have done,\" she said in a reference to Mr Chauvin.\n\nDarnella's nine-year-old cousin testified that Mr Chauvin did not take his knee off Mr Floyd's neck even after ambulance workers had told him to.\n\n\"I was sad and kind of mad, and it felt like it was stopping his breathing and it was hurting him,\" she replied when asked how the event made her feel.\n\n\"It sounded like he was hurting,\" she added.\n\n'I was failing to do anything'\n\nAnother teenager present that day said she felt powerless to help as she saw Mr Chauvin work to maintain pressure on Mr Floyd.\n\n\"I kind of saw him move his knee down more,\" said the 18-year-old, \"down onto Mr Floyd's neck.\"\n\n\"I felt like there wasn't really anything I could do,\" Alyssa continued. \"As a bystander I was powerless there, and I was failing to do anything.\"\n\nAsked why she shouted to Mr Chauvin to release Mr Floyd, she said: \"I knew time was running out or it had already... That he was going to die.\"\n\n\"He was like digging his knee into George Floyd's neck,\" testified the 17-year-old.\n\nShe added that Mr Chauvin \"did grab his Mace and started shaking it at us... I didn't know what was going to happen.\"\n\n\"I was scared of Chauvin,\" she added.\n\n'Derek Chauvin was justified and acting with objective reasonableness'\n\nThe use-of-force expert, called by the Chauvin defence team, said \"the imminent threat\" posed by Mr Floyd was a major factor in his detention.\n\n\"I felt that Derek Chauvin was justified and acting with objective reasonableness following Minneapolis police department policy and current standards of law enforcement in his interaction with George Floyd,\" he said.\n\n\"From a police officer's standpoint, you don't have to wait for it to happen. You just have to have a reasonable fear that somebody is going to strike you, stab you, shoot you.\"\n\nMr Brodd added: \"It's easy to sit in an office and judge an officer's conduct. It's more of a challenge to put yourself in the officer's shoes, to try to make an evaluation through what they are feeling, what they're sensing, the fear they have, and then make a determination.\"\n\nDefence lawyer Eric Nelson asked Mr Brodd: \"Was this a deadly use of force?\"\n\n\"No, it was not,\" Mr Brodd replied.\n\nCross-examining Mr Brodd, the prosecution maintained that the dangers of positional asphyxia - not being able to breathe in a certain position - were well known.\n\n\"Would you agree that that's something commonly understood in law enforcement?\" prosecutor Steve Schleicher asked.\n\n\"Yes,\" Mr Brodd replied, confirming it was not new information.\n\n'So many conflicting different potential mechanisms'\n\nThe forensic pathologist who was chief medical examiner for the state of Maryland until his retirement in 2019 said the cause of Mr Floyd's death was not clear.\n\nHe was questioned about the findings of the Hennepin County medical examiner, who ruled Mr Floyd's death a homicide.\n\n\"I would fall back to undetermined, in this particular case,\" Dr Fowler testified.\n\nHe said, in his opinion, the cause of death was not clear because there were \"so many conflicting different potential mechanisms\". These complicating factors, he said, could be considered homicide in some cases, and accidental in others.\n\nMr Floyd's consumption of fentanyl and methamphetamine, and his possible exposure to carbon monoxide poisoning from the police car's exhaust, were among the complicating factors cited by Dr Fowler.\n\nAsked about the cause of death, Dr Fowler said he believed Mr Floyd suffered \"a sudden cardiac arrest\" while struggling with the officers.\n\nDr Fowler said Mr Floyd's health problems contributed to an erratic beating of his heart, known as sudden cardiac arrhythmia.\n\nThe Minneapolis Park Police officer responded to the scene of Mr Floyd's arrest and said the crowd of bystanders was \"very aggressive to the officers\".\n\n\"Did that cause you any concern?\" Defence lawyer Eric Nelson asked him.\n\n\"Concern for the officers' safety, yes,\" Mr Chang replied.", "A risk document from the hospital said its roofing was a risk to patient's lives\n\nA hospital roof held up by props poses a \"direct risk to the life and safety of patients\", board papers said.\n\nDespite the 131 supports at Norfolk's Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH), the \"potential of catastrophic failure of the roof\" remains, the papers revealed.\n\nThe government said the hospital had been given \"over £20m to directly address the most immediate issues\".\n\nIn a letter, leaked to the BBC, its deputy chief executive says \"more than short-term fixes are needed\".\n\nLaura Skaife-Knight wrote to tell governors that the hospital trust was doing \"all it can\" to secure funding for a new hospital in King's Lynn.\n\nThe letter details the measures that have been taken to support the ageing roof, and says that since January, a further 50 props have been put up in 16 different areas.\n\nThere are 131 props in use across the hospital, including in areas such as critical care and maternity\n\nIt said the latest problems caused by the roofing had closed the hospital's critical care unit, though Ms Skaife-Knight wrote that it would soon reopen following a two-week closure for repairs.\n\nThe hospital trust was recently awarded £20.6m by the government to \"fund the short-term fixes and improvements needed as surveys identify failings with the roof planks and rapid deterioration of the hospital's estate\", said the letter.\n\nMs Skaife-Knight said that would \"improve safety in the years to come \"but would not \"replace the roof planks or extend the life of the hospital beyond 2030\".\n\nThe trust has bid for £165m over three years to help improve the safety of the hospital estate in the short-term. That included £45m in year one, towards which the £20.6m was awarded.\n\nIt would cost £554m over the next 10 years to make repairs to the existing hospital building, said its chief executive\n\nHowever, Ms Skaife-Knight wrote that the trust had developed \"a strong case\" for a new hospital.\n\nShe said living with the risk at the current hospital would cost £554m over 10 years, while a new building would cost around £679m but come with additional benefits to meet \"modern healthcare requirements\".\n\nQueen Elizabeth Hospital was not selected as one of 40 hospitals included in a £3.7bn building package announced by the government in October last year.\n\nMs Skaife-Knight told governors: \"We know that there will be funding to build a further eight new or part-new hospitals by 2030 and that these will be announced in autumn 2021.\n\n\"QEH is doing all it can to position the trust to be one of these further eight hospitals.\"\n\nA risk register within the board meeting agenda reads: \"There is a direct risk of life and safety to patients, visitors and staff of the trust due to the potential of catastrophic failure of the roof structure due to structural deficiencies.\"\n\nIt said this was because the pre-cast concrete construction of the building was 40 years old, despite only being built to last 25 years, and rated the risk as \"very high/extreme\".\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said it recognised \"the need to invest in improving health infrastructure across the country, including where trusts have identified significant issues\", and cited the money awarded to the QEH already.\n\nA spokesman said criteria for the further eight schemes to be included in the New Hospitals Programme would be announced shortly.\n\nA spokeswoman for the hospital said: \"We have a team permanently on site to systematically check and manage our buildings and to act on any work that might be needed, and we are treating patients safely, as normal.\"\n\nShe added that \"a major incident\" has not been declared and it has received \"investment to support us with the maintenance of our estate, and we have an ongoing programme of estates work underway including monitoring and safety checking of the roof\".\n\nA meeting of the hospital's board of directors will be held on 7 April.\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.", "While they cannot sing inside, pupils will be allowed to sing outside alone or in socially distanced choirs\n\nSchools have been told that no singing can take place indoors when pupils return after the Easter break.\n\nThe instruction from Education Minister Peter Weir prohibits pupils singing individually or in choirs.\n\nHowever, pupils will be allowed to sing outside alone or in choirs as long as they are socially distanced.\n\nMr Weir said the decision had been taken on the advice of the chief medical officer and the Public Health Agency (PHA).\n\nPlaying wind instruments, such as recorders or flutes, and brass instruments, such as trumpets, is also banned indoors.\n\nThe guidance for childminders was also updated on 26 March and said that singing should not take place indoors.\n\nThere is a similar ban on indoor singing for registered group childcare settings.\n\nIn a letter to schools, Mr Weir said the decision would be \"kept under review\".\n\nSchool choirs in Northern Ireland had previously been permitted to sing indoors during the term from September to December 2020 as long as social distancing and good ventilation were in place.\n\nSinging is very popular in schools in Northern Ireland and a number of choirs have been successful in national competitions.\n\nSeparately, the Education Authority (EA) has told schools that face-to-face music tuition will not resume as planned after the Easter break.\n\n\"We have been instructed by the Public Health Agency (as of Tuesday 30th March) to delay the resumption of EA Music Service delivery in schools and music centres, which was due to re-commence during the week beginning Monday 12th April 2021,\" a letter from the EA music service to schools said.\n\n\"This decision has been based on emerging data regarding the new Covid variant.\n\n\"This will be reviewed by the PHA on a weekly basis and we will update schools accordingly.\"\n\nOn Thursday, the Northern Ireland Executive confirmed that all pupils would return to school on Monday 12 April.\n\nIn his subsequent letter to schools on Thursday, Mr Weir also said discussions were taking place with the Department of Health on when breakfast clubs, education visits, inter-school sports and after school activities could resume.\n\n\"There are also further discussions to finalise plans for a swift resumption of extra-curricular managed outdoor sports training within schools,\" he said.", "The granite outcrop of Sheeps Tor with the \"stunning\" views of Dartmoor\n\nMore than 120 acres of Dartmoor including an \"iconic\" tor - a dramatic granite outcrop - is up for sale.\n\nSheeps Tor and surrounding land, six miles (10km) north of Plymouth, is on sale with a guide price of £145,000.\n\nThe new owner will be able to enjoy \"really stunning\" views from the top of the tor, as well as their own stone circle, said auctioneers.\n\nBut they will not be able to make any changes to the land which is for public access under the Dartmoor Commons Act.\n\nRoss Willmington of auctioneers Symonds and Sampson said Sheeps Tor was \"stunning and special\"\n\nThe Dartmoor National Park has more than 160 tors where the granite rock that is underneath Dartmoor shows through.\n\n\"It's rare to sell something so unique,\" Ross Willmington, of auctioneers Symonds and Sampson, said.\n\nThe land, which was last sold in 2004, is grazed by livestock and offers some climbing.\n\nIt also includes the Yellowmead stone circles. - thought to be thousands of years old.\n\nYellowmead stone circle is included in the sale\n\nBut that is all the new owner will be able to do with the land, Mr Willmington explained.\n\n\"You cannot stop other people going on it,\" he said.\n\nHe said a new owner might be interested in the land \"because it is iconic and a piece of Dartmoor\".\n\n\"If you climb to the top you would appreciate why you would want to own it,\" he said.\n\nMr Willmington said any new owner would not be able develop the land.\n\nHe said: \"You are a custodian of it, it's about looking after it for the next generation.\n\n\"The current owner loves Dartmoor and he has taken great delight in it and enjoying it for it is, something really stunning and special.\"\n\nThe auction takes place online on 21 May.\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The 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.", "Several witnesses gave emotional testimony on day three of Derek Chauvin's murder trial, and prosecutors released new arrest footage.\n\nMr Chauvin was fired as a police officer in Minneapolis after a viral video showed him with his knee on the neck of George Floyd for more than nine minutes. He denies the charges.", "The use of so-called vaccine passports to decide whether people can enter pubs would go against the \"British instinct\", Sir Keir Starmer has said.\n\nThe Labour leader told the Daily Telegraph it would be \"wrong in principle\" to ask landlords to check customers' Covid jab certificates.\n\nA government review is looking at whether this system could help to reopen the economy in England.\n\nDiscussions have been taking place across the devolved nations.\n\nUnder the government's four-step plan to ease England's lockdown, legal limits on social contact could be lifted by 21 June, if strict conditions are met.\n\nBut the prime minister has suggested pub-goers could be asked to provide a vaccine certificate, after all adults have been offered a jab by the end of July.\n\nCurrently, anyone who gets an injection receives a vaccination card and the details go on to their medical records.\n\nThe \"passport\" could mean the information being added to the NHS app, allowing mobile phone users to prove to publicans that they have received their injections.\n\nBut Sir Keir said: \"My instinct is that… [if] we get the virus properly under control, the death rates are near zero, hospital admissions very, very low, that the British instinct in those circumstances will be against vaccine passports.\n\n\"I think that this idea that we sort of outsource this to individual landlords is just wrong in principle.\"\n\nHe added that \"this is really difficult and I'm not going to pretend there's a clear black and white, yes-no easy answer on this\".\n\nBut Labour would look at any government proposals before deciding whether to oppose them, he said.\n\nPubs around the UK are currently closed\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said the government seemed \"utterly incapable of making its mind up on Covid certificates\", adding: \"This latest wheeze is the worst of all worlds.\"\n\n\"As well as burdening struggling pubs with extra cost, the idea that businesses can voluntarily bar certain customers, who may not even have been offered a vaccine, is deeply illiberal,\" he said.\n\nPub industry representatives accused the government of \"backsliding\" over plans to allow venues to reopen.\n\nIn a joint statement, UK Hospitality, the British Beer and Pub Association and the British Institute of Innkeeping warned that vaccine passports could prevent \"millions\" of young people who have not received their jabs visiting the pub \"for months\".\n\nDowning Street said an ongoing review was looking at how testing or vaccination could be used to play a role in opening the economy, and would consider the ethical, privacy, legal and operational aspects.\n\nThe prime minister will give an update on the Covid situation on Monday.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHuge crowds have again gathered in Cardiff Bay, despite coronavirus restrictions still being in place.\n\nHundreds of people were seen partying close together on the steps outside the Senedd on Friday evening.\n\nIt follows similar scenes outside the same building earlier in the week, when three police officers were injured and litter was dumped on the waterfront.\n\nCardiff council leader Huw Thomas said people who took part should be \"deeply ashamed of themselves\".\n\nCovid rules state only six people from two different households can meet outdoors.\n\nHundreds of people were seen gathered on the steps of the Senedd on Friday evening\n\nOn videos posted on Twitter, people could be seen singing and drinking from later afternoon and well into the evening.\n\nMr Thomas said police had taken over from council marshals, who had been patrolling the site in the day, after the situation \"escalated\".\n\nBBC Wales has attempted to contact South Wales Police for comment. It is not known if any arrests have been made.\n\nOne Cardiff Bay resident said there were more than 1,000 people at the Senedd\n\nMath Wiliam, who lives in Cardiff Bay and works for a Plaid Cymru Member of the Senedd and is a member of the party, said: \"There were hundreds, possibly over 1,000 people, out in Cardiff Bay engaging in what I would describe as partying, with the largest cohort assembled on the steps of the Senedd.\n\n\"There was no adherence to social distancing rules, which was unsurprising given that many people were heavily under the influence.\"\n\nHe added the number of people coming to the bay had been \"increasing daily\".\n\nBBC Wales reporter Mark Hutchings said \"hundreds\" were gathered and it was \"calm, if noisy, at the time, though no social distancing\".\n\nCrowds could be seen stretched across the waterfront on the steps of the Senedd\n\nMr Thomas said: \"We have been in close communication with the police throughout the day.\n\n\"This is concerning and disappointing. It flies in the face of the regulations, which are there to keep us safe.\n\n\"I anticipate a bombsite there tomorrow. We'd put out extra wheelie bins, but rubbish is just being dumped. The clear-up will mean an unnecessary cost to the council and so the taxpayer.\n\n\"But this is about public health and a clear abuse of the rules. I worry about a spike in cases after this. It in fact risks prolonging restrictions, rather than easing them, as people there seemed to be complaining about.\"\n\nIt comes after a student launched an online petition for more bins in Cardiff Bay after rubbish was dumped there earlier in the week.\n\nCans and empty bottles could be seen on the steps of the Senedd\n\nWales' Covid restrictions were eased last Saturday, with people allowed to travel anywhere within the country and meet a maximum of six different people from two different households outdoors.\n\nHowever, pubs remain closed until at least 26 April and it is still against the rules to travel between Wales and the other UK nations without a reasonable excuse.\n\nCrowds in Cardiff Bay were still there on Friday evening\n\nEarlier this week, police said violence and anti-social behaviour would \"not be tolerated\" as people gathered in the same area on Tuesday.\n\nSouth Wales Police said a number of missiles, including bottles, were thrown at officers, three of whom suffered minor injuries, during the disorder earlier in the week.\n\nCardiff council said on Wednesday that it had taken three hours to clean up the \"unacceptable amount of litter\" in Cardiff Bay and the city's parks.\n\nPolice were monitoring the scene, but it is not yet known if any arrests have been made", "The public is being urged to give seals space to protect them after a much-reported death of a seal in London.\n\nThe Seal Alliance is warning that getting too close to seals can lead to their injury and death, even up to several months later.\n\nSeals have ventured further inshore on beaches and coastlines that were quieter during lockdown, it says.\n\nLast month a popular seal known as \"Freddie\" was put down after he was attacked by a dog in Barnes, London.\n\nThe animal, named after singer Freddie Mercury because of his crowd-pleasing antics, had been entertaining people near Hammersmith Bridge.\n\nThe Seal Alliance, a coalition of regional marine wildlife groups, is launching its campaign over the Easter weekend because people are expected to take advantage of lockdown relaxation to go for walks on coasts and estuaries, take part in water activities or fly drones.\n\nThe government-backed campaign urges people to keep dogs on a lead when seals might be present, never to feed the marine mammals and take all litter home.\n\nFemale seals are heavily pregnant during the summer, the Sea Alliance says, and getting too close or disturbing them could lead to seals stampeding on rocks, which can prove fatal to both mother and pup.\n\nEnvironment Secretary George Eustice said: \"Seals are one of our most iconic marine mammals. They can be found along our coastline around the UK and we must do all that we can to protect them.\n\n\"Disturbance by members of the public can be detrimental to seals but this is entirely preventable.\"\n\nAndy Ottaway, of the Seal Protection Action Group, added: \"Our precious coastal wildlife is coming under increasing human pressure.\n\n\"We need to be aware of the harm we can cause by getting too close to our seals and the often tragic consequences when we do.\"\n\nSue Sayer, of the Seal Research Trust, said: \"If a seal is looking at you, it has been disturbed, so please move further away. Use your camera and binoculars, stay quiet and out of sight.\"\n\nThe UK is home to about 153,000 grey seals, an estimated 38% of the world's population, and 88% of these are in Scotland.\n\nThe coastline is also home to about 30% of the European subspecies of common or harbour seals, about 46,000 seals.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA student is campaigning for more bins at a spot blighted by mass gatherings and litter after lockdown eased, saying everyone should be \"allies tackling a problem\".\n\nIsidora Jovanovic, 24, has started a petition to Cardiff council after being disgusted by the litter left by crowds enjoying the sunshine in Cardiff Bay.\n\nYoung people were unfairly blamed, she said, and everyone needed to help.\n\nA city councillor said more bins had already been placed around Cardiff.\n\nThe steps of the Senedd were littered with empty cans, wine bottles and nitrous oxide canisters this week, leading to what Ms Jovanovic called a \"blame game\".\n\nIsidora Jovanovic is campaigning for more bins to stop littering\n\nThe masters student, who lives in Roath, said it was \"really upsetting and disappointing\" to see the mess people had left behind and even tried to clean some of it up herself.\n\n\"There was a lot of alcohol to be honest - glasses and bottles - and the wrapping from fish and chips,\" she said.\n\n\"It wasn't just the bay. Roath was quite filthy, Bute Park as well. You had dog walkers and runners picking up rubbish. I took a couple of bin bags out with me just in case and filled two of them and couldn't collect everything, it was just upsetting.\n\n\"It was a very hot day so I think there were more people, so more mess was going to be left. But I think once you've had a few drinks as well people just can't be bothered or just maybe don't think about it.\"\n\nHer petition calls on Cardiff council to put more bins around the city to \"encourage people\" to responsibly dispose of their litter, but she said it needed to be a joint effort.\n\n\"I think the onus is more on us to clean up our rubbish. Seeing a bin next to you might encourage people to do that. Human nature can be quite lazy sometimes.\"\n\nShe added that hearing young people being blamed for leaving litter was unfair, as \"a mixture of ages\" were doing the same thing.\n\n\"It's a difficult one because I would consider myself a young person. I don't think that the blame game is helpful or productive,\" she said.\n\n\"We are all allies tackling a problem and it's more about coming together with the council too, hopefully.\n\n\"If we are to approach it with curiosity as to why this is happening then we can work together to find a solution. When we get this feedback off the people causing the mess and we work with them, then there really is no excuse when the solution is implemented.\"\n\nNaomi Randall said she would take her litter with her if she could not find a bin\n\nIn Cardiff Bay on Friday, young people said they were horrified to see the litter and were keen to show they were not doing the same.\n\nNaomi Randall said: \"We did see the rubbish and it was pretty shocking. It's pretty disheartening to see how people are treating their local area. \"We've been walking - we've done 20km so far today - so we'll be keeping our rubbish, looking out for recycling bins, keeping it in our bags and then dumping it where we can.\"\n\nMolly, 24, said: \"It ruins it for other people as well doesn't it? This area is lovely for families to come out to as well.\n\n\"We brought the dog down and you wouldn't want that mess to come down to. I think it's just disrespectful.\n\n\"You should bring a bag down with you or there's bins around - you can go and find them. It's just unacceptable.\"\n\nMichael Michael, Cardiff council's cabinet member for clean streets, recycling and the environment, told BBC Radio Wales more than 1,100 large bins had already been added to tackle the litter problem.\n\n\"We've had teams over the last two, three days out picking up and cleaning after our visitors. We really want people to enjoy Cardiff's open spaces but what we don't want them to do is litter the place,\" he said.\n\n\"Carry stuff with you, take it home, use the bins.\"\n\nThe sun also shone a light on litter issues in other areas of Wales, such as Powys, this week.\n\nMichael Butterfield, from Llangattock Litter Pickers, said he had seen an increase in the amount of litter in the area since restrictions had started to ease.\n\n\"Since the lockdown, we have been seeing more PPE - facemasks predominantly - but the main litter we see out on the verges are drinks - so cans, bottles, single-use cups,\" he said.\n\nVale of Glamorgan council issued a warning for those gathering in parks and other open spaces to \"bin your litter or take it home\" after rubbish and damage from open fires was discovered in beauty spots including Porthkerry Park and Cosmeston Lakes Country Park.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Vale Council This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "After three months of lockdown the tough restrictions are finally beginning to ease - but with the caveat that it's all dependent on continued progress in tackling Covid. So how are the numbers looking?\n\nThe Scottish government collates the most recent evidence in its weekly State of the Epidemic in Scotland publication. Here are some of the latest findings:\n\nThe lockdown delivered a steep and steady decline in case numbers throughout January and February - but the first weeks of March saw a small increase.\n\nA week ago, data from the ONS indicated that Scotland had the highest rate of infection of all four UK nations.\n\nThe most recent data suggests case numbers are now falling again, although at a slower rate than we saw earlier in the year.\n\nThe latest State of the Epidemic document, published on 1 April, said that last week an average of 505 cases were reported each day, a 7% decrease on the previous week.\n\nThere were 66 weekly cases per 100,000 of population - a similar rate to that observed at the end of September.\n\nScotland no longer has the highest proportion of people becoming infected, having been overtaken by Northern Ireland, but the rate of infection is still higher than in either England or Wales, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).\n\nCase rates have declined among all age groups but the falls have been most marked among the over-80s.\n\nThe latest estimate of the reproduction (R) number - a measure of the disease's ability to spread - is between 0.8 and 1, unchanged from last week.\n\nWhile overall case rates have come down, there are wide geographical variations with local outbreaks keeping infection rates stubbornly high in a number of council areas.\n\nClackmannanshire currently has the highest weekly case rate in Scotland reporting 165 cases per 100,000 population in the last week.\n\nWest Lothian, North Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire also had seven-day average rates above 100 cases per 100,000 population.\n\nSharp increases in infection have recently been observed in Angus, East Dunbartonshire, Moray and North Lanarkshire.\n\nAt the other end of the scale Shetland, Argyll and Bute, Na h-Eileanan Siar and Orkney each reported 10 or fewer cases per 100,000.\n\nUnder the Scottish government's plans for easing lockdown, it is hoped all mainland council areas will be able to move initially to level three from 26 April but rates of lower than 50 cases per 100,000 population will be one of the benchmarks for going down to level two.\n\nIt's important to stress that the case rate is only one of the factors that will determine such decisions on levels, with other considerations including, for instance, the capacity of the NHS locally to cope with the situation.\n\nThe number of people in hospital with confirmed Covid peaked on 22 January at 2,053 which was well above the first wave peak.\n\nThe most recent figure, which will not be updated until after the Easter break, is 215 people in hospital, 21 of them in intensive care. In addition there were another 18 people who have been in ICU for longer than 28 days.\n\nThe latest modelling predicts that both hospital bed and ICU occupancy will continue to fall, however it is possible that this will plateau or even rise again slightly depending on factors such as the impact of more pupils returning to school.\n\nBefore the start of the Easter break a slight increase in infections among children was observed, although this could have been down to the wider availability of asymptomatic testing.\n\nIn the week to 28 March there were 61 deaths where Covid was mentioned on the death certificate - an 8% decrease on the previous week.\n\nBy comparison, during the first wave in April last year the equivalent figure was 663.\n\nIn mid-December more than a third of deaths were occurring in care homes but that has now fallen to about 8%.\n\nScotland, however, does have the highest daily rate of deaths in the UK - 0.1 per 100,000 population compared with 0.07 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nMore than 54% of the adult population have now received a first dose of a vaccine - that's more than 2.5 million people.\n\nWhile it has been hard to unpick whether the falling death rate is due to lockdown or vaccination, there is now evidence the vaccination programme is leading to decreasing hospitalisation and deaths.\n\nVigilance is required though as it is not clear yet how effective existing vaccinations will be for some new variants of Covid-19.\n\nThe more infectious variant, known as the UK variant, is currently the dominant strain in Scotland.\n\nHowever, there have also been 22 confirmed and five probable cases of the \"South Africa variant\" as well as three confirmed and one probable case of the \"Brazil variant\".", "There has been an outbreak in the Chinese border city of Ruili Image caption: There has been an outbreak in the Chinese border city of Ruili\n\nLife has largely returned to normal in China, although an outbreak in the city of Ruili, which borders Myanmar, has thrown hundreds of thousands of people back into lockdown this week.\n\nChina has been strict about implementing lockdown measures as soon as a single case is identified. Consequently, schools and all but essential businesses have closed in the city, which has a population of about 210,000. Mass testing is being carried out throughout Ruili, and today has been extended to border counties and cities.\n\nSo far, 16 symptomatic cases of Covid-19 have been reported since Wednesday, and roughly three times as many asymptomatic cases.\n\nDespite this latest outbreak, within the next couple of weeks China is set to surpass the US and become the country that has carried out the most vaccinations in the world.\n\nSo far, 126 million vaccine doses have been administered in China. The country’s national Global Times newspaper says the country now has capacity to carry out 10 million vaccine doses daily. This means, in theory, it could inoculate a billion people within 100 days.\n\nChina is accelerating its vaccination programme as it has aims to vaccine 40% of its 1.4bn population by the end of June – that equates to it carrying out 560 million vaccinations.\n\nTo date, it has largely prioritised vaccinating people in the 18-59 years of age category, but as of today, it has expanded its vaccination drive to begin targeting people over the age of 60", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nCristiano Ronaldo's moment of frustration at a controversial decision in a World Cup qualifier on Saturday is turning into something positive.\n\nThe captain's armband the Portugal star threw to the ground when he was controversially denied a stoppage-time winner against Serbia has been sold at auction to raise money for a six-month-old baby's medical treatment.\n\nDuty firefighter Djordje Vukicevic picked up the armband from the pitch after Ronaldo had stormed off at the end of the 2-2 draw in Belgrade.\n\n\"Ronaldo was agitated [and] he threw the armband. It fell right next to me,\" Vukicevic said.\n\nHe decided to put it up for auction to raise money for treatment for Gavrilo Djurdjevic from Serbia, who is suffering from spinal muscular atrophy.\n\n\"The entire crew agreed this [armband] will go for little Gavrilo,\" he said.\n\nVukicevic said he was ready to sell any memorabilia he could collect from players to help Gavrilo's parents collect the £2.1m needed for the treatment.\n\nThe winning bid for the armband was 64,000 euros (about £54,000). Gavrilo's mother Nevena said proceeds from the sale would be would be a significant contribution to their treatment fund.\n\n\"We could not believe that some people who do not even know us... would take the armband, auction it and help our child,\" she said.\n• None A new series of eager entrepreneurs hoping to strike the deal of a lifetime\n• None Epic films for you to choose from this Easter weekend", "BBC journalist Jennifer Meierhans, left, and friend Lucy Burn discovered the problem pricing when they happened to buy the same coat from different stores\n\nOnline retailer Boohoo is investigating why the same items of clothing were sold for higher prices across a number of its fashion labels.\n\nThe BBC discovered that Dorothy Perkins and Coast, which are both owned by Boohoo, sold exactly the same coat but it cost £34 more at Coast.\n\nThere are price disparities across a range of Boohoo brands, which also include Oasis and Warehouse.\n\nBoohoo said the \"miscommunication was not intentional\".\n\n\"All Boohoo group brands work independently, and so this miscommunication was not intentional as teams are not privy to what's being bought and sold across the other group brands,\" a spokeswoman for Boohoo said.\n\n\"Our internal investigation continues and we will be re-pricing all the crossover stock to be aligned.\"\n\nThe price disparity was revealed after reporter Jennifer Meierhans bought a coat from Coast - as a friend happened to buy the exact same coat from Dorothy Perkins.\n\nThe care label in the coat sold by Coast appears to have had the branding cut off\n\nThe Dorothy Perkins branding appeared to have been cut from the care label in the coat sold by Coast.\n\nBoohoo said the coat was first sold by Coast and has now been re-priced at £17 on both brands' websites.\n\nCatherine Erdly, founder of The Resilient Retail Club consultancy, and a former senior merchandiser at Coast, said: \"If all Boohoo are going to do is buy the same stuff and slap different prices on it then it's destroying that brand's identity.\"\n\nShe said that while each brand will have its own \"architecture\" for setting prices, it is likely Coast and Dorothy Perkins had benefited from some kind of trading \"opportunity\", where a supplier had stock and both companies needed coats.\n\n\"But if they're going to do things like that, they didn't do it in a clever way,\" Ms Erdly said. \"The customer will sense that it's just trying to get as much as possible out of them.\"\n\nShe added: \"There's no way a Coast garment could have sold at £17 without losing money, a garment made for the Coast brand would cost more than that to make.\"\n\nThere are a number of instances where the same item of clothing is priced differently across Boohoo's brands.\n\nA long \"luxe\" padded coat in the colour mushroom was originally sold for £89 at Oasis and £65 at Dorothy Perkins.\n\nThe same coat in khaki was in the sale for £30 in Warehouse and £66.75 in Coast until the BBC brought the matter to Boohoo's attention. They are now both priced at £18.\n\nNatalie Hitchins, head of home products and services at consumer watchdog Which?, said loyal customers of these brands will be \"shocked and disappointed to see these stark price differences between seemingly identical items of clothing\".\n\nShe said: \"People choose brands and stay loyal by expecting quality to match the prices they pay.\n\n\"Brands that offer a first-class customer experience and can be trusted are the ones that come out on top in our retailer surveys. This practice from Boohoo could risk undermining trust with customers.\"\n\nBoohoo operates a number of different brands after buying up businesses when their owners fell into administration.\n\nBoohoo bought Coast's online business in 2019 along with sister brand Karen Millen. While in February, it acquired Dorothy Perkins, together with Wallis and Burton, from failed retail group Arcadia for £25.2m\n\nBoohoo said: \"Stock of the item in question was purchased and live on site by Coast prior to The Boohoo Group's acquisition of the Dorothy Perkins brand.\"\n\nHave you bought clothes from a Boohoo brand, only to see it priced cheaper under another Boohoo-owned business? What did you do? 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.", "Coronavirus Catch-up: What are your questions on the vaccine rollout in NI?\n\nThere's plenty still to come from the BBC News NI team this evening. In about half-an-hour Coronavirus Catch-up will be coming live from Belfast's SSE Arena - Northern Ireland's new mass Covid-19 vaccination centre. Presenter Jordan Kenny will be joined by senior GP Dr Alan Stout to bring you the latest developments and the answers to your Covid-related questions. Watch Coronavirus Catch-up live at 19:00 BST. Tune in on the BBC News NI website, the BBC iPlayer and the BBC News NI Facebook page.", "The last remaining fragment of intact peat mire in the South-West\n\nLeading garden retailers are still failing to stop the sale of peat in compost despite pressure from the government and campaigners.\n\nThe Wildlife Trusts said only one of 20 retailers contacted said it would eliminate peat from its shelves this year.\n\nThe restoration of peatlands is a key part of the government's strategy to mitigate the impact of climate change.\n\nHighly absorbent, it also helps with flood prevention.\n\nHowever, one peat producer told the BBC that since lockdown there had been a surge in interest in gardening. Demand for peat was \"unprecedented\" and there was currently no viable alternative.\n\nAbout 10 years ago, the UK government drew up a voluntary agreement for retailers to phase out sales of peat.\n\nPeatlands are a carbon \"sink\", which means they soak up carbon dioxide helping combat human-driven climate change.\n\nAccording to the Wildlife Trusts' survey, many retailers offer peat-free composts, but only two have set a date for ending peat sales. Travis Perkins plans to go 100% peat-free this year. Wickes intends to phase out peat by 2025.\n\nB&Q, Hillier and the Blue Diamond group of garden centres said they were committed to phasing out peat, but gave no date. Asda, Lidl and others have set themselves targets to reduce sales, but not yet to end them.\n\nWhen peatland is drained and dug up, it emits rather than soak up carbon.\n\nCraig Bennett, chief executive of The Wildlife Trusts, said: \"Our survey shows that most retailers' approach to the voluntary ban on peat sales has been woeful - even though the industry has been aware of the problem for decades.\n\n\"The time for voluntary agreements is over - the sale of peat must end now. Countless promises have been broken and targets missed, with the result that precious peatland habitats are still being unnecessarily destroyed in the name of gardening.\n\n\"Only one leading retailer - Travis Perkins - is planning to eliminate peat from its shelves by 2021, whilst growers like Hillier demonstrate that you can produce compost and grow high-quality plants without peat. These retailers are to be congratulated, but we now need government to make the rest follow their lead. The time for delay and excuses is over.\"\n\nSuppliers say they are doing what they can to meet rising demand. Ben Malin is director of Godwin's Peat, a company based on the Somerset levels.\n\nIt provides around 120,000 cubic metres of growing material a year to garden centres, DIY outlets and professional growers across the south of England and the Midlands. Mr Malin said some 40% of this is peat.\n\nThe government's policy is to restore peatlands\n\nMr Malin said: \"We've seen an absolute step-change in gardening over the last 12 months. We've had an unprecedented demand for raw material, and peat is a very important part of the supply chain.\n\n\"We've been moving towards peat reduction and aiming to be peat-free at a pace that the industry could move at; but this sudden increase in demand has made it absolutely clear to most people in the industry that at the moment it's simply not possible to phase out the use of peat and meet the demand in the marketplace.\"\n\nHe said that a significant amount of wood chip, which is one alternative, goes towards the biomass industry, which is subsidised. This pushes up prices.\n\nAnother option is coir, which is made from coconut husks. However it has a very long and unreliable supply chain.\n\nJames Barnes, chairman of the Horticultural Trades Association (HTA), said the industry fully supported alternatives to peat.\n\nHe commented: \"Manufacturers now produce more peat-free and peat-reduced growing media than ever, which are stocked and sold by retailers, but an immediate ban on peat use is unrealistic - access to the amount and quality of alternative materials needed is not yet in place.\"\n\nHe said the HTA had come together with other industry groups to propose a way forward with work to be published soon, including \"meaningful and realistic peat removal targets\" and said the organisation wanted to work with government, organisations and the supply chain to deliver viable, responsibly sourced alternatives\".\n\nDr Rebekka Artz is an expert in peatland ecosystems at the James Hutton Institute.\n\nShe said that between two and three million cubic metres of peat - around 8,000 hectares - was used for horticulture in the UK each year. A sizeable part of this goes to amateur gardeners.\n\nShe said the volume could be likened to the size of the London O2 building. Even more was imported from the Baltic states or from the Republic of Ireland, thereby \"offshoring our emissions.\"\n\nShe believes it is crucial a way is found to protect the peatlands these amounts are sourced from.\n\n\"Only 3% of our land area on the planet is covered in peatlands but they are the largest carbon store that we have. They have grown very slowly since the last Ice Age, and only accumulate about a millimetre every decade. It's a very slow-growing resource and it's very easy to lose it.\"\n\nAccording to the HTA, the figure is around 2m cubic metres in total which amounts to 0.04% of peatlands that is extracted for horticulture in the UK.\n\nThe Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) recently committed to going completely \"peat-free\" by 2025 and is calling on gardeners across the UK to do the same.\n\nBord Na Mona, Ireland's partial state company which was set up to develop peatlands for the Irish economy, also announced that it's formally ending all peat harvesting on its land.", "Foyle College moved to a new state of the art campus in the city's Waterside in 2018\n\nA Londonderry grammar school has asked former pupils to help pay an outstanding debt of £821,000 to the Department of Education (DE).\n\nA letter, which has been seen by BBC News NI, was sent to former pupils of Foyle College last month.\n\nThe school - which has 850 pupils - moved to a new state of the art campus in the city's Waterside in 2018.\n\nThe DE said it would continue to work with Foyle College \"to secure repayment of funds related to their move\".\n\nThe letter to former pupils said that the school \"owes DE £821,000 in relation to our share of the cost of the new school\".\n\nIt said that DE had offered to defer repayment of the money, but that could involve terms and conditions that would threaten the school's voluntary grammar school status.\n\nHowever, the chair of Foyle College's governors said he was confident the money would be repaid.\n\nVoluntary grammar schools are funded directly by DE but then have independence to manage their own budget.\n\nThe budgets of controlled schools, by contrast, are managed and overseen by the Education Authority (EA).\n\nIn 2013, Bloomfield Collegiate in Belfast became the first grammar school in Northern Ireland to give up its voluntary status due to a financial deficit.\n\nThe Foyle College letter was first revealed by the Derry News newspaper and then obtained by BBC News NI.\n\nIt said that when the school moved to its new campus it had decided to build additional facilities \"beyond what public funding could provide\".\n\nThose facilities cost the school an additional £2.4m, and it still needs to find £821,000 of that money to repay DE.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Foyle's News at One programme, the chair of Foyle College's board of governors Gavin Killeen denied that the school had \"overspent\".\n\n\"The Department of Education that fund capital builds such as this are very restrictive in the type of facilities that the school can build - the classroom size, the number of classrooms, the size of your assembly hall, the size of your sports hall, the amount of playing fields that you would have,\" he said.\n\n\"The board of governors quite a while ago decided that we're not going to move very often - you're going to do it once every two or three generations.\n\n\"We wanted to make sure that we were moving to the best possible school that we possibly could have and the board of governors were very happy to enhance the budget that the department had already agreed to fund that.\n\n\"We were able to add extra playing facilities, extra rugby pitches, extra hockey pitches - we have a sports hall that's able to accommodate five badminton courts.\"\n\nMr Killeen said that some former pupils had previously donated \"very significant\" contributions towards the school building, which was \"second to none\".\n\n\"We have raised well in excess of over £1m already,\" he said.\n\n\"You don't know exactly what you have until everything is finalised so it's only really over the last eight months that we know the final position.\"\n\nBut Mr Killeen admitted that the school's status as a voluntary grammar could be at risk if it could not repay the outstanding £821,000 to DE.\n\n\"It we weren't able to repay the department our future like any other business or any other organisation would come into question,\" he said.\n\n\"But we're very confident that we will repay the money.\"\n\nHe also said the local community had also been able to benefit from the additional facilities the school had decided to build.\n• None Fire at former school believed to be arson", "Sinn Féin has been accused of showing arrogance, self-entitlement and privilege over its actions in relation to the funeral of Bobby Storey.\n\nMLAs passed a motion censuring party ministers after it was announced there would be no prosecutions.\n\nThe funeral in June attracted 2,000 mourners at a time when Covid restrictions were in place.\n\nThe actions of 24 Sinn Féin politicians were examined, including Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill.\n\nThe BBC understands Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary is to examine the Police Service of Northern Ireland's (PSNI) role in the funeral. An announcement is expected later.\n\nMr Storey, 64, was a senior republican figure and had formerly been the head of intelligence for the IRA in the 1990s.\n\nThe attendance of many senior Sinn Féin politicians at his funeral in west Belfast, at a time when strict limits on gatherings were in place, caused a political furore.\n\nThe decision by the Public Prosecution Service (PPS) not to prosecute anyone in relation to the funeral led to First Minister Arlene Foster on Tuesday calling for the resignation of Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) Chief Constable Simon Byrne.\n\nMrs Foster said he had lost the confidence of the unionist community, but he has rejected calls to step down.\n\nOn Wednesday, the PPS announced a review of its decision.\n\nIn the assembly on Thursday, the deputy first minister apologised \"for the hurt that has been caused to so many families who have lost a loved one\".\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill apologised in the assembly on Thursday for the hurt caused\n\n\"I am truly sorry that my actions have contributed to the grief or heartache that has been felt and experienced by many people who have lost a loved one during this pandemic. That was never my attention,\" Ms O'Neill said.\n\n\"For that, I offer my heartfelt and unreserved apology to those families who have lost a loved one.\"\n\nSinn Féin Finance Minister Conor Murphy, who also attended the funeral, said he regrets the political division it caused.\n\n\"I want to say sorry to the wider community and more particularly to apologise fully and unreservedly to those families who were hurt by my actions.\"\n\nBut First Minister Arlene Foster said the wake and funeral procession were clear acts of \"premeditated breaches of the Covid regulations\".\n\n\"The message from Sinn Féin was clear: ourselves alone, ourselves first regardless of the cost of undermining the public health messaging,\" Mrs Foster said.\n\n\"The prioritisation of Roselawn (cemetery) over other grieving families was hurtful, ignorant and callous in the extreme, acts of arrogance, acts of self entitlement, acts of privilege.\n\n\"Sinn Féin calls for equality, respect and integrity, but actually demonstrates the opposite.\"\n\nMrs Foster said the police had \"abdicated\" their responsibility.\n\nThe motion, proposed by the SDLP, passed unanimously on an oral vote, but has no binding consequences.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster accused Sinn Féin of acts of arrogance\n\nThe first speaker in the debate, Infrastructure Minister Nichola Mallon of the SDLP, said Sinn Féin made the choice \"not to stand with the people but put themselves above them\".\n\n\"This is no longer about a funeral. It is now an issue of why Sinn Féin believes they are above the restrictions, above the law, above the public health advice,\" Ms Mallon said.\n\n\"We are here today, to hear Sinn Féin account for their actions, to answer the question countless citizens across the north are asking - why is it one rule for the political elite in Sinn Féin and one rule for the rest of us?\"\n\nA large number of mourners turned out for the funeral of Bobby Storey\n\nUlster Unionist Party (UUP) MLA Doug Beattie said Sinn Féin had spoken for just four minutes in a two-hour debate.\n\n\"Not good enough. We needed to hear more, and we heard nothing. It was doubling down on the position you were in before we came here today.\n\n\"Policing and justice has been damaged. We cannot lay the blame on the rank and file police officer who gets a set of regulations that we write, interprets them, and then on the sharp end of justice, he has to deliver and he will make mistakes.\"\n\nJustice Minister Naomi Long appealed for Sinn Fein to \"step up\", make a fulsome apology and give \"some comfort at this late stage to the families affected\".\n\n\"There are many wrongs in this world that cannot be prosecuted in court, but we can still apologise for those wrongs,\" Ms Long said.\n\nThe motion, which recalled the assembly early from its Easter recess, called for assembly members (MLAs) to \"condemn\" Ms O'Neill and Mr Murphy, who attended the funeral, for \"their actions which have caused immense hurt and undermined the executive's public health message\".\n\nThe recall motion had the support of the DUP, Ulster Unionists (UUP), Alliance and the Green Party.\n\nOpening the debate, assembly Chair Alex Maskey, of Sinn Féin, said he was professional, competent and well within his abilities to preside over the debate, after a point of order raised by DUP MLA Jonathan Buckley.\n\nWe've had some heated and passionate exchanges in the chamber, not least from those MLAs who've lost loved ones and friends during the pandemic and were unable to attend their funerals.\n\nThey had pointed remarks for both Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill and Conor Murphy, both of whom attended Bobby Storey's funeral last year.\n\nEven before the debate started, Sinn Féin MLA and Speaker Alex Maskey was challenged for his impartiality, and that set the tone.\n\nMs O'Neill was challenged several times across the chamber floor to apologise for her attendance at the funeral.\n\nShe didn't do that, but she did say sorry for the hurt caused.\n\nThis is a non-binding debate which means there is a vote in the chamber, but there will be no effect on Sinn Féin because this simply registers other MLAs' anger at what happened.\n\nIn the absence of a court case, it's another chance for MLAs to deliver their verdicts.\n\nAhead of the debate, SDLP MLA Matthew O'Toole said the recall would provide a \"forum for accountability\".\n\nThe South Belfast MLA said the motion, which does not have any binding consequences, was not \"political game play\" but was about holding Sinn Féin ministers to account.\n\nHe said people who make the laws \"should be held to the same rules as the rest of society\".\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Byrne addressed a meeting of the Policing Board on Thursday afternoon, at which he expressed surprise at the conclusions of the PPS.\n\nOn Wednesday, Mrs Foster stopped short of saying whether DUP members of the board would step down, but did not rule it out.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 26 March and 2 April.\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\nCherry on the cake: This beautiful pink blossom tells us all it is definitely Spring, says Vaiva Kuhne from Glasgow\n\nIt's a lamb in a jam! Luckily Brian Colston prised the fence apart and let this little one return to its mother a bit sheepishly.\n\nHappy Easter: Alex Orr was taken with this glorious Georgian townhouse display from a resident in Edinburgh\n\nBrian Colston from Falkirk captured this shot of a Highland cow unsuccessfully trying to avoid being spotted\n\nAngela Bathgate said: \"This is a photo of our five-month-old beagle, Dora, enjoying the sun and running among the daffodils at Calendar Park, Falkirk - she's springing into Spring!\"\n\nBoxing clever: Gus Traill from Dumfries said: \"This wee fella was guarding the feeding box as if his life depended on it in Barrhill Woods, Kirkcudbright.\"\n\nLorraine Campbell from Dumbarton captured this skeleton crew on the canal towpath at Bowling. She said: \"Just wondered how long they had been there playing their instruments?\"\n\nFly-tippers went to great lengths to illegally dump this settee. Derek Grist said: \"A wee local walk today up Dunearn Hill near Burntisland and came across this sofa at the top of the hill.\"\n\nBull's eye: Debbie Parker said: \"I was walking up near my home up Carberry Hill near Musselburgh and whilst attempting to photograph one of the Hereford Bulls it started nuzzling its field mate!\"\n\nMark Reynolds took this picture of a mini rut between stags on the banks of Loch Arkaig.\n\nSharon Dalgouute said: \"My husband was driving as we came along the A78 as the heavy rains were coming in. I caught this picture as we drove by, the rain coming down behind the trees.\"\n\nBernie Wilke took this photo of a small reservoir in Perthshire and asked: \"Who pulled out the plug?\"\n\nDouble-header: Sylvia Beaumont took this photo of two Exmoor ponies \"standing together but looking like it is a two-headed pony at North Berwick Law.\"\n\nMairead Milburn said this snap of Aberdeen beach was \"worth getting three children up at 06.15 for!\"\n\nSam Anderson from East Lothian sent in this photo of her cat Freya, who fancies her paw at a spot of herding\n\nAngus Laing took this shot of a \"weed ceremony\", part of the courting ritual of the great-crested grebe, on Linlithgow Loch, West Lothian.\n\nVictor Tregubov took this picture of Loch Arklet after a rainstorm\n\nColin Smith caught this reflection during a walk at Leaderfoot Viaduct in the Borders, near St Boswells\n\nDan Price-Davies took this shot at Glen Esk along Loch Lee up to the Falls of Unich. He said: \"Brilliant weather with lots of mountain hares out still in winter coats.\"\n\nJoyce Grieves took this shot after \"sneaking up\" on this hare at Findo Gask in Perthshire\n\nAndrew Cuthbertson took this photo from Govan looking over the Clyde towards the Riverside Museum and Tall Ship\n\nGrace MacLean took this vibrant photo after the rain in Linicro, Isle of Skye\n\n\"Preparing for landing on Strathclyde Loch in Motherwell,\" said John Dyer, who submitted this picture\n\nJohnston Craig subitted this photo of the Curling House in the grounds of Gosford House near Aberlady in East Lothian\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.", "Bands including Idles and Lanterns on the Lake have said they will not work with a north-east England promotions company due to claims of sexual harassment made against it by staff.\n\nSSD Concerts called the claims made against them online \"malicious\", but said they were taking them \"seriously\".\n\nNorthumbria Police told the BBC that no reports had been submitted to them.\n\nHowever officers did arrest and caution a man for hacking into the company's social media account earlier this week.\n\nThe largely anonymous allegations, which also include the use of \"offensive\" language, staff being made to feel \"uncomfortable\" and \"underpaying\" workers, were shared via the business reviews section of the jobs website Glassdoor.\n\nSSD Concerts, which describes itself as \"one of the UK's largest independent live event promoters\" was the driving force behind last summer's Virgin Money Unity Arena - billed as the world's first socially distanced music festival. It saw the likes of The Libertines and local star Sam Fender perform in Gosforth Park in Newcastle.\n\nOn Thursday evening, Idles, who scored a number one with their recent album Ultra Mono and were previously listed for the Mercury Prize, posted: \"In light of the recent allegations against SSD Concerts, we would like to make it clear that they will no longer be promoting our show at Newcastle City Hall on 2 February 2022.\"\n\nThe Bristol band then directed fans to online resources where they can get help regarding sexual harassment and bullying in the workplace.\n\nFellow Mercury listees Lanterns on the Lake added they were similarly unwilling to perform in their home city as long as their gig was promoted by SSD Concerts. They noted how they had now opted to move their gig to the Boiler Shop - a Newcastle venue which has also since cut its ties with the firm.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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End of twitter post by Lanterns on the Lake\n\n\"I suppose the most disappointing part of this is that there has been no real acknowledgement by SSD of the pain, stress and discomfort they have caused some of their own employees or any indication of what they plan to do to put things right,\" they wrote.\n\nIn a statement released online on Thursday, SSD Concerts boss Steve Davis said: \"We take what we have seen very seriously, but it seems 'trial by social media' means you are guilty until proven innocent.\"\n\n\"The safety of our staff, the agents, the artists and the audiences that attend our shows is paramount,\" he added.\n\nSam Fender performed at the SSD Concerts-promoted outdoor Virgin Money Unity Arena last summer\n\n\"Bullying, harassment and equal opportunities policies are in place, a process that started long before the recent postings and allegations on social media.\n\n\"We are committed to continue to improve the working environment and to implement systems and procedures that protect our staff and enable them to develop.\"\n\nMr Davis noted how the company was pleased the police \"acted so swiftly\" to catch the man who had hacked into its account.\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\nA spokesman for Northumbria Police said: \"We can confirm we received a report that the social media account of SSD Concerts had been hacked earlier this week.\n\n\"Enquiries to identify the person responsible have been ongoing and on Wednesday a 25-year-old man was arrested.\n\n\"He has since been issued with a caution for the offence of performing a function that gains unauthorised access to a computer.\"\n\nAfter the reviews were made public, music development agency Generator claimed it had heard \"exceptionally worrying accounts\" from workers; while the PRS Foundation, which helps to fund new artists, declared: \"Misogyny and abuse is unacceptable\".\n\nThe BBC has asked SSD Concerts for a further comment about the allegations.\n\nMeanwhile, another BBC 6 Music favourite artist, Kelly Lee Owens, also confirmed on Friday she \"will no longer be promoted by them\" due to the \"increasingly worrying allegations\"\n\n\"My team are working on alternative options and ticket buyers will be notified,\" she added.\n\nOne of the region's rising stars, singer L Devine, echoed those sentiments saying she would not be performing at the company's Hit the North Festival, while praising the \"bravery\" of those who have spoken out online.\n\n\"Let's now continue to make the north east music scene one we can be proud of with no room for mistreatment or harassment,\" she said.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Oxfam has been giving humanitarian assistance in DR Congo since 1971\n\nUK charity Oxfam says it has suspended two members of staff in the Democratic Republic of Congo over allegations of sexual exploitation and bullying.\n\nThe charity said the suspensions were part of an \"external investigation\" set up last November into the allegations.\n\nIts statement follows a report in the Times newspaper that whistleblowers were \"frustrated at the length of time taken to complete the investigation\".\n\nOxfam was hit by a scandal in 2018 involving its aid workers in Haiti.\n\nThe charity was accused of covering up the use of prostitutes by some members of staff who were in the country following the devastating 2010 earthquake.\n\nOxfam denied a cover up but apologised for mistakes in its handling of the scandal, set up an independent commission into working practices and stopped bidding for UK government funding.\n\nThe charity had only recently been allowed to start applying for government funding again, the Times reports.\n\nThe newspaper says a 10-page letter signed by more than 20 current and former Oxfam staff was sent to the organisation's leadership in February.\n\nIt made allegations against 11 people that included sexual exploitation, bullying, fraud and nepotism, and said whistleblowers had faced \"threats to their lives\".\n\nSome of the complaints dated back to 2015, and the letter said staff had \"lost faith in Oxfam's promises of accountability and in the principles Oxfam says it stands for\".\n\nIn its statement, Oxfam says the Charity Commission was notified at the start of the investigation of the latest allegations and is being kept informed about its progress.\n\n\"We are acutely aware of our duty to survivors, including in supporting them to speak out safely,\" the charity said. \"We are working hard to conclude the investigation fairly, safely and effectively\".\n\nOxfam, on its website, says it has been working in the DRC since 1961 and is \"currently providing clean water, sanitation and emergency food to approximately 700,000 internally displaced people, refugees and host communities\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNike has won its lawsuit against Brooklyn art collective MSCHF over their controversial 'Satan Shoes' that contain a drop of real human blood in the soles.\n\nThe $1,018 (£740) trainers are modified Nike Air Max 97s that feature an inverted cross, a pentagram and the words \"Luke 10:18\".\n\nMSCHF produced the shoes in collaboration with rapper Lil Nas X.\n\nIt said only 666 pairs were made and all but one have already been shipped.\n\nNike claimed trademark infringement, asking a federal court in New York to stop MSCHF from selling the shoes and prevent them from using its famous Swoosh.\n\n\"MSCHF and its unauthorised Satan Shoes are likely to cause confusion and dilution and create an erroneous association between MSCHF's products and Nike,\" the sports shoe giant said in the lawsuit.\n\nLawyers for MSCHF countered that the 666 pairs it created were \"not typical sneakers, but rather individually-numbered works of art that were sold to collectors for $1,018 each\".\n\nThe impact of the ruling remains unclear as MSCHF had indicated it has no plans to produce any more pairs of the shoe.\n\nMSCHF \"dropped\" the black and red shoes on Monday, coinciding with the launch of Lil Nas X's latest song Montero (Call Me By Your Name), which debuted on YouTube last Friday.\n\nThe song features the rapper, who came out as gay in 2019, celebrating his sexuality and rejecting attempts to shame him.\n\nIn a heavily stylised music video, he slides down a pole from heaven to hell before dancing provocatively with Satan, then snaps his neck and steals his horns.\n\nThe imagery and the shoes both reference the Bible verse Luke 10:18 - \"So He told them, 'I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven'.\"\n\nEach shoe also features a signature Nike air bubble cushioning sole, containing 60 cubic centimetres (2.03 fluid ounces) of red ink and a single drop of human blood, donated by members of the MSCHF art collective.\n\nLil Nas X and MSCHF's Satan Shoes sold out in less than a minute on Monday\n\nIn its filing with the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Nike said it did not approve or authorise the customised Satan Shoes.\n\n\"There is already evidence of significant confusion and dilution occurring in the marketplace, including calls to boycott Nike in response to the launch of MSCHF's Satan Shoes, based on the mistaken belief that Nike has authorised or approved this product,\" it said.\n\nThe lawsuit cited a tweet by popular shoe influencer @Saint from last Friday, which teased the upcoming release of the shoes and drummed up publicity over the weekend on social media and in the media in the US.\n\nSome conservatives, including South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, and some religious followers, took offence at the controversial design of the shoes and criticised Lil Nas X and MSCHF on Twitter.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLil Nas X hit back at the governor and other critics on Twitter, tweeting several memes on his profile in response to the Nike lawsuit.\n\nJoseph Rasch of Tennessee, who paid $1,080 for the trainers, says he is worried the conflict means his money will be lost.\n\n\"I'm hoping I'll receive them since I paid for them,\" he told BBC OS on World Service radio, adding that he made the purchase not because he definitely planned to wear them but as a political statement.\n\n\"I wanted to support a black gay man who is attempting to show a different narrative in a majority Christian country that currently is dealing with a lot of issues with black people. So what better way to do that than to buy shoes that this person has collaborated with?\" he said.\n\nBuyer McKenzi Norris of South Carolina, a longtime follower of the MSCHF art collective, said Nike's lawsuit had disrupted his plans to resell the trainers for $2,500 on eBay, which removed his listing.\n\n\"In general I think Nike's lawsuit and their intervention is pretty ridiculous considering how much damage it can cause to everyday people like me who just like to customise and resell their products legally,\" he said.", "A UK ticket-holder has won Friday's £122m EuroMillions jackpot - scooping the fifth biggest ever National Lottery win.\n\nThe lucky winner matched all seven numbers - the five EuroMillions as well as the two Lucky Star numbers.\n\nCamelot said a ticket-holder has staked a claim for the prize, which will be paid out once it has been validated.\n\nThe win would put the player in the top 1,000 on the Sunday Times rich list 2020.\n\nThe full prize amount is £122,550,350.80 and the winning numbers were 04, 21, 34, 40, 47, with the Lucky Star numbers 02 and 05.\n\nIt is the second UK EuroMillions jackpot winner this year, after someone won the £39m jackpot in the draw on New Year's Day.\n\nBritain's richest ever lottery winner secured a jackpot of £170m in October 2019. They chose to stay anonymous.\n\nThe second highest prize - £161m - went to Colin and Chris Weir, from North Ayrshire, Scotland, in 2011.\n\nThe following year, Adrian and Gillian Bayford, from Suffolk, won £148m.\n\nThe fourth highest UK winner, who also chose to remain anonymous, took home £123m in 2019.\n\nThe highest amount ever won in the EuroMillions was in February when a Swiss player took home 210 million euros (£180m).\n\nTickets for EuroMillions are sold in nine countries - the UK, France, Spain, Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Irish Republic, Portugal and Switzerland - with ticket-holders in all those countries trying to win a share of the same jackpot each week.", "Deni has started a petition asking for these final assessments to be scrapped.\n\nPupils and teachers have told BBC Scotland that assessments some senior pupils will be sitting in the coming weeks are \"exams by another name\".\n\nThis year's National 5s, Highers and Advanced Highers were cancelled because of disruption caused by the pandemic.\n\nGrades are to be given on \"teacher judgement\" but that needs to be backed up by evidence gathered in tests.\n\nSome schools are setting these tests in conditions which are very similar to exams but with much less preparation.\n\nThe approach across schools varies with some spreading the tests over several class lesson times but others doing them all in one go, with invigilators on hand to make sure strict exam conditions are met.\n\nThe system is being described as unfair by pupils and parents.\n\nSixteen-year-old Deni, who is doing her Highers, has started a petition asking for these final assessments to be scrapped.\n\nThe petition says that after being in school for just four months and then having to learn remotely since the New Year she is now being told there will be a \"final assessment\" after the Easter holidays on which her grade will be primarily based.\n\n\"Why not just call it an exam?\" she says.\n\nThis is the second year without senior students sitting final exams.\n\nLast year, the decision to scrap them was made in a rush and with no warning.\n\nThis year it was made with more foresight in a bid to tackle \"unfairness\" caused by repeated periods of Covid-related isolation for some students and not others.\n\nHowever, the perception of unfairness might be one which is hard to shake.\n\nTeachers have been given guidance on how to come up with pupils' estimated grades, but they have also been given some flexibility.\n\nIt means that the experiences of young people in schools across the country could be totally different, the very situation everyone was hoping to avoid.\n\nThe authorities will say that \"quality assurance checks\" will make up for this.\n\nDeni, from Dundee, says students now need to try to revise a whole year's work for courses that most have not yet finished and which, for much of it, they have had to teach themselves.\n\nA Dundee City Council spokesman said Deni's school had not indicated to pupils that their grades would \"only\" be based around one assessment.\n\nHe said: \"We are working closely with young people and families during this hugely challenging time and will be re-assuring them directly over how assessments will be made.\"\n\nDylan is taking his Highers but when final end of year exams were cancelled he was told grades would be based on an overall teacher judgement of coursework and class tests.\n\nDylan says he has been told his grades will mainly be based on assessments\n\nNow Dylan, who is at school in Bathgate, says he has been told his grades will mainly be based on assessments he will sit in the coming weeks.\n\n\"I'm really worried because normally we have at least nine months in advance knowing when our exams are going to be and I only got told this morning that I have got one in three weeks,\" Dylan says.\n\n\"It does not feel great. It's quite worrying, especially since we have to be in class the rest of the time as well.\"\n\nWhen this year's exams were cancelled, guidance was given to schools advising them the most robust way to gather evidence for grades was through class tests based on questions provided by the Scottish Qualifications Authority.\n\nIt has led to schools doing this in different ways - with some planning to do these tests spread over different class times while others are setting them up much closer to an exam style - but without study leave.\n\nBBC Scotland has also spoken to teachers who think the system is unfair.\n\nGeography teacher Brian Donlin says it can't be denied that some children are sitting exams\n\nBrian Donlin, who teaches geography, says the way schools are carrying out these assessments is wildly different.\n\n\"How can we turn around and say that that we are ensuring consistency across a national level?,\" he says. \"We can't fundamentally, you just can't.\n\n\"Let's not kid ourselves on, there are some kids across Scotland who are sitting exams this year.\"\n\nSeamus Searson, general secretary of the Scottish Secondary Teachers' Association (SSTA), told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme that there was a lot of confusion because exams were cancelled prior to Christmas and everyone assumed it would be coursework and continuous assessment.\n\nMr Searson said schools were now trying to gather evidence for awarding grades and were falling back on the question papers provided by the SQA (Scottish Qualifications Authority).\n\nHe said: \"Our view is if youngsters do any assessments, they should be broken up, and used between now and the end of term.\n\n\"At the moment, the government guidance is that when pupils go back to school after Easter, it should be for teaching and learning. Assessments should come towards the end of the session.\n\n\"That is the mistake schools are making.\"\n\nMr Searson said schools are probably concerned there may be another lockdown and are trying to put these assessments in early so they have some evidence just in case.\n\nHe said: \"There are a lot of children who won't have been engaging during lockdown who will be totally disadvantaged by the systems these schools are trying to bring in.\n\n\"The system put in place at the moment looks straightforward but it's actually micro-managing teachers' decisions. This is where the panic is starting to come in. Teachers are now looking for pieces of evidence to prove to the SQA their grades are correct.\"\n\nThe Scottish Qualifications Authority said it had \"made it clear that there is no requirement to replicate a full formal exam or prelim diet\".\n\nIt said it had provided detailed guidance to schools and there was flexibility on how assessment evidence was gathered.\n\n\"Schools and colleges know their learners best, so it is appropriate that they deliver assessments which suit their circumstances this year,\" the SQA said.\n\n\"Evidence requirements have been significantly reduced - it is about quality, not quantity.\"", "Seven people have died from unusual blood clots after getting the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in the UK, the medicines regulator has confirmed to the BBC.\n\nIn total, 30 people out of 18 million vaccinated by 24 March had these clots.\n\nIt is still not clear if they are just a coincidence or a genuine side effect of the vaccine.\n\nThe Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency says the benefits continue to outweigh any risk.\n\nThe World Health Organization and the European Medicines Agency have echoed this conclusion.\n\nA spokeswoman for AstraZeneca said: \"Patient safety remains the company's highest priority.\"\n\nHowever, concern has led to other countries including Germany, France, the Netherlands and Canada to restrict the vaccine's use only to older people.\n\nThe data released by the MHRA on Friday showed 22 cases of cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) which is a type of blood clot in the brain.\n\nThese were accompanied by low levels of platelets, which help form blood clots, in the body. The MHRA also found other clotting problems alongside low platelet levels in eight people.\n\nNow the MHRA has confirmed, in an email to the BBC, that \"sadly seven have died\".\n\nDr June Raine, the chief executive of the MHRA, said: \"The benefits… in preventing Covid-19 infection and its complications continue to outweigh any risks and the public should continue to get their vaccine when invited to do so.\"\n\nInvestigations are under way to determine if the AstraZeneca vaccine is causing the very rare blood clots. Earlier this week the European Medicines Agency said it was \"not proven, but is possible\".\n\nTwo issues are raising suspicions. The first is the unusual nature of the clots which, including low levels of platelets and rare antibodies in the blood that have been linked to other clotting disorders.\n\n\"This raises the possibility that the vaccine could be a causal factor in these rare and unusual cases of CVST, though we don't know this yet, so more research is urgently needed,\" said Prof David Werring, from the UCL Institute of Neurology.\n\nThe other issue is the difference between the Oxford-AstraZeneca and the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines.\n\nThere have been two cases of CVSTs after Pfizer in the UK, out of more than 10 million vaccinated, but these did not have the low platelet levels.\n\nHowever, there remains uncertainty around how common these clots normally are. Estimates range from two cases per million people every year to nearly 16 in every million in normal times and the coronavirus has been linked to abnormal clotting, which may be making these clots more common.\n\nGermany has reported 31 CVSTs and nine deaths out of the 2.7 million people vaccinated there, with most cases in young or middle-aged women.\n\nSimilar data on who has been affected in the UK has not been published in the UK, but a wider mix of people are thought to have been affected.\n\nAll medicines, from vaccines to paracetamol, have the potential to cause severe side effects.\n\nThe seasonal flu jab has around a one-in-a-million chance of causing the nerve disorder Guillain-Barre syndrome.\n\nSo, the real question is: Are the risks worth the benefits?\n\nEven if the vaccine was the cause, and this is still not proven, the numbers suggest around one death in every 2.5 million people vaccinated.\n\nHowever, this has to be weighed against the known threat posed by coronavirus.\n\nIf 2.5 million 60-year-old people caught coronavirus then around 50,000 would die. If they were all 40-year-olds then around 2,500 would die.\n\nThis balance of risk and benefit will continue to be assessed as more safety data comes in and as the vaccine programme moves into younger people, who are at lower risk of dying from Covid-19.\n\nOne scientist has told the BBC that evidence is growing that the blood clot events are \"causally related\", although he stressed that the benefits of taking the AstraZeneca vaccine still far outweighed the risks of not getting the jab.\n\nProf Paul Hunter, a medical microbiologist at the University of East Anglia, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"It is not uncommon to get clusters of rare events purely by chance.\n\n\"But, once you find that cluster in one population and it then crops up in another - such as previously in the German and now in the English - then I think the chances of that being a random association is very, very low.\n\n\"Clearly more work needs to be done, but I think the evidence is shifting more towards it being causally related at the moment.\"\n\nHowever, public health expert Prof Linda Bauld, of the University of Edinburgh, told BBC Breakfast the cases were \"rare events\" and stressed there was no event \"at the moment of a causal link - that the vaccine would be directly causing these outcomes\".\n\nShe urged the public to continue coming forward for a jab, and added: \"Covid itself increases the risk of blood clots quite significantly and it's possible that that may be part of the explanation why we're seeing this.\"\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\nHave you been affected by the issues raised? 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 Glastonbury Festival will receive £900,000 \"to secure our future\"\n\nWest End theatres, comedy clubs, the Glastonbury Festival and Canterbury Cathedral will get a share of £400m emergency government culture funding.\n\nA total of 2,700 English culture and heritage venues will share the latest round of the Culture Recovery Fund.\n\nCanterbury Cathedral has the biggest grant with £2m, while the Serpentine Galleries in London has been awarded £1.9m and Camden Roundhouse has £1.5m.\n\nWest End chain Nimax Theatres and Glastonbury will receive £900,000 each.\n\nFestival organisers Emily and Michael Eavis said the money would \"make a huge difference in helping to secure our future\". Emily told told BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Thursday that the event had \"suffered huge losses\" in the past year.\n\nAn illuminated Canterbury Cathedral recently marked the first anniversary of lockdown\n\nBoomtown Fair festival in Hampshire will get £990,000, while almost 100 independent cinemas will share a total of £6.5m.\n\nTheatres in Eastbourne will get £1.9m and the parent company of the Ambassador Theatre Group, which runs more than 30 UK venues, will receive almost £1m.\n\nYork Archaeological Trust, which runs attractions including the Jorvik Viking Centre is one of the major recipients with a £1.9m grant. Meanwhile, museums at Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire and Ironbridge Gorge in Shropshire will receive more than £1m each.\n\nThe funding includes £81m in loans including £23m to English Heritage and £7.3m to The Lowry Centre in Salford.\n\nThis is the last major tranche of money to be awarded from the £1.57bn Culture Recovery Fund that was announced last July.\n\nIn his Budget in March, Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced a further £300m for the fund, which is yet to be allocated.\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden said the fund had helped culture and heritage organisations \"survive the biggest crisis they've ever faced\" and was now helping them \"plan for reopening and thrive in the better times ahead\".", "Amy-Claire Davies said she and other shielders in Wales feel anxious about going outside\n\nPeople who have been shielding could become \"prisoners in their homes\" due to a loss of confidence after months indoors, an expert has said.\n\nDr Deborah Morgan, a leading specialist on loneliness, said a \"national strategy\" was needed to help people reintegrate into their communities.\n\nThe Welsh government said on Wednesday that 138,500 people shielding in Wales would no longer need to.\n\nHowever, they have been advised to limit their contact and work from home.\n\nAmy-Claire Davies, 26, has been shielding with her parents in Swansea since the start of the pandemic.\n\nMedically, she is extremely vulnerable. She is living with a life-limiting condition which means she suffers multiple agonising spasms.\n\nShe feels anxious about going outside, a fear she said was shared by other young people like her living with life-limiting conditions.\n\nShe said: \"I think I'd struggle going anywhere that was particularly crowded, I would get quite anxious about that, because it's been ingrained as a survival instinct over the past year and I haven't been in a crowded space for the past year. It would be quite overwhelming.\n\n\"A lot of the young people I know are at a real risk of struggling to go back out into the world in the way that we were before.\"\n\nThat concern is shared by experts who think some people might never leave their homes again unless they get help.\n\nDr Deborah Morgan said young people are \"just too fearful to go back out again\"\n\nDr Morgan, from the Centre for Innovative Ageing at Swansea University, said without the right support they might find a return to the outside world too daunting.\n\nShe said: \"When we talk to younger people, as well as older people, about this experience that's just the way they're feeling, they're just too fearful to go back out again.\n\n\"These are people who have been very active in social groups and have been part of their communities but they're now really fearful of going back out there.\n\n\"We have an economic strategy about how we're going to recover from this, and I really think we need a strategy for the social aspect of this, not just the economic.\"\n\nWork is already ongoing to introduce some of the most vulnerable groups to life in a world with face masks, social distancing and contactless payment.\n\nThe Get There Together project is a Wales-wide NHS project designed to show people with dementia what the world looks like now.\n\nA series of films and written resources have been produced in English and Welsh showing how shops, libraries and public transport has adapted since the start of the pandemic.\n\nDr Natalie Elliott said the pandemic has had a huge impact on people living with dementia\n\nDr Natalie Elliott is the allied health professional lead for dementia at Cardiff and Vale University Health Board and is leading the project.\n\n\"The feedback we were getting from people with dementia is that they were very fearful of going back out into the community,\" she said.\n\n\"One of the ideas we had was would it be useful to create resources, video clips walking people through visits to places in their communities showing what it is like and what safety measures are there to support people and this allows people to rehearse at home, perhaps with the support of a family member or carer to go through and prepare to feel ready to go out.\"\n\nThe Welsh government said: \"Throughout the pandemic, local authorities have worked tirelessly alongside the voluntary and third sector to co-ordinate support to a wide range of vulnerable groups. They will continue to play an important role in supporting the most vulnerable in our communities.\n\n\"During the pandemic we have introduced a number of new initiatives to support vulnerable people, including a national telephone befriending service for older people and the Looking Out For Each Other Safely campaign, which provides advice about how to stay in contact to prevent feelings of loneliness or isolation.\"", "Campaigners have started legal action against the government over guidance that bans care home residents in England aged 65 and over from taking trips outside the home.\n\nJohn's Campaign, of residents and their loved ones, says the ban is unlawful.\n\nThey are also challenging the requirement for residents to self-isolate for 14 days after such visits.\n\nThe government said its guidance provides a \"range of opportunities\" for visitors to spend time with loved ones.\n\nNearly all residents have now had at least one dose of the vaccine, and care homes have been cautiously reopening, allowing indoor visits with designated family or friends.\n\nBut the government guidance, updated on 8 March, says trips to see family or friends \"should only be considered\" for under-65s while national Covid restrictions apply because they increase the risk of bringing Covid into a home.\n\nVisits out for residents, whatever their age, \"should be supported in exceptional circumstances such as a visit to a friend or relative at the end of their life\", it adds - but on returning to the home, the resident must self-isolate for two weeks.\n\nThe legal letter sent to the Department of Health and Social Care by John's Campaign says the decision whether someone can go on a visit outside a care home should be based on individual risk assessments.\n\nTo deny this contravenes equality and human rights legislation, the group says.\n\n\"The 440,000 people living in care homes include some who moved in through their own volition, with full mental capacity, never guessing that this simple freedom, enjoyed by everyone else in the population, apart from prisoners, could so easily be denied them,\" campaign co-founder Julia Jones said.\n\n\"Those who cannot make their own choices have relatives and friends who would normally be glad to take responsibility but have been excluded choices.\"\n\nShe told the BBC Today programme those in care homes were being discriminated against because of their age and had been \"comprehensively ignored\".\n\n\"The Department of Health, and particularly Public Health England, looks at care home residents as if they are a different species,\" she said. \"These are people living in care homes and they have the range of morbidities, of problems, of disabilities and of capabilities.\"\n\nMike Padgham, chair of the Independent Care Group, said he hoped the government would provide further guidance for after 12 April, when restrictions are due to ease further, so some visits outside could take place.\n\n\"I think the risks of not going out are greater than the risks perhaps of getting the virus,\" he told Today, but added it was right to be cautious and there had to be \"a balance\", with an individual risk assessment for each resident.\n\nHe said getting care home residents outside \"does them the world of good\".\n\nThe campaigners also say the progress made on vaccinations and testing make the 14-day isolation rules unnecessary.\n\nThe pre-action letter asks the DHSC to reply within 14 days, after which the lawyers for the campaigners will decide whether to apply for a judicial review.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokeswoman said: \"We know just how crucial visits are in supporting the health and wellbeing of residents.\n\n\"Our current guidance provides a range of opportunities for visitors to meet and spend time with their loved ones in a care home under carefully designed conditions to keep everyone safe.\n\n\"Residents over 65 can make visits outside of care homes in exceptional circumstances and all decisions in relation to visiting should be made on the basis of a risk assessment centred around the individual. This is made clear in our guidance.\n\n\"As we move along the roadmap, we are looking to open up more opportunities for visiting both into and outside of care homes, wherever this can be done safely and is supported by data.\"", "New rules to help pubs, cafes and restaurants reopen outdoors safely in England on 12 April have sparked anger from industry groups.\n\nAll customers will have to sign in on entry, not just one member of the group like before. It is also unclear whether payment at the bar will be permitted.\n\nUK Hospitality said it would burden struggling pubs and staff and risk customers deciding not to go out.\n\nThe government said it was providing as much flexibility as possible to venues.\n\nIt also said it had removed other unpopular requirements such as drinking curfews.\n\nUnder the new guidance, every customer aged 16 and over will have to check in to NHS test and trace before entering a venue, or give their contact details to staff.\n\nPubs and restaurants must take \"reasonable steps\" to stop people who won't comply from coming in, or they could face a £1,000 fine.\n\nCarl Ford does not like the new rules\n\nCarl Ford, an accountant based in Tamworth, told the BBC he was frustrated and confused by the rules.\n\n\"I feel like it's almost like going back to school where I have to sign in and out,\" he said.\n\n\"I don't understand why I have to do this in a restaurant or pub, but I don't need to do this in a supermarket where you have a free for all. People don't have to sign in and they can pick up fruit with their hands.\"\n\nOthers were supportive of the idea, however, saying it could reduce transmission.\n\nIn a joint statement, UK Hospitality, the British Beer & Pub Association and the British Institute of Innkeeping said the rules would add \"more confusion and inconvenience for customers and staff\".\n\nThey also warned if indoors payments were not permitted from 12 April, then some pubs, particularly in rural areas with poor broadband, would be unable to take payments at all.\n\nWith the government also considering whether \"proof of immunity\" should be a requirement for entry, the groups warned that \"millions\" of people could be put off going to pubs and venues at a time when the hospitality industry is struggling.\n\n\"Pubs will already be trading at a loss when they reopen with all the existing restrictions and Covid-secure measures in place,\" they said.\n\n\"Adding further disproportionate and discriminatory measures threatens the very survival of thousands of businesses.\"\n\nHospitality businesses have been hit particularly hard by lockdown closures and restrictions.\n\nIn the year to February, 368,000 payroll jobs were lost in the accommodation and food service sectors. The next worst hit sector was retail where 123,000 jobs were lost.\n\nA government spokeswoman said: \"Public health rules are kept under constant review and we are providing as much flexibility for pubs and other hospitality businesses as possible.\n\n\"The roadmap [to reopening] set out that hospitality would open from step two, and removed any requirements for curfews or a substantial meal for customers.\"\n\nShe said no final decisions had been taken on whether Covid-status certification could play a role in reopening the economy.\n\nShe added that the government continued to support the hospitality sector through the pandemic with its new £5bn Restart Grant scheme, the VAT cut, business rates relief, and by extending furlough.", "Not all energy marketed as green comes from renewable sources\n\nEnergy suppliers offering environment-friendly tariffs are not always as green as they sound, experts say.\n\nMany \"100% renewable\" electricity tariffs use energy generated by fossil fuels, which is then \"offset\" for a small price.\n\nSustainable energy think tank Regen complains of \"loose language and loose marketing\" around green energy tariffs.\n\nBut industry body Energy UK says all renewable tariffs help to transform the grid for a low-carbon future.\n\nThe vast majority of energy suppliers now offer green tariffs and many promise 100% renewable electricity as standard.\n\nHowever, some energy companies accuse others of \"greenwashing\" - using marketing spin to make \"dirty\" electricity seem clean.\n\n\"The sale of green tariffs increased remarkably in the period since 2015. In fact, it doubled between 2017 and 2018,\" says Rob Gross, the director of the UK Energy Research Centre.\n\nFor many consumers, electricity which is environmentally friendly plays a role in which supplier they choose.\n\nThat was the case for Su in Gainsborough, who told the Jeremy Vine Show on BBC Radio 2: \"The tariff we're on at the moment has 100% renewable electricity, so they source all their energy from renewables. So wind, solar, hydro.\"\n\nWe explained to Su that the supplier she was with sources the majority of its electricity from the wholesale market, which includes energy generated by gas and coal.\n\nThen it purchases cheap renewable energy certificates called REGOs to effectively \"offset\" this. That allows her supplier to legally call the electricity \"100% renewable\".\n\nIn response, Su said: \"I'm not very impressed with that at all. To claim that all your energy is sourced renewably and then to do that is very misleading.\n\n\"That's not giving consumers an informed choice about where they're getting their electric from.\"\n\nJohnny Gowdy is a director at Regen, a not-for-profit organisation supporting the transition to a net-zero energy future.\n\nHe says: \"The good news is, there's a lot of demand for green energy products and that's why the industry is responding to that.\n\n\"So there's a success story here which has been muddied somewhat by loose language and loose marketing around green energy tariffs.\"\n\nREGO stands for Renewable Energy Guarantees of Origin. When an renewable unit of electricity is generated - for example, by a wind turbine - the regulator Ofgem issues a REGO to prove that this energy is green.\n\nThe person who owns that wind turbine is now allowed to sell the electricity and the REGO separately.\n\nIt means there is a marketplace where leftover REGOs are traded, and there are enough of them \"going spare\" that energy suppliers are able to purchase enough to cover the proportion of fossil fuels they sell to customers.\n\nSome industry experts are supportive of REGOs and many agree that they have a role to play in expanding and supporting the renewable energy market.\n\nThe problem is how much they cost. They are cheap.\n\nAn energy supplier can make electricity from the wholesale market, which includes fossil fuels, look entirely green for just £1 or £2 per customer per year. The majority of UK energy suppliers are doing this to some extent.\n\nThe Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy says: \"We will be reviewing the REGO scheme this year. This will include ensuring people can make informed decisions over their energy supplier's green credentials.\"\n\nFor environmentally-conscious consumers, finding a truly \"green\" tariff is confusing.\n\nMany suppliers have contracts to buy electricity directly from renewable electricity generators and some invest directly in renewable energy infrastructure. These are arguably \"greener\", but tend to cost more.\n\nThe regulator, Ofgem, acknowledged this when it exempted three suppliers from the UK-wide energy price cap.\n\nEcotricity, Good Energy and Green Energy UK are allowed to charge more than their competitors because their electricity costs more to supply.\n\nEnergy UK, the trade body representing all suppliers, says that the bigger picture is very promising.\n\nIts chief executive, Emma Pinchbeck, says: \"All renewable tariffs, including those with REGOs, are supporting renewables in some way. Over a third of our power now comes from renewables.\n\n\"The reason we're having this debate is everyone's so enthused about a low-carbon world and that's so exciting for us in the industry.\"", "Royal Navy Hawk T1 jets have resumed flying after a Navy jet crashed in Cornwall.\n\nTwo pilots ejected from the aircraft, from 736 Naval Air Squadron at RNAS Culdrose, crashed into woodland on 25 March.\n\nHawk jets have resumed flying, the base tweeted, adding: \"Thanks for all the support to the pilots; they're doing fine.\"\n\nDefence Minister Johnny Mercer said at the time engine failure was suspected.\n\nThe MoD said after the crash a pause in operations was a \"precautionary measure while investigations were ongoing\".\n\nNo further comment was available from the Ministry of Defence.\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Demanding a Covid passport as proof of a jab or test to access jobs or services is \"dangerous, discriminatory and counterproductive\", opponents say.\n\nBaroness Chakrabarti warned the passports risked creating a \"checkpoint Britain\" as more than 70 MPs railed against their use in England.\n\nLabour's Jeremy Corbyn and senior Tory Iain Duncan Smith are among a broad coalition who pledged their opposition.\n\nThe government said no final decision had been made on Covid passports.\n\nBut a series of Covid passport trials are being planned to test their use in different venues, the Daily Telegraph reported.\n\nA review is taking place into whether passports could help to reopen the economy in England, with discussions also taking place across the devolved nations.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has previously said people could be asked to provide a vaccine certificate for entry into pubs in England, saying it \"may be up to individual publicans\".\n\nCertification could involve people being either vaccinated, having had a recent negative test or having previously been infected, the PM said.\n\nBaroness Chakrabarti told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"It's one thing to have a passport to travel internationally, that is a privilege, even a luxury, but participation in local community life is a fundamental right.\"\n\nShe added: \"To introduce two queues at the cinema, two queues at the football stadium going forward, is to introduce checkpoint Britain that so many of us just do not want.\"\n\nThe Labour peer, a former head of human rights organisation Liberty, said passports could see \"policing power\" given \"to every bouncer or unscrupulous boss\".\n\n\"It's a recipe for bullying, it's a recipe for corruption, it's a recipe for discrimination and it's not what we sacrificed so much for as a community over the past year,\" she said.\n\nThe plan could also \"scupper things\" for hospitality venues who are trying to reopen, Emma McClarkin, chief executive of the British Beer and Pub Association, said.\n\nShe told BBC Breakfast: \"It is a difficult process for us to implement... and yet today we have not had a consultation with the government about how we would do this in pubs.\"\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden said vaccine passports could also be used as a \"tool in the short term\" to reopen theatres and sports stadiums.\n\nA cross-party group of MPs and peers have signed a pledge saying they \"oppose the divisive and discriminatory use of Covid status certification to deny individuals access to general services, businesses or jobs\".\n\nThe issue has brought together some unlikely allies, with many of Mr Corbyn's former shadow cabinet joining the lockdown-sceptic Covid Research Group of Conservative MPs in backing the campaign.\n\nLabour's Diane Abbott, Tory Esther McVey and Lib Dem Layla Moran have also signed the pledge against Covid certificates\n\nAccusing the government of \"creeping authoritarianism\", Liberal Democrats leader Sir Ed Davey said: \"As we start to get this virus properly under control we should start getting our freedoms back. Vaccine passports - essentially Covid ID cards - take us in the other direction.\"\n\nSir Graham Brady, who chairs the 1922 Committee of backbench Tory MPs, added: \"With high levels of vaccination protecting the vulnerable and making transmission less likely, we should aim to return to normal life, not to put permanent restrictions in place.\"\n\nConservative MP Andrew Bridgen told BBC News he was \"not convinced that vaccine passports for use within the UK is proportionate to the risk\".\n\n\"It would be divisive, effectively creating an underclass of people who are not vaccinated, many of whom won't be vaccinated for medical reasons,\" he added. \"It's a major infringement of civil liberties.\"\n\nPrivacy campaigning organisation Big Brother Watch also signed the pledge, arguing it could \"create a two-tier nation of division, discrimination and injustice\".\n\nIn a report - entitled \"Access Denied\" - the group said if certificates were brought in, it would be \"the first policy for decades that could see segregation imposed throughout the population\".\n\nPolitical opposition to the idea of Covid passports is hardening among some, even before the government announces its plans.\n\nThe unlikely coalition of more than 70 MPs and peers of varying political colours shows that the issue crosses party lines.\n\nBoris Johnson has talked increasingly openly about the idea in general, perhaps trying to prepare people for what is to come.\n\nBut will principled objections to asking people to prove their Covid status scupper the prime minister's plans?\n\nThat depends on exactly what is proposed and how Labour and rebellious Conservatives respond.\n\nIf and when it comes to a vote in the House of Commons, the government can't be sure at this point that it will have the support it needs.\n\nThe campaign comes after Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer this week said the use of Covid passports to decide whether people can enter pubs would go against the \"British instinct\".\n\nA government spokeswoman said: \"The review is considering a range of issues, including the ethical, equalities, privacy, legal and operational aspects and what limits, if any, should be placed on organisations using certification.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the prime minister is preparing to give an update on the UK's Covid situation on Monday.\n\nHe is expected to confirm that data suggests the next stage of lockdown could ease in England on 12 April and that a traffic light system could be implemented for foreign travel, with countries being categorised as red, amber or green.\n\nMore than 31 million people have received the first dose of a coronavirus vaccine and more than 4.5 million have had a second dose, according to Thursday's daily figures.\n\nThe figures also show there were a further 51 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test, bringing the total to 126,764. Some 4,479 new cases have been recorded.", "A police van patrols on the promenade next to Brighton Beach, East Sussex, on Good Friday\n\nPeople should not socialise indoors with other households even if they are vaccinated, Boris Johnson has said.\n\nAs the Easter Bank Holiday weekend began, the PM said \"we're not yet at that stage\" as coronavirus vaccines \"are not giving 100% protection\".\n\nPolice forces across England have also called for people to obey the rules over the bank holiday.\n\nIt is the first weekend since England's rules were relaxed to allow outside gatherings of more than two people.\n\nWith groups of up to six or two households allowed to meet, councils and police forces are preparing for beauty spots and parks to be busy.\n\nBut, despite unseasonably warm weather earlier this week, the weekend is forecast to be mild before temperatures drop further from Sunday, with a warning of snow in northern Scotland.\n\nRules have also recently been relaxed in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland - with people also allowed to meet outside in small groups.\n\nIn a video published on Twitter to answer questions about the rule changes, the prime minister addressed the question: Can I meet family and friends indoors if they are vaccinated?\n\n\"I'm afraid the answer is no, because we're not yet at that stage,\" he said.\n\n\"We're still very much in a world where you can meet friends and family outdoors under the rule of six or two households.\n\n\"And even though your friends and family members may be vaccinated, the vaccines are not giving 100% protection, and that's why we just need to be cautious.\n\n\"We don't think that they entirely reduce or remove the risk of transmission.\"\n\nHe later tweeted: \"This Easter weekend, please remember that outdoors is generally much safer than indoors.\"\n\nPeople wrapped in blankets as they took a punt tour along the River Cam in Cambridge on Good Friday\n\nAnd despite the milder weather, people gathered on Brighton Beach\n\nMore than 4.9 million people in the UK have now been fully vaccinated - receiving both doses - while 31.3 million first doses have been given.\n\nPfizer said its vaccine prevented 91% of coronavirus cases in the six months after people are given their second dose.\n\nMeanwhile, a recent study found a single dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab offered 76% protection for three months, and this went up to 82% after the second dose.\n\nSeveral police forces have also issued warnings ahead of the bank holiday. The Metropolitan Police said officers will be \"highly visible\" in open spaces in London to remind people in groups of more than six that they could be fined.\n\n\"After a long and difficult few months, let's not undo all of that hard work now,\" said Deputy Assistant Commissioner Jane Connors.\n\n\"We can expect to see parks and beauty spots busier than usual,\" she said, adding: \"Don't crowd in open spaces and do follow the rule of six, or, only meet up with one other household.\"\n\nOther forces have said they will be patrolling parks and beaches, with Merseyside Police planning to remind people that alcohol is banned at some beaches.\n\nAlso pleading with people to follow the rules, Sussex Police said: \"Warm blankets and hot drinks are the way forward this weekend - not bringing friends or family into your home.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Police Scotland said if anyone was visiting their local beauty spots, they should do \"safely and respectfully\".\n\nRules have been relaxed in Scotland, where the \"stay at home\" order has been lifted and replaced with \"stay local\".\n\nIn Wales, since last weekend people have been allowed to meet groups of six or two households outdoors, as well as travel within the country for holidays with their own household.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, up to six people from two households are allowed to meet in a private garden and 10 people in public spaces.\n\nIt comes as a further 52 people died within 28 days of testing positive for coronavirus, according to UK government figures released on Friday - although the data does not include Wales.\n\nThe number of cases has increased by 3,402 - the lowest since mid-September.\n\nPolice officers monitored people enjoying the warm weather on Wednesday at the Forest Recreation Ground in Nottingham\n\nThe small strip of sand at Chalkwell Beach, Southend, appeared busy on Wednesday\n\nEarlier this week, parks an beaches were busy as the UK saw a spell of warm weather, including its hottest March day since 1968 as temperatures topped 24.5C on Tuesday.\n\nTwo parks in Nottingham were closed after large crowds failed to socially distance and left rubbish behind.\n\nForecasters predict that this weekend will be milder, ahead of air from the Arctic moving in from Sunday night and bringing colder weather across the UK - with even gales and snow possible in some areas.\n\nA yellow weather warning predicting heavy snow showers has been issued for northern Scotland from 18:00 BST on Sunday.\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.\n\nWithin days of the second warmest March day on record, a swing in temperatures could see a cold Easter Bank Holiday weekend with gales and even snow.\n\nAccording to the Met Office, by Easter Monday temperatures will struggle to reach double digits and the colder weather will last throughout next week.\n\nAnd a \"white Easter Monday\" is likely, with snowfall in some higher areas in Scotland and northern England.\n\nForecaster Nicola Maxey said the UK was heading for \"an Arctic trough\".\n\nBut she said that, for this time of year, the recent warmer weather was more unusual than the upcoming cold temperatures.\n\nThis week's warm temperatures - including a high of 24.5C (76.1F) at Kew Gardens in London on Tuesday - will last longest in the south of England, said Ms Maxey.\n\nBut by early next week the whole of the UK will struggle to get above single figures.\n\nFor Easter Monday, the daily high forecast for London is 7C (44.6F) and 6C (42.8F) in Leeds and Manchester. Edinburgh's maximum is expected to be 5C (41F) while Cardiff's is 7C and Belfast 5C.\n\nOvernight temperatures are expected to fall to as low as 0C (32F) - and below freezing in some areas.\n\nThe shift in temperatures has already begun, with BBC Weather saying parts of the central England have seen temperatures fall by 15C in 24 hours.\n\nIn an average year, snow is actually more likely to fall at Easter than at Christmas. The coldest Easter Sunday morning on record was in 2013, with -12.5C at the village of Braemar in Aberdeenshire.\n\nEaster 2018 saw areas hit with snowfall - like Overwater in Cumbria - as well as heavy rain and flooding\n\n\"It's not unusual to see these big swings in spring - it's a transition period between winter and summer,\" said Ms Maxey.\n\nShe said: \"There are some blustery winds around, particularly along the east coast, as we go through the weekend.\"\n\n\"It's a marked change from what we saw on Wednesday,\" she said - and on Sunday and into Monday an \"Arctic trough\" will arrive.\n\nPolice officers monitored people enjoying the warm weather on Wednesday at the Forest Recreation Ground in Nottingham\n\nThe small strip of sand at Chalkwell beach, Southend, appeared busy on Wednesday\n\n\"It turns windy in the north from Sunday with gales possible in northern areas locally, and across northern isles, Scotland,\" Ms Maxey said.\n\n\"We're looking at possible gale force winds across the northern half and the west side of the UK.\"\n\nShe added: \"The cold will be with us for much of next week, and with any showers you could see the possibility of snow falling over high ground in northern areas - the Pennines, Cumbria, Scotland.\"\n\nThe RAC said it anticipated a \"sharp rise in breakdowns\" as a result of the colder weather returning, and urged people to check their vehicles ahead of travelling.\n\nTuesday was the hottest March day since 1968 as temperatures topped 24.5C, leading to many people gathering in parks and on beaches. Wednesday was also warm in some areas.\n\nThe warmer weather came just a few days after coronavirus rules were relaxed in England and Wales - and parks and beaches were busy.\n\nTwo parks in Nottingham were closed after large crowds failed to socially distance and left rubbish behind.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPublic Health England medical director Dr Yvonne Doyle said: \"As restrictions lift and the weather improves, we cannot drop our guard. We're not out of the woods quite yet.\"\n\nHeath Secretary Matt Hancock also tweeted to say \"don't blow it\" - urging people to enjoy the warm weather safely.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAt least 50 people have been killed and dozens more injured after a train carrying nearly 500 crashed and then derailed in a tunnel in Taiwan.\n\nThe eight-carriage train reportedly hit a construction vehicle that had slipped onto the tracks at the tunnel's mouth.\n\nRescuers combed badly damaged carriages inside the tunnel to find survivors, some of whom smashed windows to flee.\n\nThe train, from the capital Taipei to Taitung, was carrying people travelling for a long-weekend annual holiday.\n\nMany people may have been standing because the train was so full.\n\nThe 408 train is one of the fastest deployed on a network that is generally considered safe. It can reach speeds of 130km/h (80mph).\n\nFriday's crash is Taiwan's worst rail disaster in decades. President Tsai Ing-wen has sent her condolences to the families of the victims and ordered an investigation.\n\nSome passengers exited on to the roof to escape\n\nThe latest reports from the National Fire Agency say 494 people were on the train, with 50 dead and 66 injured and taken to hospital.\n\nThe crash took place at about 09:00 local time (01:00 GMT).\n\nSome people at the back of the train were able to walk away unscathed, while 100 were rescued from the first four carriages. Many of the dead, injured and trapped were in four crumpled carriages inside the tunnel.\n\n\"It felt like there was a sudden violent jolt and I found myself falling to the floor,\" one female survivor told Taiwan's UDN. \"We broke the window to climb to the roof of the train to get out.\"\n\nAnother rescued woman said: \"My whole body fell to the floor. I hit my head and it started bleeding.\"\n\nA 50-year-old survivor told Apple Daily she saw many people trapped under their seats and when she walked out of her carriage she saw bodies everywhere.\n\nPictures showed people in less affected carriages walking along train tracks with their belongings\n\nLocal media reports say the train driver is among the dead.\n\nImages show a large, yellow flatbed truck lying at the side of the tracks. A construction project has been under way near the north end of the tunnel.\n\nIt is not known how the vehicle slipped down the embankment.\n\nOther pictures showed people walking along the tracks with their belongings as they were evacuated from less badly affected carriages.\n\nOther survivors were being carried away on stretchers with their necks in braces.\n\nThis image appears to show the yellow flat-bed truck at the side of the tracks\n\nUK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said on Twitter: \"I offer my sincere condolences to all those affected by this morning's rail accident in Taiwan.\"\n\nTaiwan has an impressive transportation network, including more than 1,000km of railway tracks. The trains transport more than 200 million passengers each year.\n\nAccidents are rare, but this latest derailment - if it was indeed caused by a construction vehicle parked on a nearby slope sliding onto the tracks - would add to a number of recent incidents that have been blamed on negligence and/or human error.\n\nThis latest accident once again raises questions about whether Taiwan is placing enough importance on safety and preventing accidents.\n\nMany of those on the train are believed to have been travelling to celebrate the Tomb Sweeping festival - a time when people pay their respects to the dead by visiting the graves of family members, sprucing them up and making offerings to their spirits.\n\nThe island's worst crash in recent history was in 1991, when 30 passengers were killed and 112 injured after two trains collided.\n\nAre you in the area? Did you witness what happened? If it is safe to do so, 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. Philippine nurses 'became part of the NHS family' in Wales\n\nNurses who were recruited from the Philippines to work in north Wales hospitals due to a nursing shortage have said they have \"no regrets\" as they mark their 20th year working in the region.\n\nAbout 100 nurses came in 2001 and took up positions across the three main hospitals.\n\nThe recruitment was seen at the time as a temporary measure and the nurses were given two-year contracts - but many stayed and built their lives in Wales.\n\nJoanne Canlas was 27 when she arrived as part of a cohort of 50 to take up a position at Wrexham Maelor hospital.\n\nShe said: \"We arrived in Heathrow in March time. The weather was freezing cold. I got used to it.\"\n\nJoanne Canlas moved to Wales 20 years ago when she was 27\n\nShe started working in critical care where she still works as acting sister and it is where her husband, Emerson, also a Filipino, works. They met when living in neighbouring hospital accommodation, and now have two sons aged 15 and 13.\n\nShe said: \"They go to school, which they [learn] about the Welsh language, they are the ones teaching us.\n\n\"Initially I found it difficult to understand the British and Welsh language, and some slang words. But now I can even understand some Welsh words.\n\n\"I can say bore da [good morning] when I go on the ward, nos da [good night], diolch [thanks] and croeso [welcome]. People here are very kind and approachable.\"\n\nHusband and wife Joanne and Emerson Canlas met living in neighbouring hospital accommodation\n\nThe couple spoke of the difficulties of the past year during the pandemic\n\nEmerson Canlas, 45, said Wrexham was a \"home away from home\" and although he loved Wales' castles and beaches, he missed the Philippines and it had been hard not to be able to travel there during the pandemic.\n\n\"It was very difficult me, for our parents especially, because there are five of us - all nurses - in our family,\" he added.\n\nThe couple both expressed how painful the past year has been for them, their colleagues and especially their patients.\n\n\"It was heartbreaking seeing them missing their loved ones, unable to sit at their bedside. We just had to hold their hands to let them feel they are not alone,\" Ms Canlas said.\n\n\"It was so painful to see friends and colleagues as a patient due to Covid - we managed to pull through.\"\n\nJoanne Canlas said working as a nurse had \"ups and downs\" but she had no regrets\n\nArniel Hernando, 50, arrived with the first group and started at Ysbyty Gwynedd as a critical care nurse.\n\nHe still works at the Bangor hospital as the lead surgical advanced nurse practitioner. His wife, also a nurse, took up a position in America, but he said for Filipinos, \"working abroad is the only way you can provide a good life for your family\".\n\nHe said: \"We are doing it for a purpose, we are doing it for our family. Nursing in the Philippines is not a very good income-generated job. I worked there a few years and would probably say the highest salary I got was £150 a month.\"\n\nHis children are both nurses and his 21-year-old son is due to join him in Gwynedd to take up a role at the hospital, once Covid travel restrictions allow.\n\nFilipino nurses were also recruited to Cardiff, Swansea and Pembrokeshire before the cohort came to north Wales in 2001.\n\nDirector of the Royal College of Nursing in Wales, Helen Whyley, said they were \"crucial\" to help the NHS in Wales address a shortage of nurses.\n\n\"We were experiencing a significant number of nursing vacancies, unfortunately we are experiencing something very similar now,\" she said.\n\n\"They very quickly became part of the nursing family... the NHS is founded on a multicultural work force. People from the Philippines fitted in very neatly and nicely. We are very grateful that they decided to stay.\"\n\nMs Canlas said she never regretted filling out her application to come to Wales and is very grateful to her team and the NHS.\n\n\"There's ups and downs over the years, nevertheless I am so glad that I did it, not only for myself but for my family back home. Also, I brought my own family up here.\"\n\nThe same is true for Mr Hernando.\n\nHe said: \"I went to London five years ago. I just wanted to try. But then I missed home, because this is probably my home, second home. I am happy to come back.\"", "The asteroid impact 66 million years ago led not just to the extinction of dinosaurs, but other forms of life\n\nThe asteroid impact that killed off the dinosaurs gave birth to our planet's tropical rainforests, a study suggests.\n\nResearchers used fossil pollen and leaves from Colombia to investigate how the impact changed South American tropical forests.\n\nAfter the 12km-wide space rock struck Earth 66 million years ago, the type of vegetation that made up these forests changed drastically.\n\nThe team has outlined its findings in the prestigious journal Science.\n\nCo-author Dr Mónica Carvalho, from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institution in Panama, said: \"Our team examined over 50,000 fossil pollen records and more than 6,000 leaf fossils from before and after the impact.\"\n\nThey found that cone-bearing plants called conifers and ferns were common before the huge asteroid struck what is now the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico.\n\nBut after the devastating impact, plant diversity declined by roughly 45% and extinctions were widespread, particularly among seed-bearing plants.\n\nWhile the forests recovered over the next six million years, angiosperms, or flowering plants, came to dominate them.\n\nModern tropical rainforests are dense, with thick canopies - unlike those of the late Cretaceous Period\n\nThe structure of tropical forests also changed as a result of this transition. During the late Cretaceous Period, when the dinosaurs were still alive, the trees that made up the forests were widely-spaced. The top parts did not overlap, leaving open sunlit areas on the forest floor.\n\nBut post-impact, forests developed a thick canopy that allowed much less light to reach the ground.\n\nSo how did the impact transform the sparse, conifer-rich tropical forests of the dinosaur age into the rainforests of today, with their towering trees dotted with multi-coloured blossoms and orchids?\n\nBased on their analysis of the pollen and leaves, the researchers propose three different explanations.\n\nFirstly, dinosaurs could have kept the forest from growing too dense by feeding on and trampling plants growing in the lower levels of the forest.\n\nA second explanation is that falling ash from the impact enriched soils throughout the tropics, giving an advantage to faster-growing flowering plants.\n\nThe third explanation is that the preferential extinction of conifer species created an opportunity for flowering plants to take over.\n\nThese ideas, say the team, aren't mutually exclusive, and could all have contributed to the outcome we see today.\n\n\"The lesson learned here is that under rapid disturbances... tropical ecosystems do not just bounce back; they are replaced, and the process takes a really long time,\" said Dr Carvalho.", "President Joe Biden has released a statement about today's attack, saying he and First Lady Jill Biden were \"heartbroken to learn of the violent attack\".\n\nHe offered his \"heartfelt condolences to Officer Evans’ family, and everyone grieving his loss\".\n\nHe added that he had ordered flags at the White House to lowered to half mast.\n\nAcknowledging that it had been \"a difficult time\" for those working in and around the Capitol, he expressed \"the nation’s gratitude\" to the Capitol police force and first responders.", "A Covid outbreak was declared at the DVLA's contact centre in December\n\nStaff at the DVLA headquarters in Swansea are to go on strike for four days next week due to concerns over Covid cases among workers.\n\nThe office has seen more than 500 cases since September and workers voted to take industrial action last month.\n\nThe Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union said its members would strike for four days from 6 April.\n\nThe DVLA said it was \"disappointing\" the strike was going ahead and motorists would be affected.\n\nPCS said it had been in \"intensive talks\" with the DVLA to try and address its members' health and safety concerns and avoid strike action, but would now be \"asking over 3,300 of our members in Swansea to go on strike to protect workers' safety\".\n\nThe union said, despite \"welcome progress\" being made, operational staff would strike next week due to the \"lack of immediate moves from the employer to reduce the numbers on site\".\n\nIt added: \"We are convinced that the DVLA is able to give more than it is willing to at this stage and we believe that a strong show of strike action next week will help tip the balance to getting management to reduce numbers in the medium term and make the site safe.\"\n\nMore than 6,000 people work at the centre in the Clase area of Swansea and PCS said in March that 2,000 had been working on site every day, despite the number of cases.\n\nA coronavirus outbreak was declared at the headquarters in December.\n\nThe DVLA said: \"There is currently not a single member of staff in the 10-day isolation period, out of a workforce of more than 6,000.\n\n\"DVLA has ensured that it has followed Welsh government guidance at every single point throughout the pandemic, having consistently worked with Public Health Wales, Environmental Health and Swansea Bay health board to introduce a wide range of safety measures.\n\n\"It is disappointing that the PCS is pushing ahead with industrial action which will affect motorists just as restrictions are easing and the UK vaccination roll out programme is in full swing.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The concert was announced on social media as an April Fools' Day prank\n\nPolice in Belgium have used tear gas and water cannon to break up a crowd of people who had gathered for a fake concert that was announced on social media as an April Fools' Day joke.\n\nAbout 2,000 people attended the event in Brussels' Bois de la Cambre park, in defiance of the country's Covid-19 measures.\n\nWhen police arrived, on foot and on horseback, some in the crowd shouted \"Freedom!\" and threw projectiles.\n\nPolice said four people were arrested.\n\nThree police officers were injured in clashes, according to officials. Reuters news agency reported that at least two other people were injured.\n\nThe announcement for the concert was posted on Facebook in March, promising a host of famous DJs.\n\nOrganisers said the invitation was a hoax, but many people still showed up.\n\n\"We are all depressed. I'll be 18 in two weeks, we want to take advantage of our youth,\" one student who attended the gathering told Reuters. \"We came not to annoy the police, but to show that we also have a life and want to enjoy it.\"\n\nUnder coronavirus restrictions in Belgium, outdoor gatherings are limited to four people.\n\nProsecutors say they have started an investigation to find out who was behind the Facebook post.\n\nBrussels Mayor Philippe Close said he could understand people wanting to go outside in the spring weather, but such gatherings would not be tolerated.\n\nBelgium, with a population of 11.5 million, has recorded more than 882,000 coronavirus cases and 23,000 deaths.\n\nIt is one of a number of European countries to increase restrictions amid a rise in cases.", "Police were called to the attack in Rowley Regis near Dudley on Friday\n\nA woman has died after being attacked by two escaped dogs in her garden.\n\nPolice said the woman, in her 80s, was found suffering from serious injuries at an address in Rowley Regis near Dudley in the West Midlands on Friday.\n\nDespite the efforts of emergency services, she was pronounced dead at the scene in Boundary Avenue.\n\nWest Midlands Police said the dogs did not belong to the woman, but managed to get into her garden before attacking her.\n\nBoth dogs have been seized to establish their breed.\n\nA 43-year-old local man has been detained on suspicion of being the person in charge of a dog dangerously out of control.\n\nHe remains in custody for questioning.\n\nPolice said the victim sustained dog bite injuries, although a post mortem will take place in due course to establish the cause of death.\n\nA police scene and presence will remain in place in the area as work is carried out to establish the full circumstances of what occurred.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "George Floyd repeatedly told the police officers who detained him that he could not breathe\n\nThe US has been convulsed by nationwide protests over the death of an African-American man in police custody.\n\nGeorge Floyd, 46, died after being arrested by police outside a shop in Minneapolis, Minnesota.\n\nFootage of the arrest on 25 May shows a white police officer, Derek Chauvin, kneeling on Mr Floyd's neck while he was pinned to the floor.\n\nMr Chauvin, 44, has since been charged with murder.\n\nTranscripts of police bodycam footage show Mr Floyd said more than 20 times he could not breathe as he was restrained by the officers.\n\nThe key events that led to Mr Floyd's death happened within just 30 minutes. Based on accounts from witnesses, video footage and official statements, here's what we know so far.\n\nIt began with a report of a fake $20 (£16.20) bill.\n\nA report was made on the evening of 25 May, when Mr Floyd bought a pack of cigarettes from Cup Foods, a grocery store.\n\nBelieving the $20 bill he used to be counterfeit, a store employee reported it to police.\n\nMr Floyd had been living in Minneapolis for several years after moving there from his native Houston, Texas. He had recently been working as a bouncer in the city but, like millions of other Americans, was left jobless by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMr Floyd was a regular at Cup Foods. He was a friendly face, a pleasant customer who never caused any trouble, the store owner Mike Abumayyaleh told NBC.\n\nBut Mr Abumayyaleh was not at work on the day of the incident. In reporting the suspicious bill, his teenage employee was just following protocol.\n\nIn a call to 911, made at 20:01, the employee told the operator he had demanded the cigarettes back but \"he [Floyd] doesn't want to do that\", according to a transcript released by authorities.\n\nThe employee said the man appeared \"drunk\" and \"not in control of himself\", the transcript says.\n\nShortly after the call, at around 20:08, two police officers arrived. Mr Floyd was sitting with two other people in a car parked around the corner.\n\nAfter approaching the car, one of the officers, Thomas Lane, pulled out his gun and ordered Mr Floyd to show his hands. In an account of the incident, prosecutors do not explain why Mr Lane thought it necessary to draw his gun.\n\nMr Lane, prosecutors said, \"put his hands on Mr Floyd, and pulled him out of the car\". Then Mr Floyd \"actively resisted being handcuffed\".\n\nOnce handcuffed, though, Mr Floyd became compliant while Mr Lane explained he was being arrested for \"passing counterfeit currency\".\n\nCourt transcripts from police body cameras show Mr Floyd appears co-operative at the beginning of the arrest, repeatedly apologising to the officers after they approach his parked car.\n\nMr Lane asks Mr Floyd to show his hands at least 10 times before ordering him to get out of the vehicle.\n\nIt was when officers tried to put Mr Floyd in their squad car that a struggle ensued.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Minnesota governor on George Floyd death: 'Thank God a young person had a camera to video it'\n\nAt about 20:14, Mr Floyd \"stiffened up, fell to the ground, and told the officers he was claustrophobic\", according to the report.\n\nMr Chauvin arrived at the scene. He and other officers were involved in a further attempt to put Mr Floyd in the police car.\n\nDuring this attempt, at 20:19, Mr Chauvin pulled Mr Floyd away from the passenger side, causing him to fall to the ground, the report said.\n\nHe lay there, face down, still in handcuffs.\n\nThat's when witnesses started to film Mr Floyd, who appeared to be in a distressed state. These moments, captured on multiple mobile phones and shared widely on social media, would prove to be Mr Floyd's last.\n\nMr Floyd was restrained by officers, while Mr Chauvin placed his left knee between his head and neck.\n\nFor more than nine minutes, Mr Chauvin kept his knee on Mr Floyd's neck, the prosecutors say. The duration was initially given as eight minutes and 46 seconds but Minnesota prosecutors have since revised the time.\n\nThe transcripts of bodycam footage from officers Lane and J Alexander Kueng show Mr Floyd said more than 20 times he could not breathe as he was restrained. He was also pleading for his mother and begging \"please, please, please\".\n\nAt one point, Mr Floyd gasps: \"You're going to kill me, man.\"\n\nDerek Chauvin is charged with second degree murder\n\nOfficer Chauvin replies: \"Then stop talking, stop yelling. It takes heck of a lot of oxygen to talk.\"\n\nMr Floyd says: \"Can't believe this, man. Mom, love you. Love you. Tell my kids I love them. I'm dead.\"\n\nA female bystander told the police: \"His nose is bleeding, come on now.\"\n\nAbout six minutes into that period, Mr Floyd became non-responsive. In videos of the incident, this was when Mr Floyd fell silent, as bystanders urged the officers to check his pulse.\n\nOfficer Kueng did just that, checking Mr Floyd's right wrist, but \"couldn't find one\". Yet the other officers did not move.\n\nAt 20:27, Mr Chauvin removed his knee from Mr Floyd's neck. Motionless, Mr Floyd was rolled on to a gurney and taken to the Hennepin County Medical Center in an ambulance.\n\nHe was pronounced dead about an hour later.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In June Panorama spoke to local people to piece together the moments leading up to George Floyd's death\n\nOn the night before his death, Mr Floyd had spoken to one of his closest friends, Christopher Harris. He had advised Mr Floyd to contact a temporary jobs agency.\n\nForgery, he said, was out of character for Mr Floyd.\n\n\"The way he died was senseless,\" Harris said. \"He begged for his life. He pleaded for his life. When you try so hard to put faith in this system, a system that you know isn't designed for you, when you constantly seek justice by lawful means and you can't get it, you begin to take the law into your own hands.\"\n\nGeorge Floyd dies after being arrested by police outside a shop in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Footage shows a white officer, Derek Chauvin, kneeling on Mr Floyd’s neck for several minutes while he is pinned to the floor. Mr Floyd is heard repeatedly saying \"I can’t breathe\". He is pronounced dead later in hospital. Four officers involved in the arrest of George Floyd are fired. Protests begin as the video of the arrest is shared widely on social media. Hundreds of demonstrators take to the streets of Minneapolis and vandalise police cars and the police station with graffiti. Protesters lie on the streets in Portland, Oregon Protests spread to other cities including Memphis and Los Angeles. In some places, like Portland, Oregon, protesters lie in the road, chanting \"I can’t breathe\". Demonstrators again gather around the police station in Minneapolis where the officers involved in George Floyd’s arrest were based and set fire to it. The building is evacuated and police retreat. President Trump blames the violence on a lack of leadership in Minneapolis and threatens to send in the National Guard in a tweet. He follows it up in a second tweet with a warning \"when the looting starts, the shooting starts\". The second tweet is hidden by Twitter for \"glorifying violence\". Members of a CNN crew are arrested at a protest A CNN reporter, Omar Jimenez, is arrested while covering the Minneapolis protest. Mr Jimenez was reporting live when police officers handcuffed him. A few minutes later several of his colleagues are also arrested. They are all later released once they are confirmed to be members of the media. Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin after being charged over the death of George Floyd Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, 44, is charged with murder and manslaughter. The charges carry a combined maximum 35-year sentence. Demonstrators set fire to rubbish in New York Violence spreads across the US on the sixth night of protests. A total of at least five people are reported killed in protests from Indianapolis to Chicago. More than 75 cities have seen protests. At least 4,400 people have been arrested. Curfews are imposed across the US to try to stem the unrest. President Trump threatens to send in the military to quell growing civil unrest. He says if cities and states fail to control the protests and \"defend their residents\" he will deploy the army and \"quickly solve the problem for them\". Mr Trump poses in front of a damaged church shortly after police used tear gas to disperse peaceful protesters nearby. Tens of thousands of protesters again take to the streets. One of the biggest protests is in George Floyd’s hometown of Houston, Texas. Many defy curfews in several cities, but the demonstrations are largely peaceful. A memorial service for George Floyd is held in Minneapolis. Those gathered in tribute stand in silence for eight minutes, 46 seconds, the amount of time Mr Floyd is alleged to have been on the ground under arrest. Hundreds attended the service, which heard a eulogy from civil rights activist Rev Al Sharpton. As the US saw another weekend of protests, with tens of thousands marching in Washington DC, anti-racism demonstrations were held around the world. In Australia, there were major protests in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane that focused on the treatment of indigenous Australians. There were also demonstrations in France, Germany, Spain and the UK. In Bristol, protesters tore down the statue of a 17th century slave trader and threw it into the harbour. Pallbearers bring the coffin into the church A funeral service for George Floyd is held in Houston, Mr Floyd’s home town. Just over two weeks after his death in Minneapolis and worldwide anti-racism protests, about 500 guests invited by the Floyd family are in attendance at the Fountain of Praise Church. Many more gather outside to show their support.\n• None Why is a US city in flames?", "Philip Mawer worked in Mozambique overseeing the building of camps for workers\n\nThe family of a British man missing in Mozambique after an attack by Islamist militants have said a body has been found.\n\nPhilip Mawer, 58, was working in Palma, in the north of the country, when it was stormed by militants last week.\n\nHis family said it appeared he died while trying to escape the siege.\n\nIn a statement, they called him an \"outgoing character\" with a wonderful sense of humour and \"who had something of the lovable rogue about him\".\n\nThe body has yet to be formally identified, the family said.\n\nDozens of people were killed following the attack in Palma, as hundreds of militants targeted shops, banks and a military barracks, and more than 5,000 people have fled from the town.\n\nMilitants linked to the Islamic State (IS) group are behind the conflict.\n\nEyewitnesses reported seeing Mr Mawer at the Amarula Palma Hotel last week, when the offensive began.\n\nOn Friday, he joined dozens of others who crammed themselves into vehicles and tried to flee the town but they were ambushed and that was the last time Mr Mawer was seen alive.\n\nMr Mawer's employer - RA International, where he managed the building of camps for workers involved in a natural gas project - said he was one of seven people missing following the attempt to escape.\n\nA statement issued by RA International on behalf of his family said he was a \"much-loved son, brother, uncle, and friend\".\n\n\"Although formal identification has yet to be completed, we have now been made aware that the body of a man matching Philip's description has been found,\" they said.\n\n\"Philip was an ebullient, outgoing character who had something of the lovable rogue about him. He had a wonderful sense of humour and could be relied on to find a humorous take on the most difficult of situations.\n\n\"The family is devastated by the loss and he will be sadly missed.\"\n\nThe statement said Mr Mawer had been in Mozambique for 18 months and he had previously worked in Somalia, Sierra Leone, Algeria, Afghanistan, and Yemen.\n\n\"It was the nature of his chosen line of work to be in the more dangerous corners of the world,\" they said. \"His ability to get things done in the most hostile of environments made him a valued colleague.\n\n\"Earlier in his life, Philip overcame a period of compulsive gambling and went on to write the book Overcoming Problem Gambling: A Guide for Problem and Compulsive Gamblers, using his personal experience to help others to overcome this destructive addiction. He would often receive letters of thanks from people helped by the book.\"\n\nFollowing the attack in Palma, hundreds of people have taken refuge at a nearby natural gas facility operated by the French company Total - according to the medical charity Médicins Sans Frontières.\n\nMany have shown up injured including a baby who had been shot and a mother who had just given birth.\n\nThe fighting in the region has left more than 2,500 people dead and 700,000 displaced since the insurgency began in 2017.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Petrol bombs, bricks and bottles were thrown at police\n\nPetrol bombs, bricks and bottles were thrown at police during sustained rioting in the Sandy Row area of Belfast on Friday night.\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said eight officers were injured and seven people arrested.\n\nUp to 100 people had gathered in the Shaftesbury Square area where a loyalist protest had been expected.\n\nTrouble began before 20:00 BST, when fireworks and other missiles were thrown at police.\n\nSpeaking on Friday night, Belfast's PSNI District Commander, Ch Supt Simon Walls, called for calm after a \"small local protest developed into an attack on police\".\n\nHe said objects that had been thrown at officers included \"heavy masonry, metal rods, fireworks and manhole covers\".\n\nOn Saturday morning damage was visible at the scene of the riot\n\nCh Supt Walls said the eight injured officers had sustained \"burns, head and leg injuries\".\n\n\"I am appealing to all those involved to stop this appalling behaviour immediately.\n\n\"Police are trying to protect those living in the Shaftesbury Square, Donegall Road and Sandy Row areas and it is completely unacceptable that my officers are coming under sustained attack.\n\n\"I would encourage anyone who has influence to use it now and stop the rioting before anyone else is injured, or worse.\"\n\nA small crowd of protestors also gathered in Ballymena at the Larne Road Link, which was closed by police along with the Crebilly Road.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Love Ballymena This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 PSNI advised people to avoid Sandy Row when rioting broke out.\n\nPetrol bombs were thrown at police lines, with sustained rioting since about 20:00 BST.\n\nFor several hours, police and rioters, including some young teenagers, played a cat and mouse game through the streets.\n\nOne photographer was injured by flying glass. Some shops and businesses have been damaged.\n\nAt the start, about 12 police vehicles and officers in riot gear corralled rioters into Donegall Road.\n\nA line of police jeeps then blocked access at the junction of Bradbury Place.\n\nDozens of protestors hurled bricks and bottles and a bin, which was set alight, was pushed up against a police vehicle.\n\nOn Friday, a small crowd of protestors also gathered in Ballymena at the Larne Road Link, which was closed by police along with the Crebilly Road.\n\nSpeaking to BBC News NI, Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) MLA Christopher Stalford, whose constituency office is in Sandy Row, said everyone must \"abide by the law\".\n\n\"Given the actions of the deputy first minister, some may think that it's alright to break Covid guidance in relation to public gatherings - that is not the case,\" he said, referring to Sinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill and her attendance at the funeral of Bobby Storey last June.\n\nEarlier this week, the Public Prosecution Service announced that no one would face charges over their attendance at the funeral, provoking a furious political backlash among unionists.\n\nA bin was set on fire and pushed up against a police vehicle\n\n\"We should all abide by the law and I don't want to see a situation where young people end up with a criminal record or their lives destroyed because they've acted out of frustration at recent political developments,\" Mr Stalford added.\n\nUlster Unionist Party leader Steve Aiken pleaded for those involved to \"please stop this violence\".\n\n\"It will not achieve anything, and undermines the legitimate concerns that you have and is damaging our own communities,\" he posted on social media.\n\nSinn Féin West Belfast MP Paul Maskey said \"dangerous and irresponsible rhetoric\" from the DUP and political unionism has \"heightened tensions\".\n\nMr Maskey said it was \"deeply concerning to see these types of incidents at the height of the Covid pandemic and as we are beginning to make good progress\".\n\n\"This is a time for calm heads and responsible leadership,\" he added.\n\nSouth Belfast MP Claire Hanna said it was \"sad to see disorder in Sandy Row\".\n\nShe blamed what she described as \"usual suspects with no vision\" for creating \"tension for electoral gain\".\n\n\"History repeats, people lose hope, kids get criminal records, communities pull apart. There's a better way,\" she said.\n\nStormont's Justice Minister Naomi Long said the disorder was \"in no-one's best interests - not the officers dealing with it and not the mostly young people risking their futures by engaging with it\".\n\n\"It's incumbent on leaders to behave responsibly and dial down the inflammatory rhetoric over recent days,\" the Alliance Party leader tweeted.\n\nThe Police Federation for Northern Ireland, which represents officers, said that \"once again the outworkings of political flux in Northern Ireland results in our colleagues being attacked\".\n\n\"No excuse for violence and condemnation across the political spectrum would be welcome,\" it tweeted.", "Vaccine passports could be a \"tool in the short term\" to reopen theatres and sports stadiums, Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden has said.\n\nThe government needs to \"look at all options\" to \"make areas of our national life viable\", he said, but no decisions have yet been made.\n\nAnd he insisted the roadmap for lifting restrictions in England was on track.\n\nWales' First Minister Mark Drakeford said there were \"prizes to be won\" with vaccine passports.\n\nUnder the government's four-step plan to ease England's lockdown, all legal limits on social contact could be lifted by 21 June, if strict conditions are met.\n\nWhile most social gathering rules are due to be fully lifted outside on 17 May, social distancing rules and limits on capacity will remain indoors for at least a further five weeks for venues like cinemas, museums and theatres, and for sporting events.\n\nThe prime minister has suggested pub goers could be asked to provide a vaccine certificate as part of a wider review that could report in May. But he said vaccine passports would not be considered until everyone has been offered a jab, which is due to be by the end of July.\n\nSpeaking on The Andrew Marr Show, Mr Dowden said no decisions had yet been made about Covid certification.\n\nHe said it was important to examine this in order to reach \"a much greater easing in the middle of June\" as planned, but it is \"not the only factor\".\n\nMr Dowden said he completely understood \"concerns people have raised on civil liberties grounds\" and that was why the review currently being undertaken by the cabinet office minister, Michael Gove, was so important.\n\nHe said pilots would begin from the middle of April to look at things like ventilation, one-way systems and tests on how the virus spreads at indoor and outdoor events.\n\nThe success of the vaccine rollout and the better weather in the summer months would also be crucial factors, he added.\n\nThere will initially be social distancing at sports events\n\nWales' First Minister Mr Drakeford said he was prepared to consider coronavirus certificates on a \"four-nation basis\" but the system had to be \"fair and reliable\".\n\nHe told The Andrew Marr show that he had spoken with Michael Gove and the first ministers of Scotland and Northern Ireland on the matter this week.\n\n\"I think there are definitely prizes to be won through domestic vaccine certification, but there are very big practical and ethical challenges to face as well,\" he said.\n\n\"What about those who can't be vaccinated because their health conditions don't allow that to happen? If it's a self-certification system, then what reliance can we put on the fact the that somebody produces a certificate?\"\n\nSpeaking on the same programme, Mark Woolhouse, professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh, said vaccine passports needed to be considered as part of a wider package of protective measures.\n\n\"It's certainly something we have to consider seriously\" in order to \"make our activities safe\", he added.\n\nVaccine passports could be used for reopening nightclubs and enabling mass gatherings, said Prof Woolhouse.\n\nHe added: \"Part of the whole point of living with this virus is we have to switch emphasis, we have to now start thinking about how do we make those activities safe.\n\n\"For those activities that it is difficult to make completely safe - I am thinking things like nightclubs, large concerts, mass gatherings - that's where passports come in. Whether it is vaccine passports, test-negative passports or even immunity passports.\"\n\nLabour has said while vaccine passports \"may be necessary\", it is more important to get a comprehensive quarantine programme in place for arrivals in to the UK.\n\nShadow Home Secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds said the priority was closing \"the gaping hole in our defences at the border\".", "Beauty YouTuber James Charles has admitted sending sexually explicit messages to two 16-year-old boys.\n\n\"I fully understand my actions and how they are wrong,\" the 21-year-old influencer said in a video posted to his YouTube channel on Thursday.\n\nAllegations against Charles first emerged on social media earlier this year.\n\nIn February, the influencer - who has 25 million subscribers to his YouTube channel - was accused by one teenager of grooming, which Charles denied, saying he flirted with the person because he believed the boy to be 18.\n\nCharles had denied previous accusations, but in Thursday's video, titled \"Holding myself accountable\", he admitted wrongdoing.\n\nHe says there were two incidents - one last year and one more recently - where he came to be aware that the person he was exchanging messages with was underage.\n\n\"These conversations should have never happened,\" Charles said in the 14-minute video. He admitted he could have searched for them on other social media platforms and found their real ages.\n\nHe also publicly apologised to the boys and said he would take time away from posting on social media to \"educate\" himself about these issues.\n\nThe scandal is not the first time the beauty influencer has faced a controversy.\n\nIn 2019, he was accused of using \"fame and money to try to manipulate someone's sexuality\", which he denied.\n\nWhen addressing why he has been \"reckless\" in past relationships, he said it's because he's \"desperate\".\n\nIn a video he made addressing the 2019 accusation, Charles made a promise to be more careful moving forward.\n\nJames Charles said that feeling \"desperate\" led him to being reckless with relationships\n\nBut as time progressed, he says in his most recent video, he began \"ignoring red flags again\".\n\nHe ended his video vowing to be more cautious in the future and stop treating his social media accounts as dating apps.\n\nAccusations - and admissions - of sexual misconduct by YouTubers have become more and more common.\n\nIn 2019, YouTube deleted singer Austin Jones's channel, after he admitted to exchanging sexually explicit images and videos with underage girls.\n\nDavid Dobrik, one of YouTube's top earners in 2020, recently had his channel demonetised by YouTube following a rape allegation about a former associate.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kat Tenbarge This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCody Godwin is based in San Francisco. For more news, follow her on Twitter at @MsCodyGodwin", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The USS Johnston has been relocated, surveyed and filmed at a depth of 6,456m in the Philippine Sea\n\nA submersible has dived to the world’s deepest-known shipwreck.\n\nThe vessel reached the USS Johnston, which lies 6.5km (4 miles) beneath the waves in the Philippine Sea in the Pacific Ocean.\n\nExplorers spent several hours surveying and filming the wreck over a series of dives.\n\nThe 115m-long US Navy destroyer sank during the Battle off Samar in 1944 after a fierce battle with a large fleet of Japanese warships.\n\nVictor Vescovo, who led the expedition and piloted the sub, said: “The wreck is so deep so there's very little oxygen down there, and while there is a little bit of contamination from marine life, it's remarkably well intact except for the damage it took from the furious fight.”\n\nThe destroyer was in good condition apart from the damage it sustained from the battle\n\nThe remains of the USS Johnston were first discovered in 2019, and parts of the destroyer were filmed with a remotely operated vehicle (ROV).\n\nBut a large part of the wreckage lay deeper than the ROV was able to reach, so for this expedition a submersible called the DSV Limiting Factor was deployed.\n\nOnly 141 of the USS Johnston's 327 crew survived the battle\n\nThe vessel has a 9cm-thick (3.5in) titanium pressure hull that two people can fit inside, and it is able to descend to any depth. Previously it has explored the deepest place in the ocean, the Mariana Trench, which lies almost 11km down, as well as the Titanic.\n\nIt took several dives to relocate the wreck of the USS Johnston, but then Victor Vescovo, along with engineer Shane Eigler on one dive and naval historian Parks Stephenson on another, were able to spend time surveying and filming the destroyer.\n\nMr Vescovo said that the hull number – 557 – was clearly visible on both sides of its bow, and two full gun turrets were also intact.\n\n“The gun turrets are right where they're supposed to be, they're even pointing in the correct direction that we believe that they should have been, as they were continuing to fire until the ship went down,” he explained.\n\n“And we saw the twin torpedo racks in the middle of the ship that were completely empty because they shot all the torpedoes at the Japanese.”\n\nThe team saw two forward gun mounts during the dive\n\nThe team is now working with naval historians in the hope of shedding more light on the World War Two battle.\n\nThe relatively small USS Johnston was heavily outnumbered by the Japanese fleet, which included Japan’s largest battleship, but was awarded for its courage under heavy fire.\n\nOf the crew of 327, only 141 survived the battle.\n\nNo human remains or clothing were found during the expedition, and the team laid wreaths before and after the dives.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lorraine Cox, 32, was described as the \"heartbeat\" of her family\n\nA man followed and murdered a woman on a night out and later disposed of her body in an alleyway and woodland.\n\nLorraine Cox, 32, was killed in Exeter on 1 September.\n\nAzam Mangori, 24, of Dartmouth Road, Stoke-on-Trent was found guilty of murder, having previously admitted preventing a lawful burial.\n\nHe left Ms Cox's body for a week in his flat before he \"panicked\" and dismembered her, jurors at Exeter Crown Court heard.\n\nSpeaking for the first time since her death, Ms Cox's family described her as \"the most kind-hearted, loving, generous girl\", adding she was \"the heartbeat of our family\".\n\n\"We hope and pray that no other woman or family has to go through what our beautiful girl suffered, or that any other family suffers the brutal, distressing experience we have all been through,\" their statement said.\n\nThey added the trial had been \"mentally and emotionally exhausting\", but thanked people for their help searching for Ms Cox last year.\n\nCommenting after the verdicts, police said Mangori had committed a \"deeply disturbing\" and \"horrendous\" crime.\n\nHe followed Ms Cox through the streets and persuaded her to go to his flat above a kebab shop.\n\nParts of her body were later found in an alley next to the flat and in woodland at Newton St Cyres, about six miles (9km) away.\n\nMangori, an Iraqi Kurd who was denied asylum in December 2018, told the court he had panicked because he feared being deported.\n\nHe said Ms Cox drank spirits and smoked a mystery drug in his room before losing consciousness and dying.\n\nThe 24-year-old said he had dismembered her body because he did not know how to get rid of it after it started to decompose.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Azam Mangori is shown crossing the road as he follows Lorraine Cox in Exeter\n\nBut prosecutor Simon Laws QC called Mangori a \"fluent and determined liar\" and said he had smothered her with a T-shirt.\n\nThe court heard after Ms Cox was killed, Mangori used a SIM card from her phone to send messages to her family, partner and friends in an attempt to show she was still alive.\n\nHe also looked at amputation videos in the days before her disappearance, jurors were told.\n\nMangori was caught on camera in shops buying supplies to help him dispose of her body, including bin bags, tape, a suitcase and an air purifier to hide the smell.\n\nHe also purchased items, including a trowel, after viewing a website entitled: \"How to dig a grave by hand.\"\n\nIn court Mangori described the days following her death as \"a living hell\".\n\nJudge Justice Garnham said Mangori, who has been remanded in custody, would be sentenced for both offences on 7 April.\n\nAfter the trial Det Sgt Samantha Wenham, of Devon and Cornwall Police, said Mangori had \"tried his hardest to manipulate those closest to her and provide misinformation and misdirection in order to get away with these horrendous crimes\".\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Jim Colwell called the murder \"callous and brutal\" and said the way Mangori \"exploited Lorraine's vulnerability before murdering her and dismembering her body is a deeply disturbing crime\".\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Benjamin Hannam was found to have remained in the National Action group after it was outlawed\n\nA Met Police officer has been convicted of being a member of a banned neo-Nazi terrorist organisation.\n\nBenjamin Hannam, of Enfield, north London, was found guilty of membership of the banned right-wing extremist group National Action (NA).\n\nHe was also convicted of lying on his Met Police application and having terror documents detailing knife combat and making explosive devices.\n\nHannam is the first British officer to be convicted of a terrorism offence.\n\nHe was released on conditional bail ahead of sentencing on 23 April.\n\nAt the Old Bailey, Judge Anthony Leonard QC lifted a ban on reporting the case after the 22-year-old admitted possessing an indecent image of a child, which was to have been the subject of a separate trial.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Daniel Sandford: \"Why did you join a terrorist organisation and then join the police?\"\n\nThe PC had been working as a probationary officer for the Met for nearly two years before he was found on a leaked database of users of extreme right-wing forum Iron March.\n\nHe had signed up to the forum when he joined the London branch of neo-Nazi group NA in March 2016.\n\nJurors were shown a video of the PC spraying the group's symbol on a derelict building in 2017\n\nFollowing his arrest in March last year, officers discovered a NA business card and badges, as well as writings about his involvement with the group.\n\nJurors were told that on the day the group was banned in December 2016, Hannam had transferred the knife-fighting manual from his computer to folder named \"NA\" on a memory stick along with other extremist texts.\n\nDetectives also found he was in possession of multiple prohibited images including \"pseudo images\" of young boys and girls.\n\nHannam was filmed taking part in a boxing session for members of the banned group\n\nJurors convicted him of remaining in NA for several months after it was banned in December 2016, as well as two counts of fraud for lying about his far-right past in a Met application form.\n\nProsecutor Dan Pawson-Pounds said the fraud was \"intimately connected\" to Hannam's membership of the outlawed group.\n\nHannam had denied all the offences, telling the court he had never been a member of NA despite regularly attending group meetings.\n\nHe claimed that he was interested by the \"look and aesthetic of fascism\", but that he was not a racist and had actually challenged group members when they expressed such views.\n\nThe officer said he had been \"desperate to impress\" an older NA organiser and his association with the group ended before he began working for the Met.\n\nThe court heard that Hannam was part of a successor version of the extremist group called NS131 - which was itself outlawed in September 2017 - and that he appeared in its online videos spray-painting neo-Nazi logos.\n\nHe had joined the Met in 2018 and during his training was actually shown videos relating to NA.\n\nHe passed out early in 2019 but was identified on the neo-Nazi web forum by detectives.\n\nIt can now be reported that, soon after he joined the Met, Hannam was found to have committed gross misconduct after he was found using a young relative's travel card to use public transport for free.\n\nScotland Yard said it had reviewed Hannam's time in the Met and found no evidence his actions had been influenced by any extremist ideology.\n\nHe is currently suspended from duty.\n\nThe 22-year-old had denied all the offences\n\nAfter the jury returned their verdict, the judge said Hannam had been \"convicted of serious offences\" and was being bailed as a \"courtesy\".\n\nJenny Hopkins, from the Crown Prosecution Service, said Hannam's \"lies have caught up with him and he's been exposed as an individual with deeply racist beliefs\".\n\n\"Benjamin Hannam would not have got a job as a probationary police constable if he'd told the truth about his membership of a banned, far-right group,\" she added.\n\nCdr Richard Smith, of the Met's Counter Terrorism Command, said \"the public expect police officers to carry out their duties with the very highest levels of honesty and integrity.\n\n\"Sadly, PC Hannam showed none of these qualities.\"\n• None The neo-Nazi who joined the Metropolitan Police\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The link between gaming loot boxes and problem gambling has been \"robustly verified\", according to a new report.\n\nThe report, carried out by researchers at the universities of Plymouth and Wolverhampton, found that loot boxes \"are structurally and psychologically akin to gambling\".\n\nIt also found that large numbers of children are opening loot boxes.\n\nThe UK government is already considering whether gambling laws should cover such loot boxes.\n\nThe upcoming Gambling Act review is set to look at the question, with the UK's House of Lords already having weighed in to say that loot boxes should be firmly regulated as \"games of chance\".\n\nLoot boxes are a video game feature involving a sealed mystery \"box\" - sometimes earned through playing the game and sometimes paid for with real money - which can be opened for a random collection of in-game items such as weapons or cosmetic costumes.\n\nThe new research, commissioned by the GambleAware charity, compiles existing research to examine the strength of links between the in-game random prizes and gambling behaviour. It found:\n\nThe report said that many games use a \"psychological nudge\" to encourage people to buy loot boxes - such as the fear of missing out on limited-time items or special deals.\n\n\"Many gamers do ascribe discrete financial values to loot box contents - based on purchase or resale price - suggesting that many loot boxes meet existing criteria for gambling regulation,\" the authors wrote.\n\nThe big spenders - the crucial 5% for the industry - can spend more than £70 or $100 a month on the boxes, the report said. But those are not necessarily wealthy people who earn lots of money.\n\n\"Our research therefore demonstrates that games developers, unwittingly or not, appear to be generating outsized loot box profits from at-risk individuals (these are likely to include both people with gambling problems or problematic patterns of video gaming) - but not from wealthy gamers,\" it concluded.\n\nAmong the authors' recommendations were that any regulation has extremely precise definitions to avoid any possible workarounds; that loot boxes are included in game labelling and age ratings; that the odds of winning items be clearly shown including the average cost of enough boxes to obtain a rare item; establishing spending limits; and more.\n\nDr James Close, one of the report's authors from the University of Plymouth, said the study had established the link between loot boxes and \"problem gambling behaviours\".\n\n\"We have also demonstrated that at-risk individuals, such as problem gamblers, gamers, and young people, make disproportionate contributions to loot box revenues,\" he added.\n\nGambleAware's chief Zoe Osmond said the charity was \"increasingly concerned that gambling is now part of everyday life for children and young people\".\n\n\"It is now for politicians to review this research, as well as the evidence of other organisations, and decide what legislative and regulatory changes are needed to address these concerns,\" she said.\n\nA spokesman for Ukie, the national games industry body, said that game companies had \"already taken action\" on the issue.\n\n\"Probability disclosure has already been introduced to the major game platforms; a new paid random item descriptor was added to the PEGI age rating system to inform players of their presence in games; settings and tools on all major game devices - and in a number of leading games - already allow players to manage, limit or turn off spend,\" he said.\n\n\"We will also continue to work constructively to support our players in partnership with Government and other organisations.\"", "The UK's medicines watchdog says it has found 30 cases of rare blood clots in people who have had the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid vaccine.\n\nThe Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) says the risk of having this type of clot is \"very small\".\n\nThe UK cases were out of more than 18 million doses given as of 24 March.\n\nFears over clots have led nations such as the Netherlands, Germany, France and Canada to restrict the jab's use.\n\nThe pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca has said international regulators had found the benefits of its jab outweighed risks significantly.\n\nThe MHRA, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and the World Health Organization (WHO) have also said the benefits of taking the vaccine outweigh any risks.\n\nThe MHRA said it had received 22 reports of cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) - where a blood clot forms in the brain - and eight reports of \"other thrombosis events with low platelets [the cells involved in clotting]\" following use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab, out of a total of 18.1 million doses given up to and including 24 March.\n\nThe watchdog said the benefits of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in preventing Covid-19 infection and its complications continued to outweigh any risks, and urged the public to accept the jab when offered it.\n\nIn response to the MHRA's data, Prof Adam Finn, a member of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), insisted taking the vaccine was \"by far the safest choice\" to minimise the risk of serious illness or death from Covid-19.\n\nHe said: \"The extreme rarity of these events in the context of the many millions of vaccine doses that have been administered means that the risk-benefit decision facing people who are invited to receive Covid-19 vaccines is very straightforward: receiving the vaccine is by far the safest choice in terms of minimising individual risk of serious illness or death.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the MHRA said there had been no reports of blood clots following use of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.\n\nAs of 21 March, an estimated 10.8 million first doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech jab had been administered in the UK, the regulator said. It added that around 2.2 million second doses, mostly the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, had been administered.\n\nMore than 31.3 million people in the UK have received a first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, and more than 4.9 million have had a second dose, according to Friday's daily government figures.\n\nThe Netherlands is the latest country to restrict the rollout of the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab, after saying on Friday that it was suspending its use for people under the age of 60.\n\nThe Dutch health ministry said the precautionary measure was taken after five reports of blood clots in combination with low platelet counts in women between the ages of 25 and 65.\n\nAll appointments for those under-60s scheduled to receive the jab have been cancelled with immediate effect. The suspension will remain in place until 7 April when the EMA is expected to issue new guidance.\n\nAbout 400,000 Oxford-AstraZeneca injections have been given in the Netherlands, it added.\n\nEarlier this week, Germany said it was suspending routine use of the jab for people below the age of 60 due to fears over a link with blood clots.\n\nIt has reported 31 CVSTs and nine deaths out of 2.7 million people vaccinated. Almost all the cases are reportedly in younger and middle-aged women.\n\nThe Netherlands and Germany were among several European countries which briefly suspended use of the jab last month pending an EMA review into the possible link to blood clots.\n\nWhen the EMA declared the vaccine \"safe and effective\", they resumed its use while investigations continued.\n\nFrance already limits use of AstraZeneca to those aged over 55 and on Monday, Canada recommended immediately suspending use of the jab in people aged below 55 following reports in Europe.\n\nThe EMA, which has assessed data from around the world, estimates there is around a one in 100,000 risk of a CVST in people under the age of 60 who have been given the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.\n\nThe organisation's head of safety monitoring, Dr Peter Arlett, said that was \"more than we would expect to see\".\n\nJames Gallagher, the BBC's Health and Science correspondent, says that it is uncertain what the background rate of these blood clots in the brain truly is.\n\nEstimates vary from around two cases per million people every year to nearly 16 in every million in normal times and coronavirus itself may be causing them too.\n\nCVSTs are inherently more common in younger women and taking the pill increases the risk. So the natural risk levels - whether people are vaccinated or not - could have a role too.\n\nTwo vaccines - developed by Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca - are currently being used in the UK to protect people against Covid-19.\n\nThe first doses of a third vaccine - from Moderna - are due to arrive in the UK later this month. 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